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104-10408-10418 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/19/1968)

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WSPATCH


CLASSIFICATION


                                  TO   CMARKED FOR INDEXING
TO
      Chief of Stat ion Ve,.illourne                        NO INDEXING REQUIRED
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FROM
      Chief, .Yar Est   ifi'siou
             ________ IMICROFILM
SUBJECT                                                     MCOR
          S 3/Request For Release of Warren Commission  Document
ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES


PROCES4NG ACTION


       1.  WOFIM  has  been requested  by an iAustialiamn, newspaper
 editor  (Attachment  A) to release  the Warren Commission  Document
 971(CDL 1is-Attachment B) which relates to anonymous telephone,
 <calls to the Canberra  Embassy at the  time of the assassination  Of
 President  Kennedy.   His request was  turned down.  As  you probably
 know,  there has been  mounting public  pressure to release  classified
 documents  of the Warren  Commission.   'While no decision has been
 made  to declassify iQCA971, it is highly  possible we will  be asked
 -to do so in the near  future by National  Archives, which  has
 -official custody of  the documents, or  by some higher .authority.

      2.   Melboure  Station  is requested  to discuss Paragraph
 One above  with SQRlB/l8 afterhis return  to4Aitrali The aggB
 Service  is. mentioned in Paragraph 4 of   9:971 and release  of the
 document  is certain to provoke  questions  in Austrattar   Since
 4ql9701 is a U. S. Government  document we  need not (and should  not)
 request 48,UIB concurrence  for release of  the document.  He  should
 be informed,  however, that  release of CD  971' to the public domain
 ,is presently under consideration;  that the  United States Navy
 .has no objections; and that  we are giving  him advance notice  as
 a matter of  courtesy.  Any  views volunteered  by 4QUIB 1, regarding
 this release  should be reported  promptly to  Headquarters.



                             -Charles.    AB
-Attachments:
   A.  Letter,  u/s/c
   B.  CD97   ,# u/s/c

'Di tribut ion:
   2 - COS, Melbourne, w/atts u/s/c


DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER.


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DATE

   19- August 1968
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