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MEMORANDUM FOR: Hr. John Walker
FROM:
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
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Arthur C. Close
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21 May 1976
File: SSC/A
Deputy Chief, Cover & Commercial Staff
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CIA Relations with Lykes Steamship Company
Review Staff Memorandum (RS-76-0421/A), dated
19 May 1976
1. Cover and Commercial Staff (CCS) files reveal that three CIA
employees served under cover of the (Lykes Steamship] Company, during all
or part of the period 1962 through 1964. One Agency officer was placed
abroad under Lykes] cover from 1961 to 1968. A second served under the
sama cover from 1953 to July 1962 before leaving the Agency to take a
bona fide position with the company; he later agreed to assist the
Agency as an intermittent source in Europe from 1964 to early 1967. A
third officer was placed with Lykes in this country in 1961 and under-
went training in anticipation of an overseas assignment; he was with-
drawn the following year when the assignment abroad was cancelled.
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2. There is no reference to Mr. Owen Barnell in CCS files.
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Arthur C. Close
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