LETTER TO JEANNE SCHAUBLE FROM RICHARD LEHMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100070030-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 10, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
10 November 1982
Ms Jeanne Schauble
Supervisory Archivist
Gerald R. Ford Library
1000 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Dear Ms Schauble:
I am a retired senior officer of the Central Intelligence
Agency hired back by CIA on contract to prepare the official
classified history of William E. Colby's tenure as Director of
Central Intelligence (July 1973 - January 1976). The attached
letter certifies to my credentials.
This study will focus on how Mr. Colby handled the job,
rather than on the substantive events of the period. I am thus
researching his relationships with other senior officials in the
Ford Administration, particularly those in the White House. A
central element in these relationships is the investigations of
the Intelligence Community, and CIA in particular, in 1975 and
76.
I would like to ask your help in locating certain materials,
if they exist in President Ford's Library, and your advice on how
to gain access to them. If your intelligence files are not yet
fully organized, with my background I am game to try to find what
I need. These materials in general terms are as follows:
Papers of the Intelligence Coordinating Group,
especially minutes of its meetings, 1975 -
January 1976.
Papers of the (intelligence) Policy Steering
Group, also known as the "Executive non-Group,"
1975 - January 1976.
Papers of the National Security Council
Intelligence Committee (NSCIC), July 1974 -
January 1976.
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Documents relating to the Presidential
Commission on CIA Activities Within the
United States (Rockefeller Commission),
December 1974 - 1975.
Documents relating to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (Church Com-
mittee or SSCI), 1975 - January 1976.
Documents relating to the House Select
Committee on Intelligence (Pike Committee
or HSCI), 1975 - January 1976, but
especially September 1975.
Correspondence between President Ford,
Mr. Marsh, Mr. Buchen, Dr. Kissinger or
General Scowcroft and William E. Colby,
Director of Central Intelligence, August
1974 - January 1976.
Documents otherwise relating to William
Colby.
I can be reached by mail through Dr. McDonald's office
and by telephone on Area Code Please let
me know if any clarification is required. Any help you can
give us would be deeply appreciated.
Very Sincerely,
Richard Lehman
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
8 November 1982
Ms Jeanne Schauble
Supervisory Archivist
Gerald R.. Ford Library
1000 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Dear Ms Schauble:
This is to authorize access to all security classified CIA
documents held at the Ford Library for Mr. Richard L. Lehman, an official
historian with the CIA History Staff. Mr. Lehman's letter, to which this
letter will be attached, explains the scope and period of his research
on former Director William E. Colby.
I can certify that Mr. Lehman has current CIA clearances for Top
Secret, SI and TK material; he has additional clearances for access to
compartmented information for which I can arrange certification should
he require material so classified. I shall send a copy of this letter
to Mr. James E. O'Neill, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries
at the National Archives and Records Service.
Please call me atl lif I can provide any other
information. I shall be grateful for any help you can give Mr. Lehman
in this important research.
Yours sincerely,
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief Historian
cc: James E. O'Neill
National Archives
and Records Service
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