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HOUSE ASSASSINATIONS COMMITTEE INQUIRY
DATE : 11/21/78
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INTERVIEW CONDUCTED ON MR. DAVID CHRISTENSEN
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
House Assassination Committee Inquiry
21 November 1978
1.
On 17 November 1978, Mike Smith, GC, and I attended an
interview conducted by staff members of the House Select Committee.
on Assassinations in regard to the allegations of Mr. David F.
Christensen concerning the involvement of certain individuals in
the assassination of President Kennedy.
2. The interview was conducted by Messrs Kenneth Klein and
Gary Cornwell and was held in secure spaces provided by Mr. George
Murphy, Director of the Senate National Security Office. Both
individuals are authorized SI access.
.3. The interview was conducted under terms of a Memorandum
of Understanding executed between the Committee and OSD on 15 November,
1978 (copy attached).
4. For purposes of the interview, DoD made available Sgt.
Nicholas B. Stevenson, USAF, who had been stationed with Mr.
Christensen at USA-55, Kirknewton, Scotland, in 1963. Sgt. Stevenson
was accompanied by LTC Jeffrey Graham, USAF, Air Force Legislative
Liaison.
5. The Committee staffers were interested primarily in Sgt.
Stevenson's recollections in regard to events described by Mr.
Christensen in a letter to Stevenson written in May 1978.
6. Sgt. Stevenson briefly described the USA-55 site HF ILC
mission and confirmed that the Lisbon-Tangier link mentioned in
Mr. Christensen's letter could have been intercepted by the site
but, to his knowledge, had not been an assigned target. Regarding
the specific allegations made by Mr. Christensen that he had per-
sonally intercepted communications relating to the President's
assassination, Sgt. Stevenson emphatically stated that he had no
knowledge of such an event, though in all likelihood, if it had
occurred, it would have been widely known within the station and
the probable subject of a CRITIC.
7. Mike's and my role in the interview was concentrated largely
on interpreting SIGINT jargon and emphasing the fact that the sites'
mission was and remains properly classified CONFIDENTIAL-HANDLE VIA
COMINT CHANNELS.
8. The staffers made no notes and agreed to let us review their
report, for purposes of classification, on or after 20 November 1978.
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9. The staffers remain particularly interested in determining
the name of the individual who Mr. Christensen believes relates to.
the assassination. They will explore means of determining this
information to include the possibility of having Sgt. Stevenson
call Christensen and ask him for the identity (Stevenson indicated
his extreme unwillingness to do this. LTC Graham stated that this
request would have to be examined at policy level within DoD).
10. If the Committee is able to determine a specific name,
the staffers indicated that they would probably initiate a specific
inquiry to NSA to again search our materials.
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
154001978
1. This Memorandum of Understanding shall govern the protection of
classified information of the Department of Defense relating to the
investigation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (Committee).
into the allegations of David F. Christensen of involvement center
instivitioals
in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
For such purpose, the Department of Defense will make Sergeant Nicholas
.B. Stevenson, USAF, available for an interview by a designated member of
the Committee Staff at a time of mutual convenience but not later than
November 22, 1978.
2. The interview will be conducted in secure spaces which are
authorized for the discussion of classified signals intelligence infor-
mation.
3. The interview will be limited in scope to the substantive con-
tent of the allegations of Mr. Christensen. Information which deals
with intelligence sources and methods will not be used in responding to
questions, except as such information may directly relate to the sub-
stance of the allegations.
4. The Committee agrees, for itself and on behalf of the person
designated by the Committee to conduct the interview, not to disclose
any classified information which is revealed in the course of the inter-
view without the prior written concurrence of the Department of Defense.
A representative of the Department of Defense will attend the interview
and advise the Committee representative as to information that is clas-
sified.
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The Committee's designee who conducts the interview may make a
record of the interview and written notes of the responses of SGT Stevenson
to the Committee's questions. The Committee agrees that any such notes
may be inspected by the representative of the Department of Defense prior
to removal from the interview room, and any classified information which
is contained in the notes shall be deleted prior to their removal.
any classified information is contained in the notes, the original
version shall be maintained in the Office of The Special Assistant to..
the Secretary of Defense, and the Committee may have access to those
notes as needed. Any record or transcript of the interview will be left
in the possession of the Department of Defense for a review to determine
its classification. If the transcript or record contains classified
information, it will remain in the possession of the Department of
Defense, and the Committee may have access to it as needed..
6.
Nothing in the Committee's undertaking affects the Committee's
right to invoke in the future any subpoena power available to it to
secure and disclose the information related to Mr. Christensen's allega-
tions, provided, however, that the Committee will not disclose the
information until any related litigation has been concluded by judicial
action that permits disclosure.
JOHN G. KESTER
The Special Assistant to the
Secretary and Deputy Secretary
of Defense
G. ROBERT BLAKEY
Chief Counsel and Director to
the House Select Committee on
Assassinations
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