(04-10310-10118 ' ea idee 4a gyibe i \ 30 October 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR ‘THE RECORD SUBJECT: chief, CI Meeting. with Mr.. Paul Wallach, Chief. Counsel of Senate Select Committee on Intel-_ ligence This meeting occurred on ‘Wednesday, 29 October 1975 as a result of concern on the. part of Senate Select _ Committee officers that the Agency. was not forthcoming with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case, i.e., ‘the assassination of President. Kennedy. The following points 1 ‘were made by the principals | as indicated. Chief; CI = To open ‘the. meeting ‘Mr. ‘Kalaris made it.clear that the Agency. is anxious to demonstrate that we have nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made available to the Warren Commission. He added that the procedure for making material available to the Senate Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources, methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of material. He then presented several examples of the sanitization process in which cables taken directly from the 201 file were edited so that all evidence of: source, - method and liaison information was removed. Chief Counsel.- As. an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated that his position was that he. considered that the Senate Committee should have the same access as the Rockefetler Commission. He added that in his discussions with several senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who had had access to the original file,had appeared on several talk shows and was going to write a book based on his review of Agency holdings on the’ Oswald case. Chief, ‘cr - Mr. Kalaris then pointed out “that there were certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material which could not be released for use outside of the building. \ , mene E2 IMPDET | Cone AL | CL BY 064737
13-00000 . penetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again He gave two examples. of this. One was the fact that the _ Mexican Government security contact on the case. was the [ |. He said, , and Mr. Wallach agreed, this was 0o| viously a mi be protected. The second case was the agreed. Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer — might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers to work with the original file with the” exception of those particularly sensitive items which would either be steri- lized or summarized. Mr. Kalaris added that to establish the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against the (originals by the Senate reviewers. Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach» conferred with his colleagues and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did — inquire as to approximately how many such items there would be. He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat difficult to access but that there should not: be more than 100 such items. ‘Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that it would be necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree that. these notes not be taken from the building. The. purpose of the notes is.simply to allow the reviewers. to keep track of where they have been and what they have seen. | It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be ‘checked with us. Chief, cr - At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and - requested approval of the above procedure. Mr. Blee concurred. Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that his people would tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted to discuss and we would confer with them on those points. 2mm ra | Sesais aE ‘AL
13-00000 three files of other agency documents and offe ‘notes for review. It: was agreed: they: would Yeturn on Comment Mr. Wallach’ niontioned® ‘that: Mre “Proctor: (ppt) is a family. friend and he wanted. to. make contact ‘by phone. At. the ‘end. ‘of. the. day the - Pevi éturned the Monday to start reviewing files. and . that: we would have. | at least 15. volumes. ready. for them: Mr.’ Wallach was to’: call on Friday to confirm our readiness. Q.(* Robert: G. Wall Deputy. Chief, C1/0G cc: Chief, ee | . ADDO ~ ee ke SA/DDO- oh Ss . -Review Staff - Walt Elder €fered Ree