WITHHELD
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: HELMS, RICHARD, DD/P, CIA
Document date: 10/15/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF, 1992. Registry

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION

Office of the Direcior General

G.P.O. BOX NO. 5105BB,

MELBOURNE

10510

15. October, 1968.

Dear

Your Melbourne Station has sought my views

on the possibility of declassifying a Warren Commission

document in which reference is made to the. "Australian

security service".

The document in question is CD.971

dated 22nd May, 1964, logether with an attachment dated

29th. November, 1963.

I would

recommend strongly that CD.971 and

its attachment should not on any account be

declassified or

publicly released for reasons which include

the following:

(1)

It has never been officially, stated that there

is a "C.l.A. Canberra Stationil or that

there are C.l.A. officers in Australia.

This has been avoided as a point of policy.

(11)

Publication of these facts would invoke a

"spate of questions by the" press and in the

Parliament, which would be contrary to the

national: security: interest, for example :

la We lood the ela lament or

(b) What is its composition and location?

(c) What is its purpose in Australia?

(Allegations have already been made

that C.lA. is interfering in Aust-

ralian domestic alfairs.)

(d) With what Australian agencies does it

deal?

(A.5.1.5., which has not been

publicly disclosed, could be brought

into discussion.)

(e) With what other foreign agencies does the

A.5.1.0. deal?

(1)

What Ministerial Controlls. there over

such dealings?

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Questions could be raised as to the investigation

by the A. S.l.O. of the anonymous telephone

calls, the validity of its quoted conclusion and

the result of its further enquiries.

Station.

I am giving a copy of this letter to your Melbourne

With kindest regards and best wishes.

Yours rement,

(C.C.F. Spry.)

Richard Helms, Esq.;

Director,

Central Intelligence Agency,

Washington, D.C., 20505,

United States of America.

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