LETTER TO HONORABLE GEORGE BUSH FROM JOE L. ALBRITTON

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A000200150030-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 21, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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Joe L. Allbritton
Publisher
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Dear George:
June 21, 1976
225 Virginia Avenue, S. E.
Washington, D. C. 20061
I have received your note of June 9, and appreciate
your calling to my attention our headline "CIA Goal: Drug,
Not Kill, Anderson."
I passed your comments along to our editor, Jim
Bellows, who states that the headline is poor and overdone.
I agree with him. I can only apologize to you and say
we will redouble our efforts to watch our headline writing.
Please give my best regards to Barbara.
Honorable George Bush
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Sincerely,
P. S. Always call these things to my attention. It may
not always correct the past errors, but it will
help us to do better as time goes on.
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THE WASHIM33TON STAR (r,1jjp_EhT I,I?tg)
By Vernon A. Guidry Jr. ' which was released yester-
WashingtoeStarStaff Writor
The Senate Intelligence
Committee staff says it
hasn't found any evidence
that the Nixon White House
ordered Jack Anderson
assassinated, but it does
appear that there was dis-
cussion of drugging the
columnist to discredit him.
"The White House effort
was made in consultation
with a former CIA physi-
cian to'T-means of
drugging Anderson to dis-
credit him by rendering.
him incoherent before a
public appearance. This ef-
fort apparently nev, er tiro-
ceeded beyondthhee,p ring
std, saiT-the report
day.
The chief figure in the
planning was Watergate
conspirator and former CIA
agent E. Howard Hunt.
"HOWARD HUNT testi-
fied that somewhere in late,
1971 or early 1972 special
counsel to the president
Charles Colson called Hunt
into his office and asked
him to find a means of dis-
crediting newspaper
columnist Jack Anderson,"
'the report said.
of contingency planning.".
the report continued.
Colson did not go along
with Hunt's version. The
former White, House insider
told the committee that he
recalled "Hunt on a couple
of occasions coming to me
with some hair-brained
schemes, something to do
with drugging involving
Jack Anderson."
COLSON TOLD the com-
mittee the only serious dis-
cussion of the effect of
drugs on a specific target
involved a plan to disorient
Daniel Ellsburg, which--Col-
son said "never received a
;very sympathetic reac-
tion." -
"Hunt testified that nei-
ther Colson or anyone. else
ever mentioned him the
possibility of assassinating
Anderson even in the sense
The committee investi4
gated the issue after a,
September 1975 Washington
Post report that Hunt told
associates he had been
ordered to assassinate
Anderson but that the plan
was canceled at the last
minute.
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