WATERGATE - GUIDELINES FOR AGENCY FILE REVIEW

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000600010030-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 22, 1974
• Content Type: REGULATION

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WATERGATE - GUIDELINES FOR AGENCY FILE REVIEW
1. The Director, has called for another review of Agency files
for material connected in any way with what has come to be called
"Watergate. " The purpose of the review is to the extent possible
to ensure that Agency management is aware of all such material in
our files and that there will be no future "surprises" in this regard.
component will be the .responsibility of that particular directorate g.
or separate operating component, the role of the Office of the
Inspector General being limited to that indicated in the following
paragraphs. On the completion of the review within his area of
responsibility, each deputy director and chief of separate operating
component will certify in writing to the Inspector General that a
review has been conducted in accord with these guidelines, and will
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2. The review is to be conducted in accord with these general
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4. The. target date for completion of the Agenc fil
.5. The review must be comprehensive, This does not mean
that each and every piece of paper under the Agency's control must
be looked at and studied in this review. It does mean that all files,
including those in archives, in field offices, in proprietaries, and
anywhere else, must be considered. It will be up to the manage-
ment of each directorate or separate operating component to determine
what specific files must be physically searched and read, and what
files need not be so reviewed. For example, it should not be nec-
essary in this review to search anew through files which are known
to contain nothing but past issues of finished intelligence publications.
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o e setting. of a new target date for his component.
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and the reports to the Inspector. General is 10 May 1974. If a deputy
director or chief of separate operating component finds that he will
be unable to meet that target date, he will consult with the Inspector
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In making this determination about any given set of files, however,
each management level must bear in mind that the term "Watergate"
has with the passage of time come to cover a wide range of topics,
events, and personalities, including much historical data. In para-
graph 8 below, is a list of subjects which are to be considered in
particular. This list has been prepared as a guide for the review.
It should not be used, however, as reason for excluding other
material which, while it may not come properly under any of the
headings given, may nonetheless be related to "!Watergate" in the
broadest sense of the word.
-=6. Any material relevant to "Watergate" (in the sense indicated
above) found in component files will be forwarded to the Inspector
General. In some cases (e. g. , if a given file or set of files is found
to contain significant quantities of relevant materials), a component
may find it desirable to segregate certain files for review by rep-
resentatives of the Office of the Inspector General,
a. Whenever there is doubt as to whether something
should be forwarded to the Inspector General or otherwise
called to his attention, the'doubt should be resolved by for-
warding the material to or otherwise notifying the Inspector
General.
b. Any operationally sensitive material which require
special handling may be discussed directly with the Inspector
General.
7. The requirements of paragraph.6 above do not apply to
press clippings or to any material which has already been brought
to the attention of the Inspector General since the beginning of his
office's "Watergate" investigation, i. e. , since 14 May 1973.
8. Following is a list of subjects which must be considered
in this file review. As indicated above, this list is not necessarily
all-inclusive and should not be regard as such. The entire list
should be considered within all components, even though the file
search on some topics will be more narrowly targetted.
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a. Watergate Break-in(s)
This heading covers the June 1972 surreptitious entry
into the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate,
the subsequent arrests, and any and all information connect-
ing the Agency in any way to preparations for the break-in(s)
in June 1972 or earlier, the individuals involved, and the
alleged cover-up efforts.
G. Gordon Liddy
James W. McCord
John J. Caulfield
Eugenio Rolando Martinez Careaga
Juan Rigoberto Ruin Villegas
Bernard L. Barker
Virgilio Gonzales
Frank Anthony Sturgis
This covers any and' all information in Agency files
related to Ellsberg, including the requests for and
preparation of the profiles on Ellsberg, the case of the
so-called Pentagon Papers, damage assessments, Agency
associations, the Ellsberg trial.
The "individuals involved" includes but is not limited
to thane listed in the attachment to 23 May 1973 Memorandum
for All Employees, "Agency Involvement in the Watergate
Case":
H. R. Haldeman
-John Ehrlichman
John Dean
Egil Krogh
David Young
E,... Howard Hunt
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This covers any and all information in Agency files
reflecting any knowledge of the alleged break--in, or plans
for such, of the files of Hank Greenspun or of the newspaper
in Las Vegas with which he is associated.
The review here will be limited, at least initially,
to a check of DDO European Division files and records,
if any, on the request of Howard Hunt in 1971 to -a former
chief of European Division for information or baackground
the Hunt
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eneral will consult directly with the Deputy Director for -
Operations regarding the review on this subject.
e. Other Requests b
This covers any information available, regarding any
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requests boor Agency assistance on any matter
f. National Elections of 1972
way to political conventions or other meetings, campaign
mail, support of other governmental organizations in
connection with the campaigns and the elections, and
political activities of any sort by Agency personnel beyond
that of a legal and clearly personal nature (e.g., personal
contributions to candidates).
. support for candidates, security activity related: in any
to the national elections- of 197 l972 , including intelligence
knowledge, however obtained, reflecting activity related
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Director for Operations and the Director of Finance with
regard to the review on this subject.
possibly a file review in the Office of Finance. The time
frame for material. on this subject will be calendar 1972.
The Inspector General will consult directly with the Deputy
and a check and
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Agency or Agency personnel with Howard Hughes or any
of his enterprises.
This covers any and all information connecting the
This covers any and all information connecting the
Agency or Agency personnel with Robert Vesco or any of
his enterprises.
1. Robert Maheu
This covers any and all information connecting the Agency
or Agency personnel with Robert Maheu or any of his
enterprises.
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