243 EXHIBIT 18 gal I ltd ID llhl L'Ii l 1' STATES BUYER Manama-12d um Io Hr Tolsoo Here June 25 l tu I ram-I an 11' C Sullivaii 0 CDEHITTEE OH AD HOG BY THE PRESIDEHT JUNE 5 The Director as Chairman of captioned committee held the final committee meeting in his office on the afternoon of Present were the other committee members namely Hr Richard Helms Director of Central Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General D V Bennett Director oi Defense Intelligence agency and Vice Admiral Noel Gayler Director of national Security Agency Also present were Mr Tom C Huston white house Presidential Assistant who had served in a liaison capacity with the committee Assistant Director designate C D Brennan oi the Domestic intelligence Division and the writer W E 'Sullivan The purpose of the meeting-was to review in final form which the President had instructed the committee to prepare to assess the current internal security threat to the country and evaluate the capacity of the intelligence commhnity to deal with that threat The Director opened the meeting by commending the committee members for effort and cooperatire spirit they had displayed in working together to compile the comprehensive report The Director then furnished each committee member a copy of the report and carefully covered in a concise manner all of the items dealt with in the report an each and every point the Director solicited observations by each committee member to insure that they fully understood every issue analyzed and were in complete agreement with the contents of the report In this connection hr Helms and hdmiral Gayler suggested three minor additions be made After Securing the concurrence of all committee members the director instructed that this be done immediately 1ICS pahu A commune - one Hf l lt I ll - 1 H i i 3 yup I 3 1' J 1 hr Mh It out-liq an If b Justine I I tutu wu His Eff- Led onward n to other 244 Homorandun to hr Tolson RE INTERAGEHCY comma ea INTELLIGENCE an HOG ESTABLISHED BY THE PRESIDENT JUNE 5 1970 With that all committee members signified their full and unqualified approval of the full report and so indicated by affixing their signatures thereto along with the Director s as Chairman of the committee The Director stated that-ha would arrange tor the transmittal of the report to the White House on The Director instructed each committee member to insure that all working copies of the report at the agencies involved should be destroyed and fixed this reaponsihility on the agency heads who were members of the committee along with the responsibility of insuring that copies of the final report retained by them for reference should be afforded the utmost security The Director theneoncluded the meeting by thanking the reapeetive members of the committee and so dismissed the committee I OH For information FROM HHS 553% xi 245 leUilLl-l June 25 lQ i'D The President The White House Washington 5L C Dear Mr President The lute-regency Committee on Intelligence Ad lloo which you established on June 5 has completed its assessment at the current internal securitv threat and related matters A special report setting forth the timings oi the Committee is nttecnetl This report is tilvleed into three parts Part One sets forth a summary of the current lnterml securitvr wrest Part Two summarises various operational restraints on intelligence collection and lists teeth the advantages oi maintaining these restrictions end the adventures of retaining teem Part Three provides an evaluation oi coordination incluuing suggested measures to unprove toe ot rslmeetlc intelligence collection This report has been approved by all of the members of the Comniittoe representing the Central Intelligence ngencv the Delense Intelligence Agency the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau oi Investigation - Sincerely yours enclosure - - on - in 1110M 51 1515 S fmli Y INFORMATION Hist-tents I I Subject to Criminal This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 WŚŽŶĞĞϮϬϮϮϵϵϰͲϳϬϬϬϬ ĂdžĞϮϬϮϮϵϵϰͲϳϬϬϱϬŶƐĂƌĐŚŝǀΛŐǁƵƵĞĚƵ