LETTER TO LESTER A. BARRER FROM JOHN S. WARNER RE BOOK YOU ARE CURRENTLY COMPILING TO BE ENTITLED DOCUMENTATION INDEX TO THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON - INCLUDING "WATERGATE" AND RELATED INVESTIGATIONS, HEARINGS AND PROSECUTIONS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01481989
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 9, 1975

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OGC 75-0077
9 January 1975
Mr. Lester A. Barrer
Today Publications & News Service, Inc.
National Press Building
Washington, D .0 . 20004
Dear Mr. Barrer:
This is in response to your letter to Mr. Colby of 8 November 1974
regarding the book you are currently compiling to be entitled Documentation
Index to the Impeachment Proceedings Against Richard M. Nixon - Including
"Watergate" and Related Investigations, Hearings and Prosecutions. I regret
to inform you that the indices or lists that you describe in your letter do not
exist.
As you may know, the Ceiytral Intelligence Agency has furnished many
of its documents and records to various "Watergate" investigative bodies,
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice, the Watergate Special
Prosecution Force, the Impeachment Inquiry Staff of the House Judiciary
Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
The number of documents involved is extremely large. A great number of
these documents were and remain classified as they contain information
relating to intelligence sources and methods which I have determined should
be protected. Other documents were or have been declassified. However,
when these materials were furnished to the various investigative bodies
mentioned above, we did not attempt-to segregate and index the unclassified
materials from those that are and must remain classified. As an effort today
to compile an index or list of the unclassified materials would be large and
quite expensive, I cannot justify this Agency's undertaking such an effort.
Regretfully, therefore, I will not be able to respond to your request because
the time and cost of doing so is simply prohibitive.
EX
Sincerely.
/ Jofln . ii�arner
General bounsel
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