DDI "TRAP" ON LEAKS OF NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430401
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 26, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: DDI "Trap
(b)(7)(e)-
(b)(3)
(b)(1)
26 Ma 1973
on Leaks of Narcotics Intelligence
1. In material provided by the DDI on contacts with certain
persons on the White House Staff, there is a 9 September 1972
memorandum from Mr. Helms to Dr. Kissinger relating the
identification of a leak to the press as having been in the BNDD.
The memorandum states in part:
"After notinethat Jack Anderson had a continuing
source for classified documents on narcotics, we
arranged a trap so that recipient organizations
of CIA Intelligence Memorarxda (IM) on narcotics
could be identified."
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3. This course of action was at the initiative of the Directorate
of Intelligence, without consultation with persons elsewhere in the
government, except in reporting the results to Dr. Kissinger. It
represents a well-conceived attempt to target on a possible source
of leaks. We doubt that it would be susceptible to misunderstanding
if exposed to public view, but the fact is that it was something of an
attempt to trap someone, and it was a part of the general attempt to
seal off a leak similar to those leading to the "plumbing" operation.
Because of the latter consideration it is noted for the record...
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S. D. Breckinridge
Approved for Release: 2017/01/18 C01430401