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"Congress and the CIA " by L. Britt Snider

Intelligence and Counterintelligence Studies Series

This is a study of the CIA’s relationship with Congress. It encompasses the period from the creation of the Agency until 2004—the era of the DCIs.

This study is not organized as one might expect. It does not describe what occurred between the Agency and Congress in chronological order nor does it purport to describe every interaction that occurred over the period encompassed by the study. Rather it attempts to describe what the relationship was like over time and then look at what it produced in seven discrete areas.

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Part I describes how Congress and the Agency related to each other over the period covered by the study. As it happens, this period conveniently breaks down into two major segments: the years before the creation of the select committees on intelligence (1946–76) and the years after the creation of these committees (1976–2004). The arrangements that Congress put in place during the earlier period to provide oversight and tend to the needs of the Agency were distinctly different from those put in place in the mid-1970s and beyond. Over the entire period, moreover, the Agency shared intelligence with the Congress and had other interaction with its members that affected the relationship. This, too, is described in part I.

Part II describes what the relationship produced over time in seven

discrete areas: legislation affecting the Agency; programs and budget; oversight of analysis; oversight of collection; oversight of covert action; oversight of security and personnel matters; and the Senate confirmation process. It highlights what the principal issues have been for Congress in each area as well as how those issues have been handled.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP WAS LIKE

Chapter 1 The Nature of the Relationship, 1946–76

Chapter 2 The Relationship: 1976–2004

Chapter 3 Intelligence-sharing and other Interaction

Chapter 4 Organizational Arrangements at the CIA

PART II WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP PRODUCED

Chapter 5 Legislation

Chapter 6 Program and Budget

Chapter 7 Oversight of Analysis

Chapter 8 Oversight of Collection

Chapter 9 Oversight of Covert Action

Chapter 10 Oversight of Security and Personnel Matters

Chapter 11 The Senate Confirmation Process

Appendix A. Directors of Central Intelligence

Appendix B. Committee Chairmen with Responsibility for the CIA (194 7–2004)

Appendix C. Heads of the CIA Office of Congressional Affairs (194 7–2004)

Appendix D. List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

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