MF: CIA-IR-18, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON A PARTICULAR DO OFFICE
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: J. BARRY HARRELSON
To: LAURA DENK
Document date: 08/17/1998
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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17 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR :

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Laura Denk

Executive

• Director, ARRB

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM

CIA-IR-18, Request for Information on

a

Particular DO Office

1. (U) This is in response to referent request.

2, (S) This request involved the so-called g

The DO has advised that only a classified response

Is possible with respect to this staff and advised

as

follows:

A. That staff is listed in Clandestine Services

Notice 5-50, revised October 1959 and 1963 and carried the

symbol DDP/CDC (CIA Defector Coordinator) • Only soviet

cases were handled by the staff.

B.

The Defector and Contract Personnel Branch,

was designated SR/OS/D.

This branch handled only Soviet

Bloc defector cases (countries of the former Warsaw Pact).

C

3.

(U) The Agency believes that the above is fully

responsive to subject request and in thus closing its action

on it.

If you have any questions, please advise.

J. Barry Harrelson

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