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104-10012-10080 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/15/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85201 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10012-10080  2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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                                        COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
                                AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION


Office of the Director General


10510


G.P.O. BOX NO...515BB,
       MELBQURNE


//~October, 1968.


I.


Dear


           Your   Melbourne  Station has sought  my  views
on the possibility of declassifying a Warren Commission
document  in which  reference  is made  to .the. Australian


security service.   The  document  in question is CD.971
dated 22nd  May,  1964, together with  an attachment dated
29th November,   .1963.

            I would recommend   strongly that CD. 971  and
its attachment should not on  any account be  declassified or   -
publicly released for reasons  which  include the following :


(1)    It has never  been officially.stated that there
       is a C.I.A.   Canberra   Slation or that
       there are  C.I.,A. officers Ir- Australia.
       This  has been  avoided as. a point of policy.

(ii)   Publication of these facts would invoke  a
      *sbate bf-  I soj_`6e byr tie F  s Vind innihe
      Parliament,   which  wduld  be contrary  to the
      national, security, interest, for example :


(a)


Who  approved  the establishment of
the C.I.A.-  Canberra  Station?


(b) What  is its composition and location?

(c) What  is its purpose in Australia?
     (Allegations have already been  made
     that C.I.A.  is interfering in Aust-
     ralian domestic  affairs.)

(d) With what  Australian agencies  does it
    deal?
    (A. S.I. S. , which  has not been
    publicly  disclosed, could be  brought
    into  discussion.)

(e) With what- other foreign agencies  does the
    A.S.I.O. deal?


(f) What  Ministerf  dotdlo    there
    such  dealin          ,


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