MEMO OF CONVERSATION BY (SANITIZED), INFORMATION AND PRIVACY DIVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01283R000100040010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 17, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMDRANDUM OF CONVERSATION:
1. On 14 or 15 July 1981, I was asked to call Mr. Tam Phillips of the
Senate Budget Office, who had same questions concerning the potential savings
that might result from the passage of Senator Chaffee's bill (5.1273) to
provide FDIA relief to the CIA. It is my understanding that this bill would
exempt from the access provisions of the FDIA those Agency files containing
certain categories of sensitive information: viz., records concerning scien-
tific and technical collection systems, intelligence and security liaison
arrangements, or security investigations conducted to determine the suit-
ability of prospective sources.
2. Mr. Phillips stated that last year the Agency had claimed that enact-
ment of this legislation would result in the saving of "millions of
dollars." He wanted a specific figure. He expressed interest in the number
of slots that would be dropped and the reduction in computer costs, specifi-
cally.
3. I told Mr. Phillips that I was very reluctant to attempt to quantify
the savings inaanuch as it was still unclear What the scope and effect of the
amendment would be, e.g., Whether it would be retroactive. However, clearly
we would not be saving "millions of dollars" since our estimate of the total
personnel costs for administering the FDIA last year was approximately
I explained further that we did not keep track of any costs other
than personnel costs, and that, based upon the ID's figures, the other costs
would probably amount to no more than 5-10 percent of the personnel expendi-
tures.
4. The biggest impact would obviously be on the DO. The DO would still
have a considerable FDIA burden, What with referrals from other agencies and
fron other CIA components. In addition, the processing of PA and EO requests
would continue as before. As far as those individuals in the DO who only
occasionally work on FOIA requests as collateral tasks, no slots would be
saved. To the degree that such persons were relieved of their FDIA chores
(searching for or reviewing documents), they would simply have more tine to
devote to their intelligence-related duties. It occured to me that the one
saving that might result would be if the DO, with less of an FOIA workload,
felt that it was no longer necessary to hire annuitants on a contract basis.
As of last fall, according to the reportj_prepared in connection with the
long-range planning exercise, the DO had part-tine contract workers, each
of Wham worked 30 hours per week on FOIA/PA requests. Assuming that the pay
averages out at h?.e Agency
employee, and that we would have no need to renew
their contracts, would have reduced the payroll by bodies, at a
dollar saving of approximately per year.
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