IDENTIFICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S STAFF AUTHORIZED TO COMMUNICATE WITH DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R000600050001-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 9, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE WHITE HOUSE
December 9, 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR CABINET AND AGENCY HEADS
FROM: KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN
SUBJECT: Identification of Members of the President-elect's
Staff Authorized to Communicate with Departments
and Agencies
The Office of the President-elect has selected certain of its
employees and volunteers to assume responsibilities (such as for
Presidential personnel decisions, for Congressional affairs, and
for providing legal and policy advice to the President-elect)
which require that they contact appropriate staff at the
Departments and agencies from time to time to discuss a range of
issues. The names of those employees and volunteers appear on
the attached list.
In accordance with the President's Directive of November 18, 1988
and the Policy Statement Concerning Information Disclosure to
Transition Personnel forwarded earlier, I am verifying that the
individuals whose names appear on the attached list have been
authorized to communicate with all Departments and agencies. I
am also confirming that those individuals have provided state-
ments concerning their most recent employment and sources of
funding and copies of their written agreements to comply with the
President-elect's standards of conduct.
Please understand that these individuals are not designated
transition office contacts for your Department and agency, but
are legitimate members of the President-elect's transition staff
who should be provided with access to public information as
defined in the Policy Statement Concerning Information
Disclosure. Unless I inform you otherwise and provide you with
copies of their Source of Funding Statements and Transition
Standards of Conduct Agreements, these individuals are not to be
provided with access to non-public information.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
ATTACHMENT A: Certain Members of the Staff of the Office of the
President-elect Authorized to Communicate with
Departments and Agencies.
ATTACHMENT B: Explanation of Transition Contacts
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ATTACHMENT A
Certain Members of the Staff of the office of the President-
elect Authorized to Communicate with Departments and Agencies
Co-Director's Office
Fred Bush Mary Lukens
George Bush, Jr. Kathleen Shanahan
Tom Collamore John Sununu
Michael Farren Diane Terpeluk
Craig Fuller Bob Grady
Robert Teeter
Public Liaison Office
Dave Demarest Bobbie Kilberg
Press Office
David Prosperi Sheila Tate
Office of the Vice President-elect
Fred Fielding Daniel F. Evans, Jr.
Transition Policy Office
Richard D. English
Martha Johnston
Austen Furse
Lehman Li
John
Gardner
Jim Pinkerton
Lloyd
Green
Peter Scott
Otto
Wolff
Kate Moore
Marshall Breger
Personnel Office
David Hansen
Ross Starek
Legal Counsel's Office
Boyden Gray John Schmitz
William Barr Wendell Willkie
Richard Hauser Sherrie Marshall
Chief of Staff Designee's Office
Ed Rogers
Congressional Affairs Office
Gary Andris Steve Britt
Martha Johnston Janet Mullins
Tom Scully Mary Tinsley
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ATTACHMENT B
Explanation of Transition Contacts
To`f acilitate an orderly transition, the Transition's
information-gathering and review process is divided into two
phases.
The first phase is the Transition Office Contact ("TOC")
phase. The TOCs are a group of people designated to make the
initial contacts with a Department or agency. TOCs are primarily
arranged according to department and area of specialization. For
example, the TOC group responsible for the Department of Agricul-
ture is also responsible for the Farm Credit Administration. For
efficiency's sake, a TOC leader is designated to coordinate
transition efforts.
Keeping with the requirements of law, the Transition sends a
TOC member's name, along with a disclosure of funding document
and a signed copy of the transition standards of conduct, to the
White House, and then to the General Services Administration.
The White House in turn notifies the particular Department or
agency of the identity of the person or persons authorized to
serve as TOCs.
It should be noted that TOCs have not been designated for
all agencies and Departments and that a person can serve on more
than one TOC team.
After a person is named to a TOC team, he/she begins to
gather and analyze the information provided by the particular
department (in books and briefings) and then prepares material to
be used in the second phase of the Transition process by the
Secretary-designee.
That second phase is called the Transition Team phase.
Transition Teams are more senior and ideally are headed by the
Secretary-designee for the particular department. The Transition
Team's role is twofold: to continue the information-gathering
process, as well as to facilitate hands-on administration of the
department after the Inauguration and Senate confirmation. The
Transition Teams are subject to the same reporting requirements
as the TOCs.
Finally, there is a group of approximately 40 individuals at
the President-elect's transition office who are not TOC or Team
members but who because of their particular responsibilities may
need to discuss a range of issues with appropriate staff at
various departments and agencies. These individuals are listed
in Attachment A of this memorandum.
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