LETTER TO HONORABLE MIKE MANSFIELD FROM GEORGE BUSH

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 20, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable Mike Mansfield
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Mansfield:
On 27 January 1975, following adoption of S. Res. 21 creating the
Select Committee on Intelligence, you and Senator Hugh Scott requested
that the Central Intelligence Agency "not destroy, remove from [its] possession
or control, or otherwise dispose or permit the disposal of any records or
documents which might have a bearing on the subjects under investigation,
including but not limited to all records or documents pertaining in any way
to the matters set out in section 2 of S. Res. 21. "
In response to this request, the Agency placed in effect a complete
moratorium on the destruction of records, including normal administrative
records scheduled for routine destruction.
The purpose of this letter is to advise you that it is our intention to
proceed with destruction of records, now that the Select Committee has
completed its investigation and issued its final report. We have so advised
Senator Church.
Along with the backlog of routine administrative records, the Agency
will destroy records which were collected and maintained by the Agency
and which were subject to investigation by the Rockefeller Commission
and the Select Committee. The Agency is required to destroy much of
this latter material by the Privacy Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-579) and by
Executive Order 1.1905. Of course, all records destruction will be fully
consistent with other applicable laws, Presidential directives, and the
requirements of pending lit.gation and Justice Department investigations.
I trust you agree that this action is now necessary and appropriate.
Sincerely,
George Bush
Director
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