REVIEW OF AGENCY MATERIAL BY THE STAFF OF THE MORGAN-SCHMITT SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS SUBCOMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003300130083-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: May 5, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC 78-1462/2
5 May 1978
Subject: Review of Agency Material By The Staff of the Morgan-Schmitt
Senate Select Committee on Ethics Subcommittee
5X1 1. ^ On 5 May 1978, Messrs. John Marshall and Julian Englestad,
on the staff of the Morgan-Schmitt Senate Select Committee on Ethics
Subcommittee, visited Headquarters to review Agency material provided in
response to the Subcommittee's requests of 9 March and 7 April 1978
concerning an unauthorized disclosure of intelligence information concerning
Panama which occurred in the Fall of 1977.
25X1 2. ^ Messrs. Marshall and Englestad reviewed sanitized OLC
Journal items and Memoranda For the Record related to the incident in
question. In accordance with an understanding reached the previous day
between Acting Legislative Counsel and Subcommittee Special
Counsel Donald Sanders, the Subcommittee staffers were provided with the
names of Senate personalities alluded to in the sanitized material upon
certification that such identification was necessary to the Subcommittee's
investigation.
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3. ^ The staffers questioned the paucity of records of press
inquiries to the Agency during the period 13-29 September 1977. The
undersigned said that the records of the Office of Public Affairs would be
re-checked to ensure that all pertinent material had been provided.
25X1 4. ^ The staffers asked for help in identifying a foreign press
article relating to the unauthorized disclosure. They were told that we
would endeavor to be of assistance.
25X1 5. The meeting was cordial and the staffers seemed appreciative
of the ma erial provided. Messrs. Marshall and Englestad said that the
Agency information. had helped to fill certain gaps in the Subcommittee's
investigation. The undersigned told the staffers that additional material
might become available shortly, and that the Subcommittee would be contacted
if this proved to be the case.
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6. Subsequent to the meeting, the additional material did
become ble. A check with Public Affairs revealed that there had
been a misunderstanding of the Subcommittee's inquiry, and that all pertinent
records had not in fact been produced. The press item mentioned by
the Subcommittee was identified. Later in the afternoon of 5 May, the
undersigned called Mr. Englestad to pass on these facts. It was agreed
that the staffers would return to Headquarters at a future date to review
the additional material.
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