AGENCY INVOLVEMENT IN THE WATERGATE CASE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482427
• 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: May 23, 1973

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23 May 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: All Employees
SUBJECT : Agency Involvement in the Watergate Case
1. The leadership of the Agency continues to make a deter-
mined effort to investigate all aspects of Agency involvement with
the "Watergate" case or a-ny of those persons connected with it.
The results of these investigations have been given to the appro-
priate legislative, executive, and judicial elements of the Govern-
ment investigating these matters. Each employee has been asked
and is directed to report to the Director any knowledge he or she
has of the Watergate affair and related matters, any persons con-
nected with it, or any other illegal activity in which they believe
the Agenry was involved in any way.
2. In consonance with the foregoing, anyone who has had
any connection or contact with individuals on the attached list, or
anyone in their offices or anyone purporting to act for them or
acting pursuant to their authority, should report these contacts
fully. Activities of these and other individuals include not only the
Watergate affair, but any investigative work on the Pentagon Papers/
Ellsberg case and any contacts relating to the Executive Branch and
White House efforts to locate and stem leaks of classified inioiLua-
tion to the press starting as early as July 1970.
3. Any work done by anyone in the Agency on any of these
subjects, or any knowledge related thereto, should be reported to
the IG through the appropriate Deputy Director, or directly and
personally to the Director.
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4. It is imperative that every piece of information
bearing on these matters be reported immediately for evaluation
by the senior management of the Agency. The public interest
requires that all information be produced and reported to our
oversight committees (on a classified basis if necessary) so
that the Agency's actual role will be clarified with respect to
various charges and speculation.
W. E. Colby
Executive Secretary
CIA Management Codmittee
Attachment
APPROVED
James R. Schlesinge
Director.
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H. R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichrnan.
John Dean
Egil Krogh
David Young
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
James W. McCord
Charles W. Colson
John J. Caulfield
Eugenio Rolando Martinez Careaga
Bernard L. Barker
Virgilio Gonzales
Frank Anthony Sturgis
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