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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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His aS5°¢5-ate’ a known audio and polygraph operator,
was directly involved in unearthing BRANDY's
audio installation in the hotel room oi another
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c. Positive informationthat BRANDY__
has recently visited the U.S. Recording Company, _
such firm being a known supplier of sophisticated
audio equipment; and
cl. The fact that BRANDY may well
have viable contacts or relationships with the
staff of the Madison Hotel and, indeed, might
be leasing permanent space at that establishment I
which could be utilized as an audio listening post," p _,
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3.‘ On 15 March 1972, the Director of Security _advi_sed'p
that he had briefed the Director regarding the abovei_c>onsider_ations,
but that the latter is still intent on goinguthrough '\§;ith'£1&e' pmpasi-id"
luncheon meeting. '
4. It was proposed to the Director of Security that certain
lirnited SUGAR coverage should be effected in the Montpelier Room
during the meeting between BRANDY and the Director. Two (2)
teams of two (Z) agents each will also lunch at the restaurant and V
maintain general SUGAR observatioiis particularly on the possibility
of any audio or photographic coverage of the Director while he is
in ]3RANDY's presence. If such a contingency is discovered before
the Director's arrival at the restaurant, Headquarters should be
inirnecliately notified. through appropriate WFO connnunications
channels. In the event such developments arise while the Director
is in the establishrnent, pp action pshfoulclbe takcnihy SUGAR_team
members excepting the notification, at the earliest opportunity,’
to WFO supervisory personnel. At no time should the Director
be made aware of SUGAR coverage within the restaurant although
it should be noted that he is agreeable to our intended operation.
The Director of Security has subsequently consented to the above-
describocl SUGAR proposal. .
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.