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20 June 1973
. + MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: John Dean Allegations to Newsweek Magazine .
1. Mr. William Jorden, the Latin American referent .
on Dr. Kissinger's Staff, called today in reference to State
cable No. 112189, dated 11 June (attached). He said that he
had specific reference to paragraph 2 of that cable and would
: like to have "everything and anything we know'" on that subject :
in the Agency.
) 2. The undersigned indicated to Mr. Jorden that he :
"had checked out the allegation that some low level White House
officials had considered assassinating Torrijos when the story
first appeared in Newsweek and, despite checking outside WH .
Division also, could find no-one in the Agency who could
recollect or find anything relating to such a plan on the part
of any portion of U.S, officialdom. I told him that I felt sure
that nothing of this nature had come to WH Division's attention
because for the period in question I had been Deputy Chief of p
WH Division and had heard nothing about any such plan. Mr, :
Jorden asked if the Agency knew anything about Howard Hunt
* having had a team in Mexico "before the mission was aborted" -
and I indicated that as far as I knew, the Agency had no infor-
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i mation on Hunt being in Mexico on such a mission. I also
. indicated, however, they could have been and the Agency might )
. well not know it simply because he could have used an alias and .
. he is an American citizen, which is outside the Agency's
province and really the FBI's business. I suggested that it
. might be best if he checked the FBI on that particular angle.
. Subsequently I checked with Mr, William V. Broe, the IG
and Mr, John Horton, recently returned C7] .
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