A CIA CHIEF'S PRIMER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 10, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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pN?riGe~'_ -~ 10 February 1977
C~ss:1 iy.Wishington t, crau
;.: ;Washington=The:prineipal' ch'ir-
:ter's choice to head,ttie 5 gericy o
-`~ : a. Cut :out the widNpread use o
covert 'operations,
`'- ??riird'out what is happeiiiiig-,i
The advice c o ni e s from.Villiani
`Colby, who headed. the .CIA =during'
r=:. the recent. investigations;.'and the':
Lwo nieii who directed the piobea,
=? Sen.? . 'rank Church (D-Idaho)`; and
Rep. Otis Pike:(D-Riverhead).`;
Asked - rvhit ' they : would. xecorri
inend to' Car0 i"s.pozninee,' 1
V=`Stansfield' Turner, the three agreed
t,
_.' iri separate interviews that c ov.e or
'operations tivould no longer. be toles-~,
ited by'the public and are'- 116 longci `
'nece'Western Europe and Latin Arni'.i?ica..
:'Arid ve were doing "things to !. top;'
t h e m:. Today The communists- are.
splintered.`. Colby-said .that the problems the
CIA must'deal?with todayconcern
arms control, the interdependence-of
nations'. economies:andthe relatjon '
know;".:he said. "We:must.be able t(.....
yell the?President what a situation is
and what the results -ofthe situation":
. will-'be If something ,: happens'..and,;.
=`we d d'riot'know;it: was go .i rr g to
'
.,.
happen; that is aniritelligence. gap.'.
Pike:made mucl ''the same` point;
uaa?, .., bf
able to predict; with some degree of-_ -
accuracy that is=happening' in the
And `the- mformation'we,
w o r 1 d?.'And'
gather will have to be less on purely
niilitary matters and more on'things'_1
like the. effect. of climatology oir; So-;-4
iet crops or the political options of
t developing icountries and ?liow4 that
(;might affect the availability -of basic ;;
? 'esources" 1 r L, ".;. - re.
C o 1 b y ",and Pike both -said that.
rovext- operations now, are only ~.a
smaL, -part C'TA activiti only
three or four per, cent of the budget:;
Chut?ch' definecT covert operations as _:
"the bureaucratic term for a. whole,
'bag." of,: d i i,t y tricks and' misdeeds.
?:from _ political: payoffs to 'assassir'.a
. _..'r
~;.tion attempts and kidnaping"
.'Carter's geoid&ri to appoint alt out-
need for a detached, o u t s i d e.view ;-
want to clo`with all. this apparatus":
gather than : taking: the"Ir.stittitiortal;;`
view of hgw'do,lvf use it,.An putsider-,
'can assess; tite::needs and- 41sg, the
tools to meet the needsr.He;'can:ask:
' 'What :good' is it?'* There is alwsvs
'tlie danger.. theprofessionl just-
wants to use the'toots'"
;.%ilepends on ''the:. President. "Theis:
'fare many. cafes in.-which .the agency. .
rccommendecl agaii,,st a secret opera
j.lort' and the PresicTent said that' is
rwhat?he wanted and so it.had to be
't...:. .
done,.." salsa Colb"The operations
aerations were being done:on -orders.
.'from the President." He cops ref(-r--'; -
Yin, Jo the CIA's attempt to "de-
stabilize"-the - mime of .the l-it
Snlvador `Allende before ?lus, 'over--
,tl,rrnc in`1g7J. .: .,
. ` ?Pikc 'said 'that his investigation
rshowed that the"real problem of the
agency was "rota the unchecked cov
cert. operations :but.-'the inability of .
the, agency to analyze d a t a.."We
foci d that the data. that the ngcricy
-does get-is ;ctitite good. But we atsv
found.- that?"the -in lv_- ; of that data
was. quite poor,' ;said Pike. "I be-`A
lieve.that the`new rector will have
to put much.' more` emphasis en the
end product.'-'.
'~Tnrn#r . ~v;:ll be: takjn;;,ove:. ;the':
agency after the- most searchil-1111- con-i`
*gr;s=icaial'iii -estigatiori`in the eager;
ci,, .33 ycar h stcry:-and? a' 'se-ii .'ol
revelations about illegal activities-by'
..U:e, agency- ;that. -included'"not. only
,covert operations, bat mail openiri
aura the testing of drugs on liurnans.
r
i'hs 'Church-Senate investigat
criticized the agency and It . direct 1
:tor for its preoccu: ation with- cl?ui-1
, f1es':ine op_ rations rather;: than, ceri-
tral ananagement_ and the collection ?I
cf 'information. That report, szid'
that. the agency's-,prima', mmission- 4
providing. _ the President, an_d top
dec'sion inaker:? with'?fnished in-:f
,~.telligence reports=hasI been "over;
shadowed by the glamor of'clardes-
tine activities and the line. of exotic.:
collection systems" - "`
Colby:said that. the,n2yvdirector'
':wou`d"be faced with tiir'es ifferent=
,iotii:: m ir!agi^,g tae-agency ilea(, co-;4
ordinathig the e r f: ire intelligence
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