“Page 1 SECRET RYBAT Excha 631 ceclarancs 104-10189-10066 NW 65987 Docld:32419805 Page 2 SECRET RYBAT "The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he attributed the Konnedy murder to a CIA clique which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-run”
“s after being administered, thus allowing an assassin to be far from the scene when his victim dies. for security reasons re port that CIA Director Join McCone made no mention of this explosive document in his secret testimony before the Warren Commission. While McCone furnish- e”
“I refrain from comment about a U.S. Congress that would pass such a bill, and a President who would fail to veto it. (You of course, are not te-blame.) The New York Times and the Washington Post, will, of course, be drooling to get their i hands on your papers. I don't envy yo”
“ovember agencies بهتار President 22,1963, the John 7. Ken Kennedy FBI, CIA, Secret assa rsinnl ed Un ited States investigative Service investigate the assassination. емле ashed When the Central Intelligence Agency Mespio City Statens learned that Harwery Oswald September and had ”
“December 1959 J. C. King memorandum to the DCI. In light of subsequent investigations, hearings, and publicity regarding the Agency's complicity in assassination (footnote continued on following page) - 29 - TOP SECRET”
“ur memorandum, dated 12 February 1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by GIA. 2. On 24 November 1963, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attacho in Canberra. Australia (IN 67387. Top Secret, later downgraded to Sec”
“intelligence business operates. n215 in the case of the Kennedy murder, however, that strategy has taken a heavy toll. Our task is to accept on a principled basis the importance of secrets in a democracy and to protect what is truly valuable and in the public interest to keep ”
“of a pistol which While this deadly weap-times arranging for the projects a poison gas in Documents Other Suppressed the CIA's assassination shown by administration officials to Speaker John McCormack (Mass.), next in line to succeed Presi- dent Johnson.ve OTHER U.S. intelli- gen”
“memerandu. dated in February 1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by CIA. مرة 2. Cn 24 November 1963, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Canberra. Australia (IN 67327, Top Secret, later downgraded to Bec”
“any information com-.' to Supreme Court Chief Justice. be placed in her hotel room and her .ing to us or any report coming to, Earl Warren (chairman- of thee conversations monitored. : us from any source will ' be thor- then-disbanded Warren Commis- But the private detective t”
“time of the Kennedy assassination the Secret Service and the FBI became particularly interested in potential defector s from SECRET SENSITIVE 6 NW 50955 DocId:32105622 Page 7”
“policy. (CONTINUED ON 8-B) guys Inside Washington 210CL 64 CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence From Warr By ROBERT S. ALLEN And PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. -The Central Intelli gence Agency withheld vital intelligence infor- mation from the Warren Commission during its in vestiga”
“, this Commission "We are informed by the Secret Service that the Central Intelligence Agency has di ss eminated several reports or comm unicati ons con cer ning th e assass ina- tion to the Secret Service in the period since Novem- ber 1963. All these materials reportedly carry ”
“hamrock considered very unique inasmuch as the person being mourned was a leader of another country. 6 The information furnished by S is very simila a Soviet to that previously furnished to us by defector whose bona fides has not been established. 62-109060.17 1567 REL:cls (8) P ”
“hone call on 15 October 1962. 3. Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA toot the following action: a. Gabled to Canberra asking full detaile of the telephone conversation of 23 November and the call made on 15 October 1962. It should be noted that CIA had act previously known o”
“and defending this Government's actions and the activities of the CIA in support of the Government. 4. During the long conversation, Mr. Kennedy introduced this sub- ject by saying that he was sick and tired of the poor public picture that was constantly being presented of the CI”
“ur memorandum, dated 12 February 1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by CIA. 2. On 24 November 1963, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia (IN 67327, Top Secret, later downgraded to Sec”
“ur memorandum, dated 12 February 1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by CIA. 2. On 24 November 1963, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia (IN 67327, Top Secret, later downgraded to Sec”
“d:32389097 Page 2 Inside Washington 210CL 64 CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence From War ren Commission By ROBERT S. ALLEN And PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. -The Central Intelli gence Agency withheld vital intelligence infor mation from the Warren Commission during its in- vestiga”
“inconceivable that the I'8 assassination attempts were carried on during the Kennedy Administration /‘.. NW 50955 DocId: 32423539 Page 194”
“hone call on 15 October 1962. 3. Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the following action: a. Cabled to Canberra asking full details of the telephone conversation of 23 November and the call made on 15 October 1962. It should be noted that CIA had not previously known o”
“13-00000 .RPR 04 ‘97 10:11AM P. 36/44 PAGE 36 D 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *31 unique sources. There is, as well, the related question of how much information was known at the top of the cooperating governments and the extent to which such knowledge would enhance our understanding”
“hn A. McCONE, Director, Central Intelligence Ahency, dated 12 February 1964, from J. Lee RAN KIN, Ge neral Counsel. "As you know, this Commission "We are informed by the Secret Service that the Central Intelligence Agency has disseminated several reports or communications concern”
“formation. He is being handled by representatives of CIA and Special Agents of our New York Office S (Shamrock has recently reported certain details concerning Soviet reaction to the assassination of President Kennedy. Shamrock reported the Soviets had the KGB (Committee for Stat”
“was kept secret until now. It has just been sent to the National Archives by the Assassination Records Review Board, a federal agency that screens assassination documents and makes public those that do not endanger national security. Sceiso’s testimony, which criticized oper”
“dent, Mr. RANKIN asked about our procedures f or working with the Secret Service when the Presiden t travels abroad. "14. Mr. WILLEMS asked if we could check on a SECRET NW 65924 Docld:32357059 Page 5 - 5 memorandum sent to Mr. KARAMESSINES on 12 February regarding one of the pic”
“Onvolvement in the John F KENNEDY Assassinati SECRET (6) MEMORANDUM, rindsted, same subject. SECRET The following document. sent to the Commission by letter dated 27 May 1975 x Belin from Knoche - a) Memorandum for the Record doberts 27-May 1975, by E. H. Knoche, Subject: commiss”
“assassination. does not say inno condone being caught at, •/ ' assassination, it says cannot condone assassination. And.I did 009 : that because he told me do that. The Chairman. And you have characterized the Kennedy • policy a one f getting the government no further inv”
“and I hav e b een advised o ur rec ords do not indicat e that the Warren Commission was provi ded wi th informa- tion on this subject. Allen Dulles, of course, I would note, who was the CIA Director until the fall o f ' 61, was a member of the Warren Commission, but beyond that f”
“00 Docld:32212019 Page 1 [R] ITEM IS RESTRICTED WARNING TRICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED b. The CLA Station in Canberra, on 27 November, furnished all available information on the 1962 telephone call. It appears that source on that occasion stated that "Iron Curtain C”
“enforcement". (Id.) Robert Kennedy was informed of this matter a few days later and stated that the Justice Department would investi gate. (Memorandum of Meeting, 22 June 1964.) Thereafter the FBI conducted an investigation, the results of which were submitted to the Special ”
“Kennedy's approval of wiretapping j were made known to the general public that it would serve to completely I destroy Kennedy. ' CDD:amr (2) CONTINUED. OVER \”
“conspiracy theory on the Warren Commission. The commission found no evidence of a conspiracy. Angleton,was fired in 1975. Years later, a mole was found - Aldrich Ames - but he had entered the CIA after Angleton's dismissal. At one point in the 1978 House testimony., committ”
“intelligence before being dis attention, but recently it was dis- warning J. Edgar Hoover of the charged with the rank of captain closed that as early as June 3, plot but again assumed no ac- in 1959. 1960, FBI Director J. Edgar tion would be taken. Why had he pulled the non-”
“ent are detailed in the narr ative. NW 65990 DocId:32374461 P ag e SECRE T JIPCET ET SY 1 04 -10196- 10000 i SECRET 2 3. The attached report is not intended to be an answer to the Fensterwald/O'Toole article which Mr. Belin attaches to his memorandum. (I have prepared a paragraph”
“ho could clarify the Warren Commission's work with the CIA and their investigation of these matters. 1”
“to the Warren Commission in this report was based upon sensitive sources and methods, identification of which had been deleted completely fro m the report. CIA The policy limiting War ren Commission know- ledge of CIA sources and methods was articulated as early as December 20, 1”
“other agencies and to begin the process of declassification. If neces- Kennedy. oearing on the assassination of President I,”
“CONFIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES I Washington, DC 20500 2 May 21, 1975 C-XK-3 .MEMORANDUM To : File From: Mason Cargill MC Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS On the afternoon of May 20, 1975, I briefly. examined the Justice Depar”
“untability and receipted accordingly. They are to be handled on a secure basis as though constitutin g sensitive papers on a need-to- know basis. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED REPRODUCTION PROT WW 66000 Doğld:32273520/Pag SECRETT Classification: Copy17 of Classified by derivation: DRAF”
“are any number of things that one can say in NW 66000 DocId:32271360 Page 5 16 the light of history. What I can't accept is that leads were deliberately or otherwise ignored. (Rocca dep., p.45) John Scelso, the above-cited CIA desk officer who ran the CIA's initial investigation ”
“dedicated anti-. Communist, that he is on the list of Western offi cials feared by the Kren- lin CLA "One recently reported electrocute an individ ual by luring him to use a telephone, connect- ed to a high-voltage wire, during a thunderstorm. "Another involves the use of a pisto”
“mstances surrounding the obtaining of this picture by your Agency an d th e identity of the individu al shown, if this informa- tion is currently available." 12 February 1964 Letter to Honorable John A . McCONE, Director, Central Intelligence Ahency, dated 12 February 1964, from ”
“Director, Central Intelligence Ahency, dated 12 February 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. "As you know, this Commission "We are informed by the Secret Service that the Central Intelligence Agency has disseminated several reports or communications concerning the assassin”
“13-00000 . , RPR 04 ‘97 10:01AM P.7/44 PAGE 7 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *5 Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X and gravely wounded Governor George C. Wallace. n28 [*6] At the same time, the American government resorted to deception to disguise its policy failures. n29 The nation fough”
“13-00000 - 28 January 1970 I- Washington, D.C. \ ■ An. editor of a trade journal, whom I first met while on _ . an intelligence assignment in Latin America, has urged mq• • for some time to make public the facts dealing with my- involvement in a’ conspiracy, to murder the”
“Supreme Court Chief Justice be placed in her hotel room and her ing to us or any report coming to Earl Warren (chairman of the conversations monitored. ;us from any source will- be thor- then-disbanded Warren Commis-. But the private detective they - oughly investigated, so tha”
“s referred to on page 63 of your Supplemental Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy. " As additional materials in these general areas are developed by the Bureau in the course of its in- vestigation, we would like the reports to be furnished to the Central Intelligenc ”
“13-00000 . APR 04 ‘97 10:14AM P.42/44 PAGE 42 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *36 L n203. See Exhibit Nine infra p. 54 (contending that "Oswald would not have been any sensible person's choice for a co-conspirator"). n204. See id. (advising that in discussing assassination with "politi”
“tor, Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, date d 31 January 1964, from J. Lee RA NKIN, G enera l Couns el. "We understand you already have furnished the Central Intelligence Agency with the Summary Report entitled 'Investigation of Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Novemb”