LETTER TO MR. DANNY COULSON FROM FREDERICK P. HITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001500030008-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 1, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2006/12/15: CIA-RDP81 M00.980R001500030008-5
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Mr. Danny Coulson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. 20535
I DEC,
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Enclosed are copies of an exchange of letters between the Agency
and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence confirming the requirement for prior
Committee approval before matters involved in a confidential exchange
with the Committees and their predecessors are publicly released.
These letters were prompted by the concerns that confidential
Congressional matters reposing in Agency files may be subject to
release under the FOIA/PA laws, despite the fact that these laws do
not cover the Congress. We have extended the requirement for prior
Congressional approval to cover confidential exchanges by the Agency
with all Committees and Members of Congress.
I am bringing this to your attention since you may not have received
similar letters from the SSCI and HPSCI and you may wish to implement
a similar policy. The need for resolving this problem in order to protect
the legitimate interests of the Congress, also focuses Congressional
attention on the kinds of problems we in the Community face in trying
to protect confidential information subject to release and may generate
support for our requests for remedial legislative relief.
Sincerely,
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