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104-10126-10080 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/15/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72992 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10126-10080  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992




                                                 OLC 78-2112/1

                                                        15 J1UN 1978          ,;1 C



             MEMORANDUM FOR:  Director of Central Intelligence     .

             FROM          :  S. D. Breckinridge
                              Principal Coordinator HSCA
                              Office of Legislative Counsel

            SUBJECT           Letter from Chairman Stokes of HSCA on
                               Direct Access to Former Agent in Mexico


                   1.  Action  Requested:  That you approve the recommendation
            at paragraph  8, supporting the decision of the DDCI to not
            provide the HSCA  with direct access to a former clandestine
            agent in Mexico,  and that you renew to Chairman Stokes the
            DDCI's offer  to obtain answers to written HSCA questions
            addressed to the man.

                   2.  Background:   The letter from Mr. Stokes refers to
            two agents; we are aware  of only one at issue.  Prior to the
            visit of the 7     CA investigators to Peao   y, they were
            advised at the Headquarters Building  that CIA could not
            ass.st.thn  in locating or contacting  a former  genE    he
     i       an ha  operated a photographic observation  post covering the
            Cuban diplomatic installations at  the time of Lee Harvey Oswald's
            visit there in 1963.  This statement  of the Agency's position
            Sas not protested at that time.


            the   ear    that while the Station had been  instructed to
            assist in contacting former Agency employees  there, and other
            persons with whom the Agency had no direct contact,  it had
            been instructed to not assist in contacting the agent  in
            question.  When Mr. Blakey learned of. this he asked for a
            meeting with the DDCI.

                   4.  At the meeting, the DDCI stated the responsibility
           of the  DCI and DDCI to protect intelligence sources and
           methods,  and the need to maintain a viable intelligence
           collection  organization.  He expressed the view that making
           agents available  for direct questioning by congressional






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