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SECRET/SENSITIVE

8 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence

THROUGH: Deputy Director for Management and Services

SUBJECT: Involvement in Sensitive Domestic Activities

1. As chief of the DDP Systems Group prior to 1969, I was involved
in providing data processing support for the following sensitive projects:

a. ICI Staff - Mr. Richard Ober's program for processing data
of U.S. citizens believed to be militants, subversives, terrorists,
etc.

b. DPI Staff and Office of Medical Services program [REDACTED]
for recording data on foreign and U.S. physicians [REDACTED]

c. A Systems Group sponsored program of common concern
listing travel of U.S. citizens to and from Communist countries.

2. In the same capacity my staff and I briefed police officers from
New York State and Chicago at the DCI's request (Admiral Raborn) on
data processing techniques related to biographic intelligence (unclassified).

3. As a member of O/PPB, I have been aware of five programs with
possibly sensitive domestic overtones.

a. DDS&T/ORD's contract with the [REDACTED]
The VIP Health and Behavior Prediction
System."

b. DDS&T/ORD's Project OFTEN which involved the collection
of data on dangerous drugs from U.S. firms. I believe Mr. Helms
terminated this program last Fall.

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