Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/7/75
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD_SERIES:

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER:

FBI

124-10264-10216

62-116395-944

Released

under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NT 55355 Date:

11-28-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

'TO:

TITLE:

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 10/07/1975

PAGES: 13

SUBJECT: CC, REQUEST, OPINION

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Top Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

11/03/1998

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/14/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

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B. Adams

1 - Mr.

J. A. Mintz

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- Mr.:W. O. Cregar

1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall

October %, 1975

The Attorney General

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DATE 2/23/24 BY9803 RANG

Enelosed for your information is a senorandus with

enclosure concerning an Intervien under oath of W. Raymond

Wannall, Assistant Director, FBI. A copy of the mesorandan

with its enclosure la baing furnished for fornarding to

Mr. Janes A. Wilderotter, Assoclate Counsel to the President.

Enclosures (4)

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1 - The Deputy Attorney General

Attention: Michael E. Shaheen, JI.

Special Counsel for

Intelligence Coordination

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1 - Mr. Adams

1 - Mr. Mintz

1

Cregar

1 - Mr. Wannall

(ONLY BRICKETED INTO REMANS GLASSIFTEO PER NSA)

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO

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RUS:

DRPOSITION OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

W. RATIOND WANNALL

October 3, 1975, in response to a request of

Mr • John

T. Ellitt, Statt Member of the SsC, It. W. Raymond

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Intelligence Division, vedera.

457 of

the Russell Senate Office Building by Messrs. James Dick,

John T. Elliff, and Eric Richard,

Staff Members of the

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

captioned Committee.

The deposition concerned matters

relating to the so-called watch List maintained by the

National

Security Agency(NSA) to record the list of names

of individuals and organizations furnished to that Agency

by the

FBl for the purpose of receiving information coming

to NA's attention during the course of its regular activities

relating to comnunications matters!

SS (4)

The Staff Menbers bogan taking the deposition at

approsinately 3:15 p.I. and it vas completed at 5:40 p.M.

The questions and answers were recorded by irs. Susan

Hamback

Five minutes before the beginning of the deposition

Senator Richard S. Schweiker of Pennsylvania appeared

and placed li. Wannall under oach.

Mr. Wannall was advised of his rights. He was told

that

since a senator would not be present he could decline to

answer questions and he could request a discontinuance at

any time.

He was further advised that the results would

be recorded and he would be given an opportunity to fevlew

the transcription and sign it at a later time.

Assoc. Dir.

Mk. Wannall, just prior

to leaving his office

Dep. AD Adm. -

to appear for the deposition,

furnished the attached

Dep. AD Inv. -

letter dated October 3, 1975, Signed by Ic. David D. Lowman,

Asst. Dir.:

Admin:

Special Assistant to the Director

for Congressional

Reviews,

Comp. Syst.

NSA, and approved by Lieutenant General Lew Allen,

Ext. Affairs

Director of NSA

Nessrs. Dich, Illiff, and Richard were

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HANDLA VIA COMINT CRANNELS ONLY

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACFIVITIES (SSC)

RE: DEPOSITION OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR I. RATIOND WANNALL

In response to questioning, tr. tannall stated

that he could not recall any

instances wherein nanes

regarding the Cuban Watch Iist wore submitted orally to

NSA, but it was possible that this my have been done in

some cases.

He wes not able to comment on the volume of

material received from ISA in connection with the Cuban

Section:

не оло тесати так то дишту о заготасто

was in some instances very good islace it related to

known or suspocted Cuban Intolligeneg Agente operating

in the United States and Puerto Rico. ATS)

The memorandun of Hay 10, 130k, reterred to

tho

lacc that it would be helpful to the

FBI to receive

• periodic Listing of tims in the u.s. which were doing.

businees with individuals in Cura did with the cuban

Government.

In explaining this commont, It was pointod

out

that the U.S. Goverment had established a list of

restrioted itens which could not be sent to Cuba without

an export license and material of this nature would have

been of

value to the FBI to establish Identities of firns

which might be contravoning the provisions of rogulations

so adopted and adninistered by the Department of Commerce.

It was pointed out. that to Mr. Hannall's knowledge no

such J.%.

firms vore subsequently Included ou the Watch

List.

The memorandum of January 16, 1963, referred

to the possibility of furnishing to NSA a listing of

approsinately 1,100 Cuban Invasiou prisoners and 900

relatives of those prisoners who had recently been

admitted to the U.S.

It was explained that this referred

to the prisoners taken by the Cubans during

the Bay of

Pigs invasion in April, 1901, who,, to the best of Mr.

Wannall's

recollection, had been released ly the Cuban Goverment and

returned

1982.

to the United States around Christmostine of

60u)

It was pointed out that to

• the bost of Mr. Wannall's

recollection, reprosentatives of NSA

conducted a general

briefing of

cortain personnel of the

• Domestic Intelligence

Division sonetime around the Fall of

1969 in order that tho

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