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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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3 U SEP 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Record
SUBJECT: David E. Hanlon
(Telephonic Contact)
On this date I telephonically contact Mr. Hanlon,
a former Office of Security employee, to advise him
that there was a possibility that a staff member of
the Senate Select Committee would he contacting him
regarding a matter under investigation by the Senate
Committee. Specifically, I advised Mr. Hanlon that
the subject matter related to the Agency involvement
sinifiofiitoring dissident activity as it related to
Agency interest.
I advised Mr. Hanlon that we have been fully
cooperating with the Senate Select Committee and have
furnished them considerable amounts of information
concerning Project RESISTANCE. In this regard,
obviously his name has surfaced. I advised Mr. Hanlon
that if he had any concerns regarding his legal rights
then I would suggest that he contact Mr. George Clarke
with the Office of General Counsel. I further advised
Mr. Hanlon that in the event that he was interested in
counsel then the Agency would pursue the possibility
of providing him with free legal assistance.
Mr. Hanlon indicated that he felt he was bound by
the Secrecy Agreement he signed with the Agency and he
could not cooperate with the Senate Select Committee
unless he was released from this agreement. I indicated
that the DCI has released employees and former employees
from the Secrecy Agreement under certain guidelines. I
discussed these guidelines with Mr. Hanlon. He advised
that he would be glad to cooperate with the Senate Select
Committee, and he appreciated the telephone call.
Edwal Jones
Deputy Director of Security (PSI)
Distribution:
Orig — Adse
2 — Chrono
OS/PSI/EJones:cbt (30 September 1975)

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