EMBASSY BREAK-IN PROBED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300450024-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 26, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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2 G DEC 1973
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The Watergate special
prosecutor's office is seek-
ing to question the publisher
of a. locally based anti-
Communist Chilean news-
letter about the alleged theft
of a mailing list from the
Chilean embassy shortly
before last year's \'Jatcr-
gatc break-in.
The prosecutors are in-
vestigating the possibility
that the Chilean embassy
burglary the weekend of.
May 13-15, 1972 may have
involved some of the same
individuals as the June 17
Watergate break-in.
Wilson C. Lucom, publish-
er of Chile Lxa vlerdad (The
Truth), was 'subpoenaed ,
last month to appear before
a grand-jury here to answer
questions about the source
of some names on his news-
letter's circulation list, it
teas learned.
Lucom protested the sub-
poena on grounds that it
.would breach. a claimed
newsman's privilege cf con-
fidentiality, and the special
prosecutor's office subse-
quently withdrew the sub-
poena.
James Doyle, spokesman
for the prosecutor's office,
said, "We continue to be
interested in Mr. Lucom
and we expect that he will
Voluntarily come in to talk
with us as his attorney has
indicated he would."
"We quashed the subpoe-
na, although it was com-
pletely legal and proper, tc
avoid even the suggestion of I
a 1st Amendment problem,"
Doyle said.
LUCOM, in a telephone
interview today, said he
wired acting Atty. Gen.
Robert 11. Bork on Dec. 5 to
protest "harassment of
news media" by the special
prosecutor's office.
The prosecutors, Lucom .
said, had failed to obtain
D~orrk's authorization be-
fore subpoenaing him as
required by Jusiice Depart-
ment regulations in cases
involving newsmen.
Lucom said he told Bork,
"I strongly resent and pro
text . attempts through
speculations to link nh6- ? to
the ;Vaterp"ate? plumbers
and a break-in at the Chile-
an Embassy May 13-15,
1972." %
He said he has no. inten-
tion of cooperating with the
special prosecutor's office,
and will fight to protect his
"long established circula-
tion list and pews sources in
Chile." II
STAT
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