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104-10145-10411 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/23/1978)

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                                                 OLC-78-3014
                                                 23 August 1978


                MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

                SUBJECT    HSCA and Proenza Files and Mexico City History


                     1.  Yesterday evening Messrs. Joannides, Hawkins,
                Shepanek, and the undersigned met with Mr. Blakey of
                HSCA to discuss the handling of the Proenza matter and
                the Mexico City history.  In earlier discussions with
                Mr. Cornwell, Blakey's deputy, we had been asked to
                provide the Proenza 201 file for the period from
                1 September 1963 through 31 January 1964, and specified
                sections of the Mexico City history, designated after
                reviewing the table of contents of the history.  We had
                the Proenza 201 file available (I had advised that the
                HSCA Spanish speaker should be present as much of it is
                in Spanish, but he was not with Blakey).  We also had
                the requested sections from the Mexico City history, with
                portions sanitized, but which Mr. Hawkins would explain
                to Mr. Blakey if there were questions.

                     2.  Blakey wanted to know what we had, asking if the
                Proenza operation file was there.  I replied that the
                Proenza file was there, which had the usual 201-type
                information about her, but that the operation of which
                she was a target was not there.  Blakey stated that he
                wanted the operation  file.  He was unmoved by a series
                of exchanges.

                     3.  Blakey said he should see the entire three
                volumes of the Mexico City Station's history. I pointed
                out that                            and that only a
                few pages made any comment (part of which is error)
                about Oswald's visit to Mexico and the ensuing investiga-
                tion.  He said that he needed it as background for an
                evaluation of the Station.  I replied that it would not
                serve that purpose.  In any event, his inquiry was
                broadening unreasonably, and he was investigating only
                the five-day visit of Oswald and what followed. He
                said he was investigating CIA, to which I replied he
                was not but that he was investigating only the assassina-
                tion of President Kennedy and the investigation that




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