LETTER TO ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER FROM BIRCH BAYH AND BARRY GOLDWATER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 19, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Director Turner:
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (pursuant
to S. Res. 400, 94th Cong.), and its predecessor, the
Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
Respect to Intelligence Activities, (pursuant to S. Res- 21,
.94th Cong.) has exchanged with your Agency considerable
information and documents of a very sensitive nature.
For historical and practical reasons, this exchange of
information and documents is an essential part of the
,consultative and deliberative process between the two
branches. It is essential that this process 4.c.- nt.n::a if
this Committee is to discharge its obl igationa to the U.S.
Senate and the American people. When this Committee com-
pletes its - work in an area, a determ .nation will be made
according to the applicable Senate Rules as to what infor-
mation can and should be released to the public, after a
careful weighing of all the relevant considerations.
Consistent with this approach, strict securit'Y procedures
are in effect for a.11 of the Committee's intelligence records.
The Committee recognizes that from time to time certain
congressional materials currently in. the physical custody
of your Agency, coi;t1d become the subject of requests by the
public for release. For example, the material requested
could include material and information originating with
this Committee and its predecessor, or material prepared
for the Committee in response to its express interests, or
any material resulting from specific questions put to your
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Agency. It is the Committee's view that Committee
material and information should not be disclosed outside
of your Agency unless the Committee has reviewed the
material and voted release of such material. Should you
desire to release any SSCI material for any purpose, we
request that you obtain this Committee's apprwoal in
writing prior to making. such a release.
Sincerely,
Birch Bayh
Chairman
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