CIA OPENED MAIL OF HUMPHREY, NIXON, KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100240082-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: September 25, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TihIE WASHINGTON POST
25 September. 1975
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The. Central Intelligence Agency .;i1
Washington Post Statr writer ;..
legally opened the :'mail of _'' elected urged - presidential approval of a wide
American politicians,". including- Richard range of illicit domestic activities; includ .
Humphrey,: as part of its 20-year mail in-
tercept- program;;at'.was disclosed L.yester
The -chairman. of the:: Senate ,intelli
Bence' committee,:-,Frank Church (D-Ida -=
ho), said investigators even .found 'a let
with testimony from retired CIA counter names; CIA officers in -New York photo-
intelligence--chief J a m e s Angleton and graphed many of the letters, put the origi-
ended tvitli -a renewed?move-to -call-Nixon nals back into the mail strearn;and had '.
as -a:-witness.:, :,; : ?.' : = ?.: :. : ?, the copies sent to CIA headquarters here...:
The 11-member committee agreed later Church said the C1A evidently strayed.
at'' a closed-door `meeting that ed later from the- "Watch List" repeatedly and
P-
reside lose stirnony tin -as.'.'needed" cn a , ouened the. nail of many promirent.Amer
wide range of'issues raised by Senate in icat citizens and institutions that had not
vestigation of g:o v e r hment intelligence
"agencies. The committee's chief counsel,
Fritz.Schwarz, was told. to begin negotia-
tions with Nieon's. attorneys in hopes of
securing his:: appearance-w-ithout a:sub
poena.
Church said the! cotrimittee'agreed- tat
- even been targeted for surveillance. .
In-addition to his own and Nixon's mail,
Church said, this included correspondence
to or from the late civil rights leader 3lar-
tin Luther King Jr. and his wife; Jay
Ro_kefeller; Sens. Humphrey and Edward
;to- lrmet`
-:number"of points indudin~--.the- back-
Decryingt1~e CIA's Flack of accountabil-
pity,", Church einphasized.- again .y:esterday
that--its-:program of intercepting- aj_1 mail
to and -?froar- `the --Soviet: `Union. be an
proval'was sought, and
-ended only Vin.1973~
almost three years after the Huston plan-_
..was presumed dead.
,
Working from a "Watch List," which re_!
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