CHAIRMAN DURENBERGER'S SPEECH AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000500640028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: June 19, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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19 June 1986
OCA: 86-1932
NOTE FOR: DDCI
FROM: Dave Grie
SUBJECT: Chairman Durenberger's Speech at the National Press
Club
The scored portion is a foretaste of coming events. The
Chairman believes that the Philippine paper was a great success,
and is proposing a number of. clones as part of his campaign to
burnish the image of the Committee. How do you feel about
this? How strenuously should we discourage Committee staff?
At a minimum, I recommend against briefing staffers who are
drafting such papers on grounds that our briefings are
classified and their proposed papers are not; at a maximum, I
can convey to Bernie McMahon our skepticism on grounds that any
unclassified papers SSCI releases will inevitably be seen as
conveying conclusions derived from classified material. In
these circumstances, we can push your idea that if SSCI must
publish unclassified papers, CIA would rather prepare them
itself for Committee release.
Durenberger's reference to the "state of American
intelligence" and "security and counter-intelligence" are
obvious exceptions to the above. We will have to wait a bit and
learn more about these papers.
Guidance, please.
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In rare instances, when
vital matters of public
interest dictate, the committee
may vote to re-write its
reports in an unclassified
version and release them to the
public -- a course of action
we selected when we released
a report on Soviet intelligence
penetrations at the United
Nations and when we released
out report on an increasinly
critical situation in the
Philippines.
Although it has not yet
been decided whether to make
them public, the Committee will
produce several more reports
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