Agency: FBI
Originator: CIA
Document date: 03/29/1967
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

124-10175-10025

HQ

105-82555-1ST NR 5574

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

Released under the John

Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection

Act of 1992

$44 USC 2107 Note!.

DATE: 03/29/1967

Case#:NW 53244 Date:

06-12-2017

PAGES: 5

SUBJECT: LIAISON WITH FBI, ADMIN, PROCEDURE

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

10/22/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (1(C)

INC NEWS ARTICLE

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!Please refer to your informal note,

27 March"1967, captioned as above, in which you propase

to disseminate to the Department of Justice and Depart

ment of State a memorandum containing certain SHAMROC

information concerning the assassination of President

Kennedy.

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mAs you are aware;

•at a meeting on 18 January

1967 between representatives of your Bureausand this

Ewas agreed

that for the time

to discuss ne handling of SHAMROC dissemination

being there would be no.

to other

agencies of information from this source with-

out prior agreement between your Bureau and this Agency,

that there will be no notification

about the existence

this new source

agencies

present

se, now prepared

make some

dissemination

Of SHAMROCK

Piformation

other departments

RocK'S bositive

also believe that

certain

Of SHAM-

intelligence reporting

could be

dissemi-

+ However,

, before

either your

reau

or this

Agency make any dissemination of SHAMROCK Infor-

mation, we believe that we should reach

the

division of responsibility between our offices for dis-

semination of the various categories of information; on

appropriate source descriptions to be used in such

disseminations, andson

whether or not it might be

neces-

sary at this

selected individuals in the

Department

of State and

possibly

the White House on the

nature of the

-2255

Specifically; we would

RECent Your Bureau

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pertaining to the internal security of

States,

while we would handle the disseminatton or information

pertaining

to this Agency's, counterintelligence

respon-

sibilities abroad,

and to the Agency's. own

security re-

sponsibilities,

as

well as positive intelligence reporti

from the source...s

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SECRET

2.

4.

As far as source descriptions are concerned, we

believe that it is important that the source description

sed by both your Bureau and the Agency clearl

state

hat the reliability. of the source himself (rather tha

simply that of his information) has not yet been estab-

LIshea. Cor example,-

of the following descriptions

might be appropriate:

whom

has

"A confidential informant, contact with

been insufficient to establish his relia-

bility";

not

"A Soviet source whose reliability has

ablished":

Fo. [soviet official no is aware that his

information is being passed to the U.s. Government*

*Because muc

of the positive intelligence infor-

mation from SHAMROCK

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believe that we will ultimately find it necessary to

cuss the

with Ambassa-

do wish

necessity

for this at the present time, we

fact

that extensive

on United 'Nations

matters

this be done

"6.

wlabove,

Even subject to agreement on the points raised

nowever,

we still have serious reservations about

the dissemination of the information contained in your

memorandum.

This report deals with a subject which owing

to exceptional circumstances: makes objective evaluation.

of the information set forth extremely

difficult.

tially,

the report contains two basic elements:

information about the KGB commission established to in-

vestigate the circumstances ofpresident Kennedy's death,

and information on Lee Harvey, Oswald's

relationship with

reporting on

far as we know, there has

no previous

reporting

of such a commission.

important to

chatathe alleged conclusions

of this commission-that

President Kennedy

a conspiracy of

right. wing monopolists--have long

prised the standard soviet

line on this

subject.

but two examples, KHRUSHCHEV. took this tack in

an inter-

view he granted to columnist Drew Pearson

in early 1964(U).

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;3'.

(see attached column from the Washington Post of 26 June

1964); a complete statement of the Soviet line on Ken-

nedy's

death is to be found in a book called "Where do

the Tracks Lead?" [Kuda vedut sledyl by A. IORYSH and

B. SERGEYEV, which was submitted for publication on 2 Sep-

tember 1964.

his book spells out the theory of a righ

ing conspiracy in great detail. HIt is interesting i

this connection that the surname of one of the two

authors,

SERGEYEV, is identical with the alias used by SITNIKOV

in his contacts with both Pierre Salinger and Donald

Brennan.

In any event, aside from the existence of a

KGB commission to consider the problem, none of the find

ings of the commission as reported by SHAMROCK!

are

either new or significant.

7. Further in this regard, we note

that the iden-

tification of SITNIKOV as being

chief of a sector, Infor-

mation Section, International Department, Central

Committee

of the CPSU is misleading in that,

"according to SHAMROCK,IC)

at the time that SITNIKOV was stuâying

the assassination

of President Kennedy he was still Deputy Chief

formation Service, First Chief Directorate, KGB.

transcript of Meeting #17, page 12,

in which SHAMROCKC2

dates SITNIKOV's transfer to the CC in 1965, when SKRYABIN

Service.)

then Chief of the American Department of the FCD,

the

chief responsibility for weighing

the

evidence that

had been gathered by KGB sources on

the President's

death.

(See transcript of Meeting

#4,

page

18. JaWe sug-

gest,

therefore, that the report be made consistent by

either including KULEBYAKIN's name or deleting SITNIKOV's

I at least the SITNIKOV b

itnin the KGB at the timete

clearly identified

as

still

"In connection with the soviet assessment

this topic by providing the current Soviet assessment of

President Johnson.

(See transcript of Meeting

#4, page 20.JGX

While it is true that this assessment of President John-

direct questionlby one of the in

on was in answer tasind that the source's informatior

terviewing officers

this is not directly relevant to the assassination of

President Kennedy, we nonetheless believe that the juxta-

position of impock'S genaris on the iwo Presidents 15%

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Eignificant and woute tolerate lue to consumers in

evaluating the

use of the similarity of these

remarks to those made bysother soviet officials around

the world in pursuance oi

what appears to be a semi-offi

cial "line."

(A good example of this is to be found in

SITNIKOV'S meetings.

with Pierre Salinger in Moscow in

(13)

the spring of 1965

Finally,

it is the part of the report that deals

Lee Harvey Oswald's relations with the KGB--or

rather the lack of such à relationship--that raises seri-

As you are aware, much

the same story about

Oswald, although in consideraoly greater detail and

allegedly based on first-hand knowledge, has been related

by NOSENKO.

This Agency firmly believes

that NOSENKO did

not in fact have first-hand knowledge of the relations

between the KGB and OSWALD, and that NOSENKO's story on

OSWALD is a KGB-prepared message. Similarly, this Agency

believes that SHAMROCK'S

statements on OSWALD cannot auto

matically be accepted as

accurate or valid,

and that the

exact nature of the KGB relationship with OSWALD has not

yet been established.

Attachment

As Stated Above

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