REQUEST FOR FILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00823R000800050136-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: March 31, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Chairman
John T. Connor
C. Douglas Dillon
Erwin N. Griswold
Lane Kirkland
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Ronald Reagan
Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
March 31, 1975
SECRET - SENSITNE
David W. Benin,
Executive. Direc:!-r
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. E. H. Knoche, Assistant to the Director
.FROM
James B. 'Weidner
SUBJECT - Request for Files
Please provide copies of the following materials to the
undersigned. These materials are contained in a file labeled
"DCI Chrono Helms - 1970":
I., Letter dated 14 January 1970 from Richard Helms to
Hon. Melvin R. Laird concerning security clearances.
(one. page)
2. Memo dated 14 January 1970 from Howard J. Osborn to DCI
re. Security Clearance Procedures for Congressional Staff
Members, plus enclosure (4 pages)
3. Letter dated 20 March 1970 from Richard Helms to Hon. J. Edgar
Hoover. (5 pages)
.4. Memo dated 6 July 1970 from :Richard Helms to Tom C. Huston
enclosing "Black Radicalism in the Caribbean". (one page)
I would appreciate your forwarding these materials to me
at the earliest feasible time. Thanks.
OGC HAS REVIEWED.
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lit January 1970
EYES ONLY
The Honorable i:ely n R. Laird
The Secretary of Defense
Washington, D. C.
Because of certain events which occurred last
year, I asked the Chief of our-Security Office to look at
the procedures in Government for granting security clearances
to ccngressl.a :nl staff members. The result o~ his ex :
won is herewith. We do not claim tha ', it is a hundred percent
accurate, but it is at least an effort to pull together -what
.is clearly a "grab bag1: of arrange vents. Perhaps this is the
way it has to be, but, I have a hunch that the system has
tended to grow like Topsy with little attention from anyone.
The point of. ny note to you is to ask for your par-
sonal opinion as to whether or not it is worth drawing this
natter to the attention of the "v;nite House, specifically
Bryce Harloea. I would appreciate a call from you at your
convenience.
Cordially,
Richard Helms
Director
PFRSfNAL
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14 January 1970
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Security Clearance Procedures for
Congressional Staff Members
1. I hope that the attached resume is responsive to your
requirement established by you in a meeting you and I had with
Legislative Counsel, some weeks ago. We
tried to condense a longer version which was forwarded to you
originally into a form which would be meaningful and useful for
you to send the Secretary of Defense under an .appropriate
covering letter.
2.. This has been worked and reworked. I have sent a
25X1A copy of the attachment to for his information.
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Director of ecurity
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20 March 1970
The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Hoover:
We have completed our review of domestic positive intelligence
collection engendered by your letter of 11 March 1970. We warmly
welcome periodic reexamination by our two agencies of the implexnen -
tation of the 1966 agreement and the collection of positive intelligence
which you proposed. I concur also with your comments that there is
a need for close coordination of our efforts in the field of positive and
counterintelligence collection.
To be most effective, I agree that it
is essential for this Agency, together with your Bureau, to conduct a
continuing analysis of clandestine collection activity. The product is
of growing importance to the na.tiona], security and to the United States
Intelligence Community. Therefore we endorse your proposal for a
reexamination and bespeak your desires as to how this might be
conducted.
With regard to the 1966 set of ground rules, which you sent to
the then Director, Vice Admiral William F. Eaborn, Jr., the compe-
tent work of our respective representatives did, in fact, produce an
effective and realistic agreement. I welcome your statement that no
major problems have been encountered since its adoption.
I feel strongly that there are other related subjects, of similar
importance to the national security, which warrant periodic reexamina-
tion since they have a direct bearing on domestic clandestine collection
of positive intelligence.
SECS Ei
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Mr. Tom C. Huston
Staff Assistant
.The White House
You will recall that at our meeting with
the President on do. estic i ntelliLenoe collection,
he made reference to black radicalism in th
Caribbean and asked to have a brief study naede of
its relationship to riilita black organizations
in the United States. Here is that study.
I assure you will see that the President re-
ceives his copy.
Richard Helms
Attachments - 3
No- 052:/70 - Intel Memo
Black :Radicalism in the
Caribbean.
cc: Chief, CI w/3 attachr?ents
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can ,4you
6 July 1970
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1970'1
Ins pector General
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1 April 1975
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The attached documents are
~a submitted for review and clea-ar,:
for release to authorities
investigating CIA. Please return,
unmarked, to the inspector
General as soon as possible.
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I DATE
11--10 Since item 2 discusses
security procedures of the DOD,
the AEC, and the FBI with respect
to the clearances of Senate
Committee and personal staff
members, I recommend that the.
release of this material be cleared
with those departments and
agencies. Subject to the above,
I concur in the release of the
attached documents to authorities
investigating CIA.
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