WILLIAMSBURG GAZETTE INQUIRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300310027-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 9, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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9 January 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT: Williamsburg Gazette Inquiry
This memo is in response to your query following today's
morning meeting.
Mr. Ed Offley of the Williamsburg Gazette called me late
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assume this means that the paper feels that a follow-up to
their story is called for because of letters to the Editor on
It is hard to say whether the follow-up story will be benign
or not. I do not hold out much hope for a terribly friendly
story.
Mr. Offley said he had seen a statement attributed to It
in the Richmond paper. I repeated that statement to him.
was to the effect that "a spokesman of the Central Intelligence
.Agency said that allegations concerning any training for or
participation in assassination operations by the Agency are
absolutely untrue. The same applies to allegations concerning
Agency contact with or association with mini-nuclear weapons'?.
the subject.
Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
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