“difficulties. have about been resolved and his wife will obtain a divorce 0 in the immediate future. Informant and his wife have reached- an agreement in connection with their divorce. . - • ..- k. Indoctrination Against Disclosure. y* . Informant is most security conscio”
“derogatory information about the individuals involved? 24 A. Well, no. One of the things these people do, of 25 SECRET Photocopy from Gerald Ford Library) NW 50955 DocId: 32275454 Page 68”
“derogatory information about the individuals involved? 24 A. Well, no. One of the things these people do, of 25 SECRET Photocopy from Gerald Ford Library NW 50955 DocId: 32275518 Page 68”
“derogatory information about the individuals involved? 24 A. Well, no. One of the things these people do, of 25 SECRET Photocopy from Gerald Ford Library NV 50955 DocId: 32204971 Page 68”
“true names • 20 and incidents that we felt should perhaps not be surfaced at any 21 particular time. 22 Q Do you have any knowledge of use of the press in Miami 23 for propaganda purposes? 24 A. No. No. 25 NW 50955 DoeId:32203851 Page 97 SECRET”
“cover-up? 23 Mr. Angelton. My answer on that is, I do not. “And 24/ by that I am separating the midnight channel 26 things and the 0 newspapers. I know Jim McCord extremely well. 25 TOP SECRET NW 10930”
“and -3 his neighbors and associates, and not say anything about periodic, physical surveillance? AYM Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I cannot tell you what I stated. I was OF DorAD NWT 50955 DocId:32277209 Page 25 LUN i”
“Goldsmith. I would not want you to go back to the 24 i Agency and say that the- staff of this Committee attempted to : 25 compel an answer out of you. NW 50955 DocId: 32277214 Page 18 SECRET ALDERSON REPORTING COMPANY”
“the record and the exhibit evidence citing the inference that it was not. There 20 >. is an abundance of both, to be frank with you. So that we 4 1 0 F irs t S treet, S.E., Washil 21 can lay them down side by side and make our own separate 22 23 judgment. © Do I u”
“did so calmly and without .objections. In one or two instances he remarked chat his statements were presented in such a manner as to make them 7 0001279 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 10”
“INVESTIGATION, WHETTOR YOU WERE DEECTLY INVOLVED OR NOT, WHICH MIGHT REQUIRE EXPLANATION? I SO, DESCREIK , NOT, AN- SWER “NO.” No”
“to the Assistant Attorney General, 22 Criminal Division, who ever it was.\ 23 They said to the, effect, thank you, that is There 24 is nothing we can do. 25 Mr. Wides. Was there any discussion of the possibility HW 50955 DocId:32202415 Page 4 TOP SECRET”
“by case, whatever concerns me, my 13 biography, my work, whatever cases I knew, whatever cases I 24 was involved, all questions were raised by 20, 30 times each 25 case,, when it was reevaluation of all information given by me. HW 50955 1 DocId: 32277209 Page 82 TOP SECR”
“I have tried 19 20 quite carefully to tell, you my recollection. Mr. Smothers. We are merely trying now to establish 21 22 those relationships so that when we get the point in the 0 ‘7 do record there is some question regarding the nature of the recollection that mi”
“specific individual; and 21!; second, that there should be a decision to move against an 22 individual. 23 Being satisfied that these two things were not happen- 24 ing - - and I am now giving you a reconstruction rather than 25 a precise recollection — I am confident t”
“20 to authenticate, and I didn't necesarily turn to them and say, 21 hey 22 Mr Schwarz. Prove that — 23 Mr. Phillips. Prove that you have been talking with 24 General Bennett I obviously didn't do that. 25 Mr. Schwarz. Then mark as Exhibit 6 an undated docu- TOP SECRE”
“release. In view of the Director's decision that we shall issue a press release, I took pains to persuade Hunt that public acknowledgment of the fact that we had reviewed his 2 SECRET 03”
“would not issue any kind of a press release. In view of the Director's decision that we shall issue a press release, I took pains to persuade Hunt that public acknowledgment of the fact that we had reviewed his 2 SECRET C3”
“accept 19 their interpretation that it is not assassination, then we 20 avoid an understanding that we had that these documents, all 21 supposed to be available , then we get into a’ discovery problem. 22 In other words, I know what we’re getting at, and I would 23 gues”
“remember making it. It is an 20 inaccurate statement, and there was clear record that it would be inaccurate in documents that I had already seen. 22 I thought that I wouldn’t have made it. I had no purpose in 23 24 making it. And this is “■ The Chairman. What is the ina”
“use celebre right down to the present moment are detailed in the narrative. NW 65990 DocId:323744 61 Page SECRET JIPCET ET SY 104-10196-10000 i SECRET 2 3. The attached r eport is not intended to be an answer to the Fensterwald/O'Toole article which Mr. Belin attaches to his memo”
“Madigan. And your indication was you didn’t have 23 any recollection? 24 Mr. Maheu. No. 25 HW 50955 DocId: 322 13816 Page 28 TOP SECRET”
“IUP ACUAEI 47 1 professional advice on. 2 I think your questions have been reasonable. I have found 3 no objection to try to meet you more than halfway on it. 4 Mr. Goldsmith. Fine. Thank you very much. 5 (Whereupon, at 3:20 pm., the deposition was concluded.) 6 8 9 ”
“the Bureau with that infor 00 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 mation has been providing information over a number of years, O. but no one has made a study of information in hindsight in no B O order to evaluate that source. Do And I could go into m”
“right? 24 Mr. Phillips. Yes. 25 Mr. Schwarz. And he was instructed indeed not to tell TOP SECRET HW 50955 DocId: 32282005 Page 20”
“type of precision. The story that he gave was a very lucid. 23 straightforward story without any if's, and's and but"s.. Senator Twoer. Did you deny only In part the validity 240 van *% of the question that he asked? th TOP SECRET JA NW 50955 DocId: 32423393 Page 40”
“recollection 24 of any investigation of that particular tap? 25 Mr. Maheu. No, I don't. HW 50955 DocId:32203816 Page 9 TOP SECRET”
“But at that point you did brief him?m? 24 Mr. Bissell. I don't remember whether I personally 25 TOP SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32203786 Page 10”
“President's nephew with IOS and possible adverse publicity. The reports submitted to Dean's office were routine in nature and were coordinated with the DCI. After a few months, interest in this sub ject died down and we did not pursue it further.: 4, Please return the attac”
“report before we go on recess. I think that 20 disposes too readily of the problem that is going to confront 21 us in a very few weeks, and that is having heard all of this, 22 now what do we do? I don't think we have decided yet how we 23 are going to present, once we op”
“on this copy. 23 The point I am trying to make is, if Mr. Broe were 24 leaving the office and we had gone through this exchange, and 25 he had.done it with someone else in my office, he might well TOP SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32282005 Page 31”
“have suggested to the Committeelthat your statements given to the CIA in 1964 cannot be considered NW 50955 DocId: 32277209 Page 81 TOP SECRET”
“4 top secrets, with the management of unvouchered funds, with details of sensitive operations.. .. Surely it can. now trust me to use intelligent . • , discretion in the safeguarding of these items.nm I write about. I would appreciate it Tom if”7 you would take this request”
“find a way where we can counteract any such thing beca use that paraded over Europe an d aro und th e world is a terrible thing. Do yo u kno w anything ab out t his so-called Inquirer? 2 DCI: No. NW 65990 Docld:32403740 Ragets either. I tell you how I saw it. My driver bought it.”
“here. I 21 i perhaps shouldn't. 22 Mr. Goldsmith. You really aren't aware of what the 3: procedure would be in 1959 for dealing with a telegram like 24 this? 25n Mr. Tovar. No. I would still say today I would not expect NW 48331 DocId:32277210 Page 33 SECRET”
“wasningtet, n & it would be because it never occurred me that the Chief o: Station would act in any ther wav. That is it. Mr. Dawson. f course, Mr. Hedgeman also testified that 45 *0 5,4 it never would have occured 0 him have carried this ut 1 :: without having check”
“should be aired with higher authority. pp.31-32). Jhy (Helms, 7/18, With respect to the question of obtaining express authority DCI * Helms based this presumption on a review of relevant documents at the time of his testimony. (Helms, 6/13, p.58). ,zd*. NW 50955 DocId”
“seeking your authority or 21 the authority of the White House? 22 7 • Mr. Bundy.I think they were testing my reaction, as © I now look back on it. But I do not recall that they were 24 seeking authority. If it had come to me as a matter of White 25 TOP SECRET 213 ”
“e that the transcriber came without CONFIDENTIAL NW 65924 Docld:32370228 Page 2 21574 : CONFIDEN LAL announcing his intention and that the tapes were not available simply because Gmirkin was not available as no advance arrangements had been made; however, this is speculation. Bla”
“away on a trip. 22 Mr. Wides. But your understanding was 'it involved 23 personnel? 24 Mr. Sarno. This individual was involved in it. 25 Mr. Wides. And what did you understand had been the HW 50955 DocId: 32202440 Page 43 TOP SECRET”
“th 18 SECKET Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 A Sure. 2 2 I am sorry we had to take so much of your time. o1 A That is all right. 4 ; Thank you again. 5 ! (Whereupon, at 3:35 o’clock p.m., the taking of the 6 1 11 deposition was concluded.) J 7 11■ 8 9 10 ! 11i 12”
“arrangement that we made before we began, and correct me if this 23 is not your understanding of the arrangement, that we are 24 testifying here today without placing you under oath because 25 TOP SECRET HW”
“to give you: 20 that opportunity, would you then get those files, review them, 21 and respond to the request by the Committee that you appear the: 22 first of next week to testify? 23 Mr. Goodwin. If that is your wish, certainly. 24 The Chairman. We are most anxious to ”
“still have no direct recollection of the discussions which they memorialize. I do not recall any discussion of any assassination plan connected to the United States government during the entire course of my NW 50955 5 DocId:32423566 Page 31 4”
“bh 18 Phone (A rea 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 SECRET 112 1 A Sure. 2 2 I am sorry we had to take so much of your time. o A That is all right. 4 Thank you again. 5 (Whereupon, at 3:35 o’clock p.m.. the taking of the: 6 deposition was concluded.) 7 8 9 10 DO W A ”
“20 Mr. Wides. I don’t mean a specific one. 21 Mr. Sarno. I don't recall ever giving them any assignments. 22 Mr. Wides. I'm not talking about assignments, I'm I) 23 talking about whether you're aware of their conducting — 24 Mr. Sarno. As I say, I do not recall them cond”
“13-00000 wverrrorvroves lowed the articles that he has written about this matter and they are what I would call “journalistic garbage." There is not a scintilla of truth to most of the things he has written in these articles and in his book which I have had a chance to scan”
“way where we can counteract any such thing because that paraded over Europe and around the world is a terrible thing. Do you know anything about this so-called Inquirer? 2 DCI: No. NW 65990 Docld:32403740 Ragets either. I tell you how I saw it. My driver bought it. C 8 DCI: W: DC”
“. 2 0 0 0 3 19 be in our Technical Services Division, which, if he was, he 20 would know everything, or could get into everything. 21 I didn't tell him that. Ya 22 In fact, I expressed little or no interest in his source 23 other than asking him a few questions, is he ”
“Yes, it was in the Post. W: Yes, I read Roberts. Saturday morning, I read that, saying that he thou ght we ought to go int o all of these things. DCI: Now, Fleur is in town today. She is leaving this evening. She would like very much and it might be worth your time if she could d”