SPECIAL REPORT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430479
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 7, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Management and Services
SUBJECT Special Report
1. This memorandum is in response to a request to
provide information on situations or associations that
might appear to be irregular on the surface.
2. Details to the White House and Government Agencies -
Background: For many years the Central Intelligence Agency has
detailed employees to the immediate office of the White House
per se and to components associated intimately with the immediate
office of the President such as the Council on International
Economic Policy and the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board. We have furnished secretaries, clerical
employees and certain professional employees on a reimbursable
and non-reimbursable basis. At the present time, we have no
clericals or professionals assigned to the immediate White
House office, but we do have one young man detailed to their.
Communications Section. There are detailees to PFIAB and CIEP.
I might point out that we had detailed to the White House as
late as the fall of 1970 couriers, telephone operators, a
laborer assigned to the grounds and a graphics man who designed
invitations for State dinners. By October of 1970, more funds
were apparently available to run the White House and most of
our detailees were hired as bona fide White House employees.
CIA is not the only Agency furnishing the White House with
detailees. Levies have been made by this Administration and
others on Defense and State and other Government entities
whose employees have Top Secret clearances.
Professional officers have been and are at the present
time assigned 11D the National Security Council and we have seven
clericals on detail to NSC on a reimbursable basis.
In addition to the above, we have technical specialists
detailed to NSA, an instructor at the National War College and
security officers detailed to the Department of State to
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protect foreign visitors. Recently, was detailed
to the Secretary of the Treasury along with four other Agency
employees. We have even, in rare instances, detailed our
people to Congressional Staffs for short periods of time.
3. Details to the White House and Government Agencies
Discussion: Details to NSC, the White House, NSA and the
National War College are probably quite defensible. On the other
hand, there may be those who would question Agency employees
currently working at the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
and Mr. Peter Peterson having an Agency employee as his
secretary when he was the Secretary of Commerce (she also made
a trip with him to Moscow). She is still with him in his
present assignment but we expect that she will report to NSC for
a new detail sometime this month. served for
over ten years as Director of the Ottice ot Public Safety for
AID. This information has been kept "close to the vest" during
that entire period of time. He has been approved for disability
retirement and is presently on sick leave and will retire
automatically at the expiration of this leave.
Each detail of an Agency employee to the White House or
other Government agency has been carefully considered and
approval at a higher level obtained when professionals were
involved.
4. Project TWOFOLD: I believe the support we are
providing to Project TWOFOLD is an activity that should be
reported under your guidelines. Since this is an extremely
sensitive Project and the Office of Security is reporting on
it, I will not repeat the details in my memorandum.
S. Individuals Engaged in Domestic Activities: In a more
general sense, Contract Personnel Division prepares and executes
contracts with individuals engaged by the Agency to carry out
domestic activities. We also process Staff Agents who are
domestically assigned. None of these assignments are decided
in OP. I really have no way of knowing with any degree of
certainty what the specific duties of these individuals will be.
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8. Hunt Requests a Lockpicker: This is a record of
External Employment Assistance Branch's action on a request
from Howard Hunt for a lockpicker who might be retiring or
resigning from the Agency.
Sometime in the spring of 1972, Frank O'Malley of EEAB
received a call from Howard Hunt who asked Frank if he had a
retiree or resignee who was accomplished at picking locks.
Mr. O'Malley sent him a resume on Thomas Amato who retired
31 July 1971. Mr. O'Malley did not document his EEAB record
to show the date of this exchange, but (who
also works in EEAB) opines that it occurred sometime between
March and May 1972.
All of the above information was reported to the Office
of Security on 4 October 1972 following the FBI's contact with
the Agency regarding Howard Hunt.
9. Resume Sent to McCord: a contract
employee who retired in September 1971, was a client of the
External Employment Assistance Branch in his searchfor a job
after retirement. One of the leads given to was
James McCord's security business. EEAB sent a resume to
McCord, but was not hired.
In mid-summer 1972, telephoned EEAB from
Chicago. (He had a job there with the Halifax Security Co.,
a lead provided by EEAB, but until this telephone call he had
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not notified EEAB that he had the job and had moved from
the D.C. area.) He said een visited by a Special
Agent of the FBI who told that his resume had been
ong McCord's papers. The Agent w d o know if
had any connection with McCord. explained
resume got to McC rd. After the Agent Jeft I 'm
telephoned EEAB. of OP and of
were notified immediate y.
Harry B. Fisher
Director of Personnel
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