LETTER TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE MAHON, THE HONORABLE JOHN L. MCCLELLAN FROM GEORGE BUSH

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2002
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• Publication Date: September 15, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable George Mahon, Chairman
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C. 20515
Honorable John L. McClellan, Chairman
Committee on-Appropriations
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairmen:
services must be funded from the appropriation for Intelligence
Intelligence. However, .1 have some difficulty in interpreting certain
portions of the language relating to Title VIII of the bill.. The Report
provides that while certain administrative services can be obtained .. -
from othex.sources. (agencies and departments), such administrative "
and independent in their actions and support to the Director of Central
know, it is my intention that the IC Staff and the NFIB be objective .
Community Staff and the National Foreign Intelligence Board.. As you
complete financial and policy independence on the part of the Intelligence
The Conference Report on the Defense Appropriations bil for
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fiscal year 1977 expresses the desire of the Congress that there be
Community oversight in Title. VIII of the bill. - The Report also states
that there is to be no augmentation of the appropriation. except by
supplemental appropriation.
instance, if Intelligence Community Staff members ride one of the
A literal interpretation of the language of this section of the
Report would preclude the Intelligence Community Staff from utilizing
available Government services without paying, for that. support. For
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Government shuttle busses, the IC Staff would be.obliged to reimburse
the department or agency concerned for the provision of that service. -
If computers of a governmental organization are utilized to resolve . ' -
an Intelligence Community problem, or administrative routine, the IC
.Staff would be obliged to pay for that service, insignificant as it may
be. Further, whenever the National Foreign Intelligence Board meets,
or whenever the many DCI Committee members who support, the NFXB
engage in-a Community meeting, the IC- Staff would be' regtAred to
reimburse the Community organizations for the. services of those persons
and for the cost of their travel to attend those eetings.
While I believe such a literal interpretation was not the intent
of your Committee, nor the will of Congress, I do believe it was
the intent of the Committees that the Intelligence Community Staff =` -
have sufficient resources that it would not be influenced or controlled
by the organizations that comprise the Intelligence Community. You
have my assurance that no such influence or control now exists, or
ever will, as long as I am Director of Central Intelligence.
In practical terms, it would be an administrative nightmare for
the IC Staff to keep time and attendance records of the close'to one thousand.
representatives from the various Community organizations who attend
meetings periodically in behalf of the Community mission and function..
In fact, a most elaborate and costly accounting mechanism as well as a
large. administrative staff would have to be developed to permit accounting
for the widd variety of administrative services and support now rendered
by governmental organizations to the members of the'IC Staff, the National
Foreign Intelligence Board, and the DCI committees, free of charge..
To do so would be virtually an impossible job, would impede the functions of
the IC Staff and the National Foreign Intelligence Board and would be .
contrary to the principles of efficiency and economy of operations which ".
I assumed it was the intent of the Cominitt'ees that those activitios
of the IC Staff which can be readily identified and the salaries of personnel
assigned full time to the IC Staff be funded from the IC Staff appropriation.
However, representatives from the various Intelligence Community .
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would receive tnetr salaries zrom zneir parent
administrative services which would not prompt a policy intLueace- o
reports9, estimates and actions. _ .:
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and the NFIB is that total objectivity is to be the naLJzoax,c UJ- a- U.
- : ~~ti have my cornmitzuent that the guidi_ag prm..nciple to th.e? IC Staf,
cec~,rca~
well as the Government at large to provide expertise aria,
assistance to various ad hoc study efforts or task forces- that might
be formed to carry out a Community mission without. obligation. to
reimburse the contributing organizations.
T+'lirther_ the IC Staff could Can upon Community orga.r&.ization a.s
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control upon the IC Staff- could be received without re ur?emeat .
-4i ma those services. .
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show u a supplemental duaget reque.,-. -LuA.-
to thel the Fiscal Year 1977 appropriation. to pay for -
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.~,-?,r~aria-IP vr>tr ermfirmation of this interpretation. of the-xepoxt? I WM.
the ad i ion nuxri, er of personnel and related expen. -'
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Staff as I now envision them.
Sincerely, .
Ueorger Z"1511
Director
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