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104-10332-10018 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/3/1993)

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                                                          December  3, 1993
             Memorandum for the Director,
             Center for Studies In Intelligence,
             Central Intelligence Agency
             Attn: Mr. John  Pereira
             FAX:  703-243-8343

             Subject: CIA Files on Lee Harvey Oswald

             This is to acknowledge my telecon yesterday with Dave Gries and with Jobn
             Pereira xe issue of whether Oswald was ever debriefed by the Agency, and to
             respond to John's request for documents which may having bearing Bithis
             issue.

             First, a point of order. It is my belief and the belief of the Agency personnel
             with whom  I have discussed this matter, that your files should not contain the
             infamous debrief. It strains credibility that the Agency would purposely
             persist in saying there was no debrief when in fact it had a copy of it
             somewhere  in its extensive - if sometimes sloppy -- records system. It
             would have been found by 1993. The issue is not whether you have it now;
             rather it L whether it occurred in the past and was destroyed.

             We  can all talk, theorize and argue over what it might mean later. For now
             the task at band is simply to take all necessary steps to find out. I urge
             extreme caution in stating flatly that there was no debrief until such steps
             have been thoroughly exhausted. I was surprised to find out after the
             FRONTLINE documentary aired,   for example, that thore will be some new
             pieces on this subject in the not too distant future.

             I attach a copy of CIA document number 435-173A, attachment, memo
             dated 25 November  1963, by a T.B.C., whom I believe might be one Mr.
             Tom  Comier.' possibly a former head of SR6 Branch, Soviet Russia Division,
             at the time Lee Harvey Oswald returned to the US in the Summcr of 1962.
             T.B.C. stated he discussed the laying on of interviews with Oswald, either
             while he was en route or after his arrival. Because T.B.C. made a
             typographical error when he typed 1960 instead of 1962, the IISCA
             foolishly dismissed the veracity of this entire document.


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