STAFF REPORT ON CIA MAY REMAIN SECRET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020030-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: September 27, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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2 7 SEp 1974
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By Jeremiah O'Leary to compare what the CIA of the Holt staff report or no
Star-News Staff Writer' director told the Nedzi sub-
committee and what has
Members of the Senate' been testified to before the
Foreign Relations Commit Senate Foreign Relations
tee are studying a 17-page Committee by Colby and
report prepared by the com- State Department officials.
mittee staff on the CIA's
role in Chile's internal af- If 'Colby's Senate testi-
fairs, but officials said it is mony was essentially com-
classified Top Secret and plete, most members of the
may never be made public. committee presumably
Pat M. Holt, chief of staff would be in no position to
of the committee, said the,.' claim surprise over the
staff study over which he
presided was handed to the
senators yesterday after-
noon. This was done at a
closed-door executive ses-
sion meeting called by
Chairman J. William Ful-
bright, D-Ark., immediately
after open confirmation
hearings for two diplomatic
posts.
The next move, according
to Holt, is to await a reply
from the House Armed
Services subcommittee on
intelligence on the Senate
committee's request for a
transcript of the testimony
of CIA Director William
Colby.
At least one senator ves-
terday said at the confirma-
tion hearing of William D.
Rogers-he has been ap-
pointed assistant secretary
of state for inter-American
affairs - that the commit-
tee intended to hold such
hearings.
THE FULBRIGHT com-
mittee is in an 'awkward
position on the CIA-Chile
revelations earlier this
month by Rep. Michael J.
Harrington, D-Mass., be-
cause last November Colby
testified about these ac-
tivities to some extent be-
fore the Western
Hemisphere subcommittee
of the Senate headed by
Gale McGee, D-Wyo. It ap-
pears that the Fulbright
committee's request for
Colby's testimony before
the house subcommittee
headed by Rep. Lucien
Nedzi, 13-:Mich., is an effort
Harrington disclosures.
Although Holt refused to
speculate on what the Ful-
bright committee might be
planning to do, it appeared
certain that there is no
sentiment for carrying out
the drastic proposals made
by Jerome Levinson, coun-
sel of the multinational cor-
porations subcommittee.
In a confidential docu-
ment leaked to the press,
Levinson proposed to Chair-
man Frank Church,.: D-
Idaho, tha t the confirmation
hearings of Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger be
reopened; that the Justice
Department study whether
perjury was committed by
former Asst. Secretary of
State C, iiarles A.'Meyer and
former CIA Director Rich-
ard-Halms; and that con-
proceedings be-start-
tempt
ed against Edward Korry,,
former ambassador. to
Chile:
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renewal of hearings on the
CIA's role in Chile against
the late Marxist president
Salvador Allende, the issue
is very near to being closed
as far as the Senate is con-
cerned. - CIA oversight
presently rests on an ad hoc
basis with the Senate and
House Armed Services
Committees and senior
members of the two Appro-
priations Committees.
These overseers have
shown no zeal for punishing
or exposing CIA activities
in the past.
Fulbright and Church,
normally on the same politi-
cal wave-length in foreign
affairs, debated during
Kissinger's testimony last
week on detente whether
the secretary should be
questioned about Chile. Ful-
bright implied, in trying to
cut off Church's probing,
that a later hearing would
be reserved for the Chile-
CIA question. Now that ap-
pears highly uncertain.
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