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104-10143-10039 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/7/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch40173 and id is 1 raw text is: 1041 1431 0039 7 December 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD H s SUBJECT: Meeting with Mr. Robert Blakey, ,jSCA Staff Director and Chief Counsel 7 7- f 1. Mr. Cummins brought Mr. Blakey to my office at 1400 today and Mr. Leader and I met with them for about an hour and 20 minutes. The purpose of the meeting was to deliver to Mr. Cummins, for review by Mr. Blakey, an unsanitized copy of the Task Force comments on Book V of the SSC Final Report, as well as two sanitized copies of the same report for review by HSCA Staff.members. 2. I described to Mr. Blakey the genesis of the study and, in very general.terms, how it had been conducted, emphasizing that it is not a report of the Inspector General in the usual sense,.because it was based on work by a Task Force. I stated that the report was, however, assembled and written in its final form by Mr. Leader and me, and we would assume .responsibility for any imprecisions. 3. I stated that there may still be materials in Agency files that relate to issues that may be raised, but that on their face did not appear to be relevant. It-would take a specific reference to make such pieces of information meaningful. I stated that we were pretty confident that we had covered most of the ground. Reference was made to a couple of itemsthat had turned up since the report was written. These will be turned over to Mr. Blakey at some point. 4. 1 noted that the Terms of Reference that he would see in the report amounted to a point of departure, and that as we pro- gressed some of the questions seemed unimportant and new ones emerged. 5. I discussed the effect that protection of sources and methods had on the sanitized version. The names of Agency personnel below a certain level were removed; he would see them in the unsanitized ver- sion. A press story that was significant because of its reference to a man to have been used in the assassination of Castro posed problems for us. Although the press reference was unclassified, its significance was based on operational information, and we had attempted to develop the story while protecting the man. We had deleted the name of a Cuban

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