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104-10143-10048 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/30/1977)

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            HSCA'_____

                                7/>                30  AUG 1977

MEMORA:DUM FOR:: Acting beputy Director of Central _ntelligence

FROM             S. D. Breckinridge           APPR    OFOR RELESE193
                 puty   Inslpector Ganeral

SU:jECT       *.: Coments on Book V, SSC Final Report, The
                 investigation of the Assassination of Presidenw
                 Kennedy;  Peff.rmance of the I nte1ligSence Agencies



     I   Forwardied herewith is the report of a review' that Mr.
Knoce  requested last fa1.   The undersigned was designated as
chairman or coordinator of an Agency working group that was to
conductthe  study.  It: prved a more amb'tious undertakng, than
had been amficipated.  The extensive files of  1 Staff on the
Warren Commission inquiry into President Kennedy's assassination
were reviewed in detail, as were the very large file holdings of
LA Division orn its Cuban operations during the period precadig
and following, the dealt of President Kennedy. The most pains-
taking review.-i and analysis was required, and!the files proved o
be so  tensive  that the research became a major task. The  files
of the Office of Security and the Offic-e of the Inspector General
presented a less formidable problen.

     2:. The attached report, with it's annexes, is the formal
result of the effort.  If the atachments  seem bulky, it is
nRotedthat additonal  back-up, mater-Ids, are being ld for the
record in the eent  of fuIture  rqry.   These papers represent
the result o f a conscientious amd painstaking effort,-tondiucted
with higi standards of redew  an d testing kept foremost in mind.
LIP: believe that there is little, I iikecd of oversicgh or omi:s ion
in coverage; the work was so extensie  and carefully  oe Iyt we
feel there is: small chance of surprises. remaining in CTA file on
this subject.

     3.  In brief, we found that mamy of the presentedons of
Rook V of the Final Report of the Sena   Stelct Commtree were
based- on incomolete informa.tieni or dis  drt od peeption. Wi i
the record of. CIA Wa  ot perfect, the poeribrmnce at the tim-
Thder the    kdearstandinq of the ;eriod, seemi's reascnaole.' The fac:.
remains that eidence  of a Castro conspiracy to 'assasitae  Prest ;-
Kenaedy Still1 hIas not beeq disCo:vered. The 1-arran Comsisten and


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