AUTHORIZATION CONFERENCE APPEAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92M00732R000400040001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 31, 1989
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
31 August 1989
Director, Program and Budget Office
Intelligence Community Staff
FROM: H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.
Director, Security Evaluation Office
SUBJECT: Authorization Conference Appeal
1. Attached per your request is the write-up on the Security
Evaluation Office for inclusion in the Authorization Conference
appeal package which you are currently collating.
2. In light of the DCI's longstanding concerns with the
Security Evaluation Office, I suggest you mention it in your
covering letter along the following lines (assumption is DCI is
the signer of the letter):
As you will see in the attached appeal on the Security
Evaluation Office, there are promising developments which we
are actively pursuing with the Department of State. I
believe that an effective cooperative relationship with the
Department on these issues can be maintained only if the
Intelligence Community speaks with one voice and if its
support is systematic and channeled. A strong and fully
staffed DCl/SEO, with full support from the Congress, is
needed to carry out the mandate from the President.
3. If vou have any questions, please call me directly on
Attachment:
As stated
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SUBJECT: Authorization Conference Appeal
EO/SEO
Distribution:
Orig - Adse
1 - ER
1 - HFH Chron
1 - SE0 Chron/Hdqs
1 - SEO Chron/Key
1 - EO/SEO
1 - SEO/B&F
SEO 296-89
24 Aug 89)
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INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF*
FY 1990 AUTHORIZATION ACTIONS
(Dollars in Millions)
Security Evaluation Office:
JUSTIFICATION AND IMPACT
By now you have received the first annual.DCl/Security Evaluation
Office report on the status of security at U.S. diplomatic and
consular posts. The report lays out not only the organizational
and substantive issues but discusses the accomplishments of the
DCl/SEO which are impressive considering the brevity of its
existence and bureaucratic obstacles it has encountered. In the
covering letter we discuss in detail the resistance we experienced
from the Department of State under Secretary Shultz in
implementing the President's 1987 directive. However, in the
closing weeks of the Reagan Administration, Secretary Shultz and
the DCI continued to look for and succeeded in finding ways to
close the gap between State and the DCl/SEO. Subsequently, the
DCI and Secretary Baker have discussed the problems encountered
earlier and believe they can be resolved. Discussions with Under
Secretary Selin encourage us to believe that DCl/SEO and the
Bureau of Diplomatic Security now have sufficient latitude to
evolve a cooperative relationship. Mr. Selin has suggested and we
have agreed to embark on a pilot project over the next few
months. These are certainly promising developments.
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Security Evaluation Office
The Committees' comments on the DCl/SEO seem to imply that without
State participation the SE0 cannot carry out its mission and hence
needs fewer positions. The number of positions in DCl/SEO is
related to the mission (threat and vulnerability, standards, and
monitoring compliance) and is not affected by who (State, CIA,
NSA, DIA or FBI) fill them. Sixty positions are required to
perform the mission; as long as the mission is unchanged, the
position requirement is unchanged. If anything the mission of SE0
is expanding and a prime example of this is our support of the
State Department Moscow Embassy Buildings Control Office (MEBCO).
The 1987 instruction to establish the DCl/SEO required only State
cooperation; participation was our proposal. We would prefer to
have State participation in SEO and we have every reason to
believe this will become a reality in the near future.
The seriousness and magnitude of the problems/issues associated
with the embassies overseas are unchanged. The issues chronicled
by Schlesinger, Laird, PFIAB, Inman and the Congress are still
with us. The State Department needs the coordinated support of
the Intelligence Community. We strongly urge the Conference to
restore the ?resources.
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