LETTER TO HONORABLE FRANK CHURCH FROM W. E .COLBY

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: February 13, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
Select Committee To Study Governmental
Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
I have your letter of 11 February 1975 asking that the material
provided by this Agency to Senator Howard Baker and which is now
being stored in the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy be transferred
to your Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
Respect to Intelligence Activities. I have no objection to the transfer
of the material under appropriate security safeguards.
I should point out, however, that several days ago I also
received a letter from Mr. David Belin, Executive Director,
President's Commission on CIA Activities Within the United
States, concerning access to this material. It was my understanding
that Senator Baker felt he could not release the material to the
Commission without authorization from me. Accordingly, I advised
Senator Baker that I had no objection to the release of that material
to the Commission. Copies of this exchange of correspondence are
enclosed.
Please be assured of my interest in cooperating with the Select
Committee. I would suggest, however, that the desires of both the
Commission and your Select Committee with regard to this material
be the subject of discussion and agreement between your Committee
and the Commission. If I can be of any further assistance, please let
{ me know.
Sincerely,
W. F. Colby
Director
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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO
CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD.
CO-CHAIRMEN
PHILIP A. HART, MICH. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J.
CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. JAMES B. PEARSON, KANS.
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WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
THOMAS A. DINE, PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER
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February 11, 1975
Mr. William E. Colby
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
At our first organizational meeting last week the Select
Committee, by unanimous vote, agreed to a proposal put forward
by Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee that the so-called CIA
files from the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
now under the custody of Senator Baker by agreement with the
Central Intelligence Agency be transferred to the custody of
the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect
to Intelligence Activities. These files are now stored in the
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
I would be most grateful to you if you would formally acknowledge
the transfer of these files to the Select Committee. For the time
being, the Select Committee would leave the files in the secure
area of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. I have conferred
with Senator Pastore on this matter and he has agreed to keep the
files in the secure area in the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
until such time as the Select Committee has proper storage
facilities.
With kind regards,
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
11 FEB 197.'
Mr. David W. Belin, Executive Director
Commission on CIA Activities Within
the United States
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Belin:
Enclosed is a copy of a release to
Senator Baker concerning the CIA material
in the custody of Mr. George Murphy.
Sincerely,
At w' 'E. Colby
W. E. Colby
Director
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Honorable Howard H. Baker
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
11 FE9 1,975
Dear Senator Baker:
In connection with a request that I have received from
Mr. David W. Belin, Executive Director of the Commission on
CIA Activities Within the United States, this is to advise that I
have no objection to the release to the Commission of the
documentation which was provided to you during the Watergate
hearings concerning CIA activities and which is now in the custody
of Mr. George Murphy of the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy.
Sincerely,
cc: Mr. David Belin
Mr. George Murphy
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W. E. Colby
Director
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