GENERAL WALTER'S BRIEFING OF THE INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 23, 1973

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OLC 73-0601
23 May 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: General Waite Briefing of the Intelligence Operations
Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations Committee
1. This morning I accompanied General Vernon A. Walters, Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, to a meeting with the above Subcommittee
on the subject of contacts with White House staff members and others on
matters pertaining to the Watergate incident. The meeting lasted from
1000 to 1215 hours. There was no technical sweep of the room, 1223 Dirksen
Office Building, and the room was not kept under technical monitoring. Dis-
cussions were on a Secret level. A transcript was taken and is on file in the
Office of Legislative Counsel.
2. Present for the session were:
John L. McClellan (D., Ark.), Chairman
John 0. Pastore (D., R.I. )
Milton R. Young (R., N. Dak.)
3. Present from the staff were:
James R. Calloway
Guy McConnell
S. Arnold Smith
4. Chairman McClellan pressed General Walters a number of times
as to why neither he nor. Mr. Helms alerted the President to the requests
which had been made to them by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean, especially
after they requested Agency financial support for the men involved in the
Watergate burglary. In this connection Senators Young and Pastore were
both quite helpful in pointing out instances where they found it extremely
difficult, if not completely impossible, to get through to the President on
matters of importance.
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5. During the hearing I provided the Subcommittee staff with a
copy of the attachment to General Walters' memorandum of 6 July 1972
(this was a memorandum to Acting FBI Director Pat Gray).
6. Followup items:
Chairman McClellan expressed great concern about the
way in which the Agency has been providing documents to the
Subcommittee on a piecemeal basis and requested that the Sub-
committee be provided copies of all memoranda in the Agency's
custody which were pertinent to the Subcommittee's inquiry.
General Walters and I discussed this with the Chairman at the
conclusion of the meeting and explained the Director had issued
a notice to all employees to come forward with any documents
bearing on the subject. The Chairman suggested that the
Director send a letter to the Subcommittee to this effect so
the Subcommittee would have it as a matter of record. General
Walters indicated we would provide the staff with a copy of the�
Director's instructions.
7. Following the hearing General Walters was accosted by the press
and asked for his comments. The General responded since these matters
were under consideration by congressional committees he thought it
inappropriate for him to comment until the committees have concluded
their deliberations. He was asked if he thought the present situation would
have any impact on the future of the Agency. He said he hoped for the
future of the nation it would not.
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/GtORGIE L. CARY, �;JR.
Acting Legislative Counsel
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