Mr. Blakey's request
Originator: NSA
From: Yeates
To: Special ASST to SEC/D/SECDEF
Document date: 08/22/1978
Document type: memo

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

NSA

144-10001-10183

AGENCY

RECORD NUMBER

RECORDS SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR

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FROM

YEATES

LAO

TO : SPECIAL ASST TO SEC/D/SECDEF

LA0/027-78 MR. BLAKEY'S REQUEST

08/22/78

PAGES

SUBJECTS

THERE IS NO INFORMATION CONCERNING NESTER CASTELLANOS

CUBANS UNDER SCHOLARSHIPS STUDYING IN USSR

JOCUMENI TYPL

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COMMENTS

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SECRET

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755

Serial: LAO/027-78

22 August 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY AND

DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

ATTN: Ms. Judith A. Miller

SUBJECT: Mr. Blakey's Request

The attached draft letter is provided for your use in

replying to Mr. Blakey's 10 August 1978 request on behalf of

the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Your note of 14 August 1978 refers.

Leqne I. Loute

EUGENE F. YEATES

Chief

Legislative Affairs

Incl:

a/s

Copy Furnished:

DoD General Counsel

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. Clanniliat by DIRASAICHESS (NSA/ESS# 133-2)

SECRET

ERonial from GDS, EO 11652, Calegory 2

Dednastty Upon Motitication by tho Chialster

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DRAIDEO

SECRET

Mr. G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Representatives

3331 House Office Building, Annex 2

Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Blakey:

In regard to your 10 August 1978 request for information

concerning one Nestor Castellanos which you indicate was

withheld by the FBI under the third agency rule, I am pleased

to provide the following.

The intelligence report in question is a compendium of

material relating to various Cubans who were reported to be

studying in the USSR under scholarships granted by the Cuban

government during the period from 3 March to 6 August 1967:

The report makes no reference to a Nestor Castellanos.

Of possible relevance is a reference to a Jose Castellanos,

in which it was indicated that he (Castellanos) was an engineering

post graduate from the Cuban Institute of Meteorology who was

to specialize in hydro-meteorology at the Academy of Sciences and

who was

scheduled to depart (Cuba) on 27 April 1967 aboard a

Soviet ship. The foregoing is the only information contained

in the report relating to anyone surnamed Castellanos.

I hope you will find this information useful to your

investigation.

Sincerely,

John G. Kester

Special Assistant To

The Secretary

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Exampt fros GDS, EO 11052, Calesory 3

Decessily Upon Naittiston by Ms Driftensty

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M/R: Mr. Blakey requested an NSA document that the FBI refused

to let the Committee have.

NSA received the request for the

document on 18 August. This letter gives a gist of the portion

of the product report that may be of interest to the Assassinations

Committee.

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Classity Uban Notitication by Mas Orindester

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Department of Defense Document

Dated:

Re:

This document cannot be further identified.

If HSCA decides it must request this document, it

should so advise and FBI representative.

The document should be requested from the

Department of Defense by the HSCA.

For CIU use only:

Agency:

Date:

Identifying No.:

77-18

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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON. D.C..20301

AUG 1 4 1978

Distribution List for Requests of

House Select Committee on Assassinations

From: Judith A. Miller

Assistant to The Special Assistant

Eric I. Freyfogle

Sara Lister

Major Dick Flowers

John Brock

Colonel Hartig

NSA".

•Office of the General

Counsel, Department

of the Army

Associate General Counsel,

Department of the Navy

Office of the Secretary

of the Air Force

Legislative Liaison

General Counsel, Defense

Intelligence Agency

Defense Investigative

Service

Suspense: Augusk 21, 1978

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDION PREYER, N

AMUEL L. DEVINE, OHI

VALTER E. FAUNTROY, D

TEWART B, MC KINNEY, CONA

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLO S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.D. House of Representatibes

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

August 10, 1978

The Honorable Harold Brown

Secretary of Defense

Washington, D. C. 20201

Attention: Mr. John G. Kester

Special Assistant to the Secretary

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Pursuant to the third agency agree-

ment, the FBI has withheld NSA Document Number

2X/0/CUD/R70-67 from review by House Select Com-

mittee on Assassinations staff members.

We request access to this document

either at the FBI or at the Department of Defense.

The document, which refers to Nestor Castellanos,

is located in

Bufile #64-330-210-5024, page 6.

Thank you for your prompt attention

to this request.

Sincerely,

2. Robut Bledg

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel

GRB: ijI

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