OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL CONTACTS WITH E. HOWARD HUNT
Originator: CIA
From: HOUSTON, L.R., GENERAL COUNSEL
To: INSPECTOR GENERAL
Document date: 05/30/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

OGC 73-0947

30 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Office of General Counsel Contacts with

F. Howard Hunt

Memorandum for All Employees from

ES/CIA Mgt Com, dtd 23 May 73;

Subj: Agency Involvement in the

Watergate Case

To the best of my recollection, I first met Mi. E. Howard

Hunt in Japan in 1954 at which time he was stationed in Tokyo and I

was there for several weeks TDY.. I had no official business with Mr.

Hunt as I recall and the meetings were casual nifice or office party

meetings. I must have run into him casually from time to time there-

after in the office as some time in the middle 1960s when he had re-

turned to Washington he invited me and my wife to a cocktail buffet.

I cannot remember the year let alone the month and day but. I remember

the house was out of town in a rather secluded area up the Potomac.

2.

I do not remember any further meetings with Mr. Hunt

although it is probable I saw him from time to time in or around the

office until 1969 when his daughter was in a very serious series of

automobile accidents. This involved Mr. Hunt in a complicated series

of legal involvements ir which the Offic. of General Counsel tried to

give him legal advice and assistance.

Most of the work was done by

Mr. James B. Ueberhorst who left the Office of General Counsel in

1972 to become the Administrative Officer of the courts of the State

of Florida. We have queried Mr. Ueberhorst who said he has had no

contact with Mr. Hunt since working with him on these legal matters

except for a letter of appreciation from Mr.. Hunt for Mr. Ueberhorst's

efforts.

NETURN TO GIA

Do nor soproduce

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• My next contact with Mr. Hunt was a letter from him

dated April 5, 1971, stating that on his retirement he had elected

to take full annuity instead of reduced annuity with survivor benefits

and asked if he could now change his election. I replied in the

negative and he wrote again on White House stationery asking if he

could change the election if he were re-employed and I wrote that

Copies of this excraige are attached. Some time during the

period of this exchange and certainly after my first letter of 6 May

1971, I remember running into Mr. Hunt at the National Airport and

expressing regret that I had to turn him down. He said he quite

understood and appreciated my interest and went on to say he was

doing very well and recovering from his financial reverses resulting

from the daughter's injuries and hospital care.

4. My last contact with Mr. Hunt was a telephone call to

been called to appear before the Grand Jury in Alexandria and was

concerned as to whether he might be questioned about a confidential

relationship he had with the Agency in 1952. I told Mr. Hunt to have

Mr. Jackson call me and I would handle the matter. My memoranda

For the record on this episode are attached. This is the last com-

munication I have had with Mr. Hunt. After his conviction and

sentencing I saw him standing on a street corner as I drove by and

I waved but did not speak to him.

5. There appears to have been one indirect contact with Mr.

Hunt in connection with a law suit about which we have no direct

knowledge. All we know is that the plaintiff requested some documents

and submitted a check which we returned as evidencea by the attached

copy of the documents involved.

6. MI. Lansdale has a vague recollection of some business

contact with Mr. Hunt when he was on the CA Staff, possibly in the

1950s or a little later. He has no recollection of seeing him in the

past eight to ten years.

Laurence P7. Houston

LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON

General Counsel

Atts a/s

Orig - Adse

2 - Watergate Case

- Chronc

OGC: LRH: mks

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