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particular Admiral Bobby Inman said, "The best answer here is to educate the Senators
and their staff on why it's necessary." So the intelligence agencies undertook a huge
security education program. I, for example, I was the only staff person that had access to
the information in every single classified compartment, every compartment in existence at
that time. At every stage, they would first say, "These are the risks, now here is the
information."
Storage of classified material and its protection was done well. The people I had who
were in charge of security were experienced and from the intelligence agencies. Security
of material was a very rigorous affair. There were no instances of leaks. Two people were
dismissed from the staff, one for losing his briefcase in a phone booth. The briefcase was
given to the FBI. There was no security damage. The other was an unauthorized
discussion with a journalist about the deliberations of the committee – no security
information was given but it was an unauthorized meeting and he was dismissed.
Maintaining security was extremely difficult, extremely difficult. The discipline required
was extraordinary for any place, but particularly for the Hill. We had the requirement of
getting space within the Senate building, so they gave us the auditorium of the new senate
office building. The auditorium was converted into offices and working space for staff.
There was only one entrance, security guards constantly checked all activities. There were
frequent sweeps, hearings were held only in secure hearing rooms, such as the Atomic
Energy Committee hearing rooms in the Capitol. The staff numbered about 150, half of
whom were lawyers, mostly litigators, who were pursuing the cases involving the
assassinations of foreign leaders.
The other half were people from the intelligence agencies, State, and from the
universities. We had several ambassadors, for example, Bill Trueheart and panels of
advisers on particular issues, of course. We had a number of excellent historians and a
good group of recent graduates from the best graduate schools. The historians did our
most successful research projects. We had about 55 separate investigations going on
simultaneously, and hearings three days a week, for a year and a half. We produced 12
volumes of unclassified material and 10 times that of classified reports, and in the end we
produced a final report with recommendations for action which stands up pretty well.
Q: Well, first place, where did the FBI fit into this?
MILLER: Well, they were considered an intelligence agency, a domestic intelligence
agency. They were the ones who keep watch on Americans. The FBI are the ones who
wiretapped Americans.
Q: Well, was J. Edgar Hoover still around?
MILLER: No, it was Gray at that point.
Q: They had deadly ...
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