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104-10149-10013 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/13/1979)

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                                THE  DIRECTOR OF  CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE                   f

                                           WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

                                                  OLC 79-0113/c
            Legislative Counsel
                                                  13 February 1979



                Mr. G. Robert Blakey
                Chief Counsel and Director
                Select Committee on Assassinations
                House of Representatives
                Washington, D.C.   20515

                Dear Mr. Blakey:

                     Forwarded herewith are comments on draft reports forwarded by
                you recently.  The section titled Cuban-American presents some
                questions that require more detailed review and will be the subject
                of later comments.  If comments we make are adopted, we agree with
                unclassified publication.  (U)

                Oswald, Was He or Was He Not, a CIA Agent?

                     It is understood that this is intended for unclassified publication,
                so comments will relate to security and accuracy.  (U)

                     Page 2. ..The HSCA investigators did not review the CIA's
                144-volume Oswald File.  They did read 19 volumes of the CI Staff
                57-volume Oswald file.  There were another 87 so-called bulky files
                in the CI Staff Oswald file, of which 16 have been reviewed.  Of the
                seven volumes held by the Office of Security, four were reviewed and
                part of a fifth.  If FOIA materials released by the Agency were read
                elsewhere, it still would not constitute the same thing because of
                sanitization, in addition to which the organization of the files would
                be missed.  Whatever was read, as stated it is incorrect.   (U)

                     Page 4.  The statement nor was there always an  independent -
                means of verification that all materials requested by the Agency were,
                in fact, provided, leaves the gratuitous inference that there may  have
                been some withholding.  If there were files in the Agency that were  not
                made available, it simply would have been because they  could not be found
                in response to the less than effective manner in which  some materials
                were requested.  In any event, before the above statement  in the draft,-
                can honestly be made, it would have been necessary for  the HSCA
                investigators to have read all the materials made available  to them.
                They did not.  It is estimated that some 20% of the  files made available
                for HSCA investigators were not reviewed; some of  those are very
                voluminous.  (U)

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