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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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2 August 1978

HEMORANDU: FOR : General Counsel

Director of Security

FROM

: S.D. Breckinridge

SUBJECT

: HSCA Request of 20 Julj 1978 -

0LC-78-2728

do Attached is correspondence fron the DIO local

point on the lISCA investigation.

responding to Question

12 of reference.

It states that there are and have leci

io agrcements (at loast not as described in the lISCA

request) betticen CIA and the FBI, or other government

«gencies, that pertain to the Agency's responsibilities

to rcport on U.S. citizens abroad tiho contact Coamunist

embassies or officials.

It also states that current

legislation forbids such reporting.

Attached are copics of papers collected by

O/IG during the Rockefeller Commission's inquiry; I

recall that there las a 1966 gercchent, which is not in

these papers.

In any event they do not scen to contain

= specific provision such as is envisioned in the report.

It is possible that interpretations of NSCID and Dell

provisions rcsulted in routine reporting of such con-

tacts,

although

there were no agrecaents, per se, for

action.

Since the proaulsation of Exccutiv

Orders 11905 and 12036 there have been limitations on

reporting on U.S. persons, which nay affect past practice.

However, this office is

not in a position to provide an

Agency position on this

issue.

3. It is requested that jou coordinate kith the

DDO in preparing an anster to an Agency response to

the HSCA question.

0D. Aucti

S.D. Breckinridge

Distribution:

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Ceneral Counsel

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1 - OLC/Subj.

1 - OLC/Chron

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SUBJECT: RELATIONS WITH THE FBI

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GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENT IN ITS RECRUITMERT OF FOREIGI: INTELLIGENCE

SOURCES, AHD THAT THIS ACTIVITY IS BEING CONDUCTED. IN THE USA WITH

FULL BUREAU CONCURRENCE. ANOTHER BASIC POINT WHICH THE LETTER MAKES

IS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE GUIEDELINES EI966 AGREEMENT) IS TO PROTECT

THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE U.S. EGOVERNMENT. NOT ENABLE THE BUREAU TO

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AND INTERNAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES, UE CONCURRED IN THIS REQUES

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RECEIVED INITIALLY FAVORABLE REACTION TO PROPOSALS FOR ADDITIONAL

ITEMS IN THE FUTURE• UE DO NOT BELIEVE THIS REPORTING AGREEMENT WILL

CAUSE YOU ANY SERIOUS PROBLEMS, BUT IF IT SHOULD BE BROADENED OR

INTERPRETED IN A WAY THAT YOU CONSIDER UNREASONABLE OR BURDENSOME.

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AND ONE OF DEFINITION. THE BUREAU INSISTS, AND UE RECOGNIZE, THAT

• CONCURRENCE IN OUR PROCEEDING WITH ASSESSMENT CANHOT BE INTERPRETECD

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SEEK BUREAU CONCURRENCE AND COORDINATION.

UE INTERPRET MANIPULATION OF A TARGET VIA SOCIAL CONTACTS,

•MANY CASES BY OVERT, LEGAL, UNONCOMPROMISING BÚSINESS ARRANGEME

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• PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS FOUR, FIVE AND SIX OF THE EL9G6 AGREEMEA

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