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22 May 1973 :
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
So THROUGH : Mr. William E. Colby a
i . Mr, Colby advised me i I CT
had called the Office of the Director in [ine wif e Director
memorandum to all employees dated 9 May 1973, requesting all
employees to report activities which might be construed to be out-
side the legislative charter of the Agency.
s employed as a GS-5 clerk in the
. Cabl Tats AT e Agency in September 1967 and
: worked in the Office of Security for 3-1/2 years before transferring
to the Cable Secretariat in 1970.
While in the Office of Security he was assigned to a support
: desk, SD3, The primary function of this desk was I
S. During his assignment
0 this desk, Supported a project entitled SRPOINTER- -
HTLINGUA described the project as follows. The
Office of Security had a unit at the JFK Inter-
national Airport that photographed mail going to Soviet Bloc countries.
This work was done by Agency staff employees. The mail was placed
in bags by the regular Post Office employees and stacked. After
their departure for the night, the Agency employees would open the
mail and photograph it. Both incoming and outgoing mail, including
postcards, were photographed. A watch list was maintained and
° priority was given to the names listed, but generally all mail was
processed.

The results of the operation were sent to Washington Headquarters
where they were handled by He would receive a teletype |
advising him of the registry number and the number of items. He !
would check to see if the number of items received was corrett and '
route the material to the appropriate offices. Generally about 1/4 of

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