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The Agency outlined the above events to Mr. Patrick Gray, Acting
Director of the FBI, in letters dated 5 and 7 July 1972, and a meeting on
28 July 1972. A series of questions were asked the Agency on 11 October 1972
by Mr. Earl Silbert, Principal Assistant, United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia. On 24 October 1972, Attorney General Kleindienst and
Assistant Attorney General Petersen reviewed the 5 and 7 July transmittals
together with additional, more detailed but undated materials, that had been
provided to Acting FBI Director Gray on 18 October 1972. The Agency is
aware that this material was reviewed on 27 November 1972 by Mr. Silbert, who
asked additional questions on that date as well as on 29 November 1972.
Written responses to the foregoing questions were provided on 13 December 1972.
An additional submission was made to the Assistant Attorney General Petersen
on 21 December 1972. This material was discussed at a meeting held with
Assistant Attorney General Petersen and Mr. Silbert on 22 December 1972.
All of the foregoing materials can be made available to the Committee if it
so desires.

As a separate matter, which was not known by those who prepared the
material for the Department of Justice in the fall of last year, the Office
of Medical Services of the Agency prepared and forwarded to the White House
two indirect personality assessments of Mr. Daniel Ellsberg. The Agency has
had a program of producing, on a selective basis, such assessments or studies
on foreign leaders for many years. In July 1971 Mr. Helms, then Director,
instructed Agency officers to work with Mr. David Young of the White House
Staff relative to security leaks in the intelligence community.

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