WATERGATE FILE RESEARCH - FINAL REPORT
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, OPS/OSG
To: OPS/RMO
Document date: 05/09/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

SECRET

9 May 1974

MEMORANDUM FOR: OPS/ RMO

SUBJECT

: Watergate File Research - Final Report

1. The files of the immediate office of the Chief, OPS/OSG

have been checked for material relevant to the subject of this

memorandum. The check included chronological files ef communi- 15-2

cations of which I was the author while assigned to Madrid, Spain

in the period July 1970 to July 1973. Nothing pertinent was found.

2. I have attempted to recollect any other details which

conceivably could be pertinent and which relate to the period

of my assignment tol Madrid. The only points which I recall but

on which I have no documentation are these:

There were occasional.

Joshing inquiries made of me

by American residents of Madrid about the reported presence

in Spain of E. Howard Hunt in 1972. My standard reply was

that I knew only what I had heard rumored. For the record,

at no time did Hunt contact me, and I have never kngun of his

having tried to contact any Station personnel in Spaig during

the period 1970-73. I made no effort personally to ascertain

whether or not Hunt was in Spain, and I had no effort made by

any Station member.

D. A Station officer, possibly) Richard Ouderkirk? now

assigned to Guatemala, was given some information by an

informant in 1972 concerning reported activities in Spain

by Robert Vesco. I suggested that the information be given

informally to the Embassy's Economic Section chief, John

Oliver.

That officer was charged with keeping abreast of

developments related to Vesco.

that subject, as I recall, because it was not a topic of

reportable interest, according to requirements of the period.

RETURN TO CIA:

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SUBJECT: Watergate File Research - Final Report (cont'd)

3. There is no other employee assigned to my immediate

office who has relevant personal knowledge of events and

personalities.

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Robert E.

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Chief,

OPS/OSG

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