House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigation - Addendum

(h)3) (hit ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET SUBJECT: (Optional) Response and House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigatio Adgend m FROM: EXTENSION NO. Kathryn I. Dyer DI/IRO TO: (0 pees ; building) OFFICER'S | COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom INITIALS to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) APPROVED FOR RELEASECDATE: 28-Sep-2009 FORM 610) “EES  FOITA-0908 8 September 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR: Office of Congressional Affairs ‘UIrTice or General ees VIA: FROM: ~Katnryn I. pyer DI Information Review Officer SUBJECT: | House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigation - Addendum REFERENCE: A. DI/IRO Memorandum, 7 September 1995 B. OCA 95-2244, 31 August 1995 1. Reference A advised that the DI would forward comments re Tab B (reference B) under separate cover. Attached is a memorandum and accompanying background information which was forwarded by the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center in response to Tab B. 2. Although the CNC memorandum addresses the request for comments to Tab B, it may have implications for the - Agency's response to the request for record searches in Tab A. SUBJECT: House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigation - Addendum 4. Your attention is also drawn to CNC's comments and Clarification regarding an earlier response provided to ORM's July search request. 5. If you have any questions, please call me on — Katnyyn i. Dyer Attachments SUBJECT: House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigation - Addendum  8 September 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR: DI Information Review Officer FROM: DCI Crime and Narcotics Center SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and Related Topics REFERENCE: DI/IRO memo, dated 31 August 1995, w/attached EXDIR memo, dated 31 August 1995 1. Referenced memo requested that CNC search for records responsive to referenced Tab A and that CNC review and comment on referenced Tab B. On 6 September 1995 cNC sent you a memo stating we had located no responsive records to the subjects identified in Tab A. 2: This memorandum addresses the request for comments to Tab B,the 21 July 1995 draft memorandum of record prepared by Chairman Leach's staff concerning questions and agency responses on Mena/Systematics. CNC has reviewed Tab B and offers the following comments. 3. While CNC has no documents or records pertaining to "Barry Seal", SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and Related Topics 5. During 1984, there was high policymaker interest in assessing the role of the Cuban and Nicaraguan government in the drug trade. SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and Related Topics 6. In 1988, the Foreign Relations Committee was examining drug trafficking in Central America, especially the role of Panama, and requested all finished intelligence related to these issues. Attached is a list of the documents provided to the SSCI for Senators Pell and Kerry and cleared staff on 29 March 1988. The two papers discussed above were included among the documents provided to the SSCI on that date. oe CNC has no documents or written records pertaining to the installation of cameras on Seal's C-123 aircraft. However, to the best of our understanding, CIA's OTS may have installed cameras on the aircraft used in the 1984 operation. Therefore, we suggest that you recommend to the DO that it check with OTS or other components regarding the following inquiry in the draft memorandum: e "Did the CIA have any involvement in, or knowledge of, the installation of cameras on Seal's C-123K transport plane for use in a 1984 "sting" operation against the Sandinista official Frederico Vaughan? 8. While CNC does not have any documents or written records that pertain to "Barry Seal", SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and Related Topics 9. If you have any questions please call me at Attachments: a/s SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and _ Related Topics CNC/ODIR (8 Sept 95) Distribution: Original - Addressee 1 - OCA 1 - OGC 1 - ORMS 1 - D/cCNC 1 - DD/CNC 1 - SA/CNC 1 - CNC/LGL 1 - File 5  Director of Central > Intelligence nem eS aE Tet or EE EE Pe et er reer eR memeors mere see Ten RR fn etree o cereangnineior ont SNRIT a ERI ope net eecerRr ITS “a a% ; oe a 2 : BEER watmp tra : wy ee er SCREOC Xi OM 8 RR BK ee Ale Se ede bee henib eS Se ee “ ba