LETTER TO WILLIAM E. COLBY RE RESTITUTION TO INDIVIDUALS WHOSE CONSTITUTIONAL

Created: 1/10/1976

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E. Colby

Director

Ceatral lfi(.niq^c'. Agency.

Ceer Kr. Colby

lathe* the Central qltalUa*nc*gathered end MlnUI^end doMior. oh thousand, aretion, ia rtoliUon of It*

nabllnew writing to ul that you ute laad-iete re* tl tut ion to thesehose Cone tl rational rlqbte cava bMD violated.

CU can bavin to do mo fc*each Indlvidse! whose mm la oa aor dossiery tbaby providino that

if SiS*1* uiTA^

II the individual so request*.

principle of *ocm> by the individual to fries and recordspersonal Inform tic* oUavhtr ehebail* kept by Federal fc^iindM baa been well awtafcii^fied by the Privacy totthe lav allow* CIA records, tat* ereapted, the axeaptlonnot Mandatory and ia dlaecattanary wttb the director of theCertainly Itnot ae UeesrtSangxes* that an agencyiffto. fries that the agency had do legal right to Maintain is the firs* place.

Morvver, wndax Sec. Sfpl^ctf The ?riw*cy Act, the cZA tm not froe a provision that prohibit*en-d* -dee-

cribing turn any indlvidoal awn: tain rich eaguaranteed by the Mr.?

expresslyby etatute or by th* individualwhan the record ta oalntalmcd, or unless pertinent to and within tbe eoope of an authorlaed Xaw wAyiemt activity.-

Clearly, there Is no basis le lee Jot that CTA'a gatheringdnaiiio to Maintain .uoh files. X, therefore, ore- yon toediately to nak* these files available ba the Individual* involved do that -they aey destroy th*M, If they so cbooee.

oold like to know, in tfwniel.he CIS hae eat

orlists or doseian est wash ait of Congress, aa part of it* dc*MStlc suxvclllance operation, end, in nertlnnlar, whether yon haveorietiojoseder on aw. Ifould appreciate yoox al leering aw the right to inspect this fUe end toiispose of it.

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For furtherMfMI RELEASE

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REP* ABZUG IirmWCES BILX TO RErOTB CIA ITTXWTICM

PRIVACT ACT. ABU CIA DIRECTORTO 1XT IHDIVILXIW-S

SEE TOEtA ILIKALLT CATKKICD FllZlf ALSO ASKS TO SEE

Ott HER, ir IT BIISTft.

Rep. Balls S. AbauoY) today introduced legislation rooovincr the CIA and Sacret Service exemption from th* Mvly enacted Privacy Act ThaTort lewuuOcer alao released tha tartetter to -tilllest Colby, Director of tbe CIA* lo which aha asks th- CIA to informindividual whoselicti list or dossier illegally held by thend to provide 'that Individual with aooes* to his or her flla, to parade oxpungaaent of any illegally collected material If the individual ao requests."

Rep* Abrog wa* otva of thaof tha privacy lefialation which paaaed Coograta lets laat year. At the tlx* ahaloor axenctaent removing tha axexeTtion of tha CIA frcai It* disclosers and access provisions, except for records that affect tha national defense or foreign policy of tha nation, Tho anentaant wa* defeated. Bar new bill would cloaa that loophole.

Citing tha Constitution and tha Privacy Actap. Abruo notad that tha principle of Individual eeceae to flla and records con* tainlng personal info mac ion haa been wall established, tn her letter to Director Colby, Ren. Absug aaids *Althouajh tha lav currentlyIA records to be exenptsd, tha exemption la not mandatory and la diactatlonary with tha dtractor of tha agency." She also renlnded Director Colby that tha CIA la not exempt from tha provision of tha lev prohibiting the maintenance of records "detcrlbing; how any individual exercise* rights guaranteed by the First AawndSMttt umlas* expressly authorised by statute or by the individual about whom tha record la win-talnad or ueleaa pertinent to and within tba aoopa of an authorised lav enforcement activity.*

Bap. AbxugDirector Colby to Inform her whether the

CIA maintained filaa or doaalars on Members of Congrats and "whether you have gathered oristing and/or doaaier ould appreciate your allowing aa tha right to inspect tSia file and dataraina its disposition*"

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