CONVERSATION WITH MR. WILLIAM WOODRUFF, COUNSEL, SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000100020074-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: February 28, 1972
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC-72-0251
28 February 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Mr. William Woodruff, Counsel,
Senate Appropriations Committee
1. Today I met with Mr. Woodruff and he returned to me the answers
which we had prepared to Senator Clifford Case's two questions on Soviet
ICBMs. Woodruff said he discussed with Chairman Ellender the handling
of items at such a sensitive security classification level.
2. The Chairman does not wish to place the Committee staff in the
position of handling information above the secret level on behalf of any of
the members of the Defense Subcommittee. (He does not want the Committee
staff to give members material at extremely sensitive security classification
levels for their personal possession and does not want to place the staff in
a position of having to refuse to provide the member this information if he
should request it.) Therefore, the Chairman has instructed Woodruff to
have the Agency provide the answers to Senator Case's query to the Senator
personally. Woodruff is so notifying Mr. William Mills, of Senator Case's
staff, this afternoon. Woodruff said the Chairman also indicated that in
the future the staff should not accept questions submitted "for the hearing
record" since there is no such record. Members will be required to raise
their questions directly at the hearing.
3. Mr. Maury has raised this issue with the Director who has
instructed us to have Mr. Bruce Clarke reexamine his answer with the
view to providing an answer which is responsive at a secret level. If
that can be accomplished, we will reexamine the possibility of having
this handled through the Committee staff.
Deputy Legislative ounse
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