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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
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AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY: NSA
RECORD NUMBER:
144-10001-10164
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DOCUMENT INFORMATION
ORIGINATOR: DOD
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TITLE :
HCSA REQUEST FOR NSA MATERIAL ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
DATE : 11/14/78
PAGES : 8.
SUBJECTS :
DIPLOMATIC PRODUCT REPORTS
CUBAN COMMUNICATIONS
CUBAN REPORTS/TRANSLATIONS
DOCUMENT TYPE: MEMORANDUM, LETTERS
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON. D.C..20301
NOV 14 1978
Distribution List for Requests of
House Select Committee on Assassinations
From: Judith A. Miller
Assistant to The Special Assistant
Eric T. Freyfogle
Sara Lister
Major Dick Flowers
John Brock
Colonel Hartig
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of the Army
Associate General Counsel,
Department of the Navy
Office of the Secretary
of the Air Force
Legislative Liaison
General Counsel, Defense
Intelligence Agency
Defense Investigative
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RICHARDSON PRAYER, N.C.
YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.'
WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.
HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.
FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.
SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO
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CHARLES THONE, NEUR.
HAROLD 3. SAWYER, MICH.
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Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
3369 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
November 8, 1978
The Honorable Harold Brown
Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
Washington, D. C.
20301
Attention: Mr. John G. Kester
Special Assistant to the Secretary
Dear Mr. Secretary:
In connection with its investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the death of President John F.
Kennedy, the Select Committee on Assassinations requests
that the Department of Defense state whether any 
of the
following materials are located in either 
Central 
Records
facilities, Intelligence Records and Reports, or "vault
files" at Fort George Meade, Maryland:
A.
B.
Any and all records, files, reports, photo-
graphs, and regulations pertaining to Depart-
ment of Defense advance work, coordination,
and actual participation in the protection
of the President and the Vice President in
the context of public appearances and
travel in 1963.
Any and all records, subject files, files on
individuals, reports and photographs pertain-
ing to the assassination of President Kennedy,
including but not limited to the names of
Department of Defense personnel present in
Dallas on the day of the assassination, their
duties and functions on that day, and the re-
ports they generated.
C.
Any and all records, files, reports, and
photographs pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald
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The Honorable Harold Brown
November 8, 1978
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or A. (Alek) J. Hidell.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this
Sincerely,
Kiflix Blaby
G. Robert Blakey
Chief Counsel and Director
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DATE:
15 June 1978.
SUBJECT: HCSA Request for NSA Material on Kennedy Assassination
1. Based on our discussion with Judy Miller, my understanding was that
Mr. Blakey's most recent request for data from NSA involved a review of
post-assassination diplomatic product on a world-wide basis to determine
if reports relevant to the assassination exist.
Though Ms. Miller did
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not specify a time period, a three month period subsequent to the event
would involve as an example six to nine thousand reports and would
require 120 to 150 hours of analyst time just to conduct a manual search
of the microfilm files where these records reside.
2. I subsequently spoke with Mr. Roger Denk, DIA, who had actually
participated in the briefing of Mr. Blakey, using our SECRET-level statement
as a basis. Mr. Denk advises that DIA has destroyed all its files which
might relate to the assassination and that, therefore, he had had nothing
to offer Blakey except the NSA-prepared sanitized statement. Mr. Denk also
provided a different, much more ambitious new requirement from Blakey than
that reported by Judy Miller.
3. According to Denk, what Blakey really wants from NSA is for us to
conduct a thorough review of all Cuban communications during the six year
period from January 1959 to December 1964, in order to see "what the Cubans
were talking about/thinking about" of possible relevance to the assassina-
tion a real fishing expedition in my view. Blakey is also reported to
desire a "characterization of the traffic" and not the traffic itself.
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4. This latest version of Blakey's interests, which has probably
been stated to us fairly accurately by Denk, represents a very significant
work load indeed. Based on some very educated estimates made by the
people in T12 who maintain the historical microfilm files, there were
approximately 200,000 Cuban reports or translations issued during the six
year period of interest, and roughly 2,000 man-hours of effort would be
required to search these records for items of interest.
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5. As we have discussed previously, I believe that NSA in a number
of separate, thorough analytic efforts has performed reasonable and
detailed reviews of all available signals intelligence. None of these
reviews has resulted in the derivation of any data of direct significance
to the assassination. A summary of these separate NSA efforts is attached.
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It seems to me that this summary should now be used as the basis for advising ¨
Mr. Blakey that we have reviewed all our holdings and have found nothing
directly (or even indirectly) relevant to his investigation.
Incl:
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15 June 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Actions Taken by NSA to Locate Information Related
to the Assassination of President Kennedy
A.
Over the past fourteen and one-half years, NSA has
performed a number of separate in-depth reviews of materials in
its files in an attempt to isolate data that might be relevant
to the assassination of President Kennedy. Nothing of significance
has been determined as a result of those reviews.
1. November-December 1963 Immediately after the
assassination, NSAinitiated a large-scale manual and machine
review of available SIGINT, including all U.S./Cuba traffic (NSA
intercepted messages at an average of 1,000 per day at that time).
A computer search was initiated using Oswald's name as the minimum
for research criteria. Additionally, all traffic between Cuba/New
Orleans and Cuba/Dallas was manually reviewed (an analyst involved
recalled that 25 to 50 analysts reviewed the traffic manually,
along with traffic from Cuba and some Soviet traffic). Sometime
during the search, items from the Oswald address book provided by
the FBI were added to the search criteria.
2. 1964
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Warren Commission
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The Commission, in the
person of Allan Dulles, asked NSA to review the exhibits for any
secret writings or codes which might have been contained in the
documents. It also appears that NSA searched records for information
on the basis of other Warren Commission requests made informally
by Allen Dulles.
November 1975
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Senate Select Committee to Study
Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (SSC):
3.
In response to an SSC request on the Assassination,
NSA reviewed its Soviet and Cuban files, including Cuban military.
The search was also for material involving Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby
or Earl Ruby (a Harvest run was made). Mexican traffic was also
reviewed, looking for information concerning Oswald's visit to
Mexico.
June 1976 Pursuant to FOIA requests asking for
material relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination
4.
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of President John F. Kennedy, NSA again searched the files.
Strongbox searches were made on the following:
Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassination of
1966 1976
President Kennedy
1966
1976
Earl Ruby
1966
1977
Cobo Cleaners
1966 - 1977
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December 1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelli-
gence (SSCI) Requested all the material we had available on the
Cuban agent problem. It consisted of 485 reports for the period
1961-1965. All of these reports were received by Committee
Staff Members.
6. March 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations
Requested all data on Cuban intelligence network and other materials
relating to the Assassination. All Cuban agent material (1961 - 1964)
was reviewed, as was material that had been previously compiled to
respond to the SSCI and SSC requests.
B. As a result of the reviews described above, the following
materials which may have some relevance to the assassination were
located (referenced material inclosed at numbered tabs):
1. Four Cuban diplomatic messages which contained
official Cuban comments regarding press items that discussed Oswald's
activity in late September 1963 to obtain a visa to travel to
Moscow. There were also comments on the assassination itself.
The messages are dated in the last week of November 1963.
2. Three Cuban military reports which show that Cuban
military forces did go on alert immediately after the assassination.
3. One 1962 Cuban Intelligence message concerning the
assassination of Antonio Veciana. This message was to (Puerto
Rico) SERAFIN.
4.. One 1966 Cuban Diplomatic message concerning a Spanish
diplomat in Cuba. It referenced a 1960 plan in Cuba to assassinate
an USSR dignitary in Cuba and against Raul Castro Ruz, possibly
linking it to the CIA.
5. Information in an FBI document relating to a French
Intelligence agent was supplied by NSA. Because this document
was to be turned over to the HASC, there may be some relation
to the assassination.
6. One 1967 message showing Cuban interest in Jim
Garrison's investigation of both the Kennedy Assassination and
David W. Ferrie.
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C.. Based on these extensive reviews and the paucity of
material derived, it is possible to state that: "A thorough
review has revealed no intelligence material revealing or
suggesting Cuban involvement in the assassination of President
Kennedy."
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