WARREN REPORT DEBATE SHAPING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600150040-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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She has the feeling, t11ey say
I hat had the then Vice Prosldell
not en so insistent on her hus
,band's making the fatal. trip I
Texas he might be alive today
In their arguments dga'
disclosure of many of tile
Warren commission's 'vorkin'
papers, FBI, Secret Service, and
CIA authorities informed th
White House They were opposed
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As the third anniversary of Still secret-;.nd the cen;cr of,
President, Kennedy's assassins- the preset, dun e-;u c s venal One high - ranking administra?
boll nears, a headline-making ciozon ;uvern^;e,,i ii?.?estigative Lion security official charged that,
controversy is shaping up here reports and corun,ents of the blanket -release of the tvorkin,
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aver whetter several dozen still- cam al lion barren from the pub. papers would be "Ilke makin5
cret documents and working 1id- 'in the national interest.", Inc "raw" files of the FBI fir
, ,pcxs of the Warren Commis- Only a directive from Presi- the CIA available to the public.
s:on'S investigation should be ocni. Johnson can rip the secrecy These documents, he stressed,
.::.ado public. , setal from these papers, including . contain a number of unproven
This backstage debate, under-+.one from the Central Intelligence statements and allegations,
:y for weeps at the n ' it;g b..c.,t . , ency _ca ling it tl ci teisl
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.,:.,'CIS of the Johnson admulis policy of the KGB, the Soviet
lion, was touched off this Secret police, to assassinate or
umcr ey Congress' passage o discredit Wcstetl, leaders active
Freedom of Information law. ly opposing Russia's foreign pol-
Although this new Federal Pub-' icy,
c. Records statute doesn't be Other documents still under
,no' effective until July 4, 1967, lock and key at the National
,:,c Justice Department is inter- Archives are CIA and L BI rc-
a cling White House instructions ports which, if published, would
for implementing it as a man- reveal investigative techniques
dale to make available to the ! and sources of these agencies,
: nblic nearly all the presently! both in this country and abroad.
-h.ssified documents of the Wax- t For example, one of the more
Commission probe. ' sensational documents reputedly
Gn August 17, 1966, the Office includes the names of several
Attorney General asked the Russian sources That furnished
:.tonal Archives "to apply the, some .startling, but still uncor-
no standards of public acces- i roborated info:-nation about Os-
sith ity to the working papers' Wald all(',, his widow, Marina,
administrative reports" as. during the time they lived in
to other public documents it has the Soviet Union.
r'neeived from the Warren Corn- In' the sharp debate now rag-
..ission, ing in the administration, Under-
nitiateci' by Assistant Attorney Secretary of State Nichotas.DeB.
Ccneral Frank Wozencraft, head Iiatzenbach hs taken the lead
of the departanent's Office of in arguing for publication of all
Legal Counsel, this little-noticed documents on the grounds tha.t
move could clear the way for sooner or later these papers or
ht? publication of hundreds of their contents %\ -ill leak to the
secret FBI, Secret Service, Stale. press. Ile was still attorney gon-
tepartment, and Warren Coin- Brat when his aide called for
r,i,ssion staff papers dealing with disclosure of the still secret
i:o assassination. commission documents.
n most instances these docu- liatzenbach's position is sup-
.::rats already have been care- ported by a number of officials,
fully combed by William Man especially in the Justice Depart-
chesier, the Baltimore writer ment, who are hold-overs from
picked by Mrs. Jacqueline Ken-the Kennedy administration.
nedy to do a family-authorized . They believe publication of these
.,ook on the Dallas tragedy. papers will revive interest in
Manchester, who knows a good. the late President's death and
story when he secs one, predicts indirectly help thug political for-
hr i hus book will cause a major tunes of Senator Robert Kennedy,'
.'cation, Friends of the writer D-N.Y.
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tour tq after the state funeral. fricndly o'.crtu.?es on their part.
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