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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.

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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.