MEMO TO MR. JAMES ANGLETON FROM GEORGE A. CARVER, JR.

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05014279
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• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2021-02184
• Publication Date: December 7, 1973

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
DATE: 7 Dec 73
TO Mr. James Angleton
Chief, Cl/OPS
FROM:
SUBJECT:
REMARKS
Dear Jim:
Attached is John Whitman's copy
of the 4 December package which you
so kindly sent.. He read it with
interest and profit but because of
its sensitivity did not wish to
retain it. I am, therefore,
returning it to you.
greatly appreciate the
unstinting cooperation we have
received from you and your office.
The information you are able to
provide is of great value and we
will do our best to handle it in a
way that meets your needs as well
as ours.
George A. Carver, Jr.
D/DCl/NIO
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MEMORANDUM FOR
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2. The second part of the package gives some background o
Hammer assembled in 1972 for passage to Dr. Kissinger
as an attachment to a 1 August note to Kissinger from Helms (then the
DCI) occasioned by the publicity surrounding the 20 July 1972 agree-
rn.ent between the Soviet Union and the Occidental Petroleum Corpora-
tion, with which Hammer is intimately connected. This 1972 package
was sent in one copy to Helms for Kissinger
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CENTRAL INTELUGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20Z05
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDU FOR: The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Dr. Armand Hammer and Family
1. The Central Intelligence Bulletin of 20 July 1972
reported that Occidental Petroleum Corporation's highly
touted "agreement" with the Soviet Union may be less than
meets the eye. Barron's Financial Weekly of 24 July 1972
states that the announcement brought the small investor
back into the market and added three quarters of a billion
dollars in value to Occidental's securities. The common
stock soared from 10 1/4 to 13 1/4. The financial community
is skeptical about the worth of the agreement. Or. Hammer
was quoted in the 31 July 1972 issue of Newsweek as saying,
"It is a firm agreement in that we have agreed to a number
of concrete ideas. But we may fall apart in the final
negotiations."
2. The Department of State has learned that the nego-
tiations were conducted personally by Armand Hammer and a
small staff operating from Occidental's London office. It
has also been reported that the home office in Los Angeles
has no information beyond that reported in the press. Ac-
cording to a KGB defector, the Soviets can manipulate such
a corporation thus changing the fortunes of large numbers *
of unsuspecting U.S. investors. Since Soviet economic acts
are not without political objectives, the announcement of
the agreement on the eve of Secretary Peterson's arrival in
Moscow is not regarded to have been a coincidence. In view
of the above, I enclose for your information a summary of
the Soviet intelligence relationship with the Hammer family
over the past fifty years.
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3. A copy of this memorandum has been sent to Secre-
taries Rogers, Shultz, Laird and Peterson.
Attachment: As stated
Richard. Helms
Director
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31 July 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: DR. ARM ND HAMMER
1. On 19 July 1972, Dr. Armand Hammer, Chairman of
the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, announced in London
the signing of a wide-ranging five year technical assist-
ance agreement with the Soviet Union. Hammer said that
the agreement would specifically include natural gas,
crude oil, agricultural fertilizers and chemicals, metal
treating and plating, the design and construction of hotels,
and the utilization of solid wastes.
2. Armand Hammer and his brothers Viktor and Harry
(now deceased) are the sons of Dr. Julius Hammer who emi-
grated with his parents to the U.S. from Russia in the
1870's. Julius Hammer, a wealthy physician, was active
in leftist politics and was one of the founders of the
Communist Party in the United States. Armand Hammer was
named by his father for the arm and hammer emblem of one
of the Communist Party predecessor organizations. In 1920
Dr. Julius Hammer was sentenced to five years in Sing Sing
Prison for performing an illegal abortion on a Russian
woman whose husband was a Soviet attache in Washington in
World War I.
3. Interest in the Hammer family by various investi-
gative agencies of the U.S. Government started as early as
1921. In that year the Department of Justice advised the,,
British that Armand Hammer was carrying messages to the
Soviet Union for Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, head of the Soviet
trade mission and self-styled Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.
who had been deported because of espionage activities in
January 1920. Hammer was searched when his ship reached
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