TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH MIKE WALLACE, CBS 5 JANUARY 1977, 11:15 A.M.

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• Publication Date: January 5, 1977
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5 January 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Mike Wallace, CBS
5 January 1977, 11:15 a.m.
Mike Wallace raised several subjects with me:
1. Agee. Mike told me that he had recently been in
London, and that he sat down with Agee. Agee feels the CIA is
behind the British move to have Agee deported from England. I
told Mike (on a totally off-the-record basis) that this is not
true and that if any agency of the United States Government was
leaning on England to deport Agee, I would know about it. He
wanted to know if we could cooperate if they did a piece on Agee,
and I told him that we could not; that we were confined by guide-
lines where we would not be able to discuss citizens; and that
the whole subject was very, very sensitive. I further told him
that in my personal view -- still off-the-record -- Agee is not
a simple nice reformer. I did not go beyond that. I also told
Mike that I would hate to see a story where Agee came out as a
nice reformer with a lot of people ganging up on him because of
this, and that I worried since we weren't going to be in a position
to coo t
p t a a with i . t h i s ist e way it wo ld urn o
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2. Mike was wonderin if we could/ h
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give iIII
any information at would substantiate charges. I told STA
him that th r
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C rea abuses dian t happen under the ixon ministration, STA
but happened when McCone was Director and Kennedy was in the White
House. I told him that we just would not be able to help him on
that.
e was a
ot of stuff publ1shed on Chile, and that the
hearings had gone into it extensively but that the Agency would
not be able to cooperate by giving him information on ST
allegations. He was particularly interested in charges
that th 1 11 11 1
3. "Face the Nation." Mike made a rather flattering
reference to my appearance on "Face the Nation." I told him I
didn't.like to be in a position where I had to say no all the time;
he replied that he felt it had come over very well, and that he felt
people across the country would understand my inability to cooperate
fully.
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TO:
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REMARKS:
Please be sure
Andrew Falkiewicz
sees this.
FROM:
Director
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