MEMO:MEETING WITH HSCA STAFF REPRESENTATIVES
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: BRECKINRIDGE. OLC
To: THE RECORD
Document date: 09/19/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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19 September 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT : Meeting with HSCA Staff Representatives

Last night at 2000 hours Messrs. Hawkins, Sturbitts,

Shepanek, Holmes, Joannides and the undersigned

met with Messrs. Blakey and

Goldsmith of the HSCA staff.

The purpose was to consider the declassification of cer-

tain

materials for use in Mr. Helms'

testimony in public

hearings on Friday, 22 September.

Z.

A number of questions were resolved at the time

with a few remaining to be left over for today. One of the

unresolved issues was declassification of certain sections

of the 1967 IG report on plotting against Castro.

We did

not present the question of Agency policy against release

of Id reports, it being felt this would serve as

a red

flag.

We stated instead, that the report was written in

such detail that blanket declassification would cause

extensive deletions. I pointed out that when the question

arose with the Church Committee it did not do so in the

context of public hearings.

Instead, the Committee wrote

the report with the things that it wanted to say and we

addressed those issues on a point-by-point basis. We

asked that they tell us what specific things they would

like declassified, which we could address more easily,

noting that much of the substantive content of the IG

report had found its way into the Church Committee Report.

Mr. Goldsmith said that he could narrow this down to some

*ghat hễ"

ten or so pages, and we postponed further discussion until

today.

Mr. Blakey said that Mr. Helms' attorney wanted

to be advised by the Agency of those sections of his

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testimony, including the related documents,

that are declassi

fied.

We undertook to prepare a package and transmit it to

Mr. Helms' attorney.

I discussed this with Mr. Rininger of

OGC today, since OGC is in contact with Mr. Helms' attorney.

S. D. Breckinridge

Distribution:

Orig. = OLC/Subject

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•- OLC/Chrono

- IG

- OGC (Rininger)

- SA/DDCI

found. fand fined

- Mr. Hawkins (LA Division)

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Mr. Sturbitts (LA Division

MCI Staff

Shepanek (PCS/LOC)

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