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104-10065-10378 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/1/1978)

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                                                            MA1    9 18 AN'8
                                             OLC  78-1920
                                             1 May 1978


             MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

             SUBJECT:   Meeting With House Select Committee on Assassinations
                          (HSCA) - 1 May 1978



                 1. (S) On 1 May 1978, a meeting was held with HSCA representatives
             and FBI representatives. Present frpm the HSCA were: G. Robert Blakey,
             Chief Counsel and Director; Bill Triplett, Gaten Fonzi, and Edwin Lopez.
             Present from the FBI were: Danny Coulson, John Kaul and Jim Freeman.
             Also present were Norbert Shepanek, O/SA/DO/O; Patrick Carpentier, of
             OLC,  and myself.

                 2.  (S) Mr. Blakey called the meeting to discuss Bernardo de Torres,
             who is purported to be a potential assassin and who was purported to be in
             Dealey Plaza on 23 November 1963. De Torres was scheduled to appear
             in executive session before the HSCA on 2 May 1978. Mr. Blakey opened
             the meeting criticizing the FBI for not notifying himO
                                            until I May even though de Torres had
             1  n subpoenaed for the last 30 days. Mr. Coulson res onded that the FBI ea
                                                                   and he requested
             that the HSCA T'Fi T
             Mr.  Coulson, on ehialf of the FBI,


                 3.  (S) Mr. Blakey then turned his attention to the Agency's response to
             his written request for any and all files on de Torres. Mr. Shepanek
             pointed out that although there had been an earlier difficulty in locating the
             201 on de Torres because of a matronymic/patronymic filing problem, the
             HSCA  had been given access to all files over a month ago. Mr . Shepanek
             acknowledged that third agency documents were inadvertently left in the file
             which was provided to HSCA researcher Edwin Lopez. Mr. Lopez took notes
             upon these documents and submitted his notes for review at which time the
             error became known.  The third agency documents, FBI items, were forwarded
             to Mr. Coulson on 28 April (Friday) for FBI review and possible release to
             HSCA.   Mr. Coulson acknowledged that he had these materials and hoped to
             make  them available to the Committee at FBI Headquarters immediately
             following the meeting.


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