Another CIA program, said to have "sensitive domestic overtones" was the Deputy Directorate for Science and Technology Office of Research and Development's (DDS&T/ORD) "VIP Health and Behavior Prediction System." Another project conducted remote physiological measurements, remote cardiographs on "naive subjects."

Other CIA research and development funds were spent on Radar People Detector (with Aerospace Inc.) and an adhesive restraint, non-lethal incapacitation system fro civilian crowd control and riot control.

Two CIA projects, "Restless Youth" and another dealing with "Black Radicalism in the Caribbean," dealt with radicalism among America's youth, particularly the anti-Vietnam Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and America's young blacks. Interest in the subject was shown by President Lyndon Johnson, Walt Rostow, his national security adviser, and former Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, and later, by Vice President Spiro Agnew, Nixon's national security adviser Henry Kissinger, Nixon cousellor Patrick Moynihan, and White House staffer Lawrence Houston.

In June 1970, a CIA Office of Counterintelligence officer named Archer Bush was asked to write a memo on links between militant blacks in the US and the Caribbean, with a specific focus on Stokely Carmichael.

The CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Sevice (FBIS) was tasked with monitoring foreign radio reports about statements and speeches by American POWs in Hanoi, Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. FBIS linguists were also loaned to other agencies, like the FBI, for domestic signals intelligence (SIGINT) analysis.

The CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) was tasked in January 1972, with performing image enhancement on tapes of Jack Anderson's TV show. The purpose was to identify serial numbers on CIA documents in Anderson's possession.

One CIA memo dated May 8, 1973, indicates the CIA was particularly uncomfortable with the work of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the Technical Services Department chief who has been linked to poisoned assassination weapons and LSD experiments. In the memo to CIA director Schlesinger, Ben Evans states, "Carl Duckett [DDS&T chief] brought this up and said he is very uncomfortable with what Sid Gottlieb is reporting and thinks the Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this program. Duckett plans to scrub it down with Gottlieb but obviously cannot do it this afternoon."

There was also considerable information contained in the Family Jewels concerning Robert Vesco, a fugitive who headed a CIA proprietary firm called Investors Overseas Service (IOS), a company with which President Nixon's brother Donald and his son, Donald, Jr., was involved. Donald, Jr. also worked for Vesco's International Control and was based in the Bahamas. Nixon's other brother, Edward, was a director of Vesco's company. Vesco had also donated handsomely to Nixon's 1972 campaign, in cash. In 1971, then-White House Counsel John Dean requested information from the CIA regarding the Vesco project. Nixon's brother Donald worked for Marriott Corporation and was linked to Howard Hughes' top assistant Noah Dietrich. Donald offered Marriott's airline catering service to Aristotle Onassis' Olympic Airlines of Greece.

Vesco fled a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation and asked for asylum in Cuba. He was later jailed by the Cubans for thirteen years.

A 1972 CIA memo indicates that a CIA program code-named BKHERALD had something to do with the Vesco project. It also stated that Vesico was President of International Control Corporation of Fairfield, New Jersey. The founder of IOS was Bernie Cornfeld, an international fugitive. Costa Rica's President Jose Figueres was also linked to IOS. Vesco had lived for a while in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Antigua, and the Bahamas.

A May 7, 1973, CIA memo states that Schlesinger ordered the Deputy Director of Intelligence Dr. Edward Proctor to produce a crash project to produce a paper on Vesco. The memo also refers to a "high-level American intercession" on berhalf of Vesco. Former director Helms was asked if this was relevant information and he said it was not.

A May 7, 1973, CIA memo states that T.G. Barreaux of the SEC contacted the CIA about the Vesco matter. After a meeting between Barreaux and the CIA, the CIA provided Barreaux with one piece of information about a banking transaction by Vesco.

A July 23, 1971 memo describes a phone call between the CIA's deputy director Gen. Bob Cushman and "someone in the White House" about Vesco. The person in the White House wants to know about a Ray Finkelstein, a Belgian-born Brazilian linked to two IOS principals: Gilbert Straub and Bernie Kornfeld [sic].

A May 8, 1973, CIA memo, states that John Dean contacted the CIA about Vesco and IOS, particularly embarrasing information relating to the fact that Nixon's nephew worked for IOS. The CIA passed six reports to Dean via his deputy Fred Fielding, the current White House Counsel for George W. Bush.

The same memo stated that Assistant Attorney General for Internal Security Robert Mardian had been deeply involved in the "split between Bill Sullivan and Mr. Hoover." Hoover accused Sullivan, his chief of FBI Intelligence, of passing files to Mardian without Hoover's permission and Hoover fired him. Hoover died on May 2, 1972, weeks before the Watergate break-in.

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