LETTER TO HONORABLE DANIEL K. INOUYE FROM E. H. KNOCHE

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1976
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Ho >c cable Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman
; e1.e t Corntnittce on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, U. C. 2.051.0
Dear Mr. Chairman:
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During my 23 September 1976 briefing of the Select Committee on the
subject of international terrorism, I requested that the transcript of that
session receive special handling. You agreed in principle. Members of Aay
staff have identified certain portions of the transcript which are of such
sensitivity that I must ask that they be deleted from the Committee's
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gene cal descriptions have been substituted. . ask that you direct that all
Committee copies of these original transcript pages be destroyed. I have
.directed that these paves in the Agency's copy of the transcript be destroyed
and identical substitution:_; made.
During the staff question and answer period which followed mY.y briefing,
klr. Machig~>trx asked how much of the Agency's badget is allocated to the
anti--terrortst pr ograxn. The Agency's effort in this field is centered i_n.
the International Terrorism Control group in the Operations Di.rectorat.e.
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However, we estimate that the equivalent of i man-years was . 25X1
also c evo :c1d to the terrorist problem by employees in the DUO area cli.visi.c?nc .
In -addition, the area divisions were allocated a total o or anti-- 25X1
terror.1st operations in Fiscal 1977.
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your willingness to authorize special handling
of this transcript. Such a procedure enables the Agency to relate extremely
sensitive details of operations to the Committee when we would be reluctant
to have a permanent written record made.of this information.
Sincerely,
L. II. Knoche
Deputy Director
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20 July Committee briefing.
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transcript, the attached letter
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was drafted to urge the
Committee to delete this
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identifying data from its copies
of the transcript.
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similar procedure in the case of
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Mr. Knoche's briefing on
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1976 (letter attached).
This has been coordinated
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