DCI RESPONSE TO 'ISSUES AND ANSWERS' PAPER NUMBER 7

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2004
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• Publication Date: November 19, 1975
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DCI/IC 75-3861
19NOV 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Strategic Research, DDI
SUBJECT : DCI Response to "Issues and Answers"
Paper Number 7
1. Reference is the paper, "Provision of Substantive
Intelligence to the Congress, " dated 4 November, which you drafted
in response to ''Issues and Answers" topic No. 7.
2. Mr. Colby returned the paper on 14 November with the
note: "good paper. "
3. He proposed addition of these two sentences to
paragraph 6:
"This argument is weakened, of course, by broad
dissemination of the same information throughout the
Executive Branch. Also, the institution of an agreed
system for the handling, protection and declassification
of such material in the Congress could materially reduce
this problem. "
4. He also added a new conclusion as follows:
"(3) Assure development of an agreed system under
which the Congress will handle and protect the intelligence
information which is made available. "
5. Since the DCI's "good paper" note was at the end of the
"Recommendations" paragraph, I consider he accepted what we
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proposed, which was essentially a "wait and see" position. In
my view, no further action need be taken on the paper at this
time.
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(18 November 1975)
/s/ Samuel V. Wilson
Samuel V. Wilson
Lieutenant General, USA
Chairman, Action Plan Task Grour)
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