HILL CAR GETS HUSH-HUSH TAGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100250040-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 1, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Bobby Baker's Auto Idea ification Is Under Wraps
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Hill Car Gets Hush-Hush Tags
ary 8olit~rt G. (Bobby)
;alcer's Government-pro-
'ided 1962 Mercury bears
license plate number
hick is under the strict-
st t security wraps.
Mr. Baker today said, "I
ever had anything to do"
L ith putting the car in the
ecurity file. He said he didn't
ow who had.
The District Department
Motor Vehicles refuses to
isclose the ownership of-the
ercury because "it belongs
a security-type agency."
The General Services Ad-
ministration, which must ap-
rove the placing of a license
I the "security file", also re-
ses to say why Mr. Baker's
sked for the classification.
Mr. Baker is one of sever-
1 Senate officials who are
rovided automobiles for "of-
The others include Senate
ecretary Felton Johnston,
ergeant - At - Arms Joseph
uke and Senate physician
r. George Calver. T h e i r
According to the GSA., ap?
royal for undercover tags is
ormally limited' to agencies
oing undercover, irwestiga-
ive work, such as the FBI,
he CIA, the Atomic Energy
The GSA says, however,
that certain "additional ex-
emptions may be authorized
in the public interest when
conspicuous identity would
interfere with the purpose
for which the vehicle is ac-
quired and used."
These exceptions, the GSA
says, are made only upon 'a
"statement by the .responst
ble people of the pperating
agency" that a tracele. tag
would be contraryto.the pub-
lie interest
Mr. ?? Baker', said he .didn't
know who would have written
the letter to the GSA asking
that the license plates be kept
secret.
A GSA official yesterday
traUon' under lock and key.
Newspaper Interest in Mr.
Baker's activities was
spurred recently when a ,Jo-
cal vending machine corn.
pany charged in a suit that
he, the vice-president. of a
second vending` company
industry contracts, and a lo-
cal "consultant" for North
American Aviation Corp. had
conspired to cancel the cow-:
plaining firm's; coptract with
the Falls Church electronics
firm of Melpar, :m c.
Yesterday, lawyers for Serve;
U and the other defendants'
sion from District `'Court
Judge Edward Tamm.in :the
time allowed them'to file atl
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