PIKE DATA ACTION UP TO ALBERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030064-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: February 4, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The future- of, the-' con-
troversial : House intelligence
committee report was left' to
Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla)
yesterday f,'asr committee,
;
members and staff employees':
fired- ;charges , and' court'
s
es over the- report
tercharg
content and quality
Committee Chairman'=Otis
G. Pike -(D-N'.Y. )' yesterday
refused- to, permit his com-
mittee. to recommend how -
distribution of the report -
should be handled.
He won support for his
position that since the House
blocked publication of the
report. last Thursday his
committee no longer has-
authority to recommend
either distribution .of the
report to House members as a
classified - document or..
negotiations with the White
House to delete portions the
White- House believes should
not bennade public.. _`;-1'-%
House Clerk. -. 'Edward
llenshaw.. has custody of the
printed copies' of the report.
and said through spokesman
that he will await orders from.
Albert..
Rep.,Dale Milford (D-Tex.)..
was one of the 'committee
members critical of the
report. He said in an in-
terview: "Over 50 per cent of
the charges and conclusions-
arc not based on the com-
mittee record . . . They come
from resources you can't find
in the committee record and
from material the committee
itself never considered."
The House intelligence
committee staff director, A.
Searle Field, responded that
staff interviews under oath,
documents supplied by the
CIA. clo,ed hearings plus the
public record referred to by
Milford provided the basis for
the report.
"Almost every line is
documented and footnoted,"
Field said, "and every
committee member had ac-
cess to that inaterial.,,
Rep. Robert McClor (R-
III.) called the rennrt' "a
:I11.) called the report "a?;::
diatribe against the CIA. -
"The report was not pulled
out of the air,"'Field said.:;
"Charges are now being made--
because no one has the-report
and can judge for himself." =
In his f!,nal press conference-
Jan 26 former CIA Director
T IA$WGIONPOST Wednesday. Feb 4, 1970-
William E. Colby charged that
-11counjol-.-Jack Boos put
the report's statement about , memo outlining how Sea together. the initial overall
the - CIA's - "frequent Henry bL Jackson (D?Wash) draft- report... which wasf
manipulation 'of Reuter wire : made', suggestions to CIA returned to each Investigator
service dispatches", . was an . Director Richard Helms on for, me to and final toot-.
example of the. committee .. how to head off a Senate _? -
, notes.
staff ."taking . a .side inquiry .into the agency s Field takes Issue with some.
ttefetence" during an -;in- operationsinChile. t: committee members who
terview with him, "and The memo was added as a have argued that---tile=
making a major statement of . footnote .after the first ' draft requested deletions would mot-'.
it." had been -delivered..to com?. change the substance. of thf3:.
Colby, along with Reuter mitteeemembers and the CIA. report. The CIA, ,in- r4
officials, have denied any CIA Reporters covering the 3 requests for deletions, in-.
.
manipulation had taken place, committee, however, had ' eluded suggested rewrites
and the report does not con' ' been alerted to its existence. "They took a horrible''
rain any,speeifie examples:: One source, who read the distasteful, venture," Fi :Id
Field, however, said -the memo in context .said its said referring to an un;.
report was not based solely, on connection to a description of disclosed covert operation ,n
Colby's Interview. "That is all - CIA methods, of reporting to the report,. "and rewrote it.to
Colby is aware of,'.' Field said.. i Congress was "tenuous" look like a success." -
-'We:. pent out,, and checked although that. was where it Field-said the leaks oft
with otber people.` : was-footnoted in the report. portions of the report to the
Another committee F Further complicating this press "hurt us badly" by'
member, Rep. Les Aspin (D- controversy is .the allegation "creating a phony issue that
h
possibility of rewriting some
portions of. the report. "The
charges and conclusions just
are not' supported' by' the
.footnotes," one congressional
McClory said he considers.
the report " a "pure, cheap
-paperback substitute" for the.
serious ,work- done by' the:
committee. "I'd like to throw
the whole report out and start
over."
Field said' that charges of
poor .writing "were never
raised during the week the
members studied the
document."
Another controversy
surrounds the last-minute
inclusion in the report of a CIA
nogovin,_. that a copy of t
e {hands." He argued, however,.- .
Jackson memo was missing that no one outside the-, corn
,from a reading file provided a mittee has a full copy because:-'
committee staff member' at "several major sections have. -
CIA headquarters in Langley. not been reported...
Under the CIA-committee ing yesterday's session;
procedures, no documents the intelligence committee by
were to be taken from reading voice vote recommended that;
files-but rather were to-be the Pentagon's Defense-
. requested for later delivery-. Intelligence Agency - em;
was taken from the file, 4h `
aving a budget of about ;
saying there were other million -beabolished.
. - -
available sources- for it. The recommendation says..
Jackson's supporters believe, that functions of the DI A,
however, that the memo was which has clashed with they
put in the report to embarrass Central Intelligence Agency
his campaign for the over weapons 'threat
Democratic presidential estimates, should be Iran
nomination. sferred to an assistant deferse-
Field and Committee `.secretary and to t h e
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