MEETING WITH DCI AND DDCI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000200300031-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: April 17, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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17 April 1986
OCA 86-1192
SUBJECT: Meeting with DCI and DDCI
I had three topics to raise:
--OCA has prepared a bill of particulars for discussion at
the staff level on the Hill.
--We would like to continue pushing informal contacts
between top Agency officers and Members.
--We will probably ask for the DCI's help in arranging some
speakers for our off site conference. He thought Bill Timmons
would be a good choice.
In a long discuss about the growing number of staff and
Member briefings required of the Agency, the DCI focused on the
problem of siphoning off resources from analysis and
operations. As a remedy, he and the DDCI decided that starting
immediately OCA should itself do routine briefings for staff and
Members on subjects where written briefs were available, could
be cannibalized from publications or could be quickly pulled
together by analysts.
--This is an important departure. It can reduce the number
of analyst briefings on the Hill and concurrently make OCA's
work more productive and challenging.
--However, we should approach this in a gingerly fashion.
Initially, I would ask that House and Senate Divisions keep me
advised of which briefings they wish to do themselves and which
require expert analysts.
In discussing our bill of particulars, the DCI asked that we
make it as nearly mandatory as possible that staff briefings
occur at CIA rather than on the Hill. In the context of the
previous paragraph, I take this to mean that when analysts are
doing a briefing, it should take place at Headquarters. When
OCA is doing the briefing, it should be our option as to whether
staff come here or we go there. In most cases, I would prefer
to go the Hill, since we want OCA officers meeting with staff on
the Hill as much as possible.
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I raised three points about DCI-DDCI appearances and
testimony. The process of preparing testimony is disorganized,
and as a result, the DCI's testimony often lacked the upbeat,
forward looking quality that we want. Second, in Community
hearings the DCI and DDCI, after presenting the Community
viewpoint, should leave--as other Cabinet level officers
o--rather than sit through the testimony of other Agency
heads. Third, there are some instances where the DCI is
appearing when the DDCI would be the more appropriate officer.
In closing the DCI asked whether some of the letters we send
him for signature were not taking too long to prepare. I agreed
but said we were improving.
Distribution:
Original - OCA Record
1 - D/OCA Chrono
1 - EO/OCA
1 - DD/HA/OCA
1 - ADD/SA/OCA
1 - DD/Legislation/OCA
1 - OCA Chrono
D/OCA:DDG:mdo (17 April 1986)
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