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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000200010015-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 11, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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11 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Coordinator for Academic Relations
FROM Associate Coordinator for Academic Relations
1. as we know, is quite antiquated and ignored.
I have been unable to find anyone in DDO for instance, who
can tell me how that directorate has carried out its reporting
responsibilities as outlined in the regulation. Even senior
officers in the DDO front office have admitted that either DDO
has never reported or its records have been lost. My suspicion
is that the truth is quite close to the former. That most
likely being the case, the committee you chair should, attempt,
to define as explicitly as possible the types of external
research that ought to be exempted; sift the legal grounds
for self-exemption ("...to protect sources and methods") and
be sure they are solid; inform the Secretary of State of the
CIA position.; and be sure that the revised regs are elevated
in the bureaucratic conscience so that they will no longer be
flaunted.
2. I suspect that DDO will not amenably collaborate in
this or any other effort designed more fully to disclose Agency
activities. They probably will insist that they retain uni-
lateral authority to report, exempt, and keep all records on
any type of external research they deem sensitive. DDS&T, and
particularly ORD, can also be expected to resist centralization
of authority and greater disclosure in these affairs. The
reporting methods they have followed till now are as evanescent
as DDO's.
3. I recommend that you assert this staff's prerogative
for acting as the CIA agent in these matters. Your authority
is based in the first instance on Walsh's memorandum to
Hal Saunders in which he named you (and alternately, me) as
the CIA representatives. You of course, derive additional
authority to assert this role from your double role as the
NFAC Academic Coordinator and Admiral Turner's Agency-wide
academic relations point man.
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will be a great e p in all the legal modalities. Once you
a draft reg that is generally agreed on and viable from your
point of view, you should then coordinate it with Walsh and the
NFAC chieftains (particularly the offices that will be most
affected).
7. The toughest questions are high level policy ones. Who
will have authority for exempting in order to protect sources
and methods? Two of the Deputy Directors presently have it, but
perhaps it ought to be the DDCI in the future. If that turns
out to be the case, directorates may well argue that they should
be able to go directly to him with their pleas, rather than send
everything here first. That would be a reasonable argument of
course, but at the minimum you should insist that this staff get
Walsh memo, your memo to the DCI (showing his approval),
as it now is, and anything else that may relate.
copies of the State, NSC, and presidential directives, the
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4. Thus, I recommend that the revised Ii vest authority STAT
in this staff for review, clearance, and coordinating with
State of all CIA external research covered by relevant presi-
dential and NSC directives. As long as that is explicitly
stated in the reg, you may leave it up to each of the other
directorates to work out its own internal guidelines governing
how their subordinate components will comply.
5. Definitions will be an important part of the new reg.
"Foreign affairs external research" should be defined as fully
and coherently as possible, even if it rather rambles. The
types of technical and military research that are included or
not sh-ould be spelled out. The current reg states that "in
house research" is not included. Questions have arisen,
however, about whether MATHTECH (Analytical Support Center)
research is internal or external. The Procedures Section of
the reg probably requires the least revision, though it needs
to be brought up to date and expanded.
6. I think you are correct, that it would be best to bring
a redraft of the reg to the first or second meeting of your
group so that there is something tangible to work with. Mal
should forward a reading folder to the members of the committee STAT
a week or so in advance of your first meeting, providing them
information copies of everythin L.
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