NOTE TO MRS. MARTHA M. DOTY FROM GEORGE L. CARY REGARDING FINAL INSERTIONS FOR THE RECORD OF MR. COLBY'S AUGUST 1, 1974, TESTIMONY ON H.R. 12004

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230007-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 29, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

/ J ) / a,Y
Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230007-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Legislative Counsel
Washington, D. C. 20505
Telephone: [phone] (Code 143-6121)
TO: Mrs. Martha M. Doty, Clerk
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and
Government Information, House Government
Operations Committee
Mrs. Doty--
Here are the final insertions for the
record of Mr. Colby's August 1, 1974,
testimony on H. R. 12004 before the
Subcommittee.
.s
George L. Cary
Legislative Counsel
29 August 1974
FORM 1533 OBSOLETE
6.88 PREVIOUS
ED ITIONS
Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP76M00527R00070023 j Q 210/14/2003
 Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230007-2
Page 375
Answer to Mr. McCloskey's first question:
Practically all of our documents classified in 1973 were
exempted from the General Declassification Schedule.
Answer to Mr. McCloskey's second question:
Of the exempted documents under the Executive Order, none
have been reviewed to determine whether they can be declassified.
These documents are new--the oldest dating back only to
June 1972--and the original classification and exemption
decisions therefore are so recent that declassification review
would not yet be useful.
Answer to Mr. McCloskey's third question:
Less than one percent of the exempted documents have been
stamped for declassification on a given date or event.
Answer to Mr. McCloskey's fourth question:
As all of the original classification and exemption decisions
under the Executive Order are new and have not been reviewed,
we have no experience on which to base an estimate. However,
it seems certain that a review of just one year's exempted
documents would require tens of thousands of manhours.
Pages 415 - 416
Status report on the declassification of CIA documents on the Bay of Pigs
incident:
The request by the New York Times for the documents having to
do with the Bay of Pigs incident was favorably acted upon by the
CIA Information Review Committee, which directed that the material
be reviewed for possible declassification under Executive Order 11652.
Although these materials are voluminous and are dispersed in the
custody of several different Agency offices, it has been directed that
ApOP&L'd=Fi#'Re~&9"?6AM'f/1`K':tb}f'-I,f?5P 4b05r2?fkbMf6b0'I30007-2
 Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230007-3,,,,,. ERLENBORN, ILL.
WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, PA, CHAIRMAN
PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY. JR., CALIF.
JOHN E. MOSS, CALIF. GILBERT GUDE, MD.
TORBERT H. MACDONALD, MASS, CHARLES THONE, NEBR.
JIM WRIGHT, TEX. NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS RALPH S. REGULA, OHIO
BILL ALEXANDER. ARK.
BELLA S. ABZUG, N.Y.
JAMES V. STANTON, OHIO
Q ongre of the niteb itato
ooze of .ep a tntatibeo
FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBCOMMITTEE
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ROOM B-371-B
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
August 5, 1974
Honorable William E. Colby
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Director:
Enclosed is the transcript from the Foreign Operations
and Government Information Subcommittee's hearing on
H. R. 12004, held August 1, 1974.
Please make any necessary grammatical corrections of
your testimony in the transcript and return it, along with
any insertions for the record, to the Subcommittee by
Wednesday, August 21, 1974.
Should there be additional questions to be submitted in
writing for the hearing record, they will be sent to you at
a later date.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
)&,W
. 77i.
Martha M. Doty (Mrs.)
Clerk
Enclosure copy #1
Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230007-2