JFK Assassination System , Date: 9/22/201 Identification Form - 0 Agency Information AGENCY: NARA / RECORD NUMBER: — 181-10002-10219 RECORD SERIES: NUL ADMINISTRATIVE FILES [ACCESS AND REFERENCE CASE FILES] - AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ’ Document Information ORIGINATOR: NARA : FROM: JOHNSON AND KENNEDY LIBRARIES . ; TO: - NL Released under the John Kennedy TITLE: Wssassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USc 2107 Note). . ases#: NW 54545 Date: DATE: 00/00/0000 PO-i2-2017 PAGES: 21 , SUBJECTS : JOHNSON & KENNEDY LIBRARY REPORTS RE REFERENCE : .  TOSSCIA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT 7 CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : — Consulted CURRENT STATUS: = Withhold é DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 08/16/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : a v9.1 HW 54545 Docld: 322373831 76: Page 1
HW 54545 Representatives of the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Actoviesss Who Visited the Kennedy Library and Who Had Access to Material at the Kennedy Library and at the Rational Archives (as vnoted) entatives Working on U.S. Involvement in Foreign Leaders (dates of visit follow in es parenthes 1 te Loch Johnson (7/23 7/3) 2, David Aaron (7/2; 7/3) (7/7 - at National Archives) 36 Michael Medigan (7/2; 7/3) . . Wy Peter Fenn (7/3; 8/18; 8/19; 8/20) 5,' Margaret Carpenter (7/3) i (7/8 - at National Archives) ae) 6, Susan Pitts (7/3) ye ~ at National Archives) Ve Rhett Dawson (7/3) 8, Willian G. Miller (7/7 - at National Archives) 9, Layrence Kieves (7/16; 7/17) 40, Thonas Pawson (7/16; 7/17) 41, Daniel Dwyer (7/15; 7/17) 13, Alton Quanbeck (8/19; 8/20) 14, Richard Betts (8/19; 8/20) Il, Committee Staff Representatives Working on Leos-Counterinsurgency (antes 0 of visits follow in _pazentheses): 1.! Dorothy Dillon (7/16; 7/17; 7/18; 7/21; 7/22) flan Romberg (7/16; 3/17; 7/18; 7/24; 7/22) 2, Gregory Treverton (8/15; 3/19) ° Ge Docld: 32273831 Page 3
NLK Mat erial Seen by the "Assassination Team" n Container SE 512 (@ National Archives, 6W3) 1. Material i By provenence this material is a part of the National Security Files (see below), which were the working files of the Speci al Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (who was notan official of the National Security Council or its staff). Maxwell Taylor Report on the Bay of Pigs S$, TOP SEC cat) ~ Includes the basic r ’ ssociated me enoranda and backeround material. Memoranda to the President, 1961-1963 (3 folders, up to TGP SECRET) Folder entitled "Taylor" containing additional material relating to the Cuba Study Report, above (1 folder, up to TOP SECRET "MONGOOSE" (one folder, up to TOP SSCRE ET) Chronological Files (33 folders; mostly un- MeG eorge Bundy 5 SECRET classified, but up to TOP ¢ (Approximately 3.2 cubic feet) (Other material i this cabinet, such as FIAB reports, was not shewn to stat nboers 28 Lt was irrelevant to their searen, The setermina ion was made by the committee star; t sed on a vertal and bas y Jillian val terms by } 2, Material in the Kennedy Library - National 5 Security Pil Files Accessioned into the Kennedy Library as a part of the Papers of President Kennedy, “these were the working files of McGeorge Bundy ane his deputies supporting Bundy!s function es Special Assistant to the President for Rational Security Affairs.) Couniries ‘series 1) Dominican Republic (1 vox, up to TUF SECRET) 2 Congo (2 boxes, up to TOP SECRET) . oF Cuba boxes, up to TOP SECRET and CONV Ela and its "subordinate. “podies C from a hence the assorted memMorand a nunber of ao: WwW assistants and advil HW 54545 DoclId: 322733831 Page 4
HW 54545 Sr) bd) e list was provided, National Security C Council series (continued) Meetings (2 boxes, up to TOP SECRET) Standing Group ( 1 box, up to TOP SECRET) Executive Committee (1 box, up to TOP SECRET) Selected National Security Action Memoranda (approximately 20 pages, up to TOP SECRET) : For the above files, 1) pneoueh 4) a topical folder title from which staff members indicated the ones they hed to see. No irrelevant items we: SAE | wis ce pexmitted to the staff members, For example, they were not permitted to see a memo of a meeting on nuclear testing simply because it shared the same box and was edjacent to a memo on a meeting on Cuba, oy Individual items were pulled for viewing.) Material in the Kennedy Library - ¥ (The working ig files of President Kennedy, kept by his 3 cretary, and accessioned into the Kennedy Library as a2 part ce SS 5) Index of Weekend yeeent (1 box, wp to TUP SECRET) 6) Special Group (Cr) box, up to TCP SECRET) 7 Stase Memoranda as wate Gnostly SECRET) a)) Clifton (1 folder) b)) Coyne (1 folder) c)) Rostow (3 boxes d)) Taylor (1 folder e)) Schlesinger (1 folder) Devartnents and Agencics series 1) CIA (2 boxes, up to TOP SECRET; som codeword) 2) Defense -Special Warfare (2 boxes, up to TOP SECRET) William H, —— series 1) Congo (1 folder, up to SECRET) (Approximately 17.2 cubic feet) Files resident!s Offic personal 16 the Pavers of President Kennedy.) Staff Memoranda series 1) Dungan (1 folder, up to SEC 2) Goodwin (1 folder, up io SEC 5 Rostow (1 folder, up to SECK (1 folder, up to TOP SECR se (1 folder, up to T DoclId: 32273831 Page 5
HW 54545 DoclId: 322733831 c) Subjects series 1) Counterinsurgency (1 folder, up to SECRET) d) Countries serics 1) Congo (6 folders, up to TOP SECRET) 2) Cuba (9 folders, up to TOP SECRET) 3) Dominican Republic (4 folders, up to TOP SECRET) ‘(Approximately 1 cubic foot) Yaterial in the Kennedy Library - Oral History Interviews (Not a part of the Papers of President Kennedy, the oral history interviews were collected after his death and donated by the narrators to the Library.) Georse Smathers (one transcript, less passages closed by the a) PEE WTS a Cone keengex p , semen y Personal vapers of Roswell Gilpatric, donated by him to the Kennedy Library and open to the public except for some few items withdrawn under donor restrictions in the’deed of sift. lh boxes, all unclas ment books and dia Material in the Kennedy D1) saad wv (These papers, not yet donated by deed to the Kennedy Library were made available by special arrangement with Mrs, Ethel ce KN ALALA_AWY _ Hy ia) | fol t by oN u Ne i on =a “Qo } Hy O oO 0 eG fs oO a a n SN mh EWN ie as b) 1 folger, up to TUr SECRET 4 foléer, up to TOP SECRET) folders, up to ray Cuban Daily Sunmary hae St OLate ' - , up to SECRET) Doninican to TOr ET) 2 3 1 W™ OW FON Na | T D S ov filartin oral nistory interview with Robert Kennedy, selected by William W. Moss of the Kennedy Library staff, Page 6
‘Transeript # Topic 53A _ Cuba SH Lao s* 55 Cuba 56 Cuba 57 Cuka 60 Cuba 61 Cuba 63 - Cuba 65 Cuba 66 Cuba, 67 Cuba 68 Cuba 69 Cuba, 70 Cuba 72 Cuba @ vA Cuba 78 Cuba 79 Cuba & Laos* 103 Vietnam 104 Vietnam 106 Vietnan 107 Vietnam 108 Vietnam 109 Vietnam 110 Vietnam ; tit Vietnam 112 Vietnam 144 Vietnaan 117 Yietnan 118 Vietnam A-55 Vietnam (And a few select pages of transcripts of phone conversa selected by William W. Moss of the Kennedy Library as pes ara’ to show the character of the recordings, Other item to the committee staff from these telephone recordings as *Looess. WAS SUDSEeaguent to the visit of the Laos team (se and was permitted so:as to avoid unnecessary further vis HW 54545 Docld:32273831 Page 6
HW 54545 Folder title list of materials examined by Loch Johnson, Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities Papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson as President National Security Files Country File Latin America 16 17 18 19 20 21 DoclId: 32273631 Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba Cables Cuba Cables Cuba Cables Cuba Cables Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Country Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba Claims Bill Page 14 vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. . vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. vol. 1 [W. G. Bowdler file] 2, memos [Bowdler file] 3 [Bowdler file] 3, miscellaneous [Bowdler file] 1 2 3 4 A [Gordon Chase file] B [Gordon Chase file] ; - 2 3 4 5 "Cuba Miscellaneous" [Chase memos] _ Activities of Leading Personalities Contacts with Cuban Leaders USIA Chronology of Important Events Fascell/Smathers Legislation 4/64 - 1/66 2/66 - 7/67 8/67 - 3/68 11/63 - 2/64. 3/64 - 5/64 6/64 - 8/64 9/64 - 7/65 11/63 - 5/64: 6/64 - 12/65 12/63 - 2/64 3/64 - 5/64 5/64 - 10/64 9/64 - 3/65 9/64 - 2/65 11/63 - 6/65 10/64 - 2/65 5/63 - 4/65 1957 - 1963 3/64 - 3/65
HW 54545 22 Cuba-Exile Activities Memos vol. 1 Cuba-Exile Activities Cables & TDCSs vol. 1 Cuba-Exile Activities Incidents, vol. 2 Cuba-Exile Activities Incidents, vol. 3 Cuba | Fact Sheet “Cuba: A Problem Inherited" 24 Cuba Intelligence & Research Reports [State] Cuba Intelligence [CIA] vol. 1 Cuba Intelligence [CIA] vol. 2. Cuba Intelligence - Covert Program Cuba Maps, charts & photographs (consists of one blown up aerial photo of Matanzas SAM site) 27 Cuba Free World Shipping, vol 2 Cuba Shipping - Section 620 (a) (3) Cuba Free World Trade with Cuba, vol. 1 Cuba Free World Trade with Cuba, vol. 2a Cuba Free World Trade with Cuba, vol. 2b Cuba Free World Trade with Cuba, vol. 2c 29 Cuba Overflights, vol. 1 Cuba Overflights, vol. 2 Cuba U. S. Policy, vol. 1 Cuba U. S. Policy, vol. 2 Cuba Hijacked Airliners DoclId: 322733831 Page 15 11/63-7/65 11/63-7/65 1964-1965 1964-65 12/63 11/63 - 6/65 11/63 - 11/64 1/65, 4/65 1/64 - 6/65 5/65 6/64 - 7/65 12/63 - 12/64 1/64 - 12/64 11/63 - 4/64 5/64 - 11/64 12/64 - 7/65 1/64 - 1/65 3/64 - 7/64 2/64 - 5/64 12/63 - 7/65 1968
HW 54545 32 36 37 Files Box DoclId: 322733831 Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba-CODEWORD Cuba Cuba Cuba of Gordon Chase TDCSs (CIA Intelligence Information Cable), vol. l TDCSs, vol. 2 Travel to Cuba by Americans, vol. 1 Travel to Cuba by Americans, vol. 2 General CIA Daily and Weekly Summaries Intelligence Reports Intelligence Reports 11/63 - 6/64 6/64 - 6/65 12/63 - 9/64 12/63 - 7/65 1964-1965 12/64-2/65 1962-1963 1962-1963 Plank/Chase Cuban Project [draft report on US-Cuban relations 1959-64 Untitled [2 folders of 1959-60 background material on Cuba evidently used in compiling above report] Cuba Fact Sheet (Material sent Southwick) Cuba Coordinating Committee - Progress Reports (1963), 4-1/2 linear inches Page 16
Folder title list of materials examined by Loch Johnson, ‘Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations Withe Respect to Intelligence Activities Papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson as Vice~President Security Files Box 4 National Security Council~Ltr. fr. Pres. Kennedy re. V.P. Johnson's participation-January 28, 1961 National Security Council (I) National Security Council (IT) National Security Council (IIT) NSC-Cuba [9/15/61 Memo on Vice President's National Security Briefings] LBJ Notes-NSC Meeting 19 Dec 1961 National Security Council-1961 NSC 5 National Security National Security 8 Policy Papers Policy Papers Policy Papers Policy Papers Policy Papers Policy Papers and and and and and and UN Cables re Cuba UN Cables re Cuba UN Cables re Cuba HW 54545 DBocld:32273631 Page 17 Council Record of Actions 1962 Council-1962-1963 Background Studies Background Studies Background Studies Background Studies Background Studies Background Studies Affair (I) Affair (II) Affair (III) on on on on on on Cuba Affair (1) Cuba Affair (IT) Cuba Affair (III) Cuba Affair (IV) Cuba Affair (V) Cuba Affair (IV)
Box 9 Cuba (Miscellaneous Papers) May 1961 and Nov.-Dec. 1962 [President Kennedy Comments on Cuba 10/31/63] HW 54545 Docld:32273831 Page 13
(1). 7/17/75 Documents Copied for Loch Johnson ‘U. S. Sénate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to “LLEs ‘Intelligence Activities .GENCY : TEM , . NO. OF OS. DATE IDENTIFICATION PAGES CLASSTFICATION NSF Country File Cuba, Vol. A, 11/63-5/64 4/21/64 Chase to Bundy re possible luncheon 1 TS meeting items-Cuba Cuba, Memos re "Cuba Miscellaneous," 11/63-6/65 3/2/65 Chase to Bundy re Caribbean and other 2 TS 6/2/64 ' Chase to Bundy re British Guiana and 2 S Cuba , | Cuda, Miscellaneous, Vol. III 11/18/68 CIA Intelligence Memo, pp. 12-14 — 3 S re stability factors in Cuba . | 6/12/68 Helms to the President re Guantanamo 2 Ss. Naval Base report © . ; i 6/20/68 . Rostow to the President re Katzenbach 1 Ss | information Cuda, Memos, Vol. III, 8/67-3/68 12/18/67. . Bowdler to Rostow re Cuba 4 S Cuba, Memos, Vol. II, 2/66-7/67 5/30/66 _ Rostow to the President re Cuba 4 s incidents Cuba, Cables, Vol. III, 8/67-3/68 no date Smith to Christian re news conference 2 S 8/7/67 Karamessines to Rostow re Cubans on 4 S CIA mission COPY ; LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRAR HW 54545 Docld:32273831 Page 19
.— TOD Documents Copied for Loch Johnson J “J. Se ‘Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to FILE: . Intelligence Activities AGENCY: ITEM ; NO. OF NOS. DATE IDENTIFICATION PAGES CLASSIFICATION NSF Country File . Cuba-Exile Activities, Vol. III, 1964, 1965 11/10/64 Chase to Bundy re Cuva-Miscellaneous 3 TS Cuba-Exile Activities, Vol. II, 196%,. 1965 6/18/64 Chase to Bundy re autonomous exile © 2 S groups 6/16/64 Chase to Bundy w/ Dez Fitzgerald 10 Ss attachment re reappraisal of autonomous. operations 4/40/64 , Chase to Bundy re Cuba-miscellaneous 2 fs w/ Jessup memo for the record 4/9/64 2/23/65 / “Williams to Jessup w/ State to 2 s 305 Committee re withdrawal of support for the Artime Group 2/8/65: Chase to Bundy re British Guiana and Cuba 1 Ss 1/5/65 ‘'. Chase to Bundy re Artime's contact with 2 Ss dissident leader 12/30/64 — Chase to Bundy re Artime : 2. Ss Cuda-Exile Activities, Vol. I, Memos, 11/63-7/65 S/14/64 Chase to Bundy re special group-Cuba 1 s 6/15/64 .. - Chase to Bundy re assassination 1. Ss. | 6/10/64 _ Helms to Director of Central Intelligence 5 S | 6/22/64 Jessup memo for the record 4 - 0 8/19/64 .'  ‘McCone to Bundy re-FBI investigation 2 Ss 1/18/65 OTA to 303 Committee re paramilitary ~ 5 S , program COPY |LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRAR HW 54545 DBocld: 32273631 Page 20
(3) Documents Copied for Loch Johnson J.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities FILE: AGENCY: ITEM NOS. ——dDATE WSF Country File , Cuda, 6/26/65 11/12/64 4/7/64 no date 1/9/64 Cuba, 3/4/65 12/27/63 © 12/15/63 12/h/63 12/2/63 Bundy Chronological File 12/12/63 NO. OF IDENTIFICATION PAGES Intelligence-Covert Program, 1/64-6/65 Bundy to the President re covert action 1 against Cuba Chase to Bundy w/ memo 4/7/64 re 3 shipments to Cuba Chase to Bundy re Cuban covert program 4 Chase to Bundy re covert program w/ 4 attachments Tabs 1-4 Bundy to the President re sabotage 2 Meetings, 12/63-3/65 Chase to Bundy re special group meeting 2 Chase re meeting with the President 6 12/19/63 ; ’ CIA report on cost of Cuban operations § 1 Chase to Bundy re Cuba meeting 12/10/63 1 Chase to Bundy re Cuba-6:00 P.M. meeting 1 ‘Bundy to the President re press 2 ‘conference Bundy to the President re sabotage 2 1/9/64 “Copy. Lyndon | B. Johnson Library a HW 54545 DBocld:32273631 Page 21 2/12/75 TS TS ' TS TS TS CLASSIFICATION
(4) - NED Docunents Copied for Loch Johnson U. Se Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to FILE Intelligence Activities AGENCY: ITEM NO. OF NOS. DATE IDENTIFICATION PAGES CLASSIFICATION NSF Country File Cuba-U.S. Policy, Vol. I, 2/64~5/64 2/18/64 Ford to Bundy w/ attached pp. 5-17s 33 S re. Cuba Cuba-U.S. Policy, Vol. IL, 12/63-7/65 6/18/65 Hilliker to Bundy re policy toward Cuba 4 S 11/12/64 Bowman to Bundy re policy toward Cuba ~ w/ file on Square Dance 16 TS . 4/47/64 Bundy to the President re JCS views on Cuba w/ Taylor to the President 3/21/64 3 _ Ss | 3/23/64 . Chase to Bundy re Cuban policy 18 TS . | 12/2/63 Chase memo re U.S. policy toward Cuba ‘S5 TS Vice-Presidential Security File | National Security Council (III) 5/16/61 NSC Record of Actions 5/5/61 w/ notes ? TS NSF . . Unidentified | a. 9/13/(63). Lodge to Rusk re personnel . 1 TS COPY LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRAR HW 54545 Docld: 32273831 Page 22