104th CONGRESS 2d Session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPR. 104-578 Part 1
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997
MAY 15, 1996.---Ordered to be printed
Mr. COMBEST, from the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3259]
[Including cost estimate ofthe Congressional Budget Office]
The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to whom was referred the bill (H.R.
3259) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend
that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Overall perspective on the intelligence budget and committee intent 6
Scope of committee review 7
Committee findings and recommendations 7
Areas of Special Interest 9
Personnel Issues 9
Aerial Reconnaissance 11
Intelligence Support Equipment 21
All-Source Analysis 28
Community Management 29
The Consolidation of Clandestine Human Intelligence 31
Creating a Virtual Intelligence Architecture 32
Intelligence Sharing with the United Nations 34
Sharing and Declassifying Intelligence 35
Satellite Architecture 36
Title I-Intelligence Activities 37
Section 101-Authorization of appropriations 37
Section 102-Classified schedule of authorizations 37
Section 103-Personnel ceiling adjustments 37
Section 104-Community management account 38
Title II- Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System 41
Section 201-Authorization of appropriations 41
Title III-General Provisions 42
Section 301-Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law 42
Section 302-Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities 42
Section 303-Limitation on availability of funds for automatic declassification of
Records Over Twenty-Five Years Old 42
Section 304-Application of sanctions laws to intelligence activities 43
Section 305-Expedited naturalization 43
Title IV-Central Intelligence Agency 44
Section 401-Multiyear leasing authority 44
Section 402-Repeal of additional surcharge relating to employees who retire or resign in fiscal year 1998 or 1999 and who receive voluntary seperation incentive payments 45
Section 403-Implementation of Intelligence Community personnel reform 45
Title V-Department of Defense Intelligence Activities 46
Section 501-Standardization for certain Department of Defense intelligence
activities of exemptions from disclosure of organizational and personnel information 46
Findings and recommendations of the Committee on Govermment Reform and Oversight 46
Oversight Findings 46
Fiscal year cost projections 47
Congressional Budget Office estimates 47
Committe cost estimates 49
Inflationary Impact Statement 49
Changes in existing law made by the bill, as Reported 49