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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.

  • p. 53 …The OTS records apparently indicated that alias documents, type not identified, were issued to one "Hamilton…
  • p. 54 …1960 in the name of Edward J. Hamilton. ff John F. Meehan Chief, External Activities Branch…
  • p. 215 …H4302? svcgg c. _Hamilton AirC 09¢ I _ _ship between the IRS and the CIA. In particular…
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2 June 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
SUBJECT : Alias Driver's License — E. Howard Hunt
OS #23500
1. This memorandum is for information in response
to your inquiry concerning the issuance of alias driver's
licenses to former Agency staff employee Mr. E. Howard
Hun t .
2. A review of Mr. Hunt's Security file fails to
reflect any information which would indicate he had been
furnished alias documentation subsequent to his retirement
from this Agency in April 1970.
3. Mr. Hunt's file reflects that while employed by
the Central Intelligence Agency he utilized two (2) aliases
These were: "Hugh W. Newstead" which was assigned for
use with a Post Office Box on 9 December 1949, cancelled
l2 November 1953, reactivated 4 March 1954 and retiredl
cancelled on 30 April 1970. The second alias "Edward J.
Hamilton" was assigned 20 September 1960 and retired/
cancelled 30 April 1970.
4. The file contained several memoranda which
reflected the results of checks made of both Office of
Technical Service and Office of Security records relative
to the issuance of alias documentation to Mr. Hunt. The
OTS records apparently indicated that alias documents,
type not identified, were issued to one "Hamilton" on
two occasions during the period 1957-1964. The memoranda
further indicated that information had been developed
from Security records which reflected that Mr. Hunt was
to have been issued a non-backsto ed Massachusetts
Driver's License with a Providence, Rhode Island address,
together with a Social Security Card and insurance
policy, also non-backstopped. When or whether these
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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.