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104-10322-10140 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (9/19/1978)

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                                               19 September 1978






             MEMORANDUM  FOR THE RECORD

             SUBJECT     Meeting with HSCA Staff Representatives

                   1-   ast night at 2000 hours Messrs. Harkins Sturbitts,
                         Shepanek, Holmes, Joannides and the undersigned
             met wi   dessrs.  Blakey and Goldsmith of the HSCA staff.
             The purpose was  to consider the declassification of cer-
             tain materials  for use in Mr. Helms' testimony in public
             hearings on  Friday, 22 September.

                  2.  A number.of  questions were resolved at the time
             with a few remaining  to be left over for today. One of the
             unresolved  issues was declassification of certain sections
             of the 1967 IG report  on plotting against Castro. We  did
             not present the question of Agency policy  against release
             of IG reports,  it being felt this would serve as a red
             flag.  We. stated instead, that the report was written in
             such detail that blanket declassification would cause
             extensive deletions.  I pointed out that when the question
             arose with the Church Committee  it did not do so in the
             context of public hearings.   Instead, the Committee wrote
             the report with the things that it wanted to say and we
             addressed those issues on a point-by-point basis.  We
             asked that they tell us what specific things they would
             like declassified, which we could address more easily,
             noting that much of the substantive content of the IG
             report had found its way into the Church Committee Report.
             Mr. Goldsmith said that he could narrow this down to some
             ten or so pages, and we postponed further discussion until
             today.

                  3.  Mr. Blakey said that Mr. Helms' attorney wanted
             to be advised by the Agency of those sections of his

                                      (EXCUTIVE KRISTIRY FpF!LSpc   hi

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