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‘hora Docld:32989530 Page 2 ) \ year a con GUN SE, | 4 OPTIONAL ZQRM NO. 10 5010-106 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA’GEN. REG. NO. 27 UNITED STAT ES GCRPRRNMENT sst. Dir: Memorandum 1 = Mr. Callahan greta CONF | ENTIAL. ve. 3/10/75 eames stew Files & Com. __ Gen. Inv. . Mr. W. R. Wannail 1 - Bach Assistant fe & : We On a} ChE g akSds SSVORNATION CONTAINED Mee =o SEAT fs (OLASSIPLED EXCEPT 1- Mr. beat "Laboratory WRERE SHO gi OER S} ‘ eat x dnseevel, — . SENSTUDY 75 mousse samp ido | des Un WOE él Ben OF i 2 OQ — tam Rm. This memorandum reports the results of a meeting me of the Ad Hoc Coordinating Group on Congressional Review of dia ‘ the Intelligence Community, (hereafter referred to as the Group), held on 3/7/75. The Group is chaired by Mr. John Clarke, Associate wy Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence, and is made ? My up of representatives of agencies and departments having a ‘ membership on the United States Intelligence Board (USIB). : t Its purpose is to serve as a coordinating mechanism for future é testimony before various Congressional committees. . ! At the meeting of the Group on 3/7/75 the following items were discussed: aan Congressman Robert McClory has been designated as the minority leader of the House Select Committee. Copies of ' the annexes prepared by various members‘of the Intelligence Community have been delivered to both the majority and minority leader of the House Select Committee. Congressman McClory. is very security conscious, is concerned that sensitive relation- Ships are not inadvertently disclosed during forthcoming hearings ~. and according to Mr. John Clarke appears to have no questions ~ * egarding FBI authority to engage in domestic surveillances. CIA has prepared a draft letter to Senator Church releasing CIA employees from any obligations imposed upon them by CIA's Secrecy Agreement (draft copy furnished the Legal Counsel Division). Prior to releasing the letter to Senator Church, 4 {cra is having it reviewed by” they White House to determine if > ' they have any objections to it +) a oF 4. ifr PEO 7 i f i i + eS any es aes f CIA anticipates that areee employees of the Sera tem amas f Select Committee (SSC). Will have. direct access to CIA buildings . fy but will not have direct access ta. ‘GIA files or CIA p&rs@bmet.1978 : { > D> | Arrangements for the staff of the SSC to interview CIA personnel =; : will be made through Mr. John Clanke. mm YF ue - ’ . . if : ‘ . b i 1 WOCzebe \ spe 4e aif woos \ go ce ee wow \Q YU APR 14 75" wi “outed taps meee aaa t
Memorandum for Mr. Wannall ; RE: SENSTUDY 75 CONFI ne os ¥ wet MN Mr. James Wilderotter, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Mr. John Warner, General Counsel, CIA, will have a meeting with the Counsel of the SSC on Tuesday, 3/11/75, to work out precise wording for a Secrecy Agreement that all members of the SSC staff have agreed to sign. On 3/10/75 the staff of the SSC will convene to develop a list of requirements that they expect to levy on all agencies making up the Intelligence Community. Hopefully Mr. Clarke will have some information on these requirements prior to the time they are levied on the individual agencies. As a result of Mr. Colby's appearance before the House Government Information in Individual Rights Subcommittee, Government Operations Committee, 3/5/75, CIA is getting many, many, calis from Senators and Congressmen asking how they can find out whether CIA has a file on them and what its contents i are. Mr. Clarke noted that members of the Group should anticipate receiving similar calls from Congressmen. 287-(V) Mr. Hank Knocke, who heads up the CIA task force responsive to the Rockefeller Commission, advised that staff members of the Rockefeller Commission have been issued CIA 4 . \badges, occupy CIA office space, and have authority to ‘[ fem |personally contact any CIA employee without clearing such contact with CIA officials. In addition, the Rockefeller Commission staff employees have been granted access to CIA files. After reviewing these files, if the staff decides to make certain portions of the files a matter of official Commission business, CIA has a right to excise the names of any sensitive sources. In the event information contained in } . these files originates with another Agency of the Government CIA has insisted and the staff concurs that the originating Agency must be consulted before such information can be “released to the staff. (wy | Mr. Knocke also advised that it is his understanding that both Mr. Kelley and Mr. Colby will receive in the mail nore a request from the Commission to prepare a joint esponse See the activities of foreign intelligence officials in the U. S. ‘ -~ Q = Cony a CONTINUED - OVER 553 Docld:32989530 Page 3
Memorandum for Mr. Wannall RE: SENSTUDY 75 CONFIDENTIAL CIA as well as the rest of the Intelligence Community is concerned over requests received "$¥ Morton Halperin under the Freedom of Information Act. Treasury, National Security Council, Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA, State Department and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), have received requests from Halperin, According to Mr. Clarke, a meeting will be convened by the OMB involving interested parties in an effort to coordinate r. Colby, in his role as the Director of Central Intelligence, is very concerned that in responding 7#* to Halperin's requests one Agency does not deny providing information to Halperin that another Agency expects to give Halperin. To date the Bureau has not received a request from Halperin under the Freedom of Information act K(0) ACTION: For informatim and record purposes. an HW 55073 Docld: 329695350 Page 4