MR. HANSON RETAINED TO DEFEND E. HOWARD HUNT
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, CENTRAL COVER STAFF
To: DCI
Document date: 08/02/1972
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 19925 72-1144

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2 August

1972

MEIORANDUM FOR:

VIA

SUBJECT

Director of Central Intelligence

: Deputy Director for Plans

:

Central Cover Staff Cover Asset Mr. Hanson

Retained to Defend E. Howard Hunt

1. This memorandum is for your information only.

2. Mr. Arthur Briggs Hanson, head of the law firm, Hanson,

O'brien, Birney and Stickle of Washington, D. C., has cut short

his vacation plans and returned to Washington to

assist in the

defense of E. Howard Hunt in the

Watergate 5 case.

3.

Mr. Hanson is cooperating with Central Cover Staff in

providing cover for a staff ageat who is stationed in Athens

and wörking on Arab and African targets.

To date, this cover

placement has presented no operational security problems. COS

has no information that Howard Hunt knows of Mr. Hanson's

cooperation with CIA.

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Is' ERICH W. ISENSTEAD

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