457-10011-10119 Date:10/07/93 Page: 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM io | AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : SSCIA | RECORD NUMBER : 157-10011-10119 RECORDS SERIES : , { AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CIA . FROM : ELDER, WALTER, REVIEW STAFF TO : BADER, WILLIAM ~ TITLE : REQUEST FOR INFO RE QQMUEY, CHARLES DATE : 10/28/75 PAGES : 15 SUBJECTS : gp, DOCUMENTS RE QiinmEY:, CHARLES W.L — ® (ABASCAL,~ ENRIQUE -EUGENIO_-(Y@iBE RF [R] y ARLINGTON HOUSE, PUBLISHERS DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : SSCI Box 221, Folder HY 50955 Bocld: 322703687 | PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT S REFERRED P 09/29/93 10 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Page i
an ; wLeNTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20508 feo [RLF ea INVENTO RIED: . on 3a Review Staff: 75-3097/1 oy —Ofe 28 October 1975 Mr. William Bader wes Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities . , Washington, D.C. Attn: Mr. B. Wides Dear Mr. Bader: Reference is made to Mr. Jeffrey Kayden's recent review of the Office of Security file on@@iitalesive) Waeleysiand to Mr. Kayden's request for Qiphileya documents which were forwarded to the SSC via Review Staff letter dated 2 October 1975. erg Prior to Mr. Kayden's review of the QWEE eye file, the Office of Security sent a memorandum to the DCI highlighting several contraversial items in that file. This memo was reviewed by the DCI and he requested that the attached @UBERGyj reports plus the Office of Security's assessment and processing there of be forwarded to the Senate Select Committee. Sincerely, deat lla Walter Elder Review Staff Attachments: ne . — . As Stated - | RECEIVED FROM oer a OCT 29 1975 CIA is 5 AS SANITIZED FO oTARNS SERIIN aa : | aaa aa CLASSIFIED ire MATION cs : = i eogpEP oS ' Le a ; sak Pa igen ae Vian Say HW AOG9545 Page 2?
1. Reference is made to a memorandum, captioned as above, dated 30 September 1975 forwarding copies of certain documents from the Office of Security files concerning @ieiplesmVeevitey... These. documents were requested by Mr. Jeffrey Kayden, Senate © Selact Committee Staf£, who commenced a review of the Gilley? files on 29 September 1975. 2. The Office of Security has concluded a separate review of the (@iilGy: files and has highlighted certain contents thereof to the DCI. The DCI has requested that materials concerning the following items be provided to the Senate Select Committee independent of any Senate Select Committee Staff requests, to Wit: CT Lee Harvey Oswald ~ The files contain a raw, unevaluated report from (iBHEy} containing his reporting of an alle- gation that Lee Harvey Oswald was in New York City in the Winter of 1962, having contact with. (a Cuban. (Attached to instant memorandum, Tab A, is a copy of @iiiley'S) original report, and attendant comments, suggesting receipt of the report circa 20. December 1963.) Readily available public and Office of Security information concerning Oswald makes no reference to the possibility of his being in New York City in the Winter of 1962. The Warren Commission did not pursue such a line of inquiry. | E2 IMPDET CL BY 063544 RECEIVED FROM HW 350955 DBocld: 322703807 Page 3
HW 450955 Docld: 32203837 SECRET There is no evidence _in the @aniey, files! or the file of the source, PMeichesEucaniovAbascal: - (@eierenmer), #750643, that this information was processed out of the Office of Security/ Security Research Staff, to which @aRSy, reported the information. However, as] ey: states in the report: “I urged MBscal to go to the FBI with the information, and offered to arrange a meeting. He promised to tell them the story, and made contact through an agent (O'Brien) whom he knew because of past activities." Regarding (Abascal, his Office of Security file contains the following concerning his veracity: ~ - . Office of Security/Security Research Staff memorandum dated 15 August 1966: nfMascal has for several years furnished information to SRS source which has been proven. to be utterly worthless and usually fictitious.” — Office of Security/Security Research Staff memorandum dated 19 May 1965: "(Mpascal) has furnished source with intelligence information which appears to be complete fabrication.” _ FBI letterhead memorandum dated 30 September 1963 captioned “Movimiento Democrata Cristiano (4DC)" contains the following statements about ‘Abascal by FBI sources: “One would only. have to know Enrique Abascal’to know that this (a Life magazine article) was nothing ' but a publicity stunt on his part and that he has no importance whatsoever in the anti-Castro Movement." ‘Sometimes in dealing with @basical,, one does not know whether or not he should pity hin — or try to afford him some kind of medical assistance." "MB@Scal) is merely a pub- licity seeker.” . RECEIVED FROM OCT 29 1975 CIA Page 4
It is apparent the Office of Security/- i Security Rasearch Staff had reason to : question the veracity of Mvascali precluding | a further dissemination of the information; and that there was. @ reason to believe that Aeseah would report the information to the FBI for their action. ° ; Arlington House, Publishers The files contain a Taw, unevaluated report fromiiaiey) containing his reporting of an allegation that CIA had partial control of, and once attempted full control of, Arlington House, Publishers. .  (Attached_to instant memorandum, Tab B, 4, is a copy of (Gilley 'si original report as well as copies of attendant documents. The files contain no further clarification of the information.) There is no office of Security subject file in the name of Arlington House or Arlington House, Publishers. From other sources, $t would appear ~ that Arlington House, Publishers is con- nected with the conservative causes of William F. Buckley and the National Review. Buckley is. a former Agency empiLoyee an his close comnections with former Agency employee E. Howard Hunt have recently received extensive publicity. It is believed that numerous former Agency - employees are Linked with Buckley's causes, | and this could be the foundation for the rumored Agency involvement in Arlington ‘House. | RECEIVED FROM OCT 29 1975 CIA oh - SECRET HY 50955 DBoctd: 32203807 Page 5
3. Your attention is again directed to the concerns of the Office of Security, as expressed in the referenced memo- randum, that the iiléy; file documents and all statements contained therein, even though not classified as such, be | carefully and prudently handled. to protect the individuals identified therein. SECRET — HY 50955 DBocld: 322703687 Page 6
: an SENDEF WILL CHESH. CLA . -ICATION TOP AND BOTTOM i s 7 oe UNCLASSIFIED CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY oe. oy OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP ey 4 ~ ; 1 DIRECT REPLY PREPARE REPLY a - . |__| DISPATCH | __[ RECOMMENDATION i ; COMMENT __! | Fite RETURN : CONCURRENCE INFORMATION |__| SIGNATURE : : I | FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER 7 y - FROM: NAME, ADDRESS ANO PHONE NO. , 3 Use arscious editi: {40) ay Pot 452 previgus ecitions “US. COVZONMENF PAINTING OFFICE Vte: 9—SaTL2E e DEGLACSIPICE 8 ae OCT 29 1975 RELEASE OF THIS DO tuna? AS SANITIZED - oe f : [Abe B. C | A HY 50955 DBoctld: 32203807 Page 7
rer ete Information from ¢immiouics Re: LEB HARVEY OSWALD, @& = ; in Greenwich Village, New York City at the "Fat Black Pussy Cat" (which was much less expensive than it is now, with fewer tourists). PAbaseedi saw him there several times with extreme leftist, peacenik types. He seemed to be a "loner", but did associate with a counle in their early thirties, (See below.) The last time that @MoeasCal! saw Oswald he got into a conversation with him, and it almost ended in a fight. AOSSCAls lost his temper and wanted to hit Oswald be-~ cause of his strong communist position, He was very anti-U.S.A., pro-Castro and pro-Chinese Reds (but not pro-Soviet Union). What interested fAbascal: most was that Oswald hed no job but still had sufficient money. OS The couple Oswald associated with were quiet, but during political discussions the man would feed Oswald key words or bits of information when he was backed into a corner, (Note. I urged @BEstal! to go to the FBI with the inf ~eId offered to arr a meeting, He promised to tell them fay Perea 4 the story, and made contact through an agent (O'Brien) whom he knew because of past activities. Sources from inside Cuba have rbported that HERBERT MATTHEWS and two Russians met with Fidel Castro several months ago and tried to convince him to step down in favor of a coalition gov't, that Khrushchev and Kennedy had agreed on. Castro refused to consider it. (Some Cubans think that Castro is behind the Kennedy assassination -~ that he was acting to block this deal which was to take effect before the 196). election, ) In early Dec, (see memo on my telephoned report for exact date )@AS@Scal? reported that CARLOS FRANKE of the Castro publication "Revolution" was at Idlewild Airvort. He had arrived on flight 509 of BOAC from Paris & London, Franke had just finished a trip behind the Iron Curtain, sewn gpitt JON TO | Be waar RECEIVED FROM ssi OCT 29 1975 HW 50955 DBocld: 322703887 Page @
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& Hiv 50955 12 April 1974 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: ST equity in oh eee BY Gharlésuws #343 589 SUBJECT : A memorandum dated 12 March 1970 seems to pinpoint the time period during which QgHBEYifirst made available to this office a copy of Howard HUNT's manuscript, "Give Us This Day," as being early March 1970. The memorandum from to C/SRS advised that Q#HHEY; had telephoned from home that afternoon and had asked if we had received the copy ”- The of/" Hunt Ms." told & Vat -Y ithat it had come in‘and €EVi asked whether he should attempt to determine any more details concerning the origin of it. suggested that eeisky: do nothing until we advised him. (Although referred to it as the "Hunt Ms,'' in his memorandum, it would seem that Wien was not aware of the true authorship, at this point). QuGEEY, expressed concern for his friend in the publish- ing house, who had "filched" the Ms., as he allegedly had informed QWaIEEY!) to be very careful with it. bdvised that he informed @igrery. that in all probability no decision would be made on this for another three or four weeks. Kea td bor WORK EL Louis W. Vasaly CIAHAS NO ORIECTION TO , RECE | VE DF ROM DECLASSIFICATION ARD/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT OCT AS SANITIZED al i \¢ dn Bam Cla ()@) | | @ rT 7 — - ~~ oe oo . Loe eee oe eee Docld: 32203587 Page 10
| GIAHAS Ne om ce poN To ' wee BOGUMERT ‘ ze = ym AS SANIT! In Jan 1967, WZLEEY. prepared a memorandum concerning Arlington Hoitse Publishers which, based on hearsay, indicated that a fight was going on for control of the conpiny. One rumor was that Cli wanted to take over control. Apoarantly this i, i memo. was again brought to the attention of C/SRS in April 1970 with the coment by Luin going through somes of ti alg) old reports, I found this. Possi of interest in view of HUNT's manuscript." The buck slip was f¢¢¢A/¥/ marked "Hoted 274" rome . See ~LMSIAT Yi 2 Sti Patel abate . : SE. 4 In June 1970 when I was assigned to the#SOS/SRS » therewas a copy of Hunt's manuserist on the Bay of Pigs being retained in a safe in the C/GSQE!'s office. Soma time later I learnad that GEEY: had apparently obtained it. through a contact and it had forwarded/to th$s office...as an item of probable interest. The Agency was able to ascertain the identity of the author, who turned out to be Howard HUNT. HUN coke wes, I believe, at that time emoloyed by the Agency with DOD. In any case, he was soproacthed under some guise end was convinced that it would be ineopropriate for hin “to have the dook published at Ahat time. HUNT's file orobably contains details which do not appear in old SRS records re i BELG’, I believe some time later, C/SR5 as YiCLL1 STR /POKL/P4GA took the copy from@#$O. I do not know whet disposition he made of it. It is my impression that this was an extra copy and that the copy to SPS had been returned much that had been loandd toff@eey! and through MEY? earlier as it was an accountable item for M#seis contact. The publisher may have : : a * : as ; efagics baen Arlington Publishers although this is only a vague =MRECEIVED) FRON | may neve indicatad that at some time. Aiveso. dated 2 Sept. 1970 f#sa/% for Chief, Exec. and Planning ¥ Pf ros ~~ Meet tayhy t pe Os sgts . NS lyeseeybea WY VOTO atbat ayer Saattan FRY haaeee CO /sia-Subiect: Signitibe nt A&ecomvlinhments-Pi L970 states andar osctlon toy Agersy 4 en lay t ap — : ' whee $4 yaedt ine ; A onenak ory tate ha PO apeeted Intosrity-suo para. (3)-"During the revorting period, an asset of tels staff alerted y . é manuepeieat ypittan he an ftoaneyv anslovea ybieh una ofrediatios- 2 : , CO 4 MRM Pl oD WELieen OY @N ngoney amo lOoyads WAL Ws CUPL eLon! —— pow Veg hcb to cskewy gee t . Boots : cope os . oa ets tare ark ey by . a oe - eA . oh Cow ayers te og STE? eo ue a . SAS TD bet. PUGLisers. AS a pasult of canis abort, Agency offieluls vere ahte tn HW 50955 Docld: 32203007 Page 11
eo, sey ®P SHUNT In a memo. dated 12 March 1970 tip C/SRoy| , aac) . telephoned from homa that afternoon and had asked if we nad recaived the co Vv ‘of the Hunt Ms. [| bat told him it had coma in. is should attemot to determing any more details consernin ng the origin of it, and + ¥ whetner ho augcested EEE Ce votnsog until we advised him. GREEY. exores sg houxe, who had NPs Iched" tre Me., as WIOEY. to ke very careful with it. informed ‘ il He that in all orobabllity no decision weuld ke made cn this for another three of four weeks. HY 50955 DBocld: 32203807 Page i2 ~ sed
COS Cue cloLr I LO or Land witharay it from the Cm Oh GT tebraeve ait copies o1 the Manuscript publishers! market". ‘I. supporting me om. identifies the manuseri ot as Howard HUIA's "Give Us This Day". 7 \ Ch 19 June : af Fovard Hus ts manusori ot forgotten but that we had had access to it severa 1 years aro whar: Sted Lt to a diftverent oublisher. ((EGY reportedly had wade it evailable et thet bine). [FILES said that he believed that thie publisher was gcing to take advantage of thea recent oublieity (meaning AVSEGATE aooerently)and, of course, boring it out undor UsT's true name. I tole him I was sure that we had no interest in his. cox and that he conld return it te the contact There was no further who made it available to him. vter and the memo. recording the conversation was routed, as was the custom, to the C/SiS, who marely initialed it and sent it bacl: to me. I eo not know if he took eng other action or reported it elsewhere. ii. ? | RECEIVED FROM HW 50955 Docld:32203887 Page 13
. ay 7 2 on . —_ Lpate SS . . TRANSMITTAL SLIP | 21 Apr. 1979 ; x7 m . ; BUILDING ye . oe a teanes’ - CIA HAS NOWELE LEMMA RIN, a . , _ , HECLASSI FiG: - -in going throush some of AELEASE OF THis DUCUMIEN old raports, I found this. Possibly oe AS, SAMY Bb of interest in view of Hunt's * Fou MBNUSCript, CYC y 5 2 DLA . | | "ROM [ } BUILDING EXTENSION : - . . REPLACES FORM Sond C34] : . WHICH MAY BE LSE. : . . . a ; ; 4 .- e RECEIVED FROM OCT 29 1875 an HY 50955 DBocld: 32203807 Page 14
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