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Memorandum from H. N. Helterhoff to Mr. Revell Re: Unauthorized Disclosure of Grand Jury Information Concerning Marion S. Barry, Jr. The article under. the byline of Leslie Maitland Werner quoted as advising that a FgJ, looking into drug use among. city employees in Washington, D. C., had asked Mayor Barry inJanuary, 1984, whether he had obtained cocaine from one KarensJohnson, a. friend of Barry's who had worked for the D..C* Gavernment.. user or having ever obtained cocaine from Johnson. *Again quoting law enforcement officials, the article stated that the FGj had received other testimony. contradicting Mayor Barry's statement and was examining whether or not Barry' had committed perjury. In published interviews of Barry following the. appearance of the New York Times article, Mayor Barry denounced the leak of information, attributed it to the U ,$. Attorney's Following receipt of the above letter, a representative of the White-Collar Crimes Section (wccs), cid, accompanied by SA Alexandria Division (an SA of the Alexandria b6 Division has been designated to assist in this inquiry in view b7C of the fact that personnel of the Washington Field Office (wro) are believed to have had access to the FGJ information at issue) met with Tom Ezell, OPR, DOJ to discuss the scope of the FBI's inquiry. Mr. Ezell advised that at this time his office was seeking only to determine the number and identity of persons having access to the information at issue and to determine,. where possible, the extent of their contact with this material. Mr. Ezell stated that opR, DoJ did not deem it appropriate denu o? xo shuaumnop Metanx on Augnbut aya go abeas sten ae investigative personnel as agents of the grand jury. b3 Per EOUSA b6 Per EOUSA b7C Per EOUSA