WATERGATE CASE - TELEPHONE CALL TO THE DIRECTOR FROM MR. JOHN HENNIFIN, TIME MAGAZINE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482302
• 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: October 26, 1972

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410 IVO
(b)(3)
26 October 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Watergate Case - Telephone Call to the Director from
Mr. John Hannifin, Time Magazine
1. On Friday, 20 October, the Director received a telephone
call from Mr. John Hennifin of Time magazine. Mr. Hennifin said
that, as Time's investigator into the Watergate case, he had devel-
oped a name who might be working for CIA, in which case the Agency
would be very directly connected with the Watergate case. He asked
for the Director's comments.
2. The name was
with the firm o
He supposedly worked at some time fo
between 1945-1958 for the
, and from 1958 to 1959 was
for the
checked with the Office of Pe
currently a lawyer
The Director
sannel and was informed that
worked for the Agency for a ih�ittime
in the early '50's as a GS-12 on contract The Agency's
relationship with him ended in 1954.
3. The Director called Mr. Hennifin back and informed him of
the above. Mr. Hennifin expressed appreciation, saying this in effect
gave him the green light to go ahead with the story, as the last item
he had been looking into was possible CIA involvement.
W. E. Colby
Executive Director-Comptroller
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