CABLE TO BORG/ADANS/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-262-6-65-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: March 8, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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.TD, BCORG/ADAMS/ROoMAN FOR, THE SECRETARY
DELIVER
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WHAT CONCERNED EARL1FR BUT HE WAS VERY TOUCH TODAY, AND GAVE
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1, WE HAD A Ri UEF MEfTIN'G. THIS AFTERNOON OF AGENCY REPRE.
SENTATTVFS 04 THE CIA INVESTIGATION, 10 RE;YUw COLITY'S PROPOSED
LETTER TO CHURCH ON INIT?IAL (RCrUNU RULES AND HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO
CIA EMPLOYEES. PRESEWT WERE CnLIY, MOFFMAN (DfF`FNSE), WIL.UE.
BUTTER (JUSTICE), RUCHE'6, MARSH AND MYSELF~r
THERE WAS SOMME DISCU$6TDN Of TMFPHILOSOPHICAL' APPROACH
TO THE t:OMMJTTEE'-S INc UIRY w RMDUt..t1 WE APPEAR OPEN AND RECEPTIVE o
GIVING; THE IMPRE.SSTUN THAT THE COMMITTEE HA3 CARTE BLANCHE TO LGO
AT WHATEVEI? IT WANTED, OR 44OUL,:t) wr SEEK TO HAVE THE COMMITTEE
FOCUS MORE NARROWLY ON SPECIFIC REQUESTS FOR MATERIAL, IT THOUGHT
IT NEMR, WHILE THE DISCUSSION WAS VERY PRF LTMINARY, COLBY AND
THE OTHER AGENCY REPRE5ENTAflVPS TENDED TOWARt) THE OPEN APPROACH,
WHILE BUCt1FN, MARSH AND I FAVORED THE MORE RESTRICTIVE ONE,
COLMY'S DRAFt MEMOS HAD SUBSTANTIAL PROBLEMS IN THEM AND
HE HAS GONE BACK TO REWRITE THEM, FOR EYA.MPLE,, HE MOULD HAVE
'PUT NO RESTRICTIONS ON TESTIMONY BY FM 'LnYEiE$, EXCEPT THEIR OWN
JUDGMENT OF WHAT WAS PROPER$ HE WOULD TELL THE EMPLOYEES THEY
ON-FILE NSC
RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY
OW NOT HAVE TO REPORT TO TMV AGENCY THE NATURE OF THEIR INTFR000ATION?
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N'tx SUPPORT TO THE PHILO$0.PHICAL APPROACH WHICH YnU FAVOR;,
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AND P`ASSJQNATt Pt RFURMANCE pF HAD YET SEEN' PROM HIM, THIS APPRAISAL
ALSO R 'PLE.CTfD THE VIEWS of IME PU OT$ R PRFS! P PL? WITH WHOM
DEPFt,ANK HAS SPQPCfd,
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READY TO SEND YOU SATURDAY MORNING,
WARM REGAROS
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