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104-10414-10160 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/16/1978)

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                           16 November 1978



MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT      HSCA Access  to Mexico City History


     1.  HSCA requested access  to some 200 pages of the
three-volume history of Mexico  City - about a third of
the material.  The substantive  content runs the gamut from
the history of Mexico University  through detailed operation-
al support capabilities and high  level political connect
ions and activities.  It  is an impressive accumulation of
operational activity - classical  sources and methods, as
well as detailed revelations  about past events.

     2.  We pointed out that  the agreement between Chairman
Stokes and DDCI Carlucci directly  faced the issue of the
irrelevancy of the vast majority  of the history, and the
sensitivity of it.  The HSCA position had been that it had
to verify this, and the access  given to senior levels was
to satisfy this.  Now it was being  requested in connection
with depositions, which would  serve to get this material
into a Committee transcript.   Singcp some two-thirds of the
station's histoiy (the work covers  1947 through 1969) pre-
ceded the visit of Oswald to Mexitho' in 1963 and assassination
of the President, that clearly had nothing to do with the
Committee's charter.  I added  that Mr. Carlucci is out of
town, and will not be back until  some time Sunday, so I
could not go back to him.  The  request was so far beyond the
agreement, that I felt I could not modify  it. Cornwell then
asked that I speak to the Director.

     3.  I saw the Director  at about noon, and summarized
the agreement and the dilemma,  also going over the above.
He stated that I could offer  access to one senior staff
member (in addition to Blakey  and Cornwell)on the condition
that material from the history  not be used in depositions.

     4.  I spoke with Cornwell,  giving him the message. He
said that they may wish to use  some of the material.  I
replied that the history  is based on other sources; those
related to the portion that  is within the Committee's charter




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