[THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF APPEARED BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE THIS MORNING TO REVIEW THE FOLLOWING MATTERS]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R001500070009-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 5, 1984
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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5 December 1984
The Director of Central intelligence and members of his staff appeared
before this Committee this morning to review the following matters:
-- The circumstances surrounding the much publicized manual on
psychological operations;
-- Whether the Presidential Executive Order 12333 ban on assassinations
was violated;
-- If the Boland Amendment restriction on seeking the overthrow of the
Sandinista government had been violated; and
-- If the CIA had funded approaches to the Congress regarding the
program, and had coached people being assisted in that regard.
The Committee concluded:
-- No CIA employee has violated the Presidential ban on assassination--
no violation was intended or implied.
-- The intent of manual was to avoid, not promote violence.
-- The restrictions of the Boland Amendment have not been violated.
The Agency took specific steps to ensure that any contact the people
being assisted would have with Congress would not involve Agency
direction or funds.
-- There was confusion among Agency employees regarding their specific
roles in the program of which the manual was a part.
The Director of Central intelligence has effected certain internal
reorganizations to clarify and strengthen command and control in the Agency
and has reprimanded those officers who failed to exercise good judgment or
sufficient supervision in connection with the manual.
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