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.
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“\-"\_ __ _ ..< 16 October 1975 ' MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Review of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Income Tax Information l. Allegations: The Central Intelligence Agency has obtained U.S. Internal Revenue Service income tax data regarding individuals, firms, and/or organizations without following the prescribed procedures pertaining to the disclosure of such federal tax data as outlined under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. Further, it is alleged that in some of these instances the Agency used the tax information to harass these individuals, firms, or organizations and influenced the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to take certain actions on the Agency's behalf. 2. Issues: Has the Central Intelligence Agency, or any of its employees, violated Federal statutes pertaining to the illegal disclosure of federal tax information? Was the purpose of the Agency's review of taxpayer information as alleged, or were these reviews properly justified? S. Summary: During the Rockefeller Commission's inquiry concerning the Agency, all known cases in which the Office of Security had obtained federal income tax data were reported to the Commission. Since the conclusion of the Rockefeller Com- mission's inquiry, one additional case has been discovered wherein the Office of Security obtained federal tax information concerning a former high-ranking Agency employee. The Office of General Counsel also maintains liaison with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and it was found that in one instance it obtained federal tax data concerning a magazine (Ramparts) which was at the time publishing classified information concerning the Agency's relationships with certain taX—exempt organizations. The Office of General Counsel was also in contact with the Internal Revenue Service concerning a former Agency employee (Philip B. P. Agee), who was writing a book containing highly classified Agency information, although no federal income tax information concerning this individual was obtained. ,. -. E2 IMPDET Ll ct BY 063344
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.