SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS' REVIEW OF MATERIAL REFERENCING PANAMA LEAKS

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: May 8, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE. RECORD
SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee on Ethics' Review of
Material Referencing
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1. At 1000 hours, 5 May 1978, Messrs..John Marshall and
Julian Englestad, staffers of the Senate Select Committee on
Ethics, visited Headquarters in connection with the requests
from this Committee referencing the
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9 March and 7 April 1978. Present a so were
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OLC/C&R, and the undersigned. These staffers came vice
Mr. Don Sanders, Special Counsel, as originally planned.
2. Messrs. Marshall and Englestad are new personalities
on the scene in this case as far as CIA is concerned. They
stated they were formerly with the FBI, and Mr.' Marshall said
he had previously worked with Mr, George Cary on another leaks
investigation.
.3. These staffers were read the replies to the memoran-
dum of request dated 9 March. The only question they had
relating to this information was. why they would not be meeting
with former Chiefs of Station, etc. per paragraphs 6 and 7 of
the Sanders memorandum. It was explained that, in some cases,
the Chiefs of Station are under cover, and that since it is
not the Agency which is being investigated, in this case, we
preferred to protect the identity of these employees and that
this was the procedure in the Memorandum of Understanding
agreed to by CIA and the Committee. It was reiterated that
we would be happy to pass any questions the Committee might.
have to these individuals and provide the Committee with the
replies as received from them. They accepted this, but did
not ask.that thi.s be done at this time. (It appears, however,
that their interest is in asking these officers about whether
they had passed any information on the
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4. Referencing Tab A, the staffers were shown this
further sanitized version of the material. Messrs.
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SSCI members or staffers should be sanitized out, but they
would be provided orally should the staffers feel this
information was essential. Mr. Sanders agreed to this
procedure; in fact, the staffers did ask for a number of the
names, and they were provided. (Those provided are marked by
an "X" in the. Tab A sanitized version.)
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5. Referencing Tab B material, the staffers asked whether
these were all. of the inquiries from the press on the Panama
items. In this connection, they also asked whether the Public
Affairs office keeps a record of all media requests. They were
told that we believe this to be all media inquiries applicable
to the request, however, OLC will double check this with the
Public Affairs office for the period 13-29 September 1977.
6. Messrs. Marshall and Englestad were advised that their
notes would be classified prior to leaving the Headquarters
building and that per the Memorandum of Understanding, we would
not review the notes. They were told that each sheet of paper
containing notes would receive the highest classification of
the notes on that page. They were given the classification
stamps and did their own classifying, but from observation, it
appeared that this was done correctly. The notes then were
sealed in an envelope to be placed unopened inside another
envelope and sent to them via courier by OLC.
7. The staffers were also advised that their notes should
not be verbatim copies of the documents. (They also understood
that they could not have xerox copies of the documents.)
Mr. Marshall took copious notes, but since we do not review the
notes, we have no way of telling whether they were verbatim.
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4 October 1977. This information has been passed to OLC,
We will attempt to obtain a copy of the
article from.t e library and make it available to the Senate
Ethics Committee.
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