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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i‘ 4. Comments: None of those cases referred to above would appear to fall into the category of harassment, and all were linked to legitimate concerns by the Agency. The tax information would have been legitimately available to the Agency if requested via the established procedures which govern such disclosures. However, by virtue of the close liaison relationship between the Office of Security, Office V of General Counsel, and senior representatives of the Internal Revenue Service, as well as the sensitivity of the cases which predicated the requests for tax data, the Agency was able to obtain the required information without submitting the requests in writing. g At the present time, the Internal Revenue Service is conducting an extensive investigation into the possible ille- gality/impropriety of these disclosures of federal tax information to the Agency. In this regard the Internal Revenue Service investigators assigned to this task have been briefed concerning each instance outlined above, although in the sensitive case involving the former high-ranking Agency employee an Internal Revenue Service request for written material per- taining to this disclosure,is still outstanding. It should be noted that there is no way to be certain that the cases referred to herein constitute the total number of instances where the Agency has obtained federal tax infor- mation as Agency records are not maintained in a manner which would make such incidents retrievable. As a matter of fact, the cases of the high-ranking Agency employee and the magazine were brought to the attention of the Agency by the Internal Revenue Service during a recent review of its own records. While the above is a general description of the Agency's past activities in obtaining federal income tax data, each of the cases was complex and involved extensive investigative efforts by the Agency. Accordingly, it is difficult to put the request for the federal income tax data in each instance into proper perspective without a rather detailed summary of each case. Further, this memorandum does not address those instances where the Office of General Counsel or other Agency components have engaged in liaison with the Internal Revenue Service with regard to such items as covert tax returns and/or cover problems. 3 r\&fl5'“' "i I 1. __
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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.