CLERK CHRON JUNE 1975
Originator: SSCIA
From: SCHWARZ, FREDERICK A.O. JR.
To: KNOCHE, E.H.
Document date: 06/04/1975
Document type: CORRESPONDENCE

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

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ORIGINATOR: SSCIA

FROM: SCHWARZ, FREDERICK A.O. JR.

TO : KNOCHE, E.H.

TITLE: CLERK CHRON JUNE 1975

DATE: 06/04/1975

PAGES: 13

SUBJECTS :

OPERATION MONGOOSE

ASSASSINATIONS

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TITLE : CLERK CHRON JUNE 1975

DATE : 06/04/75

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Knoche, E. H.

File:

June 4, 1975

Mr. E. H. Knoche

Assistant to the Director

Central Intelligence

Agency

Room 7C28

Central Intelligence Headquarters

Langley, Virginia

Dear Hank:

On Monday morning, June 2, Burt Wides of our

Staff relayed to you my request that various docus

ments be made available to us, if possible, when

Mr. Breckenridge testified that afternoon, or a

soon as possible thereafter.

The Agency was not able to provide us with

these documents when Mr. Breckenridge came to testify,

but he indicated that they were being assembled.

I agreed to furnish a letter confirming the earlier

request, but emphasized to Mr. Breckenridge the in-

portance of our obtaining these documents

in connec-

tion with the inquiry this week. He agreed that the

effort to collect them would go thrward while the

Agency was awaiting receipt of this lotter.

The following are the items we would like to

have as soon as possible, but in any event no later

than the close of business on thursday, so that we

can use them in connection with Mr. McCone's testimony

dune 6.

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No. By H, Knoche

Page: two

June 4n 1975

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(1).

(2)

The Inspector General's cover memorandun to the

1967 Report refers to three groups of papers

used in preparing the leport:

certain Office of

Security files; certain MONGOOSE papers, and a

memorandum concerning Willian Harvey.

Page 4 of the same cover memorandum cites and

internal CIA study paper of October 1961 prepared

(3)

Page 116 of the Report itself cites a June

1964 communication from the DDP to the Diretto.

and page 117 cites an August 1913%

communication from Me. McCone to My. Bundy!

(4)

In addition to these items we wish to review all.

portions of the files of Messys J. C. King,

Bissell} Edvards, O'Connell, Harvey, Dulles,

McCone and Helms

relating to the possibility of

assassinating Fidel Castro of any attempts to do

50.

(5)

The present whereabouts of Robert Owen, who served

in the Dominican Republle for CIA in 1961 and

Mr. Justin O'Donnell, who formerly worked for the

Agency, and the identity and present whereabouts

of the

person(s) who was the Special Assistant to

DDP in 1960 and 1961.

(o) All outstanding items not yet provided which were

Toquested in my letter of May 24.

unld, of course, appreclate having made as soon

sible any of the above items, even if the others

are not yet available.

Sincerely,

Frederick A. 0. Schwarz, Jr.

BW :nb

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June 14, 1975

The Honorable Henry Kissinger

Secretary of State

Washington, D. C. 20520

Doar Mr. Secretary:

As you know, the senate seloct comittee onese

Governmental Operations with Respect to latel gent

Activities is making a caroful examination of all tu

circustances surrounding Involvement of the United state

Government in assassination efforts®

"This inquiry. La pur

suant to the Committee's mandate under S. Res. 21 and;

The role of the Department of State in the conduct

of foreign policy and as a participant in the mechanisms

for control of the CIA make it imperative that ve have

cortain documents relating to the assassination issue

which may be hold by the Department of State.

Would you

please provide the Senate Select Connittee all documents

relevant to the assassination of General Trujille of the

Dominican Republic, the assassination of Ngo Dinh Dien

of South Viernam, and the proposals to assassinate Patrice

and con and red streets woll as

1. 1" necessary that the Select Committee thoroughly

pects of alleged U.S. Involvement in these

1c. L iportant also that any alleged assassinatior

efforts be understood and evaluated in the larger context

of governmental polley with respect to the nations at

issue.

For this reason, it is requested that you also

mako availablo to the Connittee all memoranda, documents

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and other papers prepared by the Department of State or

Its mianton abroad, all cables including Byes Only, Nodis,

ExDis, LinDts, "Roger Channol" and other limited distribu-

tion messages and all minutes or other memoranda relating

to meetings, of the Special Group, the Special Group Aug-

mented, the 5412 Connittee (or other equivalent bodies) in

the following categories (whether or not they specifically

mention assassinations):

- Tho Dominican Republie from March 1960

to June 1961.

• The Congo from March 1960 to January 1961.

- South Vietnam from mid-August 1963 to 1d.26

November 1963•

With respect to Cuba for the period 1960

through 1965, please provide all matert

directly relating to any alleged offort y

or plans to assassinate any Cuban leader.

In addition, please supply any documents

which relate to the polley of the government

concerning the overthron of the Castro

government and whether there were or were

not any limitations on the measures to be

employed in this regard either in general

or with respoct to any particular time

period 8/.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely

Frank Church

Chairman

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File:

June 18, 1975

The Annorable Edward H. Levi

The Attorney General

Washington, D. C. 20530

Dear Mº. Attorney General:

On May 12, 1975, I vrote to you miing & reneral request.

for doeuments in the posession of the Departmant of Justioe

(Including the FAI) vhich ralate to the subjeet of planned or

attempted of actual assassinations. I also specifleally referred

to a Juntico Department file relating to the posiblo promecution.

of a Mr. Glancana, and perhaps of othars, for an allegedly 111081

wiretap. On May 20, 1975, Departsent of Justice f11e 182-46-5

(relating to a Los Vegas wiretap mutter and the alleged connectio

of the CIA thermith) va mão avallable at the Department for

roview by Menars. Schvars and Snothers. On June 5, 1973, S1YO

additional doements vero made avilable to Nemary. Schers and

Smothere at the Department of Justier. From ou counsela' review

of the foregoing, 1t appenre that there must be certaia additional

doerments ineluding:

(1) a memorandu written by Forar Director Hoover

reflecting a meeting between him and Formor Attorney General

Robert 7. Kennedy on MY 9, 1962; and

(2) underlying mterial nflecting a laterior of

Intervie by the FBI of l. Sherfleld Edwards, formerly

Director of Security of the CIA and Fobert Mahmi, a mumpeet

ahit appears that there must be some such under

Lylne

it from our understanding under usuni practice,

In that it appeare that the description of such latervlevs in the

• May 22, 1961 memorandun sent to the Justice Department by the FBI

is slightly different than the description of those matters in the

March 6, 1967 letters from ir. Waanall to Mr. Sullivas and from

the Diractor of the FBI to the Attorney deneral.

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already later i to or a restore steria co alertand

that you vanted a letter tron the Committee 1taoll. Accordinery,

today tha Comittee unnatmounty concluded that all the doenta

referred to above should be delivered.

The utter ve ure latestlestlag 1a of utmost a pertance

under our mandate. The President has, moreover, aneuped the

Committoo and the pubile that all the mterial 1111 de delivered

to us. Obviounly me u11l handle the material with the apropriate

care an required by our Mules and apreemente.

since the antertal los at lenut the parts spressed

abovo) 16 alrendy callouted, ve mould expent that it could de

delured fortiath.

Bineerely yours,

Frank Church

Chatrans

Of come, 1t 1s possible that countels' notes, bared upon a hasty

reading of both sete os documents, are incomplete but that simply

1ustrates vig do to so Sportant that the Connittee have the

sotant doeummerto•

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June

MEMORANDUM

To:

From:

Bill Miller

Fritz Schwarz

Bill Bader

chor

SENSITIVE

Date:

Subj:

•June 23, 1975

White House Holdings of National Security Council,

Rockefeller Commission, and CIA Files

At the request of the Committee the White House made avail-

able

last Friday for Senatorial and staff examination at the

White' House a number of files on the subject of assassination

allegations drawn from the National Security Council, the

Rockefeller Commission, and the CIA. The White House has also

agreed to bring these files to Capitol Hill for use by the

Committee during hearings.

Over the past three days a number of Senators and the Staff

have reviewed the documents with the hope that these files would

provide the necessary background for the sessions scheduled this

week with Messrs. Bundy, McNamara, Rusk, et al: It is the

Staff's conclusion that the documents are not adequate for this

purpose.

By way of background, at the time when discussion and plan-

ning of assassinations were in fashion there were several

relevant layers of the National Security Council structure;

the NSC Standing Group, the Special Group (whether it be called

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5412 or: 303), the Special Group (Augmented), and the Special

Group (Counterinsurgency or CI). To do a thorough job of

examining the command structure as it relates to the assassina-

tion issue, the Committee will have to examine the complete

records of all these groups.

The files available at the White House are not adequate

for this purpose, consisting largely of Castro materials with

the only complete Castro file being that of the Special Group

(Augmented) /MONGOOSE files of 1962.

Available at the White House

1. Special Group (Augmented) - MONGOOSE - minutes and

supporting papers for 27 meetings held between 26 February and

26 October 1962. [MONGOOSE was suspended in late October of

1962 when the U.S. struck a deal with the Russians over Cuba

after the missile. crisis.]

2. Various Special Group Minutes from January of 1960

to 1964:

13 January 1960

14 March 1960

25 August 1960

27 October 1960

3

November 1960

23

March 1961

6 October 1961

12 November 1963

18 June 1964

30 July 1964

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3.

These minutes range from a discussion of Lumumba

(25 August 1960) to Mafia plans against Castro (18 June 1964).

These few documents may or may not be the sum total of Special

Group consideration of "assassination" issues from 1960 to 1964.

The file also includes a number of NSC memos on the Castro

problem.

3. • CIA files on MONGOOSE:

.. Approximately 33 documents on MONGOOSE drawn from the

CIA files.

Most of these materials were once available to

us at Langley. Contains a number of John McCone's notes on

Special Group (Augmented) meeting.

4. Rockefeller Commission Documents on Assassinations.

(a) "Summary of Facts of CIA involvment in Assassina-

tion Plots.

An 86-page paper prepared by Rocke-

feller Commission staff.

(b) Two Dominican Republic files with CIA/State material

(c). Some material on ZRRIFLE, QJWIN and MONGOOSE

Relevant Material Not Available at the White. House

The most important problem with the NSC records is the

limitation -- with the partial exception of the Trujillo mater-

ials.--. to the Castro issue. The NSC and its various components

may never have considered the personal futures of Diem, Sukarno,

Duvalier or Lumumba (beyond the one reference mentioned above),

but until we review the records the Committeg will not be able

to speak authoritatively and confidently on the assassination

issue.

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4.

More specifically, the. Committee should have the following

records:

1.

Complete files of Special Group proceeding,

1958-1964.

2..

The National Security Council Standing Group meet-

ings (CIA has at least 11 folders), 1958-1964.

3. Proceedings of the Caribbean Survey Group

(the predecessor

group to MONGOOSE).

4.

Proceedings of the Special Group (Counterinsurgency).

5. Records of the "Operational Representatives" meetings.

The working group under the Special Group- (Augmented) .

6: The CIA "progress reports" on MONGOOSE.

7. A Presidential Memo of 30 November 1961 on

Cuban operations.

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