ac +s . . Date: 08/12/55 Doc ID: 6606176 vos Page:1 : JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION } NSA 144-10001-10144 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : NSA - FROM : YEATES, EUGENE TO : , a TITLE 2 8 NOVEMBER MEETING WITH MR. BLAKEY DATE :. 11/10/78 : i PAGES : 2 | F SUBJECTS : ‘ INVESTIGATION, HSCA | DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM, TEXTUAL. DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : U RESTRICTIONS : ‘OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : O DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/12/93 OPENING CRITERIA - COMMENTS : "DOCUMENT IS FROM A FOIA LITIGATION FILE AND IS REDACTED AS RELEASED TO THE REQUESTER. A CLEAN COPY HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED. ee . Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note) me ee ee ee ee ee ce cee ee eee ee ee es ee rae ce ee ee ee ete ee re ee mee me me me ee me ee a ee re ee ee we ee ee we ee ee ee oe ee ee ee ee ee [R] - ITEM IS. RESTRICTED »
‘Doe ID: 6606176 — | Sn =a pk 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: 8 November Meeting with Mr. Blakey 1. On 8 November, Ed Sapp visited Mr. Robert G. Blakey, Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, to receive questions concerning a former Air Force enlisted man's allegation that he had intercepted information linking an assassination plot against President Kennedy with a figure in organized crime. Mr. Blakey had been referred to NSA (GC, Dan Silver) by Ms. Judy.-Miller, Special Assistant to John Kester, OSD. . 2. Mr. Blakey indicated that David F.- Christensen had communicated with a friend of his named Sgt Michael B. Stevensen at "Corry" Field, FLorida. Mr. Christensen has been committed to a mental institution due, he asserts, to pressures arising from an incident occurring in 1963. i ' 3. At that time, Christensen was in the Air Force assigned 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) to Kirknewton, Scotland. Sometime before November, 1963, in his b(ili) work as an interceptor of communications, he intercepted the communications referred in paragraph 1. Mr. Blakey stated that he did not know who the crime figure is. Christensen's 2 | supervisor, Sgt Praeter (actually "Prater") refused to send this traffic to NSA and this, he alleges, eventually caused him to have a mental breakdown. , 4. Mr. Blakey stated that NSA had already acknowledged the existence of such a facility during this period, but he didn't indicate to whom such a statement had been made. 5. Mr. Blakey posed the following questions for NSA: wbee Time cane obese (a) What is NSA's capability for retrieving communications from this time and place? '(b) How quickly can we make this retrieval? (His Committee completes its work in December. If NSA can easily provide the answers to a number of questions, he will do some preliminary. investigation before formally requesting the information, but if ~ we indicate that much time will be required, he will | task us now.) sO i ' (c) What additional information does NSA need: from Mr. : Blakey, to speed the retrieval process? - : (d) Is the data still available for retrieval? =o nN Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
Doc ID: 6606176 - (e) Was Christensen really employed by the Air Force, working for Praeter (Prater), and actually doing this kind of work at that location during that.period? 6. He asked for the responses, or at least, a status of what can be provided and how soon, by Monday, 13 November. | oak -_ ° Bausc2107ygy2D 7. On 7 September, the General Counsel sent a copy of David pi (6X9y2M) Christensen's letter to the FBI (GC/335/78), along with a Latter: intercepting communications .at’ Kirknewton in 1963 and that links between were monitored. , i 8. On 9 November, Ed and I met with Dan Silver and decided Dan should respond initially to Mr. Blakey's questions by phone. After coordinating with EXEC/DDO, Ed asked G9 to provide input for a response. 9. Harold Parvish (5649) of G809 sondieh 4 an initial review of the availability of data from USA-SS covering the first eleven months of 1963. From a computer file listing maintained by N3, 20 boxes of data were identified. Cross-checking assures that this is all and ' the contents column helped eliminate 17 of the boxes. The remaining three wil be manually reviewed on 13 November. If they, in fact, do contain traffic:there will be some 2000 sheets per box. . 10. IT notified DeiiseSdobk Om @esed aad le Ad guest fh hers peat cs re ar Hire do LE AO HNO ALE E see See ee ee EUGENE Fo ' Chief Legislative Affairs eo re ee meee oe gm teen pau nae anes come