Doc ID: 6878996
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DATE: 12/09/97
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
RECORD NUMBER: 144-10001-10162
RECORDS SERIES :
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
ORIGINATOR : NSA
FROM HAROLD PARISH
TO: HOUSE ASSASSINATION COMMITTEE
TITLE
RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL QUERY
PAGES : 2
IONAL
DATE: 01/02/79
01/02/7
SUBJECTS :
USA-55 MATERIAL
INTERCEPT STATION KIRKNEWTON, SCOTLAND 1963
COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC PASSING BETWEEN SOVIET UNION & CUBA
DOCUMENT TYPE: MEMORANDUM
CLASSIFICATION
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NSA/CSSM 123-2,
Dated 3 September 1991
Source Marked "OADR"
Date of source: 3 Sep 91
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02 January 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Subject:
Response to Congressional Query
1. On 9 November 1978, G8 began a search for material to answer an inquiry
by the House Assassinations Committee referred to us by NSA's Legislative Affairs
Office (LAO). An individual assigned to the USAFSS intercept station in Kirknewton,
Scotland (USA-55) in 1963 reportedly intercepted an ILC message containing informa-
tion relative to an assassination plot against President John F. Kennedy. He claims
he intercepted this message, but was not allowed to disseminate the content. The
Committee is seeking to determine if this intercept actually occurred and has asked
NSA to check product and files for pertinent intercept and reporting from USA-55 during
1963.
2. Though it seems unlikely that such a message ever existed, the following
actions have been taken in response to the House Committee request:
a. A records check was conducted in concert with N33 (Mr. Carrol Baldwin).
There was no material which was identified in the records index as relevant; however,
there were three boxes of material dated 1963 containing unidentified material. These
three boxes were opened and were found to contain the following:
1) Two boxes contained audio tapes with accompanying gists and logs
from USASA intercept sites along the German/Czechoslovakia border (USM-42 sites).
The intercept was identified as CKMS (Czechoslovak Army Voice communications) dated
1961.
2) The other box contained International Commercial Traffic passing
between the Soviet Union and Cuba. This material was largely from the Naval Security
Group Activity at Sabena Seca, Puerto Rico (USN-19) and was dated in 1962.
b. A few personnel currently at NSA had experience during 1963 with ILC
intercept policies and procedures at Kirknewton and at NSA. Several of them were
questioned, and recalled that an ILC mission did exist at Kirknewton in the 1963 time-
frame, that all traffic was forwarded to NSA, and that all reporting of ILC messages
was done at NSA.
3. On 21 November LAO asked that we also check those records available labeled
1964, because the 1963 dated boxes contained material from 1962 rather than 1963.
Further, we were asked if product for the 1963 period was available, if USA-55 material
used in the product could be identified, and how much of an effort would determining
this entail. We have checked the records for 1964 and find no boxes which we feel
should be examined. The contents of all boxes are clearly identified and none relate
to ILC intercept, and there are none whose contents are not identified.
4. As noted earlier the product from ILC intercept historically has been reported
by NSA. This product is available in T14, but there is no practical way to isolate that
which was derived from USA-55. It is possible to scan 1963 (QOC) product and it is the
T142 estimate that this would require a minimum of four weeks to scan the some 9,900
such products on file for the period from January through November 1963. G8 did not
request a search of these records, pending further word from LAO.
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5. At this point, G8 feels we have done all reasonable things to locate the
reported intercept with negative results.
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