LETTER TO HONORABLE ELMER B. STAATS FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002000040043-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: December 28, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable Elmer B. Staats
Comptroller General of the United States
General Accounting Office
Wash ngton, D. C. 20548-
Dear -Mr. Staats:
letters careful consideration.
as your interest in further .ormation on and I have given these
I have your recent letters relating to our previous correspondence
on the subject of the handling of 'sensitive intelligence information as well
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As I have indicated in my previous letters, I fully appreciate your 25X1
t, x sibilities and,' to the extent feasible, I have authorized cooperation
_....k....,..~~~;.>e~ rZe7m aral Acrrnnnfiw Office in an effort to assist
~enr 44, -n + r A -nrf fPP1 Y can extend that cooperation to the point of .=
tiding highly sensitive intelligence information in compartmented
tegories. This is particularly true of additional documentary data that
As you point out, we have provided a substantial amount of
information to your representatives on II In. addition, we have
cooperated directly tivith a number of committees and members. of Congress
who have. an interest in this subject. This includes the Energy Subcommittees
of the House Committees on Commerce and Interior, the Intelligence and. -25X1
Military Application of Nuclear Energy of the House Armed Services
Committee, as well as several individual representatives, and the Energy - - ?
Subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. I understand.
that additional committees or subcommittees of the Congress are-also -
expressing a desire for access to information on this subject.
Signer
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continue to locate as-: dve search our files.
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I would appreciate your forbearance and u x derstanding of the xxeed for V e
In view of these recent developments, I have concluded that furtherr
proliferation of sensitive intelligence information related,to the
matter, except to the four comrnittees of Congress specifically responsible"
for intelligence oversight, is not in the beat interests of our national securfty,:
Therefore, in recognition of the statutory responsibility imposed upon me,
/.sf S'~ aas fe .d 7~ux'a~e
STANSFIELI TURNER
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