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104-10096-10044 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/07/1977)

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                                                             7 December  1977

                MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
                SUBJECT:  Meeting with Mr.  Robert Blakey, HSCA Staff
                          Director and  Chief Counsel

                      1.  Mr.  Cummins brought Mr. Blakey to my office. at 1400 today
                and.Mr. Leader  and I met with them for about an hour and 20 minutes.
                The purpose of  the meeting was to deliver to Mr. Cummins, for review
                by Mr. Blakey,  an. unsanitized copy of the Task Force comments on
                Book V of  the SSC Final Report, as well as two sanitized copies of
                the  same report for review by HSCA Staff members.
                       2.  I described to Mr. Blakey the genesis of the study and, in.
                very  general terms, how it had been conducted, emphasizing that it
                is  not a report of the Inspector General in the usual sense, because
                it was  based on work by a Task Force.  I stated that the report was,
                however,  assembled and written in its final form by Mr. Leader and
                me,  and we would assume responsibility for any imprecisions.
                       3.  I stated that there may still be materials in Agency files
                 that relate to issues that may be raised, but that on their face
                 did not appear to be relevant.  It would take a specific reference
                 to make such pieces of information meaningful.  I stated that we were
                 pretty confident that we had covered most of the ground.  Reference
                 was made to a couple of items that had turned up since the report was
                 written.  These will be turned over to Mr. Blakey at some point.
                       4.  I noted that the Terms of Reference that he would see in
                 the report amounted to a point of departure, and that as we pro-
                 gressed some of the questions seemed unimportant and new ones emerged.
                       5.  I discussed the effect that protection of sources and methods
                 had on the sanitized version.  The names of Agency personnel below a
                 certain level were removed; he would see them in the unsanitized ver-
                 sion.  A press story that was significant because of its reference to
                 a man to have been used in the assassination of Castro posed problems
                 for us.  Although the press reference was unclassified, its significance
                 was based on operational information, and we had attempted to develop
                 the story while protecting the man.  We had deleted the name of  a Cuban




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