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Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold

Jessie L. Gill was a paid informer for the FBI and, she claims, the CIA between 1967 and 1970.

Vincent H. Rueul, an assistant special agent in the FBI's Boston office, confirmed that Gill had indeed worked for the Agency.

J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, in a letter to a New Hampshire Congressman acknowledged that Gill had "furnished information" to his agency and that she had been "fully compensated for her services."

Rep. James C. Cleveland R.N.H.) apparently solicited information on Gill's behalf from the FBI about her financial status with the bureau.

William Loeb, the conservative New Hampshire publisher, approached Hoover and probably the CIA through Cleveland and other Washington officials to insure that Gill was paid, although he said he never met her.

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Herman A. Mountain, the chief of the Cambridge CIA bureau, was named by Gill as one of two CIA agents she said traveled on March 3, 1972, to her North Conway, N.H.home to pay her $350 she said the agency owed her. Mountain, whom Gill described as an "innocent looking man with bird-like features," has refused comment on any aspect of the case.

Charles Whitlock, dean of the College, said Gillvisited him daily when he served as President emeritus Pusey's community affairs representative. He never suspected her connections with intelligence agencies.

Arthur C. Egan, the chief investigative reporter for Loeb's Manchester, N.H., Union-Leader, never trusted Gill's story.

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