As Alyeska has informed us, at a meeting held in or about September 1990, Alyeska informed its owner companies that it had retained The Wackenhut Corporation to conduct covert surveillance of Charles Hamel. We also understand that at the September 1990 meeting, there was discussion of the Wackenhut surveillance as well as a vote by the member companies to discontinue the surveillance. However, as has been reported by the press, representatives of two Alyeska owner companies appear to have recollections of the vote and the reasons for discontinuing the surveillance which are different from those of Alyeska.

Therefore, please be certain that the documents which you have agreed to provide to the Committee on or before September 6, 1991, include any and all documents or other records relating in any way to discussions and/or votes at the September 1990 or any other meeting regarding the Wackenhut investigation of Mr. Hamel. Such documents and/or records should include, but not be limited to agendas, correspondence, minutes, notes, tape recordings, transcriptions and/or summaries of the discussions and/or votes whether in Alyeska's possession or control, or the possession or control of any Alyeska owner company.

While we consider these documents to be within the scope of Chairman Miller's August 7, 1991 request to Mr. Hermiller, since they were not among the types of documents you referred to in our telephone conversation last Friday, the above more specific description is intended to avoid unnecessary delay in Alyeska's production of documents to the Committee.

Please call me at (202) 226-0200 should you have any questions or if these documents will not be produced on or before September 6, 1991.

Singerely,

Spice Shoe

Linda J Chase

Chief Counsel on Investigations

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Roger Staiger, Jr.
Averill Williams
William C. Rusnack
Roger E. Truitt

Donald Nyberg

Darrell G. Warner

E. R. Hoffman

W. K. Shriver

William L. Thacker

This is in response to your letters of August 7, 1991, advising Alyeska that the House
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs is investigating allegations that The Wackenhut
Corporation conducted an investigation of Mr. Charles Hamel on behalf of Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company. Alyeska acknowledges your request for documents and records
and will cooperate fully.

I would like to address some possible misunderstandings indicated by your letter. First,
neither Exxon Corporation, any of its related entities, nor any TAPS owner company
authorized any such investigation. Secondly, it should be understood that the investigation
did not seek to obtain information about any members of the Committee, including
yourself, or to interfere in any way with Mr. Hamel's communications with the Committee.
An investigation was conducted for Alyeska by The Wackenhut Corporation between
March, 1990 and September, 1990, as a result of unauthorized releases of highly
confidential company records and privileged legal documents relating to ongoing litigation.
Mr. Hamel had in his possession some of the documents stolen from Alyeska. The
investigation was designed to trace the stolen documents back to the internal Alyeska

source.

As President and CEO of Alyeska, I authorized the investigation to achieve a single objective to protect our company's records and files. The outside security firm was instructed to proceed employing standard and accepted lawful investigative procedures. I initially informed the TAPS owner companies about the investigation in September, 1990, at which time the owner companies and Alyeska decided to terminate all further investigatory activities. Thereafter, the documents and records related to the investigation were collected, isolated and safeguarded from use by any party.

I have asked David Marquez, Alyeska's General Counsel, to contact your staff to facilitate our cooperation with the Committee's request. He will call your office by August 19, 1991, for this purpose.

Mr. George Wackenhut has asked me to respond to your several letters of
August 12, 1991 to him and Messrs. Alan Bernstein, Wayne Black, Richard
Lund and Gilfredo Mugarra concerning an investigation performed on
behalf of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (Alyeska).

Prior to your Committee's request, we had already turned over virtually
all of the requested materials to Alyeska at their direction. In
furtherance of your Committee's investigation, we have turned over copies
of all of such materials remaining in our possession to Alyeska, at their
request, and we understand that Alyeska is in turn, arranging to deliver
all of these materials to your office in cooperation with the Committee's
request, except for those Attorney/Client documents for which they may
claim privilege.

I hope that this will prove satisfactory to the Committee. if you have
any questions or comments please contact me at (305) 666-5656.

Very truly yours,

PRowan

James P. Rowan

Vice President and
General Counsel

Professionalism With Integrity su

EXON PIPELINE COMPANY

POST OFFICE BOX 2220 HOUSTON TEXAS 77252-2220

CARRELL WARNER
PRESICENT

August 13, 1991

The Honorable George Miller

Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-6201

Dear Mr. Miller:

Your letters of August 7, 1991 to Mr. L. R. Raymond of Exxon Corporation and Mr. W. D. Stevens of Exxon Company, U.S.A. requesting certain documents and records relating to a security investigation by The Wackenhut Corporation have been referred to me for response. Since the investigation in question was conducted for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Exxon Pipeline Company, as a 20% owner of Alyeska, is the appropriate Exxon Corporation affiliate to respond.

I am informed that Alyeska has communicated with you regarding the investigation and has indicated its intention to cooperate fully in connection with your request. Neither Exxon Corporation nor any of its subsidiaries, including Exxon Pipeline Company, ever conducted or authorized any investigation of any sort or any undercover surveillance of Charles Hamel.

Very truly yours,

Danell & Warne

DGW: ray

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The Honorable Don Young,

Ranking Minority Member

Mr. L. R. Raymond, Exxon Corporation

Mr. W. D. Stevens, Exxon Company, U.S.A.