Letter to Senate Leaders Concerning the Report of the Senate Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
AS YOU will recall, I previously advised Members of the Senate Select Committee of my concern about publication of their Assassination Report. Attached is a copy of my October 31st letter.1
1 See Item 659.
It is my understanding that the Senate will, this morning, consider the question of publication of the Committee Report. The purpose of my writing is to indicate to you that my earlier position has not changed. For the reasons assigned previously, I do not feel this publication is in the national interest.
It is my hope that after reviewing the Report, the Senate will concur with that view and, therefore, not authorize this publication.
Sincerely,
GERALD R. FORD
Note: This is the text of identical letters addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, and President pro ternpore of the Senate, James O. Eastland. Copies were also sent to Senate Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd and Senate Minority Whip Robert P. Griffin, and to Senators Frank Church and John Tower, chairman and ranking Republican member of the select committee.
Gerald R. Ford, Letter to Senate Leaders Concerning the Report of the Senate Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/257086