13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Ye. Morning Meeting of 2 March 1976 2 March 1976
13-00000 Bolten reported difficulties encountered yesterday when SSC Counsel Fritz Schwartz objected to an OGC staffer reading a portion of the SSC's final report. He asked to be advised of any further problems in this regard. In response to a note received from the DCI yesterday, Bolten assured that the Agency would not make any substantive comments on the SSC's final report. The Director said we must be careful not to leave the impression that the Agency -is endorsing the report.
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13-00000 . “om ey 30 April 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD | Ne, Morning Meeting of 30 April 1976
13-00000 * x Thuermer noted that Time magazine editors have offered the Director an opportunity to comment on the SSC report. The Director asked Thuermer to decline this offer. Thuermer also advised that Strobe Talbott has withdrawn his request to see the Director. Bolten reported that he will meet with a member of the House Ethics Committee team investigating the leak of the HSC report and that the investigator may also wish to talk with CIA officers who had access to the report. Bolten suggested that we maintain a good record of foreign and public reactions to the SSC report for possible use with our oversight committees to illustrate damage resulting from publicity of the report. Bolten stated his belief that the Agency has been hurt most by allegations of CIA involvement in Watergate and President Kennedy's assassination. In this connection, he said a study on the Warren Commission will be published by the SSC next month; the theme they are developing is that, because of CIA plots against Castro, the latter retaliated and was connected with President Kennedy's assassination. Bolten suggested it might be worthwhile to talk with Senators Schweicker and Gary Hart, the principals behind the study, as this could prove more damaging domestically than the SSC report. In response to the Director's query, Bolten said that the SSC thoroughly investigated-allegations of CIA involvement in the JFK assassination but could find no indications of such involvement. Chamberlain added that, although investigations could not prove that Castro knew about CIA plots against him and took retaliatory action against JFK, they did not disprove this either.
13-00000 ad - h 3 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 3 May 1976
13-00000 6 Calling attention to yesterday's Washington Post article on AMLASH, Bolten said this is the first time Cubela's name and the full extent of his activities have appeared in print. He said this stems from the SSC's report on assassinations, which gave the journalist, George Crile, enough information to permit him to piece the story together.
13-00000. -. +e, * 7 May 1976 MEMORANDUM TOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 7 May. 1976 The Director and General Walters were out of the city. Proctor chaired the meeting. .
Bolten briefed on a three-hour session he, John Waller and Ted Shackley had yesterday with SSC members concerning the Committee's investigation of the Warren Commission and President Kennedy's assassina- tion. fe
13-00000 N Ll May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of ll May 1976
13-00000 The Directer noted continuing inquiries with regard to our alleged involvement in the Kennedy assagsination. Chamberlain noted that this matter had been thoroughly reviewed by his office, and the only thing we were remiss on was perhaps Dulles’ not advising the Commission of plots against Castro, which some theoreticians now feel could have precipitated Oswald's action.
13-00000 12 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD te Morning Meeting of 12 May 1976
13-0000 Bolten advised that the SSC will meet tomorrow to decide a course of action on their investigation of the Warren Commission and President Kennedy's assassination; i.e., whether to issue a report and, if so, what kind. He repeated his opinion that issuance of this report could be , more damaging to the Agency than most other previous revela- tions (see Morning Meeting Minutes of 30 April and 7 and 11 Mav).
13-00000 2% me . TED oie one o wee penn ae ot A oot or ae 13 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD | te. Morning Meeting of 13 May 1976 ‘ The Director was at the White House; General Walters chaired the meeting.
13-00000 -~ a Bolten advised that the SSC is meeting today and will probably call for a special committee to investigate the "new leads" they have discovered during their investigation of the Warren Commission report.
13-00000 & ‘ e. 14 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD. te Morning Meeting of 14 May 1976
13-00000 Bolten, called attention to today's Washington Post article (attached) concerning the SSC recommendation that the new oversight committee reopen the investigation of President Kennedy's assassination. The Director noted that he intends to call Senator Schweicker to obtain clarifica- tion of his criticism of CIA and FBI responses to the Warren Commission investigation of the assassination. ie
13-00000 P. Motives yi Senglit in SEK Death Be George Lardner Jr. Washin stow Post Stal Weiter The Senale intelligence: committee voted vesterday to reeymmend 2 congression- al investigalion of the me- tives behind the assassitia- tion of President John EF. Kennedy. The commitice tonk the aclion at a closed mecting called to discuss (he resulis of ils special inquiry inte the shortrcsnings of the FBI, the Central dateilvence Agenes and ofher geveri- ment aucecies thal heipeel Investigate the murder, As chairman of a bvo- member subcommittee Chat tock up the controversial is suc, Sen, Care W. Ufaet af) Cole. told reporters Uhat he had seen tw evidence to in- validate the Warren Com- snission’s finding thal tee Harvey Oswald was Kenne- cx’s Jone assarsin. But he adeied (hal “tine res maining question, which the Warren Commission did nut answer, was why?” “H's ina (halo areca.” Hart said, “that | think he Ure gering doubts remain.” The other subcomimitice member, Sen. Richart 4. Schweiker (2-Pad predicted that the cominittees would - velense a fairiv detailcd aie, he hinted, Grovbling report later this moonlit an fallures ofthe original tnvesticatiun af the President's caseiie sare nageing issues that need te be pursaced. Schweizer indieated tial he was nol persuaded that Oswald acted alene ar even that Oswald fired anv of the bullets chat day in Dallas. “1 have aware questioned tlie Warren Coramission finding and how it. aebveortt, wie ciel it was cane.” ne told repartevs. ” “My six 4 months oo this sub- et . eT weet d en . aon teat: cts. “Pale: Cee eaesten tee & tant §s aboul to go. out of husiness, =e9p2 WASHINGTON POST recénimended that the new | Inquiry. be underlaken by the permanent Senate Intel- Hrenece oversight committee the Senate is considcring cs- lablishing. . Meanwhile, just made public by Ue CIA in response to a frecdom-of- information lawsuit showed that CIA officials were falk- ing of assassinating Cuban Prenier Fidel Castro and his @usest advisers in carly Alarch of 1860, apparentiy just a few days before se- ere’ planning for a Cuban invasion was approved by the Eisenhower administra- tions ? Some critics of the War- ren Commission’s work have suggested thal Kennedy's 1963 murder may have been in retaliation for the CIA's reported sponsorship — of plots to kill Castro. Others ‘have conlended thal. {ic assassinalion could be traced to antll-Castro Cu- ban exlies bitler at Kennedy for the failure of the Bay of ' Pies invasion and for his ‘seerel gestures loward rap- prochement wilh the Cuban premier just before he was killed. In a 1875 memo: dralled for the Reckefeller commis- sion, a presidentially ap- pointed panel thal looked into CIA abuses, and .made . public last month, CLA coun- . assassination lerintelligence officials said they still felt, as they did in 1964, that (he Warren Com- mission report should have given more credence to the possibility of a fnretan con- splracy In Hight of promising leads that were not pursued, The Senate iulelligence eoremillee's invesligalion af CIA-sponsored - assassination plets showed thal = the Seheming against Castro conlinued- alter Kennedy's death. Even on Nov. 22, 1963, the -day Kennedy was shot in Dallas, a hign-ranking CUA official was meeting in Paris with a seeret agent who was a Castro intimate to offer him a pen rigged with a pob son hypedermic needle for use on the Cuban premier. The heavily censored CUA documents mat: public  veslesday severed rot only an taster, best tise on alser Certegy GCC CS aLlecd lee ee scpas ete ete tempted coups with various degrees of U.S. backing. documents The documents were re- * leased by Nobert Porosage - of the non-profit Center for. ae ae Nallonal Securitv Studies as part of a freedam-ofl-infor- inalion project jointly spon- Sored with the American Civit Liberties Union. The rceords were all made avallable last year to the Nockefeller Commission and then lo the Senate commit- lee. presumably with fewer deletions, One six-page daled May 13, document, 1961, tilled “CIA Covert Activilles. Do-. minican Republic.” had ev- erything excised from it ex- cepl part of one paragraph: it pointed out that me CUA hod supplied “internal oppo-- Silion lenders” with three :- 8 cal. tevalvers, three car- | *bines and accompanying am- munition as “personal de- fensc weapons attendant lo: their nrejected cfforle to ‘neutratize Trujitte.” } According to authoritative sources, the CIA told the While Mouse dn that same May 13, 1961, report thal it also hed ‘séme submachine | guns and grenades in Chu. dad Trujillo which could be provided lo the antl-Trujille Etoup If the go-ahead were given. The spy agency, however, ‘deleted this from the decu- ment it cave Borosagc. ACLU national staff coun- sel Jolin if. F. Shattuck said yeslerday that he would con- “tue pressing in court for more detalls. He sald he would “suspend® judgment” 2s to whether «the Roctefeller “ Dam anmbnenn tomy am aL Ge = UPGnEe wh vemaEE aPo arabe Commission fot still more ° documents {al have yet to be acknowledged in any fashion. According te the records reieased vesterday, Castro's assassination was mentioned as carly as March 9, 1960, during a meeting of the CiA’s “Branch 44° Task Force.” Presiding was Col. J.C. Ring. the chief of the Western Hemisphere Pivt- sion wilhin the CIA's Diree- forate of Plans. Wile told the mecting thal AhenCiA. Director Alan pisathess was “prerontinil a : “ pager’ lo the svewit Canneil’s Te Committee” which su- _ pervised covert operations. 14 BAY 175 - The heavily censored ‘ memorandum for the record } added: “Col. King stated ; that (ieieted) unless Fidel and Raul Castro and Che Gnevara could nated In one packace— which is highly unlikely— this operation can be a long, drawn-oul affale and present government be climi - the ¢ will - only be overthrown by the | use of force.” Following Ue 1961 deba- ° ‘ele al the Bay of Pies, Prest- dent Kennedy approved an all-out secret war of sabo- lage and propaganda against ; , the Castro regime under the - ecde name “Operation Mon- foose,” whose de facto boss was Allorney General Rob- ert F. Kennedy. ‘ Reporting on a “Alongoose meeting” on Oct? 4, 1262, shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, then-CIA DI- reclor John MeCone noted that Robert Kennedy, 23 chairman, made plain his and {he President's “dissatisfaction with lack of acllon jn the sabotage field.” The documents showed that the legacy of assassina- tion involvement continued - lo pursue the CIA even al- ter last year’s investigations were starting to bring them to the surface. In carly April of 1975, 2 few weeks before the fMral ' U.S, evacuation of South V1- - efnam, for Instance, CIA headquarters here was evl- dently told of a “potential coup” being planned against Sctuth Vietnamese President Neguven Van Thicu in hapes that the change would bring continued American support for the beleqgucred country. The GIA reacted with deep alarin, fueled by mem- ories of the 1963 coup that resulted In the death of ’ Preskient Ngo Dinh Diem. > get complicaled at alt, ; vise and 1 will reenmmend _ "it would be both “With Diem president and current allegations against our agency,” then-CIA Dt- reclor William E. Colhy ca- bled Saigon on April 4, 1975 instity. tional and national disaster ‘Tf there were any remote connection between us and such an-event ... If things ad- strongest effort fo facilitate Trew and family sate pas. sage and haven.”
13-00000 mz ay 17 May 1976 -MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD. | Morning Meeting of 17 May 1976
13-00000 Bolten noted that Senator Schweicker has accused the Agency of lying to the Warren Commission and indicated he has new leads regarding President Kennedy's assassination. He said the SSC may charge us with noncooperation, as they believe we are holding out on documents they have requested but which in fact do not exist or we cannot find.
13-00000 ~, & a - 18 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 18 May 1976 ~
Bolten reported that during the course of the day he hopes to satisfy Senator Schweiker's request for material related to the Warren Commis- sion, fe
13-00000 TOP SFOCRT cTrerinyE 21 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meetinf& of 21 May 1976 ‘ The Director was at the White House, and General Walters was detained at a meeting. Proctor opened the meeting.
13-00000 Bolten called attention to George Lardner's article in today's Washington Post (attached) concerning the Warren Commission investigation and stated his belief that the SSC will recommend further investigation by the new Senate oversight committee.
13-00000 ETE EUS TEC OT a “Tai Bevis his was released as iy veceigs said - in maria ede pees. “OF CIA Plots On ‘Castro : By George Lardner Tr. Washingtoa Post Stall Writer. Top FSI officials knew. of Central Intelligence. Agency’ plotting to kill Cuban, Pre. mier~ Fidet., Castro» at “thes time the buread. was: Anyesti=! ‘gating the : ‘assassination, of President ‘Kennedy, At wae, learned yesterday. —. a The late; FBI. Director /3,: Edgar Hoover: never" informe: ed the -Warrem.Commission; of the scheming against Can: troand,“ according. to Seni: Richard «.'S.... Schweiker “ (Bs, Pa.), may also have-conceala! ed.the information from. the: FBI agents‘assigned -tox,iney: vestigate. the... President's’? murder. = mahal is jae Sao eras “aria “The fact: that they would: 3 ‘withhold “information > from‘: “an investigation.of this kinds! i ‘has. rather chilling implica- | _tlons,” said David. W. Belin: swho: served: as an-assistant:} ‘ counsel: -- for-«: the..; - Warren. + ‘Commission. “One of: thes - things -we. were looking“ ate was whether there wag any: | ‘Castra. involvement in the %! v4 Kennedy: assassination.” Wh ~Some- critics of the Ware,. ‘ren. Commission have sug-;" . gested; “that. the President’. - Was. -killed,.in. retallation for’! ’ the: CEA-sponsored Plotting, againstiCastro. . : Schweiker, a member . of . “the Senate: intelligence com-  mittee\t? which last week ; Voted; tenrecommend a new “ congressional inquiry ‘into . the assassination, said Sen- ate investigators have just started!ia: examine belatedly ‘ discovered > FBI files con: __ cerning ‘Castro. Anema spokesman ° re- comment when * the documents. questadidany such records more, than:a year ago, (May.@. letter to Attor’ General ‘Edward H. ily received ma- coal that the FBI, knowledge of WASH’ pilot, it ere even exists filé ‘captioned ‘Pians | thatéfh  tertalierd inate: Cuban Lead- erss ‘ ahs te ra OSH was the CIA's code than iefor'a senior Cu- ban’ ’ akvand: Castro inti- mates! ee ' Rolando ate the spy TA AG, ‘Col. 1 | Of me, “f eres tive , work. forine” eoin sida; “~huppbessed the F Beare Bd ae 2 FBI-Knew. ‘ =" aN Bi. FBI, From AL: Ay, Le! NE eri ee «Cuba. Eventually, in: the falls” ‘Senate. intelligence com. :* feof: 1963-early “September mittee ‘* Chairmair ! “Frank? « Wby one accounti.AM .LASH? ~.Ghurch-(D-Idaho) asked the ‘Exexpressed ‘a desire’ fo plan, y Justice; Department, includ." . S Castro's “execution.” , Wj. ing the .FBL-Smore: than ‘a’. a a President Kennedy was = year ago for “prompt deliv- \ Skilled in Dallas on Nov. 22, ery” of: »“any’, - documents . 1 963. That same .day, the -“-“which rélate’ to the ‘Subject #2Senate committee has re -of-planned or attempted or sported, two CIA officials, in- mee actual assassinations carried gecluding one who held him-.: out either withirt the United. ie elf. out as “the personal,.:Stales:or,.abroad by, or on | “representative of Attorney. “Sbehalf of; the United States » General {Robert. FJ Ken-- ;\government, ‘including the’ wenedy,”: met with AM LASH:'E-Central Intelligence Agency.”. vdii-Paris and offered him:a*).: Committee officials said * gfaltpoint pen rigged: witha ) * poison . -hypodermic< iieedle 2 «for use against Castros 4 we 5. AM eLasaf: “apparently” “Zleaders in an earlier effort’’ ® spurned the ideyice: as | ‘toot? te ‘kill Castro! oy ” = -unsophisticated;! but the CIA=! ous memos bearing. on the. eveven. after:.the’. Kenedy: as: . . peassination.§ HE Bee: . pkrethes Snyragency: ‘delivered -  Senrms"s to Fhintt tit «Cuba : in: “aware at that - time: “that ~ . SyMoreh; ‘and® Juméjof 1964, ac- .“C1A had hired: Robert:-A.~ wording tto - ‘the Senate com-".' Maheu, a private, detective . General -Kennedy «::-were . Srotnntis gun and it was * "in Washington, “D.C, to -ap-" * proach .[Mafid Boss Sam)‘ Gi-‘s, ala ancana with a proposition of IEAM LASH “and his as-is. “paying $150,000 to hire some” pdiated for reasons, related ~” - eee. security,’,. Bhs vs <oKiN Castro.” .. Ww AY" . ee When. first -.disclosed”. in +: Reportedly, however; Ken: S eT he: ‘Washington -Post ‘last’: * ‘year, ‘the negotiations. wwith > “tAM LASH seemed to offer a. “eration had -, s‘stviking illustration iof. evi-.':“lerminated.” , 2. he eat _ been - : 2b trom ithe Warren: Commis-'. across cross-references to” . psion in:its inquiry. info .the * -the additional FBI assassina- f = }President's: murder. Now. it:..tion files several weeks ago appears that the FBI,’ which {> while poring: over other: FOC, : tid the? primary - investiga. <. ords. | peor et » bere. . m epe! wk SP st enema ty 6 me ert Ap O93 ct aE eee tee sneer ces @ rp ne ad Yost tr Sirk aoe a agli dhe cxl ly /#76 OO" OE am. 1 important’Yasset"- inside Movidenterecns Bikes tay: sald, they received were vari= ot CLA's enlistment of Mafia. ‘ “> According to pne ‘of these’ ’ spent, sporizoring his: efforts... documents, a 1962 memoran- " ;. dum by Hoover, both...the “ “PBI director and Attorney * gunmen‘to yo ints . Cuba. toy, mission. ‘Vc commission ° . oo “certainly was ‘nothing like * Senate investigators came é oo oy MRCIOED- OF “the intelligence’ subcommit- ‘tee that- ‘has been reviewing ‘for ihe Warren. ‘Commission, . said he. wrote hig. May-6 let- De: “ter té: Levi after several un- “successful efforts. to secure access to the- ‘documents fromthe FBI] - Justice. Department - spokesman Robert Havel said yesterday afternoon ‘that a letter is being pre- | pared for Levi explaining | why the records. were not turned over earlier. Havel ~ said he did net know the ex- act reasons but added: — ~ *T;understand it was just ‘an oversight. They were in . several boxes.” .. - - “<i Phe. Warren’. Commission “was appointed by, President - Johnson a week after Ken- -nedy’s -assassination,. and° '; completed its work.on Sept. + 24"" 1064, In a hurry-up_ at- cae mosphere.- fostered by the *ghairman, © ’ the late Chief Justice Earl Warren. “ “+ Schweiker speculated yee. . :the shortcomings of-the de ‘lective work that was done . ‘terday in a telephone inter. | “irvlew that the FBI agents as- - ‘signed to the Warren Com- inquiry; and the “might: . ” béen: ‘deprived: -0f, the infor- ting against Castro: « Belin added. ‘that. “tere have | “nedy was told,. -inaccuratély; :-mation" about: the Cla plot- as it turned out, that the op- i . . that ever given to the War- -- ren Commission.” He noted : that: FBI documents were “supplied. lo the commussion ‘in. @ ‘continuing sflogpytail transmitted unde? lhe signa. ture.of- J. Edgar Hoover.” * Schweiker implied the recently discovered FBI files about the plots to kill Castro were dated before the Warren Commission concluded its work, but re. fused to confirm this. . Other sources, however, said the files show that the FBI knew of the CLA’s AM ‘LASH plot by the summer -of 1964, before the Warren Commission had = stopped {ghecking ‘ont tarieus: jeads.-t,: Genes nad i “Sanothér> member” a Sthettinfelligenct “eortprities. ha $4: ‘voiced * ‘the: . “suspicion. “that Cubela-‘was actially iva: : double agent for’Castro; ‘wer us lh arly casé.the Warren;.| : Commission was unaware of his, attiyities. It -concluded ‘that there was “no credible “evidence” that-anyone but. ‘Lee Harvey: Oswald was in- | volved in.the President's as Sassination. and -“no evi. “dence that the Soviet Union or Cuba were involved . Oras ‘SMorgai- (De s : that ~
13-00000 2 2" HOP OMIT OO es 26 May 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD . te. Morning Meeting of 26 May 1976 4 The Director was hosting a Congressional breakfast, and General Walters was in Norfolk. Proctor opened the meeting.
13-00000 6 Bolten reported that the SSC will have its final meet- ing today to receive a 200-page report, with a 30-page annex, on its Subcommittee investigations of the Warren Commission. The report will be circulated to Executive Branch agencies after the SSC has passed on it.
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITI¥E 11 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD s Morning Meeting of 11 June 1976 A The Director and General Walters were out of the city. Wells chaired the meeting, Chamberlain noted that yesterday we submitted a rebuttal to the SSC Subcommittee report on cooperation with the Warren Commission and that Scott Breckinridge will discuss the matter this morning with Sen&tors Schweicker and Gary Hart.
13-00000 ~ TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 14 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 14 June 1976 \ The Director was out of the city. General Walters chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Calling attention to the CBS interview with Frank Sturgis in which it was alleged Sturgis was a CIA man, Thuermer said the Agency issued a formal statement in 1975 that Sturgis had never been associated with CIA. Thuermer said CBS had previously called him, referring to a New York Daily News story concerning Maria Lorenz (attached), but had not mentioned the Sturgis connection.
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13-00000 21 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 21 June 1976 te.
Bolten reported that Senator Church's SSC will issue its final report, on CIA and FBI cooperation with the Warren Commission, on 23 June. Based on circumstantial evidence, the repoft comes close to charging the FBl and CIA with a cover-up or deliberate failure to provide information to the Warren Commission, It also recommends that the matter be pur- sued by Chairman Inouye's SSC; Bolten said it is his understanding that Inouye will await public and press reaction to the report before deciding whether to investigate further. The Director asked that background in- formation on this report and on recent allegations by a Chilean intelli- gence officer (see Morning Meeting Minutes of 10 June 1976) be provided to Falkiewicz for handling of press inquiries. Bolten suggested that, if press queries on the SSC report become intense, Falkiewicz be prepared to say more than "no comment"; e.g., a statement that the judgments of the report are highly speculative and based on circumstantial evidence.
13-00000 om, 24 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 24 June 1976 fe , ‘
13-00000 Falkiewicz called attention to David Binder's article in today's New York Times (attached) and noted that, in comparison to other stories on the subject, itis a good one. Bolten later commented that Senators Church and Hart disassociated themselves from Senator Schweiker's "cover-up" accusations against CIA and the FBI.
¢ 3 13-00000 a A ed ‘Senate Unit Asserls Their | Effort Was Inadequate in Assassination Inquiry ” By DAVID BINDER | Sreeize te The ew aark Times WASHINGTON, June 23—The Senate Select Commmeltce on In- telligence Activitivs said in a report today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Arency had failed to (ulfill their obligations in investigating the assassina- tion in 1963 of President Ken- inedy. . While concluding that there was no new evidence “suffi- cient to justify a conclusion ;that there was a conspiracy to lassassinate President Kennedy.” ite report called for a follow. us investigation ef the murder hy the new Senate Intelligence comwmittec. The repor: is the fifth and last issued by the Select Commitice, Iwhich was sel up to study gov: lernmental intelligence activi- ties. Previous reports dealt with wi-ts ausinst fives of foreign leaders, ecvert operations and fine histery of the CLA, * The 106-page document dealt; . edtirel, with the performance} of the Federal Government's; ' jntelligence agencies, domesticé. ard farcign, with regard to the’ investigation of the Kennedy murder. It said that the C.LA. leader- - ship had ignored the possibility - of a connection between its ; own assassination attempts apainst Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba and the mucder of President Kennedy. . Further, it accused the C.LA." of having deceived the investi- gatory commission headed by Chief Justice Eart Warren about). its knowlea'ge of facts relating to the accassination. Specifically, the report said), that Allen. W, Dulles, Director]: of Central Intelligence until the]. spring of (ou, had never teil thy Warren Comnussion of Sis keowiaize of previ ug ast cisi- rite plats agaunse Prime Minister Castro, which covid, have provoked Cuban rr’ anal| tory actions. ving alt possibilities of conspir- “cused narrowly on Lee Harvey NEW YORK TIMES It added wnat the C.LA. had| also failed to disclose {ts spon-' sership of a Cuban arent, code- named Ani/Lash, who had been .chosen to organize a coup against Mr. Castro from 1961 to 1965, and if possible to kill him. Nor was Am/Lash, in reality a Cuban — physician named Rolando Cubelo, who was close to Mr, Castro, ever asked gbout the Kennedy assas- sinalion, the report said. Oswald's Role With regard to the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, who is generally held to have been the lone assassin of President Ken- nedy, the report says: “Senior C.LA, officials should have realized that their agency] was not utilizing its full capa- bilily to investigate Oswald's pro-Castro and anti-Castro con- nections. They should have re- . alized that C.LA. operations _against Cuba, particularly op- erations involving the assassi- nation of Castro, needed to be :eonsidered In the investipation. . Yet the directed their subordi- nates to conduct an investiga- tion without telling them of these vital facts.” The report notes that the Warren Commission had heen told flatly by the C.LA. that it had “no evidence of foreign conspiracy.” As for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the report said that its Director, the late J. Ed- ward Hoover, had been so pre- occupied witth what he de- scribed as a possible “smear” of the bureau in connection with Oswald that he had neg- lected to call for a broad and unprejudiced inquiry into the murder, . . Pressure on Hoover Cited After noting that ‘Mr. Hoover|i had been “pressured by higher}: Government officials” to con- clude the F.BA. investigation| swiftly, the repert sald: “The F.B.I. conducted its in- vestigation in an almosphere of concern among senior bu- reav officials that it would be Mos a ABP one. ota ta tn adnate ‘criticized and its reputation! tarnished, Rather than address-j ing its investigation to all sig-| nificant circumstances, includ-' acy, the F.B.1, investigation fo- Oswald.” As a result of the C.LA. and F.B.1. deficiencies, the Senate report: asserted, the Warret Commission was unnble lo per- forw a tierourh investieation or to reach definitive conclu- SONS 6 ee ee 5 PS \ The report sald it was “still “unclear” why ‘both ‘agencies “had faiied to fuifill their duties, but suggested . as mintives: “concern with public reputa- tion, problems of coordination .; between agencies, possible bu- ,reaucratic failure and embar- ‘rassment, -and extreme -com- _partmentation of knowledge of sensilive operations.” Fallure to Follow Leads . As-a result of the shortcom- ‘Ings, the report went on, two important leads on a possible involvement of persons other than Oswald went unpursued. The first lead, ‘it said, con- cerned an.unidentified passen- ger who boarded a Cuban Air- lines flight from “Mexico City to Cuba at 10:30 P.M. Dec. I, 1963, wine days after the mur- der in Dallas. The C.1LA, repori at the time noled that the flight had been delayed to pick uf the stranger, who did not ge through Mexican customs anc who rode in the cockpit of the airliner. There was no follow up by the CLA. the repor said. The second lead clted in th report involved a Cuban-Ameri- can who crossed from Texas tv Mexico on Nov. 23, 1963, the day after the murder, and went on to Cuba. This person reportedly returned to the Unit. ‘ed States in March 1964 and was described by an informant as “involved in the assassina- tion.” But neither the C.LA. nor ithe F.B.I. followed up on this tip, the report said. Becense of tne shortcomings and the remaining doubts, the select committee concluded with a recommendation that the permanent Senate intelli- gence committee headed - by Daniel K. inouye, Democrat of {Hawall, “continue the investi- gauicn in 2a attempt to resolve ‘these questicns.” .. The seporct was prepared by two memters of the select com- oo mitten, Gary Hart, Democrat o Colorado, “end = Richard = $. Schweiker, Renubhican of Penn- sylvania, and a staff of five. . Ata news conference this non, Me. Schweiker accused beth the C.LA. and Uhe FILE ef “a cover-up” with regard to the Kenredy assassination in- quiry. He said that the entire affair remained “a jigsaw.” with some of the pieces miiss- ing. Mr. Hart and Senator Frank Church Use Idaho Demo- erat whe beaded the select committer, ais ented from the Meaver-up” judument but alse [urged a new Investigation of the unexplored leads. | a sieeraemrmttimtsacmnnnimnnnancmeas 6 OP ~- 2a Jud 996
13-00000 a. ah ot 25 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 25 June 1976 tw
13-00000 * - .o' Falkiewicz reported that he telephoned Ron Nesson yesterday to complain about remarks troublesome for the Agency made by Nesson in response to press queries concerning the SSC report on the Warren Com- mission investigation of President Kennedy's assassination. The Director thanked Falkiewicz for taking such action. fs
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13-00000 i Falkiewicz noted Senator Schweiker's 27 June appearance on "Face the Nation" (attached) and his call for reopening the Kennedy assassination investigation.
13-00000 - oF MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD - Morning Meeting of 29 June 1976 29 June 1976
13-00000 ae ~ The Director noted that Senator Schweiker had spoken with him yesterday about difficulties he encountered with Scott Breckinridge's presentation on the Kennedy assassina- tion/Warren Commission topic but went on to advise that he had no particular grief against the Agency. }
13-00000 a4 7 July 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD ~ . Morning Meeting of 7 July 1976
The Director asked if we are aware of Chairman Inouye's position on further investigating President Kennedy's assas- Sination, as recommended by the Church Committee report. Bolten advised that, prior to issuance of the Church Committee report, Inouye told the press that he would wait six months and then make a decision. Bolten added that it appears Inouye wishes to see how much pressure builds up to continue the investigation. The Director asked if there are papers pertaining to the Kennedy assassination which are locked up until some later date. Knoche replied that the post-mortem examination of the President involved photographs and other items which have been sealed up at the request of the Kennedy family. The Director asked if the Church Subcommittee that investigated the assassination ever requested anything which the Agency was unwilling to give them. Bolten replied nepa- tively and said that Senator Schweiker has acknowledged that the Agency gave him everything they asked for. Bolten added that there is always a possibility that a document related to a request could turn up because it was filed in a way that it could not be found. Knoche added that, although we believe we cooperated as fully as possible, Bolten is taking another look to make doubly sure that this is correct.
13-00000 12 July 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 12 July 1976
13-00000 Knoche noted the allegation by Frank Sturgis that ,... . vack Ruby met in Havana with Castro ten weeks before the JY BT assasSination of President Kennedy (as reported in the She -9 July Washington Star, article.attached) and commented Kone, that Ruby was apparently in Havana in 1962 and 1963. He 8 added that this topic was covered in the Rockefeller Commis- sion Report, page 252; that Sturgis was not a CIA employee; and that Lapham and Falkiewicz were occupied over the weekend in dealing with various inquiries related to the allegation.
13-00000 Cay 3 August 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 3 August 1976
13-00000 Bolten advised that there was an item on this morning's ABC TV alleging that President Kennedy was assassinated by "Saul, " who met in this building with Hugh C. MacDonald. The Director provided a summary of the ABC story to Malanick and he will check to see whether a Hugh C. MacDonald was ever in this building (see attached).
13-00000 written a book titled On His Search for Saul. 3 August 1976 REFERENCES TO CIA ON TELEVISION NEWS . TUESDAY, 2 AUGUST 1976, 0700-0800 HOURS Hugh C. MacDonald, a career Taw enforcement official was inter- Wiewed by Rona Barrett on ABC's "Good Morning America”. MacDonald claims he was a frequent free-lance employee of the CIA and it was at the CIA Headquarters where he first met the man he calls "Saul"... the man he believes killed President John Kennedy. Mr. MacDonald has
13-00000 9 August 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 9 August 1976
13-00000. Providing the Director a memorandum regarding Agency contacts with John Roselli, Malanick stated that we had no formal contract with Roselli but that we did have some contact with him in Florida and reimbursed him for some expenses he incurred.
13-00000. Berend requested the Director's guidance in the event he receives press queries as to whether the Agency and White House have been in touch \ concerning allegations against CIA which appear in the September issue of Playboy (see attached AP ticker). The Director stated that Berend should reply that, upon hearing the allegation,-the Director immediately notified the White House and is in the process of informing our Congres- sional oversight committees to ensure that they understand there is no validity to the allegations.
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13-00000 10 August 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 10 August 1976 tw
13-00000 . Falkiewicz called attention to an article in the Newport News press alluding to Congressman Thomas Downing's recommendation that the Warren Commission report be re-examined. It was noted that Senator Baker has received a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, and the Director alluded to our planned response to Congresswoman Abzug'on this topic, observing that this whole matter promises to be a continuing problem. Bolten reported that Senator Hart is upset over'a WMAL report that he would not rule out an Agency connection with the murder of John Roselli.
13-00000 Real hie ef BD See P- CE:..RAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 August 10, 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: ODODCI a : FROM: George Bush Director F SUBJECT: Meeting with Senators Baker and Inouye ATTENDING: Clarence Kelley, Jim Adams, and One ' Other, FBI Messrs. Miller, Madigan and Liebengood, - Committee Staff Senators Baker and Inouye George Cary George Bush Two subjects were covered: 1. The Roselli Matter Baker asked what we could do about this. I told him I felt nothing. Inouye was disinclined to have a hearing. I said that I would like to see an FBI study if there were, as Inouye had indicated, a lot of suggestions around that CIA might have killed Roselli. I expressed my indignation at the thesis but said the Agency would want to see a full FBI investigation. Kelley indicated that the Attorney General decided the FBI should not investigate this matter. It was agreed that Inouye, Kelley and I would all talk to Attorney General Levi about this. 2. Playboy Story on CIA/Hughes, etc. | Inouye would welcome an investigation by his Committee © on this outrageous article. I believe Inouye will commission a staff study in which we would cooperate fully. OWTlon, SS) & % 2 % we z ws = %, ao - Lous | P7g.ygl® Ete FMPOET CL whISUS SECRET
13-00000 . SECREL. ’ Frankly, these continuing allegations about CIA burn me up and I told the group that sometimes I felt a little paranoid about all of this, though there was no evidence that there was an orchestrated tampaign to tear down the Agency. I cited stories based on information required through, "freedom of information, as continuing to plague us, resurrecting warmed-over data and then having it run as if it were brand new. I guess we will just have to contend with this for a while longer. ts a SECRET
13-00000 s . e “—— "ARTICLE APPEARED ON PAGE 4.5 WASHINGTON STAR (Gres ae) LO AUGUST 1975 ‘The Nation Baker Asks Data on Roselli Death Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., says he wilt ask the FBI and the CIA to provide any information it has on the murder of John Rosclli, an underworld strongarm man and gambler who testified he made several CIA-sanctioned attempts to assassi- nate Fidel Castro. ; Baker, a member of the new Senate Intelligence Committee, sald yesterday that he would talk with the committee's chairman, Sen. Daniel Inouye, about whether the panel should investigate links between the slaying of Roselli that of Sam Gianca- na, who was slain in his Chicago home in June 1975. “Both agreed to testify on the same subject,” Baker said. ‘Both were involved in the same assassination operation.” wate] Justice Silent on Mercenary Probe The State Depattment has turned information on recruitment of U.S. mercenaries to fight in Africa over to the Justice Department for possible prosecution, Asst. Secretary of State William Schaulele Jr..told the House International Rela- tions investigations subcommittee. ,. But Deputy Asst. Ally. Gen. Robert L. Keuch re- fused yesterday to give details on an FBI investi-. gation into allegations of recruitment of 25 to 39 Americans Chairman Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., said Justice has been investigating for a year without results. : Sthaufele said that ‘we attempted to discourage | Americans [rom going to Angola as mercenaries.” {
13-00000 a PLAYBOY SEPTEMBER 1976. an invesligalize report By Larry DuBois and Laurence Gonzales a ts P< + UNCOVERING THE SECRET WWORLD OF NON, HUGHES AND THE CIA including _ The Buying of the President The Worlds Biggest Intelligence Front The War Within the Hughes Empire | The Untold Story Behind Watergate | Of all the mysteries surrounding the Waterzate affair, perhaps the strangest is that in this, the most thoroughly investigated burglary in history, na pub liely accepted’ motive for the break-in itsel{ has coer been established. A vague notion that a group of Republican-sponsored burglars decitled lo pet some dirt on the Democrats and did so without knocking is still widely belicwed. Lost in the bonanza of books and movies about who did it and how it was done is the central question: Why did it happen? In the vecent: past, same accounts—notably, J. Authony Lukas’ massive Watergate study, “Night- mare”-—haeve suggested that bath the Howard Muaghes organization and the GClA had connections with Watergate, Aud some important pieces of the pucsle were putin place by a few of the investigators an Sam Ergin’s Senate Watergate commitive. But the jrazcte was neuer made whale, the pieces never scemed b fil. A setaf unusual circumstances led viaveuy to tat dertake an investigation of Tliughes and the CLL and fo geta fuller picture of Watergate. Part f of aur report will examine the lints between Fughey and the CIA and the events leading up to Waterzate, Part U, to appear in’ November, will examine the cover-up that succeeded and will reveal how newsmen mo nenee mente feoed Se rFectet Bheoe satPreades ater wel eee wre PART I A SURVIVOR'S NOTENOOKS Te sortvol tke the tena Watergate and link it to Howard Llughes, L think, is rcally tanfaiv, —ron woopwarn, A feril 23, 1976 IN THE SUNG OF 1f7s, ania named Virgine Gonzalez (no relation to Laurence Gonzales) drafted an afhidavit that wis excemted in Mexice Ciiv, fie the sworn docu: ment, he clint to bean ex-CEA svent who was as signed Us nthe agency ta caoniter che activities of Joli Meier. a foraer Ulaghes cxceusive. “At the end oF POF E Virgina Geuedies come. “PE waserdercd roan ieasizcranavcare Clas izes bade! screntitesieee cles activities of Jobat Meier aid was teen o file him... Phis Gle showed that Meier Guus from New York, his car Poatstaress Tile: ental freow bie: pated Preghes cued es aluated the unletpround Tneelear! vesting in Nevada. Die wis Riving the NEC a have cave on beliall af luehies.” Aleier, a computer expert and) covisonmentalist whe dined worked for Tlugises off cal on since P50. was scot te Lin Vera ly Hrevhes to evaluate environ mental problems. Before Hughes moved to Veyas in November (66, he wantel Meier to give hima full repert ou dhe effects of atomic testi an ihe Nevada
13-00000 TOP SKernt CCUCITIVE 12 August 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 12 August 1976 The Director was en route to Georgia to brief Presidential candidate Garter, and the DDCI was meeting with Senator Hart; Wells chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Bolten called attention to the attached editorial in today's Washington Post, "Who Killed John Roselli?" Cary reported on the differences between Senators Baker and Inouye with regard to a Congressional investigation - _and Senator Baker's efforts to reverse the Justice position that this matter is not within FBI jurisdiction.
13-00000 WA SHING TOR a ST WY, E797 df j 7 ho FLL VY ERE GOING TO tell vou a lute story now. YF Once there was a President who was murdered. His brother was murdered tuo. A lone tiie after they died some very strane facks came to light [turned out that while they were running the government, the government was teving to eet bvo fafa mebsters to arrange the muUregy r of someone else-—the head of asmall, hostile neighbor state, Hi also turned out that one brother—the one who was President--appar- ently had a ciilfriend who was the girlfriend as well of the mobsters. And one of the mobsters, whose nickname was Momo, was prominent on the list of criminals the President's brother was trying ta putin jail. The story may sound complicated, but life is com- plicated, aod the complications in this case got even ‘more so. For when a commiitee of the Congress wanted the (wo mobsters te come and Cell them some- thing about all this, only one of them—the one named Johnay— came. The other one, Momo, was inurdered in his house a week before Uney wanted him ic testify. Johnny, however. fold his story to one committee in the Congress and then came back—qui- eiiv—to tell some more thiags lo anuther commitice which was in feet leoking into the murder ef the President. Then Johnuay went to Florida. Then no one could find lim. Then some fishermen found him. Dead. In an oi drum. But we haven't toid vou the strangest part of all vet, the part youre really net going to believe. It is that when the great national political community of solons, scribes, policerncn, spies and inanagers of the feneral: wellbcing heard about poor Johny, they said: “Oh, my cocdness.” Some of them went farther, of course. They said: “Fancy thal!" Bet most of them didn't say anything at all except: “Yawn.” Forgive us for lapsing into storybookese. We do it for a reason which is that the simple unadorned facts ef the John and Robert Rennedy-Fidel Castro-Cls- Mafia-Momo Giancana-Johnnay Roselli-Judith Exner- Church Cemmittee-Schweiker Commillce saga need to be put forward in stark outline for their magni- tude to be understood. Is it really, as the sophisticated wisdom goes, “paranoid” on our part to brood about the supgestive and possibly monstrous Intercennec- tions between all these facts and to wonder why they are not the object of intense press and goverpinent scrutiny? What accounts for the general indifference in high places? What accounts for Uie eagerness with whieh we all secmt to accept that familiar Upoff Uhnat we shall be hearing no more about the latest crime — ie. the pronuuncement Ut Mr. Ruselli’s dispatch to an oi! drum and Bevund had “all the earmarks of a ganehind siaving.” Those -are ihe good old “car- utteks” we ody Aear about when it is nest to certiin that we call hear nell ine aere, The suppusition of course ik that te Gang which ring rauiiaatl bas its reasons and is methods and taal, disagreeable as these ney be, Urey really He out- side ths: proper reahin ef poblie concern beemise they fonn Roselli: ~~ amount to a system of justice which 1) only affects those dumb enough to get involved in it in the first place and 2) tends only to punish those who have cummmitted what the rest of us would regard as hei- nous crimes anyway. Not that these are things people say—thev're things people can be expected to as- sumie. Bul we think in this case the assumptions have even fess validily than they would have on a clear day, which isn’t much. And that is because if we know anything, we know that the Mafia operations in which Messers. Gianeana and Roselli figured had he- come intertwined with the operations of the United Siales covernment. Never mind that the decisions of the early 1969s which made this so may rank among the most abominable decisions ever taken in the US. government. The plain fact is that, given the provoca- tive and sugcestive history of the two men, it is uot possible for either Congress of the Executive Branch ‘to lovk the other way or lo complaisantly accept the varmarks-of-a-gangland-slaying bromide. After Mr. Giancana was killed. the Church Commit- (ee inquired of the FBE whether ils proposed mecting with him had figured in his murder. The FBI res ported that it had no evidence to this effect. The then-dircetor of the CIA, William Colby, felt oblcrd io state that the CIA had had nothing to do with the murder—and Mr. Colby likewise pronounced the other day that he was certain Une CLA had not done in Mr. Roselli. The mere fact that the questions, to which these were meant to be the answers. liad been raised icils us, anyway, that much more in the way of inrjuiry is wanted. The newly formed Senate Sclect Committee on Intelligence has now asked the Justire Department to make an investigation of Mr. Raselli's death. We think the Department should comply and that the iavestivation, d spite FUL Director Clarence Kelley's disclaimer of jurisdiction, should have the Altarney Gencral’s personal attention. Such aiten- tion is needed because of the elaborate and not en-- lirely reassuring history of relationships belween the FBtand the CLA and the various participants in the - whole sorry saga. We are not suggesting Unat any agency of government—or ‘even any of those agen- cy's [ringe relainers —were the murderers. We are suggesting that there is an overlay of polentially em- barrassing-information sufficiently pervasive lo keep ap awful lot of people from wanting to bave this thing aired. We also think that the Select Committee should reserve the right te pursue the matter. Con- press, after all, can hardly be expected to sit idiv by while its witnesses are being done in. Nor do we see how the public in general and the political estahlish- mentin pardicuber can lara their atfontion away une lil we are all sathaed fiat a nie creater effort has been mintie bv the goveramen!—which teens both the Executive Breneh and the Congress—-ts discover What clenients were al play in this series of appatling crinies and sea iats.
13-00000 WASHINGTON POST Al2 THE WASHINGION POST ° Theraday, ltrguse 92, 0976 FEI Says ft Woneet nvestigate _ Murder of Matioso Roselli. ’ : ‘Untted Preys international FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said yesterday the FE has nv juris- diction to investigale the murder of John Nosclli, the underworld figure who (estified he made several at- tempts lo assassinate Cuban Premier " Fidel Castro Cur the CIA. “There is no jurisdiction, at least -that we know of.” Kelley said in a news confercace,” Sen. Hloward If, Baker Jr. i8-Tenns sald Monday he would ask Kelley and CIA Director George Bush to investi- fate the slaying. Baker is a member of the Senate Select Committee on In- telllvence. Roselli’s bode was found Last Satur- dav stuffed in a chatmwelchfed. 55- . gallon drum that was fMoaling ina bay near Miami. Me had been missing since July 28. when he left his sister's home lu play golf. Authorities in Mi- ami, who are investigating, sail he died of asphepiation. Gaker alse suggested thal the intel. ligence commilice luok info a possible connection belween Roscili's death and Uhat of Saia Gianeana, the Chl- cato crime figure who was shot to death in his home in June. 1975. lasclli appeared before the commit. tee shortly after Giancana was mur. dered and lestified he and Giancana had been recruited by the CLA to kat Castia, He said he made several trips fe Cuba in (he cary 1960s and had tried tnsuceessfally fo KHL the Cuban leader with pnison, high-powered rifles and explosives. fe
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13-00000 ~ Lapham related that Dade County investigators will be in Washington and have asked us to run name traces on four Cubans thought to be connected with John Roselli, as well as for the identity of other Cubans who may have been involved or privy to Castro assassination attempts. The Director commented that it is to our advantage to cooperate in every way with the investigators, and in response to the DDCI's query, Lapham explained that the FBI has opted out of the investigation. Lapham went on to report that SSCI staffer Madigan's session with Michael Merhige did not go parti- -cularly well and that he is unimpressed with Merhige, who had some diffi- culty in interpreting the Lapham letter lifting him from his secrecy agree- ment (see Morning Meeting Minutes of 10 August).
13-00000 ? . 16 September 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 16 September 1976 . ; Waller provided the Director a copy of the 28 November 1963 CIA cable referred to in Jack Anderson's 7 September 1976 article (attached) and noted that efforts are under way to determine what action was taken upon receipt of the cable and whether it was provided to the Warren Commission. In response to the Director's query as to whether the cable was provided to the SSC Subcommittee (chaired by Senator Sweicker) that investigated CIA and FBI cooperation with the Warren Commission, Bolten said that the Subcommittee had access to all Agency material pertaining to the Kennedy assassination, including the file containing the cable. The Director asked that we ascertain whether the cable was given to SSC staffer Madigan or Liebengood and, if so, when. In response to Waller's statement that the cable was among 1200 documents CIA released under FOIA to attorney Melvin Belli, Blake said he would determine the date it was provided.
13-00000 Miller noted Bill Miller's advice that the SSCI voted unanimously to proceed with their investigation of Roselli's assassination, and stated that OLC might ask that the Director encourage Chairman Inouye to act on our CIARDS amendments. In response to Bolten's advice that the House Rules Committee voted to establish a new conmittee to investigate the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Waller stated that.a task force headed by the IG is already reviewing all material in the Agency' S possession pertaining to the Kennedy assassination.
13-00000 : FOS a. MULTE 17 a - LOUUNG j . - 7 as a Inox] / snenss i en _— Le . p54 CT} HO INDEX 5 2 "By Howse SMe RECS ALE NOL Oe Lwin HOUSS ATEN: MR. UCCECRGE punroy Meals GG NSPARTHENY OF STATE AVIN: HR. U. ALPXIS Jormson | ldkert3 ib OB2 FEDERAL DURSAU OF INVESTIGATION ; 1 el RCUACR «= CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEUCY | vertiéeo Hip e 4 t Ace ye . oo CAG ? : ‘ be gt a fr PROUTINE; : wow FE rae i rae Iney 2 a1, D/OCI, ODP, C/CK2, VR co MEDIATE ite) INFO CITE|DIR > ey ; Kh ) B50 53 L ON 26 NOVEMBER 1963 A BRITISH JOURNALIST NAME Eso WILSH, mak ALSO KHOWH en er Snr AS JOM WLLSON-HUDSOM »{ GAVE INFORMATION TO THE AMERICAIT EMBASSY. IN LOUDoWw WIELGH INDICATED THAT AN “AMERICAN GANGSTER 'TYPE to VISTIED CURA AROUND 1959. | WILSON IIMSELF WAS WORKENG IW CUBA Att THE TIME AND WAS JAILSD BY CASTRO BEFORE HE WAS DEPORTED. . Til PRISON IN CUBA, |WILSON) SAYS 1 MET AK AMERICA! GAUCSIGR GBUEIER NAMSE SANTOS WHO COULD HOT RETURN TO THE U.S.A. DECAUSE HERE WANs SEVERAL fn, INDICTMENTS OUTSTANDING ACALNS? IM. DiSPRAD IE PREFERRED TO o uve Ul RELATIVE LUXURY I A CUDA PRISON. wTLe sA?OS WAS TH PRISON (“WILSON SAYS, SfTOS WAS VISITED FREQUENTLY BY AN AMERICAN GANGSTER TYPE HAMED RUNY. iS STORY 18 BEING FOLLOWED UP. [wrtsot]says KE NAD ONCE TESTIFLED ABOUT CASTRO ACEIVITIES BEFORE THE EASTLAND COMMITTEE OF ‘THE U.S. SENATS, SOMETIME IH 1959 OR 1960. CLASSIFICATION REVIEW | 206-8 ° t oy a i J aad i a Ube eid CONOUCTED ON a4 MAY i97€ . . END OF MESSAGE : Document Number £ E__IMFDET GL py O720¥ Co of for FOIA Review on APR 4975 Sek oH 2ol2 ‘ by authority of © ee ee ) DPP ; COORDINATING OFFICERS crouP 1 | RELEASING OFFICZR  . ; : Crctuded fem automatic , | AUTHcHTicATitS 5 E G Nn E z SeelsssiGeation REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, " Copy fio.
300000 PD presser eer st ST, Ll Me atte Lmenartna, Bemren senwpen eect “ene ane 88 CR Ooh mcm so: THE § F e° devean and? i108. es Whitten + 925 Beh Dates. WwW ote” an | rT? ES aw Fo oe ad ae “i e ste EG S| wh ’ ERO: ry oO re i o [Mex wee LeU! i Melia mebester Jolin Noselli may have taken the secret cf the Jonna FP. kennedy assetsinaiion with him to his death. He was brutally murdered a few weeks ago, his hacked-up body stuffed Inco an cil drum and dionped into Miaini’s Biscayne Bay. Beiore he died, Roselli hinted to as- sociales that he knew who had ar- ranged President Kenner'y’s murcer. jt was the same conspirators, he sug- posted. whom he had recruited earlier kil Cuben Premier Fidel Castro. By Roselll’s ervniic account, Castro learned the identity of the underworld contacts in Havana who had been trying to knock him off. Ne haijeved, not altogether without basis, that Pres- ident Kennedy was behind the plot. "The Cuban leader, as the supreme ireny, decided to turn the tables and nse the seme crowd to arrange Ken- nedy's asscasinstion, according to Roselli’s scensris. Te save thelr “ehkins, the plotters ined up Lea Marvey Os- wald te pull the trigger. Reselli could never be pinned down on names or details. It wes also diffi- cull lo atsess whether he knew what he was talking about or whether he merely described what he tha: wht might have bippened. Certainly there is no real evidence lo support Roselli’s slory. bul tere are enough curious circumstances to justify teliing It. Here are the fascinating highlights The ruggediy handseme Roselli, a flamboyant mouster wilh underworld contacts in Havana, was recruited by the Centrai Intelligence Agency in 1960 to assassinate Casire. He had no aulbority, however, over the under- world elcments in Havana. Thev were under the loose ona! of Florida’s Mafia chieftan, Santos Trafficante. His gambling enterprises ‘in Havana pad been cloced down by Castro after the 1950 revolvtion. In fact, Traffieante had been lodged for a period jn a Cubsn fall, an indignity that did't endear Castre tv him. After Trafficante made it back to his Florida haunts, he left part of his or- ganization behind in Havana. Some of his henchmen even managed to de- velop contacts in Castro’s inner circle. These vere the people Roselll wanted to use to knock off Castro. But Roselli didn’t have the stature Inside the Mafia to make the necessary arrangements with Trafficante. So Roselli called in his patron, the Chi- cayo podfather Sam (Monio) Giancaia, to deal with T rafficante. As Roselli's associates tell it, he ner’ suaded Giancana fhat it would be to their advantage to vin the good will of the CIA. Couvineed, Glencana flew down to Florida to make the prelimi- nary arrangements. Once Giancane and ‘Trafficante set it up, Roselli used the Havana under- world to plot Castro’s demise. At first, they tried to plent poison pills, siup- plied by-the CIA, in Castra's food. The is would have mmade it appear that he died of natural causes. When this failed, snipers were ‘dispalched to a Havana rooftop. They were caugat. The word reached IMoselli thal sorne of the ploiters had been tortured and i that Castro hed learned about the ’ whole operation. The CIA called off the Reselii opera- flon In March, 1963, but -recrulled a, Castro associate, Rolando Cubela, to murder Castro. WASHINGTON POST! SUP OR I PAE EEE TEER TLRS AES NE EL POA SO RUCEE A SEC LCD NOUS NALS HEP TL CLE Gases: = _ killer. Al least this Is how Roselli ex- i Pe seroma ye, Tuesday, September 7, 1976 C19 in an impromptu, three-hour inter- view with Associated Press reporter Daniel Harker, Casteo indicated that fy be knew about the attempts on his tile and warned Unat U.S. leaders elso | | imiaht not be safe. ‘That was. Sept. 44 853. se Nccording to Reselll, Castro enlisted a the same underworld clements whom i ‘he had caught plotting against him. They suppusedly were Cubans from | the old Trafiicante organization. | Working with Cuban intelligence, they + ‘allegedly lined up an ex-hiarlae sharp- i shooter, Les Harvey Oswald, who had i been active in the pro-Castro -move- ( ment. * My According to Roselli’s version, f Oswald may have shot Kennedy or i may have acted as a decoy while oth- i _ ers arnbushed him from closer rane. When Oswald was picked up, Roselli H suggested, the underworld consnira- tors feared he would crack and diz- close Information that might lead lo i them. This almost certainly would 4 have brought a massive U.S. crack. down on the Mafia.- i So Jack Ruby was ordered to clim- | inate Oswald, making it appear as an act of reprisal apainst the President's plained the tragedy i Dallas. Several key CIA officials believed that Castro was behind. the Kennedy it _iiss assination. weer win y Tit has also been established that Jack U: Ruby, ladeed, had been in Cuba and i had connections fn the Havana under- | world. One CIA cable, dated Nov. 2. | 1963, reported that “an American 4 gangsler type named Ruby” had vis- i: 232 ited Trafficante In his Cuban prison. ' ae + ae marge rorrmees mage rae te ° . a he ay ¢ + hated eae oie ncmenate TRU 108 | Bove we Mes +
13-00000 . Bd see sy me ee mm ne ih 1S ‘wi . SUBJECT: " 9 September 1976 Senate Select Comnittee in ?, v6 Jack Anderson colum (copy attached). | MOUMTLAL  - A _ CONFIGENT [ro co MAS — OLC 76-2564 10 September 1976 MEMORANDUM TOR: Maurice A. Sovern, 0/SA/DO/0 FROM: Donald F. Massey Assistant Legislative Counsel on Intelligence Requests 1. Yesterday I received several calls involving requests for CIA information. I need your assistance in answering these requests. . 2. Mike Madigan, Minority Counsel, called regarding a proposed overseas trip of Senator Garn to CIA stations. The Senator is primarily interested in the counterintelligence field and Madigan would like us to structure an itinerary of approximately ten days around stations where Senator Garn could best learn the counterintelligence field. Before his departure, Senator Gam would want a briefing on counterintelligence, however, _ I ‘Suggest that a visit with George Kalaris would ~--***-- _ recent tragedy in Senator Gam's family 4 fi clay an automobile accident), the trip is in to tentatively plan such a trip for Oct Okd « )o cedecdden 3. Madigan is also looki into t , ’ g ¢) oking into t pet i 28 November 1963 cable referred to in t by DO (Sic) Toms) Tf? 4. Rick Inderfurth stated that th OO pursue the John Roselli matter. In con Ld Orde, Glome’ O a they would like to examine by early nex John Roselli, Salvador Giancana, and Sa x«u/ 4 > _ Committee has already been provided a 9! /- 7 P from Howard Osborne, D/OS, to the DCI rn mentions two Cubans involved with Rosell like access to all files on these two Ci like access to all files on other Cuban: matter. There is some confusion regarding whether the Committee really wants to examine the Roselli.matter or not. Chairman Inouye some time ago told George Cary the Conmittee would not become involved because of the FBI investigation. We will get this clarified, hopefully today,but in the interim please make tentative plans for assemblying all DDO material on these people. NS Attachment: a/s Donald F. Massey Ot AEMTTAL cal mmper et, oy. UE2y/
13-00000 i ee | HAs ee OLC 76-2564 10 September 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: _ Maurice A. Sovern, 0/SA/DO/O FROM: Donald F. Massey Assistant Legislative Counsel _ SUBJECT: ’ 9 September 1976 Senate Select Comnittee on Intelligence Requests 1. Yesterday I received several calls involving requests for CIA information. J need your assistance in answering these requests. . Zz. Mike Madigan, Minority Counsel, called regarding a proposed overseas trip of Senator Garn to CIA stations. The Senator is primarily interested in the counterintelligence field and Madigan would like us to structure an itinerary of approximately ten days around stations where Senator Garn could best learn the counterintelligence field. Before his departure, Senator Gam would want a briefing on counterintelligence, however, I suggest that a visit with George Kalaris would suffice: Because of a recent tragedy in Senator Garn's family (his wife was killed in an automobile accident), the trip is indefinite but Madigan wants to tentatively plan such a trip for October or November. “| em om rod Set Mg 5e 3. Madigan is also looking into the subject of the September 7 ; ill fe yveT Jack Anderson colum (copy attached). He would like a copy of the fiat Sat ‘1 ce fe 28 November 1963 cable referred to in the article for Senator Baker. ? ee ing tb 4. Rick Inderfurth stated that the Committee was going to s pursue the John Roselli matter. In connection with their study, mt they would like to examine by early next week all CIA files on John Roselli, Salvador Giancana, and Santos Trafficante. ‘The Committee has already been provided a 9 December 1970 memorandum from Howard Osborne, D/OS, to the DCI regarding Roselli. This mentions two Cubans involved with Roselli. Inderfurth would also like access to all files on these two Cubans. Finally, he would _like access to all files on other Cubans involved in the Roselli matter. There is some confusion regarding whether the Committee really wants to examine the Roselli.matter or not. Chairman Inouye some time ago told George Cary the Conmittee would not become involved because of the FBI investigation. We will get this clarified, hopefully today,but in the interim please make tentative plans for assemblying all DDO material on these people. ‘Attachment: a/s Donald F. Massey OUD REMTIAL el mpoer ct pv We /
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13-00000 et mena & TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 29 September 1976 te MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD & Morning Meeting Minutes of 29 September 1976 The DCI was at the White House; the DDCI chaired the meeting.
13-00000 Alluding to the upcoming Congressional investigation of the Kennedy assassination, the DDCI advised that, as in the past, there will be a need to refresh the memories of former and current employees and advised that OLC has been given the responsibility for doing same and will work with OGC as appropriate.
13-00000  § October 1976 w MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 5 October 1976 In response to Wells‘ inquiry re the Dade County problem, the DDCI briefed on a call last week from Senator Hart asking that we expedite decisions with regard to what material may be released to the Sheriff's office in connection with the Roselli case. He observed that after the necessary work is accomplished, he will review the options with Senator Hart. A brief discussion followed, and the DCI noted we should avoid the precedent of providing such materials to local authorities.
13-00000 ee en - cee Tee \ 7 8 October 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 8 October 1976
13-00000 ro Cary called attention to the article in today's Post (attached) concerning the House Select Committee investigation of the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He briefed on background provided by Chairman Downing's Administrative Assistant, advised that Downing would like to meet with the Director on 15 October, and suggested that we discuss the Committee's investigation with the White House. The DDCI noted the need to form a group similar to the Review Staff who, under the guidance of OLC, would devote full time to the Committee's inquiry. Cary stated that Pat Carpentier and Chris May will be the focal points within OLC.
i ull Inquiry } Page 14 WASHINGTON POST By Mary Russell ° Washington Post Staff Writer Richard Spracue, sworn in yester- day a3 the acting counsel and director of the House select commilice investi- galing the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., promised that “no document” and “no witness” wauld be begond the reach of his investigation into the murder of lie two Anierican leaders. *Spraxue sald Uhe commiltee had . given him virtually carle blanche to lovk tute the Kennedy and King , deaths, House committee chalrman Thomas Downing confirmed that the commit- ~ fee members would retain only the right lo “veto” Sprague's actions, but would not interfere with his investiga- tion and were civing him total control of hiring and firing staff. Sprague, 31, built a reputation as a determined presecutor when we served as assistant district altorney In Philadeiphia from 1958 to 1974. He won convictions in more than 60 first degree murder cases, losing only one. He is best known for the conviction of . United Mine Workers presitlent W. A. (Tony) Boyle in the murder of Joseph Yablonski. a union opponent. Syravue said yesterday he was ask- ing immediately that a mecting be sect up helween himself and the heads of the Justice Department, the FBI and the CIA. He said if the CLA or FBI at- tempied te withhold material. he hoped Congress would be asked to back up the commitice with contempt citations and “then we could go to the courts.” Sprague emphasized that he was - “entering the Investigation with a * completely open mind,” and added, “f start assuming nothing. { start from ground zero.” Me said he would) sttempt to find oul who dic the killings, what Individ- ! wa's were involved and whether “any -Individual or agency attempled, to. Pw art” the investigations. ; to het — . TI, A Senate select intelligence comm. fee report recently reveaied thei the Warren Commission was not tofd of allompts by the CIA lo assassinate | Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. There have been other revelations that the FBI destroyed a note from: lee Harvey Oswald. In King’s death, Frank C. Holloman, the Memphis po- lice chief and a former FBI official, pulled off King’s black securily guard and dranaferred (wo firemen from a siation across the street from where King was killed on Une day of King’s death. . Sprague said he would conduct the inveslizaions of lhe King and Kennedy deaths simullancously, He refused to- put a dvadline on the investigations, saying he would have to go hack to wilnesse: sian Limes and Hcoutd lake “Space, at years." The select committee, formed only a fow weeks azo. dies at the end of the vear.and must be reconstituted at the bezlaning of the next Congress In January. Rep. Heury Gonzetez (D-Tex) ts ex- peclal to be the new commiltece ehalr- Downing is reliring from Con- gress at the end of the year. Sprague, who is now in the private practive of law, said he would he paid the top salary for a congressional staf( person, aboul $38,000 or $19,000. CBS, Moscow Sign Pact MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (UPID—CHS Ine. Signed an agreement yesterday on cooperation with the Soviet State Com- milice for Television and Radio Broad- casting. The Tass news avency said the agreement provided for “exchange of television and radio ‘materials and mutual assistance in preparing tele- vision and rain programs” on Ife tn the Soviet Uniny, and the United States, CBS also ix competing for U.S. televisicn rights to the 1980 Olympic games in the Soviet Union, - me eceaenee TET Rags, a © cepmmmmemnsnaommD, GenETe ot ~ og
13-00000 “es poy eee 12 October 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 12 October 1976 The Directtr was at the White House; DDCI chaired the meeting.
13-00000 DDCI noted that he had held a small press conference on 9 October at Washington and Jefferson College and was not completely comfortable with his answer to one of the questions concerning our view as to whether the Downing House Select Committee investigation of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King would develop any new material. He asked Falkiewicz to examine the transcript. : fe
13-00000 . Ss ; : TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 29 October 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 29 October 1976 The Director and DOCI were out of the city. Blake.chaired the meeting.
13-00000 bat ba Sa ae eR ERELS Noting newsman Ron Kessler's allegations that Lee Harvey Oswald met with Cuban agents eight weeks before President Kennedy's assassina- tion, Waller said that this matter was thoroughly reviewed by the Warren Commission and Senator Schweiker's former SSC Subcommittee. Bolten noted that Kessler and other newsmen are also trying to determine if CIA pro- prietary organizations are involved in the current South Korean scandals.
13-00000 7 os Referring to the conversation about Ron Kessler earlier in the meeting, Berend stated that Kessler claims to have new information regarding the Kennedy assassination which he would like to discuss with the Agency. As a result of guidance he received from Scott Breckinridge this morning, Berend will advise Kessler today that (a) the allegation of Oswald's meeting with Cubans in Mexico City was reported to the Warren Commission and Congressional investiga- ting conmittees and (b) that in view of the upcoming investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, we deem it inappropriate to discuss the matter further with him.
13-00000 3 16 November 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 16 November 1976 The Director was out of the city. The DDCI chaired the meeting. tw
13-00000 - v eo Waller adyteed that Richard Sprague, Acting Director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, will be here today to undertake a walk-through of file holdings which have been set aside as relevant to the Committee's inquiry. Waller noted that the report of Oswald telling Cuban officials of his intent to kill President Kennedy alluded to in the article in today's Wash- ington Post (attached) was from CIA to the FBI dated 1964 and was proven spurious at the time.
13-00000 . 4 . - WASHINGTON POST Fouse Probers - a Will Seek Fol Oswald Memo Associated Press te The chairman of a House committee lnvestigaling assassinalions said ves- terday he will subpoena an FBI memo Indicaling that Lee Harvey Oswald tald Cuban officials he planned to kill President Kennedy. Rep. homas N. Downing (D-Va.) sald he is aware of the memo only through news reports. The Washing- ton Test reported Saturday that the 1964 memo had heen discovered re- cently by the Justice Department. — But he sald “I feel sure it was” a Z request from his cominittee, estab- lished to probe the assassinations of Kennedy and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that led to discovery of the memo. ; * His comment, made al a meeting of the panel, appeared to conflict with ¢ slatements made to the Associated’ Press by an Informed source who said the memo had been provided to a Sen- ale intelligence subcommiltee earlier _ Unis year. The source said {he memo was writ- fen in 1964 by FBI Dircelor J. Edgar _ Hoover, who quoted a bureau Infer- mant as saying Oswald told Cuban of- ficlals ne planned to kill Kennedy. Ac- cording to the source, the Informant said his Information came directly from Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. . The informant sald Uhe information was based on a report Castro had re- celved from officials of the Cuban em- bassy in Mexico City, the source sald. Oswatd visited the embassy on Sept. 27, 1963, about two months before Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The source said he had read the memo, but discounted Its significance since Castro had made a similar slate- ment publicly in Aucust, 1967, In an Interview with a British Journalist. In its second official meeling, the commitice held a brief public session and confirmed fichard A. Spracuc. a former government presecutor, as chief counsel. Sprague said he intends to hire 160 to P70 investicatars. The panct also agreed to form iwe subcommittees te prohe the Kennedy and King shavings simuftaneousty. fen. Samuct 1. Devine of hie, rank- ing Republican arm thee ceomertidtiee. questioned the action, saysac i would require exeessive start.
13-00000 és: . 17 November 1976 te MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 17 November 1976
13-00000 t Bolten called attention to continuing press coverage of the investigation into President Kennedy's assassination (see attached Washington Post article) and expressed his concern over David Belin's statements which seem to imply that Belin believes documents have been destroyed and that there was a cover-up by CIA and FBI. Stating that he believed Bolten misinterpreted Belin's comments, the DDCI added that Belin has always held the view that the passage of time would make it too difficult to assemble the facts. At the Director's request, the DDCI will call Belin to learn first-hand what he told press representatives. The Director asked if we know the accuracy of press allegations that FBI files contain a 1964 memo written by FBI Director Hoover which indicates that Lee Harvey Oswald told Cuban officials he planned to kill President Kennedy. After a brief discussion, the Director asked that Lapham ask the Justice Department if such a memorandum exists.
13-00000 i q Documents W ere Dest : Aselated Press + A lawyer for the Uouse commiitee * probing the murder of the Rev, Dr. * Marlin Luther King Jr. said yesterday : that documents relating to the case : have been destroyed since the investi- > gation began. : Chief counsel Richard A. Sprague + sald he had not heen officialiy nati. yfied of the dest: ruction but said he had * fearned of it “from an individual whe > has interviewed other people.” @ » Sprague said the documents “would ; have Seen in possession of law on-. , forcement authovitics’ and were “relevayt to our investiszation.” meas pp » struction has [taken pleve] since it owas announced fin September] that this coinmiitce would be investigat- . ing” the murders of Kiag and Presi- “dent Kennedy, he said. Sprague would not say which law enforcement agency had the docu- ments. However, committee member Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.) said he Ae- lieved they had been in the possession of authorilics in Tennessee. where King was killed ti 1908, The Memphis Police Depariment has denied that any ducuments relat- ing to the King case have been de- stroyed. Lt. William Schultz said that ail of the King files were turned over to the state altorney general in Mem- phis. There have been published allesa- tiuns thal sume of the documents were harned in September when the department tlestraved records of Us lelliscues clivision. These rcerords were huened as the department faced tawwsnecds file flee dudivdelaads anv heen the department hed silecediy con- ducted surveillance during the LGUs. . Sprague was “LT have been advised that the de- ° D>, 4 Y G: Pays WASHINGTON POST asked through a spokesman Hf the documents he was referring to were the same as those mentioned in the published allea- tions, He replied “no comment,” but added that his Information did not come from news reports. At the unexpected public session of the House Select Committee on -ssas- sinations, Gonzalez asked staff allor- ney Robert Ozer Hf he had any reason te believe that documents relating to the King case had been destroyed “since the constitution of this commit- tee.” “Ves, sir,” Ozer replied. “I believe there are some documents ‘that have been destroyed.” James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the King slaying and is in prison. In recent years he has made efforls to obtain 2 new trial, claiming his cuility plea was coerced. Yesterday’s hearing, expected to be held in secret, was opened to the pub- lic alter a motion to zo into execulive session [ailed on a 6-lo-6 vole. Rep. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Cont,) led the argument to open the hearing, sayinc, “An important mission f think we ‘have is to conduct a public open [o- rem” Inte the two murders, which have been “gnawing at the conscience of the public.” Problems in Reopening Kennedy Inquiry Cited DES MOINES, Nov. 16 (UPI)—A yeleran government investizalor says problems in obtaining credible evi- dence and the possible destruction of “ key documents could limit Ure ste cess of a new probe inte Une assassina- -Uon of Preshient Kennedy. oye David Belin, a Des Moines attorney who served on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating Kennedy's death and later directed a blue ribbon panel's investigation o: domestic abuses by the Ceulral Intelligence Agency, said the House Select Cem- mittee on Assassinations, which met for the first lime Monday, faces insur- mountable problems In reopening the investigation of the Kennedy a3sassi- nalfon. Intelligence sources have warned that the commitlee may find certain documents missing from the CIA or FBI files and have suggested that the probe be broadened to include a possi- ble cover-up by the two agencies and by U.S. intelligence officers in the years following the November, 196, assassination. “IUs going to be very difficult to pul things together 13 years after the fact.” Belin said. “I think it's impera- live that the FBI and CIA grant com plete access to thelr files, but I think there will be problems obtaining the evidence. “I would, have great concern about the destruclion of any documents.” Belly called for a reopening of the assassination probe earlier this year, predicting that ‘a congressional inves. tigalion would support the Warten Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. However. he said the “Cuban con- nection.” Oswald’s possible involye- ment with Cuban Premier Fidel Cos- tro, had not been explored, Belin said documents recently re- leased to him by the CIA under a Freedom of Information Act request “could be interpreted as sunporting fhe reports urn possihie reinuonship hetween Osaald and the Cuoan toy. ernment.” reer etnteee cr errant
13-00000 | a a a 18 November 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 18 November 1976 The DCI was out of the city. DDCI chaired the meeting. te
13-00000 8 In response to the DDCI's inquiry, Lapham advised he is checking as to whether any of our employees have received subpocnas from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. In response to the DDCI's inquiry, Lapham advised that we have | not yet heard from Justice on the existence of a 5 June 1964 memorandum containing information that Oswald told Cuban officials he planned to kill President Kennedy (see Morning Meeting Minutes of 17 November). ae
13-0000 0 ? ” rouse Unit Ovens es , &.' Of JFK, Dr. King By Richard L. Lyons Washinaton Post Stalf Writer The House Select Committee on As: sessinations has besun what may be the biggest and most expensive of congressional investigations mas it seeks final answers to the murders of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The committee yesterday issued ahout 10 subpoenas secking informa- lion from various agencies on the shooting deaths of President Kennedy in Dailas in 1963 and of Dr. King in Memphis in 1998. The committee. cre- ated by the House in September, ts - seeking answers to lingering ques- tions as to whether Lee. Harvey Os- wald alone killed Kennedy and whelher James Earl Tay alone killed King or whether the accused assassins. were part of larger conspiracies. The committer staff! would not say specifically what the first subpoenas sought, But thes reportedly were sent to iaw enforcement agencies that had expressed willingness to turn over the | matectals but wanted them submitted under subpoena, The committee will have only bezun its work when it expires with the end of the 94th Congress on Jan. 3. But it is expected to be sueedily reconsti- tuted and to conlinue its work on a greatly expanded seaic. The probe could last the full two- year life of the 95th Congress. Now that the House has decided the Inves- tigation is needed, it would he politi- — -cally difficult to cut 1 short because that woul! leave the comimitice open to charges of cover-up. The commillee is now operating on a - budyct of $159,000 and has assembled a siaff of about 25 with headquarters _in three rooms of an old FBU building back of the MEW headquarters which the House has taken over as an annex. Chief Counsel Richard A. Spracue is working up a budget proposal that calls for a staff of 170 persons next “year, Such a statf could run the cast up te S3 million or S4 million if the investization lasts mere than a vear, The bizcest resent convressional in- veviustions were the Senate Waler. - gale invesiivation i [87374 and the House Judiciary Committee's inquiry WASHINGTON POST thal recommended impeachment’ af President Nixon in 1974. The Senate investigation cust about sz million over 19 months and had a professional Staff of 25 with backup personnel. The impeachment inquiry cost nearly S135 million and had a staff of Just over 100 at the peak. The proposed cost of the ‘assassina- tion inquiry has raised some eyebrows at the Capitol. But Chief Counsel Sprague, a tough Pennsylvania prose- culor whe won a murder conviction against ousted United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle in the killing of UMW rebel Joseph Yablon- ski, telis members that if they are a0- ing lo make an investigation they should do it right——lo end the doubls, nol conduct a halfway investigation that leaves them hanginy, To Sprague the job is a criminal in- vestigation of two homicides, from scratch. By contrast, the impeachment inquiry did no investigating of its own. It assembled and evaluated in- furmation collected by others—much of it on Nixon's lapes. Ata meeting this week, the assassi- nation committee, ‘on Sprague’s rec- ommendation, crealed two subcommit- tees to conduct concurrent Investi- fations of the two deaths. One, headed bg Rep. Richardson Preyer (D-N.C.), will lock into the death of Kennedy. The vther. headed by Dele- gate Walter E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.), will investigate the death of Dr. King, with whom he worked in the 1960s. The proposed budget would assign “to each of these subcommittees 15 al- torneys, 23 investigators and 40 back. lip personnel, Ever since the (wo leaders were kitted, there have heen duubis dat @xwaid, who was killed before he was brought to {rial, and Ray, who fe pleaded guilty and never went lo trial,’ acted alowe. Congressional leaders had resisicd pleas for further Inquir- ics. Bul this year the [louse went ahead because of new Information, such as revelations about efforts by the CLA ' to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Cas- tro before Kennedy's assassination. and the request by black members of - Congress for a Joint ipquiry tnto the’ two dealhs. Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.), as chief sponsor of the resolution ercating the committee, was named chairman. But he will retire from Congress al the end of the year. If tradition is followed, Rep. lenry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.), committee vice chairman and longtime sponece of a similar resolution, will become chair- man in January. re
‘19 November 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 19 November 1976 The Director and DDCI were en route to Plains to brief President- elect Carter. Wells chaired the meeting. ‘ Mulholland reported that the Cuban weekly Bohemia yesterday carried a story that the Agency was involved in 21 plots to kill Castro, He stated that the story was probably to counter U.S. press reports that Castro was involved in President Kennedy's assassination and also might be in preparation for Castro's planned series of press conferences, which are now scheduled to be held sometime in December.
13-00000 ~ ~ 26 November 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 26 November 1976 we , Waller critiqued the item in today's Washington Post by Ronald Kessler, "CIA Withheld Details on Oswald Call, related that David Phillips advised this morning that statements attributed to him are misleading, and closed by noting that the one fact we allegedly withheld concerned only Oswald's request for a {ree trip to the Sovict Union. A brief discussion followed on the possible source of Kessler's material, and later in the meeting, the undersigned recalled that a few years ago the IG and LA Division were con- cerned over a manuscript done by deceased former COS/Mexico Win Scott and then in the hands of his widow. The DDCI noted that we will examine our records on this.
13-00000 Cary noted his under standing that the visit here by Richard Sprague of the House Select Committee on Assassinations went well.
13-00000 : coop tees oF Eng oy cnet at te he ws be “oo # eee at . vy fy . ‘of Ry Roncld Kessler Tashirneton Post Siall Writer {In Gate Somember, 1999—ercht we sks before tue assassination of cre KennedyeeLea liareey ig sciophened the Soviet crorassy ‘a avateo City and tried to sage a ha exchance for wnsnrrificd ine mation, he wanted a free trip te Nils 54a, This conversation was inleccemed and reenrded iv the Centre) ined licence Agency at (he lime. Bu: it vat pee then turned over fa fre Ps, ‘shy une roeconstbliity far ce versie ‘ae cassehin Spies, and i ras nat a? laren? over ie the Warren Com ion during its investigation of she aasinailon. The tnenswered gteslion fis why nol? ‘the exietence of the CTA teievhone itereept of Oswald's conver: atin in Steven Cite and the contents of the sbbsecret transeript have be.e veri- fied by fie Washington Peat. fae Pual has ale verified thal the CLA failed ta turn ever the complete transcript to eilmer the FDC er the Warren Commission. Instead. the CIA save Ibe FRI in Octoher, 197, ouly a brief report say lug Ciswald had made conccl with the Russians, It seve the Warren Commiccnn = transenint of tla tanned canversaticn hut fer unexnisined ren- sens failed to ticlude in the transerint Osaakes afer of information and his su cvestion that Uhe Russians would weal to pay his way to the Soviet Union, The Past has aiso determined that the CLA, for unexplained reasons, tule, tha Warren Conminission thet it learned nf mest of Oawald’s wlivities ut Miexige City only afler tag essa. sination, The fact is. however, thal the CIA monitored and lane-recorded his conversation with hath the Hus. san and Cuban embassies in sloxicn Cite In the fall of 1955, before Ken- nols's death. Ik was the CLA's bellef that the two embassies were heavily involved in ine spy besingss nd linat, snectfi rate, they were operations) hase for deve thi fence ectisilies ni rected af te United States, Sane ve Bo) b) Shey Ce ae feu remnaestion ¢ ef "ha vi Pee ts, atee FE. 8 te e by 088 Phe Ci v8 expecially interested fe US. ge iris whe made eemtnet with the embassies, oseeee va Poel, "Heard the tape before the assa Ws SHINGTON ee a © 8 oan ~ shen Oswald showed ot. ca orp, “haetoe ty in iste Septem, sr peed Hoeonaned (he Kussian ema iv, iis ronverealon was picked up ite ble wiretap. A transeriptl was meer sovd eitgniated in the ClA ‘alfices mn tire American embassy in Mexieo Cit: ‘The station chief at that thd fhe tale Winston AL. Scott, & sonmly reviewed all (ranscri nating from wirclaps on Savist 3 installations, “The Cswald transcript, according te a CIA translator who worked «ith Sent, aroused a fat of Interst. “They usually pieked up the trea eripts the next day,” .he s saved. thins they wanted right away.” What that transcript contain tis 3 matter of some dispute, and the CiA gav3 it roulincly destroyed the tape hefjre the aszassinalion. Bul some Peaple whe saw: the transeript or ASSEN tion recall that Oswald wes ying to make a deal, One of them is David A. Phillips, a former CIA officer, who now herds the Association of Retlred Infediicence Officers and is a leading dutender of CIA activilics. Phillips was sta- tioned in Mexico City at the time. The lrarscript veveated. Philips ev- valled. that Oswald told the- Soviet enibasaa: “—E have information vou would be interested in, and 1 knew you can pay my wav” to Russia, The slenoxrapher who typed up the transcript and Une translater who pre- pared il hal similar recollections. “fle said he had some Information to tell them.” the typist said in an Interview in Mexico. “His main en eern was yelling to one of the two eountries (Russia or Cuba) and he wanted them la pay for it. He sald he had tu meet them.” The Wareen Commission wocer eon. cluded (he Hussians and Cotbans were nol much impressed by os ud ‘This view is supported by Svivéa Lruran, a Mexican cilizen who workoet in the Cuhan embassy at the fime af ors welds vesit. She talked lo pc goeet cone Sep, 27, We. aud recalls the meet- tue in <ome detail, Ina joiat interview in Mesics City with thi. reporter aad Dost soveial rorrestenleut Marlise Sintons, Decgn aes ene «tg em setttbel Sehg feet he wanted gee, eal tee € tebe g eened fetes sce cartel edie gee af Pevectaeveoroehs fey oh ate kes 4 Pens] Se) Se Oe CP TY OS TTT) tabdte o Peactes, dees qdiageces of dep Geet oo ORae tty Bet gt Gone Vangeeea coe t+ onsaganee- Oa. eRe ere, vee tot Barta. + Ge. Pos tari atld she informed Oswald beat oan onder lo travel to Russia he seterd ave to oblsdin pormission (rom tive soviels, Oswald went off and re- faanerd tater in the dav lo faform Parc thief he had obtained the nace- essary permission, Duran sald she cieled the Soviel cmbassy and was totd Coanald'’s applicallon for a visa sould Coke Utree to four months to precess, Infurmed of this. Duran said, Oawald “sot ceally anery and red. tle wes vestioulating.” Deran said she had to call for hefp from Che Cuban const whe gol into a shoutline match with. Oswakt and toid him ta aet oil. Durad said she never saw hin again. - However, Duran’s story covered only the first dav of Oswald's tive-day slay fi Adexico Cily. Oswald later ce. ferred jt: a fetter to “meclings’ he had in the Soviet. Embassy. Huw interested the CIA was in Oswald's dealings with the two cm. bassies is uncertain. ‘The translator ond typist who han- d‘ed the transeript of (he intercerted comversition recalled that the level mt onierest was high Bud the COA‘s own achions lead du a aittercet cents clustun, The wailed unfll Get 10, 1053. to nalify the EDI of Gewald’s activities, And its (elelyped report made no mention of Oswald's offer of information in exchange ler a tree trip to Russia or of his atterints to travel to Cuba and Russia. “On Oc- tober {, 1963," the teletyne message said, “a reliable and sensilive source mm Wexico reported thal an American male. who identified himself as Lee Oswald, contacted the Sovict Embassy in Mexico Cily inquiring whether the enibassy had received any news concerning a telestam which hea been sent to Washincton.” : That was strictly a rouline handling or the matter, and similar tu the simndard reports made to the FBE at that. time on other contacts with the communists by American cifizens in Alexico. eveney
13-00000 a i wil’ dy wali 7 [en ater Kenneds’s assassination, tier CER feted Le Gara over to thee Warten Cecdevmbesisas the fell tec. ery et the telephone iutercepl i hae tuade in Mexteo Cily. Oswald's offer of injermation to Uhe Russians in ete eigice tor passage was omitted tram ihe iranserint, and the CLA claimed it clic? tet Kaw of most of Oswald's activities an Mexico City um il alter the assassination, The <t2niticance of the CIA actions is ditticull te assess. The FBI in the fall ot INUT was already showing tm- termittent inlerest in Oswalei ane might wr might not have intensified thet iterest ff it had been lald af Uswakls conversations, “Whether the new information wouid have affected Uhe Warren Conmmis- sion’s deliberations is also an open question, The commission  investi- gated the possibility of a furcign con- spiracy and concluded there was no evidence to show Oswald acted on behalf of a foreign power. Nevertheless, there is vel mo cx- planation for the CIA's handling of Oswald's conversations. The CLA to- day reiuses to comment, saying it would not be appropriate in the Jictht” of an impending investigation by the House Select Committee on Assas- sinaliqus, When asked if Uhey could explain the asenes’s actions, some CIA of- ew F ah g _ a ™ + fiecrs stationed al Uhe time in Viexice City said the CA may have had a relationship wilh Oswald that il sought de conceal. ‘The CLA has de- nied this, : David W. Belin, who was aa as- sistant counsel to the Warren Com- mission and fater execulive dire tor of the Reckefeller commissivi’s prabe or the CHA, said that ff the Warren Cummission had known of Cswald's conversations and olher new inior- mation, id would have been [vss sure that the assassinalion was not part of a foreign conspiracy. Sen. Richard §S. Seliwerker laity who led the Senate imellicenes cons. mitiee’s probe of Uhe assassination, sald that finvestigalion scoald have taken on an “entirely disterent  i- rection and perspective’ Wo the com. mitlee kad Séen aware of Oswald's couversations. tn futerviews wilh The Post, Helin. who documented the CIA pluts against Castro in his capacity as oxecutive | director of the Rockeleller comnts: sion, revented the CLA alsu cid not tell the Warren Conumission ef a report from an alleged witness to a meeting in Mexies City between Os- wald aad Cuban Intcllizence agents. At the lime, Cuban accents coordi. nated their more important activilies with avents of the KGD. the Sevict intelligence service, nm, J: LISW ALT Ua: Belin called on the CIA te make full disclosure of its knowledde of vawald and iis contacts wilh the Cubans and Russians. Belin, a staunch defender of the Warren Commission's cesncbitsiess Useat Oswald was fhe lone assassin who killed Keunedy, said he recounizes the CIA's concern about disclosing seeret sources and Intelligence tech- niques. But he sald a greater na. tional interest would be served by lisclosing the truth. A CIA spokesman specifically de- nied that the agency has a renort of aimeating belween Oswald and Coban agents, “The azency is aware of ontv ave such soecific allegation, aac that awas debunked,” the spokesman said.
13-00000 . r TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 30 November 1976 . MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 30 November 1976 The Director was out of the city. The DDCI chaired the meeting.
13-00000 gc 2 a Cary highlighted his session yesterday with House Assassination Committee Staffer Sprague and noted work under way to expedite necessary clearances for Sprague and staff. The DDCI urged that the Inspector General and General Counsel to hasten their review of material that can be released on the Kennedy assassination under FOIA. The DDCI concurred in Bolten's suggestion that the Inspector General's critique of the 26 November Washington Post Kessler article be declassified and pro- vided to Sprague as soon as possible.
13-00000 - TOP SECRET SENSITIVE ] December 1976 of MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD \ Morning Meeting Minutes of 1 December 1976 The Director was at the White House. The DDCI chaired the meeting.
13-00000 In response to Cary's advice that he will meet with Richard Sprague this morning to provide Agency information relating to the Kennedy assassi- nation, the DDCI stated that yesterday he provisionally cleared Sprague in order that we might move ahead rapidly in granting Sprague access to clas- sified documents on the matter. Cary noted that Justice has agreed to use DCID 1/14 clearance requirements and is anxious to proceed with clearances for the HSC members and staffers. He added that he will leave with Sprague a draft of the secrecy agreement that we worked out with the SSCI.
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 2 December 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD ° Morning Meeting of 2 December 1976 tw The DCI was attending an NSC meeting. The DDCI chaired the meeting. a
13-00000 4 = *Cary briefed in considerable detail on his 4-hour session yesterday with the Acting Director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Richard Sprague, who tabled a number of questions that we will be responding to. The DDCI cautioned against our assuming responsibility for tracking down the identity or whereabouts of individuals. In response to his inquiry, Blake noted work under way to expedite clearances and obtain appropriate secrecy agreements. The DDCI asked that consideration be given to his or the Director's meeting with Chairman Gonzalez. fe
13-00000 oe 3° 3 December 1976 tw MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 3 December 1976
13-00000 Cary noted that Reader's Digest wishes to talk with Walter Elder regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and Nosenko. The Director asked that Falkiewicz advise Elder not to grant the interview. ..... ve
13-00000 6 December 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting of 6 December 1976 tw! Cary noted that he talked with Richard Sprague last Friday about the DDCI's suggestion that the DCI and/or the DDCI meet with Representatives Downing and Gonzales, current and future HSC*Chairmen (see Morning Meet- ing Minutes of 2 December). In response to the DDCI's explanation that the meeting would be to discuss security arrangements with the Committee, the DCI agreed to meet with Downing and Gonzales but suggested meeting also with Representative Preyer, the senior Democrat handling the investigation of President Kennedy's assassination.
13-00000 — — crm ores Ps 8 December 1976 te MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Morning Meeting Minutes of 8 December 1976
13-00000 Cary advised that he will be meeting with the Acting Director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Richard Sprague, today and added that Sprague has suggested that Chairman Downing and Sam Devine be present when they meet with the DCI.