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"SUBJECT: Intelligence Evaluation Committee and Staff
1. “Background: Formed December 1970 to produce cee
H fully-evaluated national domestic intelligence studies,
i including studies on demonstrations, subversion, extremism
: | and terrorism. Membership: Department of Justice (Chair-
! man}; Federal Bureau of Investigation; ‘Department of
i Defense; Secret Service; National Security Agency; Central
- - Intelligence Agency; and as necessary representatives of °
other Departments or Agencies (following have partici-
, pated: Treasury and State). Staff: IES, Executive
Director John Dougherty and later Bernard Wells supplied
by Department of Justice with title of Special: Assistant
to the Attorney General reporting to the Assistant Attorney
: oa General for Internal Security Robert Mardian and later ,
. Ls William Olson. IES has received requirements directl A
i | White House. The White Housé Tas. insisted that the .
i 1 existence of this Committee be kept secret. Awareness :
' 1 of its existence within this Agency has been limited to . t
] i BCT, "DDO (BD) Fey Horn four officers of this office, A
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{ : 2. CIA Participation: Contributions on foreign : ‘
aspects (by memorandum with no Agency letterhead or at- t
! tribution). Contributions occasionally include foreign * :
intelligence provided by FBI and NSA, ~The Chief of the :
Special Operations Group serves as the Agency representa- !
tive on the Intelligence Evaluation Committee Staff and :
| as the alternate to the Agency representative on the . f :
| Committee (who is hel tutes, Counter Intelligence Stage) \
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] A : 3. Special Report: The Unauthorized Disclosure .
. of Classified Information, November 1971. This study .
was initiated in July 1971 by’ the White House as a con- t
.- sequence of the President's concern about the release
: of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg: Both Robert - H
H Mardian and G. Gordon Liddy initially involved in tasking )
the IES to produce this evaluation. Drafting done by IES :
; Staff members from Justice and FBI. Only Agency partici- !
i pation was editor; Viel. - :
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