14-00000, mere ms PAR EEE fi NED thee i IR GS ‘fee AL 9.0 MAR 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the DDO ATTENTION : Mr. Shepanek FROM | : §S. D. Breckinridge . Deputy Inspector General ee SUBJECT : HSCA Request dated 6 March 1978 REFERENCE : OLC 78-0448/1 1. In Attachment A is a document which refers to David E. Murphy. It is provided for your review in relation to subject — request. Attachment B contains several items which mention Boris Tarasoff which you should also review in relation to this request. 2. Some of the material in Attachment B is contained in the Task Force Report which was transmitted to the HSCA in sanitized form and shown only to selected HSCA staff members in unsanitized form at Headquarters. Limited access should con- tinue to be provided. 3. OIG files contained no information on Ann Tarasoff or James Wilcott. . a > S. D. Breckinridge l setae . Attachments: oe As Stated ee cc: OLC (Rodger Gabrielson), w/o attachments E2 IMPDET CL BY 013190 3194
14-00000 nee Answer: Pp. 15 Who was the unidentified Man at a meeting with Richard Helns ' on 12 March 1964 who would have known if Oswald. had been ao CIA informant? -° Phe unidentified | man who accompanied | Mr. Helms) to the 12 March oe 1964 meeting ‘was Mr. David E. Murphy, ‘then chief of the Soviet / Russia Division, DDP . See paragraph 6 of the ‘Tab 9 memorandum of record of this meeting for Mr. Helms’ “reported remark that | o he: and Mr. Murphy were the two Clandestine Services officers who certainly would know whether or not Oswald had been an eee agent’ for CIA in “the Soviet Union.
14-00000 for the ‘telephone numbers of the Soviet, cuban, and Sa tellite E Bubassies.” 24 with this forevarning, LIFEAT {unsteterel eon erage) was disconnected) However, : as I recall, ( vextcarlcoanectid d\ 5 ‘Cuban lines, 2 Soviet Lines, 3 3 Czech, 7 22 Polish, and 1 Yugoslav 1 line, The basehouse Listening post had a Live : a . a i eonpmemnen ewe 7 . monitor ‘who made ‘short summaries of interesting conversations for a daily _ resue 1 Vick was. “received each day around 8 a.m. (passed by Fer|te Goodpasture | . on te get to Scott defore 9 an.) Later (when the reel was completely recorded) | : “gu transoripts were typed and passed to ‘the gtetion | in the same 2 way, however, S there v was. usually < a tine lag of, a . dey or SO. ; “Those transcripts which had S Russien or another language besides ‘Spanish or English vent. out of the Listening | | : post the ‘aay after the transcript (oe other conversations on. the > reeil)vas os typed. These reels were taken to. another location vhere ‘they were translated 7 "and typed. In the case of the Russian transletions >. ‘Boris Tarasoff usually ran ™ 2 about a week behind ‘the date of the conversation because of the volume oF 7 _Bussien conversations among the. menibers of the Soviet Bubessy. During ‘this: oe : oo period (fall. of 1963y the reels, were probably being brought, into ‘the station _ - : end carried to Boris by. one of ‘tm people ‘from the Soviet Section « ‘or r they nay : 7 : have been carried to. him by pricy) but I think I brought the resl” in and gave oe - OS mo it to fuerbert Manel to take to Boris. fierbext 1 vanetil ana j is wife “Bezbara | . _ handled all of the processi: ng of Soviet transcripts. | ty job involved screening a the photographs 2 as soon as we: Learned that the man calling hinselt Oswald vas - probably an Anerican. However, here again there was a “backlag because the 2 photos were picked up three times a week but the ones pi cked up vere usually os for dates a few days prefiously because [tne doctor proces ssed the fila on a. night ‘time basis, Photographs were made usually until one roll, vas ; used but mo later we got it changed to one day < coverage on each roll - - in other words the Re 4. operators” ‘cleared the camera each day whether there was sign Soa a full. roll of Film exposed. In ructions Were to cover office nours, chotograch gach om
new Soviet and fanily, all “for reigners and foreign Licence 7 plates. “Bunan - ‘error ¢ did occur but generally the agents were conscientious. © “The Cuban - "embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipment, (a pulse casera) | but it frequently develored mechanical difficulties. (Bot Pecernardiond 5 ther] o (I ‘think) handled this filn - - . pick up and delivery. Lorna Ha ackay screened ea the film inside the station, oe tT am certain that the Oswald call came to our ‘attention from the 7 . Soviet bse. Te was: ‘picked u us and taken to Boris for a | translation because a the caller was trying to speak Russian. Any delay vas, | caused by waiting “toe egmpare | the photographs + with the ‘typed tra eript. _ There \ were | no, copies of “transcripts every made : in | Languages other. than Spenish or "English because Win. / - _ Scott : could read only those two Languages end he versonally screened the oe transeripts for operational, Leads he wanted ‘pursued. Sih
14-00000 . £/56-6/69. GOS Winston 4. Scott (deceased) a f poos [7/56 - 7/ 58) A fonapaRodrigues (re tirea) oF Lio 58 12/62 (retired) ° 6/63 ~ 9/65 Alan White (retired})-—~ 05 - COVERT ACTION — oo. ‘Prior to 1954 Howard. Hunt (retired) | oe abe 54.- 7/53 Williard ef 03 - vot - . 2/56\~ 9/61. Stannard S (retired) Jb - Ghief  °. mn ; 9/62. - 3/6. David Phillips 6/ (retired) : ' 8/62 - 9/64 . Asst —O2 a Oe 2/64 - 6/65 “Janes Flannery C/ (retired) ~ _ - 9/64-11/66 Harold Dalghren Asst . - 10/65 ~ 1ge7 tesiee Matson\C/ (retired) 03 . - (ay ‘Joseph SnithG (retired in Mexico) | - CUBA OPERATIONS oe 4/62 Thomas Haz: t Chief ~-- . . 2/60 - 4/62 [Sack Stews (retired Costa Rica) 4/63 - 4/65 Bob Shaw Chief —- - » 9/63 ~ 7/65 y Swider\-S , a }- oe we - 5/65 Lorna Mackay Contone ae ~ 6/65 David Phillips Chief laabinnd) - yee - 10/68 Joseph Piccolo . . 10/65 _ 12 {67 Eesey pectoris] we a open verre 2 am Sov TET TARGET of 19/594 8/65 (ferber't-ManelTl Chief— (retired 2) _ 4 [9/59\— 8/65 [Earbarf Manel — : _ Outside CO . 5/64 - 7/66 Willian Bright ae Oe - 4/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann = (6/85 —- 7/67 Alice Pittinger 1/65 ~ 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief SOVIET TRANSCRIBERS 6/56 ~ 8/58 Morris Gordon (resigne ed) 6/58 — 6/63 George Misko — 6/63 — 70 Boris Tarasoff (retired in Mexico) ~ AS: 65 ~ 1969 9 Bianley Wa tsoni] (retired : in n Mexico) - ol (6 7-10 Z2htouise yon Gatos . oe —- /67 Prentice Marheine’ Go) rem tert ete © 4 Fe Svareee  iecee .