CIA-KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100160004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 18, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Associated Press
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Associated Press.
June 18, 1979, Monday, PM cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 300 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: CIA-Kennedy
BODY:
The CIA has fired one of its security officers after he apparently sorted
through sensitive files of the House Assassinations Committee, an agency
spokesman has confirmed.
Herbert Hetu, the spokesman, said Sunday night that Regis Blahut was
dismissed from his job after he was found to have picked up files on the
committee's investigation of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
?He saw the committee's files and picked them up, which was dumb," Hetu said.
Blahut was assigned to guard CIA documents being used by the committee in its
investigation of Kennedy's death.
After an internal CIA investigation of the incident, Hetu said, "we were
totally convinced" Blahut was not encouraged "from outside or inside the CIA" to
examine the documents.
"That would be the immediate question, but we felt certain it was just a
matter of curiosity and poor judgment," Hetu said. "We dismissed the guy and
that was it."
The Washington Post said today that fingerprint checks on the documents led
to Blahut.
Quoting informed sources, the newspaper said the incident last summer
involved "surreptitious entry of a combination safe at the committee's offices."
The safe held physical evidence of Kennedy's assassination such as the
autopsy photos and the bullet that is said to have wounded both Kennedy and John
Connally, who at the time was the governor of Texas.
The sources told the Post that apparently nothing was taken from the safe.
Blahut could not be reached for comment.
He was quoted by the Post as acknowledging that his fingerprints had been
found on some of the documents but insisting there was an explanation for it.
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The Associated Press, June 18, 1979
He denied any wrongdoing and declined further comment, citing a CIA "oath of
secrecy," the newspaper said.
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