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104-10067-10248 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/13/1979)

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                            THE  DIRECTOR OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE

                                        WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

                                              OLC 79-0113/c
        Legislative Counsel
                                              13 February 1979



            Mr. G. Robert Blakey
            Chief Counsel and Director
            Select Committee on Assassinations
            House of Representatives
            Washington, D.C.   20515

            Dear Mr. Blakey:
                 Forwarded herewith are comments on draft reports forwarded by
            you recently.  The section titled Cuban-American presents some
            questions that require more detailed review and will be the subject
            of later comments.  If comments we make are adopted, we agree with
            unclassified publication.  (U)

            Oswald, Was He or Was He Not, a CIA Agent?

                 It is understood that this is intended for unclassified publication,
            so comments.will relate to security and accuracy.  (U)

                 Page 2...The HSCA investigators did not review the CIA's
            144-volume Oswald File.  They did read 19 volumes of the CI Staff
            57-volume Oswald file.  There were another 87 so-called bulky files
            in the CI Staff Oswald file, of which 16 have been reviewed.  Of the
            seven volumes.held by the Office of Security, four were reviewed and
            part of a fifth.  If FOIA materials released by the Agency were read
            elsewhere, it still would not constitute the same thing because of
            sanitization, in addition to which the organization of the files would
            be missed. Whatever  was read, as stated it is incorrect.   (U)

                Page 4.  The  statement nor was there always an independent
           means of verification  that all materials requested by the Agency were,
           in fact, provided,  leaves the gratuitous inference that there may  have
           been some withholding.   If there were files in the Agency that were  not
           made available,  it simply would have been because they could not  be found
           in response to the  less than effective manner in which some materials
           were requested.   In any event, before the above statement in the draft
           can honestly be made,  it would have been necessary for the HSCA
           investigators to  have read all the materials made available to them.
           They did not.   It is estimated that some 20% of the files made available
           for HSCA investigators  were not reviewed; some of those are very
           voluminous.   (U)

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