COLBY SEES DATA COMPROMISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100100039-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: September 28, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/11 : CIA-RDP99-00418R000100100039-9
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28 SEPTEMBER 1975
Congressional Access Dispute
Colby - Sees Data Compromise
By George Lardner Jr. in which he said he was anx- but he suggested that it would, committee 'if it had been will-i
Wa,hin,Zton Post Staff Writer ious to make his views known. I avoid "the ultimate question" ing to wait for him to marshal!
The director of the Central) Pike has said he still plans of who should have the last his argumentsi He said he feltI
Intelligence Agency yesterday, word--the President or-Con- the phrase, pinpointed ours
at a committee meeting Mon-
said he felt the dispute over gress-and would focus in?Iability?to learn certain thingsi
congressional access to gov day to press for a vote of con,
;stead on various ways of re- at certain time" and that
ernment secrets could be set fidence from the full House l leasing disputed information. other countries could use
tied by skirting the "ultimate endorsing the committee's of-I Mr. Ford, Colby said, has, knowledge of this fact to their
question" of who should have forts to secure sentitive infor-, made it plain that there is to own advantage.
the last word in making them mation and testimony from; be no cover-up of any wrqng- Colby said, without offering
public. the executive branch without'! doing or mistakes. The CIA any details, that he has since
William E. Colby said he any conditions attached.. ! director maintained that the satisfied himself there "is a
felt new procedures could be White House and committee only issue is how much detail good basis for the position I
hammered out over the week- aides were working over thel and in what form such infer- took," but that he was simply
end that would satisfy the weekend in an effort to draft I mation is to be disclosed. I unable to convey itI,to the
needs of the 'House intelli-' an agreement that 'might set-I The, dispute with the Pikel committee "in the course of a
gence committee for classified tie the rift. committee . began-.. Sept. 11, single afternoon on the. tele
information and still give the, Colby indicated that various when committee=-, members i phone."
administration ample opportu-I procedures were being studied voted to dee1assifq portions of On Sept. 12, the President
nity to prevent damaging dis- as refinements' of the commit-I a top-secret study showing demanded -the return of all.
closures. tee's 24-hour rule for giving that U.S. intelligence agencies I classified .documents in the
Committee Chairman Otis; notice - to the administration were - "starkly= wrong'? about House committe s hands-an
G. Pike (D-N.Y.) said after a 'before. voting to, make any ! the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Sev=. ultimatum . aC has` so 'far
meeting with President Ford documents public. ' ?- . I era! 'phrases ':Weree deleted at; been Ignored,. Mr.' Ford also!
Friday that they were still "a I Reportedly, the President! Colby's.request4?,but-.the com?_.,.vowed: -.to: p+,gduce; moxeff
long way" from settling the' might agree to . review person- mittee efbsed "to sttppress~ :classified hIfdrmatix or testi-i
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