[FBI FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE BUDGET]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003100030009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 28, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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(CI-3)
June' 28, 1978
FBI Review
Completed
'UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT
COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (SSCI)
UNITED STATES HOUSE PERMANENT.
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SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ~ HPSCI)A
RE: FBI FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (FCI) BUDGET,
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (NFIP)
Reference is made to a letter from the SSCI to
Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence,
Washington, D. C., dated May 19, 1977, enclosing a bill
authorizing Fiscal Year (FY) 1978 appropriations for
intelligence activities. of the United States Government.
Also, reference is made to a 'Memorandum from the FBI to the
SSCI, dated October 7, 1977, captioned, "Fiscal Year (FY)
1978 FCI. Program Resource Allocation." Finally, reference
is made to the SSCI's recommendations concerning the FBI's
FY 1979 ,FCI Program budget, whi-ch were rni.shed to the FBI
by memorandum, from Deputy to the .
Director of Central Intelligence or Resource Management,
Washington, D. C., dated April 20, 1978, captioned. "Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Recommendations."
The SSCI FCI authorization for the FBI for FY 1978
was $58.5 million. The FBI's referenced letter of October 7,
1977, advised the SSCI that as a result of more precise
data regarding manpower utilization, as a result of the FBI's
newly operational Time Utilization and Record Keeping (TURK)
system, and the inclusion of the Standard Level Users Charge
(SLUG) (payments to General Services Administration)
DECLASSIFIED by FBI. Change stamp to read:
DECLASSIFIED by 60309/uc/TAM/KSR/gc1 on 11/1/2007 (FBI 58-19)
Classified by 1929
Exempt from GDS, Categories 2 and 3
Date of Declassification Indefinite
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RE: FBI FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (FCI) BUDGET,
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (N.F I.P )
allocable to our investigative programs, the FBI's FY 1978.
.FCI budget projection was revised upward to $66.18 million.
The adjusted figure represented a more accurate accounting
of funds and not'a formal reprogramming as such.
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In its recommendations concerning the FBI's FY 1979,
.FC.I Program budget, the SSCI noted that the Committee
recognized the managerial difficulties in accounting for and
monitoring expenditures for FCI operations, but requested
that in the future any deviation from the Committee's
authorized levels or any major or significant shift within
that level be brought to the Committee's attention within
fifteen days of its occurrence. In keeping with the request
of the SSCI, you are advised that the FBI's field FCI Program
activities are currently experiencing a 16.316% shortfall..
This shortfall projection is expressed in terms of actual
FY'-to-date expenditures in direct field agent work-years.
The exact dollar amounts are not available at this time and
this shortfall does not take into consideration the one other
FCI Program activit Coordination of Investigations at FBI
Headquarters (FBIHQ), for which no figures are now available.
The preponderant portion of the FBI's total FCI Program, (U)
however, is made up of its field program activities.
As a background you should know the FBI's total
FCI Program for budgetary purposes is broken down into three
parts:
- Coordination of FCI Investigations
- FCI Field Investigations
FCI Assets.
The FCI Coordination budget package is a part of the overall
FBIHQ Coordination budget package. The FCI Portion of the
FBIHQ Coordination package represents the budget request
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RE: FBI FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (FCI) BUDGET,
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (NFIP)
for providing personnel such as FCI senior managers,
supervisors, analysts, support personnel and other object
classes such as -equipment, supplies, etc., at FBIHQ. The
FCI Field Investigations budget package represents the .
budget request for conducting FCI investigations throughout
the field. The FCI Assets budget package represents the
.budget reauest r resources to recruit and operate FCI
assets. (U)
The fact that FCI programs are separately funded
and accounted for under the NFIP theoretically assures that
FCI funds are not diverted to other FBI investigative
responsibilities.. However,. manpower has been regularly
diverted from FCI to other. responsibilities within the 59
FBI field offices as exigencies in other. investigative
programs developed. Such diversions of manpower, of course
have been charged to the non-FCI areas of the FBI's budget.
Special. Agents in Charge (SACs) of FBI field
offices have always been given the authority to deploy their
manpower resources commensurate with the investigative
.exigencies then existing within their offices. Thus, in
the event of a major crime such as kidnaping, the SAC has
the flexibility to divert, temporarily, manpower from FCI
or other specialized programs in order to resolve the higher
priority matter. The smaller the field office, the
more; important this flexibility has been. The setting of
specific mandated levels of effort, in terms of monetary,
and especially manpower resources, represents a new manage-
ment system for the FBI. Some deviations from the
mandated levels are occurring as the FBI adjusts to this new
system. (U)
Complicating this situation has been the advent
on January 1, 1978, of mandatory retirement at age 55
for Special Agent (SA) personnel. Many of the SAs in
FCI programs have been older, more experienced agents.
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RB: FBI FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (FCI) BUDGET,
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (NFIP)
Mandatory retirements cut deeply into FCI complements
in many field offices. In addition,' many other senior
SAs have unexpectedly retired prior to their mandatory
retirement age. This has resulted in a temporary shortage
of SAs in the field, while new SAs are hired and
trained. (U)
Until the last several years most of the FBI's
FCI work was concentrated in several large establishment
offices, and the majority of the FCI work is still in these
same offices; however, there is a definite trend for
significant and complex cases developing in those offices
wherein an insignificant amount of FCI work existed in the'
past. With the increase .in numbers,. and a much expanded'
geographic access, by criteria country persons, the smaller
outlying offices are becoming much more involved in FCI
cases. Because of the complexity of these cases SAs, who
have limited or no experience with FCI matters, need
additional training and experience to develop their capability
in this program. Increased efforts in these nonestablish-
ment offices are ex ected to reduce, somewhat, shortfalls in
the FCI budget. (U)
Executive level FBI officials are aware of the
shortages in the FCI Program. Ongoing analyses of the
FCI Program continue to indicate limitations of vital
investigations in many areas, as a result of manpower
shortages. The FBI is currently in the process of
reallocating additional SAs into the FCI Program. Further-
more, stricter accountability and control'of FCI manpower
has now been mandated by the Director of the FBI. The
FBI expects that the' reallocation of the SAs into the FCI
Program, along with additional FCI manpower controls, will
result in the FCI field program activities consuming
manpower during the fourth quarter of FY 1978, at a level
approximately 10.5% below that which was budgeted for,
Additionally, each SAC is being required to submit an
updated assessment of the FCI Program in his office together
with recommendations for its enhancement by the end of
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PROGRAM (NFIP)
RE. NFBI ATIONALIFORECIGNTINTELLIGENCEC ~
June;, 1978. Each plan will be analyzed, revised if necessary,
and approved by FBIHQ. Specific targets and goals will
be reemphasizes for, each office. This action is expected
to result in additional manpower reallocations into the
FCI Program.
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The shortfall situation has been increasing in
intensity since the beginning of FY 1978, but approximately
one quarter of the FY was passed prior to the TURK system
Con-
indicating a true picture of what was taking place.
currently, additional limitations of vital investigations have
been occurring as manpower levels have dropped as a result
of the retirements of large numbers of experienced SAs. As
it now appears, it will be extremely difficult to avoid a
shortfall this FY. (U)
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