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    "ocrText": "Digitized from Box 13 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nPOCL REPORT - AIR FORCE ONE\nTRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN\nFRIDAY, July 11, 1975\nWheels up at 11:50 a.m. Washington time.\nShortly after take-off, Ron Nessen came back and read us the following\nstatement; which he said was in anticipation of questions about the\nButterfield allegations:\n\"We have no information to substantiate the allegation that a member\nof the previous Administration was a secret CLA agent or indeed any\nkind of CLA agent, nor have we heard of such information. The questions\napply to previous Administrations. Those questions could best be\naddressed to those who were involved in the Administrations.\n\"To the best of our knowledge, and we have no reason to believe otherwise,\nthere is no employee working at the White House who has, or who has had,\na CIA connection of which we are unaware. We have no reason to believe\nthat anyone currently working at the White House, either as an employee\nof the White House or on detail from another agency, is surreptitiously\nreporting information on White House activities to any other government\nagency.\n\"I failed to make clear, in responding to questions in this area yesterday,\nand maybe I should have made clear, that I was speaking specifically of\nthe present White House. I can only speak for this Administration. I\ndon't want you to think that this qualification I am mentioning today means\nwe have discovered that any CIA agent infiltrated the White House in the\npast. We have no reason to believe there ever has been such an agent,\nbut I want to make clear that I speak only for this Administration and\nthis President.' (End of statement).\nAsked to explain the discrepancies between this statement and his flat\ndenials yesterday, Nessen said: \"Nothing I said yesterday was untrue.\nI just want to get back to the position I've always taken -- that I speak\nonly for this Administration.\"\nNessen said in reply to another question that his statement today had the\nknowledge and approval of the President.\nThen, in response to further questions, he said he would have issued\ntoday's statement even if the allegations about Butterfield had not been\nmade. He said again that he was making the statement because he wanted\nto get back to his standard position of speaking only for this White House.\nWhen we pressed Nessen on the discrepancies -- or apparent discrepancies\nif you prefer between this statement and his remarks yesterday, he\nrepeated what he had said yesterday -- that he had checked and had been\nassured that there was no reason to believe that any White House personnel\nhad reported clandestinely to the CIA in previous Administrations.\n\"Wha t I said yesterday was true, \" Nessen said, but he again said he\nwanted to get back to the position of speaking only for this White House.\nAsked whether there were any plans to investigate the present White\nHouse staff to determine whether there were any covert CLA agents,\nNessen said: \"I'll check (to see whether any such inquiry is planned). ::\n(MORE)\n- 2 -\nCn more routine matters, Nessen said the President brought a large\namount of mail with him on the flight to Traverse City and planned to spend\nmost of the flight signing letters.\nWith the President on Air Force One were Mrs. Ford, Senator Robert F.\nCriffin of Michigan, and the following members of the Michigan delegation\nin Congress, all Republicans: Representatives Elford Cederberg, Guy\nVander Jagt, Philip Ruppe and Marvin Esch.\nAlso: James and Paul Griffin, sons of the Senator; Donald Rumsfeld,\nPhilip Buchen, L. William Seidman, Milton Friedman, Gwen Anderson\nand Ron Nessen.\nNessen drew attention to the fact that the schedule shows Mrs. Ford making\na tour of Mackinac Island on Sunday. Nessen said this is only tentative - --\nMrs. Ford has not yet decided whether she will do it.\n#\n#\n#\nDeakin/Leubsdorf/Fippert"
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