Documents / FOIA release
This is a letter dated 24 December 1974 from CIA Director W. E. Colby to the President, with annexes attached. It responds to a New York Times article about CIA domestic intelligence activity. The letter denies that the Agency ran a "massive" domestic effort. It traces a counterintelligence program on foreign links with American dissidents, which ran from 1967 until it was ended in March 1974, and admits improper actions such as mail opening, break-ins and the surveillance of reporters. The attached memoranda restrict such activities.
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IO REPORTING ANY FURTHER INTELLIGENCE OR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ASPECTS OF THE SPECIFIC CASE WHICH COME TO CIA ATTENTION AS A BY-PRODUCT OF ITS CONTINUING FOREIGN-TARGETED OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY. IF THE FBI, ON THE BASIS OF THE RECEIPT OF THE CIA INFORMATION, HOUEVER, SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS FURTHER INFORMATION ON TERRORIST OR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS RELATING TO THE PRIVATE AMERICAN CITIZENS INVOLVED IN THE SPECIFIC CASE, CIA WILL RESPOND ACCORDING TO THE GUIDANCE IN SUB-PARAGRAPH B BELOW. IN PERFORMING THESE FUNCTIONS CIA WILL BE DISCHARGING ITS RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PRIMARY FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE COLLECTION ABROAD, PARTICULARLY AS ASSIGNED IT UNDER PARAGRAPHS 1B AND 33 OF NSCID 5. B. CIA MAY RESPOND TO WRITTEN REQUESTS BY THE FBI FOR CLANDESTINE COLLECTION ABROAD BY CIA OF INFORMATION ON FOREIGN TERRORIST OR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS INEVOLVING PRIVATE AMERICAN CITIZENS. SUCH COLLECTION ACTIVITY MAY INVOLVE BOTH LIAISON SERVICES AND UNILATERAL DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXIT:
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 76 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.