RESPONSE TO 23 MAY 1973 MEMORANDUM TO ALL EMPLOYEES

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• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: June 12, 1973

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1 2 JUN 1973
MEMORAND'IM FOR: Executive Secretary, CIA Management
Committee
SUBJECT : Response to 23 May 1973 Memorandum to
All Employees
1. The response to the 23 May memorandum does not seem
uniform, and we are of the opinion that it has been interpreted
differently by different persons. Some seem to have interpreted
the memorandum in the specific context of the Watergate affair
and the various activities that have become associated with it,
not reporting unrelated contacts that they may have had with
McCord or Hunt during the period that they were employed with
the Agency. Others have interpreted the following phrase literally,
"anyone who has had any connection or contact with individuals on
the attached list, " and have reported the most insignificant contact.
Our opinion is based on the belief that a larger number of employees
still in the Agency must have known Hunt or McCord during their
employment, than the relatively limited number who have reported
such associations.
2. We have the names of 137 employees, both presently
active and retired, who had contacts with one or more of the indi-
viduals listed in the 23 May memorandum. Between them, these
137 employees are reported to have had a total of 175 contacts with
one or more of the individuals listed in the 23 May memorandum.
Forty-eight contacts were by DDO personnel, twenty-nine in the
DDI, fifty-four in the DDM&S, seventeen in the DDS&T (including
OTS personnel), and twenty-four were in the Office of the DCI,
including OGC, OLC, and OIG. It was not unexpected that the
two former Agency employees�Hunt and McCord�had the largest
number of contacts and associations, forty-eight for McCord and
forty-six for Hunt, each with the preponderance being reported
from their fr rmer directorates. We are nevertheless surprised at
the small number of reported associations for these two men, who
retired less than three years ago. David Young, with a total of
thirty reported contacts, and Egil Krogh, with eighteen, far out-
numbered the remaining names on the list, with Colson and Caulfield
having no reported associations (we are dubious about Colson, in this
respect). The tally is as follows:
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DDO
DDI
DDM&S
DDS& T
0/ DCI
Total
Haldeman.
0
0
0
0
2
2
Ehrlichman
2
1
0
0
5
8
Dean
2
0
0
0
1
3
Krogh
3
7
5
2
1
18
Young
2
11
4
0
13
30
Hunt
24
5
7
7
3
46
Liddy
2
5
1
2
0
10
McCord
3
0
37
8
0
48
Colson
0
0
0
0
0
0
Caulfield
0
0
0
0
0
0
Martinez
3
0
0
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
1
Bar er
4
0
0
0
0
4
Gonzalez
1
0
0
0
0
1
Sturgis
1
0
0
0
0
1
48
29
54
19
25
175
3. As nearly as we can determine, twelve Agency employees
had professional contact with Hunt, Liddy or Young (or combination of
them) during the period that the Agency was giving support to Hunt or
preparing the personality prof *le on Ells berg. They are listed below:
a. General Cushman. He first met Hunt on 22 July 1971,
following a telephone call from Ehrlichman on 7 July. He also
phoned Ehrlichman on 27 August calling a halt to Hunt's request
for added support. We have been unable to verify a reported
luncheon appointment with Hunt in October 1971.
b. Karl Wagner. Briefly--before being dismissed at
Hunt's request--he was present at the 22 July meeting between
Cushman and Hunt. He also handled a later request for a
secretary.
c. Steve Greenwood. He was TSD's (now OTS) case
officer for dealing with Hunt, meeting _dm a number of times.
He also met Liddy.
d. He met Hunt three times, providing
� him a recorder and two microphones. Liddy was present on
one of these occasions.
Totals
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e.
Liddy in its use.
He provided the camera, and trained
Hunt was present at the meeting.
f. Howard Osborn. As Director of Security he served
as intermediary between Young and CIVIS on the personality
profile.
g. OMS man assigned to prepare the
personality profile on Ellsberg. He met with Young, Liddy
and Hunt.
h. in October 1971
honored Hunt's request for material on a French security
leak, instructing the Division's Executive Officer to provide
it.
John Caswell. who, under
nstructions provided Hunt with unclassified material
on French security leak.
j. In December 1971 she received
an out-of-channel request from Hunt for a name trace, which
was put back in channels and reported to the Agency representa-
tive with the�NSC Staff.
k. Detailed to the NSC Staff, he reports
an undetermined number of name traces (he believes more
than the one noted above) which he levied on the Agency for
Hunt around the end of 1971. There is no record supporting
his recollection.
1. He received a request from Hunt for
telephone extensions of persons in TSD, which he obtained
for him. Our source recalled that
and that the incident had to be before that. A check
of records showed
and suggests the possibility that Hunt's request was during
the period that he was being supported by TSD. Hunt may
have misplaced the telephone numbei s he had, and got
to replace them for him.
4: In addition to the foregoing, Hunt wrote to
advising her that he had requested her by name for
secretarial work. He requested Karl Wagner for her, but was
turned down.
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5. There were a handful of Agency employees who knew Hunt
or McCord from former times, and who have continued desultory
social contacts. had maintained a continuing association
with Hunt, playing tennis, etc. Others continue to have a sense
of responsibility for Hunt's family, which we have not discouraged,
counselling c.nly that they be discreet. On or two past and present
employees initially considered helping raise the bail for either Hunt
or McCord, depending on the ones they knew, but nothing seems to�
have come of this.
6. As a matter of interest, we have compiled a list of some
twenty employees, mostly retired, but including one or two still
on the active rolls, whose names were referred to McCord or
Hunt by Outplacement, or who were considered for employment
with one or the other of them, McCord being the one primarily
interested in applicants. Some of these did take employment with
McCord.
7. We are still receiving a few reports, and expect this to
continue for a while, but we believe that unless more personnel
are stimulated to report what is probably more of the innocent
contacts out of the past we are unlikely to receive much more of
interest or significance. It is our opinion that we have found all
the significant contacts that will be volunteered. We doubt that
there are any more, but given the uncertainties of this unique
situation it cannot be said with absolute certainty that all contacts
of significance have been recorded.
t(Signed) Wil1.1,am V. 13r05,
William V. Broe
Inspector General
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