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SECRET

MORI DocID: 1451843

26 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: DDI "Trap" on Leaks of Narcotics Intelligence

1. In material provided by the DDI on contacts with certain
persons on the White House Staff, there is a 9 September 1972
memorandum from Mr. Helms to Dr. Kissinger relating the
identification of a leak to the press as having been in the BNDD.
The memorandum states in part:

"After noting that Jack Anderson had a continuing
source for classified documents on narcotics, we
arranged a trap so that recipient organisations
of CIA Intelligence Memoranda (IM) on narcotics
could be identified."

2. [REDACTED]

3. This course of action was at the initiative of the Directorate
of Intelligence, without consultation with persons elsewhere in the
government, except in reporting the results to Dr. Kissinger. It
represents a well-conceived attempt to target on a possible source
of leaks. We doubt that it would be susceptible to misunderstanding
if exposed to public view, but the fact is that it was something of an
attempt to trap someone, and it was a part of the general attempt to
deal off a leak similar to those leading to the "plumbing" operation.
Because of the latter consideration it is noted for the record.

SIGNED

S. D. Breckinridge

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SIGNED

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