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1Newly declass CIA memo regarding TIME magazine reporter Sandy Smith investigating Robert Bennett and Howard Hunt and the Mullen & Co. PR firm. Do last two redactions at paragraph 18 obscure the name McMahon?
cia.gov/readingroom/do…
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@jeffersonmorley Catch up

2/If so, it would be McMahon (Moynihan?) that urged Bennett to hire Hunt at Mullen & Co. Were Sandy Smith's enquiries on subject of who hired Hunt shut down by TIME and Agency after this memo?

3/The memo indicates that @washingtonpost had already done so, contrary to myth of dogged persistence by @realBobWoodward and @carlbernstein Is Smith eased out as TIME's correspondent on Watergate around this time?

4/ Was TIME CIA Adjunct?

@HaysGorey1

5/Was Chuck Colson's weird scenario not so weird?

The Nation: Colson's Weird Scenario ti.me/WaJSsE via @TIME

6/1971 memo from John N. McMahon, then Director of ELINT, to DDCI Cushman regarding Gary Powers. Recall Cushman would testify before Ervin Committee regarding Agency contacts with Hunt.
cia.gov/readingroom/do…
McMahon had debriefed Powers after Agency-intended shoot-down 1960

7/ Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Colby discussing "Her little Cubans" involvement in Dallas and Watergate ...

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9. Luce chairs Counterintell chair on PFIAB, 1982 Reagan admin, same years as John McMahon appointed as DDCIA.

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@realBobWoodward

#WhoWasDeepThroat

@JamesRosenTV

@TeviTroy #Durham

1/I have always thought it should be possible to identify Deep Throat simply by entering all the information about him in All the President's Men into a computer, and then entering as much as possible about all the various suspects.

2/For instance, who was not in Washington on the days that Woodward reported putting the red-flagged flower pot on his window sill, signaling Deep Throat for a meeting.

Ben Bradlee

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