CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS-JOHN V. LINDSAY (R., NEW YORK)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000200080023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 4, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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4 April 1963
MEORANDU FO.,'-. Director of Central ate ig nce
0CC 63-0914
SUBJECT: Congressional Relations - John V. Lindray
(R., Now York)
L. The attached me orandum from Colonel Grogan quotes
Congressman John V. Lindsay as being critical. of a "briefing" by
CIA. The facts are an follows:
a. Mr. Lindsay called this office 14 , rch. sayiuj
he desired (1) Agency views on the creation of a Joint
Supervisory Committee of the Congress; (Z) briefing
on the extent the Agency is supporting the
25X1 (3) the Agency regular
briefing on current a iees . Cuba.
b. (l took this request up at the 9 a. m. meeting a day)
or so later. I pointed out that Mr. Lindsay had been
friendly to the Agency and that we had responded to
inquiries or discussed matters with him before on a 5X1
cordial basis. (i felt, therefore, that we should respond
to his inquiry. particularly as he had almost certainly
pick-ad up some information in New York on our con-
ci it would be..better for
him to have accurate story from us than for his to
depend on what were probably rumors.) ( naral Carter
said that in the light of recent publicity n congressional
hearings we were now obligated to pull in our ears and
that we should not respond to requests of individual
congressmen.) Specifically he directed that we should
not respond to Inquiries for classified information such
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a aas Cuba, a that
(W~'h7vho uld n t res i a J- int Co ittees, which
MORI/CDF
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