CABLE OF HSCA STAFFER BRADY INTERVIEW.
Originator: CIA
From: PCS/LOC
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 08/11/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM: PCS/LOC INFO C/EUR, C/E/F, E/A

SUBJECT: WNINTEL - HSCA STAFFER, BRADY INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS

B. CASASIN

REF: PARIS 908721097004

1.

17 AUGUST AT 1000 HOURS FOR INTERVIEW WITH CASASIN

IS ACCEPTABLE TO MS. BRADY.

SHE HAS BEEN PROVIDED MR. SETON'S PHONE

NUMBER FOR INITIAL CONTACT.

2.

PLEASE ADVISE CASASIN FOLLOWING GROUND RULES FOR

INTERVIEW:

A.

HE IS NOT OBLIGATED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WHICH

HE CONSIDERS SELF INCRIMINATING. HE IS ENTITLED TO

BE ACCOMPANIED BY LEGAL COUNSEL OF HIS CHOICE DURING

INTERVIEW BUT HE WOULD HAVE TO PERSONALLY BEAR ANY

EXPENSE IN DOING SO. LEGAL REPRESENTATION CAN BE

PROVIDED BY DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCEST

THOUGH JUSTICE MAKES THE FINAL DETERMINATION WHETHER TO

DO SO.

SUCH INSTANCES HAVE BEEN QUITE INFREQUENT TO DATE.

в.

CASASIN IS RELIEVED OF OBLIGATIONS OF CIA SECRECY

AGREEMENT FOR PURPOSE OF PROVIDING ASCA CLASSIFIED

INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THEIR QUESTIONS.

CHARTER IS LIMITED TO ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, BELIEVE HSCA INTEREST IN

CASASIN WILL BE FOÇUSSED ON 1955-1960 PERIOD WHEN

CASASIN IN TOKYO (OSWALD WAS MARINE RADAR OPERATOR

ATSUGI LATE 50'S) AND 1960-62 PERIOD WHEN CASASIN WAS

CHIEF SE DIVISION BRANCH SIX.

MSCA HAS BEEN BRIEFED IN

GENERAL TERMS ON AEOCEAN/3

CASE, BUT BY AGREEMENT WITH HSCA WE WILL NOT REPEAT NOT

IDENTIFY AEOCIAN/3 BY TRUE NAME, NOR INQUIE ABOUT

THAT CASE.

D. CASASIN SHOULD RESPOND FORTHRIGHTLY AND HONESTLY

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TO QUESTIONS POSED, PLEASE AVOID SPECULATION WHICH

MIGHT BE MISCONSTRUED AS FACT.

IF ANSWER TO QUESTION

IS NOT RECALLED OR UNKNOWN IT BETTER TO SO STATE THAN

CONJECTURE.

E. THE DCI'S OBLIGATION TO PROTECT SOURCES AND METHODS

OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF HSCA INVESTIGATION REMAINS A

STATUATORY RESPONSIBILITY: IF RELEVANCE OF A QUESTION

APPEARS DOUBTFUL TO CASASIN AND TO INVOLVE SOURCES AND

METHODS OUTSIDE THE HSCA MANDATE, HE SHOULD NOT REFUSE

TO ANSWER ON GROUNDS OF IRRELEVANCE (SINCE USCA IS SOLE

JUDGE OF RELEVANCE), BUT TELL INTERVIEWER HE WISHES DEFER

RESPONDING UNTIL HE CAN CONSULT WITH HEADQUARTERS,

PLEASE CABLE QUESTION AND PROPOSED ANSWER IMMEDIATE.

NIACT FOR HOS APPROVAL

AND/OR COMMENTS.

3.

HSCA INVESTIGATOR WILL SHOW CASASIN LETTER FROM DOCI

TO ASCA CHAIRMAN,

AGREEING TO WAIVER OF SECRECY AGREEMENT. FOR

PURPOSE INVESTIGATION KENNEDY AND KING ASSASSINATIONS.

IF CASASIN SHOULD PREFER THAT HIS TRUE NAME NOT BE

RECORDED IN MS. BRADY'S REPORT, HE MAY SO REQUEST.

PLEASE ADVISE WHEN INTERVIEW COMPLETED AND ANY

DIFFICULTIES OR PROBLEMS WHICH MAY HAVE ARISEN.

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ORIG:

PCS/LOC (SHEPANCK,

X1839, 10 AUGUST 1978); COORD: PRINCIPAL

COORDINATOR/HSCA (BRECKENRIDGE); C/E/F (HORNSTEIN);

REL: C/EUR (STOLZ) CL BY 061308.

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