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File: SSC/LA
20 May 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the DDO
FROM
: Jackson R. Horton
Chief, Domestic Collection Division
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SUBJECT
REFERENCE
SSC Request for Information on Lykes Brothers
Steamship Company and Owen Johnson Darnell
: Review Staff Memorandum 76-0421/A dated 19 May 1976
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1. The Domestic Collection Division (DCD) utilizes the Lykes
Brothers Steamship Company primarily as a source of foreign intelligence
information. Secondarily, DCD provides introductions for Cover and
Commercial Staff officers to Lykes Brothers officials for operational
discussions and, on occasion, obtains assessment data from Lykes 29
☐ Brothers]sources on foreigners of potential operational interest.
Correpondence in the OCD file on this company for the year 1962,
1963 and 1964 was confined to responses to military services requests
for the registration of various Lykes Brothers] employees in the
Interagency Source Register and memoranda concerning a proposal to
utilize an employee of Lykes Brothers, who was a member of a U.S.
delegation to the USSR for the collection of foreign intelligence
information on the Soviet Union.
6.
2. DCD records indicate that Owen Johnson Darnell was considered
& "source lead" in years prior to 1965 but he was never used as a
source. His file was routinely destroyed in June 1971, along with
other files on "source leads" which had been fnactive for five years.
as authorized by Chief, DCD.
Jackson P. Hortond
JACKSON R. HORTON
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