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124-10191-10038 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch31432 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO : Mr. Bassett vROm : D. Ryan / UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 1 - Mr. Adams 1 - Mr. McDermott 1 - Mr. Bassett DATE: 1/5/79 1 - Mr. Mintz Attn: Mr. Coulson 1 - Mr. Ryan 1 - Mr. Foster SUBJECT-HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) Assoc. Dir. Dep. AD Adm. Dep. AD Inv. Asst. Dir., Adm. Servs. Crim. Inv. lrdent. ______ Intell. Laboratory Legal Coun. ___ Plan. & Insp. Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Servs. Training Public Affs. Off. Telephone Rm. Director's Sec'y PURPOSE: To furnish status of the issue involving release by the HSCA of an FBI document to an outside party, as addressed in correspondence to HSCA Chairman, Louis V. Stokes, on 12/6/78 and responded to by HSCA Chief Counsel and Director, G. Robert Blakey, on 12/13/78, and to recommend attached letter be sent to Mr. Blakey requesting he identify any other FBI documents furnished by this Bureau to the HSCA which may have been similarly released. DETAILS: By letter dated 12/6/78 (copy attached with enclosures), HSCA Chairman Louis V. Stokes was furnished a copy of an FBI document dated 5/26/71, an informant report from the St. Louis Field Office file of former informant Oliver Patterson. this informant reporta. ,ong with three related items of correspondence, was furnished to the FBI via the Department of Justice (DOJ) by Harold Weisberg, a private citizen, author and self-styled assassination prober. Mr. Weisberg received the document from Patterson. The informant report in question was furnished the HSCA in response to the Committee's request dated 1/26/78 for all retrievable information concerning Patterson. Our letter to Mr. Stokes expressed concern that a document of this nature entered the public domain in such a manner and requested that the HSCA, in compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding, afford proper and necessary security to our documents during the course of future public hearings and the HSCA final report. 62-117290 Enclosures (2) EXj -1 1 A JTA: cfb CONTINUED - OVER :.74 _ .- Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regul FrEB 1lc' 1979 Wa7 arly on the Payroll Savii N V , ..., D0i

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