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Ln Ret nem Rian tele abe cheat eam Sono nn dy Sg wa ey Honorable Richard S. Schweiker United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Sanator Soahweiker: This is in reference to your letter to the Attorney General dated May 6, 1976, in which you inquired as to why certain material possibly relating — to CIA assassination plots was not delivered to. the: Senate Select Committee pursuant to the request of: Senator Church dated May 12, 1975. Upon receipes x your letter the Bureau was asked to determine wlyth materials were not discovered and reviewed when. thi initial response to Senator Church's request wagiss _ prepared. eho wament The primary reason, according to the Bureau, ig that the FBI does not have a topical index to its files. This means that Bureau personnel have to use their own judgment fa determine where the requested materials are likely to be located. With reference to the request relating to assassination plots, the FBI decided to review 80 volumes of files reflecting - the relationship between the Bureau and CIA between 1958 and 1965. The Bureau and Select Committee staff nembersy Andrew Postal and David Bushong also reviewed ‘the volumes. of a fila relating to Cuban matters. The limita of the Bureau's retrieval capabilities and the problems. involved in see stn, all relevant materials on of information that would assist the ocating requested materials. In tha past 3% information was normally provided to the Fealeto"assist in the preparation of a.compiete respone. However, I understand that with regar] to requests for assassination materials this was not done. 4 i 4 1 4 i 4 $ 4 HW 54653 pocta¥s2423493 Page 14
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) these documents "do not relate to the general area in which the SSC is interested."' Per the above May 20, 1976, conversation between Mr, Wallach and Mr. Miller, the SSC is not further interested in this unrelated material. anes It is noted, pursuant to the conversation between Mr. Wallach and Mr. Miller on May 3, 1976, that ‘portion of Item 1 from the word "including" to the end of the sentence was withdrawn. ‘ Es ~2- | 2 HW 54653 .Docld:32423493 Page 19
e /ilTb _ Mr. James Johnston - Select Committee on Intelligence ' Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Jim: This is to confirm that except for any objections made by representatives of the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation, the Department of Justice haa no objections the Assassination of President Kennedy". Sincerely, STEVEN BLACKHURST Assistant Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination aie 4 / HW 54653 poctaS2423493 Page 20
JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 7/7/2015 Agency Information AGENCY:  SSCIA RECORD NUMBER: — 157-10014-10104 RECORD SERIES: MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS.OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILENUMBER:  07-M-10 Document Information ORIGINATOR:  SSCIA Peleased under the John FROM: EPSTEIN, MICHAEL Kennedy TO: SHAHEEN, MICHAEL E. Lssassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 TITLE: (44 USC 2107 Note). ases#: NW 54653 Date: WO-253-Z2017 DATE: 05/19/1976 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : FBI, FILES CASTRO, FIDEL DOCUMENT TYPE: CORRESPONDENCE CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: = 1B; IC CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 03/08/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : CCBOX 474 v9.1 HW 54653 DBocld: 324235492 Page 1
Date : 08/06/95 Page : 1 , JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : SSCIA ’ RECORD NUMBER : 157-10014-10104 RECORDS SERIES : MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 07-M-10 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSCIA FROM : EPSTEIN, MICHAEL TO : SHAHEEN, MICHAEL E. TITLE : DATE : 05/19/76. PAGES : 3  #£° SUBJECTS : FBI, FILES CASTRO, FIDEL DOCUMENT TYPE : CORRESPONDENCE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 01/05/99 OPENING CRITERIA : , COMMENTS : CCBOX 474 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED HW 54653 DBocld:32423492 Page 2?
SENATE SELECT COMM.. May 19, 1976 Michael E. Shaheen, Jr., Esq. -Speefial Counsel for Intelligence Coordination Office of the Att General _  v. 8. Department of Justice |. Washington, D.C, 20530 Dear Mike: Im connection with our investigation of the ‘Kennedy assasaination matter, I would appreciate your forwarding as soon as possible, any and all materials relating to an October 29, 1962, neno- randum from the FBI Director to the " Attorney General, captioned "Fidel Castro; Taternal Security: - Cuba,” ineluding but not limited te ; a. The copy of the memorandum. which was _ transmitted to the Deputy Attorney General; b. y and all other matertale in Department: of Justice files which relate to this matter; e. All FBI materials constitucing the original record of the contact. with the informant; d. ALL FBI materials velating to the prepara- tion of che memorandum to the Attorney , General, ineluding the FBI's records’ copy the memorandum; i follow-up communications or materials . Fe ating to this matter. Sincerely, Michael .. Epstein Counsel | MTE:dj - HW 54653 pocra¥2423492 Page 4
-3- sort. was going forward, but giving the President as little info about it as possible" - Purpose: allow cancel, or go ahead without "extracting from him an explicit endoresement of the detailed specific plan." (61) Page 6 Docld: 32423495 HW 535244
PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: | CATEGORIES: OSWALD, LEE HARVEY -MEXICO CITY 9/27/63} IX-C-2-a DURAN, SILVIA . . MEXICO. CITY - CUBAN EMBASSY 11/23/63; MEXICO CITY - RUSSIAN EMBASSY OCCURRENCE: the Warren Commission Report stated, based on testimony of Silvia Duran, that when Oswald returned to the Cuban Embassy on 9/27/63, Duran telephoned the Soviet Embassy to inquire about the status of Oswald's Russian visa and was told that there § would be a delay of about 4 months. SOURCE: warren Commission Ex. #2121, p. 39. Statement of Silvia Duran 11/23/63 Dwyer DATE? 10/19/75 ee ee me es ee es ae ee ee ee oe mee ew me we ee ee ee eee eee eee "PERSONS/ENTITIES: ce ERSTE 11/26 | IX-C-2-a 9/27-10/1/63 DURAN, SILVA. OSWALD, LEE HARVEY -MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY - CUBAN EMBASSY MEXICO CITY - SOVIET EMBASSY OCCURRENCE: Silvia Duran stated to Mexican authorities -on 11/26 63 that Oswald's Cuban visa application was processed (despite the fact that he had not received a Russian visa). Duran's.statement reads that the visa application was sent to the Ministry of (Foreign) Relations of Cuba; from which a routine reply was received some fifteen to 30 days later, approving the visa, but on the condition that the Russian visa be obtained first.". SOURCE: | | STAFF: pyyer Statement of Silvia Duran to Mexican authroities 11/26/63 . . FILE: : | ; DATE: 10/20/75
TOP SECREY ~~ ts E 1. is increasing comment on it. And there is little question but ¢ - ; —_ us 2 what more details will come to light one way or the other in é 3 the weeks ahead. 5 4 Colby said there was one other involvement. We did not 5 question him closely, we just asked him to tell us what he knew é about this question of political assassinations. 7 The other involvement had to do with Trujillo in the © 8° Dominican Republic. The involvement here was a little different. , 9 A group of insurgents, dissidents, whatever you might want to 10 call them, who were very much opposed to Trujillo, were 11 furnished weapons by the CIA. That group was the one that 12 "assassinated Trujillo. It happened that the weapon that was | 13 used in the actual assassination was not one that was furnished WARD & PAUL 14 by the CIA, though at least one, perhaps more of the weapons 15 that were furnished were in the car of the assassinators, and 16 Colby said that this was an involvement that would at least. in 17 the eyes of the law, in his judgment, involve the CIA ina | conspiracy. / - , , a | 18, 19 He said there had been no involvement in the case of o : . s 20 Lumumba and he did not volunteer any further information of Ps . ; ¢ 21. involvement. We did not question him about the Diem or any 3 a _ <= 2 ‘ . 3 22 other possibility. | a 93 _ I.noticed that there was somehing in the press yesterday rd a s : - : . . “ 24 about Malagasa, an article having to do with Tad Zulc. Nee - i S So the question is before us and it has these further 25. eres SESE: TOP SECRET HW 54653 Docld:32493498 Page 42.
JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form W72015 Agency Information AGENCY: SSCIA RECORD NUMBER: — 157-10014-10110 RECORD SERIES: MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILENUMBER:  07-M-16 ; Document Information ORIGINATOR:  SSCIA FROM: TO: Peleased under the John Kennedy TITLE: WSsassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 US¢ 2107 Note). ases#: NW 54653 Date: DATE: 05/09/1975 - bOne seo PAGES: 62° SUBJECTS : ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SSCSGO KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. FBI DOCUMENT TYPE: TRANSCRIPT CLASSIFICATION: — Declassified RESTRICTIONS : 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 03/21/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 54653 DBocld: 32423496 Page 1
18 a greater press for detail in regard to other activities, but the constitutional analysis essentially is that unless there is a countervailing constitutional interest, i.e., national security, that would prevent: publication, then there is a constitutional obligatibn’ to publish. Senator Tower. Hell, actually, how do you arrive at an aggregate figure for national intelligence: activities when you have got them ongoing in many, many agencies of one kind or another. . a 7 The Chairman. With. the’ establishment of an oversight - committee, we are recommending that all of that will be brought together and an aggregate figure can be presented to the Congress when the aythorization bill comes up, just the way the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy presents a figure, and ‘the Constitution will then be complied with. tan! Senator Huddleston. . We had-.a very excellent presentation | on the budget of the intelligence community before our | Committee or Subcommittee. I assume it has been reduced to writing and is in some forn that would be available to the Committee, And the figure that we anticipate as an aggregate figure is still not near the total figure that can be at least ascribed to intelligence in some manner, but is one that, as . the Chairman has pointed out, there have been indications by. people involved that it would not pose any great problem. “HW 53944 Docld: 324235512 . Page 271
HW 53244 nue) il 12 13' 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 24 290 THE SEGRE . 19 | Senator Mondale. If you put out the aggregate figure. “What would the aggregate figure be now, approximately? What would it. be? ‘ | Senator Huddleston. This figure we are talking about is only about $4.7 billion. Mr. Maxwell. The CIA has defined it, as the DCI makes the presentation, he has defined the National Intelligence — - program figure as approximately $4.7 billion a year. Mr. Aaron. It would consist of the budgets of CIA, NSA, DIA, and of the National Reconnaissance program. ' Senator Tower. It would not include the FBI and its counterintelligence program. ‘Mr. Aaron. well, that is an issue for your oversight committee. Those are small amounts of money, and one can include the INR, which is $10 million. The Chairman. John, that could be :included in, under’ the "proposed oversight committee, the intelligence, the State i } Department intelligence is included in the authorization. Senator Schweiker. Well, the House figure came up with $10 billion. Where are we off $6 nillion? Senator Huddleston. That is for a-lot of support activity that you couldn't necessarily eliminate. ‘if you eliminated intelligence you'd still have to have a part of that activity. Mr.- Maxwell. And it includes tactical. The Chairman. Gentlemen, what are -- let's not get into Docld:3274273512 Page 22
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HW 53244 | dr y fh. Subject: ' Response: Docld: 324273501 17 July 1975. SSC Request to Breckinridge During his 2 June Appearance, for Files and Materials relating to the 1967 IG Report on Assassinations, Including Tab A after Page 77 of the Report. A search has been made for the files of the Chief, WH Division in 1967 (Desmond Fitzgerald), and those of Col. J. C. King. At that time Mr, Fitzgerald was alive; he has since died and his files do not exist as an integral collection, although portions may exist in different holdings in WH ‘Division, Col, King had retired at the time of the IG inquiry, but he was still working under a special contract and was at the Headquarters Building at Langley where he had retained some personal files; his files are no longer identifiable. Other materials, reviewed by the Inspectors in 1967 were limited in nature, some of which have been made available to SSC Staff members in envelopes in which they have been held since 1967. The SSC Staff members have had access to.the project files of QJWIN, WIROGUE, ZRRIFLE and EMDEED. | ; Should they wish access to the files relating to the anti-Diem coup, they can be made available on request, Page ? Re . val JUL 90: 1975 CLA. (unless tn
Ll . . PROCEEDINGS 2 The Chairman. The Committee will come to order... 3 Our purpose this morning is to commence the consideration 4 of the findings and recommendations on the foreign and military 5 intelligence aspects of the investigation. | | 6 ‘Knowing that members have read the Subcommittee’ s report, 9 I suggest that we commence’ by simply asking if any Senator has 8 any suggestions or amendment to propose to the general 9 findings and conclusions which begin on page 1 and extend: throu i¢ 10 page 5. Qi senator Baker. Mr. Chairman, may I make a preliminary 12 remark? 13: “The Chairman. Yes, of course. 14 Senator Baker. 1 think that the Subcommittee has done a 15 good job. .There are a number of points that I would Like to 1 discuss. I think none of my concerns are irreconcilable. I 7 think some of them are even as small as matters of language, 18. but there is one that I .have already mentioned to Mr. Miller 1 and I do feel strong about, and that is if we are going to 20 . submit the. set of recommendations to the agencies, particularly| 21 the CIA in this situation, that we do it before we take 22 Committee action. | | 23 I am perfectly willing for that to be done as quickly and 24 even as informally as possible, and Bill Miller suggests that 25 | he might be able to meet: with Rogovin. yet today and have some HW 53244 Docld:32423512 Page 5
sort of reaction to it, if possible. But my concern, frankly, ° Mr. Chairman, is that if there is going to be an Agency -input, 5 that they have it, because I ‘am called on to make’ any approval. 4 So with that understanding, I am prepared to go ahead. 5. The Chairman. All _ actions of the Committee will be taken 6 tentatively. I have discussed your proposal with Bill Miller , and he will take up these recommendations informally. He will 3 make a report back of the Committee's views -- of the Agency's 9 views’ or. objections to any particular recommendations, so the 10 Committee can then consider that at the end of the road before ; - final vote and approval is taken, Le Senator Baker. Do you plan to vote on each separate one . 13 or just simply try to establish a verbal consensus, because. a would be -- I would not like to vote on the particular sectio Ss 1s until I hear what the agencies say. | | 16 The Chairman. Well, the vote is tentative. I See no WD problem with it. We can always’ reconsider it if the Agency ‘offers a strong objection. - ane 18 oo 19 ‘Senator Baker. Well, it is not quite the same, but if 99 you are going to go that way, I'm going. to withhold my. vote °1 until tomorrow, but if we want to discuss it separately and 25 arrive at.a general consensus, that's a little different. - Senator Huddleston. I would just like to make this point, os Mr. Chairman, that each agency has had a considerable oppor- 35 tunity to make input, and has in fact made some input bécause © HW 4535244 ‘Docld: 324293512 Page 6
10 li le 14 15 16 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 533 The Chairman. It doesn't have to be said, but as long ‘as the law is there -- but I think this in effect endorses cm the continuation of the present Hughes-Act. ire is incon- sistent with the position that we have taken on an oversight Committee, and is inconsistent with the recommendations made. by. the Government Operations Committee... Senator Schweiker. Well, the certification and notifica- tion principle is not. I think we are talking two different things here, and I hate to see us give up the one element of control we have, certification and notification. So if we are going to take something out, take out the number context, but I'm not sure we ought to be taking out certification and notification, because if nothing else passes Congress, that's all you have. Senator Baker. Well, I think that is true, but I think that you ought to have both the certification and the ‘notification at a single point of responsibility, not to -Six of them. Senator Mondale. Well, Howard, the problem here is it seems to me here is to existing. If you just say the DCI should continue to carry out notification required by law, and answer any question, and the President shall also continue to certify that- covert, you: know, as required by law, and then if. the law is changed, it is changed, but the notifi- cation, the certification and notification point would be HW 535244 Docld: 324293512 Page 56.
JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 7/7/2015 Agency Information AGENCY: SSCIA RECORD NUMBER:  157-10014-10111 RECORD SERIES: MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTTEE AGENCY FILENUMBER:  07-M-17 Document Information ORIGINATOR:  SSCIA | FROM: ELDER, WALTER : : TO: MILLER. WILLIAM Peleased under the John ° Kennedy TITLE: WSsassination Records . Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ases#: NW 53244 Date: DATE: 07/29/1975 eee PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : COLBY, WILLIAM DOCUMENT TYPE: CORRESPONDENCE CLASSIFICATION: — Declassified RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1€ CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 03/21/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS:  CCBOX 438 v9.1 HW 53244 Docld: 32423499 Page 1
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HW 535244 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 , RK 5 3 | Review Staff: 75/1673 - 29 July 1975 Mr. ‘william G. Miller - staff Director Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities Room G-308 Dirksen Senate Office puilding Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Mr. Miller: The attached comment responds to Question 2 raised during Mr. Colby's hearing before the Senate Select Committee on 20 June 1975. The question dealt with whether Mr. Conein was advised of the 6 October 1963 McCone-Colby cable instructing the Acting Chief of Station in Saigon to dissociate from consideration of assassination. Sincerely» Walter Elder | Assistant to the Director Attachment: As stated RECEDED | FROM. 2d ted NATION’ * UnauthoreeteCeloeuia Sebiect te og gio of £9. 1 (1), (2). Gy 1775-191? DocId: 32423499
HW 53244 |. MW daly 1975 ‘SUBJECT: response to Question 2 of the 20 June 1975 S60 Fearing regarding the Diem Assassination as to whether “Acticn Officer” Conein was advised of the 6 October 1963 - MoCone-Colby cable to the ACOS to dissociate fran con- sideration of assassination The cable traffic on this matter does ret reflect whether or not Mr. Conein was advised of the Colby cable to the acting Statica Chief to disassociate from consideration lof agsassinaticn. RECEIY ED FROM 018 29 1905 ow DocId: 32493499 Plage 5
— a « ey wa a oe 4 the witnesses have been questioned in many cases on specific recommendations that we might make. So there has already been that degree of input from the agencies. . . The Chairman. I would hope that we could proceed so ) that the Committee considers and at least comes to a tentative | vote. It is always subject. to a final revision, and I think that is the only way we really can make progress. But I will see to it, Howard, that any ‘objection the Agency. may raise to any of these recommendations, Or any strong feelings they express concerning any of them, jare reported to the Committee by Mr. Miller, and the committee will have an opportunity, then, - to review its work in the light of any such evaluation. |. “Senator Baker. | I thank you for that, Mr. Chairman. That i certainly is an improvement. That doesn't quite meet my ‘concerns, which were chat we have the input from the CIA, the q t | White House and the Justice Department before we make any Committee action, but T suspect that is as good as I can . probably do. ! | | But. it is understood, I suppose, that I may in fact withhold’ my vote until we have heard 4 reaction, at least from the results of Bill Miller's meetings. the Chairman. I would hope that we could move along in most cases. by consensus, Howard, anyway. You know, we have been able to do. that most of the time, and we will come to votes only in those cases where they are necessary. HW 53244 Docld:32423512 Page 7
LO 11 12 : 14 15 16 17 18 ‘19 20 21 22 23 25 Docld: 3242393515 ‘Page 74 TOP SECRET) ts: where they have got 10,000 people down there ‘that can barely read, Mr. Miller. Well, I have got no objection to that. ‘Mr. Kirbow. And what you are saying is institute programs to teach them how’ the Congress acts and the practices of the | legislative, executive, and judicial? This is about a three year course in government. Mr. Miller. Not really. Mr. Kirbow. You want to teach them, it should also describe the practices of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government, and the obligations -. that all of the intelligence agencies have to each of the branches of the government. | Senator Huddleston. Personally, I think we can eliminate that part. I think we ought to have an awareness of how their specific type of operation,. which is perhaps clandestine activities. Mr. Kirbow. You're saying in the intelligence agencies,: “oh, those people, I agree, but I think if we go outside of our intelligence mandate a Mr. Miller. Well, ‘there's no intention to go outside the intelligence agencies. Mr. Kirbow. It says to institute in all agencies. Mr.Miller. All intelligence agencies. Mr. Kirbow. It doesn't say that, Mr. Miller. I'm reading TOP SECRET