REQUEST FROM SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE FOR DECLASSIFICIATION OF THE TESTIMONY OF ALLEN DULLES ON 31 MAY 1960

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• Publication Date: March 25, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director #or Administration
Request from Senate Foreign Relations
Committee for Declassification of the
Testimony of Allen Dulles on 31 May 1960
1. I called Pat Holt, Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, today about his letter to the Director of 20 March. 1975
regarding a request. the Committee has received for access to the
testimony of CIA Director Allen Dulles on 31 May 1960. This testimony
concerns the shooting down of the U-2 aircraft piloted by Gary Powers
and the impact this incident had on the proposed summit conference
between the Z.J. S. and the Soviet Union.
2. In.response to my query, Mr. Holt said the request to the Committee came from a graduate student whose name Holt could not
recall offhand but who he believed was from Georgia. Mr. Holt said
this student has asked the Committee for access to all Committee
documents concerning the U-2 incident and although. the Committee
normally declassifies its executive session testimony after twelve years,
in this case they wanted to have the approval of the Agency before going
through this procedure. Mr. Holt said he has made other requests to
the Defense Department and the State Department. I said I assumed
from this conversation that Mr. Holt felt it should be treated as an
FOI request and Halt said it should.
3. I understand from the A/DDS&T that Dr. Dryden of NASA has
received a similar request from the Committee regarding testimony given
by NASA representatives on this same incident in the_saame timc-fra.rnr-
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PAT M. HOLY. CHIEF OF STAFF
ARTHUR M. KUHL. CHIEF CLERK
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
March 20, 1975
The Honorable William E. Colby
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Colby:
The Committee on Foreign Relations has received
a request for access to an executive session of May 293;1
1960, at which time Allen W. Dulles testified on the
Summit Conference of May, 1960. This transcript is
classified TOP SECRET. Unless the Agency has any
objections, the Committee will make this transcript
available to the interested party.
Thank you for your early consideration of this
matter.
Sincerely yours,
Enclosure
Classified
Pat M. Holt
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