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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‘ii-1 LE ‘ 18 September 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counterintelligence Staff SUBJECT : Background on Tax Audit of Edward A. Novick in October 1965 1. The attached memo for the record dated 18 October 1965 from the Assistant General Counsel (Attachment A) explains that Novick was notified by the Falls Church Office of the Richmond District, IRS, of an office audit of his 1963 income tax return 2. Through cleared contacts in the National Office, IRS, the Agency arranged to transfer his file from Falls Church to the National Office. It was then ascertained that the reason for the audit was because Novick had opened a savings account with $3,000 cash in the Old Dominion Bank, 4707 Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia. 3. The Assistant General Counsel, through discussions with Peter Baranowski and Donald French of SR/CIS, as well as Novick, obtained a reasonable explanation for the deposit. The cash transactions explaining the deposit are described in detail in the attached memo and were designed to break any possible trail between Novick's old and new name. 4. On l5 October 1965 these facts were given to Leon Green, Special Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner Compliance, IRS, who was a cleared contact of the Agency. Mr. Green was not told about Novick's previous names. The facts explaining the deposit satisfied him and the case was closed. 5. Novick's file was to be returned by Mr. Green to the District Director, Richmond, another cleared contact, who was requested to close the case without further action. CL BY 012208 E2 IMPDET OS 5 8256 H
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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.