HSCA AND 1977 TASK FORCE REPORT.
Originator: CIA
From: BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT D., OLC
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 04/11/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1104-10066-10252.

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

CONFIDENTIAL.

49 PM '78

11 April 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: HSCA and 1977 Task Force Report

Yesterday Rodger Gabrielson of OLC phoned me about pass-

ing Tab F of the 1977 report to the HSCA, for use in questioning

of Anne Goodpasture, on whose research most of it is based.

stated categorically that I was opposed to letting that section

out of the building; it is replete with operational detail, in

addition to which it contains reterence to involvement of a former

head of state who cooperated with us prior to his attaining that

position.

I pointed out that it had been deleted from the sani-

tized version in its entirety, while a selected few of the HSCA

Staff had been permitted to see it at the Headquarters building.

2. I told Gabrielson that, nevertheless, the material in

this portion of the 1977 report was DDO material and he would

have to clear it with SA/DDO in any event. He said he would speak

with Don Gregg. I asked that he spell out my reservations about

it. He said he would and that he would call me back.

3. Not having heard from Gabrielson I eventually phoned Gregg.

He had spoken with Gabrielson and had agreed for the section in

question to be delivered to the HSCA on a read-and-return basis.

I repeated to him the reservations I had; he said Gabrielson had

not mentioned

them to him (Gregg has not read the report, so is

unfamiliar with its contents).

I told him the story of how the

IG 1967 report on Castro (unsanitized) was lent to the Church

Committee for 24 hours, and was copied; I predicted this would

suffer the same fate. I repeated the description of the kinds of.

materials in the report, stating that it should not be permitted

out of Agency control; once Blakey disbands his group, and his

discipline and control is lost, we can expect to see it in the

press.

Gregg asked if having the paper in CIA hands, with a CIA

observer at the Goospasture questioning, would suffice.

I said.

that under the circumstances it would have to do.

S. D. Breckinridge

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