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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2. The officer you select for the operational end of this will have a few leads to start with. He should for a couple of leads and with follow-up on some ideas that he has. Your suggestion of this morning, that some of our liaisons may be helpful in this, certainly should be pursued energetically but carefully. Ober, or whoever you select, should feel free to seek the assistance of the as he requires this to run down leads or otherwise do his job. It may be well to assign a cryptonym to the effort, so that cable traffic can be suitably handled on a limited basis. 3. I should appreciate some sort of interim report by 31 August on the steps we have taken to get into position to move on this program. Thomas H. Karamessines Deputy Director for Plans
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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.