LETTER TO HONORABLE FRANK CHURCH, CHAIRMAN FROM W. E. COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A003100010004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 15, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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OLC 74-0386/A
t !;; 1974
Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
S ubcommittee on Multi :ation:.l Corporations
Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate
7ashington, D. C. 20510
Upon receipt of your letter of 6 March 1974, I called for the
Agency reports in 1967 and 1968 which you identified and have personally
reviewed them.
While I want to cooperate with you and your Subcommittee in
every way possible, these reports involve sensitive sources whti mutt
be protected for reasons which I discussed in my appearance before
the Subcommittee on 12 March 1974.
it would be helpful to me . at gm-ging to respond to youl%--Interest
if you could specify the problem STAT
which is of concern to you. Perhaps I could then provide you with a
summary of the pertinent portions of these reports. I am also quite
?.: illing to make the reports available to Senator John Stennis and
Senator John McClellan should you wish to discuss the matter with them.
Sincerely,
/s/ W. E. Colby
Distribution:
V.I. E. Colby
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