CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN EDWARD KENNEDY AND W.E. COLBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: November 4, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505
Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman
Subcommittee on Administrative
Practice and Procedure
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
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I have your letter of 28 October 1975 inquiring of our
response to your earlier questions and requesting copies or
access to Agency records on human-use experimentation.
Please be advised that we have responded to your
'25 September 1975 letter and my staff is now in touch with
yours in responding to your new request. In'this connection,
and as. you know, I have a responsibility to protect intel-
ligence sources and methods including the. confidentiality of
our relationships with cooperating Americans. Some of these
relationships are classified to prevent a foreign power from
learning of an intelligence interest in or use of certain
techniques. Other relationships are protected at the request
of cooperating Americans who are desirous of maintaining the
confidentiality of their association with the Agency. We
have worked out procedures with the Senate Select Committee
to deal with these concerns as well as to meet the full
requirements of the Committee's inquiry. Accordingly I suggest
that we apply the same procedures to handle the requirements
of your Subcommittee.
My staff will be in contact with yours to work out the
procedures'as we proceed promptly to respond to your request.
I have further instructed my staff to bring to me any problems
in this regard so that I may work them out directly with you
to avoid delays.., I hope the foregoing will meet with your
satisfaction.
Sincerely,
U.:A.Colby
W. E. Colby
Director
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PETER M. STOCKETT, JR.
CHIEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR
Mr. W.E. Colby, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
October 28, 1975
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Dear Mr. Colby:
In my letter to you dated September 25, 1975, I requested
information pertinent to an ongoing inquiry by the Subcom-
mittees on Health and Administrative Practice and Procedure
into Central Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense
involvement in human-use experimentation.
In your reply on October 1, you said that you thought addi-.
tional inquiries into this area would be duplicative of
efforts already put forth on behalf of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. In your letter the same day
to Senator Church which you enclosed, you said that he
might want'to suggest to me that I defer further inquiry
into this area until. the Select Committee had completed
its' investigation. i have discussed the matter with
Senator Church and he said he has no objection to our
inquiry. Further, the full Select Committee has consi-
dered this matter.and concluded that our interest at
this time in the human experimentation activities con-
ducted by your agency is entirely proper, as expressed
to you in Senator Church's letter of October 6, 1975.
I am therefore renewing my request to you for responses
to the questions listed in my letter to you dated September
25, 1975. In addition, we would like the following:
1. An unsanitized version of the doc?me,Y,+-c d
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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
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ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
(PURSUANT TO SEC. 3, S. RES. as. 93D CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
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2. A copy of all CIA Inspector General reports, annexes
to reports, and internal memoranda concerning experimentation
that involved human subjects from 1947 to the present.
A copy of the "report(s) on destruction of files"
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STATINTL referred to byl of CIA's Legislative Counsel's
Office in a telephonic conversation with Mr. James Michie
of the Subcommittee staff on October 15, 1975.
4. Access to and/or a copy of "the materials found in old
STATINTL SRS files, s ecifically a box of materials provided out of
retirement I I, as referred to in a Memorandum For
The Record dated e ruary3, 1975, and entitled "Pro ect
Artichoke", which Memorandum was included in the STATINTL
documents delivered to the Subcommittees on October 9, 1975.
5. Access to and/or a copy of "certain sensitive files in
his (Dr. Tietjen of Medical Services) files", as referred to
in a Memorandum For The Record dated February 3, 1975, and
entitled "Project Artichoke", which Memorandum was included
STATINTL in the documents delivered to the Subcommittees on
October 75.
6. Access to and/or a copy of "an Office of Security soft
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STATINTL
file entitled 'LSD Material"', as referred to in a Memorandum
dated July'.11, 1975, for the Inspector General from Charles
W. Kane, Director of Security, entitled "Alleged Illegal
Domestic Activities (Suicide of I I, which STATINTL
Memorandum was included in the acumen s delivered STAT
to the Subcommittees on October 9, 1975.
7. Access to any other pertinent files regarding experimentation
that involved human subjects.
8 An interview by Subcommittee staff of the Chief of CIA's
I on destruction of documents
relating to numan-use entation.
9. Whatever information exists concerning the case of
I Iwho committed suicide
following a series or CIA tests an interviews in 1966.
Supporting documentation is requested.
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In view of the fact that many of these requests are of
long standing a prompt reply would be appreciated.
I want to thank you for providing the necessary security
clearance to Subcommittee staff so that we may conduct a
thorough inquiry.
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