CIA/FBI BRIEFING OF THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: May 17, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Soviet/East European Division
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SUBJECT CIA/FBI Briefing of the House Select
Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
1. On 16 May 1978 Chief, SEof
CIA, and Messrs. Jim Adams an im 195 -Lan of FBI Headquarters
briefed HSCA Chairman Representative Louis Stokes,
Representative Samuel Divine, the ranking Republican of
HSCA, and Robert Blakey, Chief of the Staff of HSCA.
Also present was Mr.. Drew Clark.of FB.I Headquarters. This
briefing was the:third and last of three planned briefings
aimed at limiting the proliferation of information which
might be damaging to the security of ongoing FBI and CIA
operations. (The first two briefings were of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Oversight
Committee on Intelligence and have been reported on
previously.) It had been agreed by the FBI and CIA,
particularly in view of the, interest aroused by Epstein's
book "The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald" and questions
that these
briefings were in order. By briefing selected members of the
2. In the course of our 75 minute briefing session the
following points were made by CIA and FBI briefers:
a. Botha encies are firmly committed to the
view that
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ship had existed. Blakey hypothesized further that
this was done because the Soviets were deeply concerned
with the possibility of nuclear war resulting from
the Kennedy assassination.
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Stokes, however, supported Blakey's position. The
compromise that evolved was that Blakey will review
the material aped, if he then still feels that others
on his staff should be made privy to this information,
the matter will be negotiated further.. (My view is
that the Bureau will probably end up having to accede
.to Blakey's demands.)
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but o- 1n
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that eventually there will not be a- leak nro\
I am not suggesting that the course of action we pursue
will succeed or that proliferation will not take place or
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perhaps other sources would have proliferated .uncontro a y..
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I believe knowledge
had not given them
three Congressional committees were useful. If;we_;:...
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toj,getvtogether at CIA Headquarters at 0900 on 19 May.
General Comments: I believe that our briefings
try was ;.worthwhile.. Time wi tell
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