LETTER TO BARRY M. GOLDWATER FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 22, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
22 June 1983
The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater, Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United State Senate
Washington,. D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
F ecuuve P.e,gistry
Given your Committee's strong interest in strengthening this nation's
counterintelligence capabilities against hostile intelligence threats
confronting the United States, I would like to bring you up to date on
what we have been doing toward that end.
"Following up on Senator Wallop's Budget Subcommittee's report, we
have initiated an in-depth study of how best to meet the needs of the
United States Government for multidisciplinary counterintelligence
analysis. Concurrently, we are also forming, as your Committee recom-
mended, an Advisory Commission to take a parallel look at this same
question and come up with recommendations. We are now consulting with
the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General and the FBI 4o select the
Commission members. Terms of reference for the study have-been drafted.
I fully expect to complete both of these studies and submit them to the
Committee by the requested date of 15 November 1983.
Meanwhile, to improve multidisciplinary counterintelligence analysis
throughout the Community, I am establishing a new Intelligence Community
Committee en.Hostile Intelligence Threat Analysis. The Committee will
be chaired by the Chief of the Intelligence Community Counterintelligence
Staff and will include members from all elements of the Community, includ-
ing the Military Services. This Committee will assist and advise me in
improving how we assess, analyze, evaluate and report on the totality of
hostile intelligence threats against the United States.
As you know, we have established the Foreign Intelligence Capabilities
Group in the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, and I hope to augment. this,.
Group and its analytical capabilities during FY 1984. The work of this
Group exemplifies the type of multidisciplinary analysis I am seeking and
your Committee is advocating. By strengthening this Group and by forming
the new Committee on Hostile Intelligence Threat Analysis, I hope to focus
attention on and give support to other counterintelligence and counter-
measures analytical improvements throughout the Community.
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The Interagency Groups for Counterintelligence and for Countermeasures
(IG/CI and IG/CM) have continued their work in support of the Senior Inter-
agency Group for Intelligence (SIG-I) to implement the numerous recommenda-
tions included in the NSSD-2 study on "Capabilities Against the Hostile
Intelligence Threat, 1983-1988." We are making good progress on the policy
and legal actions recommended, and have either incorporated in the FY 1984
budget request or are developing for the FY 1985 budget request essentially
all of the resource enhancements recommended in the study.
We have disseminated Terms of Reference for the 1983 annual Hostile
Intelligence Services Multidisciplinary Threat and U.S. Countermeasures
Assessment. We intend to publish this assessment by 1 December 1983 and
will, of course, provide you a copy.
Your continued interest in and support of these efforts is a source of
encouragement that we are on the right track and will succeed in making sub-
stantial improvements. I will continue to keep you informed as we progress
in these endeavors of mutual concern.
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