Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
To: BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT
Document date: 08/28/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Select Committee on Assassinations

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August 28, 1978

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Mr. Scott Breckinridge

Chief Coordinator, HSCA

Office of Legislative Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency .

Washington, D. C. 20505

Dear Mr. Breckinridge:

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In accordance with Professor Blakey's discussion

with you last week, and in keeping with the timetable

proposed at that time, the following interrogatories

are submitted for your consideration.

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1. Enumerate the name of any drug given to

Nosenko and the date it was

administered

including those given for "therapeutic" pur-

poses - from January 1964 to 1968.

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2.

Describe in detail Nosenko's

living condi-

tions from April 4, 1964 through 1968.

The

description should

include, but not be limited

to the following:

a.

b.

where he lived

the degree to which his movements

were restricted

C.

d.

his contact with other people

his access to radio, television and

reading materials such as newspapers

and books

e.

the degree to which his actions were

"observed"

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f.

restrictions with regard to his food

intake

3. Define Nosenko's present and past employment

arrangements with the central Intelligence Agency.

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Mr.

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Include:

a .

the dates and nature of his employment

b.

the services rendered by Nosenko

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itemized accounting of all compensation

d.

received by Nosenko

an account of the roles of Richard Helms

and John McCone in authorizing Nosenko's

employment and compensation arrangements

with the CIA

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On what dates and for how long was Nosenko

questioned by the CIA about Lee Harvey Oswald

fIom 1964 to present.

When Nosenko was questioned by the CIA about

i der nie tee tarvey oswalit, whe did the questioning.

6.

What background, if any, did the interrogator

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have in interrogations. - What knowledge did the

interrogator have with respect to Oswald's back-

ground.

7.

On the dates that Nosenko was questioned about

Oswald does there now exist or did there ever exist:

a .

a tape of the questions asked and Nosenko's

answers

b. a transcript of the questions asked and

Nosenko's answers

C.

a summary of the questions asked and

Nosenko's

answers

8.

What criteria, if any, was used to determine:

a.

b.

what subjects to question Nosenko about

how much time to devote to each subject

9.

What significance - with respect to possible

foreign involvement in the assassination as well

as to the issue of

Nosenko's bonafides

the CIA attach during the years

1964-1968

to No-

senko's statements about Oswald?

10. What significance - with

respect to possible

foreign involvement in the

assassination as well

as to the issue of Nosenko's bonafides - does

the CIA attach today to Nosenko's

statements

about Oswald?

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11.

If the answer to question 9 is different

from the response to question 10, when did the

change occur and why?

12. What was the CIA's position from 1964 to

1968 on the question of whether Nosenko is bonafide?

13. What is the CIA's position today on the

question of whether Nosenko is bonafide?

If the answer to question 12 is different

from the response to question 13, when did the

change occur and why? .

What was the CIA's position from 1964 to

1968 on whether Nosenko was telling the truth in

the statements he made to the CIA about Oswald?

16. What is the CIA's position today as to whether

Nosenko was telling the truth in the statements he

made to the CIA about Oswald?

17.

If the answer to question 15 is different from

the response to question 16, when did the change

occur and why?

18. Why were three polygraph tests given to Nosenko?

19.

What is the CIA's position with regard to the

validity of each of the three polygraph tests ad-

ministered to Nosenko? .

20.

Why was Nosenko asked numerous questions per-

taining to Oswald on his 1966 polygraph test and

only asked two questions about Oswald on his 1958

test?

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Who authorized Bruce Solie to reinvestigate

Nosenko's bonafides?

22.

Why was Nosenko's bonafides reinvestigated in

1968?

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23.

Did either the fBI or the CIA have primary re-

sponsibility for investigating Nosenko's statements

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Mx. Scott Breckinridge

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about Oswald? If neither had primary responsibility,

19oy pas there any division of responsibility?

What comnunication, if any, existed between the

FBI and CIA with respect to evaluating and/or in-

vestigating Nosenko's statements about Oswald?

Thank you for your continued cooperation.

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Sincerely,

Golet Blaker

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel

and Director

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