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104-10145-10411 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/23/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11933 and id is 1 raw text is: 104101-101 CO NF IDENT AL OLC-78-3014 23 August 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT HSCA and Proenza Files and Mexico City History 1. Yesterday evening Messrs. Joannides, Hawkins, Shepanek, and the undersigned met with Mr. Blakey of HSCA to discuss the handling of the Proenza matter and the Mexico City history. In earlier discussions with Mr. Cornwell, Blakey's deputy, we had been asked to provide the Proenza 201 file for the period from 1 September 1963 through 31 January 1964, and specified sections of the Mexico City history, designated after reviewing the table of contents of the history. We had the Proenza 201 file available (I had advised that the HSCA Spanish speaker should be present as much of it is in Spanish, but he was not with Blakey). We also had the requested sections from the Mexico City history, with portions sanitized, but which Mr. Hawkins would explain to Mr. Blakey if there were questions. 2. Blakey wanted to know what we had, asking if the Proenza operation file was there. I replied that the Proenza file was there, which had the usual 201-type information about her, but that the operation of which she was a target was not there. Blakey stated that he wanted the operation file. He was unmoved by a series of exchanges. 3. Blakey said he should see the entire three volumes of the Mexico City Station's history. I pointed out that and that only a few pages made any comment (part of which is error) about Oswald's visit to Mexico and the ensuing investiga- tion. He said that he needed it as background for an evaluation of the Station. I replied that it would not serve that purpose. In any event, his inquiry was broadening unreasonably, and he was investigating only the five-day visit of Oswald and what followed. He said he was investigating CIA, to which I replied he was not but that he was investigating only the assassina- tion of President Kennedy and the investigation that COFfIDEN AL

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