LETTER TO HON. WALTER F. MONDALE(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001000050069-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: December 14, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Releaser" 004D4/22 : CIA-
December 14, 1977
Hon. Walter F. Mondale
Office of the Vice President
The White House
Washington, DC 20501
I am very concerned about the activities of the CIA on American
college campuses and am writing you because of your own personal
familiarity with this problem.
In April 1976, the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with respect to Intelligence Activities (hereafter, 'the Senate
Committee') issued its Final Report on the activities of the U.S.
intelligence agencies. In that Report, you joined with Senators
Philip Hart and Gary Hart in.submitting a very important set of
"Additional Views" (Book I, pp. 567-69), condemning the excessive
editing and censorship of the Report at the request of the executive
agencies. Specifically, on page 568 you state: .
The discussion of the role of U.S. academics in the CIA's
clandestine activities has been so diluted that its scope and
impact on the American academic Institutions is no longer
clear. The description of the CIA's clandestine activities
within the United States, as well as the extent to which CIA
uses its ostensibly overt Domestic Contact Division for such
activities, has been modified to the point where the Committee's
concern about the CIA's blurring of the line between overt and
covert, foreign and domestic activities, has been lost.
Things have changed now. We now have a new administration and a new
CIA Director, both committed to greater public control of the intelligence
community. Also, with all the revelations about secret CIA mind control
testing on college campuses and other CIA abuse of the academic com-
munity, there is a stronger sense of urgency now on the question of full
disclosure. Indeed, your administration has taken important steps in
this direction by recently releasing over 90,000 pages of FBI documents
on the COINTELPRO program and JFK Assasination investigation.
And so, it is also time for the public release of the complete, unabridged
version of the Senate Committee Report on CIA clandestine-activities in
this country,' and in the academic community in particular.
As Vice President of the U.S., President of the.?Senate, member of the
National Security Council as well-as former member of the Senate Committee,
you are in a unique position to initiate this release, and I strongly
urge you to do so.
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Sincerely Yours.