LETTER TO ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER FROM ROBERT L. KEUCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000400040048-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 5, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director
Central intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner:
There is enclosed. herewith a copy of a communication
from Senator Edward-W. Brooke, forwarding a copy of a letter
from his constituent, concerning the alleged STAT
harassment of Philip Agee oy the c ia.
Inasmuch as this matter concerns your Agency directly,
we are referring the matter to you for consideration and
appropriate response.
We have informed Senator Brooke of this referral.
Very truly yours,
Benjamin R. Civiletti
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
By:
Robert L. Keuc
Deputy Assistan
Attorney General
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Please return this response with your
reply to: J. Robinson
437 Russell Senate office .Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
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Respectfully referred to:
Department of Justice
Main Justice Building
Room.1603
Washington, D. C. 20530
Because of the desire of this office to be
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responsive to all inquiries and concnunications,,_
your consideration of the attached is.
requested. Your findings and views, in
duplicate form, along with return of the
enclosure, will be appreciated- byy 15 days
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{.? I'm writng this letter to bring to your attention a shocking
story of harassment of a US citizen by his ex-employer, the CIA. The
person being persecuted is Philip Agee, the author of "Inside the Goiipsr
the hard-hitting expose of z ls notorious organization. Since last
year, when Agee was in England, the CIA has been hounding him for
trying to disrupt their covert attempts to sabotage the Manley govern,
rnent in Jamaica in the Fall of 1976. First they had the English
government expell him on a pretext that Agee was a threat to English
't national security". Agee was then forced to leave Scotland, ::?ranco,
and now this January the government of Netherlands expelled him for
what appears to be a trivial beauracratic excuse. Now, Agee is under
pressure to leave. West Germany. Agee has said that he doesn't want
to return to the US because he wishes to complete his CIA revelations
and fears the US courts will stop him from publishing them in this
country. Woulcl you please bring your influence to-bear on the
Administration(I wrote Pres. Carter last year but received no response)
to force the CIA to give up its wretched persecution of this man.` I
feel that this episode reemphasizes the need to abolish this totali-
tarian organization(CIA) and replace it with a decent foreign policy-
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