Z5 September 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee
l. This will record some observations concerning
the interview of the undersigned and Mrs. Mabel Hoover
by Mr. Eric Richard of the Senate Select Committee Staff
from 1000 hours to 1130 hours on this date at the Dirksen
Building.
2. Mr. Richard indicated that he had been interviewing
NSA employees, and he ascertained that CIA had, for years,
direct access to NSA files; and, therefore, he desired to
question Mrs. Hoover concerning her use of NSA files.
3. Mr. Richard concentrated on our conducting name
checks of American citizens at NSA. In this connection,
he asked direct questions of Mrs. Hoover if she recalled
checking on such individuals as Frank Church, Otis Pike,
Stokley Carmichael, Ramsey Clark, George Wallace, George
McGovern, Richard Nixon, and a number of civil rights
leaders including Dr. Spock, Cora Weiss, Whitney Young,
and Henry Sloan Coffin.
4. Mrs. Hoover advised that she did name checks on
Clark and Wallace, and that she did not recall when she
conducted these checks but that it was during the time
that Ramsey Clark was Attorney General and George Wallace
was Govenor of Alabama. In response to questions, she
advised that she did not know why these checks were conducted.
Mr. Richard then asked me if I knew why these checks were
conducted. I answered that I did not, but that there was
a possibility that these gentlemen may have been a candidate
for special briefing; similar to the one he had received
when he was given access to codeword information.
5. Mrs. Hoover stated that she did not recall ever
receiving a request for checks on Senator Frank Church
or Congressman Pike or any other Congressmen or Senators.