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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
MINORANDUM FORS Chief, LEOB/SRG
BUBJECT:
20 Decembar 1957
December 1967 RAMPANTS Article Entitled
\CIA's .'. Brown and Root Dimensions!”.
BROWN and ROOT, Inc. - $405552
The following employees of BROWN and ROỐT, Inc. vera approved for
contact 
use on the 
dates indicatedi
HAITE, Rosa $405552-A
POANE, Isane Newton, Vice-President
in Charge of Foreign Operations
-4405552-8
WARNER, Merritt Allen, Chief
Project Accountant.
$405552-0
Thomas Kenneth
405552-0
BRADBERRY, Louis Bell
4405552-8
WILLIAMS, Bobby Jos
#C462165
MAGNER, Richard Andrew, Civil
Engineer - #453188
(A PECA was issued for
contact and assessment but.
he was not used - had a poor
credit reputation
REMKES, Elmer Ray - $1464127
MACKIN, John Gilman,
BROWN FOUNDATION
449780
13 March 1950
11 Decembar 1952 and
16 February 1953
31 January 1957 and
11 Apríl 1957
15 February 1957 and
8 May 1957
October 1957.
14 July 1965
3 August 1965
6 August 1965
19 July 1966
There is no 08 subject file on the BROWN Foundation but a reference
le contains a maporandum dated 30 January 1967 to the Deputy Director, Plans
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Excluded from asteratic
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from Chief, Central Cover Group concerning the threat of exposure of.
Agency operations and concludes 
that the BROWN Foundation of Houston,
Texas who one of the mont mulasiable 
to exposure dessuse public records
· 
reflect direct ties from Agenas Nmding 
instruments identified by
Congressman PATMAN in 1964 to 
legitimate foundations and Agency
projects they have 
sponsored.
VERNON FORD - #69000-573
The VERNON Fund (HERJUDISED) was created by the Agency in June 1958
as an 
onkensibly private 
philanthropic foundation, legally incorporated
under the laws of end with an 
office in the District of Columbis. It is used as
a cover and funding mechanism for 
Forject DILAMPREY. The objectives of e
this project in the development of 
organisational end individual assets capable
of strengthening the unity of non-
Commumist teachers and their organizations
throughout the world.. These objectives 
are carried out through the active
support by the Agency of the 
international programs of the National
Education Association (L) 
and the World Confederation of Organizations
of the Tasching Profession (JELACEPOD) 
with which DEA in affiliated. In March
1967 because of exposure of the Forum 
Find în news media, the Board
maubers were contacted advised 
as follows:
Esch Vernon Fund board member is being såvised that be will
receive 
a copy of 
the MA and WCCTP letters regarding prese ·
allegations; he will 
acknowledge his membership on the Vernon
Find bourd if 
cmnfronted with the factį he will acknowledge that the
Vernon Find has supported 
COTP and that it made a few small grants
to NEAj be will decline any 
further comment on the origin or operation
of the Vernon Fund, en sources 
of Vernon Fund money, on whether the
Varnon Fund received money 
from the Agency, or any other aspect of
the Find; he will be 
informed that the Vernon Fund records are not
available to the 
poblic, short of subpoenas he will be asked to return
any files or papers 
relating to the Vernon Fund; he will be told that.
Dr. CARR (William George 
CARR) has not yet had to identify any board
members but will probably 
have to; be will not comment on the creation
of the Vernon Fund and how initial 
contacts were made.
DICK, Albert Alske, TII - #178333 (Vernon Fund Board Member)
Albart Blake DICK, III, President, A. B. DICK Company, Chicago,
Illingia
, was granted a Covert 
Security Approval for his witting use in
connection with the 
funding of Pooject TPFOUMART.
GARR, William George - $410038-B und /2116332
William G. CARR was granted a Covert Security Clearance on 22 April
1955 
for unwitting use under 
Project CTPILLAR and on 21 November 1967 hs
received a Covert 
Security Approval to perit his use under Project
DTLAMPREY in his 
position as Secretary-General of the World Confederation
of Organizations in the 
Teaching Professionė
49438
Bryce REA, Jr., attorney, for the Vernon Fund, was granted a Covert
Security Clearance for
on a cleared attorneys' panel on
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15 November 1956 and on 19 September 1958 he received mother
covert security 
Clearance to permit his use as a Leagoo Cut-Out
in the 
procurement of domestic cafehouses,
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Professions
(Funded by the Vernon Fund
)
In April 1967 a discussion vos hald between an Agency representative
and 
Kim TMPSOS and May GINS of 
the NCOIP (World Confederation of
Organizations of the Teaching 
Frofession) concerning future funding for
WCOTP. Because of publicity 
concerning the funding of WORD by the Vertion Mini
WCOT? leadership promised its membership 
that no further Vermön Fund money
would be accepted until the 
status of the Vernon Fund was clarified. John
THOMPSON felt that the best solution 
would be a one-time only infusion of
money by sterile check 
into the WCOTP bank account to be backstopped by a
letter from the attorney for 
the Vernon Find, Bryce REA, who would attribute
the money to members of the Vernon 
Find Board thò anonymously wished to
provide WCOTP with 
sufficient Zends to cover expenses until other smirdes
could be found,
In May 1967 John THOMPSON of the WOOTP described to on. Agency repres
sentative 
an interview he had 
with Mike MacMANUS of TIME magazine on
1 y 1967 who mated to 
discuss the effects of pewapopar publicity on
WCOLP operations, NaCMANUS 
was especially interested in any compules forced.
oa WCMP sad e request for 
proof of the value of WCOTP operations to individum)
tanchera. MHOMPSON felt that 
MAGNANUS did not succeed in gaining sufficient
sdditional information from 
the interview to warrant writing his projected
erticle,
SNOZKE. Raymond Joseph
60091
Raymond Joseph SWKS was granted a Covert Security Approval
om 10 Ady 
1977 for 
use an a vitting moloyee of Project HTFILACES and
an 19 y 1962 be 
received e Covert Security Approval for his use by Project
JELAGAFOD as Coordinator 
for Afriom Activities in Washington, D. C.
io aðeinistrative 
officer of the World Confederation of Organizatime of the
BIKE
Teaching Profession.
It was not possible to identify a subject file on John THOMPSCH
employed by 
the World 
Confederation of Organizations of the Tesching
Profession.
CARET FOUNDATION
indices were negative on the CABOT Foundation,
rican Friends of the Middle East 0 #341.377 and $65300
BEX Thomas D. CABOT
American Friends of the Middle East (Project ZINIMER) was created
May 1951 
with 
the purpose of employing aggressive propaganda to promote
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the friendship of peoples of the Near and Middle East toward the
United Staten and 
to emit Commism. It was incorporated as a
voluntary, non-profit 
membership corporation under the love of New
York State. 
Dokothy TNP, columist, was selected es Chairman.
In early 1967 ATMS 
received a good deal of newspaper publicity con-
cerning £te Agency effiliation 
including articles in the Bovist press,
TASS and VGS3. INTERNATIONAL 
AFFAIRS. Syria was the only country in
shich ANE is netiva that 
raised the question of the organization'a
contique à existence in 
the light of allegations of Agency financial
supporty although
, there were rumblings in Iraq,
Minto Bud
Meré is no 08 subject file on the Een Jacinto Fund. The attached
mamorunâum 
dated 30 
January 1967 from Chief, Contral Cover Group to
Deputy Director, Plans 
- "Threat of Exposure of Agency Operations".
stated that RAMPARTS 
das expressed intense interest in the Sen Jointo
Fund, and its 
sources of income la particular, because it Runda 5 UBEPITOM
mctivities (youth affairs).
M. D. ANDERSON Foundation
There is no OS subject File on the M. D. ANDERSON Foundation but.
08 indicas reflect a file on the ML, D. ANDERSON Hospital and Tumor Institute
A study program to determine the effects in diverse Biological Systema
resulting 
from exposure 
to high intensity coherent radiation was contracted
with the Mi.D. 
ANDERSON Hospital and Tumor Institute, University of
Texas, Houston, 
Texas in October 1963 but as of 16 April 1964 there vas
hold order against 
going ahead with the contract because of a question
as to vày the 
Agency should bear the whole cost of the contract which was
to be for inter-
departmental us. In May 1967 a note is the file indicated
that H. D. ANDERSON 
Hospital and Tumor Institute will be manged in classified
work for the Aganey. There 
was no record of a clearance issued.
LION
Sen attached memorandum Anted 30 January 1967 from Chief, Central
Cover Group to Deputy Director, Plans - "Threat of Exposure of Agency
Operations" The 
MARSHALL Foundation of Houston, Thxus is considered
mai of the most 
vulnerable to exposu
A "New York Times” article for 25 February 1967 disclosed that the
MARSHALL Foundation of Houston, Texas channeled funds from the Agency to
the school of Industrial 
and Labor Relations et Cornell University from
1961 to 1963.
(Sen Douglas B. MARKIKLI}
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BROW George Rufus
George Rufus BROWN, Executive Vice President of BROWN and ROOT,
Houston
, 
Texas, was granted a Covert Security Clearance on 23 October
Inc.
1953 for uss as 
a covert associate in the United States on Project LPCOIN.
04 82 April 1965 
be vas granted a Provisional Covert Remmity Approval to
permit contact and 
moreçament of BROWN in commeation with his possible
use in serving on the 
Board of Directors for a proprietary being not up to
support staff employees 
working in Udern, Theilendinos and a Covert
Security Approval for 
this use was issued on 16 June 1965. These clearences
vera - cancelled 2 Ams: 1967 as 
MROWN was not used.
BROWN, Herzen - 495239.
Hormuz EROWN, President and Director of BROWN and ROOT, Inc., Houston,
Texas 
and President and 
Trustee of the BROWN Foundation, Houston, Texas,
vas granted a Covert Security 
Approval on 3 December 1953 for use as a
Covert 
Associate in the U. B. under Project IFCOIN. This clearance was
called 15 February 1966.
CLARK, EA
Negative
SHIVERS
$373051
Governor Allen SHIVERS of Texas was on the Advisory Board of
FACTS 
FORUM 
NANS in September 1955. He was listed as a trustee of the
American 
Good Government Society in April 1965.
Allen SHIVERS, Governor of Texas, was a sigar of a statement appearing
in the 
HTW YORK TIMES 
for 20 October 1949 sponsored by the Iron Curtain
Refugee Campaign 
of the International Rescue Committee. The IRC vua de-
scribed 
as basically good, humanitarion organization but many individuals
of questionable 
loyalty have been Dasbointed with 16.
A NEW YORK TIMES alipping for 12 February 1954 stated that Allan
SUITVERB
, 
Governor of Texas, said he planned to ask his legislature to
make membership in the Communist Porty a death penalty offence. He was
quated as snoring "In politics we often speak of bipartisan issues. I om
think of nothing 
that should be more bipartisan then entching a Communist.
There can be no valid 
issue between Americans over Commmista. Amaricana.
wo either pro-Cammist or anti-Ummunist.'
No clearance vas requented or issued for VERS, Es file omntains
joe 
words mly.
Negative
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CABOT. Thomas D... J.
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Themis D. CABOT, Jr. von Approved for contact use on 17 August
:
1961. At the time be van Vice President and Airecter of International Relations
Taxas Butadiene and Chemical 
Corporation. He was residing in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Contect interest 
was for briefing him on Agency interests
in economia end political 
developments in various European countries;
chemical Industrial 
davalopant, etc. He was the subject of a favorable
background investigation in 
1952.
CABOT, Thomas Dudley – 487904
"Thomas Dudley CABOT was granted a Covert Security Approval for
use 
under Project 
LPCOIN. On 26 Ame 1959 he was issued a Covert Security
Approval for use with. 
Project QINGLANT. (He was to marve us the President:
or Chairman of an 
American Comittee whose objective was to faster
Franco-American 
relations at the management level. CABOT had been approved
for contact use in 1950 and 
receivů a clearance for use on the Executive
Committee of H.I.T. in 
April 1954. A continuation of, this clearance vas:
granted on 29 
October 1958.
PMITH, William A. - #76555
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William A. SMITH (was granted an Operational Clearance on 22 August
“1952 
for use¨és” an 
agent in Latin America: under commercial cover.
14 Rinuary 1955 a Covert Security Clearance was issued to CHIM to permit his
use as a Covert Associate 
in the United States under Project LFFUMTI……….
At the time he had 
a member of cusiness interests in Houston, Texas, La
William A. Ghum 
Construction Company, Houston, Texsaj Texas Eastern
Tranminzión 
Corporatism, Citizens State Bank of Houston, etc.
VORTHAM, Gus
Negative
MAWORSKI, LACE - $1.681.99
Lean IMORSKI was granted a Covert Security Approval on 31 March 1958
in order 
that he 
could be made witting of Agency interest in the M. D.
ANDERSON Foundation
. His file contains a newspaper clipping from the
WASFLINKITOS OTAR 
For 3 December 1963 which concerns his appointment as
special 
counsel for a Texas State Court of Inquiry into the assassination
President MITINEUZ. 
He had achieved prominence when he was prosecutor
at the Mummburg War 
Trials. The article also stated that in 1960
JAWORSKI 
successfully represented Lyndsa B, JOHNSON in a court challenge
of Mr. JOHNSON's 
right to have his name appear on the general election
ballot in Texas 
both as a condidate for Vice-President and for reelection
to the 
U. S, Senate. Another itan in U. S. NIMA & WORLD REPORT Bar 7 July
1964 reported 
that Houston lawyer, Leco JAWORSKI, vixo de alose to Lyndon
JOINDOSS wike being 
considered for the job of Attorney Omaral,
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FREEMAN, John Monry – $2157181
John Hanry FREEMAN vas granted a Covert Security Approval on 28
Jme 
1957 to permit the 
utilization of his services under Project LFCOM.
At the time he was a partner 
in the large and leading law firm or
FULBRIGHT, CHOOKER
, FREEMAN, BATES and JAWORSKI at Houston, Taxas
and vas a trustes of the 
M, D. ANDERSON Medical Foundation.
COCKRELL, Ernest Dashiell, Jr. - #1572 and $1403051-A
Ernest Dashiell COCKHELL, Nr. was approved for content use(CAUTION)
on 10° June 1953 and was granted a Covert Security Clearance on ↳ August 1953 for
use in the U. 8. under Project QEENCHANT. 
At the time he was President
of two oil companies in Houston, Texas; 011 Production Maintenance, Inc.
end Production Maintenmon 
Company,
MARSHALL, Dixiglas B. - 4173597
Douglas B. MARSHALL vas granted a Covert Security Approval on 28
November 
1958 in order that 
he could be made witting of Agency interest
in the CULLEN Foundation. 
MARSHALL was Vice President of the Quintona
Petroleum Corporation 
of Houston, Texas which is the holding company owned
by the Hugh Hoy CULLEN 
femily. MARSHALL's wife, Margaret Cullen MARSHALL,
is a daughter of Hugh ROY CULLEN, .
HOBBY, Ovota Culp – #341001 and #241189
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Oveta Culp KOMBY was granted a continuing Maison clearance on 7 April 1953
when 
she vala Director of the Federal 
Security Agency. A Covert Security
Approval was issued 18 July 1961 
to permit her use ímder Project LPCORSET
to nid in funding 
arrangements through the HOBBY Foundation of Houston,
Texas of which she is President
. On 26 October 1965 a Provisions)
Bacurity 
Approval was granted to permit contact, assessment and briefing of
Mrs. HOBBY as President of the 
HOBBY Foundation in connection with her
possible 
utilization on en advisory committee of a broadcasting activity,
University of the Air, directed 
at the students and intellectuals of.
Cuba. A Covert 
Security Approvil was issued 31 March 1966 primarily to use
prestige of her name 
and position as cover for WH/Cuba activities and it
vas not expected 
that Mrs. NOBAY would take an active day by day role in
the sctivities.
BUTLER, Gearre
Negative
HOBBY, William Pattus,
$425337 and 4275074.
Oveta Culp HOBBY's.son, William Fettus HOBBY, Jr., born 19 January
1932 
at Houston, Texas
, vas pesurity approved for contact use on 23 May 1960.
At the time he was Associate 
Editor of the HOUSTON POST, Houston, Texas.
On 29 Ama 1962 he was 
granted a Covert Security Approval to permit hia
vitting use fumdar Project 
CAWAGTAIL which was to be supported by the
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HOBB) Foundation. On 22 October 1965 a PCBA was Lasued to HOBBY
for the same use in WH/Cuba sotivities as that outlined for his mother.
This Provisional clearance was 
firmed into a Covert Security Approval
on 4 February 1966 for the 
same use,
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Memo átá 24 Nov 67 (SF-633-
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Memo dtà 30 Jan 07 to 10/P.
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