HSCA ACCESS TO MEXICO CITY HISTORY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: BRECKINRIDGE, S.D.
To: MFR
Document date: 11/16/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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16 November 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT : HSCA Access to Mexico City History

1.

HSCA requested access to some 200 pages of the

three-volume history of Mexico City - about a third of

the material.

- classical sources and methods, as

well as detailed revelations about past events.

2.

We pointed out that the agreement between Chairman

Stokes and DDCI Carlucci directly faced the issue of the

irrelevancy of the vast majority of the history, and the

sensitivity of it.

The HSCA position had been

that it had

to verify this, and the access given to senior levels was

to satisfy this. Now it was being requested in connection

with depositions, which would

serve to get this material

into

a Committee transcript. Since

some two-thirds of the ty

station's history (the work covers (1947 through 1969)

ceded the visit of

Oswald to Mexico

in 1963 and assassination

of the President, that clearly had nothing to do with the

Committee's charter.

I added

that Mr. Carlucci is out of

Lown.

and will not be back until some time Sunday, so I

could

not go back to him. The request was

agreement,

that I felt I could not modify it. Cornwell then

to him:

so far

beyond the

asked that

I speak to the Director.

3. I saw the Director at about noon, and summarized

the agreement and the dilemma, also going over

• the above.

He stated that I could offer access to one senior staff

member (in addition to Blakey and Cornwell)on the condition

that material from the history not be used in depositions.

4.

I spoke with Cornwell, giving him the message.

He

said that they may

wish to use some of the material.

replied that the history is based on other sources; those

related to the portion that is within the Committee's charter

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was based entirely on sources to which Committee investi-

rator's have had access.

Our problem was the overall

collection, and particularly some of the substance of the

history.

He asked if he could come back and ask for it,

if they wanted to use something in particular.

that we had never closed a door completely, but that the

Director's condition was

fairly clear. Those things

relevant

to their authorized inquiry were already in

their hands, so I could not think what they would have

to use from this. They will ask us, and we can react

when they do.

5. Goldsmith came over to start reading.

13 Bubie,

S. D. Breckinridge

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