LETTER TO WILLIAM CASEY FROM EDWARD P. BOLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001602730013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 25, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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EDWARD P. BLLANO. MASS. CHAIRMAN
CLEMENT 1 ZABLOCKI. WIS.
ROMANO L MAZZOUI KY.
NORMAN Y. XKINETA CALIF.
WYCHE FOWLER. JR. GA.
LEE H. HAMILTON. IND.
ALBERT GORE. JR. TENN.
LOUIS STOKES, OHIO
DAVE MCCURDY. OKLA.
J. KENNETH ROBINSON. VA.
G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST. VA
C. W. BILL YOUNG. FLA.
BOB STUMP, ARM
WILLIAM F. GOOOLNG. PA.
THOMAS K. LAT)MER, STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. ONEIL CHIEF COUNSEL
PATRICK d LONG. ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE
March.25, 1983
Honorable William Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
(mom H-WE. U.S. Crr o
[phone]
Dear Mr.. Casey:
The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has been asked to
investigate the relationship of the U.S. Government - particularly U.S.
intelligence agencies - to Klaus Barbie. Recent newspaper accounts assert
that U.S. Army intelligence officials used Barbie as an agent and later
.assisted him between 1947 and 1951 in evading French efforts to try him for
war crimes he committed as chief of the Gestapo in Lyon during World War II..
The Committee is interested in establishing what relationship:, if any,
existed between the U.S. Government. and Barbie from the end of World War II
until his 1983 extradition to France from Bolivia, and how and by whom
decisions concerning Barbie were reached. The Committee will wish to
specifically address what U.S. Government agencies knew about Barbie, when
they knew it, and what they did, or did not do, in light of this knowledge.
Based on its staff's preliminary inquiries about Barbie, the Committee
would expect to focus its interest, and any future hearings, on how the U.S.
relationship to Barbie and his associates was considered, approved and
reviewed, and how such procedures contrast with current policies and practice.
Your assistance and cooperation in the Committee's efforts will be
important. I therefore ask that you make available to the Committee all
records under your jurisdiction which refer to Barbie or his post-v,ar
intelligence net or any other material which falls within the scope of the
Committee's investigation. The Committee requests that you include within the
ambit of your response any archival matter concerning Barbie of which you are
aware, whether or not it falls within your jurisdiction. Finally, the
Committee wishes to receive assistance in locating present or former
intelligence officials who may have had dealings with or knowledge of Barbie
during the period in question.
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The Committee will be conducting its study in such a way as to minimize
conflicts with the study effort being undertaken by the Department of Justice,
whose assistance the Committee has requested in this connection.
With every good wish, I am
cc: Mr. Alan A.-Ryan, Jr.
Department of Justice
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