THE AGENCY'S INTEREST IN THE CHURCH PAPERS RESULTED FROM A BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THAT THE UNIVERSITY ACQUIRED THE LATE SENATOR CHURCH'S PAPERS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10T01930R000400100006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: MISC

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The Agency's interest in the C2:urch papers resulted from a
Boise State University press release announcing that the
University had acquired the late Senator Church's papers.
Included in the press report was a statement that the Church
collection included CIA information.
The Agency informed Mr. Steven Garfinkel, Director,
Information Security Oversight Office, of this fact with a
request that he make an effort to determine whether classified
information was included. Mr. Garfinkel received an index of
the papers which appeared to reflect that CIA, as well as
Department of State and Department of Defense, information was
included in the collection. Mr. Garfinkel asked for permission
to review the material to determine whether classified
information was included, and he offered his services and those
of other Executive Branch personnel to go to Boise Sta*e to
review the material. The University declined the request. It
was against this background that the Agency wrote to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). As the letter to the
SSCI specifically states, the Agency's sole purpose was to seek
"assistance in determining whether classified intelligence
information is in fact in the collection and if so how to best
deal with the issue."
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