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104-10422-10355 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/30/1977)

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                                                                     g 0 AUG 1977


             . MEMORANDUM FOR:  Acting Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

               FROM          :  S. D. Breckinridge
                                Deputy Inspector General

               SUBJECT       :  Comments on Book V, SSC Final.Report, The
                                Investigation of the Assassination of President
                                Kennedy:  Performance of the Intelligence Agencies



                    1.  Forwarded herewith is the report of a review that Mr.
               Knoche requested last fall.  The undersigned was designated as
               chairman or coordinator of an Agency working group that was to
               conduct the study.  It proved a more ambitious undertaking than
               had been anticipated.  The extensive files of CI 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 on its Cuban operations during the period preceding
               and following the death of President Kennedy.  The most pains-
               taking review and analysis was required, and the files proved to
               be so extensive that the research became a major task.  The files
               of the Office of Security and the Office of the Inspector General
               presented a less formidable problem.

                    2.  The attached report, with its annexes, is the formal
               resu.t of the effort.  If the attachments seem bulky, it is
               noted that additional back-up materials are being held for the
               record in the event of future. inquiry. These papers .represent
               the result of a conscientious and painstaking effort,-:.eonducted
               with high standards of review and testing kept foremost in mind.
               We believe that there is little likelihood of oversight.or omission
               in coverage; the work was so extensive and carefully done that we
               feel there  is small chance of surprises remaining in CIA files on
               this subject.

                    3.   In brief, we found that many of the presentations of
               Book V of the Final Report of the Senate Select Committee were
               based on incomplete information or distorted perceptions.  While
               the record of CIA was not perfect, the performance at the time,
               under the understanding of the period, seems reasonable.  The fact
               remains that evidence of a Castro conspiracy.to assassinate President
               Keqnedy still has not been discovered.  The Warren Commission and




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