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104-10147-10166 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/27/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch40311 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10147-10166 0 ryy 27 July 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT Handling of Tapes of Nosenko's Testimony 1. The testimony of Nosenko on 19 and 20 June, during the Executive Session of the HSCA at CIA, was recorded under special agreement. Nosenko would not agree to the recording unless the tapes were to be held at CIA by someone personally acceptable to him-- in this case, Vasia Gmirkin. When we realized that the testimony had not been transcribed and that Nosenko and Gmirkin were to be in an extended travel staths. we arranged to have Gmirkin's supervisor, approved by Nosenko to handle and protect these-tSape. The HSCA finally provided this week a court reporter experienqeditanscribing tapes. When it was learned that Mr. _ would be out of town on Thursday and Friday of thismeek and Monday of next week it was realized by HSCA that the tapes would not be available for use on these days. Mr. Blakey phoned on Tuesday asking that arrangements be made. 2. I told Blakey that I was not in a position to unilaterally modify the agreement that he and I had with Nosenko. The testimony was recorded only because of the special personal arrangements that were acceptable to Nosenko. We had arranged for a substitute acceptable to Nosenko, but unfortunately he is going to be away for three of the days that the Committee had hoped to work on the transcript. I pointed out to Mr. Blakey that we had been surprised at the delay in preparing the trans- cript of the testimony, which was a contributing cause to the present problem. Blakey then produced some horror stories to build a case of our dereliction in this matter. One story was that when the reporter came to transcribe his notes, he was denied access to the tapes. I told Blakey that this was very unlikely but that I could not - recall the story and certainly did not recall being asked about it; inquiry of Rodger Gabrielson confirmed this. It is possible that the transcriber came without

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