(to4-10005-40344 85,.°7Y, | : ENG Oo Groun 7 cy, APPROVED FOR RELEAS® $953 ot ag, Use of anal Chieg 7 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PRvstici | 3: January 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General SUBJECT . =: HSCA Investigations 1. Roger Gabrielson of OLC (now handling the HSCA since Doug Cummins’ retirement) came to see me last week about requests from Mr. Blakey. I had heard elsewhere that Blakey is restless at the way the Agency is responding to his requests, and Gabrielson told me that Blakey now wants to seé the materials on which our Task Force's report is based. I expressed~the opinion to Gabriel- son that I thought we could work out how HSCA staff members could see the basic documentation. We have some of these specific back- up documents for many of the statements made in the Task Force report. LA Division has the voluminous files Onamuth of what we have to say is based. CI Staff has the so-cal ley Oswald file. I suggested different rules for the different material along the following lines: a. Tab C contains. material making possible the identity of Cubans in jail as well as AMLASH. This presents problems that I thought we could discuss with “the HSCA. I mentioned specifically reading without © note~taking. I observed that Blakey had declared the AMTRUNK section as irrelevant, which takes that entire section out of consideration so far as the HSCA is con- rned. b. I noted that Tab D, on AMLASH, contained a-lot of information that would permit his identification. They already know his true name, and we allowed the Church Committee to review the actual files in their raw form. I thought that we could given them the same access subject to the note-taking: reservation and re- strictions in the final report. c. Tab E is a list of all the documents produced and disseminated in connection with the Warren Commission investigation. The actual documents are in the possession of CI Staff and something could be worked out on this. We spoke briefly on Russ Holmes sanitizing things ( a hor- rendous undertaking). 8 a
14-00000 “IPy hs 0 deny ° ” d. Tab F has the details of? dperational coverage in Mexico City, including liaison > teltaps, photographic operations, and surveillance teams. I expressed the opinion that Mr. Cornwall be asked to review this himself, in lieu of other staff members. . 2. I expressed the opinion to GabrieTson that the details would have to be worked out with the appropriate DDO components, namely, SA/DDO, LA Division (Sturbitts) and CI Staff. 3. .Maurice Sovern is concerned that a bureaucratic hiatus (change in DDO leadership and that of SA/DDO,;as well as the departure of Cummins) will place us at a disadvantage in establishing satis- factory ground rules on.a timely basis. Blakey is pressing for accelerated support; CI Staff has assigned several people to help Russ Holmes. Blakey may find that a combination of pressures (which I am sure he has been told by others worked) will find us where we were a couple of years ago. We will always reply more slowly than the investigators want and there may be some uncertainty in the Agency at this moment as to how much understanding there will be for the nature of our problem, as well as support while we try. and work it out. ° 4. It might be more than useful if you injected yourself into this at this point. You-may recall that during the investigations in 1975 the IG chaired a committee of Associate Deputies to establish ground rules and to ensure that in cooperating it did not compromise the protection of sources and methods. May be it is time again. oo. S$. D. Breckinridge Be dq ONE eR om tems gemeg We DWE bee ce Oba de
14-00000 ' File on Item #18} however, don't JLLs Please keep. this and ay sehet for our. record. It is rest | of search by Barbara of Intestigatam) Files. Please check to see what thits't there are for HSCAe. Also have her check the W'gat necessarily limit to the time shown heres Compulsive Spy by Ta Seule shows Hunt in Madrid 48 ti frame not consistent with record (as I recall it)’ Also check Hunt travel records during time around JFK assassination (papers on this in the W'Gate Files, too, I think Ask Jean to @e if we have any thing in OIG on Jim Gerrisory als possibly under New Orleans, etces Our Assassination File, dso has materieals’s OF All this in addition to the IG draft history of W'Gatee All this may be 2 bit heavy, but add it to the xerox of files of supporting decuments for Task Force papers SDB 9 Jan '78 ,
_.3 January 1978 Date : From: SDBrecki nridge Return to: © Jean for Task Force. file. a S | BO A sah nh me