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7 February 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Requests-from Mr. Ober for Basic

Documentation Circa Mid-1967

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 4 August

1967 memorandum from Mr. Fred Vinson, Jr.,

Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,

Department of Justice to the Director of Central

Intelligence

TAB B The Director's response to TAB A

TAB C DIRECTOR 25628, 4 August 1967 -- book message originated

in WH Division in response to TAB A

TAB D

WH/COG 67-259, 10 August 1967 -- Memorandum from

Mr. Broe, C/WH Division, to Mr. 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

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, CLA

22 September 1967 memorandum from the General Counsel

to the Director of Current Intelligence, Subject "Stokely

Carmichael"

28 September 1967 memorandum from J. Walter Xeagley

to Mir. Lawrence Houston

28 September 1967 memorandum from J. Walter Yeagley

to Mr. Houston

TAB M 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.

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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 I5 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 be 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.

Deputy Chief, East Asia

Division

Attachments

Distribution:

1 - IG, w/atts

1 - Mr. Knoche, w/atts

1 - DC/OPS, w/atts

1 - ADDO, w/atts

1- DCEA, w/atts

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