“CEODET OLVIV 1 % 8BOX Record Number 157-10011-10121 1 April 1974 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Security SUBJECT Charles William Wiley Attached herewith for your information is a summary report covering Subject prepared by.CIA Cover Employee Louis W. Vasaly an”
“arranged to have Wiley call Cecil Tighe, SRS, the following Monday and for Tighe to advise Wiley to come to Washington in the near future to discuss the matter with Tighe and Gaynor. Apparently, Allen was removing himself from contact with Wiley at about this time. Apparent”
“-a-vvll-.O nuGG G:14 -vnuuvLv business to a certain extent in the name of this or- ganization. - CIA Covert Source Details of this will not be covered in this report. Mr. Wiley still conducts certain business through this mechanism (WNA), but at the present, with the except”
“of getting about two months' expenses for subject (Wiley) and in the meantime we can complete our clearance of him and try to make out a project. We should also make a survey of his work to be certain a project is justified." Westrell, in turn, directed McCord to talk to Bir”
“could not recall the exact identity of these individuals. He indicated that he got the impression that .this information was common knowledge in the news, 83004 field. The Bureau may-wish 'to advise 'CIA- by appropriate channels concerning the information tht the CIA had b”
“individuals in attendance at the Festivals and the Communist tactics used in these Communist sponsored meetings. "Further, during 1959-1962, Mr. Wiley made many trips in behalf of SRS, including a journalistic trip to Cuba where he served a jail sentence in Havana in an eff”
“take part. Wiley indicated that he would be perfectly willing to commence working on it and to direct the operations from behind the scenes. Allen asked Wiley to write up and submit a proposal regarding same if he had a chance. Allen suggested to C/SRS that the matter of pen”
“Wiley met while discussing an article on Soviet spies. There are handwritten notes of contacts with Wiley on 19 and 21 April 1966 mainly concerning articles about CIA which appeared in the May 1966 issue of "Esquire." Wiley did not know the authors. After apparent approval ”
“attachment referred to as a 'Contact List' was prepared upon our instructions ■ by Mr. Wiley himself and no additions or corrections' have been made. It is believed self-explanatory. ”2. For matter of record, we wish to again em- phasize that certain items are omitted from t”
“10 A6666_____ , 104-10310-10104 j2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 22 SECRET File:1 SSC/LA 21 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. John Walker A/SA/DDO FROM: Arthur C. Close Deputy Chief, Cover & Commercial Staff 29 SUBJECT: CI”
“TOP SECRET 128 P hone (A re a 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 1 night. Q 6 2 Mr. Wides. ( If you associate that with (1) NOV o 9 you must have been told more than just, we have an informant. 4 How would it be discussed at the meeting, through this 5 proprietary we have acc”
“OEODET vLUREI a few days. These reports are to be detailed and to cover contacts and infor- mation gained. He was not to make reports of any kind to any person or U.S. government agency except i CIA and then through agreed- upon channels only. NOTE: It was agreed that”
“March 1958. 8. WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, #61693-DL, during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1952. WISE, according to MUNSELL’s landlady and social acquaintance in Washington, D.C. during the period of about a year whi”
“would be denied as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency from the date he entered on duty through the date of his departure. Attachment E is a personal letter received from Mr. Whitten after he was notified that his name might be released in connection with declass”
“C•ODCT vLU %L.1 % A. If Mr. Wiley, because of his talents and capacity as a writer-journalist and his considerable knowledge of Soviet activity throughout the world, is offered a. highly remunerative job job with a major publication, news service or radio chain, Mr. Wil”
“in Mr .Houston. He was ANVIL, a staff official but under .,W as 22 .E S unofficial cover. 23 acc "Mr. Wides. Meaning that he was in a law firm that 24 was essentially a proprietary. 25 NW 5095.5 DocId 32202415 Page 8 TOP SECRET”
“Wiley had contacted Radio Free Europe in New York on his own, and had been slated to do research on the Far East utilizing RFE files or in con junction with RFE officials. Wiley was also scheduled to act as a free lance interviewer and reporter during the course of an impen”
“would be denied as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency from the date he entered on duty through the date of his departure. Attachment E is a personal letter received from Mr. Whitten after he was notified that his name might be released in connection with declass”
“of Wiley to Lee Wood (or Woods), General Manager of Script (sic) Howard. Wiley contacted Wood through Lyons and they arranged for a personal meeting on 3 April 1964. The plan, however, fell through since Wiley never moved to Washington. The plan, as follows, was presented in”
“1 0 On 6 June 1969, Tighe recorded that Jim McCord advised him on that date that he, McCord, had visited Wiley in New York City on the 4th and 5th of June 1969. McCord gave Tighe photographs from Wiley which had been "entrusted" to Wiley "many years ago" by Morse Allen: Th”
“SECRET 0 "Wiley is known to be a CIA employee by numerous individuals, such as: the staff of National Review; Herbert Romerstein, a close friend of Wiley and a former Communist; Lee Pennington, Elsa Bernaut and Hede Massing; J. B. Matthews and his wife, former Communists w”
“American trip expense of @2234.72 was offset against income and there is no record of an advance. No foreign travel is reflected in the Federal Income Tax Returns or files for 1966 or 1967. The 1968 Federal income tax return reflects a 55 day trip to Athens, Cairo, Indo-Chin”
“SECRET 9a 2) Mr. Wiley’s contact with Earl Browder is not noted in the Contact List, for obvious reasons, although;' SRS ran Wiley against Earl Browder for several years, principally as a RECOVERY target. This contact is still being used, and, for the record, Browder ap ”
“OFODTT SECRET and may assume that such advice and acknowledgement on our part would be Agency approval for his activities. While such is not the case, it is believed that we should formalize this part of our contract with him so that he knows that his personal activitie”
“be denied as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency from the date he entered on duty through the date of his departure. Attachment E is a personal letter received from Mr. Whitten after he was notified that his name might be released in connection with declassificat”
“(11-23 July) Helsinki, (July August) Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Lugano, London and New York City.. The 1964 Federal Income tax return reflects a 31 day ■ trip to Asia from 15 November - 31 December 1964. On 27 October 1964, in a memo to Chief/SRS, Morse ”
“13-00000 SEUNEI in Moscow” who to zeremvea to above, so on to ealdrrin American Ember V en 974574, file 95* E advised in a cable e Frederick n DAVES 4 -Union anust L Bariet 60, had 57 t in early 3953 end August 1953. No did • office which acen utes vos inHewbiYork ”
“March 1958. 8. WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, #61693-DL, during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1952. • WISE, according to MUNSELL'S, landlady and social acquaintance in Washington, D.C. during the period of about a year ”
“July 1959. In substance, Anthoney stated Wiley represented himself as a columnist connected with the "Newhouse Chain" but in his questioning of Anthony about Israeli politics, he (Wiley) "tries to give the impression he either is in or just outside the Washington intelligenc”
“/ SECRET phase out of this activity at the end of the month. They’ll turn it over to the wives. They are running out of money and have enough to last until end of month. They’ll put this activity on shelf for a few months. They have had ’unbelievable backing’ from # 2 man”
“regarding the 20 penetration of our own organization. And we worked down to an 21 identity. And the FBI disagreed with us. And I am talking 22 about not a few minutes, but several weeks and months f work. 4 1 0 First Str 23 And the Bureau's attitude was, you have got th”
“14-00000 c. Item 17 - William Harvey - Approximately 50 documents, virtually all of which concern the estab- lishment, maintenance, and use of cover for Subject during his career with the Agency as a Staff Employee from 1947 to 1967. d. Item 27 (1) International Rescue Co”
“use my judgment, seek out persons who might be of interest, and take advantage of opportunities which might arise; that I would be given recruited agents to handle as the need arose; that, per the limitation concerning my cover, I was not to engage in actual recruitments, but was”
“hospitaliza- tion. He is paid his local travel expenses (which in the last fiscal year have been extremely low) on a monthly voucher arrangement. All payments are deposited through covert Agency channels into a separate bank account for Wiley in New York. "By virtue of his ”
“1 1 S-das- suggested I see him. Copp offered to take taped material from me. My only other contact was a -phone talk with him in March 1965.. "While in Taiwan I was told by Col. Caithness of the U.S.M.A.A.G. office that Copp had directly attributed information to anothe”
“of being vulnerable. ‘ Physically he is not well; he is paralyzed, on 1his left side and has great difficulty walking. On a map, he pointed out his apartment and indicated what he believed to be serious threats to his safety should his affiliation with CIA become known. Wit”
“the Middle East. The writer requested Wiley, at his earliest possible con venience, to reinterview Malcolm X, particularly stress ing Malcolm X’s views of individuals with whom he had talked and any personalities of information which could be of intelligence use. It should”
“of being vulnerable. Physically he is not well; he is paralyzed on his left side and has great difficulty walking. On a map, he pointed out his apartment and indicated what he believed to be serious threats to his safety should his affiliation with CIA become known.._ Within”
“Following the approval of the project funding, McCord contacted Lee Pennington, of the Americanism Committee of the American Legion in Washington, D. C., asking, and receiving wholehearted agreement, for Pennington to provide • cover for Wiley’s work. The cover arrangements w”
“indication that any action was taken regarding this matter. (U). (83 R- 2) SIMMS was never 2: itoyed, by this Directorate nor has this Directorate ever had any operational interest him. (V) Mitchell Livi jj.ji! i ) WERGEES has never been omp ! dyed . by th is Agency no”
“12 Phone (Area 202) 549-6000 MR. MANFREDI: ■ On the record. 2 BY MR. MANFREDI: Q Mr. Sturbitts, are you familiar with a gentleman by / the name of Frank Sturgis? A Indeed. Q Is your familiarity based on what you have read in 7 the press? 8 A No. It is what is cont”
“- ments that would be used with two support agents, whose only interest is that they worked for CIA. c. Two U.S. citizens, Mrs. June Cobb Sharp (believed to be in Mexico City) and a Mr. Wichtrich. Both are private citizens who are reported to have information of interest to the H”
“14-00000 QFODET C. Item 17 - William Harvey -- Approximately 50 documents, virtually all of which concern the estab lishment, maintenance, and use of cover for Subject during his career with the Agency as a Staff Employee from 1947 to 1967. d. Item 27 (1) International”
“cites examples to back up his contention and makes several suggestions for improvement of cover or the establishment of a new one. Apparently this latter memorandum initiated some action by SRS officers who were handling Wiley since in the fall of 1958. Records indicate that”
“discussed a previously proposed trip to Algiers to cover the World Youth Festival 3.7 and requested information as to whether he would be al lowed to cover the festival. Paul F. Gaynor recorded that the Director of Security gave his approval on 31 March 1965, but that Wiley”
“make overtures to the media for personal appearances and articles regarding his involvement in the various youth festivals. Tighe said he advised Wiley: "Nix to stay quiet." Tighe asked Gaynor whether he concurred. The memo is merely signed: "Noted" by Gaynor. A blind memor”
“14-00000 SECT C. Item 17 - William Harvey - Approximately 50 documents, virtually all of which concern the estab lishment, maintenance, and use of cover for Subject during his career with the Agency as a Staff Employee from 1947 to 1967. d. Item 27 (1) International Re”
“you aware of his ever having been on the 20 21 payroll of the CIA? 3 Mr. Halley. I personally am not aware of it, and I think, 22 you know,if ybu had gone to the Agency that they -must 'have ’given 23 you all sorts of traces on this fellow and told you the same 24 25 ”
“euVAts 1-71 Mr. Goldsmith. For purposes of the record, could you A explain why you think that would be out of the question? Mr. Shaw. Because I thihk it would have come to light 4 immediately had he had any CIA connections. 300 771 STREET, S.W. REPORTERS BUILDING, WASH”
“- ments that would be used with two support agents, whose only interest is that they worked for CIA. i c. Two U.S. citizens, Mrs. June Cobb Sharp (believed to be in. Mexico City) and a Mr. Wichtrich. Both are private citizens who are reported to have information of interest to th”