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104-10143-10048 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (08/30/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch73384 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10143-10048 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 H C A w- -.. 7.............3 0AUG 1977' MEMORAflUM FOR: Acting Depuity Director of Central Intelligence FROM : S. D. iBreckiridge APPROED FOR RELEASE 1993 C puty Insipec.tor Ganeral CIA, E 4` RALRVI PcrO SU3~ECT : Comments on B6ook V, SSC Final Report The Investigatiion of the Assassination of President Kennedy: Performance of the Intel.ligence Agenc es IV. Forwarded herewrith is the rep:ort of a review that Mr. Knoche (requested last fall . The undersigned wais designated as chairman or cnordinator of an Agency working group that was to conduct the study. It: proved a more :ambitious undertak ng: than had been anticipated. The extensive files of CI Staff on the Warren Commission inquiry into President Kennedy's as sassination were reviewed ini detail, s were the very large file holdings of LA Division on its Cuban operations during the iperiod pereceding and following; the death of President Kennedy. ie most pains- talking review and analysis was required, and the files proved to be so extensive that the -research became a major task. The files of the Of fice of S:ecurity and the Office of the InspecG9r General presented a less foraaidablei problen. 2.. The attached repoirt, with it±s annexes, is: the formal resuvt of tie effort. If the attachments seem bul1ky, it is noted that additional back uo mauer a? s ?r being; held for the r-ecord in the eient of future hinuiry. ThLese papers represent t:: result olf a conscientious ar painsa.ing effort, tonducted teithn higih standards of regiew and tsaing k:pt foremost in' in d Ue beiieve that there is littlie 'ii' irioo ! oversitt o r omads ivn inr co'iragc.; the work was so ext ensi and care-fuly nr1 ht w feel there is, smali chance o surprises. remainngi n fl I: C .es on this subject. 3. In brief,. we, found that mat.y of the presenta itons of Book V of the Final Report of the Senate Select C mmi1ctee w er iased, on i ncompl et' informaitnt or di stortd p 'rception. y'Ile the recordof ' CIA was not perfect, the p:er&rrmance at the e,'°: mder tre uderstanding of the period, sems reascnaole.. The rac:. remains thau evidence of a Castro, Cospiracy to asssassi ate Presic ennedy still has not' been discovered. The Warren Cormiss on. and

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