FREDERICK RANDALL'S INTERROGATION BY MEMBERS OF HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASS.
Originator: CIA
From: RANDALL, FREDERICK C., C/IMS/PIAG
To: C/IMS
Document date: 03/27/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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The DDO agrees that Randall

has a valid gripe.

Would

you please find out from OLC

how his name was provided to

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Directorate.: It does seem

a bit of a high-handed way

to deal with'our officers.

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27 March 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information Management Staff (U)

FROM:

Frederick C. Randall (C)

Chief,

IMS Privacy and Information

Action

Group

1.

(U) On 24 March 1978, I was interrogated

for one and one-half hours by Mr. Harold Leap and

Mr. Dan Hardway, staff members of the House Select

Committee on Assassinations.

truthfully.

I answered all questions

Immediately prior to being introduced

to the HSCA staff members, I was shown a copy of

the attached letter to the Committee giving permission

for me to be questioned, and a copy of the

attached

letter from the DDCI which discusses security

procedures.

I asked for and received copies of the

two documents. Prior to the 24 March interrogation,

I was told by SA/DO/0 that my personnel files had

been made available to the Committee.

2.

(U) After being asked questions regarding

my CIA career, it became apparent that the staff

members were trying to establish that personnel

assigned to the Tokyo Station in the early 1960's

had knowledge of an

alleged CIA connection to Lee

Harvey Oswald.

I was asked when I first heard of

the assassination of President Kennedy, when I first

heard of Lee Harvey Oswald, etc. I was asked to supply

many details of the organization, personnel, and

operation of the Tokyo Station during the period of

my tour there - from 1961 through 1965.

5. (U) In the context of my previous assign-

ment to the former Domestic Operations Division

beginning in 1965, I was

asked twice in a most

forcible fashion whether. I knew Howard Hunt, to which

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I answered (twice) in the negative. The interrogators

also asked if I was employed in the section of the

Domestic Operations Division which handled covert

action activities targetted against the United States.

I replied that CIA does not run CA operations against

U.S. targets.

4.

(U) Although I had heard a rumor that the

interrogation was based on allegations by a former

finance clerk assigned to the Tokyo Station, the staff

members would not provide me with any information

regarding the purpose of their investigation or of

their lead.

The New York Times article of 27 March

1978,

attached, reports the Wilcott allegations

together with the information that the lead came from

Philip Agee, and that Wilcott was represented at a

committee hearing by Agee's attorney.

5.

(U) Although CIA has been an easy mark for

anyone looking for a cheap headline during the past

three years, my reaction to this situation is that

the rights of many Americans, including current and

former employees of CIA, are

being violated by the

procedures of this investigation.

I can easily draw

a conclusion from the Times article that the HSCA is

unwittingly performing destruction work conceived by

I also wonder how any investi-

gation can be based on such flimsy évidence. F resent

having my personnel file reviewed by the HSCA without

my.permission."

Finally, 1.do not like being shown

an unclassified letter concerning me (I am under

cover), which had already been sent to the Congress

without my knowledge.

6. (C) I have asked that any notes made by

Mr. Leap and Mr. Hardway that are taken from the CIA

Headquarters building use my alias, Frederick

Reynolds. I hope that this request is carried out.

Randall

(C).

Attachments:

a. Undated letter to HSCA

b. Letter to HSCA dated 23 March 78

C.

Clipping from the New York Times

dated 27 March 78

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