INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES; MAIL OPENING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400020018-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 21, 1975
• Content Type: TRANS

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Intelligence Committees; Mail Opening
MORTON: The f?louse Intelligence
Committee meets today to discuss Henry
KISSIfdGER's refusal to give it a memo
on U.S. handling of the Cyprus crisis.
And the Senate committee begins
public hearings on the CIA's. practice
of reading mail to and from Americans
abroad. Daniel Schorr reports.
DANIEL SCHORR: When the FBI 'in 1958
gat the idea of reading rr;ail from
Russia, it ran into the CIA which had
been doing it for six years. The CIA
owned up and cut the FBI in an the
operation. 41hen the CIA finally got
around in 1961 to telling a Postmaster
General S~rhat it was doing in the Post
Office, J. Edward- DAY, a KENNEDY
appointee, was quoted as saying that
it was okay to continue Uut he didn't
want to know details. 4lhen the CIA`s
Inspector General in 1960 found out
what was going an, he didn't react with
horror but recorr~ne^ded getting a cover
story ready in case the project was
blown. Later it ~~;.s decided no cover
story could caves ~;- outright criminal
offense. And so it was suggested that
they have a scapegoat ready to blame for
tampering 4vith the rails.
The ROCKEFELLER Commission has plowed
"through this ground, but for the next
three days the Senate Intelligence
Committee wants to da it in public with
.live principals, frcm ex-CIA.Director
Richard HELh1S to ex-Postmasters
General DAY and Jahn GRONOUSKI. It
promises some new disclosures. And
anyway it's something to da while the
committee haggles ti~ri th tide 1Jhi to House
about haw to hold public hearings on
super secret electronic surveillance,
a subject that'~was censored out of the
ROCKEFELLER report. Daniel Schorr,
CBS Ne-,rs, 4tashingtan.
HUGHES RUDD: GIA Director William
COLgY was in New York City last night
for a.speech to the Navy League. And he
took out after congressional investiga-
tions of the intelligence community,
saying they`re intended to amuse ar
every amaze the pub1 ic.
CIA [lIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY: 4!e are
about- to have'aur fifth rerun of the
great mail~~reading story. It first
and terminated this activity in 1973.
It's second playing was in the ROCKE-
FELLE:R Corr~issian report. This was
.followed by a tv spectacular featuring
Mrs. A[3ZUG's indignation. The Post
Office and Civil Service Commission of
the House of Representatives-then
reviewed it. And this creek the Senate
Select Canxnittee wi11 repeat the perfor-
mance in greater detail an live tv.
appeared in my te~~~py~ ~~~~~ ~~'2~005/01/12
oversight corrnnitt Ta`?s~ J nu Ye and -
February: I said that we had reviewed
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