Doc ID: 6598288 ° . © : @ Date:10/13/95 Page:1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM we we ee ee a ee i i ew ww a a 0 ee ee eee AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSA RECORD NUMBER : 144-10001-10164 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO DOD NSA TITLE : HCSA REQUEST FOR NSA MATERIAL ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION DATE PAGES 11/14/78 8. oe 08 SUBJECTS : DIPLOMATIC PRODUCT REPORTS CUBAN COMMUNICATIONS CUBAN REPORTS/TRANSLATIONS i DOCUMENT TYPE MEMORANDUM, LETTERS CLASSIFICATION : “& RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : P DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/12/95 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS {R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED . Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
Be Oe eee Doc ID: 6598288... - ae ae e 6 . @ roa Pere OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE” WASHINGTON. D.C... 2030! NOV14 1978 - Distribution List for Requests of House Select Committee on Assassinations From: Judith A. Miller Assistant to The Special Assistant Eric T. Freyfogle -Office of the General . - 1'Counsel, Department of the Army °. Sara Lister Associate General Counsel, Department of the Navy Major Dick Flowers "Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Legislative Liaison John Brock General Counsel, Defense Intelligence Agency Colonel Hartig Defense Investigative — Service LS WsAa- 27 fav art Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
Doe ID: 6598288 e ® : firth 1,3 @ weVro |. ‘ . . %OUIS STOKES, OH10, CHAI : ( RICHERDSOM PRTTER, NC. BAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO . WALTER f. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MC KINNEY, CONN. — YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.’ CHARLES THONE, MEBR. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN, HAROLD 8. SAWYER, MICH. Moyo RFE Ian IND. Select Committee on Assassinations _ ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. @.&. Wouse of Representatives: 33869 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 November 8, 1978 The Honorable Harold Brown Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, D. C. 20301 Attention: Mr. John G. Kester Special Assistant to the Secretary Dear Mr. Secretary: In connection with its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of President John F. Kennedy, the Select Committee on Assassinations requests that the Department of Defense state whether any of the following materials are located in either Central Records facilities, Intelligence Records and Reports, or “vault files" at Fort George Meade, Maryland: A. Any and all records, files, reports, photo-~ graphs, and regulations pertaining to Depart- ment of Defense advance work, coordination, and actual participation in the protection of the President and the Vice President in the context of public appearances and travel in 1963. _B. Any and all records, subject files, files on individuals, reports and photographs pertain- ing to the assassination of President Kennedy, including but not limited to the names of ’ Department of Defense personnel present in Dallas on the day of the assassination, their duties and functions on that day, and the re- ports they generated. C. Any and all records, files, reports, and photographs pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald
Do¢ ID: 6598288 @ . The Honorable Harold Brown November 8, 1978 Page Two or A. (Alek) J. Hidell. Thank you for your prompt attention to this request. Sincerely, G. Robert Blakey Chief Counsel and Director GRB:rgg
Dot ID: 6598288 x OPTIONAL. a: . JULY "GBA bP mc sei CFR) sos-11.6 ( . d 4 GS: . YrGY "~" UNITED STATES GUVERNMENT _ Memorandum: 0 NE ; DATE: 15 June 1978. FROM : LAO 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) SUBJECT: HCSA Request for NSA Material on Kennedy Assassination (iii) post-assaesination[ —  Jproduct on a world-wide basis to determine . if reports relevant to the assassination exist. Though Ms. Miller did — not specify a time period, a three month period subsequent to the event would involve - as an example - six to nine thousand reports and would require 120 to 150 hours of analyst time just to conduct a manual search of the microfilm files where these records reside. 2. I subsequently spoke with Mr. Roger Denk, DIA, who had actually participated in the briefing of Mr. Blakey, using our SECRET-level statement as a basis. Mr. Denk advises that DIA has destroyed all its files which might relate to the assassination and that, therefore, he had had nothing to offer Blakey except the NSA-prepared sanitized statement. Mr. Denk also ‘provided a different, much more ambitious new requirement from Blakey than that reported by Judy Miller. 3. According to Denk, what Blakey really wants from NSA is for us to conduct a thorough review of all Cuban communications during the six year period from January 1959 to December 1964, in order to see "what the Cubans were talking about/thinking about" of possible relevance to the assassina- tion - a real fishing expedition in my view. Blakey is also reported to desire a "characterization of the traffic" - and not the traffic itself. - 4. This latest version of Blakey's interests, which has probably been stated to us fairly accurately by Denk, represents a very significant work load indeed. Based on some very educated estimates made by the people in T12 who maintain the historical microfilm files, ‘there were approximately 200,000 Cuban reports or translations issued during the six year period of interest, and roughly 2,000 man-hours of effort would be ., reguired to search these records for items of interest. 5. As we nave discussed previously, I believe that NSA - in a number of separate, thorough analytic efforts - has performed reasonable and detailed reviews of all available signals intelligence. None of these reviews has resulted in the derivation of any data of direct significance to the assassination. A summary of these separate NSA efforts is attached. 9010-110
Dod ID: 6598288 6 | sf It seems to me that this summary should now be used as the basis for advising Mr. Blakey that we have reviewed all our holdings and have found nothing directly (or even indirectly) relevant to his investigation. Bone EUGENE F. YEATES Incl: -afs-
Doé ID: 6598288 . MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 15 June 1978 SUBJECT: Actions Taken by NSA to Locate Information Related to the Assassination of President Kennedy A. Over the past fourteen and one-half years, NSA has performed a number of separate in-depth reviews of materials in . its files in an attempt to isolate data that might be relevant to the assassination of President Kennedy. Nothing on significance has been determined as a result of those reviews. 1. November-December 1963 ~- Immediately after the assassination, NSAinitiated a large-scale manual and machine review of available SIGINT, including all U.S./Cuba traffic-(NSA intercepted messages at an average of 1,000 per day at that time). A computer search was initiated using Oswald's name as the minimum for research criteria. Additionally, all traffic between Cuba/New Orleans and Cuba/Dallas was manually reviewed (an analyst involved recalled that 25 to 50 analysts reviewed the traffic manually, along with traffic from Cuba and some Soviet traffic). Sometime during the search, items from the Oswald address book provided by the FBI were added to the search criteria. 2. 1964 - Warren Commission - The Commission, in the person of Allan Dulles, asked NSA to review the exhibits for any secret writings or codes which might have been contained in the documents. It also appears that NSA searched records for information on the basis of other Warren Commission requests made informally by Allen Dulles. 3. November 1975 - Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (SSC): In response to an SSC request on the Assassination, NSA reviewed its Soviet and Cuban files, including Cuban military. The search was also for material involving Marina -Oswald, Jack Ruby or Earl Ruby (a Harvest run was made). [ __[erartic was also reviewed, looking for information concerning Oswald's-visit to Mexico. ; 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) b(iii) 4, June 1976 - Pursuant to FOIA requests asking for material relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination
- @ oo . ae Doc ID: 6598288 of President John F. Kennedy, NSA again searched the files. Strongbox searches were made on the following: Lee Harvey Oswald 1966 - 1976 Assassination of - ' President Kennedy 1966 - 1976 Earl Ruby 1966 - 1977 Cobo Cleaners 1966 ~- 1977 5. December 1976 - Senate Select Committee on Intelli- gence (SSCI) - Requested all the material we had available on the Cuban agent problem. It consisted of 485 reports for the period 1961 - 1965. All of these reports were received by Committee Staff Members. : 6. March 1978 - House Select Committee on Assassinations - Requested all data on Cuban intelligence network and other materials relating to the Assassination. All Cuban agent material (1961 - 1964). was reviewed, aS was material that had been previously compiled to respond to the SSCI and SSC requests. B. As a result of the reviews described above, the following materials which may have some relevance to the assassination were - located (referenced material inclosed at numbered tabs): 1." Four Cuban| _essages which contained official Cuban comments regarding press items that discussed Oswald's activity in late September 1963 to ohtain a visa to travel to Moscow. There were also comments on the assassination itself. The messages are dated in the last week Of, November 1963. 2. Three Cuban military reports which show that Cuban military forces did go on alert immediately after*the assassination. 3. One 1962 Cuban Intelligence message concerning the assassination of Antonio Veciana. This message was to (Puerto Rico) SERAFIN. 4USC2107(5)(a\(2N(E -. a) 4.. One 1966 Cuban [ey (messase eoneerning 3 Spanish diplomat in Cuba. It referenced a plan in Cuba to assassinate ‘an..USSR dignitary in Cuba and against, Raul Castro Ruz, possibly linking it to the CIA. eee . 5. Information in an FBI document relating to ali ~ was supplied by NSA. Because this document was to be turned over to the HASC, there may be some relation to the assassination. : 6. One 1967 message showing Cuban interest in Jim Garrison's investigation of both the Kennedy Assassination and ‘David W. Ferrie. = ah eel a es at: Le ae - 2 . 2 -
| _* t 3 ; vob Doc ID: 6598288 a, C.. Based on these extensive reviews and the paucity of Material derived, it is possible to state that: "A thorough review has revealed no intelligence material revealing or suggesting Cuban involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy." ~ EUGENE F. YEATES Chief D1 Incl: a/s