REPORT OF CONGRESSWOMAN SNOWE'S CALL TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92M00732R000400020005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2014
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1989
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
OCA 3409-89
29 September 1989
Director of Central Intelligence
H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.
Director, Security Evaluation Office
Report of Congresswoman Snowe's Call to
Department of State
1. It is unfortunate that anything I said to HPSCI staff
members on 26 September has been construed to indicate that the
State Department has made a decision on the Moscow embassy building
without appropriate consultation with the Congress.
2. My meeting with the HPSCI staff was at its request to
discuss what the DCl/SEO had done in FY 89 and intended to do in FY
90. The discussion of the Moscow embassy building was incidental to
the larger discussion and included only a few minutes of the 2-1/2
hours we spent with the staff.
3. The Moscow building was brought up in terms of questions
about the DCl/SEO and the Intelligence Community involvement in the
security analysis of the building options. My opening response to
the questions was to remind the HPSCI staff that Ivan Selin and the
DCI had visited their chairman, ,as well as the SSCI chairman, a
month or so ago to discuss the building options and the security
analysis. I added that it was my understanding that the DCI had
discussed the Intelligence Community judgment that the building
options could provide adequate security as long as sufficient secure
space was provided, the appropriate security countermeasures, etc.
were incorporated. My closing remarks on the subject of the Moscow
building were to say the Department had a good understanding of the
security issues and the Secretary and his staff now had to develop
the formal decision process of options and recommendations and
present these to the President and Congress; and that to my
knowledge this process of discussions with the President and
consultations with Congress had not yet begun. The questions,
answers, and comments between those opening and closing remarks were
intended to elicit or explain some of the security issues inherent
in the several Moscow building options.
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4. I assume that some of the HPSCI staff spoke with other
Congressional staff, who spoke with others, and that something was
added or lost in the account of my remarks.
H. F. Hhtchinson, Jr.
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SUBJECT: Report of Congresswoman Snowe's Call to
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Distribution:
Orig - ADSE
1 - DDCI
1 - D/OCA
1 - OCA
1 - ER
1 - HFH Chron
1 - SEO Chron/Hqs
1 - SEO Chron/Key
1 - State File
(29 Sep 89)
SEO 337-89
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