CIA’s E. Howard Hunt contacts CIA’s Office of Security Director Robert Osborne about creating a new front company that had, in Hunt’s manner of verbose professional conversation: “contextually appropriate operational adjacencies.” Language was Hunt’s weapon of choice. Later, that same day, CIA’s James McCord files incorporation papers in Maryland for “McCord Associates, Inc.,” ostensibly a security company, but the incorporation papers say nothing about providing security, and the company is not licensed for security. Included on the board are McCord, his wife, and his sister, Dorothy Berry, who the filing claims (erroneously) works for an “oil company in Houston.” [NOTE: Gulf Resources and Chemical Corporation—the “oil company in Houston”—will later provide cashiers’ checks that get converted to $100 bills for the Plumbers’ walking money.]