Released under the. John F Ke of 1997 (44 Use 2i07 Hote; oir _danos Dik, Starz lenber of" ‘the. "SSC, ie Bann 1 a -An room: ‘on: the: eixth floor of: ‘the Carroil- oF ‘the: S8C, "participated during. portions nt the vestions Bre: Alfred ‘Hy "Fred": “Ward: of- Ward: and. ‘Paul: Stenog “\ Geporters, Inc. The deposition. concerned matters relat “" @@ FSY mail intercept prograns: aad the. recoipt. by. t! FST: 4 Om certain material resulting . fron: a. ct sautiiads -Ante: core ‘and at: was ‘conpleted at.6:15 peme ‘ir. D 2 Skat he had. been placed under oath by. de “.. Schweiker of Pennsylvania on. ‘Getober:: a : i a . aie: deposed with regard. tc another. wetter. ‘and Wannald ‘Stould | i." l@eneider binself as being still under oath for the'p ‘poses: op yp of: the current deposition... > Wannall. was ‘advised 9: sate ve _. and was. told. that. since a Senator was: ‘Bot present ts |  gequest.a discontinuance at: any. ‘tine. ; by ... that: the results would be recorded and: he ‘would’ giver * ORpORtHRATY: to ‘review ‘the. transcription, at: a later, date eee - DAvector Clarence Me. Kelley: of the FB ‘evi- 7 ously. reloased ¥Vannall from his: secrecy agreement: to permi be deposition with. } weepect ‘to eh" ‘matters. ‘covered. os oO eonientine the. information furnished ‘by: ‘bin at of magnall ti « "- . gpecific questions. The material is not necessarily set) forth: ip the order is which the. questions were > Aaked. And the esponse ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY TO AG. _ ; . ant Director W. Re wane | Docld: 32312311 Page 2
Released ‘undér ‘the John F., Kennedy" Assassination Records, Collectioh Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE;, 11-14-2017 ; | * pe Naren etn nit oe tee » > ° . : ‘ ae . . . > j . ° ° . ve , is ' + fee's: oo? \ } 2 . 5 A i ‘ é . . a " ¥ $ ¥ . ot “ # ' | ; ! SENATR SELNCT COMMETTER OW INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) RSs DEPOSITION OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WY. RAYMOND WANNALL noted that the initials at the bottom of the mesorandum indicated it had bean Aroraved at least by former Associate Director Clyde A. Tolsen aad it was possible the memorandum ‘had mone ivto former Director Hoover's office, although this . €ould be cainblished only by checking the: time stamp on the | yeverse Gide of the one~page memorandum. : . ; he third exhibit shown te Wannall was a memorandam ‘dated May 15, 1963, from Wannall te ¥, C, Sullivan captioned "Bureau Iuformant 200 - Policy." This memorandum did net . @ontain the initdals of Yannall but be acknowledged that he | Bed yvead elther the memorandum or a copy of It. Tais - ‘memorandum had Qlao been dnitisied by Hr. Telsen and had hd 7 beon prepared fox the purpose of sendiug to CI4 an evaluation | . of 3467 separate items reeeived by tha FEY as a result of tke BuntereVince coverage, if was recommended that an attached ieee hs «so #emerandum containiog the results of this evaluation be ih furnished CLA “fox assistance ef that asency in evaluatiag ed the program and reinatitution." A sentence had beea hande written after this recoumendation and the handwriting was recocnized as being that of former Asgistant te the Director Alan li, Belmont, and this was called egecifically to ir. Dick‘s ' -gttenmtion, Hr. Delment’s seatence read “CIA will be told | _ _ the decision is up te thea.* mo “Tee! Responding te specific questions, Vannell acknowe ledeed that he was aware of the foregcing information that 7 : CiA°’a Kew York project which produced the Cuban mail overated. poy | for approxisateiy ons month berinaing in February, 1965, and og | that to the best ef his knewledve only 347 separate items,  ¢hoge evaluated in the May 15, 1963, memorandum, were received. Warnell said that xr. Belweont’s written sentence on the morandum wic,interpreted by Wannall as an iustsuction te convey to CIA the fact that the #5 wae not requesting a _eontinuance-.oce roinstitution of the Zunter-Vince coverage bat that this decision should be made by CIA, The next three items exhibited to Wannall vere {1} a Kerox copy of an airtel] dated December 21, 1008, sent grom the Directer, SI, to_the Special Agent in Charsce {SAC}, HMinnd, captioned [’Penetrata, Bspionage=Cubajz* (2) a xerox | Docla: 39312311 Page 3
| Released undér ‘the John F., Kennedy Assassination Records ,Collectioh A&A 3 a we Cc ct of 1999 (44 USC 2710 . DATE:, 11-14-2017; + ‘ 1 . orf i +4 yO, : worr? i ¥ SHMATE SRLECT COMMITTED ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (8SC¢) ‘Gr DEPOSITION OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR W. RAYMOND WANHALL f copy ef an airtel dated June 25, 1965, addressed to the | Director, FEL, by the SAC, Miami, captioned “Joe Survey, . Espienage-Cuba;* and (3) a Xerox copy of an airtel dated duly 22, 1066, addressed to the Director, FEI, Attentioat juspector William 8. Hyde, by the SAC, Miami, aise captioned ae “Joe Gurvey, Espionsee-Cubs," These communications revealed - a that on Uecenber 19, 1068, Chief Postal Inapector Hh. De ; Yontapue genve his approval for aa FEI plaa to sereea mail b in Miami and ingtructed the Hiami Office to proceed with | this screening on January 2, i065, after the rush of |. €hytistmas mail, ‘he necessity for discreetness and the i procedures for handling the initial juspection of mail . |: weee get forth and it waa poiated cub that if it becane  geeessary Zor any of the letters of the subject, Penctratey® | (@ code name for a then unidentified Cuban Inteifipeace | goat) te be sent to the FGI Laboratory in Washington! pote . Fox special processing, this would Lave to be hendled by mn ' g Hiamt Office Ageat who abould pergcnaliy take the Letter — to the Laboratery by plane and then return it to Mine’ for insertion in the aorwal mail flew after processing by the Laboratory. so . ite, Dick duquired as to whether Chief Postal ‘Zrepecter Montague had beea briezed to the extent that he waa told the AI would be opening mali, Vanuall cadled Mr. Dick's attention to @ note on the yellow file copy whieh indicated that the FEI bad originally intended to oo use the pouch of cenmercial airlines pilots to transmit \ . from Miani to Washington; however, Br. Heatague wanted pail to be heudled only by Dureau Agents. Wanneail said that wiiile he Bad an knowledge as to the aeope of the briefing of Er. Youtague, it wowld appear thet he wae aware o£ the tact that mail would be removed from normal mail channels althouga it was not felt that 1t could be stated fron the acte that Hr. Moutague was told that the envelopes would be epened and the contents reviowed ano processed. o ha second item in this series was advice from the Miand office that Mr. J, A. Callahan, &saistant Iespector in Charge, U.S, Post Office, Atianta, Caorgia , ' contacted the Hiand Office concerning this mail iaterceapt | i | DocTA: 32312311 Page 4
NORTE, i420 aa  Kefinedy Assassination Records, Oe Ret of 1992 ( 44 use 2107 Hot ve Co , eo | no, - | f : *. SENATE SELECT COMUZTTES ON INTELLIGENCE Al LVITIES (SSC) BE: DEPOSITION OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FW. RAYROND WANGALL  procram which carried the code words "Joe Survey” and went over the detsile of the operations at the request of Y ii, Montague, Jt was reported that Callahan tela the ~ -  *Miamd oftice that due to investigations by Senate and Cougressional Comaittecs Mr. Eoatague had requested he bo advised of the procedures used in this operation. fir. Callaghan wee eaid to have stated that he had no ef oriticism to offer after the procedure was discussed Gnd, according to his conversation with Er. Hontacue, | . he plauned to give his approval to the cperation asd | * £¢ would be continued. : an DO She third exhibit in this series, the sirtel . #¥om Biami dated duly 22, 1966, reported that the Jos Survey Rad been discontinued as of July #1, 1906, in accordance with Bureau isstructions and that Postal inspector Maurice Campbeil Bnd advised that he felt sure the survey could be reestab= lished at any time if se desired by the Sureaue Wannall was asked by what meane the Bureau had inatructed that the Joe Survey be discontinued and ke vesnonded that he did not have kacwledge regarding this. Asked if he knew why it was discontinued, he stated that Lt une hig recollection that former Dixector loover in ‘Juby, 196¢, ordered a discontinuance ox certain techuiquee which had been thereteiore utilized and he delt that the interception of mail was one of the techniques discontinued ap a reguit of Ms. Heover‘a instructions. po 7 +, Regponding te specific questions, Wannall of gtated that ag he recalled the interceptios of mail in. ke doe Survey Lad resuited in the identification of | @Lvenetrate”| and one other Cubso Intelligence Agent, bots of whow were gouding letters te Cuban intelligence mail @rope abroad. Me durther advised that trom a review of paterial available in FEI files, be had learned that approximately 420 letters had been opened during the ecurse of the Joo Gurvey and that in €9 insteaces Becret writing wag discovered either on the envelopes or ou a the contents of the envelopes. He said it was his undere gtanding that in establishing the presence of the eecred , writing no damage reguited to the lettere or envelopes ‘+ end that the mail was placed back into postal channucis | Docla: 32312311 Page 5