Over the years he was on many advisory panels for the World Health Organization and interdepartmental and international groups.

Mr. Latham is chairman of an interdepartmental group that advises Federal agencies on how to protect "sensitive" information.

Corporate management appeared everywhere, with the development of joint management teams of chief officers, central policy units and sometimes a series of interlocking interdepartmental working groups to cover joint areas of work and policy.

The focus of the suit then turned to whether the staff of the panel organized as an interdepartmental group with numerous subgroups was a Federal advisory committee, subject to the disclosure rules of Federal law.

A Variety of Efforts The interdepartmental group headed by Colonel North worked on a variety of terrorism problems for the Reagan Administration.

The investigation turned on a single sentence in which Magaziner states, "Only federal government employees serve as members of the interdepartmental working group."

The affidavit described the role of outside consultants in that planning but, in what proved a fateful sentence, said, "Only Federal Government employees serve as members of the interdepartmental working group."

The Kissinger NSC relied upon interdepartmental working groups (IGs) to prepare for NSC directives.

The Cabinet Office, with the agreement of the Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience, has established an interdepartmental group on security and intelligence records.

An interdepartmental working group of the Commission will review measures that are intended to bring more transparency and accountability into relations with Greenland.