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104-10143-10048 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/30/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11872 and id is 1 raw text is: HSCA'_____ 7/> 30 AUG 1977 MEMORA:DUM FOR:: Acting beputy Director of Central _ntelligence FROM S. D. Breckinridge APPR OFOR RELESE193 puty Inslpector Ganeral SU:jECT *.: Coments on Book V, SSC Final Report, The investigation of the Assassination of Presidenw Kennedy; Peff.rmance of the I nte1ligSence Agencies I Forwardied herewith is the report of a review' that Mr. Knoce requested last fa1. The undersigned was designated as chairman or coordinator of an Agency working group that was to conductthe study. It: prved a more amb'tious undertakng, than had been amficipated. The extensive files of 1 Staff on the Warren Commission inquiry into President Kennedy's assassination were reviewed in detail, as were the very large file holdings of LA Division orn its Cuban operations during the period precadig and following, the dealt of President Kennedy. The most pains- taking review.-i and analysis was required, and!the files proved o be so tensive that the research became a major task. The files of the Office of Security and the Offic-e of the Inspector General presented a less formidable problen. 2:. The attached report, with it's annexes, is the formal result of the effort. If the atachments seem bulky, it is nRotedthat additonal back-up, mater-Ids, are being ld for the record in the eent of fuIture rqry. These papers represent the result o f a conscientious amd painstaking effort,-tondiucted with higi standards of redew an d testing kept foremost in mind. LIP: believe that there is little, I iikecd of oversicgh or omi:s ion in coverage; the work was so extensie and carefully oe Iyt we feel there is: small chance of surprises. remaining in CTA file on this subject. 3. In brief, we found that mamy of the presentedons of Rook V of the Final Report of the Sena Stelct Commtree were based- on incomolete informa.tieni or dis drt od peeption. Wi i the record of. CIA Wa ot perfect, the poeribrmnce at the tim- Thder the kdearstandinq of the ;eriod, seemi's reascnaole.' The fac:. remains that eidence of a Castro conspiracy to 'assasitae Prest ;- Kenaedy Still1 hIas not beeq disCo:vered. The 1-arran Comsisten and 2 02/

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