LETTER TO THE HONORABLE JOHN O. PASTORE FROM W. E. COLBY DIRECTOR

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• Publication Date: January 22, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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22 Janua 1975
The Honorable John O. Pastore
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
Dear Senator Pastore:
Following up on our conversation and noting in the Record the
text of your Senate Resolution 21 proposing a Select Committee on
Intelligence, I would like to urge that the Resolution itself be amended
to contain clear language stressing the importance of retaining the
secrecy of the many delicate matters the Select Committee would be.
empowered to investigate.
It is clear that a certain amount of the material can be general
.ized or can be made public, but the intelligence activities of our
Government are currently under considerable handicaps due to the
extensive leakage of intelligence sources and methods in a variety of
ways. I -would certainly expect any Select Committee to be particularly
responsible on this subject, but I earnestly recommend tInt the language
of the Resolution make a particular point of this responsibility in order
to reinforce its impact among temporary employees, staff assistants,
etc..
Sincerely,
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W. F. Colby
Director
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Stennis' amendment to the Pastore Resolution - passed 27 January 1975
Section 4. The select committee shall institute and carry out
such rules and procedures as it may deem necessary to prevent (1) the
disclosure, outside the select committee, of any information relating to
the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency or any other department
or agency of the Federal Government engaged in intelligence activities,
obtained by the select committee during the course of its study and
investigation, not specifically authorized by the select committee to
be disclosed, and (2) the disclosure, outside the select committee,
of any information which would adversely affect the intelligence activities
of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign countries or the intelligence
activities in foreign countries of any other department or . agency of
the Federal Government.
There were two other amendments: one had to do with no honorariums
the other with security clearances for staff members.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 22 January 1975
I advised the Director of my conversation
last night with airman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee, House
Armed Services Committee, regarding the Director's meeting with Chairman
Moorhead, House Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign Operatior5X1
and Government Information, on Thursday, 23 January 1975.
Committee staff, and advised him we were sending him a copy (for the
Chairman) of an unclassified version of "A Dollar Cost Comparison of Soviet 25X1
and US Defense Activities. " I also told McConnell that Jack lams had advised
me that OMB would be sending the Committee a letter regarding the
transfer for pay costs.
4? I I Called Jack Ticer, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, and told him that after yesterday's briefing, Senator Stuart
Symington asked me for the copy of the 12 September 1974 transcript of the
Director's briefing on Chile. I asked Ticer if they had the transcript and he
said he would ask Ed Braswell, of the Committee staff, to get it from the
Chairman. I told Ticer, and later, Braswell, that I will inform Symington
the Chairman has it and I had passed the request on to the Committee staff.
5- Talked with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, about the letter the Director is sending to Senator
v1ohn Pastore concerning the Senator's Resolution to establish a select committee
on intelligence. Braswell expressed some concern that the letter would "tip off"
w mmittee was doing. regarding an amendment to the Resolution.
After some discussion it was agreed we would go ahead and send the letter with
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OLC 75-0129
21 January 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Russ Rourke, White House Staff, re the
Pastore Resolution to Create a Select Committee on Intelligence
. Today I called Russ Rourke to alert him to the Pastore Resolution to
create a Select Committee on Intelligence. I asked if anyone there was
keeping an eye on this. Rourke said not that. he was aware of. I told him
it could pose problems formuch of the Executive Branch since it will get
into everything that has anything to do with intelligence--CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
I said I didn't know if there were any constitutional issues involved but it
might be worth checking. I also pointed out that Chairman John Stennis,
Senate Armed Services Committee, had fought the Resolution in the
Democratic Caucus but lost. Rourke asked what they can do about it and I
replied the only possible thing would be to get a constitutional handle on it.
I said another question is who will be on the Committee. I told Rourke that
we are very concerned about the security aspects of the Committee's inquiry.
I told'Rourke we also are concerned about the reports under the Foreign
Assistance Act to the Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs Committees and
we are trying to get things buttoned up with these two Committees. I said
all this was worth Jack Marsh's attention and even further up the line.
Rourke said he would brief Marsh as soon as he returns this evening. I
said I would send a copy of the Pastore Resolution over to him in the
morning.
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