104-10331-10303 SECRET 17 Aug 1994 . Memo to: C/HRG Subject: Status of DCI Morning Minutes Following covers both your questions and Bob Eatinger's notes on a number of items. Per Jim Pittman, he did not follow up on Eatinger's questions. C/HRG questions: 1. 10 Aug 1976 - DCI Bush's letter re meeting with Senators Baker and Inouye. FYI copy faxed to OCA (contact 37912) 2. 24 Aug 1976 - per Office of Security, protect retired in cover status, was NOC in Vietram: 3. 12 Nov 1976 - The David Wise book mentioned in in the Minutes deals with (he bugging 6 ; mn Vow Washington} not the Kennedy assassination. Recommend we drop the item as not. related. The note on the page is Batinger's. (copy attached) 4. 28 June 1976 - Re the copyright question; Eatinger says to postpone the item until the Board makes a ruling. The law is silence on copyright issue. We will describe the document on the withdrawal sheet so researched can request directly from CBS. 6 & 7 3 March/25 Sept. 1978 - Per Office of Security, Vincent Thill and James O'Connell are releasable. 9. Attachment #2 (LBJ Library) - Per. Pittman, these documents were Not part of the Morning Minutes file. His staff remembered them from a FOIA; they probably exist somewhere in the DCI files. Do we include as part of this package or assume we will see again when we go to the Presidential Libraries? Eatinger's notes (attached) : 4 May 1964 - since we are treating "anti-Castro" activities as related, leave the reference to books in. 24 Sept 1975 - Eatinger is having the cases searched in OGC files for relevance to JFK.
13-00000 25 Sept 1975 - The New Orleans mail intercept operation was of interest to the HSCA investigation and has been mentioned in our files. The item refers to the Senate Select Committee and it is doubtful if it is JFK related. Eatinger says it is our call. 26 July 1978 (memo for the Record) - Eatinger was not comfortable with our deletion [ ]; he has originally proposed to release. I recommended that we at least delete the word prison. There may not have been many women in prison with that background.
Ima Nay Hh 13-00000 ~*~ . Falkiewicz noted his expectation that Ron Kessler's article on President Kennedy's assassination will appear in the 14 November Wash- ington Post Post. It was agreed Bolten called attention to today's Washington Post article about David Wise's book (attached) and stated his belief that it contains details which were not included in the Senate's published report. that this material was deleted from the Senate report and that Wise's In response to the DDCI's query, Bolten stated that account is correct we had not had prior word of the Wise book. 3 FO PARE oes cen ewan gy
13-00000.- -- ..- ARTICLE APPRAREDY rr od PBI Bugging © Of Chilean Oifices Told Book Says Hoover *j Forced CIA to Halt! Surveillance in “72 |, .By George Lardner Jr. Waaningten Post Atatl Wriver The FBI reluctantly bugged the Chilean Embassy in Washington during the Salvador Allende re- aime and then forced the Central! Intelligence Agency to agree to end the surveillance, according to: a forthcoming book about the U.S. intelligence community. . , | The late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo-| ver atogned the bugging in Febru- ary of 1972 hy threatening to tell Con- aress that it was being done at the Ciav‘’s insistence. author David Wise reports. vo . 7 \ecording to the account in Wise’s| new book, “The Amertcen vel C vee woe eae ee Sie’: oe Hoover initially retused to Install the eavesdropping equipment when of 1971: A-few days later, however, then-CLA ‘Director Richard Helms went over Hoover's head and got At- torney: General John N. Mitchell to reversg the FBI director's decision. : The. CLa delivered sophisticated bugging equipment to the FBI three dass Later, and between April 27 and mid-May, the FBI got into the em, bassy and installed several. mikes.” ; For more than eight months, the! government listened in to conversa: | tons taking place inside te embassy, , Wise reported. The Chilcan ambaséa-! dor.to the United States at the time | was Oriande Leteller. who was assas: | sineted here Sept. 21, 1076, wnen al homb blew upthe cat he was driving | a short distance. from the embassy'| butlding. a. 2 ~ "Bem ae ned ‘that still remaing unsolved WASETUGTONU POST Wig /2.* 12 HOVEYGER 1976 alk 7 ~ | bugs were broadcasting , again ale Around early Pebruary of 1972. Ho- aver threatened to blow the whisile.{ though there is some evidence,” Wise: the FBI directar.may have been “still! writes, “they may have been turned amarting over being reversed by Slit | . enell.” Wise wrote, but he edded In al of or removed ayain in February telephone interview that he did not 1973. , know why Hoover chose tu. give the ; Voleing some skepticism about the ultimatum when he did. apparent lack of any electronic sur- - ‘ in any ts abo wine sald. ne a veillance for some 10 months in 1972, ' ocuments about-the episode, the Cl. ; caved in promptly and hastily asked Wise added at the coronolowy is al that the eavesdropping ba stopped. - hath 00 good to ue. for i a3 Accordingly, On Feb. 3, 1872. “the FB! oth agencies messing around with ce the Chilean embassy at almost every either went in and pulled out the Mine 4, ° * : . me except several months on either lature transmitters ur turned them olf | side of the May 1972 date.” by remote control.” - eave Sled on May @% i972. Less The President of Chile during the, than two weeks iater, on the weekend | period in question, Salvador Allende,| at Mov 13-15. the Chilean embassy wag, Wasa Marxist whose 1570 election the burglarized in a crime that persistent cra had tried to block on President rumors have attributed ‘to cae or Nixon orders. sine plan tailed. pend tt Watergate burglars but e CIA spen million between 1870: more of the Wateraate buralars and 1973 to undermine Allende, He- died in a military coup that brought: down his government in Septembder,) 1973, oy In itg investigation of the embassy breakin. the book discloses, the FBI wes unable to question 3 potentially ae important witness In Migmt who had In other disclosures, the hook. reportedly told an FBI informant that f quotes former Nixon White House’ one of the Watergate burglars wasin-' aide John OD. Ebelichmon’s vivid recol- | volved. The potential witness. a Cu-- igetions of an Oct. 1, 1969, dinner at ban exile in Miami, was murdered {n Hogver's home that Nixoo attended the spring of 1074. apparently shortly: along with Ehrlichman and Attorney after the bureau had sat out to qués-; General Mitchell. : tlon nim bul before they managed to| rat night, Wise said Ebriichman , ‘locate him. ° ‘- ' V told bim, “for hours, Hoover regaled’ According to Wise, the Chilean em ys qwith stories of ‘black bag’ jobs.’ hassy was not only burglarized but lt poipraising escapes, and 30 on. was also bugged once again efter. “wonderful,” the Preudent xept say- Hoover's death. According to CIA\ ing, ‘How about that, John?” documents, he said. the agency asked | . the FBL te “reinstitute coverage” on “ Dee. 6.29872. a step that tae State De-: partment also “strongly urged.” ; This time, the Hoover-less FBI ap-; parently complied without * pentest. | the CLA first requested it in = ‘By the day after Christmas [1872] the
13-00000 DCI noted high-level concern about the book on the "Bay of Pigs'' and the book on the "Invisible Government”. DCI noted an opinion that the book by Thomas Buchanan about President Kennedy's assassination seems to be receiving wide accredita- tion in Europe.
13-00000_, QM Sept 75 ~~, Warner referred to Justice's willingness to retain counsel for Angleton and Ober and stated that he is drafting a letter for the Director to send to Justice on the legal representation in both civil and criminal cases. Te due Hh on wg Gree, THe cassessuata SS —_ Soy. eA Berend called attention to a false story carried in \ the 23 September Baltimore News American alleging that “J working levels of the CIA were aware two months before the JFK assassination that Oswald planned to kill President Kennedy but did not report this information up the line. General Walters asked Berend to draft a statement of denial for public release.
OS Seyl 1S * ss, Blake reported that the Senate Select Committee ‘VY intends to talk to Treasury officials re possible Customs involvement in the New Orleans mail intercept activity. se et A SPR ot Wh, ‘, The Director referred to the CIA/Oswald story carried. . in the 23 September Baltimore News American and asked that } in lieu of issuing a press release an appropriate letter to the paper be prepared (see Morning Meeting Minutes of ° 24 September). - sgase ite rent consists al on aus aa - ou ‘ , . ete . : se a. . - .. a2 ee. + evgifaae™
13-00000 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE | 26 July 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD ‘StafE Meeting Minutes of 26 July 1978 | The Director was on leave; Mr. Carlucci was testifying on the Hill; Mr. Blake chaired the meeting. Mr. Blake asked Hetu to explain the disturbing ABC story emanating from Havana. Hetu said that ABC reporter Reynolds called him and said that as part of Cuba's 26 July celebration, a double agent will march in a parade and appear at a press conference, saying that CIA tried to prove that Cubans were involved in President Kennedy's assassination. Castro also plans to announce CIA activities in Africa to track the Cuban presence there. Hetu told Reynolds that he hesitated to comment at the present time but the charge regarding the Kennedy assassination was ridiculous. [ McMahon summarized an FBI report that a Cuban Intelligence Service official has been in contact with an unidentified journalist in connection with the World Youth Festival now taking place in Cuba. The journalist stated that the festival will include a. tribunal that will condemn CIA. activities throughout the world. It will also reveal the above-mentioned charge that the CIA tried to prove Cuban involvement in President Kennedy's assassination. Former CIA agents will be revealed as well as proof of CIA. activities in Africa. This report also mentioned that a press conference will be held. .. Greaney (for OGC) added t on 21 July an OGC representati ve o>? off a former agent in New Yor o had been in prison in Cuba. e had been a member of the original 26th of July Movement and seem o have - become extremely radical and bitter. Greaney said that he would not be surpr ised if this individual appeared at any of the above-mentioned activities. OF. 7a ovT SF. Gu oN
13-00000 To: John P. Responses to your questions on DCI Morning Meeting Minutes 1. Chuck does not see the need to coordinate DCI Bush's memo to DDCI; however, it does contain c Inouye. If we want to cover all bases, I 2. We assum is an Agency employée- “Should be protected. W recognize his name. 3. The reference to Wise's book would constitute "official acknowledgment". It will require a bit of research to determine what they were referring to. 4. Re copyright issue, still waiting on Eatinger to get back to me. 5. the comments on de Morenschildt's mental state was released in the Oswald 201. 6. Vincent Thill retired overt (see attached card); I am also checking with OS. : 7. James O'Connell was exposed in Peter Wyden's Bay of Pigs; I am checking with OS. 8. Regis Blahut - released in JFK material; we coordinated with SO at the time. 9. Re LBJ Library document, I will check with Pittman. VY QXN YN YG
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