LETTER TO THE HONORABLE OTIS G. PIKE FROM W. E. COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00300R000100030024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 30, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
W ASH I NGTON, D.C. 20505
30 September 1975
The Honorable Otis. G. Pike, Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
With the approval of the President, I am forwarding herewith the
classified material, additional to the unclassified material forwarded
.with my letter of 29 September 1975, which is responsive. to your subpoena
of September 12, 1975. .This is forwarded on loan with the understanding
that there will be no public disclosure of this classified material (nor
of testimony, depositions or interviews concerning it) without a reason-
able opportunity for us to consult with respect to it. In the event of
disagreement, the matter will be referred. to the President. If the
President then certifies in writing. that the disclosure of the material
would be detrimental to the national security of the United States, the
matter will not be disclosed by the Committee, except that the Committee
would reserve its right to submit the matter to .judicial determination.
In some twelve instances in the enclosed classified material,
excisions have been made of particularly sensitive matters. In ten of
these instances, they would pinpoint the identity of individuals who
would be subject to exposure. In two cases, this would violate an
understanding with a foreign government that its cooperation will not be
disclosed. In each such case, Mr. Chairman, I am prepared to discuss
with you, and the Committee if necessary, the specific basis for this
exclusion due to the exceptionally high risk involved, and I am sure
that we can come to a mutual understanding with respect to its continued
secrecy or a form in which its substance could be made available to the
Committee and still give it the high degree of protection it deserves.
In case of disagreement, the matter will be submitted to the President
under the procedure outlined above, and the Committee would of course
.reserve its right to undertake judicial action.
Sincerely,
/s/
Enclosures ~ s
W. E. Colby
Director ~~~UTIO,
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