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Central Intelligence Agency (view source)
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[[Category:Intelligence Agencies]]
[[Category:Intelligence Agencies]]
[[Category:United States Intelligence Agencies]]
[[Category:United States Intelligence Agencies]]
==The CIA and Congressional Committees==
===The CIA with Sen. Helms of the Foreign Relations Committee - on KAL 007 matters===
The CIA often is requested by Congressional Committees to both supply information relating to the security and defense of the nation, and to evaluate information that has otherwise come to the attention of the Committees. This is particularly true of the Foreign Relations and the Intelligence committees of Congress. The following is an example of the process from Committee reception of information, referral to the CIA for evaluation and verification, CIA input resulting in a Committee report, and Committee action based on the verified information:
In 1990, debriefed Jewish new immigrants to Israel that had been in the Soviet military reported, contrary to previous public perception, that Korean Airlines Flight 007carrying 269 passengers and crew, shot down by the Soviets off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983, had come down safely in the waters of the Tatar Straits. Other informants reported that passengers were taken captive, including passenger Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia.These reports were conveyed to Senator Jesse Helms, the ranking minority (Republican) member of the Committeee on Foreign Relations.
Helms requested the CIA to evaluate the evidence coming from Israel. Crucial evidence was verified by the CIA and the Committee drafted the 1991 Republican Staff Study on KAL 007 [http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm] with heavy CIA input. Here is the Feb. 11, 1992 letter of Admiral Bud Nance [http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm], Chief of Staff under Helms on the Committee, to the director of the Israel Research Center for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R. affirming partial but crucial confirmation of the information by the CIA and also affirming that it was due to this CIA-confirmed information that Helms had written a letter (Dec. 10, 1991) to Boris Yeltsin, requesting the Russian real time military communications of the shootdown, and information about survivors, including location of camps, and information in particular about Congressman Larry McDonald. Here is Helms' letter Yeltsin [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]
On Jan. 8. 1993, Yeltsin would respond by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the U.N. the requested military communications, the vaunted Black Box tapes from the flight which the Soviets, for the previous 10 years, had denied having recovered (but avoided all mention of passenger survival). The National Security Agency was also involved in the supply of information but it was the CIA which was the primary intelligence agency interfacing with Helms and the Committee on Foreign Relations.