LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM LEE H. HAMILTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R001802780035-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: August 20, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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Remarks
To 13: Please prepare response for DCI signature
drawing the Congressman's attention to the fact
that CIA is not in a position to determine what
activity the NSC is involved in nor what its
legal justification might be.
FACCUTIve ecre ary
22 Aug 85
STAT
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LEE h`. HA' 7ILTON, INDIANA, CHAIRMAN ROOM H-405. U.S. CAPITOL
202)228-4121
LOUIS STWKES OHIO
DAVE ' LaCURDY. OKLAHOMA
ANTHONY C. BEILENSON. CALIFORNIA
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER. WISCONSIN
DAN DANIEL. VIRGINIA
ROBERT A. ROE, NEW JERSEY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GEORGE E. BROWN. JR.. CALIFORNIA
MATTHEW F. MCHUGH. NEW YORK PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
BERNARD J. DWYER. NEW JERSEY ON INTELLIGENCE
BOB STUMP. ARIZONA
ANDY IRELAND, FLORIDA
HENRY J. HYDE. ILLINOIS
DICK CHENEY. WYOMING
BOB LIVINGSTON, LOUISIANA
BOB MCEWEN. OHIO
THOMAS K. LATIMER. STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. O'NEIL. CHIEF COUNSEL
STEVEN K. BERRY. ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
August 20, 1985
Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear W. Casey:
Recent press accounts of the alleged activities by the National Security
Council regarding the contras in Nicaragua raise some questions.
If the NSC did engage in actions that supported the military activity of
the contras, I am curious about what actions were taken by the NSC to support
the activities of the contras during the period after the enactment of the
Boland amendment and before its recent modification.
I would like to receive a full report on the kinds of activities regarding
the contras that the NSC carried out and what the legal justification is for
such actions given the legislative prohibitions that existed last year and
earlier this year.
With best wishes, I am
Lee H. Hamilton
Chairman
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