Reading Room Document

Request for Application of Executive Privilege (Messrs. Sonnenfeldt, Sutterlin).

The document is a memorandum regarding the request for the application of executive privilege for two State Department employees. The conclusion reached in the document is that the President should invoke executive privilege and direct the withholding of information from the House Committee on Internal Security. The questions presented for review include the request for the application of executive privilege, the withholding of information from the loyalty-security files of the two State Department employees, and the proposed request addressed to the Acting Counsel to the President.

July 4, 1974