PSI--ADMINISTRATIVE NEWS CLIPPING OF INTEREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01042R000300010056-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 9, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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.9 y-1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Headquarters
SUBJECT PSI--Administrative
News Clipping of Interest
Attached, for Headquarters information, is a news
clipping dated 7 January 1975 from the Chicago Daily
News, entitled "2 CIA offices in Dirksen Bldg.".
Special Agent in Charge
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 CIA offices in Dirksen Bldg
By Charlotte Hunt
T h e Central Intelligance
Agency, under fire for alleged
s p yin g inside the United
States, has two offices here in
the Dirksen Federal Building.
CIA spokesmen emphasize
that both offices conduct "open
and overt" business.
Despite this assurance that
everything in Chicago is above
board, only one of the offices
can be found with some detec-
tive work while the location of
the other office is a secret.
NEITHER THE CIA's em-
ployment office, located on the
16th floor, nor the agency's do-
mestic contact division is list-
ed on the building's directory
in the lobby.
persistence, however, will
get a telephone number from
the clerk in the lobby informa-
tion booth.
That telephone number turns
out to be the CIA's Midwest re-
cruiter, whose office is located
in a sparsely traveled corner
on the 16th floor.
The only identification on
that office is the nameplate of
Charles J. Minich, who is list-
ed on the building directory
under the U.S. marshal.
In the local telephone book,
the CIA lists two numbers, but
only identify the employment
number. The second number
apparently belongs to the mys-
terious domestic contact divi-
sion, which refuses to disclose
its room number when called.
. FURTHER questions are re-
sponded to with, "We're not
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comes from public sour
like newspapers."
As for alleged domestic spy-
ing by the CIA or a report that"
convicted Watergate burglar"17
E. Howard Hunt once worked"
here at the agency's of ":t
fice, Minich would only recite'
from a blue handbook, which
states in part:
"The Central Intellig
Agency does not confirm oa
deny published reports, wheth
er true or false, favorable o
unfavorable."
Further, Minich said, the "
agency is "not a secret organi-
zation, although some of the..
work Nye do is."
Then why is his 16th floor of
fice door locked at all times?
Why are the CIA room num-: ?i
hers unpublished? In separate
interviews both Thuermer and,:
Minich said:
"To discourage off-the-street-4
walk-ins and crackpots." ;?f
The name of the Central Intelligence Agency's Midwest recruiter, Charles J. Minich,
is all that appears on the directory in the lobby of the Federal Building (left) and
on a nameplate at his office on the 16th Floor.
authorized to give any state-
ments to the press," and the
caller is given another phone
number for a man in Wash-
ington.
That man is Angus Thuer-
mer, who explained the domes-
tic contact division engages In
a sort of debriefing of trav-
elers to countries of interest to
the CIA.
The traveler is asked in a
p e r s o n-to-person interview,
"Would you be willing to tell
your government" about the
country visited? If the traveler
agrees, tie becomes a "pro-
tected source," and his name
is not disclosed.
Thuermer insisted there is
nothing sinister or secretive
about the operation, but re-
fused to give the office's room
number. Why?
"We just never have, and I
don't intend to start today."
MINICH,THErecruiter
whose job it is to explain the
agency to prospective spies,
said the CIA is "open and
overt, not subversive," and
that "most of our information
CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1975
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