LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM E. JENNER FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200140127-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: December 3, 1954
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEC 3 1954
The Honorable William E. Jenner
Chairman, Internal Security Subcommittee
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
Washington 25, D. C.
On 4 August 1953, you transmitted to me a copy of the record
of the hearings before the Internal Security Subcommittee in the
case of together with a-copy of a resolu-
tion of your subcommittee requesting the Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency to indicate what portions of the record must
be deleted in the interest of national security if the record were
to be made public. Subsequently, in response to my letter to you
of 5 September 1953, you authorized this Agency to make the record
available to Mr. Scott McLeod of the State Department, under ap-
propriate security safeguards, so that the record might be utilized
in evaluating I uin accordance with the President's Execu-
tive Order 10450 (Security Requirements for Government Em to ees).
The State Department has now completed its evaluation in the
Mr. Sourwine, of your committee staff, has requested the re-
turn of the record, and it is forwarded herewith.
In returning this record to you, I would like to re-emphasize
the statement contained in my letter to you of 5 September 1953,
that this record includes very complete testimony of both present
and former employees of this Agency. This testimony covers highly
classified matters involving the national intelligence effort of the
United States. The importance of this material was recognized by
Chairman McCarran and the subcommittee in classifying both the
hearings and the record as Top Secret. As you have requested, we
have reviewed this record to see what portions should be eliminated
prior to any possible publication, and it is our conclusion that
the security deletions would be so considerable as to render the
remainder of the record comparatively meaningless. Therefore, I
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wish to urge in the strongest terms that this record not be made
public, as, in my opinion, its publication would be detrimental
to the security of the national intelligence effort.
With kindest regards.
Sincerely,
signed
Allen W. Dulles
Director
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