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180-10145-10205 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch32653 and id is 1 raw text is: 180-10145-10205 I0 .SECRET BACKGROUND In April, 1976, the Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities (SSC) published their Final Report (Book V). which in essence faulted the CIA for its errors of ommission in not informing the Warren Commission of the Agency's on-going plots against the revolutionary government in Cuba and its attempts on the life of the premier, Fidel Castro. The Committee's rationale is detailed on pages 6-7 of its Findings, but one paragraph succinctly sums up their position. Senior CIA officials also should have realized that their agency was not utilizing its full capability to investi- gate Oswald's pro-Castro and anti-Castro connections. They should have realized that CIA operations against Cuba, par- ticularly operations involving the assassination of Castro, needed to be considered in the investigation. Yet, they directed their subordinates to conduct an investigation with- out telling them of these vital facts. Those officials, whom the Warren Commission relied upon for expertise, advised the Warren Commission that the CIA had no evidence of a foreign conspiracy. (p. 7, Book V) Stung by the Senate criticism and the rippling effect that Book V occasioned in the media, the CIA orepared a com- prehensive report in 1977 designed to answer, at least within the Agency, the critical questions posited in the SSC Final Report. However, even the CIA's 1977 Report tacitly recognizes the inadequacy of the CIA's narrow response to the Warren Commission's quest for all possible relevant information. (Relevancy is, of course, the buyword upon which both the Senate and Agency each base their position on the importance of the anti-Castro plots to the Commission's work.) On page 10 of the Agency's conclusions, the 1977 Report acknowledges that: While one can understand today why the Warren Com- mission limited its inquiry to normal avenues of in- vestigation, it would have served to re-inforce the credibility of its effort had it taken a broader view of the matter. CIA, too, could have considered in specific terms what most saw in general terms -- the possibility of Soviet or Cuban involvement in the assassination (JFK) because of tensions of the time. ....The Agency should have taken broader initiatives, then, as well. (p. 10, 1977 Report) SECRET , 00021.49oq-o f6 mO~i1

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