CONTACT WITH MR. DAVID YOUNG, FORMERLY OF WHITE HOUSE STAFF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482428
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• Original Classification: U
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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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I-1CRAE:1DM F. THE RECORD
SUBJECT Contact with M David Young Formerly of 14hite House Staff
1. The -tric'ersigned had one personal contact with Mr. Young,
which occurred on Satnrday morning, 16 September 1972. The meeting
lasted about 30 minutes (roughl)from 12:00 noon to 12:30 P.M. on
that date) and took place in th/ follow-Iry circumstances.
(a) On that Saturday morning, the DCI Duty Officer was
Sometime before 12:00 noon
received a telephone call from Mr. Young during which the latter
complained about an Rileged "security leak" to the press from either
the Central Intelligence Agency or the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Specifically, Mr. Yorrg- referred to a Dan Rather (CBS) broadcast
of 15 September which allegedly contained a whole series of leaks ��
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including a report that both the CIA and the. DIA had informed the
President that the bombing and mining campaign against North Vietnam
had not cut off Hanoils supply lines to its forces in the south.
Dan Rather, in his broadcast, attributed part of his information
to an earlier story by-Tad Szulc of the New York Times. (A transcript
of the Dan Rather broadcast is attached at TAB A.)
(b) The above description of this telephone call was given
to me orally by after the fact. also told me
that in the same telephone call Mr. Young had requested a complete
list of all individuals, by name, who had access to any of our
reports which miFht have been the basis of this leak. Mr. Young
further informed that be was Poing to COME) out to the
CIA building in Langley to talk to and asked
to have the requested.infmination ready for him.
(c) After 'flaYing finished his t'elaohone conversation 7,rith
Young, called Mx-. Eduard Proctor, who was on duty in
the office of the DDI that Saturday. Mr. Proctor, in turn, called
the undersigned, who was the SAVA arty Officer, and asked the undersigned
to determine what CIA report or reports might have provided the
information in the alleged leak, and who had received copies of
any such report or reports.
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(d) The .requested information was readily available, and
I took it to Mr, Fractal-3s office. Be and I both proceeded directly
to who was sitting in the Directorls. office. At that uaint
explained to that the Dan. Rather broadcast was based
in part on an earlier TO Szulc article, a'nfi that we had already'
sent a memorandum to the Director (and to the Director of Security)
in which we described three Agency reports from which the Tad Szulc
leak might have come. I gave a copy of this memorandum to Mr.
and told him that the same three "Agency reports were also
the only ones from which the Dan Rather "leakil could have come.
This memorandum frorvSAVA to the Director also listed all individuals
outside the Agency who had. received copies of tha three reports.
After reading the menwranaum and discussing' it briefly with ma,
asked me to remain with him and participate in the
discussion with Mr. Young, and I agreed. Mr. Proctor_thenreturned
to his own office, and.to_the-,best of my knowledge was not ftirther I
involima..in the incident. (Atached at TB B is -a copy of the. SIVA
memorandum to the Director dest:rited .above. Also at T.2-B B are a copy
of the_buckslip under_whiChthe memorandum was sent to the Director
of Security:,, and_a_couy_of the New York Times article by-Tad '
Ssulc.) �
(e) Nr. Young arrived shortly thereafter.
and I explained to him that the Agency had already made a thorough
check of its reporting in view of the possibility of a "leak n in
the earlier Tad Szulc article, and that Dan Rather by his own
statement had obtained the information which he had attributed to
CIA from the Sznlc article. We than allowed Mr. Young to read
the SAVA memorandum to the Director which is attached at TAB B.
My recollection is that Mr. /oUng took _notes from this memorandum.,
but that he did not take a copy away with him, I am not, however,
certain that my memory is correct on this point.
(f) Mr.. /bung thPn requested that we provide him with
the names of all individuals within the 3.genc7 who had worked on or
1-lad access to any of the three recarts described in the SAVA
memorandum to the Director, was reluctant to provide
such a list, and. for several minutes there was an exchange between
him and Mr. Yoling on the propriety of our providing a list of
analysts' names. Finally we compromised and gave Mr. Young the
names of the heads of the offices within CIA which had been involved
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in preparing the reports. To the best of my recollection, the names
which we provided were:
,Mr. Edward Proctor
Mr-. Paul a sa
Mr. Richard Lehman
Mr, John Huizenga
Mr. Maurice Ernst
My own name, of course, was also given to Mr. Young. Mr. Young then
indicated that he might contact the Director on the following Monday
in an effort to obtain more names. The meeting ended amicably at
that point, and Mr. Young departed.
(g) The following day, 17 September 1972
wrote a very brief note concerning this incident to
and the rrdersigned. In this note (see TAB C)
indicated that he was going to discuss the incident with the iremor
on Monday, 18 September. I do not know whether he did or did not
do so. I also do not know whether Mr. Young ever contacted any
Agency repzesentative again on this subject.
2. I have had no other contacts, before or since
Mr. David Young,
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