@wikileaks 4h Declassified memo shows #CIA considered ways to get around legal restriction on destroying damaging documents buff.ly/2mlKQsR

March 20, 2017

As CIA Director, George Bush waffled on promise to not destroy records of Agency’s illegal activities

Memo in CREST shows Agency considered employing semantics to get around ban on destroying damaging material

Written by Michael Best
Edited by JPat Brown

Declassified records recently unearthed in CREST show the CIA waffled on a promise to obey the law in destroying records of Agency’s illegal activities and wrongdoing

In 1976, Congresswoman Bella Abzug wrote to CIA Director George H.W. Bush about the existing moratorium on the destruction of CIA files. As the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, which had jurisdiction over government information policy including FOIA and the Privacy Act, she wanted the moratorium extended - specifically, she wanted to ensure that Congress had time to enact legislation in response to the Church, Pike, and Rockefeller hearings and the resulting reports.

On behalf of the Director, the Agency drafted a short initial reply to the Congresswoman. The first draft ended with a promise that the “destruction of Agency material will be in accordance with the recommendations of the President’s Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, Presidential directives and as permitted by law.” This paragraph was bracketed, with the comment written below “recommend deletion of bracketed paragraph.”

The next draft ended with a very different promise, namely that any destruction would “be in the best interests of the individuals involved and the U.S. Government.” In other words, the best interests of the Agency.

Ultimately, thankfully, the letter sent out by CIA Director Bush promised that any destruction of CIA materials would “be in accordance with Presidential directives and as permitted by law.” Regardless, the fact that the Agency debated over whether promising this is of no small concern. If the Congresswoman were still alive, there’s no doubt she would agree.

Read the CIA’s proposed response embedded below.

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