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Mr. Young requested a study on Mr. Ellsberg in the latter part of
July 1971, which Agency activity was apparently approved by Mr. Helms.
At that time, Mr. Young supplied raw material consisting principally of
newspaper and magazine articles together with some State Department and
Justice Department papers. The first assessment delivered to the White House
dated 9 August 1971, was judged insufficient. As a result, there were
several meetings between Dr. Malloy, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Liddy, in which
classified information of the Justice and State Departments was introduced.
One such meeting occurred on 12 August 1971. Additional material was
transmitted by Mr. Hunt on 12 October, and another meeting was held on
27 October. These meetings led to a second version of the assessment,
dated 9 November 1971. This document was delivered to the Executive Office
by Dr. Malloy on 12 November 1971. Agency records indicate that Mr. Helms
had previously communicated with Mr. Young indicating he had read both
reports.

In another contact "about October 1971," an Agency officer arranged
to provide Mr. Hunt certain unclassified materials from CIA files relative
to a 1954 French case of leakage of Government documents. These were
delivered to his office at the White House.

In closing, I would like to stress several conclusions of my
investigation so far:

a. CIA had no awareness of the details of Mr. Hunt's
activities. The Agency's impression was that Mr. Hunt was engaged
in an activity related to identifying and closing off the security
leaks that were so much a preoccupation of the Government at the time.

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