REPONSE TO BOREN/COHEN LETTER ON A CANADIAN REQUEST TO LIMIT CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430786
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2018
• Case Number: F-2013-00120
• Publication Date: July 29, 1988

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29 July 1988
OCA 2520-88
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Acting Director of Congressional Affairs
Response to Boren/Cohen Letter on a Canadian
Request to Limit Congressional Notification
1. Attached for your signature is a response to Chairman
Boren's and Vice Chairman Cohen's request that we provide
documentation regarding Canada's request that Congress not be
infotmed of the operation to rescue Americans in the Canadian
Mission in Tehran. As you are aware, the Committee believes
the Administration has exaggerated the facts concerning the
story to defeat the Intelligence Oversight legislation.
2. I have also attached for your information a summary
prepared by the Directorate of Operations that documents
additional details regarding the Canadian assistance in the
exfiltration of the Americans. The summary mentions a meeting
that occurred on 19 November 1979 at which time a Canadian
official may have made the request that Congress not be
notified of the operation. Secretary Carlucci, who was the
DDCI at the time, was present at the meeting. You should be
aware that Secretary Carlucci today has no recollection of the
meeting.
Attachments:
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