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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000600160001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 29, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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Honorable William D. Hathaway, Chairman"
Subcommittee on Budget Authorization
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
OLC 77-2464
29 JUN 1977
During my discussion with you and Senator Inouye on the
question of whether an authorization, appropriation, or expenditure
figure for intelligence activities should be released, if the Senate
votes for public disclosure, you asked if article I, section 9, clause 7
of the Constitution would require the release of the figure for expenditures.
CIA's General Counsel and the Department of Justice have
concluded that the Constitution does not require intelligence budget
figures to be separately identified when overall Government expenditures
are reported. The question of which figure to release then becomes
strictly a policy question. If a figure is to be released, as you knew,
it is my recommendation that it be the amount appropriated for intelligence
activities. I believe this figure would be the most informative to the
American people, and would pose the least threat of additional, potentially
damaging disclosures.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Distribution:
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designee?-on the-:SScI,are--is-no--conatjtutioual
renrementfor_elease.-of any
of-the=figures; and, therefore,_the
qt estio. of.wh cb_figure.should be
relea.sed_is_-strictly a-.~ policy
question-- Attached are the
memorandum from the General
Coups-el to you on this subject
and a- letter for. your signature
info rming.Senator-.Hathaway of
this- conclusion.
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