TEN PERCENT NFIP REDUCTION--FY 1987

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 27, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
DCI/ICS 86-3689
27 March 1986
SUBJECT: Ten Percent NFIP Reduction--FY 1987
1. In a 25 March 1986 letter to the DCI (attached), Mr. Hamilton
indicated that the HPSCI may be compelled to offer reductions for the NFIP
comparable to those which may be imposed on DoD. The DCI has been asked to
provide the Committee with the impact of a Gramm-Rudman-Hollings 10 percent
sequestration on each NFIP program for FY 1987, as well as the impact of an
NFIP-wide 10 percent reduction.
2. I solicit your views on this subject and request you provide
candidates for the 10 percent reduction and associated impacts for DCI
consideration. Your response should be in sufficient detail to answer the
first two questions posed in the attached correspondence and should be
received by 4 April 1986.
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M2NALL J. O'NE1L CHIEF COUNSEL
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March 25, 1986
Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
The Committee will markup the fiscal year 1987 Intelligence Authorization
Bill about April 15.
Congressional review of the overall budget, carried out by the Budget
Corrnittees, indicates that reductions of eight to twelve percent in budget
authority will be required in the national security budget function. The
Intelligence Committee may be expected to offer reductions comparable to those
irrosed on Defense as a whole.
It would be helpful to the Committee if you would respond by April 7 to
the following:
1. If a Gramm-Rudman-Hollings sequestration of ten percent were imposed,
what would be the impact on each I TIP program (CCP, CLAP, etc.)?
2. Assume that sequestration is to be avoided by a ten percent
Congressional reduction. Most witnesses at our budget hearings have
argued that across-the-board reductions are not the best way to
reduce the budget. The general theme has been that some programs
(particularly hardware-intensive programs) are better reduced by
cancelling some programs rather than reducing all. Given this
greater flexibility, what changes to the FY 1987 budget would you
crake to achieve a ten percent reduction? We assume that all projects
would not be cut evenly and that the various NFIP programs would not
be cut equally.
3. You have argued that intelligence is a high priority activity which
must be reduced less than Defense may be reduced overall. Many
Me:'1..' ers of the Co. rrittee agree. However, Corrnittee Members will be
faced with the task of trying to support activities largely unknown
to other Merr.bers in a very limited time and do so in forums which are
unclassified. Naturally, other Members and Committees will have high
priorities, too. We believe that it will be necessary for the
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President or the Secretary of Defense to state in some manner that he
wishes intelligence programs protected (to some level which he would
define) even at the expense of the rest of the Defense budget. Can
such support from the President be expected?
We realize that these are very difficult questions. One witness,
responding to question 2 stated that he could not answer because the Congress
would have to tell him what it didn't want to buy. The Committee will do that
for some items, but we believe you should have the opportunity to provide
advice both now and as the budget process continues to unfold.
With best wishes, I am
Lee H. Hamilton
Chairman
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