Hon. LEE METCALF,

WILMINGTON TRUST CO., Wilmington, Del., March 15, 1974.

Chairman, Subcommittee on Government Operations,
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR METCALF: Your letter of March 11, 1974 to Mr. W. W. Geddes has been referred to me for reply.

We have not published and are not planning to publish a report dealing with our Trust Department's investments as of the end of 1973.

Sincerely yours,

W. D. MERTZ, Senior Vice President.

SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK,
Los Angeles, March 18, 1974.

Hon. LEE METCALF,

U.S. Senate, Committee on Government Operations,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR METCALF: Mr. Larkin referred your letter of March 11 to me for reply, as I am the officer in charge of our Fiduciary Services Group.

We have not published nor do we have plans to publish a report on our Trust Department investments with respect to the year ended 1973.

Sincerely,

ROBERT L. HUNT, Executive Vice President.

WELLS FARGO BANK,

San Francisco, Calif., March 19, 1974.

Hon. LEE METCALF,
U.S. Senate,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR METCALF: This is in response to your letter to our President, Richard P. Cooley inquiring as to whether or not we have published a report dealing with the activities of our Trust Division.

We have not published such a report but have been giving serious consideration to doing so. Should we conclude to prepare such a report we will be sure to send you a copу.

Sincerely yours,

GEORGE A. HOPIAK, Senior Vice President and Senior Trust Officer.

GIRARD BANK,

Philadelphia, Pa., March 21, 1974.

Hon. LEE METCALF,

Senate Office Building,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR METCALF: Thank you for your letter of March 11. If we publish a listing of our Trust Department holdings, I will be happy to see that you get a

copy.

Sincerely,

W. B. EAGLESON, Jr.,
President.

DEAR SENATOR METAL: Recalling or correspondence of earlier this year dealing with the use of nominee regstration of securities held by banks, I enclose encies of a publication we have s issued.

We are sending ccies to the government regulatory agencies which obtain information to regstered stockholders from companies under their jurisdiction and to a broad range of companies whose securities we hold. We would welcome any sizgestions you might have as to other parties that might find this publication interesting.

We hope this prbücstion may further afirm to you the point we have made before, namely that our use of nominees is in no way an attempt to conceal our identity.