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 - 9. Mr. Richard asked Mrs. Hoover if she knew what Project MINUET (phonetic) was and if she had ever had anything to do with that project; Mrs. Hoover replied in the negative. Rather than let Mr. Richard ask me that question, I then asked Mr. Richard what Project MINUET was, and he informed me that it was an NSA classified project. In this same vein, Mr. Richard asked Mrs. Hoover if she had access to or had ever contributed to the NSA Watch List. She replied that on one occasion she had access to such a list. l0. Mr. Richard informed me that he was also aware of the fact that NSA offered some_of their file holdings on American citizens to the Agency, and that we did not accept them. Mr. Richard asked why we did not accept these files on Americans; Mrs. Hoover responded that she did not think that the Agency had space for them. I responded that that was the reason given but that the main reason was that we did not think that the files offered to us were of any value to us because the informa- tion was old, was fragmentary in nature, and frequently was not properly sourced; and, therefore, was of little value from an investigative standpoint. ll. In conclusion, Mr. Richard asked if we ever disseminated information obtained from NSA; we both informed him that we did not, that it was strictly against Agency policy to do so. At this point, Mr. Richard asked who else had access to NSA files. I objected to this question, inasmuch as I thought that it was not proper for us to reply, and Mr. Richard withdrew same after Mrs. Hoover responded that she was only aware that the Air Force had a representative at NSA. 12. It is believed that the foregoing covers the significant areas of interest covered by the interview. Ervan E. Kuhnke Jr. 3
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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.