LETTER TO WILLIAM E. COLBY FROM FRANK CHURCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B02992A000100010002-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 22, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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JOHN G. TO E , TEXAS. VICE CHAIR
PHILIP A. HART. MICH. HOWARD H. BA 1., TENN.
WALTER F. MONDALE. MINN. BARRY GDLDWRIZ.
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., MD.
ROBERT MORGAN, H.C. RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.
GARY HART, COLO.
WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
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SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO G. RES. at, 94TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, Q.C. 20510
Honorable William E. Colby
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
September 22, 1975
Dear Director Colby:
To fulfill the mandate of Senate Resolution 21 in the field of
foreign intelligence, the Senate Select Committee will begin hearings
in October to define the principal policy issues for the Congress
and the public and to consider new national security legislation and
oversight arrangements as they relate to intelligence.
We will begin with hearings on covert action and raise the
general question of whether it should be permitted, and if so, under
what rules and constraints. We would like to introduce this subject
through executive session briefings from the CIA and NSC on the U.S.
covert action program, its purposes, techniques, and budgetary im-
plications, and how covert actions contribute to U.S. foreign policy
goals and national security.
We are writing you to ask you to appear before the Committee on
Wednesday morning October 22 in its first hearing on covert action to
discuss the CIA covert action program and how such activities are
initiated, approved, and monitored.
incerely y7 rs ,`
Frank Church
Chairman
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TO DCI
FROM Senators Church and Tower
SUBJ.Re hearings to begin in October to
define the principal policy issues for t
Congress and to consider new national sec
legislation and oversight arrangements
as they relate to intelligence.
ER 75-8592
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