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MORI DocID: 1451843

20 Jun 1972

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Back yard
CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency always insists its men aren't involved in domestic police work.But the Chicago CIA agents have been working with the FBI and Treasury men in an effort to pin the bank bombings on radical groups.

Heretofore, clandestine CIA police work within the US was confined to counter espionage efforts aimed at the Soviet KGB in all major US cities.The agency also has stations in Virginia and the Carolines.These are manned as regular military bases. But men trained for duty at Williamsburg,Va.

Two years ago CIA employes were uncoverable in matters of the Chicago bank bombing incidents. They met there with Melvin, wore police. Both personnel shifts a shown around, and taken to the agency's shown around, and taken to the agency's training camps. That was the beginning fronts in the US, this is now, and into where people to build training camps. That was the beginning my head of all intelli-
of rumors within the agency that the gence
CIA had been given the go ahead to and presumably providing him wi
move into domestic police operations. legitimate interest in internal
While everyone denied it, the theory operations. But such suggestion was that the CIA had sold to get the bitterly denied all around.

radicals.

Two recent personnel changes increased speculation. One involved resignation of Helm's special assistant, Robert Alloy. Kiley handled the student operations through National Student Association facades. He recently turned up as associate director of the Police Foundation, a new group launched with a $30 million Ford Foundation grant. The money is meant to be used to improve local police.

The second personnel shift involved Dewell Godfrey, who was head of the CIA's Office of Current Intelligence. To quit this high ranking job, turned to the narcotics bureau of the Justice Commission at Harrisburg, Pa. The commission is another new one.

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