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MORI DocID: 1451843

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7 MAY 1973

SUBJECT: Intelligence Evaluation Committee and Staff

1. Background: Formed December 1970. Membership:
Department of Justice (Chairman); FBI (Active staff par-
ticipation agreed to only in May 1971); Department of
Defense; Secret Service; National Security Agency; CIA
and any necessary representatives of other Departments
or Agencies. (Following have participated: Treasury,
State.) Staff: IES Executive Director John Dougherty
and Harris Bernard Wells supplied by Department of Justice
with title of Special Assistant to the Attorney General
in reporting through the Assistant Attorney General for
Internal Security Robert Mardian and later William Olsen.
IES has received requirements directly from and delivered
reports directly to John Dean of the White House.

2. CIA Participation: Contributions on foreign
aspects (by memorandum with no agency letterhead or at-
tribution). Contributions occasionally include foreign
intelligence provided by FBI and NSA.

3. Special Report: The Unauthorized Disclosure
of Classified Information, November 1971. Initiated July
1971 by the White House as a consequence of the Presi-
dent's concern about the release of the Pentagon Papers
by Daniel Ellsberg. Both Robert Mardian and G. Gordon
Liddy initially involved in tasking the IES to produce
this evaluation. Drafting done by IES Staff members
from Justice and FBI. Only Agency participation was
editorial review.

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