PLANNING FOR FINAL HSCA REPORT
Originator: CIA
From: BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT D., OLC
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS
Document date: 1978-10-17 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM : BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT D., OLC

TO: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS

TITLE

: PLANNING FOR FINAL HSCA REPORT

DATE

10/17/1978

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SUBJECTS : CIA

INVESTIGATION

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17 October 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy Director for Operations

Deputy Director for Administration

Deputy Director for Science & Technology

General Counsel

FROM

SUBJECT

S. D. Breckinridge

: Planning for the Final HSCA Report

1. We have asked the HSCA to arrange to give us

sections of its report at different times to facilitate

our review and response.

There has been no response to

this request although it has been made both in writing

and orally.

The Memorandum of Understanding with the Committee

provides that the Committee will notify the DCI in writing

of its desire to disclose any information designated for

protection by the DCI.

Until advised to the contrary

(and we will try to clarify it) our working assumption

is that the submission of the final report to us will

constitute a written notice of the desire to have the material

in that report published.

If the Committee does not receive

a response

"within five days," objecting to this and stating

the reasons, then the Committee may disclose the information.

There are provisions for subsequent exchanges on the point

but the key provision is the first five-day period.

3. As a practical matter we will have two separate

reviews to conduct--a security review and a substantive

review. We probably should plan to conduct the two reviews

at the same time.

Our formal

agreement clearly provides

for our right to take a stand in opposition to disclosure

of sensitive material.

We have been told that the Committee

will also

receive and consider any factual corrections

that we offer and any statements of disagreement that we

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have on substantive issues.

4.

In anticipation of the short deadline (and the

agreement says five days, not tive working days) we should

plan in advance on an informal working group consisting of

representatives from the affected organizations (DDO, DDA,

DDS&T, OGC and OLC). Directorate representatives should

be authorized to designate persons within the Directorate,

both substantively competent and in sufficient numbers to

conduct the necessary reviews.

At present the following'

components seem to have been involved:

(a)

Directorate of Cperations: Plans Coordination Staff

(Messrs. Gregg, Shepanek and Holmes) , LA

Division (Messrs. Sturbitts and Hawkins), SE

Division

(Mr. Kalaris), CI. Staff (Messrs. Blee,

McCoy and Sednaoul, Intormation Management

Staff (Mr. Donnelly).

(b)

Directorate of Administration: Office of

Security (Messrs.

Solie and Reardon), Office

of Personnel (Doris Houdesheldt).

(c)

Directorate of Science & Technology: Office

of the Deputy Director

(Mr. Clark),

Office of

Technical Service (Mr. Brandwein and Jean Turoff),

(d) Office of the General Counsel: Mr. Rininger.

After there has been time to consider the problems that will

be faced, the undersigned will ask for a meeting with repre-

sentation as appropriate from the above components.

5. Arrangements will be made by OLC with Printing

Services Division for priority reproduction of the HSCA

draft report immediately upon receipt.

The number of

copies will be determined by agreement among the above

parties.

Distribution of copies will be by hand on a

priority basis.

Various components will be organized

for

an intensive review for both

security and substantive

issues of the sections affecting them. In essence, each

component will prepare two different responses, one dealing

solely with security considerations and the other dealing

with factual corrections

and disagreements with interpreta-

tion and presentation.

These papers will be prepared

and

forwarded to OLC which will consolidate the responses into

a single response.

That paper will be reviewed in a

working session by designated representatives of the

various organizations.

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6.

A common criteria

for security review and pro-

posed

sanitization will be necessary to insure some

rational standard and some degree of consistency in

applying it.

Fairly simple instructions will come the

closest to meeting the requirements of such an operation

and the attached guidelines present a useful point of

departure in considering it.

They were developed after

experience with the problem during the Church

Committee investigations.

While longer guidelines exist,

they are not practical for a pressure operation such as

this

will be

7:

Present HSCA planning is to have available for

our review a Summary Report to

be considered by the full

Committee in public sessions mid-November. The Staff

Summary of the investigations are planned for mid- to late-

December. We should be ready in early November for the

first round.

Attachment

CG:

Mr.

Gregg, C/PCS/LOC

-Mr. Shepanek, PCS/ LOC

Mr.

Holmes, CI Staff

Mr.

Sturbitts, C/LA/Staff B

Mr.

Hawkins, LA/MGSB

-Mr:

Kalaris,

C/SE Division

Mr.

Blee, C/CI Staff

_Mr. McCoy, DC/CI Staff

Mr. Sednaoul, CI Staff

• Doris Houdeshelat,

0/Personnel

Mr. Brandwein,

OTS

Jean Turoff,

OTS

Mr.

Hal Clark, DDS&T

Mr. Rininger,

OGC

Mr. Donnelly,

IMS

Distribution

1 - DDO

1 - DDA

1 - DDSGT

1 - General Counsel

1

- OLC/Subject

1 - OLC/Chrono

S. D. Breckinridge

Ray heardon, 0S

pruva Solie, 05

Tomwhite,

, ISAS/DDA

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