CIA ACTIVITIES UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12333

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 5, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Clair E. George
Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
SUBJECT: CIA Activities Under the Provisions of
Executive Order 12333
1. Action Requested: It is requested that you
sign the attached letter and accompanying memorandum to
Representative Boland, Chairman of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (Tab A). The letter
constitutes your affirmation of an agreement, subject to
DCI approval, reached between concerned Agency components
(DDO, IG, OLL, OGC) and HPSCI staff regarding the
parameters of periodic written and oral reports to the
HPSCI concerning CIA's activities under the provisions of
Executive order 12333.
2. Background: The Chairmen of HPSCI and SSCI
have written separate letters (Tab B) to you stating that
the Committees want increased Congressional oversight of
Executive Order 12333 activities. You responded to both
Committee Chairmen stating that their requests would
receive the careful attention of senior Agency personnel
and that Agency staff would meet with Committee staff to
discuss the issues raised (Tab C).
3. Since the receipt of these letters, a series of
meetings were held with senior Committee staffers,
principally the HPSCI, but neither Committee pursued the
matter with much vigor. Recently, however, the HPSCI
staff sought to reach a final agreement as soon as
possible. Consequently, extensive negotiation took place
during the past several weeks between representatives of
the office of General Counsel, the Office of Legislative
Liaison, the Inspector General's Office, and the
Directorate of operations (including John Stein andl 25X1
), representing the CIA, and Majority and Minority 25X1
Counsels of the HPSCI. At the conclusion of these
negotiations an agreement was reached as set forth in
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Chairman Boland's letter at Tab D. As you note, Chairman
Boland's letter and your proposed response make clear that
the type of written reporting will be along the lines of
the FY 83 report enclosed with your proposed letter at Tab
A. The written reporting requirements are basically
statistical rather than substantive and deal with
activities such as undisclosed participation in
organizations in the U.S., including a number of
organizations in the U.S. used for this purpose. In
addition, the agreement calls for general overview of
operational activities in the U.S. and abroad, and numbers
of cases opened on U.S. persons for foreign intelligence,
counterintelligence, narcotics and counterterrorism
purposes.
4. A major stumbling block to the agreement had
been the extent of the reporting on counterintelligence
cases directed at U.S. persons. This matter was finally
resolved to all our satisfaction an oral briefing of
the HPSCI Chief Counsel by in which he provided a 25X1
detailed generic description of types of counter-
intelligence cases involving U.S. persons plus a general
description of specific cases, which was given in such a
manner as to protect the sensitivity of these cases. The
remaining areas about which we agree to report orally
conform to existing practices or previous commitments.
5. Recommendation: That you sign the letter and
accompanying memorandum to Chairman Boland attached at Tab
A.
Clair E. George
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24 April 1984
The Honorable Edward P. Boland, Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
In response to your letter of 26 March 1984 concerning the
agreement reached by our staffs on the nature and extent of
reporting by CIA to the Committee concerning activities governed by
Executive Order 12333 and its implementing procedures, I wish to
affirm that the agreement as set forth in the enclosure to your
letter is acceptable to me.
As stated in your letter, the agreement as to written reporting
is based on the understanding that the nature of the written
reporting will be along the lines of the FY 83 report, the final
version of which is enclosed herewith.
To confirm the assurances given to your staff, it is my
understanding that additional oral reports will be made to your
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