DECLASSIFICATION OF THE MURPHY COMMISSION TRANSCRIPT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A001000060006-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 25, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC 74-0927
25 January 1974
,SUBJECT: Declassification of the Murphy Commission
Transcript
1. The attached transcript reflects the views of the DDI,
DDO, and DDS&T on what would have to be deleted to make the
subject transcript unclassified. There are a few areas in
which it is clear that the subject matter is now classified,
but in which the directorates are willing to have the DCI make
his remarks unclassified if he should choose to do so. They
are as follows:
a. On page 9, the first full paragraph beginning
with "That was a way of expressing the charge of conducting
espionage..." Is there today a good reason to deny that
the US has a mechanism for directing the conduct of espionage?
b. On page 14, the first full paragraph on the page.
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c. On page 57, beginning in the first paragraph with
"This, of course, is why we got into the war in Laos..." and
carrying through the middle of page 58; then picking up again
after certain deletions on page 58 with the paragraph "When
the cease fire was arranged last January..." and carrying
to Mr. Murphy's first question on page 59. This section
describes how CIA got into the Laos war, etc. Can some or
all of this go into the open record to begin to set matters
straight?
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e. On page 101, the paragraph about mid-page which
begins "What happened in 1959 was that a General in the
Cambodian Army..." through page 102 as marked. This is
the story of why Sihanouk thinks we tried to overthrow
him in 1959, and it seems that this would be a good story
to have out in the open. DCI choice.
2. All other sections underlined in red should be con-
sidered by the Commission as classified TOP SECRET.
3. I reccsmnend that the matters in paragraph 1 above
be referred to the DCI, along with the attached letter to the
Commission from him. I can deliver the letter and mark the
Commission transcript next week.
MI/ICI-4Ic
Attachments:
1. Murphy Commission Testimony (notebook)
2. Letter from DCI to the Commission
ICI/IC/CS/
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