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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482401
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: June 4, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
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4 June 1973
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1 Jun 73 Memo for Record fr General
Counsel "Watergate Case"
1. The Inspector General furnished me information
which indicated that whose name�
had come up in my conversation with FBI representatives as
described in referent,
2. I called Mr. Angelo Joseph La_no of the FBI and
gave him this information, saying we had had no contaict with
since his retirement except in connection with an
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income tax case. Mr. Lano said he had been thinking over the
problem of why they had been called off and felt that maybe it
was a general direction against further investigations in
rather than a prohibition as to one individual. He thanke me
for giving him the information on (b)(3)
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Background on Subject
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LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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1 June 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR TI4E RECORD
SUBJECT: Watergate Case
1. At their'request, I met with Mr. Daniel C. Mahan and
Mr. Angelo Joseph Lano of the FBI on 1 June 1973. They said they
wished to discuss the so-called McCord letters received by the
Agency beginning in July 1972 through early January 1973. They
told me that after talking to the U. S. Attorney they thought it
proper to give me a Miranda warning for which they had a standard
form which I signed.
2. I gave them a copy of the affidavit I had prepared for the
congressional hearings and then talked to them at some length about
the circumstances and rationale for not sending the first McCord
letter to the Bureau. I said the decision on the first letter controlled
the handling of the succeeding letters which they courd query Mr.
Howard Osborn about. Mr. Mahan had some difficulty in. understanding
why I did not read the first letter as indicating a possible high level
cover up and I merely asked him to consider the position we were in
at the time in early August of 1972 and read the letter in that light. I
also explained how we had traditionally worked with U.S. Attorneys
in those cases where defendants had tried to involve the Agency in a
criminal defense. I did say that at the time we prepared the October
24, 1972 report to the Attorney General, which I had discussed on the
24th with Mr. Petersen so he could brief Mr. Silbert, it was a pure
failure of memory on my part that the letters were not included and
there was no reason whatsoever at that time why they could not have
been given to Mr. Silbert. Actually when we compared notes it was
agreed there was only the original letter at that time but we could
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have given the succeeding letters as they came in. I again said
I could only plead a faulty memory for not thinking of the letters
after the cover up became apparent but they did not come to mind
until I was reminded aft ex a check at Mr. Silbert's request for the
latest contacts with Mr. McCord.
3. At the request of Messrs. Mahan and Lano, Mr. Osborn
joined us and we gave them Mr. Osborn's affidavit and Mr. Gaynor's
affidavit. They said these in effect answered all the questions they
wanted to ask Mr. Psborn and we spent a while discussing other
aspects of the Watergate case. In particular they said they were
bewildered why when they wanted to talk to a
in in July 197 2 they were called off by higher authority. They
thought had something to do with the Agency. I said I
had never heard of this and did not see why we would have interfered.
I said I would check and let them know.
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Note for File:
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LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
Genereal Counsel
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