“… shaw, Jr. Clerk U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr: Henshaw: Forwarded herewith are comments concerning the final report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, listing a series of points in the report that raise security questions. These comments cite the …”
“s, if the program were resumed. Delete "recruited" and insert the word "contacted" in its place. (C) Page 72 DII-PATS, Third paragraph. Second sentence should read "According to an affidavit that McMillan filed with the committee, her only employment with the Federal Government w”
“… s reason to believe that he was not. (C) Page 267, Figure IV, lower right photograph. A photograph of. a former employee, associated in the report with a man known as Daniel Carswell, should be deleted. The photograph was provided the Committee for identification purposes only and is n …”
“… o protect the identity of an Agency employee and this was simply an error in ommission in the : process of reviewing and printing the draft report.. (C) :”
“was simply an error in ommission in the : process of reviewing and printing the draft report.. (C) : Page: 126. Paragraph (484). Delete sentence "The scheme was: shelved when 'derogatory' data about Banister was discovered." This re …”
“… of the CIA." (C) CONFIDENTIAL NW 65924 Docld:32369411 Page 4 CONFIDENTIAL VOLUME XII Page 56. Paragraph (33). Delete sentence "In a fitness report for...and searches for and develops new sources." See 26 March 1979 letter to G. Robert Blakey from S. D. Breckinridge, in which it was not …”
“security of our personnel at Madrid and Paris. 2. Action: In view of the foregoing, the allegations A. should be put in proper perspective i.e., not ignored because of the potential embarrassment but considered in the light of what we already know (Almost all of them are repetiti”
“ine treated to avoid Bento avoid attributing to them more importance than they deserve; c. thebental should be kept mind as examples of other charges which may be kandied about and reported by the AMLASH group to other governmental agencies or to other governments or to news medi”
“HIP); REPRODUCTION , (2) sort Put which people, if any, are worth our time in the future; PROHIBITED (3) take appropriate as, including inter- rogation and polygraphing, to clarify doubts and then, when necessary, terminate those who are working for us but are not worthwhile; (4)”
“RK was criticized for "fooling around for years" without helping and for jeopardizing the operation; DEDRODUCTION (2) the group was group was to be prepar s to be prepared to denounce ODYOKE as responsible if the operation faris operation falls and believed that : the resulting s”
“th ESPINOSA, the problem seen by Paris is that NW 65924 Docld:32369451 Page 3 13 65 EYES ONLY SECRET "the ANLASH circle is wide and each new friend of whom we learn seems to have knowledge of the plan." I believe that the problem is a more serious and basic one. As indicated in p”
“… that the questionable decision to put Maureen in touch with the AMLASH group was made without the knowledge of STOCKICOD.) ESPINOSA did not report any criticism of the KUBARKers at Paris but it is evident that the AMLASH group knows more about them than we might wish. What is new and o …”
“D 0008688 1465 NW 65924 Docld:32369451 Page 4 nam ৩. C. Criticism of the Madrid Station Criticism of the Madrid Station by the AMLASH group is not new. AMLASH-2 and -3 were in Madrid and wanted direct contact, but the Station has had reservations about seeing them. The Station ha”
“ified hers 28 JUSWIFT-7 and has reported that no staffer from the Station ever had contact with her. PROHIBITED 4. Further involvemento ISPINOSA on 10 June ODENVY notified KUBARK at New York that AMLASH-2 had telephoned ESPINOSA to ask whether he had succeeded in contacting "the ”
“… orted routinely to Washington at the time. The remarkable thing is that he was identified at all, and that there was as much information to report as there was. A lot of Americans visit Mexico without official passports and go unnoticed. So his very identification is noteworthy. But as …”
“… arrange a meeting on Thursday with Bill Sturbitts to try and run a "problem" through the DDO files. He also said he wanted to read the Hart report on Thursday to which I replied I would be in touch with him about this after its review has been completed. Distribution: Orig OLC/Subj 1 O …”
“… JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A DOCUMENT INFORMATION AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM: MILLER, LYLE L. TO : SMITH, HAVILAND, JR. TITLE: SPOT REPORT DATED 24 MAY 1978-EXPRESSION OF CONCERN BY [DELETED) WITH "U.S. LAW" ON REPORTING TO THE CONGRESS. DATE: 06/07/1978 PAGES : 3 SUBJECTS: WIT …”
“Smith, Jr. SA/DDCI FROM: Lyle L. Miller Acting Legislative Counsel SUBJECT: OLC 78-2079/2 7 JUN 1978 Spot Report Dated 24 May 1978--Expression of Concern by Belgian Service with "U.S. Law" on Reporting to the Congress ...”
“May 1978--Expression of Concern by Belgian Service with "U.S. Law" on Reporting to the Congress ... 1. (S) Subject memorandum notes that the Belgian Service has registered concern over a "copy of a U.S. law which could be interpreted as obliging CIA to identify 'to certain member”
“he Executive will furnish to the committees "any information or material ... whenever requested ..." SECCET 12 IMPDET OF DY 609247 21633 NW 65924 Docld:32400916 Page 2 SECRET 3. (S) There are, of course, other documents which could give rise to a misimpression that the CIA could ”
“he two intelligence oversight committees; these, of course, are not binding on the Executive Branch. c. The general oversight and reporting requirements in section 3-4 of E.O. 12036, which, if read without reference to the section's prefatory language or if read by a person not a”
“. I stated that we wanted to know if it gave him any problems, he undertook to let us know today. 3. I reported that we had notified Mr. John McCone of the HSCA desire to interview him. I said that this had been done through Walter Elder, now with Resource Management Staff. Elder”
“… acceptable, I said we could provide a four- drawer safe at CIA Headquarters with a combination set and controlled by them, for purposes of report writing, and they could move their material to that safe. Blakey said he would review the draft statement (copy attached) and let me know.”
“… taff investigators to plant versions of things in the minds of witnesses and then extract answers on the basis of that. cited the Schweiker Report as containing some examples, as addressed directly in the 1977 CIA Task Force study on the Schweiker report. I said that as soon as they fi …”
“… uted this to communications. It was HSCA practice to not communicate with us, a result of which has been to blind themselves in part. Their report inevitably would suffer in the end. We can help them, and can provide insights to a culture that they should realize is strange to them. Nu …”
“or steno notes. They agreed to check on this. 14. Mr. Blakey stated that he felt there was a steady 5. SECRET NW 65924 Docld:32401055 Page 8 SECRET deterioration in relationships. He observed that it had been from 1 June to 28 June on the priority requests, with no results. I sai”
“tatement is the point that he was speaking of Committee members, per se, and not just staff members. 16. As I had described the Calvillo problem, he said then we should have no problem in their confronting Calvillo. He wasn't an agent of ours and our sensitivity could be met by n”
“… se of John Hornbeck. I said that in the latter instance Hornbeck had copied extensively from the unsanitized version of the 1977 Task Force Report, emphasizing the portions already deleted from the sanitized version; I had said he would have to do a summary. That could have been avoide …”
“as well as physical NW 65924 Docld:32401070 Page 3 2 SECRET surveillance. The Mexican authorities : share the telephone operations with us; : it is against Mexican law for them to be engaged in this activity. They are aware of the fact of photographic surveillance. ! . Because of”
“rs has on occasion appeared to be developing a basis for criticizing CIA's performance in its part : of the investigation in Mexico City, under its charter to evaluate the performance of the intelligence agencies. At one time, and possibly ز کرد still, they appeared to be attempt”
“l the above CIA reporting on Mexico City involves classically sources= and-methods material. Nosenko . Yuri Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected in early 1964. Among the items of information that he asserted he brought with him was knowledge about Lee Harvey Oswald, from his fi”
“… vey Oswald. Mr. Cornwell did not say that the information I gave him would suffice, so we may hear from him further on this. I asked him to report the result of our discussion only to Mr. Blakey and Representative Stokes. 8. We discussed the file of AMMUG, which Mr. Joannides understan …”
“ormer Agency employee, Bill Harvey, now deceased. The period in his NW 65924 Docld:32401173 Page 4 3 career in which they are interested is from the end of 1961, when he was first assigned responsibility for the plot with the criminal syndicate, through his service as Chief of th”
“- ments that would be used with two support agents, whose only interest is that they worked for CIA. c. Two U.S. citizens, Mrs. June Cobb Sharp (believed to be in Mexico City) and a Mr. Wichtrich. Both are private citizens who are reported to have information of interest to the H”
“%. -00000-______ - 1104-10145-104361 "■*‘'[2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ) YYW4 ----------------------------- ’ INTERNAL -ADMINISTRATIVE UST ONLY - K. C ARILgA 3 .SD Chrono Ry ,16 November 1978 MEMO FOR FILE. SUBJECT”
“CONFIDENTIAL reported to be very cooperative, aware of need for discretion and secrecy and proud of his father’s relationship with this Agency. 5. The only aspect of this incident, which may be of continuing security concern, is that the son recalls that in May 1978, while”
“el SECRET THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 OLC 79-0113/g 27 February 1979 Mr. G. Robert Blakey Chief Counsel and Director Select Committee on Assassinations House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Dear Bob: 20510 This letter is to correct some observa”
“ay be FBI reporting, which is not necessarily likely to be authoritative. (C) Gobierno en Exilio (C) Footnote 63. We do not have both references, so withdraw our comments as to what both documents say; one may say what our copy of one of them does not. (U) Footnote 64. The cited ”
“… RIGINATOR: CIA FROM: BRECKINRIDGE, S.D. TO : BLAKEY, G. ROBERT TITLE : FINAL REVIEW OF HSCA DRAFT REPORTS. DATE: 01/01/1900 PAGES:7 : DRAFT REPORT HSCA DRAFT CIA COMMENTS SUBJECTS REPORT REVIEW FINAL COMMENTS DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATU …”
“… e, Lopez had a tourist card, carrying number 24553, which he obtained in Tampa on November 20, 1963 and his passport number was 310162. The report stated that Lopez left Mexico for Havana on November 27 via Cubana (Airline). There was no back- ground information on Lopez in Mexico and …”
“… ed by Mexican authorities that Lopez had entered Mexico on November 27 at Nuevo Laredo. (U) On December 5, 1963 CIA Headquarters received a report that Gilberto Lopez had crossed the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas on November 23, 1963, and had registered in the Roosevelt Hotel in Mexi …”
“for Havana on November 27, The report stated that a good photograph had been obtained of Lopez. (U) A dispatch the following day forwarded copies of the photograph to CIA Headqu …”
“… lete the name of "Barry Page 11-13. The HSCA draft labors at preserving the basis for a criticism of CIA in the handling of a badly flawed..report from Monterrey, some four months after the assassination of the President. (C) The report erred in so many ways that it clearly was misinfo …”
“nature of the report; his statements that it "jibed" with other information does not make it so. (U) It is quite a familiar thing in the world of intelligence f …”
“… ms in this section: DRAFT SECRET Page 11. Lopez was not "surveilled" in Mexico. That phrasing may give it an adventuresome quality, but the report was some four months after Lopez departed Mexico. It obviously not only did not come from an informed source, but there could have been no …”
“to report a suspicion of a DGI defector that Calderon was a CIA or American agent. Every uninformed NW 65924 Docld:32369812 Page 6 5 SECRET DRA SECRE …”
“… :32369812 Page 6 5 SECRET DRA SECRET suspicion is not reportable, especially when it is known to be false, as was the case here. Nothing to report, and nothing to protect. (U) d. Calderon's single remark, out of the context of the conversation in which she made it. First, it is based o …”
“… NT INFORMATION AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM: BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT D., OLC TO: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS TITLE : PLANNING FOR FINAL HSCA REPORT DATE: 10/17/1978 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : CIA INVESTIGATION HSCA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER CLASSIFICATION : SECRET 1A RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS: …”
“& Technology General Counsel FROM S. D. Breckinridge : SUBJECT Planning for the Final HSCA Report : SECRET Orc/Suby. 5 Pkg filed HSCA |OLC #78-3224 17 October 1978”
“Planning for the Final HSCA Report : SECRET Orc/Suby. 5 Pkg filed HSCA |OLC #78-3224 17 October 1978 1. We have asked the HSCA to arrange to give us sections of its report at …”