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7 February 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Requests-from Mr. Ober for Basic
Documentation Circa Mid-1967
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1. Subsequent to his second appearance before the Rockefeller
Commission on 3 February 1975, Mr. Ober returned to Headquarters
the afternoon of 6 February and the morning of 7 February to
continue his review of the files he had developed while Chief, CI/SO.
At the request of the Commission, he was particularly interested
in locating documentation which supported the creation of the Special
Counterintelligence Operation.
2. He had previously taken note of the 15 August 1967
memorandum from the DDP to C/CI but was interested in determining
whether there was any other documentation that could be used. In
this context I showed him the following list of documents which I
had unearthed in various and sundry places:
TAB A
TAB B
TAB C
TAB D
4 August 1967 memorandum from Mr. Fred Vinson, Jr.,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice to the Director of Central
Intelligence
The Director's response to TAB A
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DIRECTOR 25628, 4 August 1967
in WH Division in response to TAB A
WH/COG 67-259, 10 August 1967
Mr. Broe, C/WH Division, to Mr.
book message originated
Memorandum from
Houston, General
Counsel, detailing actions taken to respond to the 4 August
letter of Mr. Vinson (TAB A)
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TAB E
TAB F
TAB G
TAB H
TAB I
TAB J¨
TAB K
TAB L
TAB M
Relay of DIRECTOR 25628, 9 August 1967, to Brussels
DIRECTOR 26741, 10 August 1967, sending essentially
the same message as DIRECTOR 25628 to additional
European stations, specifically Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo,
Stockholm
¨DIRECTOR 27069, 11 August 1967, to Copenhagen
Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, asking for cabled replies to
DIRECTOR 26741 (TAB F).
DIRECTOR 32283, 31 August 1967, bearing on
DIRECTOR 26741 (TAB F)
21 September 1967 memorandum from J. Walter Yeagley,
Assistant Attorney General, Internal Security Division,
Department of Justice, to Mr. Lawrence Houston, General
Counsel, CIA
22 September 1967 memorandum from the General Counsel-
to the Director of Current Intelligence, Subject "Stokely
Carmichael"
28 September 1967 memorandum from J. Walter Yeagley
to Mr. Lawrence Houston
28 September 1967 memorandum from J. Walter Yeagley
to Mr. Houston
3 October 1967 memorandum from Mr. Houston to
Mr. Yeagley
TABS I through M were located in a file held by the Office of General
Counsel entitled "Stokely Carmichael". The original letter to
Mr. Helms (TAB A) and his reply (TAB B) were located in a file held
by C/WH Division, as was a copy of the memorandum from Mr. Broe
to Mr. Houston (TAB D). The cables (TABS C, E, F, G and H) were
located in DDO/OPS/ITG RYBAT MHALPHA/MHPASHA chronos.
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3. In the OGC file (Subject: Stokely Carmichael), there is a
series of memoranda from the DDI to Mr. Houston which is obviously
in reply to the Department of Justice requests for information on
Stokely Carmichael and his travels to Europe and Africa in the fall
of 1967. Mr. Houston obviously served as the point of relay for these
memoranda to the Department of Justice.
4. Mr. Ober's second request was to try to locate
documentation from either the President or the White House to the
Director in mid-to-late October 1967 wherein the President asked
the Director to prepare a study on "International Connections with the
United States Peace Movement".
5. A 31 October 1967 memorandum for the record prepared
by Mr. Ober details a meeting held by C/CI Staff wherein C/CI states
that the President has directed such a study be made and indicates
that the CI Staff will be the DDP unit responsible for providing DDP.
information to the DDI which will be charged with writing the study.
6. A 1 November 1967 memorandum for the record written
by Mr. Ober details the first meeting between the DDI and the DDP
on the subject of this study. Mr. Ober represented the DDP while
Mr. Godfrey (Director of OCI), Mr. Lehman and Mr. Peter Dixon Davis
represented the DDI. Mr. Davis was designated by the Director, OCI
to draft the study.
7. A third memorandum for the record prepared by Mr. Ober
on 1 November 1967 entitled "Progress Report" details action which
he had taken at the request of Mr. Angleton to set in motion the
necessary actions to collect information not only from DDP overseas
stations but from other government agencies which would be necessary
in order for the DDI to properly prepare this study.
8. DIRECTOR 49260, dated 2 November 1967, sent from the
Assistant DDP, Mr. Cord Meyer, slugged RYBAT MHPASHA, levied
the requirement on all field stations to produce information which
could contribute to this study.
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9. I was unable to locate any document from the President
or the White House in CI/SO records and finally contacted Mr. Dixon
Davis in OCI. He stated that the DDI has also searched its records
looking for a memorandum from the White House requesting a study
but had been unable to locate one. He did, however, have a copy of
two memoranda, apparently prepared as cover sheets to transmit
the finished study to the President on 15 November 1967. Xerox
copies of these two memoranda are attached as TABs N and O.
10. Mr. Ober was specifically desireous of taking copies of
TABS N and O with him to use in his next appearance before the
Rockefeller Commission. He recognized that, under the current
ground rules, he had to clear this with Mr. Knoche. I arranged for
Mr. Knoche to call Mr. Ober. As a result of a series of conversations
between Mr. Knoche and Mr. Ober, Mr. White and Mr. Knoche and
myself and Mr. Knoche, Mr. Knoche authorized Mr. Ober to take
copies of TABs N and O as reference material. If asked, Mr. Ober
could show these to the Rockefeller Commission but he was not
authorized to leave these papers with the Commission. He was told
to advise the Commission that, if they wanted copies, they would
have to request same through Mr. Knoche.
11. At the request of Mr. Knoche, I am making available a copy
of this memorandum to the Inspector General, specifically TABS N
and O which Mr. Knoche felt had not previously been made available
to that office.
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Robert D. Brown, J.
Deputy Chief, East Asia Division
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