DEAR SENATOR RUSSELL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000100170073-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: January 19, 1962
• Content Type: LETTER

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Armed fie rvi ce s Committee
Dear Senator Russell:
This morni Senator Symington called my attention to a
made by Senator Wayne Morse yesterday in which he
a Drew Pearson Column of January 17, a portion of whi
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relating to Sherman Adams apparently has not been printed by
papers carrying Pearson,* material. The essence of the article
was that I de, -ded upon; the opinion of Sherman Adams for A
judgment on conflict-of-intersect matters and, since in Pearson'*
ePWon Orman Adams since been disc.redhted, his opinion
On this both delicate and important matter was subject to question.
The bake of the article is typical Pearson them,&, an of which
was discussed yesterday and on any prior occasions and does
t b
y me in this letter.
veer, for your information, the procedure established
"bower Adminiatration was one under ,aehi Shernum
Special Assistant to President Xis enhower re, uested th
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Attorney General to examine the personal affairs of a candidate and
reader a written opinion as to whether c+ ict-of-iInterest existed.
4=9 was done in My Casee. It Was not Sherman Adams but the
Department Of Justice which xuaO the finding. This was A---
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Writ over the signature of the Assistant Attorney General, office
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vemprehensive. At the time of my AIC confirmation hearings I
asked for and received permission to release to the joint Committee
the Attorney General's report which, as a procedural matter, was
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