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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

30 October 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Chief, CI Meeting with Mr. Paul Wallach, Chief

Counsel of Senate Select Committee on Intel-

ligence

This meeting occurred on Wednesday, 29 October 1975

as a result of concern on the part of Senate Select

Committee officers that the Agency was not forthcoming

with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case,

I.e:, the assassination of President Kennedy. The

following points were made by the principals as indicated.

Chief, CI - To open the meeting Mr. Kalaris made in clear

that the Agency is anxious to demonstrate that we have

nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made

available to the Warren Commission.

He added

that the

procedure for making material available to the Senate

Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources,

methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of

material.

He then presented several examples of the

sanitization process in which cables taken directly from

the 201 file were edited so that all evidence of source,

method and liaison information was removed.

Chief Counsel - As an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated

that his

position was that he considered that the Senate

Committee

should have the

Commission.

He added that in his discussions with several

senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that

a Rockefeller

reviewing official by the name of Belin who

review of Agency holdings on the Oswald case.

Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then pointed out that there were

certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material

which could not be released for use outside of the building.

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He gave two examples. of this.

One was the fact that the

Mexican

Government security (liaison contact on the case

was the (current President of Mexico. He said, and Mr.

Wallach agreed, this was obviously a matter which had to

be protected.

The second case was the Mexican Government

penetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again Mr. Wallach

agreed.

Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer

might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers

to work with the original file with the exception of those

particularly sensitive items which would either be steri-

lized or summarized.

Mr. Kalaris added

that

to establish

the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for

the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against

the originals by the Senate reviewers.

Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach conferred with his colleagues

and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did

inquire as

to approximately how many such items there would

be.

He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat

difficult to access but that there should not be more than

100 such items.

Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that it would be

necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree

that these notes not be taken from the building.

The

purpose of the notes is simply to allow the reviewers to

keep track of where they have been and what they have seen.

It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be checked

with us.

Chief, Cl - At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and

requested approval of the above procedure.

Mr. Blee

concurred.

Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that his people would

tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted

to discuss and we would confer with them on those points.

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Comment

Mr. Wallach mentioned that Mr. Proctor (DDI) is a

family friend and he wanted to make contact by phone.

At the end of the day the reviewers returned the

three files of other agency documents and offered their

notes for review.

It was agreed they would return on

Monday to start reviewing files and that we would have

at least 15 volumes ready for them. Mr. Wallach was to

call on Friday to confirm our readiness

Robert

Wall

Deputy Chief, CI/OG

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Chief,

CI

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SA/ DDO

Review Staff - Walt Elder

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