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David E. Hanlon Ralph Orcutt Edmund X. Klipa (Possible Contact by the Senate Select Committee Staff)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-09-29 · 515 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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Under date of October 28, 1975} Mr. John T. Elliff,
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communication to Assistant Director W. Raymond Wannall of
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recently learned of allegations that the Central Intelligence
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are Soviet agents on seven Senators‘ staffs. Mr. Elliff . .
requested that the Committee_be given a brief written statement
"of the FBI's position regarding these allegations which may be
made public by the Committee. Moreover, Mr. Elliff requested
that the Committee be furnished the substance of a briefing
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On October 9, 1975, accompanied by Assistant Director-
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Conservative Union in Washington, D. C. During the question
and answer period following my prepared remarks, several
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regarding a reported statement by Senator Barry Goldwater that ~
KGB intelligence officers had infiltrated seven Congressional
or Senate staffs. The Seminar was advised that the FBI has no
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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.