Mic teasea under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collectifn Act of 1992 (44 USC 210%, | \Wo : ; te) >DATE: 11-14-2017 “on HAS nO GR IErTION TO - 7, sation Vatiis 5 Vite Chios ne Zh). : - : ; | 29 March 1967 oo SUBJECT: EmJe 1. Please ref fer. to your informal note, dated 27 March 1967, captioned. as above, in which you propose tO disseminate to the Department of ee ice eae Departs \ ment of State’ a memorandum; containino¥pe ertaimn MROCK s) information concerning the“Assassination of PFS of Frésident John EF. KETS GY for ce le a ae Gen ena ae ; eet ee ne Re EP HO LN aR a ie Gs you are aware,. fatea meeting on 18 January 1967 betwéen representatives':of your Bureay,and this Agency to discuss [Ehe: handling of SHAMROCKfPft was agreed that for the time ‘being there would be no dissemination to other agencies of information, from this source with- an out prior agreement between your Bureau and- this Agency, . ard that there will-be’ no notification f.other agencies Ne out the existence of this new sourcefae the present OS time. We gather that you,are now prepared to make some vO dissemination of (Suamrock nformation to other departments sitive intelligence: “reporting could be ‘dissemi-~ me. However’, before: either your reau nfor- ¢ wee St re a “ands on “whet her.’ “Or. not..it, “might. ‘be “neces-- ‘time | to. ‘brief selected individuals, in, the Stically>. we’ would | oRRBRE AEH) sae be responsible for th preeeee Cire to peeemerni pertaining to the . internal : ‘security, Of ‘the United ‘States, while.we would. handle: the? dissemination—e£-infeormation , pertaining to this’ ‘Agency' ‘S- counterintelligence respon- sibilitiés “abroad; and to.vche Agency's. own,’security re- é 9s, pada pres ” ap wel AD ERE meee, “fend Rewer ae eee f rey o, (Eopresonecsrnna BF E& iq from the son Ray @) Pine eerrereney NO ALE — A Va MG cies. We Cennn believe that certain items of [SHaM-  sponsibilitiesegs well as “positive. intelligence’ Heporting | \ rk 2 sv 2s » rd “1/08 ~ 162/2 a ot INAL FILED IN T
ee : os . . : as Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2407 \\ Hote). '- -DATE: 11-14-2017 . . woe _* 4. As far as source descriptions are concerned, we believe that it is important:-that the source description used by both your Bureau’ and. ‘the A gncy clearly state that the reliability, of thesourcéfhimself (rather than Simply thgt of his information} has not yet been estab- lished. or example, one’ .of‘'the following descriptions might be appropriate; Ww) - a oo a. "K confidential- informant, contact with ~~~ ; { whomvhas been insufficient, to establish his relia- Uf - not been established" aK&) - information: is being passed to the U.S. Government. "iy mation from [SHAMROCK hich.we:would prgpose to disseminate at this time deals with United NationsfMifatters, and much Of it will inevitably raise questions “fron consumers, we. believe that we will ultimately find it necessary to dis- yong e and nature “of “the Sétircs” with [Bmbassa- and (Secretary of ‘State Rusi¥g/ While we do 5. F5ecause much, of thé ‘positive intelligence infor- Guss the exi not™Sée any necessity for this atthe present time, we do wish to call your atteption: to the fact that extensive. dissemination of [SHAMROCK nformation on{United Nations SJ matters will very likely require that this be done - X8) 9 6: Even subject to agreement on the points raised bh ‘4énf above, however, we still have serious reservations about i aat the dissemination of the information contained in your memorandum. This report.deals with a subject which owing. to exceptional circumstances makes objective evaluation of the information set forth extremely difficult. Essen- oO 4 tially, the reportcontgfns two basic elements: the ck i 2a af. information about®th WEcB commission established to in- Li oo be gy" vestigate the ci dun cances.qoperes: dent. Kenedy "= 96087 Say | i and informgtion on Lee Harvey- swald's relationship with the KGB. As far as we know, there has been no previous _ reporting on the existence of such a commission. It is important to note, however, hatykthe alleged¥conclusions ) f£ this commissio ~that President Kennedy Was killed by (%) a conspiracy of right wing monopolists~-have long ‘com- prised the standard Soviet.line.on this subjéct. To cite but two examples, KHRUSHCHEV ‘took this tack in an inter- ; view he granted to columnist Drew Pearson in early 1964 |. ve .f ara ‘Docld: 32136342. Page 3-
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Hote}. --DATE: 11-14-2017 _—) a ae (see attached column from ‘the. Washington Post of 26 June voeare a complete statement: “Of, the Soviet line -Ken- nedy's death is to be found’in’ a book called LWhere do ‘the Aracks Lead?" {Kuda ‘vedut sledy] by AefTORYSH and _.B.MSERGEYEV,, which was submitted for publication on 2 Sep- Ember 1964. This -book. spells. out the theory of a right wing conspiracy in great, detail... It is interesting in uUsC 2107 USSEK. this connection that the ‘surname of one of the two authors, SERGEYEV, is ident ical: with ‘the alias used by SITNIKOV. in his contacts with bot Pierre Salinger and Donald ' Brennan. In any event, aside from the existence of a KGB commission to consj ger the prob , none of_the find- ings of the commissio peer (Euampocx’] are either new or signifi@ant. (S) 7. further i in’ ‘this “‘Yegara, we note that the iden- tification of SITNIKOV. as: being chief of a sector, Infor- mation Section, International Department,: Central Committee at the time tha LINIKOV, was: ‘Studying the assassination  . re of the CPSU is Moreno, in:: ‘that ,AEccording to SHAMROCK, Desc Nereninerssrntneen* of. President Kerinédy he was: ‘Still. Deputy Chief_of.tpe-ins—> | £ cmation . service, First, Chief. “Directorate, KGB. see €ranscript of Meeting 217; ‘page 12, in which "SHAMROCK? dates SITNIKOV's transfer ‘to: the cc in 1965, when SKRYABIN retired and VIDYASOV became chie pe the Information Service.) Furthermore, Guamrocype scribed toMKULEBYAKIN who was then Chief_of the American Department of the FCD, the chief responsibility £0L. ‘weighing the evidence that had been gathered by KGB sources'on the Preside death. \(See (Eranscript of Meeting #4, page 18 “HS) wre sug- gest, therefore, that the report be.made consistent by either including KULEBYAKIN's name or deleting SITNIKOV's; or at least the SITNIKOV be.‘clearly identified as still within the KGB at the tinea OR) 8. In connection with: “the Soviet assessment of President Kengedy containe: : we also notegthat SHAMROCKstontinued higkdiscussion of this topic by son. Ae the current Soviet assessment of ( President Johnson.’ See [transcript of Meeting #4, page 20. While it is true that this assessment 9 President John- — son was in answer toa ‘direct: question by one of the in- terviewing officers fjand" that the source's information on this is not directly xelevant. to the assassination of President Keygnedy, we. ‘nonetheless believe that the juxta- position of auANROCK" Ss remarks: on. the. two Presidents is ‘Docld:321356342 Page 4 on page 2 of your. menoranes™ By] 16) 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). -* DATE: 11-14-2017 2 oF “Significant and would: be of Some value to consumers in evaluating the report. because of the similarity of these 5 Cog remarks to those made b othe gsoviet officiais around / _ the world in pursuance of what appears to be a semi-offi- _ cial “line. (A good example. of this is to be found in SITNIKOV's meetings with. Pierre Salinger in Moscow in the spring of 1965. ) . 9, Finally, te id the part of the report that deals - With Lee Harvey Oswald's relations with the KGB--or rather the lack of such .a réelationship--that raises seri- ous problems. As you are aware, much the same story about — Oswald, although in considerably greater detail and - allegedly based on first-hand. knowledge, has been related by NOSENKO. This Agency firmly believes that NOSENKO did not in fact hage. first-hand knowledge of the relations - between the KGB and OSWALD, “and that NOSENKO's story on . OSWALD is a KG prepared message. Similarly, this Agency Ff — believes chat [SuRaROCK’ 's] statements on OSWALD cannot auto- ‘fs] Matically be accepted: as. accurate or valid, and.that the exact nature of the’ KGB relationship with OSWALD has not yet been established. J . Attachment any As Stated Above | Docld: 327136342 Page 5