A FORMER SECURITY GUARD FOR BILLIONAIRE HOWARD HUGHES ADMITTED THURSDAY THAT HE UNWITTINGLY SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT BLEW THE COVER OF ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND ELABORATE SPY SCHEMES IN HISTORY.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: April 4, 1975
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STAT
"IT WAS: JUST AN ABSENT -tiiINDED THING,"
IhURSDAY LIKE DAVIS TOLD AUTHORITIES
.
DAVIS SAID IT ALL BEGAN WHEN HE WAS BOUND AND GAGGED BY BURGLARS
WHO RANSACI-ED THE FILES IN HUGHES' PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
"ROMAINE- LAST JUNE 5
C
w r. LVLR OF Otu~. OF. ThE t~4OST EXPENSIVE AND
ELABORAT' SPY SGHENLS IN HISTORY
HOWARD HUGHES ADMITTED THURSDAY THAT HE UNWITTINGLY SET OFFAARCHAIN
.OF 'E?VEt~T S ..T z T, BL.E...T.h:
(HUGHES PIEMO)
CONFIDENTIAL/" '
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- A FORMER SECURITY GUARD FOR' BILLION
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FLOOR AND ASSENT -MI D
EDLY. ST UFFED THEM IN HIS POCKET.
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STAT WAS A MEMO OUTLINING A SLCRET CONTRACT WhEREBY 'HUGHES AGREED TO FRONT
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AN MINING RESEARCH VESSEL"
CALLED THE GLOirttyk EXPLORER ,
ACTUALLY, THE SHIP WAS OWNED AND RUN BY ThE CIA AND WAS BUILT, AT
AN ESTIMATED COST Oi' $400 MILLION, TO RETRIEVE A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE
HAT Stiii K IN THE P
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AC
C YEARS AGO .
REPORTEDLY, IT SUCCEEDED IN RECOVERING HALF THE SU
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OPERATION THE CIA DUBBED PROJECT-1 JENNIFER
BUT WHEN THE MEMO OUTLINING THE PROJECT VANISHED AFTER THE
BURGLARY -- AND A MAN PURP
, ORT IG TO HAVE COt TACT WITH THE BURGLARS
TRIED TO EXTORT A' $
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FE CAME ALARMED THAT.. THE THIEVES HAD THE MEMO. AND COULD MAKE PUBLIC
THE SECRET OF' PROJECT iiNN F
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THROUGH LAW ENFORCE.iriENT SOURCES" 'TO REPORTERS A1ir 'VE'
PROJECT 'S COVER. wT DALLY B1.F.W ThE
DAVIS .SAID HE KEPT BOTH THE MEMO AND.-TME . NOTE IN. AL BLDR00t"i DRAWER
FOR. SEVERAL MONTHS, BUT THAT WHEN ALL THE PUBLICITY BEGAN'-TO BREAK ON
THE SUBMARINE SPY MISSION- ABOUT A MONTH AGO, HE TORE UP THE-MEMO AND
FLUSHED IT DOWN THE TOILL-T . THEN HE TOOK .THE $100,000 NOTE AND PUT IT
A FRIEND S SAFE, . HE SAID .
THURSDAY HE TOLD HIS
STORY TO DETECT IVES:; D ISTRiCT ATTORNEY'S
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These comments represent the initial and tentative reaction of the CIA Operations Center and of the appropriate
analytic component in'the Agency to the attached item from the news wire services.
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