ALTERNATIVE CI AND SECURITY EXECUTIVE POLICY INSTRUMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01117R000100060004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 21, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNCLASSIFIED
21 February 1986
SUBJECT: Alternative CI and Security Executive Policy Instrument
The attached correspondence was prepared by direction of the IG/CM
Chairman. The Community Counterintelligence Staff, independently of its role
as secretariat to the IG/CM, recommends support for the proposal of an
alternative executive-level instrument for promulgation of "routine" CI and CM
policy.
Delays in or lack of approval of proposed NSDDs on CI and CM policy,
while not always critical, devitalize efficient CI and CM planning. Delays
have perpetuated vacuums in areas requiring official policy statements for
commitment of resources and have also contributed to a sense of futility
amongst IG representatives participating in the policy development process.
Equally important, lack of expedient self-generated executive-level action
tends to make the executive branch ultimately appear to be primarily reactive
to external stimuli, e.g., Congress.
The IG/CM Chairman cites precedent for the promulgation of CI and CM
policy through White House correspondence signed "For the President" by
appropriate NSC officials. In light of the considerable number of ongoing and
imminent initiatives, it seems appropriate to again raise the potential for
filling recognized "routine" intelligence policy instrument needs. Examples
of these are those which direct executive branch establishment of security
awareness programs, reporting of hostile contacts, OPSEC programs, etc. The
recommendation of the IG/CM Chairman accommodates the obvious need for more
deliberate Presidential involvement in the more heavily consequential policy
matters, e.g., options to limit and control the hostile foreign presence,
foreign civil overflights of the US, national telecommunications and automated
information security, etc.
From the perspective of the CCIS, an alternative White House-level
executive policy instrument for promulgation of "routine" CI and CM policy
matters is essential and would receive wide endorsement and voluntary
compliance throughout the executive branch.
Chief, CCIS/ICS
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