APPEARANCE AS WITNESS IN BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Originator: CIA
To: CHIEF, SE DIVISION
Document date: 02/28/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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28 February 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, SE Division

ATTENTION

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Division

Security Officer

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FROM

Thomas L. Briggs)

SE/X/LA

SUBJECT

Appearance As Witness In Behalf of the

United States Government

REFERENCES : A. Memorandum For Chief

SE Division,

• From Thomas L. Briggs) dated 11 January

1977, Same Subject o3

B. USA V. Gerald P. Hemming, Et Al.

(76 - 371-CR-CA)

1.

As reported in Paragraph 4 of Reference A, the trial

of Gerald P. Hemming

(Reference B) was severed on 10 January

1977•

I was informed of the severance during my pre-trial

conference with AUSA Karen Atkinson in Miami, Florida on that

same day. AUSA Atkinson told

me I could return to Washington,

D.C. and she would have the Drug Enforcement Administration

Miami Regional Office inform me if and when the trial was

rescheduled.

SE Division

SE/X/LA, and Mr. Robert Blandford, CCS, OCS, upon my return

to Headquarters on 11 January 1977. I

also forwarded Reference

A copies to Office of Security, External, Activities Branch

and the Office of General Counsel, Mr. Edmund Cohen.

On 28 February 1977 I was contacted by SA Robert

Fredericks of the DEA Miani Regional Office and informed that

the Hemming trial was scheduled to begin 2 March 1977.

Fredericks asked

me to be on standby to travel to Miami to

appear as

a witness

on behalf of the United States Government.

SA Fredericks said it was not certain the trial would begin

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on 2 March and he did not know whether I would be needed

as

witness.

3. •I requested that SA Fredericks initiate action to

authorize me to travel to Miami via GTR issued by DEA.

SA Fredericks said he would initiate that action. I am

awaiting further notice from SA Fredericks.

Thomas L Briggo)

Thomas L. Briggs

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