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104-10146-10110 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (3/20/1979)

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                                                    OLC 79-0113/24
                                                    20 March 1979



              MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

              SUBJECT:  Discussions with G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and
                          Director, HSCA


                      1.  Messrs. William Sturbitts, DDO/LA;C &Te Sumption DDO/SE;
              Julian Fox, CI Staff; Jack Sullivan, OS; Russ Holmes, and I met with
              Mr. Blakey this morning to discuss substantive issues in the final
              HSCA Committee Report.

                      2.  I don't think we made many points although Mr. Blakey
              acknowledged our presentation in some instances. It is clear that Mr.
              Blakey intends to cite the testimony of former employee Wilcott about
              what he did in Japan (we had discussed this previously and achieved
              some compromises from a security point of view, but clearly did not
              prevail in obtaining deletions about Wilcott's distribution of funding
              operations in Japan; there is no mention ofI            .   We also
              appeared to have no success in persuading Mr. Blakey to delete a summary
              of what the Cubans told the Committee about CIA photographic surveillance
              in Mexico City in 1963.

                      3.  We have already received and commented on two drafts of
              sections of the report that have been received after we had been told that
              we have.seen all the drafts. We now have yet an additional two drafts, with
              yet another on the way.  It is hoped that these will affect the Agency but
              marginally and that the reviews can be completed without a major effort.
              If there are no more than these three last sections, this phase should
              be over, so far as CIA is concerned.

                      4.  We discussed with Mr. Blakey whether the Agency should make a
              comment on the Nosenko paper. The paper is a sort of rambling, on-one-hand-
              but-on-the-other-hand type of discussion. It may prove useful for the
              Agency to write a memorandum to the Committee summarizing what it considers
              to be the key issues on the subject.

                      5.  Blakey described his production problem. He will have page
              proofs of the report printed at GPO. He states that he has met every
              request of ours on security matters and considers the drafts to be
              unclassified.  They will be handled in that way by GPO. When he receives



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