Documents / FOIA release
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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? 5 MAR'@75
MBMDRAN9U§ FGR; Inspectur General
FRQM : Sidney 8. Sasmbridge
Acting Birector of Sacurity
VIA : fiaputy Qirector far Administration
883356? : Haward R. Hughes
1. Raferanaa is maéa to year requast ef lé March
19?6 far infatuation moncerning the Agency's relatianships
with the Howard R. Hughes organizations. It is understoad
ghattéhis infbrmatisn is to be used in prsparing a briefing
or e fiCI.
2. The files of this Office reflect that variaus
companias cennected with the Howard R. Hughes organizations
hava been usaé by this Agency over the past Z5 years. The
best summary concernin% thesa eannections is contained in a
draft summary praviaua 7 prepared by yaur Gffica on 25 March
1§?5. A copy uf this sumary is enclosafi far your cenwunience.
The various camponents af the Agency mantioned in the draft
summary wauld have the most accurata informatian cancerning
tha datails of these uses of the Hughes arganizatians.
3. With reference ta page fuur cf the firaft summary,
it should ha noteé that the Gffice of Security is eurrently
using Hughas Aircraft Cerporation as a ccvert funding channel
far §H3GfiN§{3. To date $535,698 hava been funded thraugh
Hughes Aircraft Cerporatien, with a remaining balance af
$29,G0$. This balance will be withdrawn prior to SQ June
1976, sin¢e MHB6UND/3 will have been disselved by that date.
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