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104-10146-10111 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (3/20/1979)

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                                      20 March 1979



MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT:  Discussions with G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and
            Director, HSCA


        1.  Messrs. William Sturbitts, DDO/LA;K ale Sumption%' DDO/SE;
Julian Fox, CI Staff; Jack Sullivan, OS; Russ Holmes, and I met with
Mr. Blakey this morning to discuss substantive issues in the final
HSCA Committee Report.

        2.  I don't think we made many points although Mr. Blakey
acknowledged our presentation in some instances.  It is clear that Mr.
Blakey intends to cite the testimony of former employee Wilcott about
what he did in Japan (we had discussed this previously and achieved
some compromises from a security point of view, but clearly did not
prevail in obtaining deletions about Wilcott's distribution of funding
operations in Japan; there is no mention of l1.               We also
appeared to have no success in persuading Mr. Blakey to delete a summary
of what the Cubans told the Committee about CIA photographic surveillance
in Mexico City in 1963.

        3.  We have already received and commented on two drafts of
sections of the report that have been received after we had been told that
we have .seen all the drafts. We now have yet an additional two drafts, with
yet another on the way.  It is hoped that these will affect the Agency but
marginally and that the reviews can be completed without a major effort.
If there are no more than these three last sections, this phase should
be over, so far as CIA is concerned.

        4.  We discussed with Mr. Blakey whether the Agency should make a
comment on the Nosenko paper.  The paper is a sort of rambling, on-one-hand-
but-on-the-other-hand type of discussion.  It may prove useful for the
Agency to write a memorandum to the Committee summarizing what it considers
to be the key issues on the subject.

        5.  Blakey described his production problem.  He will have page
proofs of the report printed at GPO.  He states that he has met  every
request of ours on security matters and considers the drafts to be
unclassified.  They will be handled in that way by GPO.  When he receives



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