(EST PUB DATE) CONTACTS WITH INDIVIDUALS NAMED IN THE WATERGATE MATTER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430488
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 1, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Management and Services
SUBJECT : Contacts with Individuals Named in the Watergate Matter
1. I am addressing this to you instead of to the Director of Central
Intelligence since I doubt that the information contained herein is of such
significance to warrant his interest and because it has been on record with
the Agency since July 1972. However, if you feel that the information is of
such interest that it should be forwarded to the Director I shall put it in the
proper format to do so.
2. My only contact with anyone named in connection with the
Watergate and related matters was through a former
Agency employee now retired and living in Winterhaven, Florida. In
December 1971 called me from Florida and advised that he
wanted to get in touch with Howard Hunt. He said that he did not have Hunt's
home phone number and that it was probably unlisted but that since Hunt was a
former employee, could I contact Hunt and ask him to give a call.
I had only met Hunt once about 10 years before but I agreed ay the message.
I called Howard Hunt at his home and told him that did not have his
home phone and requested he call Mr. Hunt thanked me for
This seemed of
of the
relaying the message and said that he would call
little consequence to me in December 1971 but in July 1972
Office of Security contacted me in regard to the FBI investigation of the Watergate
At that time I informed of the telephone call from
n December 1971. Attached is a copy of a Memorandum for the
as a result of our conversation.
situation.
Record prepared by
3. In the summer of 1972 I took my family to Disney World in Florida
and took that occasion to drop in to see told me in
a private conversation that he had been interviewed three or four times by the
FBI in connection with the Watergate affair and he related to me his contact
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with Howard Hunt. On 19 July 1972 after my return from Florida I reported
this conversation to the Director of Security and made it a Memorandum for
the Record. This memorandum was sent to Mr. Colby and a copy of the
memorandum is attached.
4. Other than knowing Mr. McCord through his employment with
the Agency and meeting Howard Hunt once in about 1959, I do not know nor
have I had any contact with any individuals named or knowledge of related
matters now receiving attention in the press.
Charles W. Kane
Special Assistant to the
Deputy Director
for Management and Services
Atts
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