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30 October 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
Chief, CI Meeting with Mr. Paul Wallach, Chief
Counsel of Senate Select Committee on Intel-
ligence
This meeting occurred on Wednesday, 29 October 1975
as a result of concern on the part of Senate Select
Committee officers that the Agency was not forthcoming
with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case,
i.e., the assassination of President Kennedy. The
following points were made by the principals as indicated.
Chief, CI To open the meeting Mr. Kalaris made it clear
that the Agency is anxious to demonstrate that we have
nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made
available to the Warren Commission. He added that the
procedure for making material available to the Senate
Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources,
methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of
material. He then presented several examples of the
sanitization process in which cables taken directly from
the 201 file were edited so that all evidence of source,
method and liaison information was removed.
Chief Counsel - As an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated
that his position was that he considered that the Senate
Committee should have the same access as the Rockefeller
Commission. He added that in his discussions with several
senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that
a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who
had had access to the original file, had appeared on several
talk shows and was going to write a book based on his
review of Agency holdings on the Oswald case.
Chief, CI Mr. Kalaris then pointed out that there were
certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material
which could not be released for use outside of the building.
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He gave two examples of this 240ne was the fact that the
Mexican Government security (liaison contact on the case
was the current President of Mexico. He said, and Mr.
Wallach agreed 34 this was obviously a matter which had to
be protected. The second case was the Mexican Government)
penetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again Mr. Wallach 24
agreed.
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Chief, CI Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer
might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers
to work with the original file with the exception of those
particularly sensitive items which would either be steri-
lized or summarized. Mr. Kalaris added that to establish
the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for
the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against
the originals by the Senate reviewers.
Chief Counsel Mr. Wallach conferred with his colleagues
and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did
inquire as to approximately how many such items there would
be.
He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat
difficult to access but that there should not be more than
100 such items.
Chief Counsel Mr. Wallach commented that it would be
necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree
that these notes not be taken from the building. The
purpose of the notes is simply to allow the reviewers to
keep track of where they have been and what they have seen.
It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be checked
with us.
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Chief, CI At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and
requested approval of the above procedure. Mr. Blee
concurred.
Chief Counsel
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Mr. Wallach commented that his people would
tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted
to discuss and we would confer with them on those points.
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Mr. Wallach mentioned that Mr. Proctor (DDI) is a
family friend and he wanted to make contact by phone.
At the end of the day the reviewers returned the
three files of other agency documents and offered their
notes for review. It was agreed they would return on
Monday to start reviewing files and that we would have
at least 15 volumes ready for them. Mr. Wallach was to
call on Friday to confirm our readiness.
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Chief, CI
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Review Staff - Walt Elder
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Robert G. Wall
Deputy Chief, CI/OG