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David E. Hanlon Ralph Orcutt Edmund X. Klipa (Possible Contact by the Senate Select Committee Staff)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-09-29 · 515 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.

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and his wife, Jessica Smith ABT (NR-IRB), last summer in Connecticut
where ABT owns a home. Subjecfalso said that she gathered that ABT
was having financial.dif:f.‘iculties. (The wife of Subject's brother,
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1;. Subject stated further that when she visited her‘ sister,
Mrs. FISHER, who lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she asked her if
their brother and his wife were seeing much of John ABT and his wife.
Subject's sister told her that she was under the ilpression that ABT \
and his wi._f,e,were
becausethey did not want Subject_!;s__b;_'p_'Ll1_e_r_;_<>_h_a}rg_§”.r;y_di,f'ficulties
at Columbia University because of association with them.
5. Subject also stated that she she has convinced
hezr,__bro_ther_and his wife that she has resigned from ”CIA#and is now '
worlclng for Army S-fin Vienna which was Sfibject's cover. She added
that she does "not“‘lcnow"' how long this story will hold up. Subject also
stated that she has found out that "Mother" Ella Reeves BLOQR. died
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6. While discussing Subject's stay at Reed College, both
as a student and a member of the faculty, Subject stated that there
were some individuals there that had definite left-wi___ng_La_n,dgpcies.
Subject said that she naturally does not recall all the names of these
individuals since she was not that closely associated with them. How-
ever, Subject did recall several names, specifically, a Paula SMITH
(NR-IRB) and a Lloyd REYNOLDS (NR-IRE).
_ 7. Subject recalled Paula SMITH because they were both
students and studied in the library together in preparation for a
thesis. According to Subject, Paula SMITH had left.-wing tendencies
and probably became a member of the .G9F1mw1ist Party after marriage.
Subject does not recall the last name core.-;1151'a“ SMITH's husband but
said his first name was Tommy. Subject also stated that Tglrggy may
have been a C_o;r,gg1~r_1is,t_;_while he was at Reed C0l1ege.
Subject added that "fisrwaaly association with Paula SMITH and her
husband Tommr we-=1 Q11 §"_'Z€f7aaBi'=§..a11<.i-t.hafL shemas had. nq--_co.1.1taci=. ,
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8. In regard to Lloyd REYNOLDS, Subject said that he was .
a member of the Reed faculty approximately during the period of 1931-
l9hl and may still be at Reed College. Subject knew Mr. REYNOLDS
only casually by virtue of her connection with the faculty at Reed
College. She stated that it was rumored at Reed College that REYNOLDS
was active in the Spanish Civil War activities. She said that as she
looks back on it now in retrospect, R.EYlI§I_Ol.DS was definitely involved
in some Communist Front activities on the campus of Reed College.
Subject stated that in regard to herself she has never knowingly
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.