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.
%9+\fi'dfifNn7X[ A The Office of Security contacts with the Internal Revenue Service occurred during the period November 1957 through April 1972. It is extremely difficult to affix a numerical figure to the number of instances where federal tax information was obtained in view of the fact that some of these cases involved more than one subject, as well as in one case the review of a three~man partnership. However, the tax information was obtained during the conduct of ten (10) investigations by the Office of Security, all but one of which were of a counterintelligence nature in an attempt to determine if an individual associated with the Agency was receiving money from or recruited by a foreign intelligence service. The exception was a 1957 investigation of an Agency employee suspected of misusing his position of trust and responsibility to his own financial gain. The tax informa— tion obtained during the course of the above investigations involves fourteen (14) individuals, although this figure includes parents and/or other individuals who were considered in connection with the ten investigations. With respect to the two instances referred to which were handled by the Officeiof General Counsel, it would appear that in the case of the magazine the purpose of the request for federal tax information centered on the suspicion the magazine's activities were being funded by a foreign intelligence service, in view of the nature and extent of the magazine's disclosures. The Office of General Counsel's contact with the Internal Revenue Service concerning the former Agency employee (Mr. Agee) centered on an attempt bythe Agency to determine the former employee's overseas address. Although no taxpayer information was obtained in this instance, it would appear that the prime interest in the former Agency employee dealt with the possibility that he had been in contact with a foreign intelligence service. Thus, all but one of those instances in which the Office of Security and the Office of General Counsel obtained federal tax information were based on sensitive counterintelli— gence investigations. The information obtained through this liaison with the Internal Revenue Service ranged from very minimal data (such as an individual's reported total income for a given tax year) to rather extensive data, indicating that an Agency employee actually viewed the tax forms from which copiou notes were taken. However, in none of these instances does it appear that copies of tax forms were obtained by the Agency. Z '\ .='"= Q, '-' S
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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.