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104-10145-10438 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/16/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11938 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. Th6 substantive content runs the gamut from the history of Mexico University through-detailed operation- al support capabilities and It isan impressive accumulation of, operational activity'- classical sources and methods, as well as detailed revelations about past events. 2. We pointed out that the agreement be'tween 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. I pre- ceded the visit of Oswald to Mexico'in 1963 and assainion of the President, that clearly had nothing to do with the Committee's charter. I added that Mr. Carlucci is out of town, and will not be back until some time Sunday, so I could not go back to him. The request was so far beyond the agreement, that I felt I could not modify it. Cornwell then 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. I replied that the history is based on other sources; those related to the portion that is within the Committee's charter 'CONFIDENT[AL ---

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