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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> ».5F.'\'.‘_ ‘ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE _ ,*‘~_="¢‘\.,¢>‘=g" will FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ‘ '»¢*¢= xs-"ff 4 ' _ . A 2- . . ‘.""°'“‘ WASHINGTON. D.C. 20535 . A _ October 30,_l975 BY LIAISON ‘ - Honorable Frank Church e _ . - Chairman, Select Committee to _ Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities ~ United States Senate ‘Washington, D. C. 20510 ' - < Dear Mr. Chairman: . I Under date of October 28, 1975} Mr. John T. Elliff, - Director. Domestic Intelligence Task Force, addressed a communication to Assistant Director W. Raymond Wannall of this Bureau._ Mr. Elliff advised that your Committee has , ' recently learned of allegations that the Central Intelligence . Agency is in possession of information indicating that there 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 . Awhich was afforded to Mr. William G.-Miller, Staff Director of - ' < the Select Committee, and himself several weeks ago. The latter “item-was'requested for the Select Committee's confidential ' _ -~ consideration. - 'e _ A Q ~ . . 3 _ On October 9, 1975, accompanied by Assistant Director- Wannall, I appeared before the Congressional Seminar on ‘ - Intelligence and Internal Security sponsored by the American . Conservative Union in Washington, D. C. During the question and answer period following my prepared remarks, several ‘Seminar participants asked for clarification and comment - 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 information indipating'EH§E“SovietIK§Bi5fficéfsmhaye infiltrated, - safiy Congressional staffs.’"MrT Wannall_stated that it wastflst a . CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL ATTACHED 1 ' :
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