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| ’ MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence CC
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E SUBJECT : Alleged CIA Involvement in the Ballou Case i
: 1. By memorandum dated 25 May 1973, I informed you of the
: results of an interview of Mr, EE reported that
bo oe I employee of the OIfice of Security, had
. ! -stated during a S510 period at Advanced Intelligence Seminar
: | No. 6 in September 1971 that the Office of Security had been involved
+ in the "Ballou case." {The residence of Mr. Ballou, an antique gun
collector in Silver Spring, Maryland, was raided oh 7 June 1971 by
. . Montgomery County Police and Federal law enforcement officers. -
When the officers, dressed in civilian clothes, forced their way into
‘ the house, Ballou picked up an antique pistol. The officers opened , .
, - fire and seriously wounded Ballou. He was hospitalized for-several
, . months and was left partially paralyzed. I believe he is now suing
| . over the incident. ). -
io 2. We interviewed Mr Fertain other employees who
i | ' . attended the Seminar, and the Director of Security to determine just
| - i what was said at the Seminar and the extent of any Agency involvement
: in the Ballou case. We find that partilipants in the Seminar were
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encouraged to discuss the detiils of their work and dssociated problems.
: . . eo Jrentioned an assignment he had been on with the U.S.
Secret Service at the 1968 National Conventions and his liaison activities
with the Montgomery County Police. . .
| 3. oo Jropomss that in discussing the latter subject he .-
oo related a conve mi he had with Inspector I of the Mont-
I gomery County Police, sometime in June 197] alter The Ballou incident
tv ’ ‘had been rep. rted in the newspapers. Acvording to the .
A ' police inspector had thanked him for some amplifying eq 3
| Agency had given to the Montgomery County Police and remarked that
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