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7 October 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Contract Personnel Division

ATTENTION

fir. Rod Brooks

FROM

: Joel E. Keys, Chief

Corporate Cover Branch

Central Cover Staff

SUBJECT

:

Request for Letter of Agreement

negotiations. Identities will be forwarded under separate cover.

2. Effective 1 Detober 1975, LEELUE will place on retainer CODHONE/T

at an annual retainer ofos9,000, which will be paid to him in monthly

increments of $750 bylLeBLuE.

The Company will overtly negotiate a

retainer contract with COPHOME, which will make eminently clear that

both are negotiating and concluding the contract as independent

parties; that the Company, LEBLUE, will have no obligation to withholo

Federal, or state ircome taxes, or Social Security taxes.

In consideration of the support rendered, the Agency will

RavE iLE SO, 00d annually Provision 15 made in shts arount to

offset any nominal expenses the firm incurs in its overt associations

or support of TOPHONE/1. It also serves, in part, to minimize the

chances that

auditing personnel will

the notional facility and payments to entit, wash transfer between

*= ne Agency will reimburse LEBLUE in quarterly increment.

via a contrived contractual arrangement between LPBLUE and a notiona

facility of the Agency.

Canceled checks will serve as adequata

accountings for monies paid LEBLUE.

5.

and prohibition of bona fide employment.

Please include the usual paragraphs of appreciation, secrecy,

6. All information relating to this agreement is classified

secret.

Both the Agency and the Company agrae that the most stringent

safeguards will be taken to protect this information, including the

E-2 IMPDET

CL. BY 055087

CEPDCT

WARMING NOTICE

SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES

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existence of the agreement. Any information in any form that must

be given to a third party by either the Agency or the Company will

be done in strict conformance to the laws safeguarding national

security information, and only with full consultation between the

Agency and the Company.

JOEL E. KEYS

SECRET

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