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COMPTROIL.LR (;aNERAL OF THE UNi
          WASMOTON. Q.C. 2064


RESTRICTED - Not tote released outside the General
AIWfiSbg Offic except On the basis of specific approval
by the Office of Congressional ReeIatons, a record of which
is kept by the Distribution Section, Publications Branch, OAS


Dear Mr. Chairman:


RELEASED


OCT 27M107

         LMR090?7


      In a meeting with your staff today, we were asked to supply
 additional ipformation relating to approval of the application for
 charter by theR    -d--qAti6hal -Bank of Minnetonka, Minnesota-
 specifically, did the Comptroller and the Deputy Comptroller of the
 Currency associate newspaper articles appearing about August I re-
 lating to Kenneth Dahlberg and the $25,000 contribution to the
 Committee for Re-Election of the President with the fact that
 Mr. Dahlberg was named as a director of ,the bank in its application
 which was then pending,

 • , We were informed by the Comptroller that he may have read the
 press accounts in early August but that,' at the time he reviewed
 and approved the application for the Ridgedale National Bank, he
 was unaware that one of the proposed directors had been linked in
 .the press to the $25,000 contribution. The Deputy Comptroller also
,told us that he read the press stories in early August but did not
associate the name, Dahlberg, or the contribution with a proposed
director of the Ridgedale National Bank,


     As mentioned during our meeting today, there was
omission frma our letter, of October 26, 1972, to you.
Mr. Dahlberg or should have appeared after the word
paragraph 3, line 6,


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If we can be of further assistance, please advise us,

                             Sincerely yours,




                             Comptroller General
                             of ,the United States


The Honoiable Wright Patman, Chairman
Committee on Banking and Currency
House of. Represen~tatives


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