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104-10145-10032 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/13/1979)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11901 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 145100321 I a 1 DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIG(. CE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 OLC 79-0113/c Legislative Counsel 13 February 1979 Mr. G. Robert Blakey Chief Counsel and Director Select Committee on Assassinations House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Blakey: Forwarded herewith are comments on draft reports forwarded by you recently. The section titled Cuban-American presents some questions that require more detailed review and will be the subject of later comments. If comments we make are adopted, we agree with unclassified publication. (U) Oswald, Was He or Was He Not, a CIA Agent? It is understood that this is intended for unclassified publication, so comments will relate to security and accuracy. (U) Page 2.-,The HSCA investigators did not review the CIA's 144-volume Oswald File. They did read 19 volumes of the CI Staff 57-volume Oswald file. There were another 87 so-called bulky files in the CI Staff Oswald file, of which 16 have been reviewed. Of the seven volumes held by the Office of Security, four were reviewed and part of a fifth. If FOIA materials released by the Agency were read elsewhere, it still would not constitute the same thing because of sanitization, in addition to which the organization of the files would be missed. Whatever was read, as stated it is incorrect. (U) Page 4. The statement nor was there always an independent means of verification that all materials requested by the Agency were, in fact, provided, leaves the gratuitous inference that there may have been some withholding. If there were files in the Agency that were not made available, it simply would have been because they could not be found in response to the less than effective manner in which some materials were requested. In any event, before the above statement in the draft can honestly be made, it would have been necessary for the HSCA investigators to have read all the materials made available to them. They did not. It is estimated that some 20% of the files made available for HSCA investigators were not reviewed; some of those are very voluminous. (U) OERiVATIVECLBY L _

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