“€ ( 1 II. C1A PERSONNEL TO BE INTERVIEWED OR DEPOSED The following list indicates the CIA personnel the Committee has thus far decided to interview, or depose. * Where known, specific persons are identified. In all other cases, the position or program responsibility and”
“mbh 1 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 SECRET I - ! PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION 2 i ON CIA ACTIVITIES 4= ! Langley, Virginia - Wednesday, April 16, 1975 €t. Deposition of WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, called for 71 -i examination by Counsel for the Commission on CIA Activities, .8; ”
“mbh 1 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 SECRET 1 — 1 PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION 21 ON CIA ACTIVITIES A 4z ! Langley, Virginia - • J Wednesday, April 16, 1975 6 1 Deposition of WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, called for 71 examination by Counsel for the Commission on CIA Activities, 6”
“41 to r 544-ence 1 Mr. Wallasoh. Did somebody tell youtthat the PBI had primary jurisdiction? Pratos(rvea 2 3 Mr. Halley. No, but the FBI has primary jurisdiction * 4 this is something we are taught in our training courses, in * the United States, vou know, for case”
“%90iI ****a 1-4 1 the performance, of the investigative agencies, specifically 2 the FBI and the CIA and to evaluate the work of the Warren 3 Commission.. •! Do you understand that as well? S4EZ-+95 (ZOZ) hZ00Z 5 Mr. Shaw. Yes. Mr. Goldmsith. Prior to coming here t”
“program are Fred Cook, Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, all of whom who have been outspoken critics of the FBI.>- / The Central Intelligence Agency, according to Mr. Rocca, was concerned over the appearance of their ex-employees - Victor Marchetti and George O’Toole. he Mr. Rocc”
“mbh 1 Phone (Area 202} 544-6000 SECRET 1 — 1 PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION 2 , ON CIA ACTIVITIES • ! Langley, Virginia Wednesday, April 16, 1975 6 Deposition of WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, called for J examination by Counsel for the Commission on CIA Activities, 8 J the witne”
“0 TO P SECRET 60 Phone (Alea 202) 544-6000 1 conversations with Seymour Boultin — 2 Mr. Baron. Walt Elder? 3 Mr. Halley. I talked to Walt Elder on the phone. You know 4 the people who are involved in this thing. I have asked for 5 that, I talked to our attorney, Clarke—”
“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”
“Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 SECRET 2 1 PROCEEDINGS/ 3 Thereupon, WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, called as a witness by Counsel for the Commission on.CIA 5 Activities, and having been first duly sworn by the Notary 6 Public, was examined and testified as follows: 7 EXAMINATION”
“confident all would turn out well. (S)■ 6. After our meeting with Whitten, I spoke with Gunn about how this issue would be handled by the Board. Gunn - believed that it was more than likely that the Board would agree , to protect him and that he would make the strongest arg”
“Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 SECRET 2 1 PROCEEDINGS/ 2 Thereupon, WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, a called as a witness by Counsel for the Commission on.CIA 5 Activities, and having been first duly sworn by the Notary 6 Public, was examined and testified as follows: 7 EXAMINATI”
“Report Correspondent also has contacts with the Agency, a fact which concerns Muldoon. i f. Central Investigation Agency - An Atlanta. . detective Agency established a few years ago by Howard COSGROVE, a former Georgia police officer specialized in narcotics operations who ”
“turn out well. (S) 6. After our meeting with Whitten, I spoke with Gunn about how this issue would be handled by the Board. Gunn believed that it was more than likely that the Board would agree to protect him and that he would make the strongest argument he ■ could to them. ”
“1 Uro Aal1 Eito UNLS his retirement. He is still being utilized by the Agency on a contract basis at the SECRET level. Dr. Golder has not yet been interviewed (as of 23 June 1972) but indications are that his ties to Mr. McCord are similar to those of Dr. Gunn mainly thr”
“n January 1953 for use as a donor in Project LPCOIN. This clearance was cancelled in September 1956. e. Philip Maurice STERN, son of the above mentioned couple, was granted a liaison clearance in March 1961 when he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. P”
“AW 50955 D o c Id : 32203774 P age 21 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED 11-4-94 du (I) (B) (1)CC) PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: C ATEGORIES: HARVEY, William• OCCURRENCE: FAD 0000 woe mta-9 O At yM te9 4ft. HARVEY t”
“Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 SECRET 2 F Do PROCEEDINGS/ Thereupon, 1O WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, called as a witness by Counsel for the Commission on.CIA 5 Activities, and having been first duly sworn by the Notary 6 Public, was examined and testified as follows: 7 EXAMIN”
“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”
“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”
“IDEN A CONCLUDED THAT IT WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE USEFUL TO TAKE WHITTEN'S DEPOSITION AT A LATER DATE. ALTHOUGH WHITTEN HAD IN GENERAL A GOOD MEMORY, IDEN A FELT HE DID NOT ADD ANYTHING 0 *OF SIGNIFICANCE TO HIS PRIOR TESTIMONY BEFORE THE<HSCA.> AFTER THE INTERVIEW, WHITTEN TO”
“turn out well. (S) 6. After our meeting with Whitten, I spoke with Gunn about how this issue would be handled by the Board. Gunn believed that it was more than likely that the Board would agree e to protect him and that he would make the strongest argument he could to them. ”
“3. NY 65-22427 WILLIAM K. MARVEY O(!) 11 THOMPSON stated that he recalled an individual by the name of HARVEY whom he believes was an officer Germany with the 7983rd Army Unit which THOMPSON stated was a covert CIA outfit, or was an officer with an Army Intelligence Unit”
“CIA Covert. , , Tr. 4 . 1, Agent told Wiley .1 that McCord1 is * out of it anyway and ’that another person is supposed to get in touch with ‘Agentert. Agent • ."Wiley will call McCord tonight for a briefing on handling the Mexican material. Afterwards, Wiley can stall fo”
“KENNEDY SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS Name Dennis Flynn. Date June 16, 1978 Time 11:30 am .Address 1749 Stuart Mill Rd. Place at his home Oakton, Virginia Interview: Robert Genzman and Harold Leap interviewed Dennis Flynn: at his home on June 16, 1978. The interv”
“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”
“7 operations- or projects. He added that there would, have, also been many Wad hoc" actions. "Under questioning, he, stated that it is possible that he' was responsible for as many as 14 to 1.7 ongoing operations and 3 to 6 developmental stage operations. Most of these, o”
“tected. (C) NW 65924 Docld:32369411 Page 3 CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL APPENDIX. TO HEARINGS VOLUME VI Page 262, Paragraph (698). Add the words "an alleged" in front of "former CIA employee." The point here is that it has never been- made clear that the man known as Carswell was th”
“13-00000 1 % DEC 11 ‘95 11:14AM ,P.1 COVER H SCT FAX To: Mr. Burry Harrelson Wax #: (703) 351-2114 Subject: December meeting Date: December 11, 1995 Pages: 3, including this cover sheet. COMMENTS: The types of information that the Board needs to know about each of th”
“OP DECKEL P hone (A re a 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 127 1 and saying, look, we want you to go along with this and use 2 Colonel Wimert down there, he is really important to us, and 5 that sort of thing, and was perhaps slightly embarrassed 4 by the fact that they had been doin”
“oFonrT Cor-L Sr * : 11 before being expelled. He has visited the USSR, and several Iron Curtain countries, the Far East, Middle East and Africa, Central and South America, Korea and the Republic of China. His interviews at the front in Vietnam with American enlisted men ”
“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”
“quite impossible to take any other position. “During my discussion with Don, the only company business that was mentioned was the project with which everyone knows I am familiar. It is, therefore, obvious that I could not have said what was reported. I would suggest that so”
“1 (0) (3) The Central Intelligence Agency, according to Mr was concerned over the appearance of their ex-employees - Victor Marchetti and George O’Toole. ■ Mr. advised that his Agency would have coverage 31 2 data (15) of the conference and that he would be happy to pass al”
“42 P hone (A re a 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 TOP SECRET 1 Mr. Osborn. He was a Deputy undouc. Colmmie.ounk.o Goggmrs % - 2 He had a very high position was 3 his name. 4 Mr. Wallach. I note your attorney is taking notes. May 5 I ask if those will be provided to the CIA? 6”
“4-00000 ,104-10112-10323, 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 . .. RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduco ' 21 August 1974 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. F. I. G. Coleman C/OPS/LSN SUBJECT FBI Investigation of Allegations ”
“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”
“COMMITTEE SENSITIVE Phillips, page 3. Bill Kent was running "if Bill Kent got to the point where he felt he would like a little, weight, 5. Sometimes he went down to Miami on a "trouble shooting" mission. as when problems developed with a commercial radio station the Age”
“erview as they had to introduce themselves to her. The attornies' names were JIM DICK and TOM DAWSON . Regarding his conference with former Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY, SCHMIT stated that at the time of this con- ference there was a general criminal intelligence conference”
“7rrA C131 Cite wild 9. James Louis Baker James Louis Baker served with the Agency from . 2 July 1952 until 24 June 1972, when his contract was allowed to expire. Mr. Baker, a GS-12, Operations Officer assigned to Special Operations Division/DDP, was in Saigon, South Vietn”
“the statement, "Under the cover of investigating a leftist campaign to drive U. S. Government spokesmen and recruiters for government agencies from the colleges, I talked over the situation with those listed below, the following report is based on the combined thinking of al”
“14-00000 5/01 c. Item 17 - William Harvey Approximately 50 documents, virtually all of which concern the estab lishment, maintenance, and use of cover for Subject 4 during his career with the Agency as a Staff Employee from 1947 to 1967. d. Item 27 (1) International Res”
“SECKET 62 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 Of course, if these people went out and did something on 2 their own, they could do things we were not aware of, obviously. 3 You can’t — you know what they are doing during their eight or 4 1 ten hours that they are going to work ever”
“CIA employment in 1952. WISE, according to MUNSELL’s landlady and social acquaintance in Washington, D.C. during the period of about a year which ended, in April 1952, was the only person she knew by name with whom MUNSELL was friendly. According to the informant, WISE was a ”
“counterpart Senate Subcommittee. 2. The Pennington Matter: For many vears a. man named Lee Pennington, a former FBI agent, has been retained by the CIA as a confidential informant. His compensation from the CIA has been $250 per month. Mr. Osborn stated that he has no idea wh”
“***07Y***AGOB Feb. 11, 197,5 n STATEMENT Osborn Mr. Vice-President, Governor Reagan, distinguished AT*7 members of this Commission. I am here willingly at your invitation; I shall answer all of your questions fully and candidly. My federal service has extended over a 3”
“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”
“Associates while the young Chilean continued to live__ in Mr. Heath's home, drive Mr. Heath's vehicle,—and attend school. 0% o3 4. Harry Thayer Mahoney Harry Thayer Mahoney entered on duty with the Agency on 30 March 1951, and is currently a GS-14, Operations Officer assi”
“, ^ SECRET - 2 - Mr. Debelius stated that he had carefully reviewed his own situation as a former employee of the Office of Security within the CIA and that he had concluded that there was no prospect that he would be called as a witness either bv the Commission or by any Co”
“ECRET 2 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 1 PROCEEDINGS 2 Thereupon, WILLIAM C. STURBITTS, / called as a witness by Counsel for the Commission on CIA Activities, and having been first duly sworn by the Notary 6 Public, was examined and testified as follows: 7 EXAMINATION”