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================================================== Page 1 ================================================== 157-10011-10066] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 JFK Assassination System Date: 7/30/201 Identification Fom Agency Information AGENCY : SSCIA RECORD NUMBER : 157-10011-10066 RECORD SERIES MEMORANDUM AGENCY FILE NUMBER Document Inforation ORIGNNATOR ROCK FROM: ROETHE, JAMES N. TO FILE TITLE : FURTHER INFO OBTAINED FROM BREWER, GEORGE DATE : 02/24/1975 PAGES : 13 SUBJECTS ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL POLICE BREWER, GEORGE TECHNICAL OPERATIONS SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS CIA WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICA TION Unclassified RESTRICTIONS Consulted; IA; 3; Donor Restricted CURRENT STATUS Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/31/1994 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS SSCI Box 286, Folder 11 v9.1 H# 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 1 ================================================== Page 2 ================================================== Date:05/30/94 Page:1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY SSCIA RECORD NUMBER 157-10011-10066 RECORDS SERIES MEMORANDUM AGENCY FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR Rock FROM ROETHE JAMES N To FILE TITLE FURTHER INFO OBTAINED FROM BREWER GEORGE DATE 02/24/75 PAGES 13 SUBJECTS BREWER GEORGE TECHNICAL OPERATIONS ASSISTANCE To LOCAL POLICE SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS CIA WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER , TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION U RESTRICTIONS 1A 3 , DONOR REST_ REFERRED CURRENT STATUS X DATE OF LAST REVIEW 05/31/94 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS SSCI Box 286 _ Folder 11 [R] ITEM IS RESTRICTED HF 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 2 ================================================== Page 3 ================================================== MASW COXiMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC 20500 2s6-|| Nelson A_ Rockefellcr_ David W. Belin, Chirman February 24 1975 Exccutivc Director Johr T. Connor C. Douglas Dillon No TE : Incidents iJ. thalet numbers Ertvin Nv, Griswolcl P4 je Lanc Kirkland in di cated 2/ € not 5pe<ifically Lyman L. Lemniizer Ronald Reagan menticned 'n tn e transcript. Edgir F Shannom, Jr. SECRET / SENSITIVE SSCI Box 286 Fio I der 11 MEMORANDUM FOR FILE FROM: JAMES N ROETHE Record Number 157-10011-10066 SUBJECT: Further Information obtained from George Brewver (See February 18 Interview) On Monday = February 24 _ I spoke with George Breler in the Comission offices from approximately 9:00 am until 10:15 am _ The follolving additional information Was obtained. Technical Operations In 1960 and 1961_ 9 Brewer was primiary involved in of operations (pro- vi support to the XXiami Field Office in smuggling friendly Cubans into the United States) He was engaged in little technical activity during that time _ Betieen 1962 and 1965 , he was involved in approximately 30 technical operations only four of which wer telephone taps (the rest were mike and wire cases) During that same perio ] four or five other support agents were als0 engaged in technical activitie: each performing approximately the same amount of tech- nical Work that Brewer WaS performing Sone of the agents doing technical work were Jack Cryer, Mal lttgier and Bill Simpson, the latter being a former in- structor of Brelvers = Both Cryer and Simpson had been technical work for te some tire (throughout the 50 ' s) Tt2 (m51-52) In 1965 or 1966, following President Johnson S Executive Order precluding Wire taps without cort order 01 without approval of the Attorney General in security cases technical Work performed by Brewer and others at the Weshington Field Office almost stopped completely _ Brewver can recall tio taps that were Placed during that period, One of thesc Ivas placed in a Safe House in} the Washington area, and the other was placed in a NCwv York apartrent in connec - tion with Project PARA GON , Brelver assumes that the appropriate approvals were ob:ained prior to his placing these taps _ TT8 (10 47 _48) Most of the technical operations in the early 1960 's were performed at the re- quest of the Operations Directorate_ Wvhile Brelver Ias not privy to the purpose for each technical operation that he performed_ he believes that many involved CIA HAS NO OBJECTICA' Tn SECRET/ SENSITIVE DECLASSIFICATIOr RELEASE OF THIS DUCUIicNT AS SANITIZED 30 MAY 94 MF 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 3 3C4) . again Bay Pigs ding doing qui only ================================================== Page 4 ================================================== SECRET/ SENSITIVE 2 t Safe Houses for use by defectors and the wiring of operations assets apart- ments or other premises Ihere conversations with assets wvould be forth- coming_ For instance_ in 1962 the apartment of a defector (Golitzen) was wired_ It Tas believed that Golitzen had become uhappy Ivith CIA treatment and Was considering leaving the country . A telephone tap was on his phone to attempt to verify this Brewer believes that' these cases involved positive foreign intelligence gathering a5 opposed to being security cases From the names of the individuals whose conversations were to be recorded, Brelver presues that most of these technical operations were directed against foreigners _ Brewer is aware 0f a few technical operations relating to security One in- volved the bugging of the premises of a former employee @awr Garbje)l in about 1964 because 0f his questionable associates Another, in 1963 , involved a telephone tap on 3 newsman (although Brewer was unaware at the time the tap was placed that it was being directed against a newsman) (1/44) The Technical Division of the Office of Security may have been involved in some technical operations in the United States during the 1960 's and earlier. Holvever, their primary Tesponsibility was counter-audio work overseas_ Brewer does not believe that would have been involved in Significant amounts of technical work in the States 7- , '3 '91 77vv<< #2cnmu< 41 7 Iv, < Knecic g" Fai L"=' < : 6 7 3 fcn sx* Zprpo"p ss) Surveillance_Operations Prior to 1968 , the Washington Field Office Ias performing some unsophisticated surveillance _ This generally related to surveillance of defectors and training operations directed against perspective overseas CIA agents = The purpose of the training was to assist WFO in its surveillance techniques and to determine how well the perspective overseas agents could make contacts and "drops" without being detected_ The Field Office had little equipment to undertake sophisticated surveillance at that time _ (#Ju -18) In 1968 , with the creation of the Surveillance and Technical Unit a much more concentrated effort was: made in the area of surveillance (itxn) Assistance to Local Police Brewer remembers that at some point in time two sets oflalias docuents prepared by Technical Services were given to the Metropolitan Police Department This included a social security card, driver' s license, D . C permit, etc. ##**40+*+8*440+ I again 'interviewed Mr _ Brewer at approximately 2:30 pm 'on the same just prior to his leaving for the Commission hearings _ at whikh he Ias tes tifying. indicated that it was the cy of the CIA to offer gratuities to various SECRET / SENSITTVE H# 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 4 placed they day poli ================================================== Page 5 ================================================== SECRETLSENSITIVE 3 1 police officers in the Washington_ D.C . area for theit assistance to the CIA Each Christmas a list would be prepared 0f those individuals from local police departments who had provided assistance and appropriate gifts would be given to these individuals ranging from candy and liquor to $25 gift certificates The for these was taken from CIA 5 10 Blue Jay" fund used for mis- Ceilnoeous enses Some officials would not accept_ such_gratuities Brewer cobrereds,.32 aware of one occasion when police officials from several de= partments were flown to a huting_lodge_owned by the_Agency in_souther_Virginia _ Brewer recalls several_officers fron the Montgomery County Fairfax County (in- cluding (Golonel Duzner) and_Metropolitan Police Departments(includingEsSiSEant Thie[ Hughes but not (Chie lmsin_who refused an invitation) attending as well a5 a high police official from Boston Brewer himself attended this gathering and indicated that as best as he can remember it was strictly a social affair. Brewer could not recall ever having agreed to providel Jokm Brggnanof the Fairfax County Police Department with an automobile while Driggman was on vaca- tion in California, although he not deny that he may have done SO & (1.:-73 Brewer indicated that all gratuities given police officials were approved by Headquarters and that none were fically connected with any particular request being made of the police by the CIA (1'7- ) full distribu tion) JNR/vmr SECRET SENSITIVE HY 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 5 gifts police would speci ================================================== Page 6 ================================================== COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES VITHIN THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC 20500 February 20 , 1975 SECRET/SENSITIVE MEMORANDUM FOR: FILE FROM _ JAMES N ROETHE SUBJECT: Sumary of an Interview with George R. Brewver, Conducted on Tuesday February 18 , 1975, 17 the Offices of the Cowmission by James N _ Roethe ani Robert Olsen The interview commeneed at approximately 4 :00 PM 0J February 18 , 1975 , and ended at approximately 8: 30 pn on the samle date _ Mr _ Brewer appeared voluntarily at the request of the Commission staff Background of Mr _ Brewlej: Mr Brewer is a graduate of the University of Maryland. He has been with the CIA for over twer:ty years and is presently ChieE of the Director' s Security Staff. The interview concerned itself marily with the activities of the Washington Field Office of the Office of Security Nr _ Brcwer first worked inl that office from January 1955 to Februar; 1956 . From Fcbruary 1956 to April 1959 he was on Difecto1 Dulles personal < ecurity staff He served with the Headquarters Field Office (now defunct) ftom April 1959 to August 1960 and served Iith the Washington Field Office Erom August 1960 to July 1975 _ Ihen he obtained his present tion _ Activities at the Washington Field Office The Washington Field Office is made up of 35-40 age its _ Clericals bring the total cf employees to about 100_ It is by far the iargest security field office_ The majority of the agents are designated a5 field agents whose primary activity is investigating applicants fot cxployuent With the Agency and some covert investigations (investigations under cover, such as investi gations of contractor' s employees or individuals planning to be sent overse2s under , cover) The remaining agents are designated as suppert agents (about 8 men) who provide a broad range of support to the field agents _ Tn 7966 Mr _ Brewer, a support agent = ) was designated 2S the Wasiirgton Field Office' s liaison with the local" ce (including the Metropolitan Pclice Department most Suburban police departments_ and the Virgginia end Miaryland State Police) In November of 1968 , Mr Brewer Jas placed in charge 0f 3 newly created "Surveillance and Technical Unit" of the Support Squad_ He remained in positions until he left the Office in July of 1973_ Mr" Brewer empphasi 'Zbarh that no activity was undertaken by the ficlc officc Iithout tic approval of eadquarters Requests for action in Mir Breiver' s areas of intercst would bc received by hcadquarters security generally from the Operations Dircctorate The "Security Support 3rarch" at headquarters bould ;a5s the request 07i to the SECRET / SENSITIVE H# 50955 DdcId:32203834 Page 6 pri= again posi poli ================================================== Page 7 ================================================== 2 'SECRET/ SENSITIVE in Charge of Support" at the field office (Mr . John "Assistant Special Agent Brewer S tenure) Who in turn would ask Hutchinson during most of Mr Mr Breler to carry out the request _ have headed the Washington Field Office a5 "Special The following persons Agent in-Charge" : Charles Kane 1960-1963 Marvin Gentile 1963-1964 John Noble 1964-1968 Ed Klippa 1968-1973 Jack Cryer Present Covert_Iuvestigatios by Field_Agents W ere conducted much less frequently than overt investiga- Such investigations Several unofficial covers were used by tions of applicants for employment _ being investigated from being exposed as investigators to prevent the person a CIA contact _ Technical_Operations consisted of the planting of electronic listening devices Technical operations No technical devices Iere planted by (King) and the telephone capsfteueche: foxaateon in 1968 of the "Survei llance the Washington Field Office after the technical devices and Technical Unit _ 18 However , Nir _ Brewver has planted to 1968: 1966 Mr _ Breler planted a listcning device in an apartnent 1 In about D_ C . (a CIA Safe House) This at the Savoy Apartments in Washington, never used, later removed and Brewer was tcli it Ivas device Ias Mr _ Breler placed several bugs in a Washington Safe 2 About 8 years ag0 been removed. They have never becn House He believes they have never used to his knowledge . Mr Brewer Was called back: from vacation to 3 3 About 10 years ago cadillac to be by two Chinese generals = Mr Brewer bugged hotel rooms in the Washingtor area where 4 At one time unwvitting U-2 cants Iere being interviewed. placed telephone taps on in a home in 5 _ In 1963 Mr . Brelver At the time he did not know he wvas Washington (MOCKINGBIRD case) but he later learned that that had tapping a news columnist's phone , becn the case Miami werc bugged by Mr _ Brewer shortly after the of 6 Four houses in Pigs incident _ SECRET/ SENSITIVE HI 50955' pocid:32203834 Page 7 Prior bug used appli- pilot phones Bay_ ================================================== Page 8 ================================================== SECRET/ SENSITIVE 3 _ 7_ A hotel room in Los Angeles was bugged by Brewer several years ag0 . It was to be used for some kind of interviel. 8 _ A .home -in Bethesda , Naryland , was also bugged before being occupied by a Cuban National In al1 Mr Brewer believes he Ivas involved in more than ten technical opera- tions' but less than 100 to 1968 _ In all cases he Ias merely supplying technical support for operations at the request of his superiors _ and was not witting to the actual operation. In each case he assumed the propriety lawfulness of the operation _ Since 1966, Mr _ Brelver has been engaged in only one technical operation (Operation PARAGON ~ _ threat against Director Helms and Vice President Agnew) When that threat Ivas made , Brewer suggested that a line be run into the in- forming agent ` apartnient _ Such a line was run from that agent' s telephone (a telephone tap) This operation was approved by higher authority_ Surveillance Surveillance Ias conducted off and on through the period from 1960 to 1973 _ Holvever , active survei llance did not begin until 1968 when the "Surveillance and Technical Unit" WaS formed _ Prior to 1968_ surveillance was restricted to training exercises and surveillance 0f defectors Mr _ Brelver estimated that he engaged in about ten such operations to 1968_ Training sur - veillance continued after 1968 , but one surveillance of 3 defector #as made during that time _ In 1966 Headquarters requested that the Washington Field Headquarters form 4 sophisticated survei]lance. unit_ Such a unit was not really created until Breler took over the "Surveillance and Technical Unit" in 1968 _ After 1968 surveillance took up 3 large part of the tine of the "Surveillance and Techni- cal Unit s" time The: Unit consisted of 14 support agents and was expanded to 20-24 men during some surveillances The Washington Field Office did surveillance for the entire coun With regard to Security Office metters If a surveillance Was conducted anywvhere in the country , Brewer believes he Wvould' know of it_ If surveillance was conducted in the territory of another field; office_ that field office would have been in charge , with the Iashington Office providing the support - The following surveillance #as undertaken by Breler' $ Unit: 1 Surveillance of_Empleyees_ or Fomler_Employees Brgject CORSCO U5A MoTHand5hunder"@EEicial7covewat the-Rentagon LiastsurveiLed do % his aSSociario Widh Susppected Selcurity Eisks He Was _evenjeally_Bised His_assoeiates_wesre also-Sunrez!ledo SECRET/ SENSITIVE HW 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 8 prior and 'S prior only try ================================================== Page 9 ================================================== SECRET / SENSITIVE 4 b Project CAPUSTO ( 8 Ball) : Employee associating with former defcctor was surveilTed, Project TOMCAT: An associate of CAPUSTO was surveilled. Project MONEY: former employee planning to attend the SALT talks With his new boss was surveilled. Project SIESTA: Surveillance on a former employee and the suspected Castro agent she was living With_ f_ Project_ PINEi PPLE: Surveillance 0f 3 former employee living above his means Tashington Field Office surveilled' outside D.C. Anderson Associates surveilled in D.C . and at subject' s Arlington home _ Nash- ington Field Office did not participate in any break-in of subject' s apartment _ g - Project AMOS : Former employee surveilled to Champaign , Illinois . h . Project PIXIF : (last job) Two employees and son of another surveilled for suspected use and/or sale 1 Project PARAGON : Informer who reported threat against Director Helns and Vice President Agnew surveilled in New York and Detroit. j MARCHETTI : Former employee thrcatening to lish classified material Twhich Te cold not have obtained during thc coursc of his emiploynent) was surveill-d. Thrce cars were in survcillance _ No police cover _ 2 _ Surveillance of Nelvsmen (to detefmine source of security leaks) 2 Jack_Anderson; Brelver knew that surveillance Ivas to determine source o f@Nnderson"S publishing of classified information_ Mr _ Brewer ques - tioned his superior (John Hutchinson) about the case_ He Ivondered why the FBI was not involved and understood that the FBI didn t want to touch the case (runor) Along with EJack Andereo@r 7ko DE_liz @idles ELes _Wizten and (Joe Spear ~were surveilled. b MizieL Getlet Mr Breler also questioned this surveillance, but not strongly as Getler Ivas relatively unknoln . Further he really didn t know the reason whyeGerlezyivas being surveilled until later. 3 _ Other Surveillances a A of an assistant to Director McCone as surveilled after he went berserk and threatened to go to the Russians He Was surveilled for two days SECRET/ SENSITIVE HW 50955 DWcId:32203834 Page 9 drug pub_ used nephelv ================================================== Page 10 ================================================== SECRET/ SENSITIVE 5 In al1 cases of surveillance _ photographs of the subject and his contacts Ivere taken Further > the identity of the contact was also ascertained and reported to headquarters No surveillance was ever placed on a Congressman , Senator, Judge or Justice or other public figure except the nClvsmen previously mentioned . Mr _ Breler believes that there were no cases of surveillance undertaken by his Unit which did not involve either (1) a threatened security leak' to nelsmlen , or (2) 2 potential security violation, exccpt Project PARAGON The records kept on surveillances include the letters assigning the surveil- lance to the Unit the agents logs , tographs taken and the final report of each project . This information was all sent to Headquartcrs _ The Field Office would also retain but never made any use 0f these files_ Break-Ins : Mr _ Brewer' s Surveillance Unit was involved in one break-in in connection with Project SIESTA , involving a former employee living with a suspected Castro sympathizer A photographic studio, jointly operated by the employee and her Cuban boy friend Ias broken into_ This didn t bother Brewer as there was strong evidence suggesting a possible security violation Further, the suspected Wals solici passport photo business at CIA,which would give them informatio; about the travels of CIA agents_ A second break-in was effected by Anderson Associates (a CIA proprietary) in Project SIESTA . Brelver doesn t know who headed up Anderson Associates He believes that Ralph True, Joe Langon and Don Connor may have hac SOre connection with it. Mr Brewer S Surveillance Unit was disbanded in June or July of 1972_ Brelver is not sure Ihy thc Unit #as disbanded, The Washington Field Office still does training surveillance and surveillance 0f defectors There have beer no in- stances (to Brelver' s knowledge) of potential employee security leaks since the Surveillance Unit was disbanded_ Activity with Dissident_Groups On three occasions (in 1969_ 1970 and 1971} the CIA participated Ivith the Washington police in monitoring peace and anti-war demonstrations In each case a request Ias made by the Washington Police Department (MPD) through Capiain @20nge Guter} for assistance _ The Washington Field Office of CIA furnished six vehicles with communications gear and men to operate the gear Mr_ Breler believes that tio CIA agents and one police officer occupied each car. (More CIA agents than police were utilizedl as PPD didn t have the neces - sary manpowver.) The purpose of this operation #as to monitor the miove - ments of the crolds There was no attempt to penetrate any dissident organi- zation or to photograph thc crowds The CIA agents involved in the May 1 , 1971 , operation carried police ID's _ CIA also provided 3 fully-staffed ccmmunica - tions center at APD to receive comnunications froin the cars This provided NPD) 4 second radio frequency and frccd MPD' s Oim chainels for other police business _ SECRET/SENSITIVE H# 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 10 pho - copies only pair ting May only ================================================== Page 11 ================================================== SECRET/ SENSITIVE 6 Brewer believes that the primary purpose of this operation was to render communications assistancc to the local police. The sccondary purpose was to monitor crowds Sc as to protect CIA installations (For example 9 MPD had Obtained some information that various dissident groups planncd to picket CIA Headquarters and planned to harass Director Helms during a planned . speech. ) All of these CIA operations were verbally approved by Headquarters Support Branch (Mr Cryer) Total period of time devoted to toring dissident groups with MPPD (for al1 three occasions) Ias about five Brelver is not alvare of any instance Ivhere the Nashington Field Office tried to penetrate any dissident groups Collection of Information on Dissident_Groups During the period of the demonstrations in 1969-1971 all field offices and resident agents were requested by Headquarters to look out for literature and other informatior: Which might in any wvay affect the CIA No conscious intelligence gathering of literature was requested. Items to be looked for included campus news clippings ctc, This project was not a continuing one over the three-year period Ihen most demonstrations occurred It Was renelved from time to time as flare-upS in activity occurred. Mr Brewer does not know the quantity of material collected or the use made of that material The information that Brewer knows Ias collected by the Washington Field Office consisted of the week ly intelligence summary prepared by: MPD _ Headquarters specifically asked Brelver to get the summaries (either Jack Cryer, Tex Mills or Curt Rivers) and they Ivere forarded to Headquarters No effort was made by Brewer to obtain information conccrning any dissident group 5 intended activities_ Police Cover Operations Mr Brewer indicated that Washington Field 0ffice agents have received police cover from the following police dcpartments: 1 Metropolitan Police_Department (MPD) During the 1971 demonstra- tions MPD furnished ID' s to those CIA agents monitoring the crowds along with police officers These ID cards were in fact used_ No other police cover was obtained from MPD_ 2 Fairfax Gitv Police_ Departuent: In connection with Operation SIESTA T(ivhich included a break-in at the photographic studio in Fairfax City operated by a suspected Castro Agent) cover Was obtained the police. One CIA agent was given a Fairfax City police in case sone one walked in on the break-in. The Was never utilized. Brcler didn't actually remember obtaining this but it wvas obtainedl by some one_ SECRET/ SEVSITIVE HI 50955 DOcId:32203834 Page 11 moni days _ only May from badge badge badge, ================================================== Page 12 ================================================== SECRET / SENSITIVE 3 . Fairfax County Police_Department: Apparently undercover CIA agents in the county (under DOD cover) were being continuously harassed and challenged in thc county while on operations _ They feared their cover might be blom and felt it would be to have police cover to prevent this occurring Mr _ Brewer himself may have suggested getting badges and identification from the county police_ In any event he thought it Was a idea and Headquarters approved it (per John Hutchinson Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field_Qffice) Thereaftefz (latter_part of 1971) Brewer lent toDohu @MaF; Isbistan1 #@) {Coloreel Zi11 m 2uzew Fairtax Couty_Rolice Chiefgr kd asked about obtaining some badges and ID S B1ggha reporEed that Colo Duroeiawas originally reluctant to CIA the badges A and Id, but in early spring of 1972 he changed his mind and relented. Brewcr does nct know if Osborn called #Col @uier} or if there Ias any arm-twisting by the CIA Brewer himself did no arm-twisting Nine patrolman S badges and one sergeant 5 badge were obtained, ten blank ID cards The true nanes of CIA agents were placed on the cards by Brewer It was urderstood that if the and ID' s were erer used that_Gozo Duireraiould immediately be notified_ In fact, they were kept in a safe at Washingtcn Field Office Headquarters never used. have recently been returned to Fairfax County . No police cover Ias ever obtained by Washington Ficld Office, or used by them for the purpose of performing police activity. Bre wer stated that local police Ivere always kept informed of CIA activities in their jurisdiction _ Other Assistance Rendlcredl CIA by Lccal Police Project SIESTA: This project involved the break-in into a photographic: shop in Fairfax Three Fairfax City police assisted in the operatiol _ One entered the apart- ment with several CIA agents; one stood watch on the front steps; and one waited in a squad car outside the buil Much material in the photographic studio Ias photographed. Surveillance was constantly maintained on the opera- tors of the studio. Ihile the break-in was being carried out. Use of Fairfax County Facilities: On at least one occasion the Fairfax County police station was used for CIA training purposes CIA desired to assure themselves that nelv recruits for covert overseas duty could not bc 'broken" if siezed by foreign authorities _ Consequently CIA officials Iould "arrest" these Wwitting recruits 0n some bogus 'charge and take them to Fairfax County jail where they would be subject to strong interrogation to see if they would "break" SECRET/ SEVSITIVE H# 50955 DOcId:32203834 Page 12 good from good give plus badges and They City _ ding _ ================================================== Page 13 ================================================== SECRET/SENSITIVE 8 Other Assistance Almost every police department has agreed to immediatcly notify the CIA if one of its agents is arrested_ Assistance Rendered to Local Police by the CIA Training_Prograns_ In late 1971 3 course in photography Iyas offered to officers of local police departments by che Washington Field Office_ and in 1972 courses in both Sur - vcillance techniques and photography were offered. Representatives fron MPD and most large suburban police departments attendedl. These courses Ivere stopped after the printing of a New York Times article critici the train- of New York police by the CIA Metropolitan_ Police Department: 1 1971 : MPPD was furnished six cars equipped Ivith communications gear plus two men for each car,from the Washington Field Office (WVFo) WFO als0 furnished a central conuunications command post plus operators _ The purpose of this assistance was to permit the monitoring of crowds 2 _ In about 1972 , Brrewer performed a telephone tep for MPPD in connection with an interna) affairs matter where eleven }olice officers Ivere poten - tially involved in a brihe Brewer understocd that a court order was obtained before the taps Were put on NCeptain Gedirga Suter of MPD made this request and CIA Hcadquarters approved it 3 During 1969 demonstrations Capt n George Sulez f APD asked Brewer ifhe could wire a lamp 1n the apartment 0f a kitting police informant Ieho had penetrated -war dissident groups Brewer passed this re- quest on to security headquarters and the Technical Services Division performed the wizing_ CIA did not monitor or receive of any con- versations recorded. 4 Shortly after a CIA surveillance training course which several BPPD officers attended_ MPD became desirous of maintai- surveillance on one of its unwvitting police informants to' see if she Ias doing what the police her to do APPD asked Brewer if his men would assist the nel; trainees in the project. Breler S surveillance unit did furnish assist- ance , including four cars and at least one man for each car These CIA agents togcther with MPD officers surveilled the subject for one and one- half days _ This is the only time Brener' s surveillancc teau actually provided manpower to assist MPD in a surveillance _ S ECRET/ SEVSITIVE HI 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 13 zing City ing May Day anti copies ning Paid ================================================== Page 14 ================================================== SECRET/ SENSITIVE occasions betieen 1970 and 1972 the Iashington Field 5 _ On two: or three device totap a touchEtone Office loaned the MPD Morals Division a camne from [nspectees R Sporind andNIuan 8 telephone ZhierequCIt was CIA S contact With &Dollard and-Foran} for Foican - Ed Sayle of Jho 1n turn equipment requests Dollard or Foran would call Sayle, would direct Brewer to providc the equipment three occasions betiveen 1970 and 1972 Sayle directed Brewer 6 On two or NPD= Once {g4E Bzandangof MPD per- to provide recciving devices to contacted Brelver and requested a receiver. It was provided sonally (ostensibly for training purposes) occasions covcrt miniature transmitters were furnished to 7 On several MPD 01l an indefinite loan 8 The Iashington Field Office also MPD personnel technical advice usc of double tape machines and advice on photography from time to on time assistance from the Washington Field Office when they set up MPD received no 1967-68 . No other assistance was ever rendered their Intelligence Division in a cular witness _ MPD concerning solving particular crime or interrogating after Director Schlessinger became DCI the MPD Ias asked to return Sometime previosly. loaned: to it by the CIA,and most was returned . Appar- al1 equi}nett o2 this pnent has been prepared. (The list may include other ently a list ce departments as well) Montgonery_ County Police_ Department_ 1970 Mr _ Brelver loaned some transmitters to TiSpector Ihuallkilin (Ret. ) In about police_ They had already been loaned some re- andfjio Giazezpof the county ceivers before Brelver came with the Washington Field 0Efice Fairfax County Police Department the county Iras given an old Ampex 601 recorder equipped to take 1 Years ag0 a telephone tap off a dial 2 _ On one occasion Brewer accompanied a county representative to U.S Recording on_ S . Capitol Street to help him pick out a dial recorder for telephone taps In 1969-70 ._ Brewver loaned some photographic equipment to the county police 3 unit_ The equipment has never been returned. forces intelligence been loaned to the county . No assistance has ever been No personnel have ever concerning 2 specific crime or witness SECRET / SENSITIVE H# 50955 Docld:32203834 Page 14 ILo gave parti equi- poli phone polic given ================================================== Page 15 ================================================== 10 SECRET/ SENSITIVE_ Other 1 ; In 1969 or 1970 metal detection demonstrations were at CIA Head - to representatives of all Virginia and Maryland Police Depart - quarters ments Helms orned a beach hous e near Leies _ Delaiare On one occasion 2 Director chief of there concerning the security of the Breler met with the beach house, as Helns had been receiving threats Apparently Osborn gave the police chief a box of flares and other equipment (as a to the department) for the chief's assistance _ ***###*#*+#** during the interview_ Mr _ Brewer indicated that he had not At some his testimony with any representative of the Agency to the discussed interview--except the General Counsel IMPRESSIONS Brewer Ivas originally somelhat reluctant to be intervieied &nd at one Mr _ considering whether he should retain a l hyer_ Holvever , as Ive Ivas considerably to the Nere I nOw believe I have went along he opened up the Officc of Security'5 Washington Field a pretty understanding of Ficld Office did conduct much, Office = It would appear that the Washington if not mnost of the physical and technical surveillance directed against American citizens subsequent to 1968 _ In every case the surveillance Was directed by higher authority It als0 appears that the Iashington Field substantial assistance to. local police departments in the Wash- Office D C _ area . Much of this assistance Ivas obviously an appropriate ington_ information between tlo intelligence units Most disturbing is exchange of assisted MPD officers in a bona fide ce the incident where CIA agents lalw enforcement function) but this seems to have been an surveillance (a isolated case JNR/vmr SECRETLSENSITIVE HI 50955 DocId:32203834 Page 15 given police gift point prior point point good gave poli

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