(EST PUB DATE) SECRET SERVICE SUPPORT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01435048
• 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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Secret Service Support
In April 1972, the United States Secret Service (USSS)
requested CIA support for the National Democratic and
Republican Conventions in Miami during July and August 1972.
The level of support agreed upon was:
a. Station WH/Miami would conduct name traces
on all Cubans of interest to the USSS.
b. CIA Headquarters would conduct name traces
on all foreign born persons of interest to the USSS.
c. CIA would keep the USSS informed of any events
in the Caribbean and Latin American areas that would have
any bearing on the USSS protective mission during the
convention periods.
Also Station WH/Miami arranged the rental of a safe house
about five
and nearby
minutes from
meeting site
alias
Secret Service.
from the Secret Service
convention center to provide a secure
for USSS and Agency personnel.
documentation were furnished to the
alias documentation were recovered
documenta-
on 6 December 1973;
tion was certified by the Secret Service as destroyed.
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With
appropriate DDO approval, OTS has conducted classes in
Countersabotage-Personal Protection for the Secret Service.
A total of 96 students from 1966 through 1973 have attended
these classes. The last class was held 16 through 20 July 1973.
OTS has not provided intelligence or espionage-peculiar
material to the Secret Service.
ORD has had numerous discussions with the USSS regarding
navigation and tracking techniques and equipment. As a member
of the now defunct Technical Surveillance Coordinating Committee
(TSCC) of USIB, information regarding the capabilities of
various audio surveillance countermeasures equipment was also
provided. Also at the request of the USSS, TV equipment was
provided by ORD for coverage of the 1972 Democratic and
Republican conventions, primarily in the interest of crowd
control. The equipment was returned to ORD at the end of the
conventions.
All of this support to the USSS has been in accordance with
Public Law 90-331 (18 U.S.C. 3056 note), which provides that when
requested by the Director of the Secret Service, Federal depart-
ments and agencies shall assist the Secret Service in the per-
formance of its protective duties.
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