TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH FORMER ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ARTHUR GOLDBERG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300090021-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: May 12, 1977
• Content Type: MFR

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12 May 1977
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with
Former Associate Justice
Arthur Goldberg
1. At about 9:40 a.m. on 11 May, former Associate Justice
Arthur Goldberg telephoned me. His subject was the fact that
the House Committee on Assassinations has asked him to be their
counsel. He has indicated that he would not do that, but that
he would like to assist them in some way.
2. Specifically, he noted that the work that the Committee
staff had previously done under Counsel Sprague included an
allegation that neither the FBI nor the CIA were being fully
cooperative with the Committee's investigation. He suggested
that he be a special consultant to the Committee for the purpose
of arranging for himself and a properly cleared Committee staff
member to have access to all of the CIA files on this subject
under the proper security arrangements.
3. I told Justice Goldberg that such an arrangement was
not necessary; that the CIA would be fully cooperative with the
Committee in providing them the information needed within the
limits of my statutory responsibility to protect sources and
methods of collecting intelligence. I further said that if I
made a special arrangement whereby there was an intermediary
with special access for this Committee, I would be besieged by
requests from other Committees to make similar arrangements.
Further, any such arrangement would, by implication, imply that
the CIA was not normally fully cooperative.
4. Justice Goldberg then read to me a statement that he
indicated he would make to the Committee as follows: "Upon
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inquiry with the Attorney General and the Director of the CIA,
they have said that they will extend full cooperation to the
Committee and to any authorities the Committee has represented."
I said that I could concur with that statement.
5. The Justice then also indicated that he might well
become a special consultant to the Committee to deal specifically
with their liaison with the CIA and FBI. I said that if he took
such a position we would be happy to work with him.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Director
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