SENATOR GOLDWATER'S REMINDER ON OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 18, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Intelligence Community Staff
Deputy
Director
for
Operations
Deputy
Director
for
Intelligence
Deputy
Director
for
Administration
Deputy
Director
for
Science & Technology
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Comptroller
General Counsel
Inspector General
Director, Public Affairs Office
FROM: Clair E. George
Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
SUBJECT: Senator Goldwater's Reminder on
Oversight Responsibilities
1. Attached is a 7 May 1984 letter addressed to DCI Casey
from Chairman Goldwater reminding the Agency of its
responsibilities to keep the Intelligence Committees "fully and
currently" informed of all intelligence activities. Senator
Goldwater has requested that all offices and individuals who
brief the SSCI on intelligence activities should be made aware
of this requirement on a regular basis.
2. For this reason, I am attaching Senator Goldwater's
letter and a short paper prepared by his staff on the statutory
oversight process which should be appropriately distributed in
your Office, Anv further questions on this matter should be
directed to of my Office.
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DISTRIBUTION:
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1 - LEG File: Cong. Oversight Procedures
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BARRY (OLDWATER
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May 7, 1984
The Honorable William Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20250
I'm enclosing a short paper on the statutory system of Congressional
Oversight.
What I would
page and see
Committee is
necessity of
briefings or
trouble.
like you to do is to copy the marked paragraph on the first
that every one of your people who comes over to brief our
aware of this. Bill, I can't emphasize too strongly the
your complying with this law. A continuation of incomplete
even a hint of dishonest briefings can cause you a lot of
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SELECTED KEY FEATURES OF THE STATUTORY SYSTEM
FOR CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980 modified the
Hughes-Ryan Amendment on Congressional notification of
covert action operations, and added a new title V to
the National Security Act of 1947, creating a statutory
system of congressional oversight.
. The 1980 oversight legislation represented an agree-
ment between the Executive and Legislative branches to
replace the previous requirement for "timely" reporting of
covert actions to eight "appropriate" congressional committees*
with a system that centralized oversight in the Intelligence
Committees under a new set of requirements.
The current statutory system imposes upon the DCI and the
heads of all other Intelligence Community organizations the
obligation to:
-- keep the Intelligence Committees "fully and current-
ly informed" of all intelligence activities, including
any signs icant anticipated intelligence activity."
The mo 1 ied Hughes-Ryan Amendment specifies that each
covert action operation is to be considered a "significant
anticipated intelligence activity." This means that covert
action operations must be reported to the Intelligence Com-
mittees prior to implementation in accordance with title V
of the National Security Act.
* These eight Committees were the House and Senate Intelli-
gence, Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Appropriations
Committees.
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