LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM. COLBY FROM WILLIAM PROXMIRE, U.S.S.

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• Publication Date: March 12, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
March 12, 1974
The Honorable William Colby
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Colby:
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It was good to talk with you last Friday and to know
of your willingness to come before our committee in executive
session. I fully appreciate your concern that there be a free
exchange of views and that this could best be handled in
executive session followed by a quick process of sanitizing
the hearing record for public release.
I also am aware of your commitment to the Oversight
Committees with reference to operational matters and I can
assure you this will be respected. As you noted, however,
the analytical resources of the Agency are considerable and
would be of great benefit to the Joint Economic Committee.
Therefore, I invite you to come before an Executive
Session of the Priorities and Economy in Government Subcommittee
of the Joint Economic Committee at an early date to be arranged
in coordination between our staffs.
I propose that your testimony and the Committee's
questions be directed to the following areas of economic interest.
1. Comparative analysis of the US, USSR, and PRU
economies with an additional view to mid and long range projections
and allocations of resources by sector.
2. Comparative analysis of the commitment of resources
to military and space functions in the US, USSR, and PRC. Extent
of information publicly available, consensus of intelligence
community, quality of data, techniques of comparison.
3. Would you propose ways in which Congress and the
American public can become more familiar with the intelligence
community, its legitimate requirements, budget, responsibilities,
while at the same time protecting intelligence sources and methods.
I recognize this is a difficult question but nonetheless one that'
is constantly at hand.
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4, Any other areas in which you judge the intelligence
community and in particular the Agency can make a contribution
-William Pr m re,
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