104-10065-10033 MEMORANDUM FOR : VIA FROM SUBJECT pore ge & who URART Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence S.D. Breckinridge : Letter of 11 September 1978 from Chairman Stokes, House Select Committee on Assassinations 1. Action Requested: A recommendation for your approval is at paragraph 3. 2. Background: The House Select Committee on Assassinations execution, and Stokes, a copy of interest to subject of the (HSCA) has let a subpoena lapse without the 11 September letter from Chairman of which is attached, lists five items the Committee, some of which were the earlier request. The five items are “noted and commented on briefly below: a. The letter specifies interest in "mug books" shown to a Cuban defector. Having raised the questions, the letter then goes on to say that this "is ne longer a matter in dispute." The material ‘has been available for review by HSCA personnel for some two weeks now. b. The Committee is interested in “all debriefing memoranda" relating to a Cuban defector. This was one of the subjects in the. subpoena and relates to . ‘’-hriefing memorandum LURES y Oe $114
14-00000 (numbered 40) in a series of sequentially numbered documents. In fact, we believe that a debriefing memorandum that is unnumbered, but that appears to have been in, sequence of debriefings, has: been reviewed by the HSCA investigator. That investigator has been briefed on this and a | written summary has been available for his review. Chairman Stokes may not have been informed accurately on this point and we think that the explanation available is a valid one. c. The HSCA requests "all files and file references" to a person not named in the lettey, but who was William K. Harvey. The HSCA has seen the official personnel folder on Mr. Harvey for the period requested (1959-1966). The Office of Security files were also reviewed, but these had been sanitized to remove references to personal difficulties experienced by him in a | later part of his career. No complaint had been made to the Office of Security about the sanitiza- tion, and they are ready to show these sections to a senior member, only, on the HSCA staff. | d. The HSCA request for "the three volume history and analysis" of the Mexico City Station was a subject of the subpoena. It is
14-00000 en 2 inaccurate to describe it as an anlysis, and it is more a compilation of terse summaries than a true history. It covers a (fwenty-two year period \ in the history of the Station from(1947\to 1969, with a wide range of subject matter that by any i f normal reasoning is irrelevant to the question of the assassination of President Kennedy. The rationale offered up by Mr. Blakey is that he must understand the history of the Station to evaluate its performance during the investiga-_ tion of the assassination. While chejpasition has been that this is irrelevant to the charter of the Committee, LA Division is prepared to ro let either Mr. Blakey or his deputy, Mr. Cornwell, review this. We realize that both gentlemen are very busy, but the total compilation is too sensi- tive to let the young men on the staff have access to it. e. The request for access to "all files and file references to.a Cuban citizen" for the period 1 September 1963 through 31 January 1964 raises the question of the Proenza case and a deception operation in which Miss Proenza was one of the targets. Contrary to the statement in the letter, 3