INQUIRY FROM JAMES ANGLETON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000300020016-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 24, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Inquiry From James Angleton
l.. Mr. Angleton telephoned me I'~ednesday afternoon
at about 1640, axed we talked to about 1700. IIe said
that he phoned me as my name had been given in the letter
to him from the DDCI as being a point of contact f_or
getting answers to questions of security that minht arisE~
in his testimony before IiSCA. I can phone him on KE 8-~;>t8.
2. I said that I do sit astride traffic between the
HSCA and the Agency, and that while I am in a position tc
get answers from the appropriate people in question, and
would undertake to do so, I am not necessarily competent
to provide the answers myself. I pointed out that we
were speaking at the end of the day before Thank>givirig,
and I may experience some problems in getting arespanse
quickly. He said that he is in no hurry, although I am
sure that he will want a fairly early answer.
3. He complained about not having been given natic~?
of the Hart testimony, obviously feeling himself a party
at interest. I made na reply. He inquired who nominates.
Hart to testify. I did not say, but I did say that when it
became apparent that the Committee was getting into t}ie
bona fides issue on Nasenko and the manner of his hancilir~~,
we caught a nearing in executive session. This was deniF~~.
us and when a name was requested for the Committt~e's public
hearing, John Hart was nominated as qualified to speak or?
the subject.
4. Angleton said that the testimony had opened up ~
number of doors. I replied that it had been the Agency's
intention to limit the scope of the testimony. We wanted
to hold testimony away from the issue of what Nosenko tole
us, as there remained operational considerations. The
decision was to refer to the bugging of the embassy in
Moscow and to refer to Soviet penetration of an ally, witt~~~ut
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specifying it. Beyond that the issues were held to the
handling of Nosenko as it bore on the case in general.
I said that the intent had been to point to doors and
not to open them, and that this was how it had been don?".
I said. that there would still be reservations about tell~.n~
.this Cammitteea~out the operational considerations. In
any. event, I said I was not competent to give him answers
on this, and would have to contact both the General Coun~~.~t
and the responsible DDO elements.
5. Angleton said that Hart had stated that he
.(Angleton)-had. inspected the facility where Nosenko was
held; he said this was untrue. He also said that An~letcaa~
had approved hostile interrogation of Nosenko, which he
said was untrue. He says he didn't even know about the
Katzenbach meeting. As I could not recall thew. sta"temer,c
I did not reply; I da recall Hart's saying to me that th~~rc:
is very little by way of records connecting Angleton with
the handling of the case. Angleton described Hart's statt~-
ments as slanderous and perjured.
6. Angleton wishes to review certain documents in
.the Agency. He is making a line-by-line review of HSCA
xecords, including checking his own testimony of som+c six
.hours. He is to give HSCA a line-by-line commentary. 1i.
a.s this question that must be addressed.
7. Angleton complains about having to retain an
attorney, wham he named as S~lallace Duncan. I alerted Dif~A..
Rininger of OGC.
S. D. Breckinridge
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