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David E. Hanlon Ralph Orcutt Edmund X. Klipa (Possible Contact by the Senate Select Committee Staff)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-09-29 · 515 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.

V _ Eu _ _-- ' _ " ’ /r1._Z_{>; if/j_¢ 5?’? WA SC 04042/75 26 August 1975 0 -. .. r. . r __: 4...- -..\ MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Operafions _ Attn: Mr. John Waller ,/Associate Deputy Director for Administration Associate Deputy Director for Science & Technology SUBJECT: ' Department of Justice Investigation of CIA Electronic Surveillance Activities l. Attached is a Department of Justice request (Tab 1) for all documents and files which reflect the authorization and implementation of certain "domestic" communications intercepts. The files containing these documents should be identified and segregated so that they may be made“ available for DOJ review at Headquarters O 2. Since there may be confusion about the precise projects or activities- in which DOJ is interested, the following is provided as the best information available to this Office concerning the particular paragraphs of the DOJ letter: a. Paragraph 2: This project is apparently the interception of drug trafficking communications at Brandy Station, Virginia (Memo for D/OC fm C/Special Programs Div/QC, dtd 1'? Nov 72, Subj: Drug Related Intercept at Brandy) . b. Paragraph 3: This project appears to be the same as that referred to in Paragraph 2 of the DOJ letter, Information to confirm or refute this assumption is requested. c. Paragraph 4: Project LONGSHAFT was a program designed to intercept microwave communciations from the Peoples Republic of China through the use of a U~2 aircraft. The files on this project are believed to be maintained by the Office of ELINT, DDS&T. cl. Paragraph 5: Project IRONCLAD was an OEL training facility in Southern Florida which routinely intercepted telemetry froml the Eastern Test Range for training purposes . u 1. .._. v' ' JohnD. Morrison, [ " ‘...., . C) i _ _ i , i5 ‘- 77-\Y ; ‘ i A /—~£.‘§\._=-= .- \ IL. L4 ‘\.-/~~-— “ \ -" " >' Jot ' - J t .._.Y.€1E_1.ade $0 .5¢, ' ’ '“ 2.. ' .. ‘_ ___>_____________ VIM 1 CZ) fj,é" C‘ T ;.'~ ' i_/ll

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.