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[9]7 February 1975
[11]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[13]SUBJECT-+ “Requeste-ftom’ Mr, ‘Ober. for Basic”
[14]Documentation Circa Mid-1967
[16]‘1. Subsequent to his. second appearance before the Rockefeller ~*~
[17]Commission on 3 February 1975, Mr, Ober returned to peadauarters a a
[18]the afternoon of 6 February and the morning of 7 February to -_ ol
[19]continue his review of the files he had developed while Chief, CI/so.
[20]At the request of the Commission, he was particularly interested
[21]‘in locating documentation which supported the creation of the Special
[22]Counterintelligence Operation. ;
[24]2. He had previously taken note of the 15 August 1967 .
[25]memorandum from the DDP to C/CI but was interested i in determining _ -
[26]whether there was any other documentation that could be used. In |
[27]this context I showed him the following list of documents which r
[29]had unearthed in: various and sundry places:
[31]TAB A 4 August 1967 memorandum from Mr, Fred Virison, Je. oo!
[32]Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Lo
[33]. Department of Justice to the Director of Central
[34]Intelligence . oe
[36]TAB B  .The Director's response to TAB AD
[38]TAB C DIRECTOR 25628, 4 August 1967 -- book message originated
[39]in WH Division in response to TAB A
[41]TAB D WH/COG 67-259, 10 ‘August 1967 -- Memorandum from eo
[42]Mr, Broe, C/WH Division, to Mr, Houston, General Ded
[43]Counsel, detailing actions taken to respond to the 4 August
[44]letter of Mr. Vinson (TAB A)
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[54]‘TABG “DIRECTOR 27069, i1 1 August 1967, “to Copenbszss gen}
[56]‘TABH . DIRECTOR 32283, 31 August 1967, bearing on Do
[58]TABI 21 September 1967 memorandum from J, “Walter “Yeagley, ae
[60]-TABI™ 22 September 1967 memorandum from the General Counsel 8
[62]TAB L 28 September 1967 memorandum from ca Walter - Yeagley |
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[67]TABE Relay of DIRECTOR 25628, 9 August 1967, to@russels)
[69]TAB F DIRECTOR 26741, 10 August 1967, sending essentially 0.0) 00 |
[70]the same message as DIRECTOR 25628 to additional = ce
[71]European stations, specifically Cops nha gen ‘Holsinty Oal3,j
[73]ockho i a :
[75]@elsinki, Oslo, Stockholm,\ asking for cabled replies t to
[76]DIRECTOR 26741 (TAB ¥F)
[78]DIRECTOR 26741. (TAB F)
[80]Assistant Attorney General, Internal.Security Division, .
[81]‘Department of Justice, to Mr. Lawrence Houston, General
[82]Counsel, CIA - :
[84]-. to the Director of Current Intelligence, Subject "Stokely
[85]Carmichael"
[87]TAB K 28 September 1967 memorandum from a Walter x Keagley
[88]to Mr, Lawrence Houston ~ = — .
[90]to Mr. Houston .
[92]TABM 3 October 1967 memorandum from Mr. Houston to”
[94]Mr. Yeagley
[96]TABs I through M were located in a file held by the Office of General -
[97]Counsel entitled "Stokely Carmichael". The original letter to ao
[98]Mr. Helms (TAB A) and his reply (TAB B) were located ina file held
[99]by C/WH Division, as was a copy of the memorandum from Mr. Broe
[100]to Mr. Houston (TAB D). The cables (TABs C, E, F, G and H) were
[101]located in DDO/OPS/ITG RYBAT MHALPHA/MHIPASHA chronos.
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[112]3, In the OGC file (Subject: Stokely Carmichael), there ; isa
[113]series of memoranda from the DDI to Mr. Houston which is- obviously eS
[114]- in reply to the Department of Justice requests for information on...
[115]- Stokely Carmichael and his travels to Europe and Africa in the fall~
[116]of 1967. Mr, Houston obviously served as the point ¢ of f relay for these aoe es
[117]memoranda. t to the Department of Jastice. me woah mos
[119]4, Mr. ‘Ober's second request was to try t to locate or ee
[120]documentation from either the President or the White House to the ‘”
[121]Director in mid-to-late October 1967 wherein the President asked . a ae
[122]the Director to prepare a study on "International Connections \ with the Pog
[123]United States Peace Movement", ; woe, ce
[125]so rN 31 October 1967 memorandum for the record prepared - “
[126]by Mr. Ober details a meeting held by C/CI Staff wherein C/CI states oS
[127]that the President has directed such a study be made and indicates _
[128]that the CI Staff will be the DDP unit responsible for providing DDP —
[129]information to the DDI which will be charged with writing the studys _
[131]6. A ‘1 November 1967 memorandum for the record written -
[132]by Mr, Ober details the first meeting between the DDI and the DDP . :
[133]on the subject of this study. Mr, Ober represented the DDP while
[134]Mr, Godfrey (Director of OCI), Mr, Lehman and Mr, Peter Dixon Davis
[135]represented the DDI. Mr. Davis was designated by 1 the Director, ocr. fs oate
[136]to draft the study. - : ae
[138]. 7 A third memorandum for the record prepared by Mr. Ober Sola,
[139]on 1 November 1967 entitled "Progress Report" details action which -. _
[140]he had taken at the request of Mr. Angleton to set in motion the . ;
[142]’ necessary actions to collect information not only from DDP overseas
[143]stations but from other government agencies which would be necessary
[144]-in order forthe DDI to properly prepare this study. ;
[146]8. DIRECTOR 49260, dated 2 November 1967, sent from. the ©
[147]Assistant DDP, Mr. Cord Meyer, slugged RYBAT MHPASHA, levied
[148]the requirement on all field stations to produce information which —
[149]could contribute to this study. :
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[156]Rockefeller Commission. He recognized that, under the current
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[161]9. Iwas unable to locate any document from the President
[162]or the White House in C1/SO records and finally contacted Mr. Dixon
[163]Davis in OCI, He stated that the DDI has also searched its records ~
[164]looking for a memorandum from the White House requesting.a study -
[165]but had been unable to locate one. He did, however, have a copy.of .
[167]“two memoranda,;- apparently prepared‘as cover-sheets-to: transmit’: aoe
[168]the finished study to the President on I5 November 1967:: “Xerox |.
[170]copies of these two memoranda are attached as TABs N and 0.
[172]10. Mr. Ober was specifically desireous of taking ¢ copies of /
[173]TABs N and O with him to use in his next appearance before the .
[175]ground rules, he had to clear this with Mr, Knoche. Iarranged for
[177]Mr. Knoche to call Mr. Ober. Asa result of a series of conversations -”.
[179]between Mr. Knoche and Mr. Ober, Mr. White and Mr. Knoche and ~
[180]myself and Mr. Knoche, Mr. Knoche authorized Mr. Ober to take .
[181]copies of TABs N and O as reference material. If asked, Mr. Ober
[182]could show these to the Rockefeller Commission but he was not
[183]authorized to leave these papers with the Commission. He was told. __
[184]to advise the Commission that, if they wanted copies, they ™ would
[186]have to request same through Mr. Knoche. Soe oo
[188]21. At the reguést of Mr. Knoche, lam making available a ‘copy
[189]of this memorandum to the Inspector General, specifically, TABs N -
[190]and O which Mr. Knoche felt had not previously. been made available
[191]to that office. ; .
[193]ORS wn, Jah.
[195]Deputy Chief, East Asia Civision
[197]Attachments
[199]Distribution:
[200]1 - 1G, w/atts
[201]1 - Mr. Knoche, w/atts
[202]1 - DC/OPS, w/atts
[203]1 - ADDO, w/atts
[204]1- DCEA, w/atts
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