Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: CORNWELL, GARY
To: RHOADS, JAMES B.
Document date: 08/29/1978
Document type: LETTER

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/20/20

AGENCY : HSCA

RECORD NUMBER :

180-10110-10103

RECORD SERIES: SECURITY CLASSIFIED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 127-JFK

Document Information

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54653 Date:

10-23-2017

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM: CORNWELL, GARY

TO :

RHOADS, JAMES B.

TITLE:

DATE:

08/29/1978

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

HSCA, ADMINISTRATION

DOCUMENT TYPE: LETTER

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

08/16/1993

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS:

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHAROSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO

WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. Y

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALI

STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

Heroes. 144124. 141.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAM. IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

COMMITTEE SENSITIVE

+ 202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

M.S. House at Representatites

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

August 29, 1978

011148

Mr. James B.

Rhoads

Archivist of the United States

National Archives and Records

Washington, D. C. 20408

Service

Dear Mr. Rhoads:

In conjunction with our investigation into the

circumstances surrounding the death of President Kennedy,

we hereby request the declassification of portions of a

memorandum to be used in our forthcoming hearings,

scheduled to begin on September 6th, 1978.

The document we are requesting partial declassi-

fication of is the November 24th, 1963 memorandum by President

Johnson's aide, Walter Jenkins,

setting forth a phone conver-

sation with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. A copy of the

memorandum is enclosed with this letter.

Most of the memorandum appears to have already

been made public, initially by the Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence in 1976. However, there is a lengthy para-

graph beginning at the bottom of page two of the memorandum

which is still classified as "secret."

We now request that the only portions of the

memorandum that remain classified be limited as follows:

"secret."

A.

All of the last paragraph on page 2,

which continues on to page 3, would

be declassified, except the two sen-

tences:

"For instance, Oswald made a

phone call to the Cuban Embassy in

Mexico City which we intercepted.

It was

only about a visa, however."

These two sentences could remain classified as

FBI into

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RELEASE IN FULL

I PELEASE IN PART

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COMMITTEE SENSITIVE

Mr. James B. Rhoads

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August 29, 1978

We believe that the declassification of the

above portions of the memorandum is essential to our

Committee's investigation, and will not breach the con-

fidentiality of the other segments relating to sources

and methods which we are not now requesting declassification

of.

As our public hearings will begin on September

6th, 1978, we respectfully request your immediate attention

in assisting us with this matter. If you have any questions

regarding this, please contact.me at 225 2394.

Again, our thanks for your generous assistance

in the past.

Sincerely,

Gary owned

Gary

Cornwell

Deputy Chief Counsel

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