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104-10059-10212 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/9/1973)

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                                                               9 June 197 3

                MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

                SUBJECT:   Possible Additional Agency Support Furnished Howard Hunt


                     1. We  have reported ealier an out-of-channel request by
                Howard Hunt for a name trace in December 1971 on a Costa Rican.
                This was put back in channels by forwarding the name trace report
                to Peter Jessup, who then held the position of senior Agency officer
                with the NSC Staff in EOB.

                     2.  Jessup has submitted a memorandum dated 31 May 1973
                (received in O/IG on 6 June) stating that Howard Hunt,

                         submitted various names for Headquarters traces
                         of certain Latin Americans, not in a sealed envelope.
                         This was hadled orally and by telephone I advised the
                         chief of the appropriate division that they were being
                         forwarded and. to consult with the DDP about the
                         propriety of responding. I also telephoned the DDP.
                         I then wrote my own memo to General HAIG calling
                         his attention to the fact that an individual--I named
                         HUNT--was   tracing foreign nationals. without reference
                         to the NSC Staff.

                Haig is reported by Jessup as returning the memorandum with.the
                word thanks noted on its face.

                     3.  We have spoken with Rob Roy Ratliffe, Jessup's successor
                with the NSC Staff, who states (in conversations on 6 and 7 June)
                that it was not customary for Jessup to keep records of this sort
                of .transaction, and that a search of the files does not disclose a
                copy of the memorandum to General Haig. Mrs. Evelyn De Pue
                (Jessup's secretary at the time and now Ratliffe's) spoke with Mrs.
                            lat Headquarters, who reported a memorandum from
                Chief, WH Division, in December 1971 forwarding to Jessup a
                name trace on a Costa Rican (the one noted above) for Hunt. No
                other such records were found.




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