SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE REQUEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000400620003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 20, 1976
• Content Type: MEMO

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20 February 1976
Chairman, Review Staff
SUBJECT? ' : Senate Select Committee Request
1. Attached for your information is a copy of
Mr. Miller's 18 February letter to me, which I received
during the afternoon of the 19th and discussed at the
Executive Committee meeting on 20 February. Also
attached is Bill Bader's letter of 12 January, which
started this ball rolling, and 14 January
note to me commenting on Bader's 12 January letter.
2. Over the last month, we have had several
discussions with and on this
matter. The SSC Staff is convinced it has a hard case
of Helms trimming his substantive sails and suppressing
analysts' truths which he felt would be unpalatable at
the White House. I think this interpretation is nonsense.
Helms made a judgment call which seemed right at the
time and which I think it is pointless to peck over in
hindsight. As I have tried to point out to the staff
(with no great degree of apparent success), they are
taking two documents out of the context of the totality
of the Agency's production during the period. So far
as I am concerned, the Agency's track record in delivering
unpalatable truths about Vietnam to the White House more
than speaks for itself and reflects considerable credit
on both the Agency and the DCI. This, however, is not
a line of reasoning the SSC Staff finds particularly
congenial and they apparently prefer to be selective in
their critical focus.
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3. I plan to take no action on responding to
this letter pending the DCI's directions. He, in
turn, will probably not want to make a decision until
you have obtained some clarification of what is
involved.
Attachments
Georg A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
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