13-00000 ‘Mystery Wit ‘antlCastro forces might have re- _ erulted Oswald, a known, pro-Castro activist to kill Kennedy. : A mystery witness has sworn to con- gressional investigators that a Central Intelligence Agency agent\introduced him to Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas three months before Oswald gunned. down President John F. Kennedy. - The witness, whom we have agreed to identify only as Mr. X because of at- tempts of his life, Is the founder of a Cuban terrorist our that worked closely with the , ; ; The group held secret meetings at 9126 Hollandale in Dallas before the as: sassination. Not long after Kennedy_ was shot, a Dallas deputy sheriff was told by an informant that Oswald had been associating with some Cubans at "3128 Hariendale.” Mr. X's dramatia testimony. casts new light on the story Sylvia Odio, - daughter of a wealthy opponent of Cu- ban Premier Fidel Castro, told to the FBL Two months before the Kennedy she related, she was visited in her Dallas apartment by three men - who kKdentified themselves as fri ol her father. ‘ One was introduced to her as “Leon Oswald.” When she saw the picture in ' the newspapers of the man who had shot Kennedy, she fainted from shock. It was the same Oswald, she was cer- tain, who had visited her apartment. Congressional investigators hava “now learned that the late J. Edgar *Hoover deliberately misled-the War-— ren Commission avout Odlo's myster! ous visitors. She was such 8 persuasive witness that the commission staff was preparing to Investigate her story oroughly. - ao Staff members even speculated, ac- cording to one Internal memo, that the Eis WASHINGTON POST ik Jack Anderson and Les Whitten ness.in JFK Inquiry — - “The motive on this," states the me- imo, “would of course be the expecta- : Yon that after the President was “ killed, Oswald would be caught or at . least his identity ascertained; the law enforcement authorities and the pub-. lic would then blame the assassination on the Castro government; and the call for a forceful overthrow would be irre- alstible.” . ; But Hoover abruptly blocked this Ine of inquiry by notifying the War: ‘ren Conunission on Sept. 21, 1964, that the FBI had located and kientified Odio’s callera. He named them as Loran -Hall, Lawrence Howard and * William Seymour, all anti-Castroites, Hoover even suggested that Odio could have confused the names “Loran Hall” and “Leon Orwald.” : Now the congressional investigators have uncovered evidence that all three denied visiting the Odlo apartment and that the to the Warren Commission. The investigators have also obtained * the tape of a fascinating conversation, ' predicting two weeks [n advance that edy would be shot “from an off- ce buliding with a high- fle.” The. late Joseph’ Miulteor, a right-wing rab- bie rouser, who alse ed to have ~ close consections w ant! Castre leaders.. . The conversation was taped om Nov. 9, 1963, la Miami by an informant named Wille Somersett, whe turned the tape over te the FBI the next day. Milteer is heard on the tape describing i v had obtained thelr " denials before Hoover wrote his letter ri prediction was made by the © how Kennedy would die. Then the rat- ble rouser added knowingly that Ken- - nedy “knows he is a marked man.” Milteer later admitted to the FBI _ that he had been In Dallas in June, . 1963, but denied having any knowl edge of the Kennedy assasssination. However, the Informant told the FRI that he asked Milteer after the shoot- ing whether he had known about ff in: advance or had merely been guessing. “| don't-'do any guessing,” replied ML teer. But the most explostve development ls Mr. X’s statement that he met Os- wald In the company of a CIA agent. Congressional investigators questioned the mystery witness closely on three separate occasions. They finally cor- cluded that “his credibility is strength- ened by the details be provides consist- ent with what he told us before. Signif- icantly, he remains very strong on the Oswald sighting.” The encounter oceurred In a down-
13-00000 ~~ 9 February 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 9 February 1977
13-00000 Cary also noted that the Agency has provided the House Select Committee on Assassinations a report on our holdings on the subject.
13-00000 Ce TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 11 February 1977 Ye, MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 4 Morning Meeting Minutes of 11 February 1977 ADCI chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Cary also noted the current problems of the House Select Committee on Assassinations as mentioned in today's Washington Post, "Rep. Gonzalez Trying to Fire Sprague" (attached).
13-00000 WASHINGTON POST. V1 Feb 77 i ed Sete mpeere POTRPET HT ee ee a Rep. Gonzalez. Ti rying to > By George Lardner dr. ‘Washingtoi Post Stale Writer _ te. House Assassinations Commiltce Chairman Henry 3. Gonzalez (D-Tex.) yesterday abruptly ordered Une gismis- sal of chief counsel Richard A. Spra- gue, bul Sprague refused to leave and remained holed up in his offices on Capitol Hill. in-a ferry of letlers to Speaker Thomas P. (ip) O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass,) and other key members of Congress, Gonzalez angrily accused Sprague of, “divisive and deceitful conduct" and sald the sputtering investigation could nol possibly succeed untess he were fired. , roa The, latest brouhaha i the life af: the beleaguered committee was trig.” gered carlier this week when Gonzales made an effort to economize.by calling for at feast a temporary jeulback In ite @-member staff! The new- chain. tan apparently wag rebuffed, first at a mecting with Sprague in Gonzale-’ office Tuc ssdzy morning and then by other members of the commiltee al a seerel “informal” meelirg jaler in the day. A Keystone Kops flavor was added to the dispute when Ganzatez ordered Capitot police to make sure Spra- Rue left his offices in the old FBI Iden- fication Bullding by. 5 p.m., and then had Uhose orders counlermanded, ap- parently by Del. Walter fs. Fauntroy (D-D.C,). Abour £9 minutes. Jater. ev idently afleria rath sf piso.! ‘e-ealls to ment. beg cealecad about’ the count y fos, ‘he “ant holiday reesss, Feuntroy handed: Sorague a iscte: of sUnpO .t “saring dis names ao a” mombers of the ‘S-macbes e6mmil’ ee: cxeani ive Cart ane. Goaazaley, T. 2 oy 28 pronounesd Corzate: Pe +t Dna Sols lie. "said only the commii\ tro an such authority, and directed Spragus *.0 disregard M>. Gonzalez’ orde erminating your employment avd its instructions that you vacate the nfz tless 0: the.se'ect enmmitice by 3 ow. af this date. The entire cotimit.. fee. aan _ from the elinirman, 80 di. reeis ¥ nu.” By then, Gonzalez was ‘already in: Uh. slr, flying home: te San Antonio. - Aporised of the commiltee members’. action when he arrived, Gonzalez told United” Press International: “They're nol’ the — chairman. He, F ire e Sprague [Sprague] can work for free. He is not going lo work under the payroll. 1 certified to the clerk .to remove his name.” The confrontation felt ihe Liovse In. quiry into the murders of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King fr, on shaker greund than ever. Alarmed by Sprague’s ambillous §6.5 million budget and questionable lovestigative techniques he had proposed. the House delayed re-establishing the committee until Inst week and then did so only on a temporary basis, giv- ing the panel untth March 31 to settle down and come back for a per manent charter. . “f In a- letter to olher commiltee Dismbers, Gonzalez accused Sprague, iin effect of a rule. ovrutn approach lo; reMinyestigation cane ‘protested that | rdnder. the ° present ..c reilmstances; | Were is’ no ‘way Unat’ this committee f ~ecan furiclion effectively or carry out . ils. responsibilities to the House.” ae * rf i aT: "am ¢onfident that we can. ‘carry! (on ‘pa success(ul Investigation without” ie Sprague,” Gonzalez declared. -“I, sam: gonfident that we cannot’ do rir) iyath! ifm.” . an 33 “This ‘committee has been ied’ ‘into. al iséries of errors by'ils counsel: its work, ‘hay Been withoul organization: and“ ralreéctlon; ilg official reports and docus~ ements have been of wholly! unaécept- pable;quality,” the chairman's Jelter con- ) Unued,,"These are matters that must _be reiiedicd. if this investigation. Js to ‘ progress.” + .. Sprague had no comment except to ‘ slate. through a ‘ spokesman, shortly af- iter. § p.m., Uhat he was staying on the ilte because!-“only. the committee: has} he power” to firehim: ‘According to several’ soutces, Gont’ “nalez had proposed at a-secret ‘comlt, :tee meeting. Monday that some, ‘slatt:, ‘ ets be. dismissed temporarily becouse‘ ‘the committee's present funding .Is ‘only $84,000 a month and its payroll: amounts to $123,000 a month. A deci- “son was poslponed to Tuesday so that ' Sprague could be heard.. He opposed, ithe move, pointing out tal many slaff-. ‘ers had already taken a voluntary 35! pet eent pay cut.* - me No.vote was taken but It-was cleat ‘that Sptague had a mejority of. the: _committee on his side,
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE \. . 3 March 1977 \ MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 3 March 1977 Mr. Knoche was out of the city; Blake chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Aituding to the article in today's Washington Post (attached) on the future of the House Assassinations Committee, Blake asked about the status of the Committee and Miller opined that unless the Speaker is able to cement something together soon, the Committee may die.
13-00000 Se TE TONES MORIN ate ott EE PO YONA ME te Oleh aet eet mite GY ntact More A EAM SeemNS Ao Fw gs Rp gS EE FOOD Qn De Coe EY Gonzalez Submits Resignation From JFK-King Panel — By George Lardner Jr. . Washington Post Staff Writer - In an indignant letter to the Speaker of the House, Rep. Henry B, Gonzalez (D-Tex.) submitted his resignation as chairman of the ‘House Assassinations Commiltee. yesterday after an admitledly futile effort to lake charge of the inquiry. ” Mle accused House leaders of falling tw back him up in his struggle with the committce’s chief counsel, Richard A. Sprague, and sald that he -saw no. ‘alternative (o quitting “under the cir- cunistances Unat now cxisl.” Accusing Sprague once again of mis- management, insubordinalion and dis- Joyally, Gonzalez denounced him a3 “an unscrupulous ineividusl, am un-° consclonable scoundrel.” Sprague, who has (hus far had the backing of the rest of the 12-member committee, had ne comment, Apparently caught by surprise, llouse Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) sald he doubled the investiga. - tion would survive at alt untess Gon. REP, HENRY B. GONZALEZ pasha can be persuaded to change Als - ... harsh words for Sprague The volalile Gonzalez phrased his resignation Jelter In terms that ostens- ibly made his departure immediate and final bul, under a preeedent es- tablished just iwo years ago, it is up iq.the House to accept or reject it. ‘Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said he would not schedule the issue for floor action until he first had a chance to ‘speak fo Gonzalez and try to dissuade him. Gonzalez has been bedridden wilh flu in his San Antdnio home for the past 42 days. - a ‘ O'Neill refused lo speculate on what the House might do i€ Gonzalez re- maing adamant, but‘not a few mem. bers seemed agreed that it could well kill the enlire investigation inte the murders of President Kennedy and the Rev. Marlin Luther King Jr. Already reeling from Uhe Impact of eatlier dispules over the Inquiry's proposed cust and methods, cuiminat.- ing in Gonzalez’ atlerspls to fire Sprague, the J2-member AssaSsina- Uons Commiltee will go out of busi- mess March 31 unless it can gel a new charter, and budget, from Uhe House. . “In view of the low repute we have in the minds of other members of the louse because of the unscemliness of the whole squabble. that might he ae
13-00000 efforl to lake charge of the inquiry. ’ He accused [louse leaders of failing fo back him up in his struggle wilh the commiltee’s chief counsel, Richard A. Sprague, and said that he saw ne‘ alternative to quilling “under the cir- cumstances Unal now exist.” Accusing Sprague once again of mis- management, insubordination and dis- loyally, Gonzalez denounced him as “an unscrupulous individual, an un’ conscionable scoundrel.” Sprague, who has thus far had Uhe backing of the rest of the 12-member commillee, had- , no comment. Apparently caught by surprise, louse Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) said he doubted the Investiga- - : basee Bn tion would survive at all unless. Gon _ REP, HENRY B. GONZALEZ zaiet can be persuaded to change his - .-. harsh words for Sprague The volatile’ Gonzalez phrased his. resignation letter in terms that ostens- ibly made his ,departure immediale © and final but, under a precedent es- tablished just two years ago, It is up ig,the House to accept or reject it. Speaker Thomas P.. (fip) O'Neill Jr, (D-Mass.) sald .he would not schedule the Issue for Noor action unlil he first had a chance to speak to Gonzalez and try to dissuade him. Gonzalez has been bedridden with fu in his San Antdnie home for the past 12. days. - O'Neill refused to speculale on what the flouse might do if Gonzalez re- _taing adamant, but not a few mem- bers seemed agreed thal It could well kill the entire investigation Into the murders of President Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Already reeling from the impact of earlier disputes over the inquiry’s proposed cust and methods, culminat.-- ing In Gonzalez’ atlempts to fire . Sprague, -the I2-member AssaSsina- .. ons Committee will go oul of busl- ness March 31 unless it cam get a new charter, and budget, [rom the House. ' “In view of (he low repule we have in the minds of other members of the House because of the unseemliness of the whole squabble, that might be hard to get,” sald Rep. John B. An- derson (ICIIL), one af the commiltec's four GOP members. “The life of the commiitee slill hangs by a = silm- thread.” . The Speaker had already suggested, in a television appearance Jast week, that the commillee would go out of - ‘business at the end of the month - “unless they come up with some- thing sensalional,” and he reilerated that judgment yesterday. He said some comimilitee members had “told me they have some breakthrough. on the King business,” but O'Neill said he was not aware of what that might Del. Walter E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.), who has been heading a subcommittee that would loqk Intq the King assas- sination, hinled of a possible public hearing to “focus on the resulls of the Investigation so.far.” But he de- “elined to predict any bombshells, and other members said there was non to be produced. — ; Sce INQUIRY, Al, Col.'t
13-00000 YO Tate ces 5 gemnaeg ee ~ Rep. Gonzalez. ‘Resigning ey fo Assassination Panel Chair | INQUIRY, From AL: ‘The committee fecls there's a good - chance to crack’ the King case, but, ; Démocrat under that’s long run,” said Rep. Richard- son Preyer (D-N.C.), the ranking Gonzalez, “But I don’t know of. any bombshells we're about te drop.”" omy The commiltee was alrendy “pre- pared to postpone lhe Investigation into President Kennedy's assassina- ton, in anlicipalion of a much , slim. mer budget than the $6.5 millton a year Sprague had proposed.‘ Appointed chalrman . just last month, Gonantez sald he was quilting. a8 both chairman-and as a member of . the committee. He described the tn- ° quiry as mired down in “an admints- trative nightmare,” and said he de- cided té fire Sprague only afler f{nd- ing “unjustifiable salaries, unjustified employees, and reckless, inexplicable : financial obligations.’, It -soemed plain. that" Gonzalez would Insist on Sprague’s ouster if he , ‘ were tobe. expected. to*change: his ee . mind. Alluding to an effort bya com- miltee majority lo: secure paychecks * for Sprague and the rest of the comm- millec’s 7a-member slaff in Gonzalez’ ’ absence, the chalrman protested that some of his colleagues “appear to be , interesled in usurping even my minis. terlal powers.” “Tt seems clear now “thal the House’ ‘leadership is unwilling to offer me support,” Gonzalez wrote O’Nelil) “Yet,"T cannot bring myself to sign pay vouchers for an unserupulous in: dividual, an unconscionable scoundrel, and no power on earth can compel me to do.so.” . Gonzalez aldes said hé felt House , ; leaders had expected him to bend too much in keeping Sprague’on the com- mitlee staff. Majorily Leader Wright acknowledged lo reporters later in the day that he may have- miscalculated on that score, thinking that Gonzalez could be persuaded. le accept the pros: eculor “in a reduced role.” . Asked last month by Speaker: O'Neill A lo mediate the- dispute, Wright told re- porters he had gollen the approval of , eight of the committec’s 12 members ‘loa compromise he had proposed this . week, ‘Wright refused to discuss. the de- tails, but it was learned later thal it was a seven-point suggestion involving Sprague’s' retention as. chief Invest: [ gator and the hiring of “a new person acceptable lo all the members” to re- place Sprague as slaff administrator. . All “final decisions on hilring and flr- ° ing would repose with the committee membership . O'Neill said House leaders would meet today wilh other members of the committee to discuss the dispute.
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13-00000 a, % Cary noted that he had responded to Richard Sprague, Counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, for information concerning Santos Trafficante (OLC 77-0977), and went on to advise that if Committee Chairman Stokes requests same, we will be obli- gated to comply.
13-00000 vs Cee TOP SECRET. SENSITIVE 17 March 1977 te. MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 17 March 1977 The DCI was at his OEQB office, Admiral Murphy was conducting a staff meeting. Mr. Knoche chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Cary described Richardson Pryor'’s (of the Kennedy Assassina- tion Subcommittee) acceptance of our position regarding passing information he requested. He agreed with our views and said that the request may have been premature. tw
13-00000 Oe cece oc ee tn am TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 18 March 1977 ~ MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 18 March 1977 The DCI was at his OE0B office. Admiral Murphy was conducting a staff meeting. Mr. Knoche chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Cary said that the SSCI staff had declined a request from the House Assassinations Committee for access to its files and that the SSCI itself subsequently upheld the staff's position.
13-00000 ~- 29 March 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 29 March 1977 Admiral Turner was on the Hill. Mr. Knoche chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Lapham reported ona letter from the Department of Justice written in response to a move we made six months ago to defer to the FBI to respond to a request from the Dade County Florida sheriff for information related to the Roselli murder. We understood that a Justice ruling prevented our sharing information with Dade County. Without reference to its previous ruling Justice now says it is up to CIA whether or not to share the informa- tion, Lapham said he would have to study the documents involved before recommending our next move. Miller noted that we had worked closely with the SSCI in developing our original response.
13-00000 AS TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 30 March 1977 tw. MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 30 March 1977 Admiral Turner chaired the meeting. Mr. Knoche was preparing for budget hearings.
13-00000 Wells referred to a Spot Report dealing with the suicide of a Palm Beach citizen who was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald. We have a file on him and Wells believed that it was passed to the Warren Commission. He said he cited the case so that Admiral Turner would not be surprised if it were mentioned to him. Hetu said he had a call from a TV newsman in Dallas last week seeking information on this case (see attached clipping).
13-00000 ON PAG? Aas! cor hae Figure in Found De J From News Services -, ' : ‘PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Russian- bern petroleum geologist’ and lan- guage professor, described as “‘inti- mately involved" with Lee Harvey ‘Oswald and a “crucial witness” in ‘the congressional investigation of the Kennedy assassination, was. found dead yesterday in an apparent sui- Palm Beach County: Sheriff Rich- ard Wille identified the victim as George de. Mohrenschildt, 65, a College. "0 Wille said de guest at the historic oceanfront man- sion in suburban Manalapan, Fla., of professor of French at Dallas’ Bishop’ Mrs. Charles Tilton UI, apparently: a : 4 Mohrenschildt, a WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE) 30 MARCH 1977 Cr pant FK Probe” a ‘Suicide’. are . placed the muzzle of a 20 gauge shot-;].# gun to his mouth and pulled the trig- ger. oo lf cose > The sheriff said de’ Mohrenschifdt' had vanished from Dallas shortly’ after a Dulch newspaper’ report about three weeks ago claimed- he. had prior knowledge of the.assassina- tion, . ee 1 De Mohnrenschildt was traced by a House Assassinations: Committee investigator to the Florida. address, the sheriff said, and he returned to the Tilton home about 2:45 p.m. yes- terday to learn that the investigator, believed to be Gaeton J..Fonzi, had been trying toreach himer.203 0.04%). THE -DRAMATIC!2development: yesterday, together with Sudden ‘sup-- by" POrl-or A Gnlinued | investi ation” Or... Martin. Luther Kin g Serve: to--win: the- committee. ane lease ‘on, ‘life: Undercontinuous® at- tack, the assassinations panel will go out of business. at midnight: tonight unless the full, House votes an exten- 8 7Sr.,3 may. SION, oe AW Informed‘‘late-Jast Aight’ of - death, | Rep: Richards6n: Breyer. ie C.5.a key."member' of :te- commit. lee,:said,...'He ‘was’ a ‘ctaé al’ witness: iorus, based’on‘(he new information he “had. He ‘was’ intimately. involved with Oswald.°"* i: ¢>yaieristavar gta sys Whén:the Warren ‘Commission isc sudd’ its “report in: 1964,. concluding that President Kennedy was killed by Oswald acting alone, .it ‘said it had conducted an extensive investigation into de.Mohrehschildt and-his wife, Jeanne, because they had-known the OsWwalds through mutual- Russian. spéaking friends” in the- Dallas-Fort: Worth area. ,The- commission _con- w oe tes - at a oma schildt, shown with his wilé in an earlier photo; "The, sheriff 'said the ‘call“to’ the” “home''was’ believed to. have: been placed from Miami by House irvesti-- gator Fonzi. - «2 ep gh ester . About an hour later, Wille said, de ‘Mohrenschildt: apparently shot him-. ‘self. “We're 99° percent certain he’ -killed himself,” the sheriff saidig23 :- v3 Wille and Palnv Beach State Atty: David" ' Bludworth *questiondd }-wit.) ‘nessés “about.:-the-’ shooting: until ‘Shortly before midnight.-:jeyh heey ‘yrAmong the’ witnesses quizzed ‘was. ‘free lance writer Ed: Epstein, : who’ . had told the West Palm. Beach, Post- “Monday night that he had been inter-. ‘viewing de Mohrenschiidt. in. connec- ition with’a book’he was doing about : George d e. Moh ‘e: was no evidence . linking them to the tragic-event in ‘«: * In-his account quoting de. Mohren- ",Schildt as saying he-had prior know!- x,edge ‘of the Kennedy assassination? ?.Dutch Journalist William, Oltmans re- ; ported, "!"He. :- (des Mohrenschildt) ; asked | mé::‘How:i.do -you- think.:.the. +-media. would react if I came out’ and aid I feel responsible for Oswald's s behavior?’ * ..0 2.74 Lotetd cat tegey bet AFTER VANISILING from Dallas,” ;,Dé. Mohrenschildt showed up in Olt-_ “mans".olfice -in*Holland. Then~ he . disappeared again and was traced by ‘ government investigators from Brus-. ‘sels to Florida:-. wil gba Ve nce geefieie +. Shecilf Wille said only a maid‘and rthe Tilton family-chauffeur were at “home: 4 the time: andthe shooting > went undiscovered until the body was: rlound by de.Mohrenschildt’s daugh-: ter in a- second floor drawing room.- : Both had been, guests at’ the -Tilton ¥ ; Lee Harvey Oswald, J~.1 = AFTER HIS questioning last night,- _Epstein said, “I. don’t. mean. to be ‘evasive but the police told me not to: talk about de Mohrenschildt’s death’ .toanybody." 3 vot pert tetrad chit fps 4 The Tilton’ home. remained ‘sealed’ tolf by sheriff's deputies last night..xi.9 home for about a week :d:tshatea FO Woe
Accordng to the Warren Commis- ‘sion report, de Mohrenschildt was born in the Ukraine in 1911 and fled _Russia in 1921 following the .civil ‘disorders that broke out ‘alter. the . Bolshevik revolution. He became an‘American citizen in 1949, having earlier received a graduate degree from the Uiversity -of Texas in petroleum geology and ; petroleum engineering. . 1960,. the report states, he ‘traveled for eight months through ’ Mexico and Panama over primitive « jungle trails, and by happenstance he and his. wife were in Guatemala Cily ‘when the Bay of Pigs invasion was _ launched. He prepared a lengthy film ‘ clip and a complete written log on the. “trip and a report was made..to the -ULS. government, the commission te. -ported. - 2 fe dd | De Mohrenschildt death was thitd “Involving witnesses.er potential wit- ness: before congressional. panels | ‘investigating assassinations. ~ Underworid figure Sam. Giancana “was murdered before, and John.Ros- -selli was killed. alter, testimony be- fore the Senale Intelligence Commilt- itee investigating allegations that the assassinatlion.of Kennedy was in re-. taliation for:CIA efforts to- assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. ae : . $ eve Lael ae TE sferng te be
1300000 00 Se TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 6 April 1977 te MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 6 April 1977 Admiral Turner chaired the meeting.
™ Waller called attention to Jack Anderson's column in today's Washington Post, "Questions Remain in King Probe," and went on to note that the House Committee on Assassinations has, as a matter of practice, elected to leak information that we are apt to be called upon to clarify. Later in the meeting, Miller noted that Chairman Stokes has indicated that he is prepared to receive a briefing from us on procedures for the handling of sensitive material, security clearances, etc., similar to those worked out with the SSCI.
pO Serer rcem, UF od gat fe Oy se yesvaues agit ~ 7 WASHINGTON PC POST Tee Semen wy Seman AeA MEET I HUI Gt SG Aen Gone oma EH sme met eh mONmecen a sn my mame ts Wp = BY Pam OOD BE = Fp Jack Anderson and Les Whitten . Questions Remain in King Probe Nine years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., spiritual leader of the clvil rights, movement, was gunned down in Memphis. An escaped convict, James Earl Ray, was nafled for the mye i Ici isted Yet nagging suspicions pergiste that he may have been hired os Justice Department task force to review the case. It has now concluded that Ray “was the assassin and that he acted alone.” ~ ’ House investigators, however, have challenged the Justice Department's findings. In a confidental, analysis, they have pointed out signifi- cant inconsistencles and omissions In the task forcereport. — They note that the task force had a “multitude of leads” to conte "Th yet in- terviewed only 30 “Thirty in- terviews could hardly ¥ cetatch the sur- face,” declares the analysis. “A detec- tive investigating a common strect - crlme may very likely conduct more interviews.” . The House investigators don't pre- tend that they have solved the case. . But they have set forth their clues in a fascinating secret report, stamped “Sensitive.” Here are the highlights in chronological order: e While Ray was serving time In the Missouri state penitentiary, he told cel- Imates that he would kill King “If the price was right.” Ray also was quoted. - as saying he intended to seek out a “pusinessmen’s association” which al- legedly had offered $100, 000 for King: s murder. ¢ On April 23,1967, Ray escaped from the prison by hiding in a large bread box, which was loaded on a bak- CASEY _ by oth- . ers. The public doubt finally forced a - ‘16-page - ery truck. The congressional Investiga- tors are trying fo find out “whether anyone aided Ray In his escape and: whether thls assistance was con- nected” to the King assassination. © The escapee-had Immediate access to false identities. Hie posed alternate] rf as Eric Galt, Ramon George Sney Paul Bridgman and John Willard. “These allases correspond to the names of real men, all of whom lived close to one another In suburban To- ronto,” report the Investigators. “In ad- dition, three out of the four bear phys- feal resemblances to Ray.” Galt “even had scara In the same location as did Ray, the forehead and right palm.” The’ House sleuths want to know “whether Ray recelved any help in ob- talning these allases.” ® For the next ear, Ray “traveled across the United States, lived in more than a dozen cltles and traveled in ‘four foreign countries. . .A conserva- tlve estimate of his total expenses would be at least $7,000. Nay himself estimates that he spent at least $9,500.” Those who did business with him re- call that “he often paid for items with new §20 bills.” The House Assassina- tlons Committee “Intends to investi- gate the sources of Ray's funds In gen- eral and of those $20 bills in particu- ETy ® The committee has recelved unver- ‘ {fled reports that Ray was.in touch ., With the Beverly Hilis office of Litton Industries In California. While he was’ -posing as Eric Galt, he also listed as his _ previous employer a Pascagoula, Miss., shipbuilding com mpany owned by Lit- ton Industries. The investigators are checking “whether there is any rela- * Wednesdey, Agu ’ know whether he could have obtained ‘them “without the assistance of some ‘977 e EU Uonship between Ray and Litton in- dustries.” ¢ The late William Sartor, a Journal- Ist, alleged that organized crime fig- ures had accepted a $300,000 contract on King’s life from a right-wing racist group. According to Sartor, Ray got in touch with these men in New Orleans. The committee Is seeking “all evidei- Uary material that might support ‘or refute Mr. Sartor’s report. * A witness bas told investigators that he overheard a telephone conver- sation on the afternoon of the King as- sassination. “Frank Liberto, a person with alleged organized crime connec- tions, sald: ‘Shoot the bastard. Do [t this afternoon. Shoot him, even If you have to do it on the balcony, just do it.’ P . ® The committee has recelved “inde- | pendent corroboration” of a possible ¢ Liberto link. A witness told of a Bir- | mingham, Ala. gunshop owner who, | before the assassination, pointed to a rifle and said: “This is the gum that Js going to kill Martin Luther King.” Later the witness saw the gunshop owner “In the company of Ray and Liberto.” The secret, report describes Liberto ag “a target of the committee's investigation.” ® Ray fied to Toronto after the assas- Sination. He applied for Canadjan birth certificates under the names of Paul Bridgman and Ramon George Sneyd. He finally obtained a birth cer- tificate and passport in Sneyd’s name. The House Investigators are checking “the procedures used by Ray In secur- ing these documents.” They want to presently unidentified person or per- sons." By Charles Rodrigues’ Se ee LY
EC H01010 (00 UE EEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEaeaens ten cone meth TOP SECRET SENSITIVE te. 8 April 1977 . x MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 8 April 1977 The Director was at his QEOB office. Mr. Knoche was at the White House. Admiral Murphy was in his office. Mr. Blake chaired the meeting.
Waller referred to today's Jack Anderson column (attached) observing that the flow of material from the House Assassination Committee appeared to be continuing. ‘-He said there was nothing , new in the article; it was rehash.
eee ee mee ta ee genera mt crepe oe om Jack An derson and Les Whitten Washington Post 8 Apr 77 3 JFK Data Guached, Memo Says A confidential House memo accuses the FBI and CIA of “a serious suppres- sion of evidence which was vital to this country's investigation” of the 1003 as- sassination of President Kennedy. A House Assassinations subcommit- tee “has uncovered a good deal of in- formation which suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald was associated with one or both of these qrganizations,” the memo says. It charges bluntly “that both the CIA and FBI intentionally withheld rele- vant Information from the Warren Commission and In at least one In- stance, provided the commission with information known to be false.” The memo accuses the FBI of with- holding 23 Oswald [Iles from the com- mission. The FBI “was in possession of 69 pre-assassination flles.on Lee Har- vey Oswald,” states the memo. “How- -ever, of these files, only 46 were turned over to the commission.” . ’ The information that allegedly was withheld was contradictory. On one hand, the CIA suppressed facts sugg- esting that Cuba’s Mdel Castro may have retallated against President Ken- nedy after learning about the CIA's plot against his own life. But on the other hand, the CIA allegedly covered up evidence linking Oswald to CIA- sponsored, anti-Castro Cubans. The House memo draws no conclu- sion about the Kennedy killing. But it lays out the evidence that the commit- tee has gathered thus far. Here are the highlights: * The CIA did not disclose to the Warren Commission that it had been trying to knock off Fidel Castro at the time Kennedy was shot. Killers from the Havana underworld, controlled by mobster Santos Trafficante, were used in the plot against the Cuban premier. The mobster who directed the.attempt on Castro's life, John Roselll, hinted privately that the same killers had .been caught by Castro and had been turned against Kennedy. Interestingly enough, a Cuban exile, according to the memo, quoted Trafficante as say- ing “that Kennedy was going to be bit.” « Roscili had also suggested that the mob had ordered Jack Ruby to kill Os- wald to prevent any disclosure of the Trafficante connection. One of Ruby's underworld associates, the memo re- ports, “Indicates that in 1959 Jack Ruby traveled to Cuba and visited Santos Trafficante in jail.” The same source also reported that “Ruby and Rosell! had meetings In Miami several months prior to the assassination.” - ® A witness had told committee in- vestigators that Ruby introduced -her lo Oswald at a Dallas nightclub two weeks before the assassination. She “had been afraid to come forth with her Information,” according to the memo, because another woman disap- ' peared after she mentioned seeing Os- wald at Ruby's nightclub. But the long- silent witness “Is now willing to tes- tify.” ¢ The Warren Commission met be- hind closed doors on Jan. 27, 1064, to discuss “evidence” that Oswald had been a $200-a-month FBI Informant up to the time of the assassination. The evidence came from two “Indepen- dent” and “reliable” sources. The com- mission's general counsel, J. Lee Ran- kin,.took ‘this up with the late FBI di- rector J. Edgar Hoover, who categorl: cally denied any relationship between Oswald and the FBI. Reporis the memo: “The Warren Commission de- cided (that rather than embarrass J. | Edgar Ifoover and the FBI they would : not pursue the evidence.” e A Dallas woman, named Sylvia’ Odio, reported that she had been vis- i ited by anti-Castro Cubans. They Intro-; duced her to an American, whom she: later recognized as Oswald. The Cu- bans told her that the American was. trying to persuade anti-Castro groups: “to kill President Kennedy becnure of. Kennedy's reaction to the Bay of Pigs: invasion.” Not long afterward, Ken-, nedy was shot. But the FBI mis-) represented the woman's story to the Warren Commission, the memo alle- ges. This report “of what the bureau knew to be patently false,” declares ie memo, “requires further Inveatiga-. tion.’ e The memo cites photographe and storles linking Oswaid to members of a paramilitary, antiCastro unit known as the “No Name Key Group.” Some of the photos show “CIA agents assigned to train the Cuban exiles and soldiers of fortune.” Some members of the group were traced to Dallas shortly be- fore the Kennedy assassination. -— ‘Footnote: FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley has told us that all 69 summa- ries were provided to the commission. Kelley also said the bureau furnished the commissian with all pertinent in- formation about potential informants, including the Cuban Sylvia Odio. The CIA had not commented byt the time | we went to print.
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 22 April 1977 te MEMORANDUM FOR, THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 22 April 1977 The Director was in his office working on the Wilson case and other topics. The DDOCI was at Warrenton addressing a Finance Officers course. Wells chaired the meeting. Wells noted the item contained in the National Enquirer (attached) claiming Oswald was on our payroll]. In response to his query as to where to turn for a fast file check and rebuttal, Waller noted that Scott Breckinridge, together with officers in thé DDO, constitute a task force to deal with the Oswald question and OLC has the liaison
13-00000 responsibility with the House Assassination Committee. Hetu noted that just prior to last evening's ABC News program, he was called upon to put down this allegation.
TIT Om wm A OTT ER ARO OP A LEERY 26 APRIL 1977 WY PAGE RS Lor ssred i, Documents Prove cr Goy Bmael ? (re I, | ra ’ RAS ; i eh LS US Lu Atwused Assossia Mod FT e) New evidence uncovered by The ENQUIRER reveals that Lee Harvey Oswald could nc have killed President John F, Kennedy. At the very moment JFK was shot, Oswald and a December. De Mohrenschildt said Oswald ran from the scene Oswald was once De Mohrenschildt made these disclosures to roommate Clifford Wilson in licns committee got a chance to hear ——..-—-. them, de Mohrenschildt was found shot : because tu death. i The ENQUIRER has also uncovered | arranged Oswald's murder because he’ engiher startling aspect of the Kennedy ! feared Oswald might talk about the; assassination case, i JPK murder contract he'd been offered, . “Top secret government documents —} Wilson told The ENQUIRER. . kept locked away until omy days ago —! _ Wilson, who shared a room with de; reveal that Lee Harvey Oswald worked ; Mohrenschildt at Parkland, said de: for_the CIA mn mn | Mohrenschildt was a fesentened (and ~~ "These cocuments; now in ‘The EN. | deeply troubled man — fearing that he,: QUIRER's possession, prove Oswald ae like Oswald, Was going to he ered on the CIA's payroll three years before |’ He was scared for his life . He saic IPK's assassination — a Fact that foep |, 59 4 Couple of times,” said Wilson, mar- CIA ‘officiats have vi orousl denied. ixied and the father of two children, , aven under oath B y " | “He told me: ‘Because I was a end Ye Mohrenschildt? at ‘ ‘of Oswald, and I know what I jus go wheat 29 ia Merah pene ei me ot through telling you, ’'m going to wind ae 3 * . e al : “ ry Be up dying,’ ‘7 *e 18E af a Stuicide, La : “ase ° ° * ete de. Molirenschikdty a Dale eee De Mohrenschildt said his fear had nist, had tried to Kill himself four times, ' been iriggered by the fact that the CIA ted had spent the last weeks of the ; ieee harassing him in mid-i976, hatassing him _in_wid-1976, Year in Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. ts ; : id ; isi At the hospital, de Mohrenschilit be- | toe EenEchildt said he was visited tame friendly with Wilson, Fe ee ole he. was_heing vel laborer... and over a period of Il days in December, de Mohrenschildt | confided to Wilson that Oswald could | nol have assassinated JFK. , | mF “He said to me: ‘I know damn well do oawvaid didn’t kill Kennedy — because. ing him “vald and I were tovether at the, “8, vat % py, Tmo 28 Tere ° PROVED 1! He said he couldn’t even go home dn exclu angle The ENQUIRER in: from the hospital for two days without _De Mohrenschildt said that at the’ threaten eens him, calling him up and mag Kennedy was killed, he and Os-i “De Mohrenschildt said he and his med Were both in downtown Dallas.! ite couldn't take a walk without heing ‘hey had come there to see Kennedy, followed . ° i3t like the other people. “He often told me: _.He said that when the shots were etting me.’ Most of fred, Oswald ran and he never saw| Set! — “im again. De Mohrenschildt stayed ‘Bere and watched what was happen- ‘Added Wilson: “De Mohrenschildt told: 22 he and Oswald had been very good: “lends for a long time. | “He also said Oswald had_once been! Wiered_money by a CIA agent. to. Kill; swanedy, = _but_that he “had turned it! _wilson_gave the agent's name to The} “QUIRER, but IE is “being” withheld! + aoa 6 6 melee ad tt enna edt eo dee ‘They'll wind. up the time he men-| and he ‘never saw Oswald offered money by a CIA agent to kill Kennedy — ‘but rejected the offer. Dallas — but before the House assassina he. is still active in the CIA.!| tioned ‘that :” De Mohrenschildt felt that the agent: | gelting him,” called him and said: U aot Watched by the agent who'd offered “honey to Oswald,” recalied the laborer. [ _(ilter that, he was bothered by the} CIA. ‘He said he couldn’t go anywhere or j anything without one of them follow- friend — George de Mohvenschildt — were standin on a downtown Dallas stree waiching the motorcade pass, de Mobrenschildt told a hospitai roommate jz: again. He also said tha the agent would wind De Mohrenschildt revealed that j: alter his last suicide attempt. the aze “You almost the job for us, but it Jooks like we gonna have to do it ourselves,” Wils. recalled. “He said that next time they wou do it right — that he was foing to | killed, and that they would rmaake look Jike suicide.” De Mohrenschildt's fears — and kh: cepression — seemed {to grow as U days passed. . On one occasion he broke down a: cried for days, Wilson said. Finally, de Mohreaschildt confided | Wilson exactly why the CLA Was out | get him. J “He said to me: ‘T'JL ten you wh they’re bugging me... the Kennec assassinalion investigation has pe opened again, and they’re afraid 1) going to be called back up on the thing — and this time I’) tal.’ ” Wilson said de Mohrenschildt was r: leased one day before he himself wer home. - _ Three months later de Mohrensehite! was found dead in an upstairs bedroor at a close friend’s home in Manalapan “When I heard over the news that h. was shot, it brought tears to my eyes, Said Wilson, 17. ; “From what he told me, I know dam: well it wasn’t suicide.” The ENQUIRER taped Wilson’s stor. and took the lapes to Charles R. Ne continua:
13-00000 (oo 0s cata anes EE mare lecting Psychological Stress Evaluator.., After an extensive -xamination of, the tapes, McQuiston 1 _srted: : “At no point ducing the interview did my electronic equipment indicate he was lying. . i . “My conclusion is that he is being! truthful.” se -. Dutch journalist Willem Olimans, who testified before the House assassina- tions committee in February, March and April, confirmed that the geologist had been running scared in’ recent nmionths. oO And the newsman, a friend of de: Mohrenschjldt's since 1968, revealed to: The ENQ ER that de Mohrenschilat! admitted he had met Jack Ruby — a fact de Mohrenschildt had denied during tes-! anony befere the Warren Commission in} 1964, , CIA documents on both de Mohren- schildt and Oswald were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act only last month from CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., by Alan J. Weberman and Robert Sibley — two top investiga- tors who have devoted years to probing the JFK assassination. . . _ These documents. reveal there is a 201" file on Oswald. . . The very existence of this file — the standard personnel file for paid CIA employees — conclusively shows that he worked for the agency, three CIA velerans confirmed. “The fact that Oswald had one (a 201 file) is absolutely fantastic!” said for- mer CIA man Bradley Js. Ayers, who | ‘once trained anti-Castro Cubans. j 4 i mel 4 4 7 j Ayers said it. meant Oswald was ‘either a contract agent, working for ‘them full time, or he was on some kind | ‘of assignment for the CIA.” 2 4 Former CIA agent Patrick McGarvey | | slavia in 1957, de Mohrenschildt was Helms issued similar denials. . Investigators Weberman and Sibley ' also obtained CIA cuments which : show that Oswald's ..tend, George de Mohrenschildt, also had links with ‘he agency. SO One document reveals that after a trip behind the Iron Curtain to Yugo- extensively debriefed by a CIA agent, “I€ seems clear. to me that this new . evidence on Oswald and de -Mohren- schildt proves there’s a conspiracy,” said investigator Weberman. - “And I'm confident that in the next few months this whole thing will be blown wide open.” i Bienes tems os meee. ee was equally astounded when told of °. Oswaid’s 201 file, “You've got a bombshell, man! You've jgot the one that cracks the egg,” Me- Garvey told The ENQUIRER. "If a puy has a 201 file, that means he’s a pro- fessional staff employee.of the organiza- tion’. - : Victor Marchetti, former executive as- - sistant to the deputy director of the COA, agreed, . , : “Basically, if Oswald- had a 201 file, he was an agent,”’ he said. - In an exclusive ENQUIRER interview, investigator Weberman revealed how the CIA had hidden the fact that Oswald worked for the agency:° m, “The CIA never told the Warren Com- mission that a 201 file existed on Os- ; wald. os “Instead they claimed their file was’ ‘a routine file on a suspected Communist . apent. : 0 ° : ;_. This file offers conclusive pzoof that i : Oswald was not just a ‘weak, pathetic - loner,’ as the Warren Commission con- | cluded — but was in. actual fact a. ClAcoperative.” :- + mG The Commission, in fact, was” never ° told of Oswald's work ‘with the agency. CIA Director John McCone told the pan- on Fone sr entimtimene + a wanes ' 1 eect ADS ae a ee GD a we ot epee ¢ «
13-00000 Jor CROTON po meres : i ON Man Fm Woe woe . ne Ps 3 May 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 3 May 1977 Mr. Knoche advised that the Director was meeting with analysts prior to his briefing of the President, a practice he plans to continue on a periodic basis.
13-00000 Miller noted that the staffers of Chairman Flynt's Committee on Ethics will be visiting here for a review of guidelines and procedures. He also noted that Chairman Richardson Preyer of the ‘House Select Committee on Assassi- nations was briefed on ground rules and found our suggested procedures quite satisfactory.
13-00000 5 May 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 5 May 1977
13-00000 -~Representative Devine, a member of the House Assassinations Committee, was briefed and appears to be supportive.
13-00000 6 May 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR TIE RECORD Morning Meeting of 6 May 1977 The DCI was on the Hill. Mr. Knoche was out of town. John McMahon ‘was present vice Admiral Murphy. Mr. Blake chaired the meeting. . .
13-00000 Waller referred to today's Jack Anderson column (attached) which claimed that House Assassinations Committee “secret files" reveal some strange CIA activities in Dallas on the eve of President Kennedy's assassination. le said that Cary had called From the Hill saying that the DCI wanted more information. Waller said this was yet another example of what he believes are leaks from the Assassinations Committee members or stafF and he predicted more. Waller noted that he was expressing his "gut Feeling" and that it was difficult to determine where Anderson got his information because there is FOIA, Warren Commission, and other material in the public domain. White said Anderson's column takes pieces and weaves them into’:a "non-story." White reported that during Lyle Miller's meeting with Representative Preyer, who will be concen- trating on the Kennedy assassination, they discussed leaks. Preyer expressed concern that more exposures might affect the Committee's future, and it would appear that we should get back to him citing the Anderson column.
13-00000 Coal WASHINGTON POST “Jack Anderson and Les Whitten Odd CIA Activity im Dallas in 1963 The secret files of the House Assas- sinations Committee contain reports of strange CIA activities in Dallas on the eve of the John F. Kennedy assassina- tlon. Credible witnesses have confirmed our past reports that the accused assas- sin. Lee Harvey Oswald, was in touch’ with antl-Castro Cubans In Dallas. One confidential report states that “In 1963, Oswald was seen leaving the Dailas of- fice of Alpha 66.” This was a Cuban commando group trained by the CLA. A Cuban CIA operative, Antonio Ve- ciana, oiso told investigators Unat he had been summoned to Dallas in Au- pus: 1963, by his CLA contact—a myste- . ricus man who went by the name of . Morris Bishop. States a confidential summary: “When (Veciana) arrived, Bishop was.accompanted by another maa, Lee Harvey Oswald.” Another witness who impressed the iuvestigators, Sylvia Odio, told them that wo ant-Castre Cubans had intro- duced her to an American by the name of Leon Oswald. She was told that Os- wald was trying “to convince anti- Castro Cuban groups. . .to kill Presi- dent Kennedy.” After the assassina- ‘lon, she recognized this American a3 Lee Harvey Oswald. The House Investigators don’t really believe that the CIA had any part In ‘ tbe murder of President Kennedy. hore likely, they suspect the CIA may have tried to cover up some embar- rassing contacts with Oswald in Dallas. ln any case, the CIA took pains to give the Impression that Oswald was in slexico City at the time that witnesses claimed be was dealing with the CLA- guided Cubans in Dallas. Veciana, for exaanple, told of a straage call he re- celved from his CIA contact after Ken- nedy was killed. The CIA man, Morris Bishop, asked Veclana to contact his cousin, Buil- lamo Rulez, who worked for the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. Relates a con- fidential report: “Veciana was to relay Bishop's offer to pay Rulez and his wife to say that they had met with Os- wald in Mexico City.” This not only would have placed Os- wald out of Dallas but would have thrown suspicion on the Castro gov- ernment. The ruse was later called off. Instead, the CIA cited secret tapes and photographs as evidence that Oswald ad been In touch with both the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. The CLA kept lapes of all phone calls going In and out of the two embassies. Photographs were also taken of every- one entering and leaving these embas- sies. On Oct. 1, 1963, the CIA nolified olher U.S. embassies that “an Ameri- can male, who identified himself as Lee Oswald, contacted the Soviel Em- bassy in Mexico City.” ; Oswald was described in the cable as “approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build, about six feet tall, with a receding hairline.” The committee files note that this “In no way physi- cally resembles the Lee Harvey Os- . wald accused of assassinatlig Prest- dent Kennedy.” The CLA sought photographs from the navy to compare with its pho- tographs of Oswald at the Soviet em: bassy. Declares a committee report: ““Vhese photographs, though obviously not of the correct Lee lirvey Oswald, became the Warren Commission's ex- hibit 237, The CLA admitted that there had been a mix- “up but never cleared the matter up.” ACIA witness has told committee In- vestigators, meanwhile, that the CIA's monitoring camera happened to break down on the day that Oswald allegedly visited the Soviet Embassy. But the CIA tap on the Soviet Embassy's phone produced an alleged telephone call from someone who Identified himself as “Lee Henry Oswald.” The CIA witness claimed that the ac- tual voice recording of the telephons conversation “was destroyed in rou- tine destrtiction procedures approxti- mately one week after it was re ceived.” Yet more than seven weeks later, the FBI claimed to have heard the telephone conversatlon that the CIA sald had been destroyed. The FBI's judgment was that the voice did not belong to Oswald. Wrote the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover on Nov. 23, 1063: “The Central Intelligence Ageucy advised that on Oct. 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive source had reported that an Individual indentifled himself as Lee Oswald, who contacted the Sovlet Embassy In Mexico City inquiring as to any messa- ges “Special agents of thls bureau, who have conversed with Oswald in Dallas, Tex., have observed photographs of the Individual referred to above and . have listened te a recording of bis volce. These special ‘agents are of the opinion that the abovereferred-te in- dividual was not Lee Harvey Oswald” The Hiouse Investigators ara begin- ning to wonder whelber the CIA con- cocted the whole Oswald adventure in Mexico City In an attempt to conceal his real activities in Dallas.
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 27 MAY 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes, 27 May 1977 The DCI was being interviewed by Dan Rather of CBS. John McMahon represented Admiral Murphy. Mr. Knoche chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Miller said the first session with Chairman Stokes of the House Assassinations Committee had gone well and promised to be a cooperative relationship. We received the files of 19 Committee employees for additional security review.
TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 3 June 1977 SO MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 3 June 1977 Admiral Turner was at his OEOB office. Mr. Knoche chaired the meeting.
Miller advised that the House Assassinations Committee Staff has received its first staff clearances and went on to note that they are moving at a slow and deliberate pace and have asked that substantive relationships with it be held in abeyance until a counsel is named. 4s
13-00000 19 July 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 19 July 1977 ’ The Director was at his IC office. Mr. Blake chaired the meeting. ~
13-00000 Bu WASHINGTON POST Jack Anderson and Les Whitten | Behind the Bureaucratic Detente The top brass of the Justice Depart- ment's Antitrust Division and the In- terstate Commerce Commission got to- gether in tie back rooms the other day- io discuss their mutual animosities. Ev- ervone shook hands and, Immediately allerward, the antitrust officials began’ pulling thelr punches to spare the icc from embarrassment. Here are the fascinating evenis that led to the detente between the two bu- reaucralic baronies. The 1CC’s reluctant regulators bad been fuming over some stinging criti- cism from the Justice Department's trustbusters. The Antitrust Division uncharitably liad blasted the ICC for several anti-consumer decisions..  ~ This stirred the ICC’s new boss, A. Daniel O'Neal, to seek a peace confer- ence with the Justice Department's acting antitrust chief, John Shene- field. They sat down together behind , closed doors, each allended by aides. An O'Neal alde asked the antitrust officials, please, to stop Issuing “cheap- — shot press releases” against the ICC. O'Neal put it more delicately: with ap-_ parent sincerity, he offered toincorpo- rate more antitrust philosophy Into ICC decisions. . By all accounts,- the trustbusters were so overcome by O'Neal's coopera- tive atlitude that they rushed out and reversed an earlier decision to chal- lenge another ICC ruling. . This was a ruling to deny a small bus company; Latin Express Service, the right to provide Hmited service be- tween Miami, Fla., and Union City, N.J. . ‘The company wanted lo serve Spanish- speaking travelers who have difficulty on Greybound and Trailways buses. Latin Express, for example, would, have ‘provided bilingual drivers and - food with a Spanish flavor. Yet ICC de- nied the little company permission to . run only two or three roundtrips a week. The ICC ruling, Incredibly, claimed this limited’ service might . harm the busing giants, Greyhound . and Trailways. The Antritrust Division, which Is ‘supposed to encourage competition, - objected to the ridiculous ruling. One fuming antitrust official calied it “ outrageous as to boggle the mind.” tt was absurd, he sald, “to think Latin Express could have diverted enough revenue from Greyhound or. Trail- ways” to endanger them. ‘The Antitrust Division, therefore, decided to challenge the ICC decision, : and another sharp statement was star- ted through the bureaucratic machin- ery. Dut then the trustbuslers, basking ‘fo the warm glow of their mecting . ‘with O'Neal, changed their, minds ‘about the Lalin Express case. © A spokesman acknowledged, quile candidly, that the antitrust chiefs didn't want to allack the ICC so soon .after the truce with O'Neal. So the a ’ spirit of detente prevalicd. - ene Unfortunately for O'Neal's sensibitl. tles, however, the top trustbusters for- got to tell the press office, about their change of heart. The unwitting press office, therefore, Issued another bils- tering release. “ “For the second UUme tn two months,” declared the embarrassing release, “the Department of Justice has challenged an ICC decision deny- ing a small bus company authority to, provide new intercity service.” The release quotes the antitrust chief, Joe Sims, as proclaiming: “The commission's decision points up the ‘Impossible burden placed on new ap- plicants for motor carrler operating authorily by the ICC, even when the | proposed service Is highly specialized and the applicant fs very small.” The only trouble with the press re- lease was that the ICC ruling was not challenged as advertised and the deci- sion to drop the challenge was made by Joe Sims. . CIA Memo—The Central “Intell “gence Agency had no comment last May when we quoted from House in- vestigative files that the CIA was in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas on the éve of the John F. Ken- nedy assassination. ’ The files described an inlerview with a Cuban CIA operative, named - Antonio Veciana. He told House in-; vestigators that he had seen Oswald in: the company of a CIA agent who went ; ‘by the name of Morris Bishop. | The CIA, though maintaining offi-° ‘cial silence, reacted to our story.in an ‘internal memo. We bave obtained a- copy of the memo which, in fairness, we are now pleased fo publish. : * This memo, written nine days after: the column appeared, is addressed to' the CIA’s “Deputy Director for Opera- tions.” Tt states: “The Jack Anderson: column of G May 1977 alluded to “the” CIA man, Morris Bishop,’ in Daitas . The CIA did not have contact in Dallas: ‘with Lee Harvey Oswald. .-.. ,. *? “We have run exhaustive traces to identify Morris Bishop without suc-: cess. The name Morris Bishop has’ never been used as a registered alias; or pseudonym nor has anyone with | thal name ever been employed by the CIA." es otnd ot iste |: ] ccd ree eee mem: fee
13-00000 20 July 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR RYE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 20 July 1977
13-00000 Cary briefly noted that the Director will be meeting with Representative Stokes of the House Select Committee on Assassinations tomorrow; called attention to HSCI Chairman Boland's letter which requested security clearances for a member of his staff and advised that he plans to provide same subject to the individual's eventual appointment to the staff.
13-00000 5 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 4 August 1977
13-00000 Cary reported that Chairman Stokes' staff has suggested that an inter- mediary other than the President, perhaps the I108,be named to make a decision on the release of any documents we have relevant to their inquiry. The Direc- tor noted that Chairman Stokes should be advised that any document in question will receive his personal attention.
13-00000 er LoD tn) 5 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 5 August 1977 The Director was on the West Coast. Mr. Blake chaired the meeting. ~ Cary said that in reacting to Chairman Stokes' request for material on assassinations, it is important to review material provided the Church Conmittee.
13-00000 .———.. Dirks advised that House Assassinations Committee staffers have received a briefing by NPIC on the state-of-the-art on photographic interpretation and have been asking some rather specific questions re some photographs in their possession. He added that Doug Cummins, OLC, has been managing this inquiry. In response to Mr. Blake's questions as to whether or not this is a proper role, Lapham observed that we probably would have no difficulty but Mr. Blake asked to be kept informed with a review toward making some determination. (Action: OLC)
13-00000 10 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 10 August 1977
13:00000 Miller adyjised that House Assassinations Conmittee Chairman Stokes is pushing for some independent audit of our excisions of material provided in connection with their investigation. A lengthy discussion followed on the merits of establishing a special review mechanism. The Director noted that an option would be for him and Chairman Stokes to review any issues that might grow out of the Committee's random samples. The Director asked Lapham and Miller to come up with the best option, although in his judgment a DCI/Chair- man review might be preferable.
13-00000 TOR SECHST CTciF ou os 11 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD - Morning Meeting of 11 August 1977 The Director was out of the city on leave. The Acting Director, Mr. Blake, chaired the meeting. - Miller advised that in pursuit to his exchange with the Director at yesterday's staff meeting, agreement has been reached with House Assassina- ‘tions Committee Counsel Blakey to move forward on a memorandum of understand- ing between the DCI and Chairman Stokes providing. that they shall meet to attempt to resolve any differences over disclosure of information.
13-00000 — TOP SECKET SEmSITIVE 12 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 12 August 1977 The Director was out of the city on leave; Mr. Blake chaired the meeting.
13-00000 19 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 19 August 1977
13-00000 In response to Miller's inquiry, the Director noted that he had signed the memorandum of understanding with Chairman Stokes* Committee,
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 30 August 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD ' MORNING MEETING OF 30 August 1977 . . The Director was at his office in EOB. Mr. Blake chaired the meeting.
13-00000 —-. Waller adneced that the Dutth journalist who claims to have some mystery witness in the Kennedy assassination case is probably ill-advised, since our information suggests that deMohrenschildt was not of a stable mind. (See attached article from the 29 August Washington Star.)