Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.
“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages
p A. as 16 October 1975 OUTLINE OF CIA REVIEW OF U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE INCOME TAX RECORDS ALLEGATIONS - A. The Central Intelligence Agency has obtained U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) income tax infor- mation without following proper procedure as outlined within Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. ' B. The CIA has misused IRS tax data to harass indi- viduals, firms, and/or organizations and has influenced the IRS to take certain actions on the CIA's behalf. ISSUES Has the CIA, or any of its employees, violated Federal statutes pertaining to the disclosure of IRS tax information? B. Were the CIA's reviews of federal income tax ' information improper, or were these reviews justified? SUMMARY A. During the period November 1957 through April 1972, the Office of Security obtained IRS income tax information concerning fourteen individuals during the course of ten Office of Security investigations. l. The number of individuals concerning whom the Office of Security obtained income tax data is subject to variation, in view of -the fact that some of the ten investigations involved several individuals (such as parents and associates) as well as one-case involving the review of a three—man partnership's tax records. E2 IMPDET Q./~I=\l-§ igmqigl ct BY 063544 ‘w..l‘\ hi J,‘
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.