CONVERSATION WITH MIKE FINLEY, INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF, RE(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200050124-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: April 5, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

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TIAL
5 April 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Mike Finley, Inter-American Affairs
Subcommittee Staff,
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1. Talked to Mike Finley, Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee
staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and told him that an Agency
representative had been in contact with on 26 March STATINTL
and after discussion with him advised that we appreciated his STATINTL
courtesy in contacting us but that we had no interest in purchasing the
information available to him concerning natural resources, power trans-
mission stations, dams, power lines, etc. , in Venezuela. It was pointed
out to him that within the U. S. the Agency does not normally purchase
information particularly from unknown individuals and further if there was
a need for the type of information he was offering, there were other more
conventional ways by which it could be acquired. I told Finley we do not
25X1A 2. A short while later Finley called me and told me that he had
just talked to the judge who had made the original request to
Representative Fascell, Chairman of the Subcommittee, that the contact
be made. The judge stated that our representative had promised to be
back in touch within two days as to whether we were interested and that in
any event the papers that had been given to our representative should be
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3. After rechecking through I I told
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Finley that we had been explicitly noncommittal in our contact with
and that no papers had been received from him. I told Finley STATINTL
again that we did not intend to recontact II He said he would
take care of the matter with the judge and agreed that he saw no reason
for any further contact from Representative Fascell's point of view.
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