ETHICS COMMITTEE TRYING TO TRACE CLASSIFIED DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100080060-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: March 19, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ETHICS Cvj"tl?iIITTEE TRYING
TO TRACE CLASSIFIED DATA]
\VASHIlv'GTOV, March 13 {UPI) The
Senate ethics committee has gt_estioned
more than 100 people, including several
Senators, in an attempt to find out who
has been giving out classified information
from the Senate intelligence committee.
The investigation has been led by twof
retired agents of the Federal Bureau oft
Investigation, John Marshall and Julian
Engelstad, hired as consultants. Two in-
telligence committee staff members also
are working for the` ethics committee inl
the inquiry.
The ethics committee is trying to trace
information from an intelligence commit-
tee inquiry involving a United States bug-
ging operation against the Panamanian'
leader Omar Torrijos at the time of the
canal treaty negotiations. General Tor-
rijos discovered it when an Army ser-
geant tried to sell him tapes and trans-,
cri pts.
The other investigation concerns pub
lished material from a classified intelli-i
gence committee report on oil embargoes.!
Tha Ethics committee chairman, Adlai
Stevenson 3d, Democrat of Illinois, said',
the report came from an intelligence sub-1
committee he heads. Someone apparently!
"mimeographed it and handed it out,"1
Senator Stevenson said.
P91-00561 R0001 00080060-7
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100080060-7