GENERAL: WATERGATE SPECIFIC: TOM PARROTT'S INVOLVEMENT WITH DAVID YOUNG

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430413
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 24, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FO*(!.,THERECORD
SUBJECT: General:
Specific:
We met with Tom Latimer this morning to get from him the only
existing copy of the sensitive attachment to our family jewels repprt
in order that we might make a temporary sta.yback burn copy. At?that
time, Latimer said he had a call in to Broe to report that when Torn
Parrott was DCI duty officer some time in September 1972 he received
some calls from David Young.
I called ParrO s home (FE 7-3512) at 0925. The person
answering, presumably Mrs. Parrott, gave me his telephone number
at the Environmental Protection Agency (755-0533). I called Parrott
there and told hiniAhat I would like to meet with him to debrief him
on the substance oNills he received from the White House whijb
was DCI duty officer in September 1972. Tom said he would be_
to meet with me but that he saw no reason why he could not give�Me
the information oxer. the telephone.
Tom receivecla call from David Young at about midday-on+�
Saturday. Young was calling about that morning's program by:Dan-
Rather in which Rttlier included material from a classified retiaii '
Young wanted to 8:5riie out to the headquarters building to see Pa.rrott.
Parrott started chasing it do He spoke with Bruce Clarke 'w1:;.-o'';had
the DDI duty. It turned out that.Rather s comment was made on: his
program of the previous day and that it was based on a report 'that.
came out of George Carvers The report was distributed in
only seven or eight copies, and only two of them had gone outside the
Agency--both to Kissinger.
Young got lost trying to find the build ag and did not arrive until
about one. By then, Parrott had identified the Carver report and had
a copy of the distribution list. Young was shaken upon discovering
that the only external distribution was to Kissinger. He was extremely
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gant,�wanting o know,whoeach of the Agency 'recipients w
'he ha4 received a copy. He wanted to know if any Of-t116.-.A.
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recipients' liked with Rather. Parrott called,Thuernieri�a
and found thato'ireports had been made of contacts wit
Young rerriar4.'Oatto the effect "that's what they say" an
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Of these peOiakilid been interrogated. Upon learnin
had done nothlrekbout the alleged leak, Young left in
he would be ba.ck.in touch.
Sometime later Parrott got the transcript of the Rather broadcast.
Rather's comments bore only a remote connection to the content of the
Carver report. Parrott cannot now recall specifically what the Carver
report concerned. Rather did imply criticism of the President in his
broadcast, and this may have been the basis of Young's concern. On
Monday, Parrott got in touch with Carver, and the two of them met
with Helms and briefed him on the episode. This is the last Parrott
heard of it. Parrott commented that he had no other contacts with
anyone remotely involved with Watergate or related matters. He
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thinks he xna:Y.A4a,Ye written a memo for the record of.the2 Oting episode
but is not sure. His duty secretary may remember. TInswou1d have
^It is also
been either
possible. that- Carver made a M/R on the matter.
I caUel Carver. He said that he then had a memo
which will reach us during the course of the day.
reports that she had traded theltity,,Wit
that Weekend. thinks that Parrott wrote a memo
on. e episode, but he would have kept only a chrono copy, and his
chrono files were destroyed when he left. She has no idear.-What might
have happened to the original.
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