REGARDING THE ATTACHED IF CONGRESS REQUESTS A BRIEFING ON CIA SUPPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000300400015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 22, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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T Executive Registry
L84- 2277
22 May 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
National Intelligence Officer/Narcotics
FROM: Executive Assistant to the DDCI
Regarding the attached, if Congress requests a briefing on CIA
support to whatever, the.DDCI still believes a CIA representative, not an
NIO, should provide that briefing. NIOs should not speak for CIA on the
Hill.
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Chairman, National Intelligence Council
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council - NIC 002802-84
17 May 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI Representative/Office ofLegislative Liaison
FROM: Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics
SUBJECT: Memorandum for the Record Regarding Briefing of Ted Mehl
and.Bill Lawrence, Staff of the House Government
Operations Committee, Subcommittee-on Information,
Justice and Agriculture
2. In response to specific questions from the
the NIO stated that he had no specific knowledge of
1. On 3 May 1984, the NIO for Narcotics and his assistant,
accompanied by OLL, briefed Ted Mehl and Bill Lawrence on
CIA's support to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to the
National Narcotics Border Interdiction System (NNBIS).
but would inquire about it. The NIO prove e a
presented the highlights of CIA's current... initiatives regarding
information sharing with NSA and NNBIS.
generai overview o the recently signed ;!Procedures Governing Conduct sand
Cooperation by CIA and DEA of Narcotics.-Activities Abroad." The NIO also
3. In response to a question regarding operational support to.DFA,..:
the A/NIO for Narcotics described CIA's imagery support, including
detection of narcotics processing and trafficking facilities in Colombia,
the Bahamas and Belize.
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4. The NIO concluded by stating that we would review our current
finished intelligence publications to determine which of them could be
reviewed by Ted Mehl, and that we would look into ae possibility of
Mehl's reviewing a copy of the "Procedures memoran um.
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