424-10167-10378 yy” OS Seiad ae er * Distribution: « wat CIA Headquarters should advise Captain John Matheny, Office ° _ of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, . for a future investigation. AL, INTELLIGENCE AGENCY oe, CE ; ~ _ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 . 27 February 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: ic SRD ICRRS peers ER any Executive Branch Departments and “ Classified Documents Returned from t e SUBJECT: . House Select Committee on Intelligence me Chairman Pike has designated the CIA as the interim custodian of the Executive Branch materials heretofore held by the House | Select Committee pending final determination by the House of : Representatives regarding these materials. Attached for your information and possible future reference is a copy of a letter dated February 25, 1976, from the Director of Central Intelligence to Representative Otis Pike, Chairman of the House Select | Committee on Intelligence, regarding the disposition and safe- keeping of classified materials furnished to or generated by : . the Select Committee. Also attached for your information are copies of Chairman Pike's letters of February 20, 1976, to - . Director Bush and to the Archivist of the United States. is erate tans un ope as 2 sTcwigpse a he Si gay P52 be. fe aco tee ew he. Those addressees whose classified materials are now stored. whether ‘any of their documents are missing. Captain Matheny will * prepare and maintain a consolidated list of Executive Branch documents which are listed as missing should this be needed- aay e . { iz 00), CREE ES Soe cop Sa aA aw eyes 3 3 E as. . 2 carte Seen a mestn et inn methane’ tncenaarnrr tat Beit nn GD at Soe amas? Wenn © GA oeiaeateDO OE? Crave way Ste Assistant to the Director Review Staff abet Attachments: As Stated an ; 2 ; ’ ‘Donald Alexandér/IRS Harold Saunders/State-INR Donald Ogilvie/OMB Robert Hampton/CSC Benjamin Bailar/U.S. Postal Service’ William Hyland/NSC John Marsh/White House Thomas Latimer/DOD Antonin Scalia/DOJ . Peter Bensinger/DEA - William Cregar/¥FBI James Rhoads/National Archives Gorton & 7 Gerald Nensel/Treasury and Records | Ren (x o& A: . ae e a 2. E oo A, Awe Lb Mee - ‘ Paste e
rn SO eremmamee co Mea INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ® ro . . WASHINGTON, D.C. 20303 OU vs 998 Bebruary 1976 The Honorable Otis Pike, Chaimman 6 am oe a , _ ae Le, Select Comzittee on Intelligence . tee Salter fo. defi: _ House of Representatives .  . |. . a i rr er ree! Liel, ' Washington, D. C..20515 2,” rn ee I hereby acknowledge ‘and accept the terms set forth! in your ° _ Pe ot a letter of February 20 for safekeeping of the three categories oF  - -.. .*- sensitive classified documents furmished to or generated by the’ Byte AS? . House- Select. Committee on Intelligence. — eitt Lviel™ pie lise “As to the first category, pursuant to your ‘etter, the! Ton joan" material which -was loaned to the Select Committee by the _ Executive branch has been received by the CIA and such material . ; has been returned to the originating departments and agencies. ae Be - With regard to the second category of materials, the trans +” “Cre cripts of testimony taken from current and former Federal officials .". °° in executive sessions of the Select Committee, it is wy understanding - . that these documents will be placed in the National Archives building , for safekeeping in the custody of the Archivist of the United States, and that no one is to be given access to these materials pending . ran ' further instructions from the House of Representatives or Speaker of .- the House. As you indicated in your letter of February 20 to the a Archivist, highly sensitive classified information is contained in | these transcripts, and they should be treated accordingly by the Archivist. I am also concerned about any future plans for the dis~~ . OT position of these transcripts. This material includes information - - =. o |] invalving sensitive sources and methods which I aii‘charged by law (°°. . [i to protect from unauthorized disclosure.. I would, therefore, rs) ' | appreciate it if you would bring this concern to the attention of - 7 4B the Speaker of the House and request that I be involved in any ee decision regarding the future disposition of this material. t | | | ' Finally, with respect to the third category of materials re- : ceived by the CIA from the Select Committee for storage at CIA a 4 Headquarters, we have attempted to reconcile our records of documents i | | ea Webs Sib : Euuasns ia ye ee PY
- = _— ee —_ - — - ° . 1 a . . aw id , : rd . * bl ° ‘ . . , e ° ‘ . « ‘ . . ' _ delivered to tthe Select Committee with the inventory documents received for storage at CIA Headquarters, , and we find ithat a number _ of CIA documents are missing. - The materials transterre " Headquarters. for Storage Were initially inventoried and sealed in - cartons by’ Executive branch representatives on the premises of the Select Conmittee in the presence of Committee staff members during _ the period of February 18-20. Because a number of documents were _ unaccounted for, it was agreed with your staff representative that . certain cartons should be inventoried again to determine whether the missing documents might be in those cartons. Thus, a thorough second inventory of certain sealed cartons was conducted at CIA on ' February 21 with your concurrence and in the presence of Ms.’ Jacqueline . .Hess of the Select Committee staff.° While a few of the missing documents were found in the second inventory, a number of documents are still missing. . As soon as a complete list of the missing materials is pre- pared,-my representatives will seek an early meeting with you to determine what measures can be taken to account for » or locate the missing docments. Other Federal agencies are also checking their records and inventories to detemine whether any of their documents. ‘ate missing. - , r The foregoing pertains only to the missing materials as we - have no way of eccounting for. the multiple copies of classified documents reprocuced by the Select Committee staff from originals made available by the CIA and other Executive departments and ‘| agencies. To the extent that ‘the multiple copies have not been " . ‘included in the materials to be stored at CIA or the National . Archives, I, trust that those documents have been destroyed in ac- cordance with procedures appropriate for classified: materials, vO +! The following is a-summary of the third category of material: now held in sealed cartons at CIA Headquarters pending further in- © structions from the House of Representatives. or the Speaker of the House: “Rockefeller Commission Files : 13 Cartons CIA Files’ > +E) Cartons Dept. of Defense Files oy . 7 Cartons . (1 carton of DoD files labeled “pending resolution of on Loan a material")
so” we IC Files (Carton 2 has partial naterials from: Treasury, Civil Service, OB, and Post Office) DEA Files a _ oy 2. Dept. of State Files. gs - : 1 Carton - 2 OF Dept. of Justice/Atty. General: . q Cartons a te - .*" ‘PEBI Files (Carton 7 has partial files ‘ | from State, DEA, Civil waned ‘| CMB, Treasury/IRS and IC) - HSC Transmittal Books ; . “TOTAL: Unless advised by yout to ‘the’ ‘contrary, ‘we Will assume that this _ breakdown of cartons accords with your records and that the Speaker Zz Cartons | we “2 Carton . i Carton | . 46: Cartons - 7 S of the House has been:so advised. The contents of each carton have _ been individually inventoried and Ms. Hess has receipted for the | contents of each carton. Copies of these inventories have been supplied to Ms. Hess for transmittal to the office of the Speaker of the ‘House. . I wish to express my personal appreciation for your’ cooperation , ’ in making possible, in the short time available, the transfer of the - materials to be heid for safekeeping at the CIA Headquarters, ’ Sincerely, ; ec: Honorable Carl Albert, - Speaker of the House of Representatives 74 Director ‘Gootee es gpa emer seers oa sewn 3 oe A Ste en tas rei ee ne ape bia 9 aioe