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The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Kbshingon. D. C. 20505
The Honorable Edward P. Boland, Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
It has come to my attention that your staff has asked at least one
of the NFIP program managers to identify the projects added to his program
during the last weeks of budget review within the Executive Branch. I
.asked the program managers to delay providing that information to the
staff until I had a chance to persuade you not to require it of them.
In general I strongly. support providing the Congress with any informa-
tion it needs to review the Intelligence Community program. This includes
our candid evaluations of the elements of the budget proposal, our plans
and problems, and so on. It is not clear to me, however, that the informa-
tion your staff has requested would be useful in your review of the budget
or that it would be appropriate for us to provide'it. The order of Presidential
decisions on the budget bears little relation to the intrinsic priority of the
programs being selected or rejected because so many elements of the budget
debate are changing simultaneously.
I would be pleased to meet with you to discuss the request.
Sincerely,
B. R. INMAN
Admiral, U.S. Navy
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(1 April 1982)
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