LETTER TO THE HONORABLE CLARE HOFFMAN FROM SECRETARY OF STATE [AND OTHERS]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100200012-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 26, 1947
• Content Type: LETTER

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DOS & OSD review(s) completed.
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26 Juts 1947
The i.onorablo Clare.* r:oi f ar , Chairman
House Co,rr..itt o On. xpr iziiturrs in the xeci. ti ve I part: c. h
1Iov,se Offic9 ?u ldi.ng
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l4' dear Lr. Chairman t
It as ~-=?:1 e '~rol.. ',, t to our utt ~tian t }ia: "rou "~. ?_ 3~?I' a~rt c1'
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have stated L:-]ut tic C' ntrai 1r.: e1Ur c9 T:fup has L SL's T ?~ Va icus d'eZz t-
rren al intelli,aco functions a;id .{?. orcN- i establ_iS ~_?C orca'iizatio s out of
the # .elde .. cse cht CAa have be?.'2 -]CrtiCWVi.T_'l;y l vol.&Li at ik_3 4 oration
by the Central Iat~?l l~'ence Group of c1-_' :8stinre :Ltiti.~l.lt, en activities.
T?riesa charges are not true.
It has lonI. been felt by those t;i.o have Eucce:~ fu11;~ op--rated cla d9s--
t:1ne intelli c:.c e ey to=i that such 1` rk nut b a t a1' ::^'.1 -~zithia one
agoacy. As a corollary to this prc osi Ldoa, it is Ls li'kord o b" n rov:"i
that a multitudo of cip:Lonai;e a-anci'o:; rc5;:!.ts all LfT~ 5:.C2 tc _ LZ _ j
agox is terd to uncover each o th-'r or 'Mock Cacih other's uti.d orsii.:i1c Iy
noait,rali,ze eacli other, Ce::lj; are of id -: tiC t3 oh j ctivAzs s Co xi, s!_-Ch
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mi'ent?aal Co oiittees, to p,:,= it the several des ;-art: