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SATE GF VI OTNTA ;
Co COERSY OF FAVRFAX, to-wit: : . .
’ ' HOWARD J. OSBORN who, boing first duly sworn,
daposes and says as follows: . B .
1. I mm the Director of Security of the Central :
Tntellizence Agency.
: 2: ‘The purpose of. this statement is to record,
rte the best of my knowledge and recollection, cireumstaheos .
' invoived in the roceipt of a series of unsigned COrTESPOR~
- dence received by the Agency during the period from 1 Apgust ’
1972 to 7 January 1873. Thé significance of these lctters
is that by their content and by the handwriting on two of .
. them, they are believed to have been written by James W.
. McCord, Jr., one of tha defendants in the Watergate trial. .
FE 3. Hy first involvement in this matter occurred
on the 2nd or 3rd of August 1972 when an envelope addreksed -
to Mr. Helms, then Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, with no return address, and postaarked 30 July 1972 :
was routed te my desk from the Director's office as a routine :
piece of "crank mail”. The envelope contained a carbon copy
of a typewritten letter signed "Jin" with the name in the °°
salutary address excised - "Dear ____". After dismissing -
the letter as a piece of crank mail, I had second thoughts
- + and recognized the handwriting on the envelope and the
signature yim on the letter as being similar to that of
Mr. #cCord, who formerly worked for me as a security officer
before his retirement from the Agency. CT .
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