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 them for liaison purposes with appropriate user organizations. Thus, the Committee wishes
 renewed effort on the par of DIA to pursue the fo!!owir,g work sc`.edsle in FY 95:
 The DCI is req;:es::,::to .constrict.: a:resrospecti~ a r:a?i.a~-' V. . :e::hnical znaivsis of the
 data that.has:been..pr.oduced b.y,the:progtam,since:its.:incep,:on.d. ).ets,ago. This
 includes an inven:or+ and aria. vsis of the files held in the CIA, while it administered
 the program as well as in DIA. The study should also ad1d:ess the compliance of :he
 program with Corz-essional direction.
 9   .;The DCi'&. declassi:' alip.n       tce, sl;puld. reti,iwl~'.lh...;                                      of, NS
 ,prograr 4,;o.. c rf~ire; x hat. pars. of it.rr. ay..be declassified :n4--t4 conver,ed -into an.
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 +     The..Dircctolzol~.~W}+?~.~:~".~Hj  S4^',rtQ...initiate:funher:contacts._with, indiN'a&_ 1 rim"olved
 vs.siararpragram,to...escablisb an.opcn? 'orld, dec:assifsed.acti~it~- o~eooer:?o
 .betw=n the:two..,rrograms,and,repon to the oversight Comrrittws,bti?sF-ebriay 1.
 1995 on the:?resu:;s..  Lhit~in41itiu-es-1n:-this.. regard:
 Prior to :ie lettir.s of contracts with outside entities, the Cor;,mit:ee requests to be
 notified according to est blished notification procedures.
 Of the funds a%aIlahl to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Committee directs t at
 5500.000 be applied to the STARGATE program and that the currcr.: 10 billets remain
 assigned to the program. The Committee requests 'that funds be ar; ::ed roughly equally to
 foreign assessment, rese.,.reh and operational viewing. The Committee is concerned that
 Congressional direction in the past regarding the solicitation of users across the N'FI.P and
 DoD and development of joint programs with the Russians and Chinese has only been
 sporadically pursued. The Committee remains perplexed b the ob%ious reluctance of
 leadership for this pro ramn
 It believes,
 for example, that liaison a:::vities by program personnel and the Nrsorre of similar
 programs in other rations s',ould be pursued and does not accept he excuse that this
 somehow compromises US intelligence activities. The Committee W's-D believes that the tiriie
 has come for a r~?evn;:a.:~" of the classification of the :xistence of this effort as well as the
 results that have been obt.:.,red over time. If the DIA has difftc,aty (::ling the billets that
 have been set aside for this activity by DIA personnel, consideration should be given to using
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