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MORI DocID: 1451843

SECRET

MEMORANDUM TO : Executive Secretary
CIA Management Committee

SUBJECT : Loan of Television System to Secret Service
for Use at Democratic and Republican National
Conventions in 1972

OKO

1. The attached/summary reports the loan of television
equipment by the Agency to the Secret Service for use during the
Democratic and Republican National Conventions last year. The
equipment was for use in helicopter aerial surveillance, primarily for
crowd control. The assumption is that it was used for that purpose.
The equipment was recovered in November 1972.

2. The transaction seems a straightforward arrangement,
related to the legal responsibility of the Secret Service.
However, the fact that the Agency provided the equipment for use
in a domestic political situation could be presented in a different
light.

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