LETTER TO WILLIAM H. WEBSTER FROM U.S.HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B01356R000200330008-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 23, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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June 23, 1987
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Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Judge Webster:
Last February, the Committee issued a public report entitled, "U.S.
Counterintelligence and Security Concerns - 1986." The report noted a number
of weaknesses in our ability to undertake counterintelligence operations
against espionage by other countries. A central theme was that, while any one
of the weaknesses would be of individual concern, taken together, they
signified an emerging pattern of poor management in U.S. counterintelligence
and security programs. The report stressed the need to take more aggressive
action and made sixteen findings and fourteen recommendations.
Among the principal areas of concern highlighted were:
-- weaknesses in personnel selection and the need for a coordinated
review of community hiring practices;
-- a need for a better exchange of counterintelligence data among
agencies;
-- a critical need to standardize, expedite and fund the security
clearance process; and
-- a greater focus on financial matters in the conduct of background
investigations.
The report also noted a concern that "once the glare of public scrutiny
leaves the problems of espionage and security . . . the political will to
advance security programs and maintain high levels of attention and necessary
funding for their implementation will not be sustained."
This Committee does not intend for its report to be the final word on
these matters. I have asked Tony Beilenson, Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Oversight and Evaluation, to follow through on the report and to undertake a
continuing examination of the intelligence community's response to the
Committee's findings and recommendations. I anticipate that the Subcommittee
will hold hearings on these and related matters in the fall. Prior to that
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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 205 1 5-8 4 1 5
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