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104-10140-10343 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/26/1978)

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                                                 OLC  78-1544
                                                 26 April 1978

          MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

          SUBJECT:   House Select Committee on Assassinations - A Projection



              1. (S) With less than eight months remaining until its final report to
        * Congress is due, the HSCA investigations have narrowed to a few key areas
          which involve the Agency. Though. the tcommittee mandate coveisboth
          the King and Kennedy Assassinations, the majority of our contact has been
          with the Kennedy investigators.

              2. (S) The Kennedy Subcommittee is addressing four questions:

                    A.  Who shot the President?

                    B.  Was it a lone assassin or a conspiracy?

                    C.  How did the agencies perform:

                          (1) prior to the assassination;

                   -      (2) 'protecting the President;

                          (3) during the subsequent investigafions?
                                             4-..
                    D. Is any new legislation necessary?

              3. (S) Initially, the Kennedy Subcommittee had- organized into four
         functional groups:

                   A.  Cuban-Connection Task Force led by Bill Triplett

                   B.  Oswald Task Force led by Ken Klein

                   C.  Organized Crime .Task Force led by John Hornbeck

                   D.  CIA Involvement in the Assassination And Performance During
             Subsequent Inquiries Task Force led by Mickey Goldsmith.

         Mlost recent contact between OLC and HSCA staff has involved the Oswald and
         CIA Involvement-Performance  Task Forces. All groups have had access to
         CIA files, principally from Personnel, Security and bDO.

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