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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300050079-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: March 25, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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OLC 75--061?/A
? 25 March,. 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR Deputy Dire ctor-lor.Administr,ation
Geofge 7.. Cazy
1. =-I called Pat Holt, Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations
Cornrnittee, 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 hirector 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 .:,umn-ait conference _
between the U. S. and the Soviet Union.
In.response to my query, Mr. Holt said thct request to the
Committee came froma graduate student whose name 11o1L 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.t:he Con.i.rnittee
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 Holt said it should.
3. 1 understand from the A/DDS&T that Dr. Dryden of.NA.SA has,
received a similar request from the Committee regarding testimony given
by NASA representatives on this sam
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Request from Senate Foreign Relation_,-;
Committee for Declassification of the
Testimony of Allen.Dull ks on. 31 May 1960
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