404-10740-10844 Cd jut . RETURN TO GIA | ~ Background Use Only " QERREL Do iNot Reproduce OLC |78-1641 12 May 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations Deputy Director for Administration Inspector General General Counsel Deputy Director for Public Affairs FROM: Acting Legislative Counsel SUBJECT: House Select Committee on Assassinations 1, On 27 April 1978, I sent you a projection of issues requiring the development of coordinated positions for consideration and decision by top management, In response to my request, each of you designated representatives toa Task Force assembled for this purpose and the Task Force met on 4 May (Attachment A). 2. Attachment B contains memoranda on sessions with the senior - staff of the Assassinations Committee subsequent to the 4 May Task Force meeting, covering Committee tdtmplaints and our pre-position bargaining with them on certain key issues, e.g.,: a. Nosenko: Has refused to be video taped; the Committee staff is pondering this decision. The "formal" session has been slipped from 31 May to 21-22 June. b. The question of whether the claim of sources and methods can extend to information known to a defector before he is recruited or defected. . i 3, Iunderstand there has been concern over the range of access by Committee staffers to sensitive information. I think you should know
14-00000 ul that pursuant to an exchange of letters between the Chairman and the Director, coordinated with CIA offices of interest, revised procedures to allow a selected group of staff researchers access to CIA documents with limited sanitization to facilitate the Committee's review of the larger volumes of files involved. Sensitive viable|Agency sources, however, are excised and the staff must show relevancy to the - investigation if there is any question as to making material available. For example, the Committee's inquiry into the CIA s resisted until the staff disclosed to us that the purpose was former! 3-3 CIA employee James Wilcott's allegation that Oswald was a CIA agent. Those staffers given this special access have executed special secrecy agreements which run to the Director as opposed to the Committee as is the case with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for example. There also has been concerns expressed that the Committee has been given greater access than has ever been done before ina Congressional investigation, Although we are getting into new unchartered waters as.a result of the Jay Epstein book, the Church Committee, for example, . had wide access to the Oswald 201 file and personnel files, 4, Attached is an agenda for the next Task|Force meeting. You may wish to review some of the major issues pending. Positions on these issues, of course, will be fully coordinated and appropriately presented to the DDCI/DCI for determination., a ae Lyle L. Miller Attachments cc: Each Member of HSCA Task Force
14-00000 I. -Providing CIA Documents A. Cc. Il. Documents Requested A. B. C. CIA Review of Committee's Final Report AGENDA Addendum to Memorandum of Understanding | Security Arrangement Scope of documents furnished -| initially only for hearings. Latest request for four volumes of Mexico City Station files to prepare final report. | Bernardo de Torres : Request POA to confront him at hearing. Polygraph Charts of Nosenko Hart Study (DCI says no-will offer Hart) Photographs Mexico City Surveillance - possible public release | III. Hearings A. Executive Session - Soviet defectors - Committee will honor all security caveats B. Public Hearings 1. Possible Witnesses: Len McCoy Bruce Solie | - Anne Goodpasture | Dave Phillips James Angleton . Richard Helms Ray Rocca Admiral Turner (possible witness re CIA position on Nosenko bona-fides) IV. Establish CIA Task Force What should be made public - sanitization procedures Establish procedures to resolve issues - CIA spokesman
14-00000 V. Final Disposition of Notes, Transcripts, and other Committee Material A. B. All notes returned to CIA or déstroyed with certification of destruction. Transcripts, depositions, and other permanent records reviewed for sanitization. Referred to HPSCI for permanent retention and control. Memorandum of Understanding Addendum. \ Bomar