SSCI request…
Originator: NSA
From: Lowman
To: Spec ASST SEC&DSECDEF
Document date: 11/24/1975
Document type: memo

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RE

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY

NSA

RECORD NUMBER

: 144-10001-10197

RECORDS SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

UMBRA

JATE: 09/12/91

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : NSA

FROM

LOWMAN

SPEC ASST FOR_CONGRESS REV

TO : SPEC ASST SEC & DSECDEF

TITLE

SSCI REQUEST FOR INFO ON JFK ASSASSINATION

DATE

PAGES: 11/24/75

SUBJECTS

CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES DISCUSSED

NSA ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ASKED RE OSWALD, CUBAN MESSAGES

DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM

CLASSIFICATION

RESTRICTIONS

1A, 1B

CURRENT STATUS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

07/01/97

OPENING CRITERIA

ORIGINATING AGENCY'S DETERMINATION REQUIRED

COMMENTS

CONTAINS SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION

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ER] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

Derived From:

Declassify On:

NSA/CSSM 123-2,

Dated 3 September 1991

Source Marked "OADR"

Date of source: 3 Sep 91

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE

FORT GEORGE C. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755

Serial: N1380

24 November 1975

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY AND

DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee Request for Information on

Matters Related to President Kennedy's Assassination

Inclosed is our response to the request of the Senate

Select Committee on Intelligence dated '14 November 1975.

DAVID D. LOWMAN

Special Assistant

to the Director

for Congressional Reviews

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In response to Mr. Fenn's letter of 14 November 1975 to

Mr. Frank Foster which posed

a number of questions on matters

related to President Kennedy's assassination, the following

information is provided:

NSA has identified some four foreign communications which

mention Lee Harvey Oswald, but has not identified any messages

to or from him.

The four identified messages are Cuban diplomatic

and contain official Cuban comments regarding press items which

discuss Oswald's activity in late September 1963 to obtain a

Cuban visa

to travel to Moscow and also comments on the assina-

tion itself.

The messages are dated in the last week of

November 1963.

NSA has not identified any communications to, from or

mentioning Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby or Earl Ruby.

The specific questions asked and responses follow:

1. Were any of the above names put on a watch list and,

if so, by which agency or individual of the Government?

ANSWER: The name of Oswald was used in searching our data

base immediately following the assassination.

Records from that

time period are virtually non-existent and it is not clear which

agency or individual of the Government requested the search to

be made.

2.

Was product or information concerning the individuals

cited above ever requested by any agency or individual of the

it sate canton

Government or of the Warren Commission? If so, what information

and by whom?

ANSWER: NSA has no record or recollection of such requests.

3. Was product or information concerning the individuals

cited above ever disseminated to any agency or individual of the

Government or of the Warren Commission? If so, what information

and to whom?

ANSWER: The four Cuban diplomatic messages cited above were

disseminated to CIA, DIA, STATE and elements of the Army, Navy

and Air Force.

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4. Did NSA ever have a watch list on U.S. defectors to

the Soviet Union? If so, to which agencies was this information

disseminated?

ANSWER:

The names of several such individuals were used

as selectors in dictionaries. No information was ever noted which

warranted dissemination.

5. Were there ever any requests to monitor specific links

for information pertaining to the individuals cited above?

Who

made these requests, and when? Did these include links between

Mexico-U.S.A.r

Mexico-Cuba, Mexico-U.S.S.R., Cuba-U.S.A., or

.Cuba-U.S.S.R.?

ANSWER:

NO .

6. Were there ever any requests to monitor specific links

for information pertaining to the assassination of President

Kennedy?

Who made these requests, and when?

Did these include

links between Mexico-U.S.A., Mexico-Cuba, Mexico-U.S.S.R.,

Cuba-U.S.A., or Cuba-U.S.S.R.?

ANSWER:

No.

PROPERTY OF NSA, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,

ON LOAN TO SENATE SELECT COMMITIRE TO STUDY.

GOVERIMBNTAL OPSRATIONS WITH RESPECT TO

INTELLIGENCS ACTIVITIES.

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