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[2]I104-10422-10057 * | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
[4]30 October 1975
[6]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD ~
[8]SUBJECT: Chief, CI Meeting with Mr. Paul Wallach, Chief
[9]; Counsel of Senate Select Committee on Intel-
[10]ligence
[12]This meeting occurred on Wednesday, 29 October 1975
[13]as a result of concern on the part of Senate Select
[14]Committee officers that the Agency was not forthcoming
[15]with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case,
[16]i.e., the assassination of President Kennedy. The
[17]following points were made by the principals as indicated...
[19]Chief, CI - To open the meeting Mr. Kalaris made it clear
[20]that the Agency is anxious to demonstrate that we have
[21]nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made
[22]available to the Warren Commission. He added that the
[23]procedure for making material available to the Senate
[24]Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources,
[25]methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of
[26]material. He then presented several examples of the
[27]sanitization process in which cables taken directly from
[28]the 201 file were’ edited so that all evidence of source,
[29]method and liaison information was removed.
[31]Chief Counsel - As an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated
[33]that his position was that he considered that the Senate
[34]Committee should have the same access as the Rockefetler
[35]Commission. He added that in his discussions with several
[36]senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that
[38]a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who-
[39]had had access to the original file,had appeared on several
[40]talk shows and was going to write a book based on his
[41]review of Agency holdings on the Oswald case.
[43]Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then pointed out that there were
[44]certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material
[45]which could not be released for use outside of the building.
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[55]He gave two examples of this.?4One was the fact that the
[56]Mexican Government security (liaisof contact on the case
[57]was the €urrent President of Mexico} He said, and Mr.
[58]Wallach adgreed*4this was obviously a matter which had to
[59]be protected. The second case was the Mexican Government )
[60]penetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again Mr. Wallach 24
[61]agreed. .
[63]Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer
[65]might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers
[66]to work with the original file with the exception of those
[67]particularly sensitive items which would either be steri-
[68]lized or summarized. Mr. Kalaris added that to establish
[69]the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for
[71]the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against
[72]the originals by the Senate reviewers.
[74]Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach conferred with his colleagues
[75]and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did
[76]inquire as to approximately how many such items there would
[77]be. He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat
[78]difficult to access but that there should not be more than
[79]100 such items.
[81]Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that it would be
[82]necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree
[83]that these notes not be taken from the building. The
[84]purpose of the notes is simply to allow the reviewers to
[85]keep track of where they have been and what they have seen.
[86]It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be checked
[87]with us.
[89]Chief, CI - At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and
[90]requested approval of the above procedure. Mr. Blee
[91]concurred. :
[93]Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that his people would
[94]tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted
[95]to discuss and we would confer with them on those points.
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[102]Comment
[104]- Mr. Wallach mentioned that Mr. Proctor (DDI) is a
[105]family friend and he wanted to make contact by phone.
[107]At the end of the day the reviewers returned the
[108]three files of other agency documents and offered their
[109]notes for review. It was agreed they would return on
[110]Monday to start reviewing files and that we would have
[111]at least 15 volumes ready for them. Mr. Wallach was to
[112]call on Friday to confirm our readiness.
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[116]Robert G. Wali
[117]Deputy. Chief, CI/0G
[119]cc: Chief, CI
[120]ADDO
[121]SA/DDO
[122]Review Staff - Walt Elder