DECLASSIFICATION OF 20 NOVEMBER HEARING TRANSCRIPTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M01264R000100030020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 2, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/01/14: CIA-RDP90M01264R000100030020-3
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NOTE FOR:
The Director
STAT
THROUGH:
Dave Gri,es
STAT
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Declassification of
20
2 December 1987
OCA 87-5925
November Hearing Transcript
Yesterday I met with Senate Intelligence Committee staff
director Sven Holmes to go over the deletions that we want to
have made in the transcript of your recent testimony on new
oversight legislation.
I dealt first with the references to what we consider to
be classified information, and Holmes readily agreed in each
instance to delete the reference. I then pointed out sections
of the transcript that touch on matters that may not be
classified, but which we believe are nonetheless sufficiently
sensitive as to warrant protection from disclosure. These
included your discussion of some of Russ Bruemmer's preliminary
findings; criticism of the General Accounting Office; the
possibility of providing the Congress with the names of third
countries that assist in special activities; and a brief
reference to investigations conducted in the past by the FBI's
Office of Professional Responsibility. I also suggested to
Holmes that little constructive purpose would be served by
publishing Senator Specter's gratuitous and (in our view) unfair
remarks about the Deputy Director. Holmes seemed genuinely
sympathetic to all of these "sensitivity" issues and noted in
particular his agreement that Specter's comments were irrelevant
to the subject matter of the hearing, i.e., new oversight
legislation. In this regard, Holmes emphasized that the major
reason the Committee wants a declassified transcript is to
include it as part of the legislative history of the
Cohen/Boren bill as it moves through Congress.
' The meeting ended with Holmes promising to take up and
advance our concerns on these'"sensitivity" issues with the
Committee leadership. He also repeated his earlier pledge to
let us review the transcript once again before any final
decision is made to release it publicly.
cc: The Deputy Director
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/01/14: CIA-RDP90M01264R000100030020-3