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MORI DocID: 1451843

SECRET

7 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations

SUBJECT: Item for the List of Delicate Matters

The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked CIA to provide
information on any foreign connections with organized crime in the
United States. The record indicates that Mr. David Young, of the
White House Staff, asked Mr. Colby to set up a contact for Mr.
T. C. Barreaux, of SEC. Mr. Barreaux discussed the matter with Mr.
Paul V. Walsh, of DDI, and on 4 April 1973, Mr. Barreaux and Mr.
Timoney came to a meeting at CIA with Mr. Lawrence Houston (General
Counsel) [Chief, PI Staff, DDO).

Since that meeting, we have received no specific requirements
from Mr. Barreaux, but have provided him with one piece of information involving a banking transaction of a [REDACTED] associate of
Robert Vesco.

[REDACTED]

Other
Foreign Intelligence Staff

SECRET

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