PHILLIPS, DAVID ATLEE
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SECURITY (PSI)
Document date: 03/14/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JENOCH UAL

14 March 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Security (PSI)

FROM

: (John B. Scanion]

Operations Support Branch

SUBJECT

: Phillips, David Atlee

#40696

REFERENCE

: Deputy Director of Security Memorandum

dated 7 March 1977; same Subject

1.

In accordance with referent, the undersigned

met with Subject at his home on 8 March 1977.

Subject advised that on or about 1 March 1977,

he received

a telephone call at his home from a Mr. Douglas

Day, an author, who gave his phone number as (804) 823-5436.

Although Subject has never met Mr. Day, he recalls reading

a recent review of one of his books in

It was a

fictional work on Spain.

Time or Newsweek.

Mr. Day informed Subject

that he is now working on a non-fictional book on

Che Guevara.

In developing background for this book, Day

will be traveling through Latin America including Cuba.

Knowing of Subject's

for Subject's advice on how to "smooth the way"

contacts at the U,S. Embassies in these countries and how

to make contact with CIA officials. Day stated that he

would be more than willing to "cooperate or work with" the

Agency during his trip.

subject told day that, as simple

state ys untentions a does call or write the Agency

3. Subject then related that Seymour Hersh telephoned

him about a year ago and stated that he knew all about his

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comments to the Church Committee and especially about

"Track II", a very tightly held project in Latin America

Division.

i visit he a rected one e e your a bad son.

a letter he had received

He quickly read several passages making references to o

Ted Shackley,

Jim Flannery, Kenny Million, Dino P1onz10%

Larry Sulc and Tony Sforza.

latter two officers are really not too well-known and it

was surprising to him to hear Hersh talking about them.

Two quotes which Subject particularly recalled were,

"When Phillips called into the Office after you talked to

him, the word

went straight to the top enchilada",

be trusted, even if we have to dump him.

course, he will not be able to do the good that

Phillips has done''.

Subject speculated that the only persons in the

Agency who would have the type of information contained in

paragraph 3 above and who may have reason to relate it

to Hersh

are Peter Kapusta and Jack LNU

who was Chief of

the Mexico Branch at Headquarters in 1970.

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