JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300110007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 28, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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the request from Rick Inderfurth, Senate Select Coran.-iittee. on Intelligence
staff
, to review documents
1.8. LIAISON Called
that if the FBI expressed similar concerns it might further strengthen our
position.
from FBI files because of the very sensitive sources involved. I told
said that Inderfurth would be permitted only limited access to documents
19. I I LIAISON Attended a breakfast/briefing
hosted by Mr. Knoche l oar the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Budget Subcommittee this morning. In attendance were: Senators William
Hathaway (D, , Maine), Robert Morgan (D. , N. Car. ), Gary Hart (D., Colo. ),
and Strom Thurmond (R. , S. Car. ). Staff members attending were: Bill
Miller, George Pickett, Elliot Maxwell, Michael Madigan, Howard
Liebengood, Charles Kirbow, Rick .Inderfurth, Sarn Bouchard, and Mike
Epstein. (See IC Staff, Memo for the Record.
20. LIAISON In response to Mr. Gary's
conversation with Dave Bowers, House Ethics Committee, yesterday, I
called Bowers and gave him suggested language to put in a note to attach
to his 17 September 1976 letter to Chairman John Flynt.
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LIAISON In the absence of Paul Dailey,
FBI, spoke with John. Hotis, FBI, about our concern with the Senate; Select:
Committee on Intelligence staffers reviewing files on people involved in t:he
Icase. I said the had no problem with them :looking at the files
but they want to get copies on. a loan basis of some of these documents which
they feel they need to prepare fo:r. questioning on Friday. I 25,
asked Hotis if this would in any way impede the -)ureau s invest:igatio.n of the
I lassassination.
Hotis said they have expressed concern, particularly to Mike Madigan,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, but the staffers just get ruo:re,
demanding and adamant. I told hi.rn the Director had talked to Chairman Daniel-
Inouye (D., Hawaii) and Vice-Chairman :Howard Baker (R,, Tenn.) about thi:
and Chairman Inouye said he had no intention of conducting an 11.investigati-on"
of this but that Senator Baker was anxious to get into it_ I said when the
Director talked to Senator Baker, he made it: clear he has every right- to
proceed as Vice-Chairman to :Look into the case. I said if t:here is no basis
for objection from the Bureau's standpoint, that we can only .Let Chairman
Inouye and Bill Miller, Staff Director, know of our concern about our rnate.rial
and whether this will impede the investigation. Flotis said he agreed on both
points but di.cln't know what they could do about: it. He said Madigan. has been
trying to get copies of FBI files but they have been delaying by t.e:l.l.ing 11im to
put the request in a letter. I said we want to cooperate.by letting them look at the
files, but taking copies is anoth.er question.
FBI, conce:rnii r?
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George Cary, Legislative Counsel at CIA, called me
today to clarify a matter covered in his letter of 17 September 1976
to the Chairman. Paragraph 2 of that letter states that the documents
reviewed by CIA at the Committee's request ranged in classification
from "Confidential" through "Secret" and one "Top Secret." Mr. Cary
was declassified by former/Director Colby when certain deletions
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of 414-s document, which was in the possession
CIA
were made in that text and as such it was read into the wee .est of the
was never officially sanitized and does contain these deletions, certain
security designators which are still on that copy of the document would
require that it be classified "Confidential. "
Pike Committee. Although the document
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