LETTER TO ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER FROM DAVID COHEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00345R000700020103-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: March 16, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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common cause
2030 M STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036
John W. Gardner, Chairman [phone]
March 16, 1977
Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner:
The purpose of this letter is to follow up on a number
of questions which were asked and the responses you gave
during your recent confirmation hearings before the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. Common Cause is particular-
ly interested in those areas in which you expressed a willing-
ness to take some specific action. Therefore, I would ap-
preciate your responses to the following questions:
(1) In reply to a question by Senator Bayh, you pledged
to look "with dispatch" into the merits of requiring that per-
mission be obtained from a federal judge before commencing
electronic surveillance, mail-openings and surreptious entry.
What conclusions have you reached as a result of your inquiry?
.(2) You indicated to Senator Goldwater that you would keep
the Committee posted as to your thinking on the wisdom of
separating the functions of the Director of Central Intel-
ligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Have youicome to any decisions on this matter and, if so, what
are they?
(3) Have you completed your evaluation of what priority
should be given to counter-intelligence activities by the intel-
ligence community, and what is the substance of your conclusions?
(4) In response to a question by Senator Stevenson, you
stated that your "inclination at this time is that we should
publish an aggregate budget figure for the total intelligence
community." However, you did indicate your awareness of argu-
ments on the other side, and your desire to examine them. Where
do you stand now on making budget information public in some
form?
(5) What are the results of your study of the present
limitations of the law in the prosecution of persons who di-
vulge classified information?
(6) In response to Senator Hathaway's suggestion that clas-
sified documents be subject to regular review for possible de-
classification, you stated that your "particular approach .
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Admiral Turner
March 16, 1977
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would be to conduct periodic reviews of what information can
be gleaned from existing secure sources and classified infor-
mation, and deliberately either declassify it, or if it is un-
classified, extract it." What steps have been taken to im-
plement this plan?
(7) You pledged to log all contacts with the President
and other persons in regard to CIA business. What procedures
have been established to carry out this promise?
(8) Have you given any further study to whether separate
charters for each element of the intelligence community are
appropriate or necessary? Have you reached any conclusions
and, if so, what are they?
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest--con-
venience.
incerely,
David Col en
President
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