MEMO: DDO RESPONSE TO HSCA LETTER DATED 15 AUGUST 1978 (QUESTIONS 1 & 2)
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/24/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT:

DDO Response to HSCA Letter dated 15 August 1978

(Questions

1 & 2)

1.

came

into effect

used in the Oswald 201 obsolete. Since 201's are opened

by the individual offices and not a central point, the

Records Integration Division allowed for an overlap period

before not accepting the October 57 form 831's.

1960

form was obviously geared

for machine input and

specifically has spaces for the machine codes.

analyst (initials N.S.) who reviewed the 831 form on

Oswald and assigned the 201 number added the machine

codes to the old type opening sheet.

The OI Code (Other Identification) "AG"

Piractual or potential defectors to the East

or the SINO/SOVIET Bloe including Cuba'.

analyst added this 0l Code because CI/SIG (Egerter)

had stated that Oswald had defected to the USSR

in October 1959.

Any person who could be described

as the above could have an OI Code "AG".

CI/SIG has been crossed out because the

space now

required a machine code (as explained

in Paragraph 1 above).

The number "731"

is called

a "non-country code" which means in machine input

language CI/SI (the office which had opened the

file).

c.

The number "074" is under Category #10°

"Country of Residence"

, not "047" under Category

#12

"Second Country Interest"

, as stated in HSCA

Letter of 15 August 1978.

The number "074" is a

'country code"

and means the USSR.

& c were

(NOTE: The machine codes in Paragraph la, y INS/Procedures

obtained from a Machine Listing produced

Branch/EDIS (Electronic Data Input Section). It is a

computer listing to identify computer fields. The IMS

Analysts

also have handbooks entitled "Handbook for

Analysis" which

specifies this same information).

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2. The three index cards were in the DDO records

system at the time of President Kennedy's assassination.

One was

master 201 index card, one was an FBI report

classified (filed) into 100-300-011 and one was

reubre classiesed into 74-500.

Both of these files are•

a. The file 100-300-011 is entitled "Fair

Play for Cuba Cornittee"

It consists of 987

docunents dated from 1958 through 1973.

All but

approximately so are third agency (FBI

neous: The file consists die do me Miscella:

shich are third agency documents

The documents

over the period 1948 through 1977

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