JFK Assassination System Date: 4/3/2018 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY:  SSCIA RECORD NUMBER: _ 157-10014-10116 RECORD SERIES: | MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILENUMBER: 07-M-22 Document Information ORIGINATOR:  SSCIA FROM: SCHWARZ, FREDERICK A.O. JR. TOS TITLE: | SCHEDULE FOR CONSIDERATION OF ASSASSINATION REPORT DATE: 10/21/1975 PAGES: 13 SUBJECTS : SSCSGO, REPORT DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT CLASSIFICATION: — Declassified RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 03/21/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : CCBOX 446 v9.1
Date : 08/07/95 Page : 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : SSCIA RECORD NUMBER : 157-10014-10116 RECORDS SERIES : MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 07-M-22 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSCIA FROM : SCHWARZ, FREDERICK A.O. UR. TO : TITLE : SCHEDULE FOR CONSIDERATION OF ASSASSINATION REPORT DATE : 10/21/75 PAGES : 13 SUBJECTS : SSCSGO, REPORT DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT CLASSIFICATION Vieless i Fed) RESTRICTIONS lbhle CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS POSTPONED IN FUL D1/05499— 4/U1 / C00 CCBOX 446 {R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED
MEMORANDUM FOR MEMBERS OF SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE AND DESIGNEES Schedule for Consideration of Assassination Report October 21, 1975 Annexed hereto is a copy of the transcript of this after- noon's Committee session at which agreement was reached concern- ing how to proceed with the draft Assassination Report. In summary , it was agreed as follows: (1) Consideration of the Report is to be divided into two pieces: (i) the sections related to the particular plots in the particular countries and to executive action (Section III) (these were referred to as the "text" sections in the session this afternoon), and (ii) Chapters I, II, IV and V (i.e., the Introduction and Summary, the section on Covert Action, the Findings and Conclusions, and the Recommendations). (2) With respect to the "text" or countries/plots sections, proposed changes are to be submitted to the under- signed by the end of this week, or at the latest by Monday afternoon. Staff is instructed to attempt to work out an agreed-upon treatment of such proposals with the subcommittee
to be the final judge. It is expected that if any Senator does not like the result of the treatment of such proposals, it could be covered in separate views. (3) With respect to the other sections, a plenary session of the Committee will be held commencing Wednesday, October 29, for the purpose of considering any proposed written amendments. Any such proposed amendments should be submitted to [the undersigned] by the end of the day Monday so as.to permit the staff to organize and analyze the proposals. We will send you shortly a schedule indicating the staff members who are particularly knowledgeable about the various chapters in the text or countries/plots sections. These persons are available for questions or other assistance. Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr. Charles Kirbow Copies to William G. Miller Curtis R. Smothers
Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 10 ll L2 14 15 16 17 18 L9 20 21 22 235 24 25 available in the full book for the Committee. Then tomorrow we have hearings in the morning and in the afternoon as well because of Helms. SO; the Full Committee shoulc take this up Thursday. We will be free Thursday afternoon. Mr. Miller. Yes. The Chairman. For this purpose? All right, why do we not begin the Full Committee's consideration on Thursday afternoon? Senator Hart (Colorado). Mr. Chairman, are you seeking opinions on how to proceed? The Chairman. Yes. Senator Hart (Colorado). What if we had an agenda of controversial items; that is to say, there is either division at the staff or Subcommittee level, and just attack it that _— The Chairman. I think as far as the Subcommittee is concerned, when we complete our work, we will not have any divisions. Senator Hart (Colorado). All right. Or flagging. The Chairman. We have some things to flag, yes, some things to flag which we can -- Senator Hart (Colorado). And then leave it to individual members to flag anything else. The Chairman. The Subcommittee will be united on its report, and the staff is united on the report. Senator Hart (Colorado). That is what I meant with flag.
WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 10 11 L2 13 14 15 16 Lf 18 9 20 21 22 25 24 29 The Chairman. We could flag certain things which we think ought to be called to the special attention of the Full Committe I would be glad to do that. : Senator Hart. (Colorado). And presume everything else is non-controversial unless some individual Senator on the Full Committee raises it. The Chairman. Mr. Lombard? Mr. Lombard. Mr. Chairman, I wonder if I coula suggest this from the staff point of view. If the Senators might not have three or four days to read the document themselves -- now, as you recall, it was not ready prior to the adjournment, and the mechanics of getting it together were just too much -- I think this might move along a lot more quickly if we allowed a few days for each Senator and designee to read the entire report, on the textual part. I am not talking about the findings and recommendations; and to submit within that period any suggested changes, and then have a plenary session of the Committee on the findings and recommendations. The Chairman. Let me see, Mr. Lombard, if I understand you correctly, that suggestions with respect to the change in the textual part -- Mr. Lombard. Would be made during the reading period. The Chairman. Would be made during the reading period. Mr. Lombard. And incorporated, if possible. The Chairman. And incorporated if possible. TAY Cer
Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 LO aa 12 14 15 16 17 18 1g 20 ya 22 25 24 29 TE P-StCret- : Mr. Lombard. Right. The Chairman. And then when we hold the plenary sessions we confine them to the findings and recommendations and: the . summary findings. Mr. Lombard. Yes, sir. Because it's my opinion that if we have additional views, not only dissenting views, and if I sense what is going along here, I think that we are very close to achieving unanimity, with the understanding that there may be additional views, if we try to go through this thing section by section, having known the Senators for a number of years -- this should not be taken amiss -- but we will never get there. The Chairman. We will never get there. Mr. Lombard. So what I would like to suggest is that we permit the report to lie on the table, so to speak, for four or five days so that the reading and:objections to the actual cases could be made, and I do not think there will be many of those. I do not think you will get much of that. And then have a meeting on the findings and recommendations, and at that time the Senators could voice objections. or amendments to the findings and conclusions. The Chairman. What do you have to say about that, Mr. Schwarz? Mr. Schwarz. Suppose as a suggestion additionally to that, that there be a day certain for having amendments in writing, which will give a little time to focus on them, not just have them '
end t. Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Wasnington, 0.C. 20003 10 ll 12 13 14 LS 16 EY , 18 19 20 21 22 25 24 25 Ae EY . come out on the table. Mr. Lombard. I am not suggesting what time, but I am talk- ing about a two step process so that we have a reading process, and then that we would have Suggestions on the cases, and then later we would go to the findings and recommendations. The Chairman. It may be that your suggestion, Mr. Lombard, would save us time, and I think we now ought to strive to save.-~ as much time as possible, but it would have to be agreeable to the members that we proceed this way, and if we give this atdetiour:! timc, I think that along with any suggested changes in the general text, members should prepare such amendments as they might wish to make to the findings, and then the plenary session could be confined. Mr. Lombard. You have said it better than I said it. The Chairman. I am following you.
r WARD :GSH 19/21 Tapes 2 1 Pnone (Area 202) 544 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 LO 11 12 14 15 16 Ly 1L8 19 20 el 22 235 24 295 We'll have to settle on the dates also. Mr. Lombard. It seems to me that, in other words, Bo we would set next Wednesday for our plenary.; session, which would be for the purpose of going over the findings and recom- mendations and approving the report on that date -- well, if possible, and then we would have the three days following this for the filing of additional reports, so that could really be done by Friday, the whole thing wrapped up. The Chairman. Well, if you think that that is the most expeditious way to move -- Mike? Mr. Madigan. I would just want to say that if any dates are going to be set, it would be the middle of next week because Senator Baker's wife's grandmother died, and he's not going to be able to be back here until iate Thursday. It is a personal problem. Mr. Lombard. If:we do want to work on this individually rather than as a group, it is.going to go fast. The Chairman. Well, how does it strike the Tetra ae, this proposal? Senator Mondale. It's the Chairman's choice. The Chairman. All right. The only problem that I see with it is that if we delay it for another week, when we do go into the plenary session, we've got to-go in prepared and the Committee has to be satisfied to confine the plenary sessions to the findings, the recommendations, and the summary
Pnone (Area 209)'544-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 LO 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 LS 20 21 a2 235 24 20 of the findings in order to get our work done. And insofar as possible, the staff will incorporate suggestions by individual members as they relate to the text. Mr. Lombard, The individual Senator, if he's not satisfied, can always put in additional views. . The Chairman. And the staff should cooperate with the individual suggestions made with respect to possible revisions in the text itself. Mr. Lombard. Mr. Chairman, one further thing. Can we have an assumption here that the section on Bobby Kennedy is in fact going to be nailed down? The Chairman. Oh, yes, we're going to nail that down today, the section on Bobby Kennedy. So that will be available to the members to handle. We've been trying to nail that down for a long time. Mr. Lombard. It is a steady wicket. The Chairman. All right, then, if we can get Senator Tower after this vote -- Mr. Kirbow. Senator, he was going to move this same type of lay-it-on-the-table motion. I'm sure he'll agree with that. We'll try to have him here. Mr. Schwarz. Does the proposal contemplate having the amendments available before the session Wednesday? Otherwise the session Wednesday is going to be terribly disorganized’ Mr. Lombard. Yes. PR ,
Pnone (Area 202 F5.44-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 LO Li. le 13 14 15 (16 L? 18 19 20 el 22 23 24 295 10 The Chairman, They will: have ta be ‘:available. Mr. Lombard, But we are confining the amendment process to the findings and recommendations. Mr. Schwarz. The other is more ‘informal. Mr. Lombard. It doesn't come up.:at the plenary session on Wednesday. If you have any kicks about the evidentiary report, they should be submitted to staff, and if they're not incorporated and you ‘don't, like ,it, you ‘put -it:in your tadditional views. Otherwise, you're going to-nitpick about a lot of things. The Chairman. I think, Mr. Lombard, that's an excellent suggestion. Mr. Maxwell. What we should do is fix a time then,:if people who are getne te provide for evidentiary changes, say either by the end of this week or by Tuesday morning. Mr. Schwarz. It's awfully late, Tuesday morning. Senator Huddleston. How about Monday? The Chairman. Let me make this suggestion. Let's be sure that all members are informed that this is the Committee's decision and not just the Chairman's choice. First, beginning now, any suggested changes in the text relating to the different cases in Section 3 of the report, should be submitted to the staff of the Committee for possible incorporation in that section of the:report. The drafting subcommittee should be:the final judge of what goes in or
Pnone (Area 202)°%44-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 10 Li 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Re 25 24 | | FOP-SEGREF 11 doesn't go in, or the form in which it goes in of the text, Then if a Senator is dissatisfied with that decision, he is always free to express his own view of that particular point in his supplementary. views. Mr. Lombard. Well, then it will also gain a lot more Signatures. The Chairman. Now the suggestions that members wish to make with respect to Section 3 and possible changes, should. come. to the general counsel, Fritz, and to Charley. Mr. Schwarz. At my 10023 mailing address? The Chairman. And they should be made as quickly as possible and they should be in. Mr. Schwarz. ‘But just as soon as possible because we're in the process of doing the same thing on looking for style problems and clarity. The Chairman. Yes, we're trying to finalize this, so those suggestions, I think, should be in by the end of the week. Senator Schweiker. Which section are we talking about? The Chairman, We're talking about Section 3, which is just the rendition of what happened in the various cases. Mr. Kirbow. The plots themselves. The Chairman. Those. should be in by the end of the week. Senator Schweiker. You mean part 3, Tab D? My table doesn't even have a 3 on it. Mr. Kirbow. It's under your Tab. -- FOE
Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 10 a 12 13 14 15 16 L7 18 1? 20 21 22 235 24 20 i Senator Schweiker. Topic-wise, what are you talking about? The Chairman. The country by country cases where we set up the evidence. Mr, Kirbow. Tab D,E,F,G, and H should be the ones. Senator Schweiker. We also get this from nomenclature. The Chairman. Let those be submitted to Charley and to Fritz for incorporation, and the:‘Subcommittee will be the final judge on whether they will be incorporated and Senators will be free if they're not satisfied with that decision to incorporate their suggestion in supplementary views. Then the plenary sessions will begin next Wednesday of the Full Committee. The plenary sessions..will be confined to the summary, findings, and the recommendations, and any Suggested changes in any of those should be submitted to the Full Committee for its consideration prior to next Wednesday. Make it by the close of business Monday, so they can be properly formulated by the staff and presented at sie first plenary session. Mr. Lombard. But that would not rule out our amendment on Wednesday if called up for a vote. The Chairman, Not at all, but the plenary session will.: do. its work then, Mr. Schwarz. The theory is you could see it in advance. Mr. Lombard, This is normally done and something might.
Q an + 9 ‘y Pnone (Area 202) 544-6000 , Ss) WARD & PAUL 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 10 Ld 13 14 15 16 17 18 L9 20 21 22 25 24 295 det SECRET 13 happen, it would not preclude a Senator from exercising his right to offer a formal amendment on Wednesday, even though he hadn't notified the Committee, The Chairman. No, we won't try and do that. Senator Hart of Colorado. Mr. Chairman, I intend in the next 48 hours to make a rather strong statement on the floor for the record on leaks, and it will be documented and it will-> be critical of the Administration and the agencies for pre- empting this Committee, and I will circulate the text of that before I make the statement to each member. The Chairman, Thank you, (Whereupon, at 3:52 o'clock p.m., the hearing in the above-mentioned matter was concluded.)