REVISION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12036

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: June 5, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

9 SECRET ?
The Director of Central Intelligence
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Counsellor to the President. .
-_The White House
. -Here- are papers I_,had: prepared to help evaluate the revised
MEMORANDUM-.FOR: The--Honorable Edwin Meese, III
Executive- and how- far i t i s possible to go i n scaling down
restrictions. on:=,the.- operations, of -case officers. They should have
`first,.there=isa paper which spells out the practical signifi-
cance".:af'.the.?:operational-irelief- which the proposed revisions can
y~eEa,:
SUBJECT:
come:first.
Second;.ther is a. list-af the provisions that remain with
indications, &s:-to-the'_ortgi n of each of them, i.e. statute, Rockefeller
Commission Report?, Katzenbach Report, Ford's Executive Order.
Third there a questions and answers regarding the proposed
changes- _:-:T1he_=:first one,,_d.ealing with how the new Executive Order
can improve- the. performance .of ? the Intelligence Community, is especially
to the-paint
achieved:af-redu a Ts30~-page manual of procedures which case
officer_s--have--to'fa T.ow,-'.'down to : something 1 i ke a '10 to 12 page
memo The-psychal-agfcal--factor in this is likely to be more impor-
tant than--arty specific relief available.
Perha most -: mportantis the prospect, which I expect to
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 5 June 1981
Assistant . to the President
for National Security Affairs
The, White House.,
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C 20505
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Richard V. Allen
SUBJECT: l evi-s on.of Executive Order 12036
-Executive Or-der and how: far it is possible to go in scaling down
to. -the;:;paint--
Can',rnt xe=-tnLx!,- UMnc.e' of the Intel 1 gence ommum y, u p y
restrictions-- on the: Operations of case officers. They should nave
F1rst..:there paper. which spells out the practical si gnifi~
cance o=f-theoperationalrelief which the proposed :revisions can
:yield:,;
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Here are papers_;I.had prepared to help evaluate the revised
'Second, tier is.a list of -the -provisions. that remain with
indications -as to,the orrtgin of each of them, i.e. statute, Rockefeller
Commission, Report,,Kat~bach Report, Ford's Executive Order.
htrd there-are questions and answers regarding the proposed
change. The; fiat one, dealing with- how the new Executive Order
C t 'c es eciall
Perha-ps most important is the prospect, which I expect to
achieve-oFf-reduring_a-:130-page manual of procedures which case rv
officers--have to. fb;ll'a c,,.;down to something like a 10 to 12 page
memo. The psychological :factor in this is likely to be more impdr-
--tant th~rr- any -specific relief available.
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