DEAR MR. HOUSTON:
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP57-00384R000400140059-1
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
September 4, 2000
Sequence Number:
59
Case Number:
Publication Date:
December 9, 1952
Content Type:
LETTER
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Body:
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OGC HAS REVIEWED.
RICHARD L.MERRICK
THOMAS H. KING
LAW OFFICES OF
MERRICK AND KING
1624 EVE STREET, NORTHWEST
WAS H I N GTON 6, D. C.
December 9, 19520
Lawrence R. Houston, Esq.,
General Counsel,
Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Houston:
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This will acknowledge receipt of your letter dated S December 1952,
delivered by oncerning the status of Mr an
employee of the en ra ntelligence Agency. Reference also is made to con-
ferences and telephone communications between us and with Mme. Efforts
25X1A to reach you on the telephone today were unsuccessful, due to the exacting
requirements of your duties.
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as informed me that it is the intention of the Agency
to hold an informal hearing concerning on Wednesday, 10 December,
1952. I have asked that this hearing be ccntlnue until Monday, 15 December
1 2 or later, in order to permit me more fully to prepare to represent Mr.
s his desi nated re resentative under Section 14 of the Veterans
Preference Act, advised me that he received word from you
today that no extension of time would be made and that, because I have not
been cleared by ,your Agency and for the reason that it is not customary, I
will not be permitted he hearing as the designated represen-
tative or attorney fo 25X1A
First, perhaps I should advise you that Mr. ~s unwilling
to submit his resignation under the conditions outlined in your letter. The
time therein specified is considered unreasonably short in which to expect
him to obtain other employment. There is no assurance or statement in your
letter that, after his resignation should become effective if submitted,
or even before, for that matter, your Agency would not effectually prevent
his obtaining employment elsewhere in the Government service by refusal of
proper clearance required to enable him to transfer.
Please consider this letter as a formal request, for the convenience
of counsel to enable him properly to represent his clientts interests as the
designated representative under the Veteranst Preference Act, for a continuance
of the hearing contemplated fora period of five days, or until 15 December 1952.
Also, please c~6~l~r this a.n application by the undersigned for
clearance by the Agency in order that I may appear at the hearing as the desig-
nated representative of In this connection, permit me to say
that I served in the Army of the United States during the First World War
and was honorably discharged therefrom, and as a civilian on the legal staff
of the Under Secretary of War for approximately 42 years during the Second
World War, during which time I handled many classified documents, including
some which were classified as "Top Secret". I do not believe I can be
considdred a security risk.
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If ~~our regulations do not permit my clearance, then in the
alternative I ask that the hearing be held in a place where unclassified
matters are handled. I understand that there are a number of rooms of
this character available for the use of the Agency.
I regret that court and other pressing engagements, including
a death and the attendant distractions incident thereto, have prevented
me from sooner answering your letter of 5 December 1952. I have this
date communicated the substance of this letter to Mr.~th the
request that he advise ,you accordingly, which he has y consented
to do. This written communication, therefore, serves as a confirmation of
what has transpired over the telephone.
Permit me to thank you for your courtesy to me and to say that
I regret that we have been unable to effect a settlement of the differences
constituting the subject-matter of our correspondence and interviews.
Very truly yours,
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Richard L. Merrick
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