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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 -

27 February 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Executive Branch Departments and Agencies

SUBJECT:

Classified Documents Returned from the

House Select Committee on Intelligence

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.

Those addressees whose classified materials are now stored.

at CIA Headquarters should advise Captain John Matheny, Office

of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,

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

'for a future investigation.

JFK(I)(O

L

Seymodr R. Bolter

Assistant to the Director

Review Staff

Attachments:

As Stated

Distribution:

William Hyland/NSC

John Marsh/White House

Thomas Latimer/DOD

Antonin Scalia/DOJ

Peter Bensinger/DEA

William Cregar/FBI

Gerald Nensel/Treasury

•Donald Alexander/IRS

Harold Saunders/ State-INR

Donald Ogilvie/OMB

Robert Hampton/CSC

Benjamin Bailar/U.S. Postal Service

James Roads/National Archives

and Records

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FRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D. 6. 20905

25 February. 1976

The Honorable Otis Pike, Chairman

Select Committee on Intelligence

House of Representatives

Washington, D. C.. 20515

Dear Chairman Pike:

I hereby acknowledge and accept the terms set forth in your

letter of February 20 for safekeeping of the three categories of

sensitive classified documents furnished to or generated by the

House Select Committee on Intelligence.

As to the first category, pursuant to your letter, the fon

loan" material which was loaned to the Select Cormittee by the

Executive branch has been received by the CIA and such material

has been returned to the originating departuents and agencies.

With regard to the second category of materials, the trans-

cripts of testimony taken fron surrent and forner federal officials

in executive sessions of the Select Comnittee, it is my 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

further instructions from the House of Representatives or Speaker of

the House. As you indicated in your letter of February 20 to the

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-

position of these transcripts.

This material includes infornation

involving sensitive sources and methods which I ari charged by lar

to protect from unauthorized disclosure. I would, therefore,

appreciate it if you would bring this concern to the attention of

the Speaker of the House and request that I be involved in any

decision regarding the future disposition of this naterial.

Finally, with respect to the third category of materials re-

ceived by the CIA from the Select Committee for storage at CIA

Headquarters, we have attempted to reconcile our records of documents

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delivered to the Select Cormittee with the inventory of documents

received for storage at CIA Headquarters, and we find that a number

or ClA documents are missing. • The materials transferred to CIA

Headquarters for storage were initially inventoried and sealed in

cartons by Executive branch representatives on the premises of the

Select Cormittee 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 Conmittee staff.

While a few of the missing

documents were found in the second inventory, a number of documents

are still nissing.

As soon as a complete list of the missing materials is pre-

pared, my representatives will seek an early meeting with you to

determine that measures can be taken to account for or locate the

missing documents. Other Federal agencies are also checking their

records and inventories to determine whether any of their documents.

are missing.

The foregoing pertains only to the missing materials as we

have no way of accounting for the multiple copies of classified

documents reprocuced by the Select Comnittee 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.

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

CIA Files

Dept. of Defense Files

(1 carton of DoD files labeled

"pending resolution of on loan

material'')

1 Cartons

• 11 Cartons

'Cartons

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IC Files

(Carton 2 has partial materials

fTOm:

Treasury, Civil Service;

OMB, and Post Office)

DEA Files

*3 Cartons

Z Cartons

Dept. of State Files

Dept. of Justice/Atty. General:

FBI Files

(Carton 7 has partial files

from State, DEA, Civil Service,:

CB, Treasury/IRS and IC)

HSC Transmittal Books

:I Carton

] Carton

• 7 Cartons

;: '

1 Carton

TOTAL:

46 Cartons

Unless advised by you to the contrary, we will assure that this

breakdown of cartons accords with your records and that the Speaker

of the House has been so advised.

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 held for safekeeping at the CIA fleadquarters.

Sincerely,

George Bush

Director

CC:

Honorable Carl Albert,

Speaker of the House

of Representatives

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