104-10333-10017 * ny ey - SECRET | 6UOK WORKING PAPER --- D RAF T Talking Points for Files Briefing for 12 February 1997 Per li i Jeremy Gunn and pursuant to discussion on 5 February 1997 between Gunn an the following topics are requested for coverage in the “records briefing schediiléd for IZ February 1997. More specifics were identified than covered in the Memorandum for the Record dated 8 January 1997 by Hareisonl | It is NOT meant that the detail of the question is the detail of the briefing expected, that is, the questions are for the purpose of identifying the types of files that may exist versus the expectation of a complete answer NOW. The topics are not to be considered to be in any order of importance. Primarily the time frame of concer is 1958-63. In some cases, it may mean proving evidence of “no records.” Gunn further ueried whether notes could be taken. * ok ~ DO Records Issues - Current location of records -- Hof Piations - where else? Gunn’s access d shelf lists Vv Explanation of all filing systems/indices/inventories/shelf. lists for DO records -- how searches are done, V Accounting for destroyed records Tracking cables and dispatches /_ Is “doctoring” of personnel/201 files done? If so, why, when, and how? Could trace of an employee as such be obliterated -- i.e., could John MeVickar ever have been an employee? Backchannel communications -- how recorded or r registered? Were such records searched for inclusion i in the JFK collection? . Front Office DDP Any DCI records in DO records? Tape recordings of DDP offices, meetings; especially with regard to Helms. If done, where filed, how identified, whether searched and included in JFK collection? Any | Bissell and Helms files in DO records? Mexico City Were any inventories created? CC: Staff D Cuba projects: FBI liaison | Other US entity liaison i WORKING PAPER --- D RAFT SECRET Friday, February 07, 1997
13-00000 . SECRET WORKING PAPER --- DRAFT Soft files , Other stations Cl Angleton Angleton’s liaison with FBI Any Angleton-directed operations without station knowledge or inclusion Angleton’s liaison with Office of Security - . ¢ HTLINGUAL/Project Hunter -- ever used as an Agency communications link behind the ps Iron curtain, utilizing-secret writing 2 - Anything in the way of an Oswald file in CISIG WH How is WH organized, ho its files organized, how are the files inventoried, where and how filed at HQ | Project W-SAS (i.e., Cuba) Are the files separate from WH in the 1961-63 time frame Searches ow are they done in 1997 for 1963 operations?’ Vv Name files * Project files Personnel Records Reports by informants (i.¢., June Cobb) -- centralized or separated between two files: one . for source information and one for the information provided by the source? Are records around a specific hit searched Issues Win Scott’s files obtained from his office or home in Mexico City. When gathered by Angleton, where placed or how dispersed at HQ? How accounted for, any other _ searches possible? U-2 Files. Some reference by Bissell to false manuals for an indeterminate use at an ’ ‘unidentified era. (May be a DST issue.) . Accounting, especially for Angleton ~ how handled, how filed, how searchable? David Atlee Phillips -- personnel file, other files?, how he wrote Nightwatch, where he wrote it, was it written with agency and/or Colby support? How many US penetrations of Soviet and/or Cuban facilities in Mexico City were there in October 63, what type(s) -- electronic surveillance, teltaps, and/or penetrations? _ Identify all records facilities/organization thereof 2 WORKING PAPER --- D RA F T SECRET -Friday, February 07, 1997