NOTE TO DIRECTOR(Sanitized)

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• Publication Date: June 2, 1977
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which you directed to prepare.
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Acti Legislative counsel
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 The Dirrck r
CeMral lnlelli ence &;cncy O1.C 71-1499
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Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D. Co 20510
Dear IVIr. Chairman:
A significant effort of the Central Intelligence Agency, particularly
of senior management, has been devoted to the administration of the
Freedom. of Information Act, while very little information of interest:
to the public has, in fact, been released through the mechanism of
the Act.
I request that you give coat >i.deration to the enclosed statc'rnent
which describes the problems faced by CIA resulting from the FCI.A
and the desirability of obtaining legislative relief,
Yours sincerely,
STANS_1"IE I J) TURNER
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Honorable Melvin :Price, Chairman
Subcommittee. on. Intelligence and Military
Application of Nuclear Energy
Committee on Armed Services
House of RRepresent:atives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Char )-nano
A significant effort of the Central Intelljpern.ce Agency, particularly
of senior management, has been devoted to the administration. of the
Freedom of Information Act, while very little information of interest
to the public has, in fact, been released through the mechanism of
the Act.
I request that you give consideration to the enclosed statement
which describes the problems faced by CIA resulting from the FC?J:A.
and the desirability of obtaining legislative relief,.
Yours sincerely,
STANSFIELD TTJRNEU.
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The DDCI agrees that the summary needs a little more "punch".
It seems to me that a quick rewrite might correct the present
emphasis on purely technical difficulties. The following is rather
hasty and clumsy language but may be helpful in illustrating the
above suggestion:
I am sure you can do better but I hope you will agree that this is
a point worth making strongly in the summa
Andrew T. Falkiewicz
SA/DDCI
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR
6 April 1977
NOTE FOR: Mr. Knoch
Attached are letters for DCI signature
to Inouye and Price on our FOIA problems
with Executive-Legislative communications.
In response to your earlier (23 Feb)-' 2-'''
note to George Cary about needing a more
elaborate letter outlining our need for
relief, he states in his memo that efforts
are underway to develop these additional
arguments. However, he recommends that
the attached letters go forward at this
time.
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95?rn CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
Is, a 17 21
IN TILE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JOtiE 20 (j(gislativ-e (lay, ALLY 18), 1977
Mr. AtiounEZii introduced the following bill; wlrich was read twice and referral.
to the Committee on the Judiciary
To amend chapter 5, stibuluipter II, of title 5, united States
Code, to provide for unproved administrative procedures.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 lives of the United State; of America in Congress asseinblecl.
3 That (a) Section 551 (4) of title 5, United States Code, is
4 amended to read as follows:
5 " (4) `rule' means the whole or a. part of an agenncy
6 statement of general applicability and future effect de-
7 signed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy
or to describe the organization, procedure, or practice
9 requirements of an aency;".
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(b) In section 551 (13) of title 5, United States Code
strike the word "and" at the end of the sentence; in section
551 (14) strike the period at the end of the sentence and
insert in lieu thereof "; and"; and at the end of section 551
add a new subsection -fifteen as follows:
" (15) `ratemaking and cognate proceedings' means
agency process for, the approval or prescription for the
future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structure
or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances,
services, or allowances therefor or of Valuations, costs,
or accoluiitin , or practices bearing on any of the
12 foregoing.".
1 (c) Section 556 (d) is amended to insert before the
14 words "rule making" in the sentence thereof the words "rate-
15 making and cognate proceedings,".
16 (d) Section 557 (b) is amended to insert before the
17 words "rule making" in the fourth sentence thereof the
18 words "raten-iaking and cognate proceedings,".
19 SEE. 2 (a) Section 553 (a) (1) of title'? 5, United States
20 Code, is amended to read as follows:
21 " (1) a matter pertaining to a military or foreign
22 affairs function of the United States that is (A) specifi-
23 cally authorized under criteria established by Executive
24 order to be kept secret in the interest of the national
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defense or foreign policy and (B) is in fact properly
classified pursuant to such Executive order; or".
(b) Section 553 (a.) (2) of title 5, United States Code,
4 is amended by inserting a period after "personnel" to read as
follows :
"(2) a matter relating to agency management or
personnel.".
(c) Section 553 (b) (B) of title 5, United States Code,
amended to read as follows :
(B) when the agency for good cause finds that
notice and public procedure thereon would be imnpracti-
cable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest
(including the interest of national defense or foreign
policy in a matter pertaining to a military or foreign
,affairs function) . The agency shall publish in the docu-
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merit prontn)ga.ti_ng each rule issued in reliance upon this
provision either (i) the finding and a brief statement of
reasons therefor, or (ii) a. statement that the rule is
within a category- of rules established by a, specified rule
which has been previously published and for which the
finding and statement of reasons have been made.".
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2 6 APR 1977
STAT
Mr. Ernest F. Rethschulte
Dear Mr. Rethschulte :
This is in response to the request you submitted via
the office of Congressman Clarence D. Long. It was originally
mistakenly assumed that youf were referring only to the documents
pertaining to the substance of the first paragraph of the news
clipping forwarded by Congressman Long's office. We wish to
apologize for the delay this error has.ceused.
Please be advised that the Agency in its continuing
overall review of all documents pertaining to the assassination
of President Kennedy, has made several periodic releases of such
documents in the past year. Thus far, Batches A through F,
some 936 documents, have been released. These total 3,747 pages
of copy at a total price of $374.70, which is the cost of
reproducing copies. Included in this price is an Index of 310
Kages which lists all of the documents, released or denied, which
have been reviewed thus far. Should you wish only the Index,
its price is $31.
We anticipate that there will be at least one other release
in the next couple of months.
Should you wish this material please make your check
or money order payable to the Treasurer of the United States.
Gent F. Wilson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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to sworn testimony, th CIA once co
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was never an employe or agent of CIA
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Harvey Oswald as a scurce of intelli-
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phrased denial of the charges of involv
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on Lee Harve O
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the Minsk facto ry in which he had been
was released to ?
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'"`A second document reveals that for-
op (de-
feted) personality dossiers," the memo
mer CIA Director Allen D
states.
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serving as a membt r of the while
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The allegations that Oswald was a
CIA agent were first made by his moth
officials on the best v.?ay to
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As3ocisted press
The Central Intelligence Agency di-
rected its offices around the world in
1967 "to employ propaganda assets" to
counter doubts raised by critics of the
Warren. Commission's investigation
Into the assassination of iRresidnet
Kennedy.
The propaganda campaign was to be
waged in part by passing unclassified
.,Information about the assassination to
CIA "assets" who could use the mate-
xial in writing "book reviews and fea-
ture articles" that would "answer and
refute the attacks of the critics," ac-
cording to a newly released CL4 doc-
ument.
The document said the aim was "to
;,.provide material for countering and
'discrediting the claims of the conspir-
,..acy theorists, so as to inhibit the cir-
culation of such claims in other coun.
tries."
The document was among some Pao
pages of material released yesterday
by the CIA under the Freedom of In-
formation Act.
The documents show that the CIA
examined copies of almost all books
about the November, 1963, assassina-
tioxi, Including one by then-Congress.
man Gerald R.? Ford. A CIA officer
called Ford's book "a re-hash of the
' ' Oswald case" and criticized its "loose"
.writing.
'Ford was a member of the Warren -
Commission which concluded that Lee
Harvey Oswald was solely responsible
for the assassination. Ford quoted ex-
:'' tensively from secret sessions of the
commission in his book, "Portrait of
an 'Assassin," which agreed with the
commission's finding.
The 1967 dispatch to "chiefs, certain
stations and bases" says that the rash
of books and articles criticizing the
Warren Commission's finding "is a
matter of concern to the U.S. govern-
ment, including our organization."
"Efforts to impugn [the] rectitude
and wisdom [of commission members
and staff] tend to cast doubt on the
whole leadership of American socie-
ty," the memo said.
"Moreover, there seems to be an in-
creasing tendency to hint that Presi-
dent Johnson, himself, as the one per-
son who might be said to have bene-
fited, was in some way responsible for
the assassination.
`.'Innuendo of such seriousness af-
fects not only the individual con-
cerned, but also'the whole reputation
of the American government."-
.In using propaganda assets to re-
fute these charges, the dispatch said,
'bur play should point out, as applic-
able, that the critics are (1) wedded to .
theories adopted before the evidence
was in, (2) politically interested, (3) fi-
nancially interested, (4) hasty and in-
accurate in their research. or (5) infa-
tuated with their own theories."
UrItics of Warren* Hep ort
Objects o" LIA.Carnpaign
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Research on the J.F.K. Assassination and can use any Information from the
Kennedy-Oswald File under the Freedom of Information ict. I am doing
there is in the Pile. Z can use all the Information you have. Hope you
type of information I require because = do not know the type of Infor.a .t 0
Kennedy=;Oswald File you would like to sent to me.; ,~ T. oan n r $~ea .fy~ #~ .
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Yours truly;
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