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This file concerns the FBI's 1985 administrative inquiry into the disappearance of Edward Lee Howard from Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 21, 1985. Howard was a former CIA officer who fled after being implicated in espionage and later surfaced in the Soviet Union. The released records include FBI headquarters memoranda arranging the filing of FD-302 interview reports, investigative inserts, signed statements, and bulky exhibits under file 62-121677. They also include an addendum to an Albuquerque agent's statement concerning surveillance of Howard, correspondence acknowledging a House intelligence committee request for information, and a memorandum about an anonymous letter sent to FBI inspectors in Albuquerque. The visible documents date from October and November 1985.

FBI file number: 62-121677 | Documents span: 1985 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Edward Lee Howard, William H. Webster, Lee H. Hamilton, J. D. Glover, William M. Baker, Robert M. Blitzer, William E. Wells, William D. Branon
Subjects: Edward Lee Howard, espionage, CIA defection, FBI administrative inquiry, Santa Fe, congressional oversight