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104-10127-10280 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/18/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch39676 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10127-10280 L;iis 1Agust 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Discussion on Matters Affected by HSCA Subpeona 1. This memorandum includes more than the above subject as there was a preliminary conversation with. Ken Klein who initiated a request for an Agency position on Nosenko. I spoke with him briefly when I went down to the Headquarters entrance today to pick up Mr. Cornwell. I told Klein that we would not have someone available on 21 August to provide the testimony requested, but that a person is preparing for it. I said that we thought it inappropriate to address a staff member in giving an Agency position, and that in this case it would place in their record (thereby becoming HSCA property) sensitive matters that we have taken great pains to hold within the Agency. I said that written answers to the questions are being prepared, in addition to the statement. He asked if I would tell him who would make the statement; I replied that it was intended that John Hart do so, as he had studied the problem already and was not an actor in the earlier phases of the matter. I told Klein that I had tried to contact him by telephone to give him this message, but that in any event a letter from the DDCI to Chairman Stokes was to have been delivered to the Committee this morning. 2. Cornwell and I met for slightly over a half hour today. I told him that I was embarrassed for Chairman Stokes over his subpoena. I said that the Harvey OPF had been reviewed in the morning of the day before the subpoena was voted. I said that the document being requested from the AMMUG file had not been found, which was known to his investigators, and that a subpoena could not produce it. I said that the other two matters were of very doubtful relevance to the charter of the Committee--the deception operation that I had described to him earlier could not in good faith be requested by thgCommittee, and the Mexico City history covered years of activity with the most limited reference to the Oswald matter. I expressed the opinion that if they pressed for the subpoena that they would essentially be creating a constitutional confrontation at what is probably the most inopportune time so far as the investi- gation is concerned. I was not at all sure that the RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only 3 Do Not Reprouc

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