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13-00000 D/O 2%: UK eae, | Bxecutive ‘Registry | . 29 November 1978 \ SECRET SENSITIVE) MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence VIA : Deputy Director for Operations Acting Chief, Soviet/East European Division FROM ': Donald F. Vogel DCSE/ORP . ' SUBJECT '  : Talking Paper for Briefing Chairman Stokes, -HSCA, on KITTY HAWK SIGNED BY : Donald F. Vogel DCSE/ORP - CONCURRENCE : Deputy Director for Operations ORIGINATED BY : Donald F. Vogel _DCSE/ORP | ACTION DISTRIBUTION : Original - DDCI - Executive Registry (dummy copy) -- DDO - ADDO DDO Registry (dummy copy) - C/CI - AC/SE - DCSE/ORP fet feed feed prod fed fend ed t WARNING NOTICE - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS. INVOLVED E2 IMPDET CL BY 007117 Page
13-00000 . Se SECRE eT SEN SITIVE | [ povons: 7248 | ; - ; 7 oo . Drecuive Hogi | ~~ a c 4 od 29 November 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence VIA -: Deputy Director for Operations “Acting. Chief, Soviet/East European Division FROM : Donald F. Vogel : DCSE/ORP . . SUBJECT : Talking Paper for Briefing Chairman Stokes, HSCA, on KITTY HAWK 1. The Chief Counsel of the House Select. Committee on - Assassination, Mr. G. Robert Blakey, has requested access to “all reports and documents referring to an operation code named KITTY HAWK,'' which Mr. Blakey describes as "a project concerning the debriefing of a Soviet defector and a KGB analysis of the Kennedy assassination." You propose to provide Chairman Stokes an oral response to this request. 2. Chairman Stokes mav be informed that "KITTY HAWK" _is not_a defector ; , fbut who is known to e alive and well. There has been some mention of KITTY HAWK in the press in connection with the current investigation of the fate of Nicholas SHADRIN, an FBI-CIA double agent who — disappeared in 1975 while in Vienna for a meeting with the KGB. In spite of the unfortunate publicity, however, KITTY HAWK has apparently been able to survive KGB scrutiny thus far, and we continue to abide by the Director's statutory obligation to protect his identity. 3. We have reviewed our holdings on KITTY HAWK and have found no reference to any "KGB analysis of the Kennedy assassination" or any other information pertinent to the Committee's interest. Discussion of the assassination of WARNING NOTICE. - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS . INVOLVED E2 IMPDET CL BY 007117 “SECEET DENSE ES
13-00000 oe \ SECRET SENS! President Kennedy took up only a small portion of the time spent in debriefing KITTY HAWK. You may wish to inform Chairman Stokes that in 1966 KITTY HAWK volunteered his impression that Kennedy's assassination "was planned and carried out by VIP's, possibly due to Kennedy's opposition to Texas oil interests." He added that he believed that the KGB was embarking on a "disinformation" campaign to have the assassination blamed on President Johnson, but he had no. specific details of this campaign. KITTY HAWK also said that he was "personally well acquainted" with Lee Harvey Oswald's background because he had helped prepare the file on Oswald which was turned over to the United States Government by the Soviet Government. KITTY HAWK was not questioned further on this point, and there is no further reference in the — KITTY HAWK file to any KGB or Soviet Government activity with respect to the assassination. . 4. Although strictly speaking it is not relevant to this inquiry, you should be aware of the fact that KITTY HAWK supported Nosenko's bona fides by reporting that Nosenko had done the KGB considerable damage (more than Golitsyn) and that the KGB - was looking for Nosenko and intended to kill him if they found © him. This is pertinent because those who hold to the theory that Nosenko was a plant tend also to subscribe to the belief that any KGB source or defector who supported Nosenko's bona fides was also KGB-controlled. Introduction of KITTY HAWK into the assassination controversy can only serve the purpose of obfuscation. a“ \ ; Donald F. Vogel | CONCUR: / ee i tl ee eee BeChET SENSITIVE