JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100090010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 20, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 20 December 1973
1. I I Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House A.rxned Services Committee called to ask about the
front page story in today's Washington Post about Howard Hunt surveilling
Senator Barry Goldwater. I reminded Nedzi that John McCone was Director
i.n those days and said that we were checking into every angle of the story
and talking to everyone who might throw any light on it, but so .far had found
.nothing irx any way supporting it. I said if we did, we would let him know
immediately.
25X1A Nedzi asked how sensitive information about the number of people
we had in Indochina was. I said we considered it secret but if some of his
colleagues were pressing him on this, we would provide it to him for use
at his discretion.
2? Senator Stuart Symington called to ask
about the story in to ay s Washington Post on Howard Hunt. I reminded him
that John McCone was Director at the time and said our investigation to date
had produced nothing in any way supporting the story but would let him know
i.f we came up with anything. He seemed satisfied and said he would see
us tomorrow.
3. I I Tom Braden, who writes a column syndicated
by the Los Angeles Times, called about the Washington Post story on Howard
I~lunt surveilling Senator Goldwater. See Memo for Record.
nze xca recor s an ca e ack to tell Chairman Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee,
House Arxned Services Committee that Howard Hunt had gone on sick leave
on c o er an was ospita ized from then until lb October 1964 and
,apparently had remained on sick leave until 8 December 1964.
In response to his request, I checked the
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