July 18, 1973.-Peter Grant of the Secret Service spoke with a superior, Harris J. Martin, about the Peroff calls to the White House. Grant testified that Peroff had referred to Harris as someone who could vouch for him. Harris explained to Grant that Peroff had been an informant in a counterfeit case in Europe. Martin told Grant there had previously been warrants on Peroff, according to Grant's testimony. Martin instructed Grant to contact Robert Connelly, the Secret Service agent in Orlando, Florida, Grant testified, and have him "find out if there was any existing warrant" on Peroff. Grant did as instructed. Connelly confirmed the warrants were still in effect.

July 18 or 19, 1973.-DEA Group Supervisor John O'Neill testified that it was on either of these days that he learned for the first time of the outstanding warrants which existed in Florida for the arrest of Frank Peroff. O'Neill testified that, upon learning of the warrants, he immediately initiated action to have Peroff arrested. O'Neill testified that he took this action "because he was a fugitive, the warrants called for his arrest." He testified that he also initiated action to have Peroff arrested to coerce Peroff into being a more cooperative informant.

July 19, 1973.-The Orange County Sheriff's office in Orlando, Florida sent a telegram to New York Police. In the wire the Florida authorities said that the warrants on Peroff, issued April 7, 1972, were still outstanding and requested that New York police arrest Peroff. In the wire Florida officials said that Peroff was staying at the Hilton Inn Hotel at Kennedy Airport in Room 636 and was registered under his true name.

July 20, 1973.-Peroff testified that while he was talking to Grant and others at the White House, he was also continuing his contacts with Conrad Bouchard. Peroff said that Bouchard told him to be at a certain phone booth at the International Hotel at Kennedy Airport at 5:30 p.m. July 20. Here he would receive "final instructions" for the Costa Rica trip. Peroff testified that the call came through. Bouchard had indicated that a password would be used to identify Peroff in Costa Rica. But, Peroff testified, the caller did not stipulate a password. Instead he told Peroff to wear a "distinctive suit" and that would serve to identify Peroff. Peroff said he told the caller he would wear a blue plaid suit. The caller added, "You weigh well over 200 pounds and you always wear sunglasses." Peroff said he replied, "That is right." Peroff said he knew nothing of the identity of the caller, except that the man spoke with a "New York accent."

July 20, 1973.-Richard Dos Santos wrote a memorandum for DEA Group Supervisor John J. O'Neill. In the memorandum, Dos Santos said that the RCMP had just received word from Peroff that the heroin venture was soon to be launched. In his testimony before the Subcommittee, O'Neill said he never saw that July 20 Dos Santos memorandum.

July 21, 1973.-It was on this day, Peroff testified, that he spoke with Peter Grant for the last time. Grant denied that he had any conversation with Peroff on this date.

July 22, 1973.-New York police arrested Peroff at his room at the Hilton Inn at Kennedy Airport and placed him in the Queens County House of Detention.

July 24, 1973.-DEA Agent Richard Dos Santos began negotiations with Carl M. Bornstein, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney for Queens County, New York, to have Peroff released from jail.

July 24, 1973.-Richard Dos Santos came to the Queens County House of Detention and spoke with Peroff. Dos Santos told Peroff that efforts were being made to have him released from jail, if he would cooperate and do as he was told.

July 25, 1973.-An Assistant District Attorney for Queens County, Andy Donlevy, arranged for Peroff's release from jail, on bail, in a $25,000 personal recognizance bond. Peroff signed all the appropriate papers. Then he was set free. Under the terms of Peroff's release from jail, Dos Santos promised Carl Bronstein that, upon his completion of his work as a federal undercover agent, Peroff would be available to the Queens County prosecutors for undercover work in local law enforcement. During these discussions Dos Santos mentioned that fact that Peroff was working on a narcotics case that involved the fugitive financier, Robert Vesco.

July 26, 1973.-The DEA gave Frank Peroff a code number, SC13-0149, and the title of "cooperating individual." This was Peroff's first official designation with the DEA.

July 27, 1973.-Peroff, at the direction of the DEA, flew back to Montreal. He met in Montreal with DEA Agent Sidney C. Bowers. Bowers told Peroff to demand of Bouchard advance money. Peroff was to insist that either he receive this advance money or he would not go to Costa Rica to pick up the $300,000 required to purchase the heroin. Testimony at the hearings indicated that the advance money demand that Peroff was to make of Bouchard was $10,000 or $20,000.

July 27, 1973.-DEA Agent Dos Santos located a private jet aircraft being serviced at the Fulton County Airport in Atlanta, Georgia and relayed, through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a description of the airplane and fabricated terms under which Peroff purportedly was leasing it. This information was then passed on by Peroff to Bouchard and to Bouchard associates to demonstrate that Peroff, indeed, did have a Lear jet which could be used in the heroin transaction.

July 27, 1973.-DEA Agent Sidney C. Bowers filed a report August 2, in which he described Peroff's July 27 discussions with Cote and Bouchard. In his report, Bowers wrote that Bouchard casually made the assertion that 10 kilograms of heroin were being smuggled into Montreal July 28 or 29 by a woman courier and that the heroin was being offered to Bouchard at the price of $7,000 a kilogram. Bouchard said he had already sold the arriving heroin to a Detroit figure for $20,000 a kilogram.

July 28, 1973.-Peroff, staying at the Martinique Hotel in Montreal, was paid a visit at 10 or 11 a.m. by Conrad Bouchard and Louis Cote. They met for about five hours. Bouchard was upset about Peroff being in Montreal. Bouchard warned that this visit "could kill the whole deal." Peroff responded by telling Bouchard that there would not be any heroin transaction in his Lear jet without the advance money he had demanded earlier. Peroff testified that Bouchard, at this point, began making an effort to collect the advance money which Peroff was demanding.

July 29, 1973.-Peroff testified that on this day Bouchard called him, explained he was having trouble raising all the needed money Peroff was demanding, but said he felt he could come up with $5,000 by Monday, July 30. Peroff testified that "he and Bouchard agreed to meet the next day at noon."

July 30, 1973.-At 10 a.m. Peroff testified, he was awakened by Cpl. Claude Savoie of the RCMP. Peroff testified that Savoie told him to pack his bags because he was leaving Montreal "right away." Peroff objected, saying he was to meet Bouchard at noon. Peroff was taken to the airport, put on a plane and he was told that Dos Santos would be able to explain the purpose of this abrupt departure. Peroff was met at the airport in New York by Dos Santos. But Dos Santos, Peroff testified, did not have an explanation that satisfied him as to why he was abruptly ordered to leave Montreal at a time when Bouchard seemed ready to go forward with the heroin transaction. Peroff returned to his room at the Hilton Inn Hotel at JFK Airport and tried to contact Bouchard by telephone. He could not get through to Bouchard but he did reach Louis Cote and Cote explained that Bouchard's phone was out of order.

August 1, 1973.-Dos Santos called Peroff at the Hilton. Dos Santos said he was on his way over and not to call Bouchard until he got there, Peroff testified. Peroff testified that when Dos Santos arrived they equipped the telephone with a recording device and they successfully reached Bouchard. Peroff testified that Bouchard was "unbelievably enraged" because of Peroff's abrupt departure from Montreal, and Bouchard shouted that "the deal was as good as dead". He accused Peroff of being to blame. Peroff testified that during the call Dos Santos told him to try to persuade Bouchard that due to his short cash position the Lear jet had been repossessed. Peroff testifield that Bouchard said that if he, Peroff, were in Montreal that Bouchard would have him killed.

August 1973.-Peroff worked under the direction of the Queens County District Attorney's Office in an undercover capacity in an effort by Queens authorities to capture 500 ounces of gold stolen in two recent thefts. While working with Queens County authorities. Peroff told them of his recent experiences with federal agents in the Bouchard case. Peroff related to Queens County authorities his account of the tape recordings with Bouchard, the alleged involvement of Vesco and LeBlanc, the disagreements with John J. O'Neill as to how best to fly to Costa Rica, the complaints he lodged at the White House and elsewhere in the Executive Branch and his allegation that DEA had set out to sabotage the case as soon as the name of Vesco surfaced.

September 1973.-Peroff played the Bouchard tapes for Queens County authorities. Queens County prosecutors then met with officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, including Paul J. Curran, the U.S. Attorney. The date of this meeting was approximately September 26, 1973.

Late September 1973.-Paul J. Curran, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, designated two areas which he felt should be investigated by his office in connection with the Peroff allegations which had been brought to his attention by the Queens County

District Attorney's Office. First, Curran wanted to determine if the Robert Vesco lead could be "resurrected" in the Bouchard heroin case. Second, Curran wanted to determine if there was any proof to Peroff's allegation that Federal agents had set out to deliberately cover up the Vesco angle. To check out both these areas of inquiry Curran assigned Arthur Viviani, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of Curran's criminal division.

September 27 to November 13, 1973.-Viviani conducted the inquiry into the two areas Curran had designated.

September 27, 1973.-Viviani and Peroff met for two hours. Peroff asked that his family be placed under protective custody. Viviani refused. Then Peroff explained to Viviani that the Vesco lead in the Bouchard heroin inquiry could not be resurrected. It was established then, in the mind of Arthur Viviani on the basis of what Frank Peroff had just told him, that the Vesco lead in the heroin case was dead. October 4, 1973.-Frank Peroff made his first contact with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Mid-October 1973.-Viviani recommended to DEA that DEA's inspection section conduct an inquiry into Peroff's allegation of government coverup.

October 16, 1973.-The U.S. Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration began a joint inquiry into Peroff's allegations of government coverup concerning Vesco's alleged involvement in a heroin inquiry after being advised by this Subcommittee of Peroff's allegations.

Late October or Early November 1973.-Viviani arranged for a Grand Jury subpoena to be served on Peroff to appear November 9, 1973.

November 1-4, 1973.-At the request of the RCMP Peroff went to Montreal and introduced Secret Service undercover agents to Conrad Bouchard. Bouchard was arrested by the RCMP in this case which involved some $84,000 in Canadian counterfeit.

November 1973.-Wayne T. Valentine, DEA Assistant Regional Director for the New York area, testified that it was in November of 1973 that he first heard the name Vesco in connection with the PeroffBouchard inquiry. Valentine did, however, testify that it was he who took the phone call from Morris Davis, the DEA agent with whom Secret Service Agent Peter Grant spoke July 17 in connection with Peroff's telephone calls to the White House.

November 9, 1973.-DEA Group Supervisor John J. O'Neill gave a sworn statement to the DEA-Customs inquiry into the Peroff allegations. In that sworn statement O'Neill asserted that Norman LeBlanc, the Vesco business associate, was also an associate of a Canadian mobster by the name of Cotroni. Following the November 9, 1973 sworn statement O'Neill gave, but prior to his testimony before the Subcommittee June 11, 1974, O'Neill learned that the so-called link between the man named Cotroni and Norman LeBlanc did not exist, and it was incorrect of him to have assumed that it did.

November 9, 1973.-Peroff appeared in Viviani's office under the terms of the subpoena for the grand jury appearance. Instead of a grand jury appearance, however, Viviani interviewed Peroff and tried to conduct the interview in the presence of the two agents who were

conducting the joint DEA-Customs inquiry into the Peroff allegations. At this time, Peroff turned in his cassettes containing recorded conversations of himself talking on two occasions to Conrad Bouchard and on one occasion to Harold Audsley. The tapes were rerecorded twice, one set for Peroff, the second set for the DEA-Customs inspectors. The originals were placed in a safe in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

November 13, 1973.-Viviani concluded his investigation. His findings were that first, there was no possibility of resurrecting the Vesco lead. And, second, Viviani found there was no effort by DEA to protect Vesco by sabotaging the heroin case.

December 13, 1973.-The joint Customs-DEA inquiry was written up in a report entitled "Investigation of Allegations by Frank Peroff concerning Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Customs Service." The report exonerated Federal agents of dereliction of duty. The report said that if anyone had failed to live up to what was expected of him it was Frank Peroff. April 28, 1974.-Former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans were acquitted of Federal charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury in a New York Federal Court.

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITS

1. New York Daily News article of April 30, 1974 concerning statement by Paul J. Curran, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, in which Curran said that Robert Vesco "is not off the hook".

2. Washington Post article of April 29, 1974 in which Assistant U.S. Attorney John R. Wing is quoted as saying had Vesco been at the trial "it would have been different."

3. Washington Post article of April 29, 1974 quoting Clarence Brown, a juror in the Mitchell-Stans trial.

4. Copy of "Investigation of allegations by Frank Peroff concerning special agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Customs Service" report dated December 13, 1973.

5. Transcripts of hearings conducted by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Executive Session May 17 and 30 and June 7, 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1974.

6. Affidavit of Franklin Peroff dated April 1, 1974.

7. New York Times article of November 25, 1973 written by Wallace Turner concerning Frank Peroff.

8. Washington Post article by Morton Mintz concerning Frank Peroff dated November 26, 1973.

9. New York Times article by Wallace Turner concerning Peroff dated November 27, 1973.

10. New York Times article by Linda Charlton concerning Peroff dated November 29, 1973.

11. New York Times article by Michael C. Jensen concerning Vesco dated November 29, 1973.

12. Washington Post article by Suzanna McBee concerning Peroff and Vesco dated November 30, 1973.