SENATE RESOLUTION 21 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION VOLUME 1 UNAUTHORIZED STORAGE OF TOXIC AGENTS Printed for the use of the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities 63-561 () U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTing office WASHINGTON: 1976 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Page No. 7-November 25, 1969 National Security Council Decision Memo- No. 8-February 20, 1970 National Security Council Decision Mem- No. 10 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, No. 11-List of persons who received toxins from Fort Detrick (received from)... No. 12-Excerpt from "Summary Report, Working Fund Investigations" from the Special Operations Division.. No. 13-February 17, 1970, Special Operations Division, Toxin Inventory. APPENDIX September 16, 1975 letter from William E. Colby to Senator Church_____ 207 210 211 212 216 240 244 245 INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES-UNAUTHORIZED STORAGE OF TOXIC AGENTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1975 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 318, Russell Senate Office Building, Senator Frank Church (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Church, Tower, Mondale, Huddleston, Morgan, Hart of Colorado, Baker, Goldwater, Mathias, and Schweiker. Also present: William G. Miller, staff director; Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., chief counsel; Curtis R. Smothers, counsel to the minority; and Paul Michel, professional staff member. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities opens its public hearings today with an inquiry into a case in which direct orders of the President of the United States were evidently disobeyed by employees of the CIA. It is the purpose of this hearing, and those which shall follow for the next 2 months, to illuminate the need to make certain in the future that Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies perform their duties in ways which do not infringe upon the rights of American citizens. The committee has not held public hearings prior to this time, because of its concentration on charges that the CIA has been involved in assassination plots directed against certain foreign leaders. In that investigation, the committee has taken over 8,000 pages of testimony, interrogated nearly 100 witnesses, examined a vast array of documents, and compiled a record on the assassination issue alone that compares in size to the entire investigation of the Senate Watergate Committee. Because of the serious damage that protracted public hearings on such a subject could do to the United States in its relations with foreign governments, the committee chose to conduct these hearings behind closed doors, but the committee intends to publish a full and detailed report of its findings within the next few weeks. It is the right of the American people to know what their Government has done the bad as well as the good-and we have every confidence that the country will benefit by a comprehensive disclosure of this grim chapter in our recent history. In examining wrongdoing by such agencies as the FBI and the CIA, the committee in no way wishes to denigrate the importance of their legitimate work. I know, first hand, the wartime worth of intellicence gathering because I served in the military intelligence as an Army lieutenant in World War II. |