UNIDENTIFIED TELEPHONE CALLS TO COLLAS G. HARRIS AT HIS HOME ON 30 JULY 1967

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260016-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 31, 1967
• Content Type: MFR

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31 JUL 1967
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SUBJ CT: Unidentified Telephone Calls to
at : fi s Home on 30 July 1967
1. At approximately 1230 hours Sunday, 30 July 1967, the undersigned
answered the phone and an unidentified voice said, "Do you kno=w that you
are being investigated?" The voice sounded something like the voice of a
FOIAb5 neighbor, Icy
first reaction was that the Agency was wing a routine periodic check-up
and had made enquiries in the neighborhood and that the caller -was trying
to pull my leg. My answer was no. Then the caller said didn't you knot:
that you were being investigated by Senator Proxmire's Committee. Again,
the answer was no. The caller then asked if I had received a subpoena to
appear before Senator Proxmire's Committee. Again, the answer was no.
The caller then said that I had been insulting to Senator Proxmire and that
I would be subpoenaed. My answer was that I did not even know senator
Proxmire, except that he was a Senator from Wisconsin, that I had never
appeared before his committee, therefore, I could not have insulted him.
2. Several times during the first part and throughout the telephone
conversation, I asked the caller to identify himself. Ile consistently
refused saying only that he ..as a newspaper reporter. He asked whether
I would grant him an interview. My answer was that I couldn't answer that
question since I did not even know who he was or ghat he was talking about.
Somewhere toward the end of the strange conversation, the caller said that
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he had written an article that would appear in, I thought I understood him
to say, The Milwaukee Journal, and that he would send me a copy. There
was an implied threat that unless I granted an interview that a news
article would be published.
3. During the conversation he stated that Senator Proxmire was
investigating the CIA. I made no c t. The caller asked if my initials
were C. G., and I answered yes. He asked if I was a Colonel in the Air Force
Reserves. I answered yes, Be also asked if I had ever been associated with
the National Archives. I answered yen I had been before the War. (I was
the from December 1934 until 1942
when I went on active duty with the Air Force.) I believe that he also
mentioned Dr. R.D.W. Connor, who was the first Archivist of the United States.
He asked whether I had been involved in an investigation at the Archives. I
answered that I did not know what he was talking about.
4. As I continued to deny knowing Senator Proxmire, appearing before
his committee, insulting the Senator, or being subpoenaed, he asked if I was
associated with Senator Gruening. My answer was no and that I did not know
Senator Gruening, except that he 'was a Senator from Alaska. I repeated
several times that I believed that he was talking to the wrong person, and
probably said, to the wrong Harris. His answer was no, that he was talking
to the right person. As the conversation went on, the above was repeated
several t Imes.
5. The caller did not ask whether I was presently with the CIA. His
only mention of CIA was that Senator Proxmire's Committee was conducting an
investigation of CIA. I gave, at no time, any indication that I was with CIA.
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6. 'The above conversation was discussed immediately over the phone
with Mr. Robert Berman, the DDS. Mr. Bannerman suggested that I also
report the conversation to Mr. Joseph C. Goodwin, Assistant to the Director,
and to Office of General Counsel, which the writer did.
suggested that I prepare this weir dun for the record
and that he knew of no investigation of CIA by Senator Proxmire.
7. The writer received a second call from the unidentified caller at
approximately 1500 hours.. Since there was no really new information, the
writer did not discuss the second call with the officials named in
paragraph 6 above. During the second call, the caller seemed surprised that
I had not received a subpoena and had no knowledge of one. The caller asked
if I was retired and I answered yes, without going into any details, assuming
for the purpose that he was referring to the Air Force Reserves, from which
I retired effective 1 November 1966. The writer again asked several times
to whom he was talking. Finally, the caller said Souhima. I asked him to
spell it. Somewhat sarcastically he did. I checked the phone book and
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Mr. Robert Bannerman
Deputy Director for Sup&,ort
Mr. Joseph C. Goodwin Howard J. Osborn
Assistant to the Director ~cAtsa of Security
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Office of General Counsel Chief, Foreign Intelligence
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