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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000100060062-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: February 27, 1979
• Content Type: FORM

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February 20, 1979
Honorable Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner:
Enclosed herewith'is a signed copy of the revised
version of the Memorandum of Understanding governing the
reporting of violations of federal criminal law as
required by 28 U.S.C. ? 535 and Executive Order 12036,
? 1-706. As your letter of November 21, 1978 points out,
the revisions of paragraphs six through eight are in
response to concerns expressed by the Subcommittee on
Government Information and Individual Rights of the House
Committee on Government Operations.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raised
questions concerning the scope of the preliminary inquiry
that the CIA is required to conduct by paragraph 2 of
both the original and revised memorandum. As you know,
the Memorandum of Understanding was occasioned by E. 0.
11905, ? 4(a)(5). That section was not intended to
authorize new collection activity, but only to permit
dissemination of incidentally acquired information.
Accordingly, the MOU was not intended to affect the CIA's
authority to collect information concerning federal
offenses.
The proper scope of a preliminary inquiry is being
addressed in the drafting of procedures under E.O. 12036,
? 1-706 governing the reporting of federal crimes by all
agencies in the intelligence community. In the interim,
my interpretation of the Memorandum of Understanding,
consistent with the.history of E.O. 11905, is that a pre-
liminary inquiry shall be limited to interviews with
current CIA employees, observation of current CIA em-
ployees on premises occupied by the Agency, and examination
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of the records of the CIA and other federal agencies. The
Memorandum of Understanding does not require or authorize
CIA to collect information relating to the commission of
a federal offense by other means.
Yours sincerely,
Griffin B. Bell
Attorney General
cc: William H. Webster
Director, FBI
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