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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J CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 Honorable Richard L. Thornburgh Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division Department of Justice _ Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Thornburgh: This is in response to your letter to me dated September 7, 1976, in which you request that we furnish you originals of ll documents which will be subjected to fingerprint analysis in the Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory. Mr. Edmund Cohen of my office noted to Mr. George Allen Carver, Ir. of your office that up to this point the Agency has not released originals of documents and has not made available documents prior to deletion of certain sensitive information. Mr. Cohen also expressed concern that a large number of Agency employees under cover who are unconnected with the investigation might have handled the documents. Fingerprint analysis could compro- mise the cover of such individuals. An agreement was struck between the two attorneys as to the procedure which might be followed in order to satisfy Agency concerns and at the same time meet your requirements. Mr. Carver proposed that an armed Office of Security employee accompany the documents to the FBI facility. While the security officer waited, the ~documer.ts would be photographed and FBI officials would only seek to determine whether the fingerprints of certain selected Agency officials appeared on the documents. After this had been done, the originals and any photographs and photographic negatives would be returned to the Agency by the security officer. This procedure is acceptable to us, and pursuant to these conditions, we stand ready to make the requested documents available. Sincerely , -.. » . g '_ Anthony A. Lapham General Counsel "”?s»1s1°‘ £11 ' - eP- »°*\~ x~“‘ * ’9<<~ h A g )"”V~ai\~9°® 3
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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.