157-10014-10097 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.4 HY 50955 Doctd: 324273485 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information SSCIA | 157-10014-10097 MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE 07-M-03 5 Document Information SSCIA SCHWARZ, FREDERICK A.0. JR. KNOCHE,EH. , CLERK CHRON JUNE 1975 06/04/1975 13 OPERATION MONGOOSE ASSASSINATIONS CORRESPONDENCE Unclassified 1B; 1C Redact * 03/21/2000 CCBOX 443 Page 1 Date: 6/29/20 1
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HY 50955 Staff relayed to you mg request that various do SEL COM Knoche, E. H. File: June 4, 1975 Mr. E. H. Knoche Assistant to the Director Central Intelligence Agency Room 7C28 Central Intelligence Headquarters Langley, Virginia Dear Hank: On Monday morning, June 2, Burt Wides of ou! ments be made available to us, if possible, wh Mr. Breckenridge testified that afternoon, or soon as possible thereafter. The Agency was not able to provide us with these documents when Mr. Breckenridge came to testify, but he indicated that they were being assembled. I agreed to furnish a letter confirming the earlier request, but emphasized to Mr. Breckenridge the in- portance of our obtaining these documents in connec- tion with the inquiry this week. He agreed that the effort to collect them would ge éhrward while the Agency was awaiting receipt of this letter. ‘The following are the items we would like to | have as soon as possible, but im any event no later than the close of business on Thursday, so that we can use. them in connection with Mr. MeCone's testimony ages J B Docld?32423485 Page 4
' $0. (3) Page 116 of the Report itself cites a June. 10; 1964 communication from the DDP to the Diregtox: of the FBI, and page 117 cites an August 1 communication from Mr. McCone to Mr. Bundy. (4) In addition to these items we wish to reviet portions of the files of Messrs J. C. King, Bissell}. Edwards, O'Connell, Harvey, Dulles, McCone and Helms relating to the possibility of. assassinating Fidel Castre or any attempts to do (1). The Inspector General's cover memorandum to the 1967 Report refers to three groups of papers used in preparing the Report: certain Office of | Security files; certain MONGOOSE pepers, anda | . memorandum concerning William Harvey. (2) Page 4 of the same cover memorandum cites and internal CIA study paper of October 1961 prepared in response to an inquiry from General Maxwell Taylor and discusses, inter alia, the impact of ' @ leader's removal on the Stability of a governiner | (5) The present whereabouts of who served in the Dominican Republic for CIA In 1961 and Mr. Justin O'Donnell, who formerly worked for the are not yet | - BW:nb . ‘ ae HW 50955 Doclda?3242?3455 Page 5 available. Agency, and the identity and present whereabouts of the person(s) who was the Special Assistant to DDP in 1960 and 1961. AL}. outstanding items not yet provided which were quested in my letter of May 24. a ald, of course, appreciate having made as soon fF any of the above items, even if the others Sincerely, Frederick A. 0. Schwarz, Jr. ‘abe, af ercestal tinh dhe Phaah whine
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HW 450955 June 14, 1975 The Honorable Henry Kissinger Secretary of State ' Washington, D. C. 20520 Dear Nr. Secretary: AS you know, the Senate Select Committee on: Governmental Operations with Respect te Intelligence: Activities is making a careful examination of all the circumstances surrounding involvement of the United States: Government in assassination efforts. This inquiry-‘Le: pus* -suant to the Committee's mandate under S. Res. 21 and, in addition, we have been assured by Counsel te the President, in implementation of the President's statements, that we will. be supplied with all relevant documents. The role of the Department of State in the conduct | of foreign policy and as a participant in the mechanisas for control of the CIA make it iaperative that we have certain documents relating to the assassination issue - which may be held by the Department of State. Would you please provide the Senate Select Committee all documents relevant te the assassination of General Trujille of the Dominican Republic, the assassination of Ngo Dinh Dien of South. Vietnan, and the proposals to assassinate Patrice : @he Conge and Fidel Castro im Cuba, as well as ts bearing upon assassinations. “necessary that the Select Committee thoroughly mica: spects of alleged U.S. involvement in these - Tee. rtant also that any alleged assassination offorts be understood and evaluated in the larger context ~ of governmental policy with respect to the nations at issue. For this reason, it is requested that you also nake available te the Committee all memoranda, documents, i Docld?32493485 Pade 7 sASetaenthn 5 SHMGS SABER Ae ye <A ERE Ag athe HS te Oe 15 Atte 0 one OBR ar dha ies ala,
- |. and-Otheg-papers prepared by the Department of State or > its. aissfongsabroad, all cables including Byes Only, NoDis, ExDis, LimDis, "Roger Channel" and other limited distribu- tion messages and all minutes or other memoranda redating to meetings, of the Special Group, the Special Group Aug- . mented, the 5412 Committee (or other equivalent bodies) in the following categories (whether or not they specifically mention assassinations): - The Dominican Republic from March 1960 to June 1961. - The Congo from March 1960 to January 1961. ~- South Vietnam from mid-August 1963 to = November 1963. — — With respect to Cuba for the period 19%§ through 1965, please provide all materia: directly relating to any alleged efforts: or plans to assassinate any Cuban leadow: In addition, please supply any documents” which relate to the policy of the government concerning the overthrow of the Castro government and whether there were or were not any limitations on the measures to be employed in this regard either in general or with respect to any particular time , period/s/. | Thanking you in-advance for your cooperation, Sincerely, Frank Church Chairman FAOS/do ct - “HW 50955 Docld?32493485 Page 8
SELCOM File: June 16, 1975 The Hanorable Edward H. Levi The Attorney General Washington, D. C. 20530 Dear Mr. Attorney General: for documents in the possesaion of the Department ef Justice (inefuding the FBI) which relate te the subject of planned or =; attempted or actual assassinations. I also specifically referred: to a Justice Department file relating to the possible prosecution’ of a Mr. Giancana, and perhaps of others, for an allegedly illegai< wiretap. On May 20, 1975, Department of Justice file #82-16-5 ~~ (relating to a Las Vegas wiretap matter and the alleged connectici of the CIA therevith) was made available at the Department for review by Mesers. Schwars and Smothers. On June 3, 1975, five | additional documents were made available te Messrs. Sechwars and Smothers at the Department of Justice. From our counsels’ review of the foregoing, it appears that there must be eortein additional documents including: - (1) a memorandum written by Former Director Hoover reflecting a meeting between him and Former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on May 9, 1962; and (2) underlying material seflecting an luterview or interviews by the FBI of Mr. Sheffield Edwards, formerly Director of pocuraty ef the CIA and Robert Mahew, a suspect is that Se appears’ Chat tha dssoription of such intervievs in the . May 22, 1961 memorandum sent to the Justice Department by the FBI is slightly different than the description of these matters in the Mareh 6, 1967 letters from Mr. Wannall to Mr. SaLbdwan and Prom, the Director of the FBI to the Attorney General. “HW 50955 poctav32423485 Page 3 On May 12, 1975, I wrote to you making a general request.
that you vanted e letter from the Comittee itself, Aseordingly , today the Comittee unanimously coneluded that all the documents referred to above should be delivered. The matter ve are investigating is of utmost duportance under cur mandate. The President has, moreover, assuped the Committee and the public that all the material will be delivered te us. Obviously we will handle the material with the appropriate care a9 required by cur Rules and agreements. Since the material (or at least the parts specified above) is already collected, we would expect that 1¢ could be delivered forthwith. Sincerely yours, Frank Chureh. | Ghairman Of course, it is possible thet counsels’ netes, based upon a hasty reading of both seta of docupenta, are incomplete but thet simply illustrates vay it is so important that the Comittes have the actual documents. | HW 50955 pocta*2a23405 Page 10 artes
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HY SOO55 MEMORANDUM. To: -- Bill Miller: 7 Fritz Schwarz From: Bill Bader Date: June 23, 1975 | Subj: . “White. House . ‘Holdings of National Security Council, Rockefeller Commission, and CIA Files At the. request of the. Committee ‘the White House made avail - able ‘last Friday for Senatorial and. staff examination at the White House a number of . files on. the subject of assassination . allegations drawn from the National Security Council, the Rockefeller Commission, and the CIA. The White. House has also . agreed to bring these files to Capitol Hill for use by. ‘the Committee during hearings. ; Over the past three days a number of Senators and the Staff have. reviewed the documents with the hope that these files would provide the necessary background for. the sessions scheduled this week with Messrs. Bundy, McNamara, - ‘Rusk, et al. It is: the Staff's conclusion that the documents are not adequate for this purpose. By way of background, at the time when discussion and plan- ning of assassinations wetfe in fashion there were several relevant layers of. the National Security Council structure; the NSC Standing Group, the Special Group (whether it be called Bocld: 32423485 Page i2
5412 or 303), the Special Group (Augmented), and the Special Group (Counterinsurgency or CI). To do-a thorough: job of examining the command structure as it relates to the assassina- tion issue, the Committee will. have to examine the complete — records of all these .groups. 7 The files available at the White House are not adequate for this purpose, consisting largely of Castro materials with the only complete Castro file being that of the Special Group | (Augmented) /MONGOOSE ‘files of 1962. Available at the. White House » 1. Special Group (Augmented) - MONGOOSE .- minutes: and supporting papers for 27 meetings held: between 26 February and 26 October 1962. [MONGOOSE was suspended in‘ late October of 1962 when | the U.S. -struck a deal with the Russians over Cuba after the missile. crisis. ] Ze ‘Various Special Group Minutes from January of 1960 to 1964: | | 13 January 1960 14 March 1960 25 August 1960 " 27 October 1960. . 3 November 1960 oO - 23 March 1961 6 October 1961 12 November 1963 18 June 1964 30 July 1964 HW 50955 Docld:32423485 Page 13
HY 0955 These minutes range from a discussion of Lumumba (25 August -1960) to Mafia plans against Castro (18 June 1964). | _ These few documents may .or-may not be the sum total of Special Group consideration. of "assassination" issues from 1960 to 1964. “The file also includés a number of NSC memos on the Castro ‘problem. | — - | | | "3. CIA files on MONGOOSE | Approximately. 33 documents. on MONGOOSE drawn from the CIA files. Most of these materials were once available to us at Langley. Contains a number of John McCone's notes on - . Special Group (Augmented) meeting. 4. Rockefeller Commission Documents on Assassinations. (a) "Summary of Facts of CIA involvment in Assassina- tion Plots. An 86-page paper prepared by Rocke- -_. feller Commission staff. -(b) Two Dominican Republic files with CIA/State material (c). Some material on ZRRIFLE, QJWIN and MONGOOSE Relevant Material Not Available at. the White House The most important problem with the NSC records is the limitation -- with the partial exception of the Trujillo mater- ials -- to the Castro issue. The NSC and its various components may never have considered the personal futures of Diem, Sukarno, Duvalier or Lumumba (beyond the one reference mentioned above), but until we review the records Ghe Connitted will not be able to speak authoritatively and confidently on the assassination issue. Docld:32493485 Page 14
More specifically, the. Committee should have the following records: . | 1. Complete files of Special Group proceeding, ‘1958-1964. 2... The National Security Council Standing Group meet- ings (CIA has at least 11 folders), 1958-1964. 3. Proceedings of the Caribbean Survey Group (the predecessor group to MONGOOSE). 4. Proceedings. of the Special Group (Counterinsurgency). .5. ~- Records of the "Operational Representatives" meetings. The working group under the Special Group- (Augmented). 6... The- CIA."progress teports"™ on MONGOOSE. 7. A Presidential Memo of 30 November 1961 on . Cuban operations. HW 50955 Docld:327473485 Page 15 —