LETTER TO HONORABLE BIRCH BAYH FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002800070110-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: November 22, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

Central Intelligence Agency
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2 N 9V 1979
Honorable Birch Ba
S
yh, Chairman
elect Committee o
n Intelligence
United States Sena
te
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Chairman:
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Executive Regi2rq
I have been asked by the Counsel to the President to
transmit to you the enclosed copy of the President's letter
to me of 19 September 1978. That letter implements Section
3-403 of Executive Order 12036 by establishing a standard
to be followed in reporting to your Committee "information
relating to intelligence activities that are illegal or
improper and corrective actions that are taken or planned."
I of course will assume responsibility for reporting
to your Committee under the President's standard so far as
concerns activities of CIA.
So far as concerns activities
of other intelligence agencies, i am informed that the
President has sent letters similar to the enclosure to
the Attorney General, relative to the FBI, and to the
Secretary of Defense.
Yours sincerely,
Stans_field Turriag,
Enclosure
STANSFIELD TURNER
cc: Honorable Robert J. Lipshutz
Counsel to the President
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