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104-10320-10036 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/19/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch18968 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 0O320-10036

                                       CSSIFICAflsON           PROCES:.NG ACTION
       DISPATCH                      SECRZT                   MARKED FOR INDEXING
  TO
        Chief of Station,                                     NO INDEXING REQUIRED
                                                              ONLYO UAUFIED DESK
                                                              CANJUDGE INDEXING
  FROM
        Chief,
        chief                                           ___I__ IMICROFILM
  SUBJECT
      {j:7::f'equest   For Release  of Warren Commission  Document
  ACTION REQUID RUER CS



             1.   TOFIE  has been  requested by an   ura _u newspaper
        editor  (Attachment A). to release the Warren  Commission Document
        &           - is Attachment B) which relates  to    n                  -
            a            eR  a          at the time  of the assassination  of
        President  Kennedy.   His request was turned  down.  As you  probably
        know,  there has been mounting  public pressure  to release  classified
        documents  of the Warren  Commission.  While  no decision   s  been
        made to  declassify 7j t, it is I-ighly possible we will be asked
        to do  so in the near  future by National  Archives, which  has
        official  custody of  the documents, or  by some higher authority.
             2.             Station  is requested  to discuss Paragraph
        One above  with MVt      afterhis return  toEI   1I The @
        service  is mentioned  in Paragraph 4 of     and release of the
        document  is certain  to provoke questions  in         Since
           9 Iis   a U. S. Government  document we  need not (and should  not)
        request  M $   concurrence  for release  of the document.   He should
        be informed,  however,  that release of $2J] i. to the puolic  domain
        is presently  under consideration;  that  the United States  Navy
        has no  objections;  and that we are giving  him advance notice  as
        a matter  of courtesy.   Any views volunteered  by 2 0   regarding
        this release  should-be  reported promptly  to Headquarters.




        Attachments:
          A.   Letter, u/s/c
          B.        I  u/s/c

        Distribution:
           2 - COS,            w/atts u/s/c





   OS RE  TO                  DISPATOf SYMBOL AND NUMBtR DATE

                                       3636                 19 August 1968
                                       CSSIFICATION  It   FiLf NUMBER

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