F-2006-01528 INITIAL REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06718737
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2022
• Case Number: F-2017-01736
• Publication Date: August 11, 2006

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JAMES L. SR ODES
Scott Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
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4 August 2006
Re: 19 FOIA requests for a
William E. Colby biography project
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. Subsection 552, I am
requesting information or records on Director of Central Intelligence
William E. Colby and his career at the Agency.
If there are any fees for searching for, reviewing, or copying the
records please supply the records and I agree to pay those fees up to the
amount of $500 without prior notice. If the fees exceed that amount please
call me. In order to determine my status to assess fees, you should know I
am a journalist and an author of six books. The most recent two are
Franklin: The Essential Founding father (Regnery'2003), and Allen Dulles,
Master of Spies (Regnery 2000), which Was named best intelligence book of
2000 by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. You may check
out my other bona fides at my Website: vywvvjamessrodes.com.
You will notice that my requests concentrate on the period between
1973 and 1976 during Mr. Colby's directorship. This is because the focus of
the book will be the challenges he faced as DCI during the various
Congressional and other investigations into CIA conduct during 1975---the
Church, Pike, Rockefeller, and Murphy probes specifically. You also should
know the project has the cooperation of Mr. Colby's family and many of his
colleagues in the Agency, including former DCI James Schlesinger
The requests are numbered separately and it is my request that the
documents in question be provided as soon as they are available separately
rather than be held until all the requests are dealt with. If you deny all or
any part of these requests, please notify me separately and cite the
exemptions that justify your refusal to release the information...
If you have any questions about handling any of these requests, you
may telephone Me at my office [phone] or contact me by the email
address above. Thank you.
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FOIA REQUESTS FOR WILLIAM E. COLBY BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Request No. 1 of 19.
The CIA in-house biography of William E. Colby prepared by Harold
P. Ford. It is my understanding this biography was declassified and
provided to author Evan Thomas for use in his book The Best of Men.
Request No. 2 of 19.
A report dated March 10, 1971 titled "A Review of the Intelligence
Community" prepared by James Schlesinger (later DCI) for President
Nixon, aka "The Schlesinger Report."
Request No. 3 of 19.
Statement of Ambassador William E. Colby, deputy to
COMUSMACV for Civil Operations and Rural Development Support, dated
21 April 1971.
Request No. 4 of 19.
Speech by DCI William E. Colby, title: "Foreign Intelligence for
America," to the Commonwealth Club of California, 7 May 1975.
Request No. 5 of 19
Speech by DCI Colby, title "Intelligence and the Press," to the
Associated Press annual meeting, 7 April 1975
Request No. 6 of 19.
Other public speeches or press interviews by DCI Colby given
between May 1973 And 30 January 1976.
Request No. 7 of 19
The 1973 CIA Inspector General's Office 693-page study of
"potential flap activities," that is, a history of possible legal violations and
questionable activities undertaken by CIA, requested by DCI Schlesinger but
used by DCI Colby (then Executive Director) to brief various Congressional
committee chairmen and the U.S. Justice Department. This report is
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variously also known as "the family jewels" and covers such activities as
Chaos Operation, surveillance of U.S journalists, mail opening and wiretaps
against citizens under surveillance, and the Agency's possible involvement
with the Watergate conspirators. Probably dated either March or April 1973.
Request No. 8 of 19.
Briefing documents prepared for and used by William Colby in his
position as DDO, Executive Director, or DCI during the period 1973 and
1974 for briefings for Rep. Lucien Nedzi (D. Mich.), chairman of the
Intelligence Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.
References including but not limited to the IG's "family jewels" disclosures,
possible CIA actions in Chile and Cuba, and Colby's role as director of the
Phoenix Program in Vietnam.
Request No. 9 of 19.
Briefing documents prepared for and used by Mr. Colby in his
position as DCI during 1975 for briefings and testimony before the Senate
Select Committee to study Governmental Operations with Respect to
Intelligence Activities, also known as the Church Committee. Topic areas
include but are not limited to the IG's "family jewels" report, CIA actions in
Chile and Cuba and Colby's role as director of the Phoenix Program in
Vietnam.
Request No. 10 of 19.
Briefing documents prepared for and used by Mr. Colby as DCI
during 1974 and 1975 hearings before the Commission on CIA Activities in
the U.S., also known as the Rockefeller Commission. Topic areas include
but are not limited to supervision and control of CIA, the CIA's mail
intercept program, Operation CHAOS, Watergate involvement, domestic
spying against U.S. citizens, CIA relationship with other federal agencies,
domestic operations of the Directorate of Operations, domestic operations of
the Directorate of Science and Technology (including psychotropic drug
testing)
Request No.11 of 19.
Briefing documents prepared for and used by Mr. Colby as DCI
during the 1975 hearings of the House Select Committee on Intelligence,
also known as the Pike Committee. Topics covered include but are not
limited to the items prepared for the Rockefeller and Church hearings.
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Request No. 12 of 19.
Correspondence, memoranda, briefing documents prepared for and
used by DCI Colby to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, or other White House security officials on the topics
being examined by the various Congressional and joint commissions during
the period 1974 through January 1976. Also any correspondence or replies
to DCI Colby by those White House officials involving those topics or any
general directives on his conduct before those investigative bodies.
Request No. 13 of 19.
Correspondence or memoranda between DCI Colby and
Representatives Otis Pike (D-NY), Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) and
Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.) on the Pike Committee hearings. In addition to
the topics cited above also any items concerning leaks by committee
members and staff of Agency material to the press. 1975.
Request No. 14.of 19.
Memoranda or briefings to DCI Colby by CIA Congressional liaison
personnel on the activities of the Rockefeller Commission, Church
Committee and Pike Committee investigations, covering the previously
mentioned topics as well as leaks of confidential Agency material from the
committees to the press. 1975.
Request No. 15 of 19.
Texts of public testimony given by DCI Colby to the Church, Pike,
and Rockefeller investigative bodies during 1974-1975.
Request No. 16 of 19.
Memoranda or briefings to DCI Colby during 1974-1975 by security
staff on leaks of CIA material to press, surveillance of specific journalists or
Agency personnel.
Request No. 17 of 19.
Correspondence and memoranda between DCIs Schlesinger and
Colby and CI director James Angleton, 1973-1975, on suspension of the
mail opening program, and on Angelton's dismissal.
Request 18 of 19.
Agency photos of William Colby covering any periods of his service
including his OSS-Jedburgh operations in World War II, his decoration with
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the Silver Star by General William Donovan, his CIA service beginning in
the Office of Policy Coordination November 1950; as OPC's representative
in Stockholm, ca. 1953; as DDP for political action in Rome, ca. 1953-1959;
Deputy Chief of Station, Saigon and Chief of Station, ca. 1959-1960;
Deputy Chief and Chief, Far East Division, DDP ca. 1962-1968, as AID
deputy and then director for Civil Operations and Rural Development
(CORDS) Vietnam, ca. 1968-1972; CIA Executive Director, ca. 1972;
Deputy Director for Operations, ca. 1972-1973; and as DCI, ca. 4 September
1973-30 January 1976. Special reference to official ID's, also formal
functions, swearing-in ceremonies , decorations and the final hand over of
the agency to DCI George H.W. Bush.
Request No. 19 of 19.
Any communications from CIA Counterintelligence, the DCI' s office
or other staff to British Intelligence Services (MI-5, MI-6) or records of
communications between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill regarding British subject Alan Turing, a
senior official in British cryptographic staff, as a possible security risk.
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Scott Koch
information and Privacy Coordinator
Central intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
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