LAD/ALA BRIEFING OF HPSCI STAFF ON ALPIREZ CASE

Created: 3/29/1995

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SOBJECT: LAC/ALA Briefing or HPSCI Staff on Alplrez Case

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Stafferseries of questions about who had receded the intelligence on Devine and when. He provided clarification on the disseaination process and reviewed our actions with DoJ on the1 report. There were several questions on the actions of the Administration based on these reports, and we referred them to State. They wondered why we had not provided information on our relationship with Alpirez to the State Department la the1 tu=efra=e, tB replied that she did not know whether this had been discussed with State or not. It did not, ir. fact, seen gerf-ane to State's diplomatic efforts, for which the had the1 dissec.

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