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124-10191-10041 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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       UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

       Memorandum

TO : The Director


UNITED STATES DEPARTMZNf OF JUSTICE
  FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION



              DATE: 1/18/79


Legal Couns


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SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE  ON ASSASSINATIONS  (HSCA)


                   The purpose of  this memorandum  is to advise of a
        contact  with a Staff Director  for the captioned  Committee
        regarding  the Committee's  unauthorized release  of informant
        reports  and other documents.   Pursuant  to the request of
        Associate  Director Adams  dated January  11, 1979, Special
        Agent Danny  0. Coulson of  the Legal Counsel  Division con-
        tacted  G. Robert Blakey,  Chief Counsel,  captioned Committee.

        DETAILS:

                   By letter dated  December 6, 1978  (copy attached),
        HSCA Chairman  Louis V.  Stokes was furnished  a copy of an FBI
        document  dated May 26,  1971, an informant  report from the
        St. Louis  Field Office  file of former informant  Oliver Pat-
        terson.   This informant  report, along 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 Jan-
        uary 26,  1978, 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 tIje HSCA final report.

                                                      CONTINUED   OVER


Enclosure -

1 -Mr.  Adams  - Enclosure
1 - Mr. Bassett  - Enclosure
1 - Mr. Ryan  - Enclosure
1 -Mr.  Foster  - Enclosure
2 - Mr. Coulson  - Enclosure


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