LETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN SYMMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001800100056-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 25, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506
January 25, 1978
Mr. Ben Evans
Executive Secretary
Central Intelligence Agency
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SUBJECT: Letter for Congressman Symms
The attached is being forwarded for response
by the DCI.
Christine Dodson
Staff Secretary
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 24, 1978
Dear Congressman Symms:
Your letter to the President of December 27, 1977
has been referred to Admiral Turner. I understand
that he has already testified before the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the
matter of concern to you.
v
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Honorable Steve Symms
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
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COMMITTEE ON
INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
December 27, 1977
President Jimmy Carter
White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Carter,
LEWIS-CLARK HOTEL
LEWISTON, IDAHO 83501
. 209-743-1492
This letter is in regard to your administration's
plans to continue cuts in operational personnel at the
C.I.A.
I wish to express my extreme concern and dismay
over these continuing cuts. I am aware that these cuts
are being effected at a time when Soviet KGB and GRU
operational activities are expanding at an unprecedented
rate. Accordingly, I am requesting the House Intelligence
Committee conduct a review of your administration's actions
in light of the aforementioned reasons. To denude our op-
erational intelligence capability at this time would, be un-
wise and would signal a lack of resolve on our part.
Furthermore, should this cut continue in spite of my
cautioning, I will call for your administration to show its
sincerity by effecting proportional cuts in other Federal
agencies such as HEW, HUD, DOT, etc.
Steve Symms
Member of Congress
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