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i MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Management and Services
: SUBJECT : Contacts with Individuals Named in the Watergate Matter ’
H 1. Iam addressing this to you instead of to the Director of Central
: Intelligence since I doubt that the information contained herein is of such
significance to warrant his interest and because it has been on record with
i the Agency since July 1972. However,. if you feel that the information is of
: such interest that it should be forwarded to the Director I shall put it in the
: proper format to do so.
: 2. My only contact with anyone named in connection with the
. Watergate and related matters was through Ja former
. Agency employee now retired and living in Winterhaven, Florida. In
. December 971 called me from Florida and advised that he
wanted to get in touch with Howard Hunt. He said that he did not have Hunt's
- , home phone number and that it was probably: unlisted but that since Hunt was a
4 former employee, could I contact Hunt and ask him to give] Ja call.
B Thad only met Hunt once about 10 years before but I agreed to relay the message.
; I called Howard Hunt at his home and told him that | did not have his
: home phone and requested he aul Mr. Hunt thanked me for ~~
relaying the message and said that he would ca. This seemed of
little consequence to me in December 1971 but in July 1972 of the
. Office of Security contacted me in regard to the FBI investigation of the Watergate
situation. At that time I informed] Jot the telephone call from
. [I December 1971. Attached is a copy of a Memorandum for the
. - Record prepared by [Tas a result of our conversation.
. 3. In the summer of 1972 I took my family to Disney World in Florida
- . and took that occasion to drop in to pio MEETS | I me in
a private conversation that he had been interviewed three or four times by the
i FBI in connection with the Watergate affair and he related to me his contact
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