Cheng said that at the high-level conference on crime chaired by President Lee last August 20, National Security Council head Tuan Tsung-wen made a special proposal (the so-called "820 proposal") that the BOI place greater emphasis on intelligence and internal security monitoring.
程泉甚至提出去年八月二十日總統李登輝主持高層治安會議時，國安局長殷宗文提出專案報告，希望調查局加重情治工作的「八二○專案」。