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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85884 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10422-10327]. 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
77. S .
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI Staff
SUBJECT : Allegations of .Lee Harvey OSWALD's
Connection with the Agency -
REFERENCE : Memorandum of Conversation, Dan
Rather/Les Midgley and the DCI,
Dated 6 September 1975
1. The referent memorandum contains two points
which require comments. The first point concerns
= allegations that were made shortly after the assassination
of President Kennedy. and that have crept up every so often
- since then. In one form or another, the allegations are -
that Lee Harvey OSWALD had been connected with the Agency.
The allegations are totally unfounded.
2. The facts regarding this matter are as follows:
a.. On 27 November 1963 I was instructed by
Mr. R.G.Rocca, my immediate superior at that time, to
`'.} .make a .thorough check within the Agency at Headquarters
. - . to determine whether Lee . Harvey OSWALD had ever been
-` - used by the Agency or been connected with it in any
conceivable way.. He ordered me to make the checks
directly and personally to the degree possible and not
to accept statements of intermediaries. He also ex-
plained that he was following instructions from Mr. R.
Helms, who was then the DDP and served as one of the
Agency's key contact officials with the Warren
Commission.
b. Although I had already checked the Main Index
of IP (then RID) on the night of the assassination, I
rechecked the Main Index and found no record beyond
that which I had already obtained before (plus those
- items which had been integrated into the records system
since the assassination). There was nothing in the DDO
records which indicated any Agency connection with
OSWALD. -
copy t to EA/DDO, .
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