LETTER TO HONORABLE ROBERT MORGAN FROM FRANK C. CARLUCCI

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• Publication Date: March 31, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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3 1 MAR 1978
Honorable Robert Morgan, Chairman
Select Committee on Ethics Subcommittee
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Honorable Harrison H. Schmitt
Vice Chairman
Select Committee on Ethics Subcommittee
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
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Thank you for your letter to Admiral Turner of 15 March 1978,
regarding recent requests by your Special Counsel for a damage assessmen.t
and other material relating to unauthorized disclosures of intelligence
information .
Admiral Turner and I are.most appreciative of the Ethics Committee's
effort
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m increasingly concerned over ullb
I/,- e nave amoun o sensitive intelligence information that has been disclosed without
authorization in the news media and elsewhere recently, and we intend
to cooperate with you in the pursuit of your investigations. The assessment
of damage resulting from a article .25)
was delivered as requested to your Special Counsel 25X1
We appreciate the difficult and complex task of investigating unauthorized
disclosures without contributing to the risk of further disclosures in the
process. This is one of the compelling reasons why access to sensitive
information should be governed by a clear and demonstrable need for the
information in the pursuit of the investigation. In this connection, your
Special Counsel's willingness to clarify the relevance of several requests
for such access is appreciated.
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 I arts confident that both your Subcommittee's requir~eents and the
DCI's responsibilities for protecting intelligence sources and methods
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the I]CI last November in connection with the Ethics Committee's II
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a set of general principles and procedures as was accomp1is , bi
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onz unauthorized disclosure can be met, -and our mutual, interest
in eliminating unauthorized disclosures furthered. In this regard,
I believe that our mutual interests would be served by agreeing
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DCI's signature. Executive Registry has no record
of either the 9 Mar or the 3 Feb Request from the
Committee on Ethics mentioned in the first. para.
of the attached letter.
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Acting Legislative Counsel
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On 28 March you signed a
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letter to Senators Morgan and
Schmitt who compose a Special
Ethics Subcommittee to investi-
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gate possible unauthorized
disclosures in the Senate I 2
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called and convinced me that the
letter we had recommended you
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sign was too barbed and by
OLC (for hanSl jk'r.
inference did an injustice to
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I have revised the 28 March
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letter an
recommen
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at you
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sign it and we will substitute it
for the one now in the Special
Counsel's hands. It retains the
principles of the earlier letter.
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This was coordinated with
IG, OGC and
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The attached letter
Acting DCI
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responds to Senators Robert
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Morgan (D., N.C.) and
Harrison H. Schmitt
(R., N. Mex.), who wrote to
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the DCI to reiterate a staff
request for CIA material
~LC_ MA~LiN
wanted in connection with
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Ethics Subcommittee
investigations of unauthorized
disclosures of intelligence
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information. The reply
expresses a desire to be
cooperative, cautions
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against the possibility of su
investigations themselves
jeopardizing sources and
methods, and suggests the
execution of a Memorandum of
Understanding between the
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Subcommittee and the DCI.
The idea of a Memorandum of
Understanding has already
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been discussed with the
Subcommittee's Special
Counsel, who said he would
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not object if we thought
it necessary.
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This letter has been
coordinated with OGC, IG, and
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Pat and I have met with Ethics Subcommittee Special Counsel
Don Sanders. The Morgan/Schmitt Subcommittee is charged with carrying
out the Ethics Committee's responsibilities regarding unauthorized
disclosures, and we are thus likely to have a continuing relationshi O
(The DCI's letter to SSCI Chairman Bayh on the 2 X
leak could, for example, prompt a referral to Ethics, and hence to
Sanders). We think a Memorandum of Understanding with the Morgan/
Schmitt Subcommittee is essential, and the attached Acting DCI respons
to the Senators' letter suggests this. Such a MOU would, incidentally,
provide another opportunity to attempt to establish OLC as an ILLS If
intelligence community focal point. Background material is attached
for your information.
(in draft)
Routing sheet for your signature and forward to Acting DCI
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