LEGISLATIVE LIAISON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000200210019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2008
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 3, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Release 2008/11/13: CIA-RDP90B01370R000200210019-7
ADMINISTRATIVE/INTERNAL USE ONLY
August 3, 1984
Subject: Legislative Liaison
+ Recognize the inevitable institutional conflict and divergence
of values. and direction in the relationship. There will never
be a final solution.
Take the long view/Put things in perspective.
But don't ignore/overlook tactical demands and
considerations.
+ See the LL function as ambassadorship with all of the
attendant problems/stresses and grounds for misunderstanding.
You are interpreting between one "country" and another and each
must trust you. You must "appear" and "be" an honest broker.
+ The conduct of daily business must be proactive.
LL Officers must get to know their committees, the members
on them, the staffers, their "world" with all of their
foibles and outside pressures - i.e., their "interests".
LL Officers can develop relationships of trust enabling them
to help both the committees and the Agency by: heading off
"dumb" questions, shaping the good ones, anticipating comm-
interests and questions, giving Agency witnesses "heads-up"
guidance (even on the ride down to the hill) so they won't
get blind-sided, and generally playing an active - even
.interventionist - role before and during briefings and
hearings.
+ The Agency at-large would benefit, as would our relationship
with Congress, by OLL's ensuring that positive statements by
congressmen about the Agency - such as are often contained in
the annual Authorization Bill - are given the maximum exposure
at Headquarters and to the field.
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DC IMS FPLG
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