LETTER TO STUART SYMINGTON FROM W. E. COLBY RE COPY OF THE MEMORANDUM DATED 28 JUNE 1972 FROM MR. HELMS TO THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (GENERAL WALTERS)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482368
• 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: November 5, 1973

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Ms Honorable Stuart Symington
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20310
Dear Senator Symington
Attached is a copy of the rneznozandum dated ZS June 1972 from
Mr. Helms to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (General
Walters). With the exception of the two names of CIA personnel,
there are no security considerations which would prevent declassifica-
tion of this mernorendurn. I do point out, however, that the matter
has been in the hands of the Special Prosecutor for possible action by
that Office with respect to this document. Any public release, there-
fore, could have an impact on his consideration of possible action in
the courts related to this document. Thus, I would reconzmend dis-
cussion with that Office if any action is to be taken to =take this docu-
ment public at this time
Attachment
Sincerely,
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W. E. Colby
Director
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M0RLIDUM 73R: Deputy Director
SUBJECT: Watergate Affair
23 June 1972
, 1. Acting Director Gray of the FBI 'phoned ne this morning
to cancel our meeting scheduled for 2:30 this afternoon. He indi-
cated that he would not be able to get together until next week. I
informed him tha T -,-1,11:4 he away- but that you would be available
with Shockley and for any such meeting. I did, however,
use the opportunity of this call to make two points to Acting Director
Gray: 1) That I would appreciate his ca.eling off interviews with sari
Wagner and John Caswell (this he agreed to do); and 2) that Kenneth
Harry Dahlberg was no agent of the CIA and that we had no ties to him.
I stated that our last verifiable contact with him was iii ay 1961.
Acting Director Gray confirmed that this is the same Kenneth Dahlberg
about whom he was inquiring as soon as I identified the gentleman as
the President of Dahlberg Company in Minneapolis.
2. I informed Shockley and this morning, in prepara-
tion for the scheduled meeting this ee:ternoon, that the agency is at-
temnting to "distance itself" from this investigation and that I
wanted them along as "reference -Piles" to participate in the conversa-
tion when requested. I told them that I ware;ed no free.awheeling ex-
position of hypotheses or any effort :7ade to conjecture about respon-
sibility or likely objectives of the Watergate intrusion. In short,
at such a meeting, it is up to the FBI to lay some cards on the table.
Othereise� we are unable to be of help. in addition, 7.:e still adhere
to the request that they confine themselves to the nersonalities already
arrested or directly under suspicion and that they desist from ex-
panding this investigation into other areas which may Nen" eventually,
run afoul of our operations.
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