LETTER TO GENERAL COUNSEL FROM GENE F. WILSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R006700040013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 5, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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General Counsel
Harvard University
Dear Sir:
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your request made't-O-Mr.,-a-Fred,Schwartz for a list of all mail
that CIA opened where Harvard was listed ds?the addressee_or _
addressor.
I have started processing your request under the Freedom
of Information Act and anticipate being able to respond to your
request shortly. So that I may address my response correctly
and assure its prompt delivery to you, I would appreciate a
short acknowledgement from you of this letter.
Sincerely,
/S/ GFW
Gene F. Wilson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
?IPS/WJT/gk (11-5-75)
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
October 28, 1975
Mitchell Rogovin, Esq.
Arnold & Porter
MASSACHUSETTS HALL
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138
[phone]
Dear Mr. Rogovin:
As I have not heard from you subsequent to your conversation
with Fritz Schwarz about the opening of Harvard mail by the CIA,
I thought it might be useful if I wrote you. The matter is of
serious concern to the University, and we would like to resolve
it as quickly as possible.
There are a few questions for which we would appreciate re-
ceiving answers. First, we would like to know with some speci-
ficity what Harvard mail was opened and when it was opened. (By
"Harvard mail" I mean any item mailed to someone in a University
building.) Second, we would like to know why Harvard mail was
opened and what legal basis, if any, existed for this practice.
Finally, we would like to know What assurances we can receive from
the CIA on whether the practice (or any kind of surveillance of
our mail) is continuing today and, if not, whether it will occur
again in the future.
Sincerely,
Daniel Steiner
General Counsel
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