(EST PUB DATE) MISC RE CIA OFFICIALS TESTIFIED WEDNESDAY THEY FORGOT TO TELL CONGRESS OR THE AGENCY'S DIRECTOR, JAMES SCHLESINGER, ABOUT (2 ANONYMOUS WARNINGS THEY RECEIVED THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WAS TRYING TO PIN BLAME ON THE AGENCY FOR THE WATERGATE SCAND

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430411
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 24, 1973

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DDI WASHINGTON (uPi) CIA OFFICIALS TESTIFIED WEDNESDAY THEY FORGOT
DD/M&S TO TELL CONGRESS OR THE AGENCY'S DIRECTOR, JANESSCHLES/NGER, ABOUT
DDO (2.ANONYNOUS WARNINGS THEY RECEIVED THAT THE W411E:H)USE WAS TRYING' TO :
DDS/T PIN BLANE ON THE AGENCY FOR THE WATERGATE SCANDWL.
D/OCI REP. LUCIEN NEDLI, D-NICH., CALLED 'THREE OFFICIALS OF THE CIA TO ,
ONE EXPLAIN WHY THE LETTERS -- WHICH HAVE bEEN TRACED TO WATERGATE
OSR CONSPIRATCR JAMES MCCORD -- DID NOT SURFACE UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO.
OSI (2 "ONE OF THE REASONS THEY GAVE WAS THE FAMILIAR 'I FORGOT,'" NEDZI
Ch/OpsfsAID. "THEY ALSO SAID II WAS A NATTER OF TURNIN(i IT OVER TO SOMEONE
ELSE AND ASsuv,ING HE WOULD PASS IT ON."-
INDICO THE SIX LETTERS -- ONE OF THEM.SIGNED "JIm" AND THE OTHERS 1
DDO/Do ANONYNOUS -- WERE SENT TO FORMER CIA DIRECTOR RICHARD HELPS BETWEEN i
JULY 1972 AND LAST JANUARY.
NEDLI SAID II HAD bEEN "PRETTY DEFINITELY ESTABLISHED" THAT.
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OSD MCCORD, A FORMER CIA AGENT, WAS THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE LETTERS. NEDZI
mea DECLINED TO SAY WHAT WAS IN THEM, BUT REP. WILLIAM BRAY, RIND.,
fe THEY WERE "CONFUSED" AND "DISJOINTED" WARNINGS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE
wh WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE WATERGATE CREAK-IN AS A CIA PLOT.
eur BOTH NEDZI AND BRAY. SAID THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT CIA WAS IN ANY'
WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WATERGATE BREAK-TN.
TESTIFYING AT THE SESSION WERE PAUL GAYNOR, HOWARD OSBORNE-AND
WILLIAM BRAUX, TOO CIA OFFICIALS WHO HAD CUSTODY OF THE MCCORD
LETTERS AT VARIOUS STAGES AFTER THEY WERE SENT. � .
NEDAI INITIALLY SPELLED SHAH'S NAME AS BROE AND SAID HE DID NOT
KNOW IF IT WAS THE SAME MAN WHO TOLD THE SENATE COMMITTEE ABOUT
MEETINGS HE. HAD WITH ITT PRESIDENT HAROLD GENEEN-WDISCUSS THE
CREATION OF INTERNAL ECONOMIC STRIFE IN CHILE..
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