HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN REPRODUCING PHOTOGRAPHS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200150051-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: May 22, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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22 May 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Request for
Assistance in Reproducing Photographs
1. O/DDA, phoned Acting Deputy Legislative
Counsel, to report that Deputy Chief of the Photographic and
Printing Division, had a request from a Lance Svendsen, of the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, for enlargements of twenty photographs, nature
undescribed except that they are considered "sensitive." The request had not
come through OLC.
2. After some telephoning (G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and
Staff Director, HSCA, and Svendsen after he arrived at P&PD, with advice of
of OGC) the following was ascertained: the Office of Security
man working at HSCA undertook to make the arrangements, explaining how it
got out of channels; the photographs consisted of twenty 35-mm slides of the
autopsy of Martin Luther King; the slides had been made available by a
county medical officer, with no conditions attached (therefore no copyright
question, and no other federal government agency with a possible propriety
interest); one copy only of each was desired, enlarged for use by a medical
panel being convened by the HSCA; the HSCA considered it a reimbursable
activity, to be charged to the Committee.
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3. 1 phoned and stated that OGC saw no problems in the
Agency providing this service. asked that his work order show the following:
that q representative of the HSCA was to be present during the entire procedure;
thacopy only be made of each slide; that the Agency was to keep no copies of any
of the material, all being removed by the HSCA representative; that the cost of
the work was to be reimbursable by HSCA. His work order will record
me as authorizing the work.
S. D. BRECKINRIDGE
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