(EST PUB DATE) ALTERNATE CONTINGENCY STATEMENT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482347
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• 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: January 1, 1972

Approved for Release: 2017/01/18 C01482347
Alternate Contingency Statement (2)
A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency said today that
Richard Helms, the Director of Central Intelligence, had been apprised
of the newspaper story alleging that the White House had ordered the
Central Intelligence Agency to bug the Democratic National Headquarters
in the Watergate buildings. "Director Helms emphatically states that
there is not one shread of truth to this allegation. The story is
completely and wholy false," said the spokesman.
cc: OGC
Approved for Release: 2017/01/18 C01482347