ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000600010019-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 17, 1970
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2007/02/07; CIA-RDP74B00415R000600010019-1
17 July 1970
25X1
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Associate Justice William O. Douglas
Impeachment Proceedings
1. Paragraph 7 of this memorandum suggests action to
be taken by the Director of Central Intelligence.
2. On 15 July 1970, Mr. Lawrence R. Houston and I met
with Kenneth R. Harkins, Howard W. Fogt, Jr., and Thomas W.
Hutton, staff of the Special Subcommittee of the Committee on
the Judiciary considering the impeachment of Associate Justice
William O. Douglas. Mr. Houston showed them the classified
memorandum outlining his review of Agency files in the light of
the charges brought against Justice Douglas and his conclusions
as to what information was and was not contained therein. In
essence, our files on the projects involving indicate
only that approached Justice Douglas for financial support
for CIDES and some financial support was given at the instance of
Justice Douglas by the Parvin Foundation, of which he was a
trustee. We then gave the staff members your letter saying that
this was the result of our study and that we had no further informa-
tion relevant to the charges against Justice Douglas.
3. Mr. Harkins stated that, so far as he was concerned,
he would accept our conclusions as to what relevant information
we had, but in view of the heavy pressures on this investigation,
he could not accept the responsibility for telling the Subcommittee
that your letter was an adequate response as it was backed up by
a classified document which he and the other staff members
reviewed. The other two staff members did not differ with this
position.
a{J . ~ ?
G2~i~