LETTER TO HON. WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL REGARDING AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN CLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100160045-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: April 27, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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COhfMERCIr. COdSUMER, AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
SUBCOMMITTEE
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
RAYHURN WOUSE OFrIC=BUILDING, ROOM 0.3T7
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20313
April 27, 1982
Hon. William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
4lashington, D. C. 20505
Dear Director Casey:
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As you know, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and hlonetary Affairs
atill meet on Thursday, April 29, 1982, at 10 A.M. in Rayburn 2154 to consider
FI.Res. 433, to authorize the disclosure of certain classified CIA documents
relating to OPEC surpluses and investments.
I Urould like to request that you or your representative be .present at that
muting to--be available to answer any specific questions which subcommittee
r1e1~15ers may have about any of the 17 CIA documents.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
Benjami.r~;:S: Rosenthal
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To authorize the disclosure of certain classified documents relating- to foreign
investrnent in the United Mates.
1N T~-IE HOUSE OF REPRESENT~.TIVES
APxIL 21, 1982 .
_llr. ROSE\THAL submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Government Operations
Tc~~~au.thorize the disclosure of certain. classified documents
relating to foreign investment in the United States.
~~hereas the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer; and i4lon-
etary Affairs of the Committee on Government Operations
has been examining since 1979 the public policy conse-
quences of foreign investment in the United States, includ-
ing investments by member nations of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the appropri-
ate Federal response to such investments;
~~"hereas the subcommittee and the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) entered into an agreement on July 12, 1979, govern-
ing tif~e procedures for subcommittee use and public release
of classified documents relating to OPEC country surpluses
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~L~Thereas the agreement provides that, in the event that the sub-
committee and the CIA cannot resolve a dispute concerning
disclosure of information, and the President objects to the
disclvsure, the subcommittee is required to obtain the per-
mission of the House of Representatives to make that dis-
clo~ure;
`fihereas t:he subcommittee has custody of seventeen CIA. docu-
ments of significant importance dealing with (1) the difficul-
ties of recycling OPEC surpluses; (2) the worldwide distri-
bution and placement of OPEC surpluses; (3) OPEC coun-
try in~~estment patterns and strategies; and (4) the impact of
OPEC investments on United States national interests,
none containing country-by-country data on OPEC invest-
ments in the United States; .
'~fihereas the subcommittee and the CI:~i have reached an im-
pa~se on declassification for public release of these seven-
teen (CIA documents; and the President on February 17,
1952, objected in ~i-riting to a subcommittee request to de-
classif y the documents, ~ti-ith deletions to protect. intelligence
methods and sources;
~fihereas these seventeen documents present the most thorough
analysis `within the Federal Government of OPEC invest-
ments and their impact on United States national interests,
and e:~press concerns .not expressed by other Federal agen-
cies; and
~~ hereas without these documents the public and the Congress
will receive a one-sided executive branch ~~iew of the
naturf;, distribution, and impact of OPEC country surpluses
and investments: I~Totii~, therefore, be it.
1 Resolzed, That the House of Representatives finds that
2 i?elcase of these documents is in the public interest and is
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1 essential to a full public understanding of the important issues
2 stu-rounding OPEC government investments in the United
3 States and concurs in the release of the documents by the
4 Subcornmittee on Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Af-
5 fairs, pursuant to the agreement of July 12, 1979, with dele-
6 tioris made by the subcommittee only to protect specific. intel-
7 ligence sources and methods.