MEMORANDUMS ABOUT THE WATERGATE CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: June 4, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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case, 1 had since discovered Ile was grateful for this in- materials to the,Departmcnt indv~ared g C.I.A that iSLUr' s had In-
one additional item concern- formation. of Justice at the relit est of
tieF.n on ti-,-2 p3.: 701 : r ?.
ing Ilowart Hunt. I gave him Gray asked me If the Prest- the [Assistant] Attorney Gcn? number o; years and teat
dent had called me on this era], Mr. [i-!?nty E.] Petersen. whatever the 2 11etat0^5
that memorandum concern-
ing the assistance given to matter and I replied that he The second subject that he about the Cr:;l?e2n Err.~asSc,
had not. Gray then said a raised was the pending in. the agency hal no c ~oaCC
Hunk, which terminated in lot of pressure had been vestigation by the Senate on tion at all.
August, 1971, when his de- brought the I.T.T. affair in relation to We also agreed that he
on him on this mat-
mands escalated to an inap- ter but he had not yielded. the Chilean proh!em. He felt would discuss the cu_sticn
propriate level. We had as- I told him that we intended that this ingest nation could of the each'ze realcve to
b faller eep!osiye. He also the Water-- in.csi:gatOfl
sisted him following a request m terminate the 96S 9593 d Pd ttia' here might he with General !Falters and z.
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from the White House and it number [the C.I.A.'s sterile to
was our understanding that phone] and he nodded. Then soge esensitive cmight ables be the wi th re?ard ~touti the ad
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it was for the purpose of he said, think to happen to us at the quested by the Senate investi- ate action. J. R. S.
tracking down security leaks outset of our tenure with our gators. cc: General Walters
in the Government. respective offices." I agreed I indicated to him that (James R. Schlesinger)
He thanked' me and said heartily. while I had not seen any
that this case could not be (7) cables, I had been briefed on MEMO DATED
snuffed out and it would He thanked me for coming the subject, and that the role MAY 11, 1973
of the Government appeared
lead quite high politically. i see him n- to be 06-2n. He expressed his 1O F
delight at hearing this assess- CON `-Ej;S\TION OF
Dahlberg was in the clear. He inng l such a frank and him. I left
had gotten the check from him a short unsigned memo ment, I indicated that I would FEB. 21, 1973
Maurice Stan and deposited embody ing ,what, I had told look into the cables for that At the reWiest of the ?1i-
it in the Mexican bank. It hire Vernon A. Walters period. q
was undoubtedly political In this connection, he Tnen- rector, Dr. Schlesinger, I
TTER tioned that there is a hot called on Mr. John Dean in
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called [Gray] to congratulate the press. primari
him on the F.B.I. action which.. S iujeet:Telephone Call by Seymour Hersh of The I explained to him that. in
had frustrated the aircraft From John Denn. New York Times. The story connection with his rec::rst
hijacking in San Francisco. This evening at 6:10 1 re- suggests that [Frank] Sturges, that the agency ask the D?-
The President asked him if ceived a telephone call from who sometimes went by the partment of Just:-,e to return
he had talked to me about Jahn Dean at the White code r.ame Federini. was the a package of material that
the case. Gray replied that House. Dean indicated that individual responsible for the had been sent to them in
he had. he wanted to discuss two burotaraing of the Chilean connection with iris \Vater-
The President then asked topics. Embassy in Washington. gate inve_.:iga~icn. it w2s
him what his recommenda- First, he [referred] to a He also indicated that he quite imnn=-;ble for us to
tion was on the mater. Gray packet of material that had expected Senator [J.W.] Ful- request f `c return of tl!;s,
^ht to request the Justice as this would simply m_an
had replied that the case been sent to the Department br;~ n ? r rn:!~ ?`a l ?~ it
could not be covered up and of Justice in connection with Department to produce Stur- that a nr;t. in
would lead quite high and he the Watergate investigation. gis for the Senate hearings. the Derarur.ent o' Je :'a
felt that the President should lie su -=ted that Justice be I indicated that I would files that the reams: ial had
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