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[35]29 November 1978
[37]Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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[45]Talking Paper for Briefing Chairman Stokes,
[46]HSCA, on KITTY HAWK
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[101]MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
[103]VIA -: Deputy Director for Operations
[104]. . Acting Chief, Soviet/East European Division
[105]FROM : Donald F. Vogel
[107]SUBJECT : Talking Paper for Briefing Chairman Stokes, o
[109]HSCA, on KITTY HAWK
[111]1. The Chief Counsel of the House Select. Committee on -
[112]Assassination, Mr. G. Robert Blakey, has requested access to
[113]"all reports and documents referring to an operation code
[114]named KITTY HAWK," which Mr. Blakey describes as "a project
[115]concerning the debriefing of a Soviet defector and a KGB
[116]analysis of the Kennedy assassination." You propose to
[117]provide Chairman Stokes an oral response to this request.
[119]2. Chairman Stokes may be informed that ee HAWK"
[120]is not a defector /but. is a very sensiti
[122]@ alive and well. There has been some mention of KITTY HAWK
[123]in the press in connection with the current investigation of
[124]the fate of Nicholas SHADRIN, an FBI-CIA double agent who
[125]disappeared in 1975 while in Vienna for a meeting with the
[126]KGB. In spite of the unfortunate publicity, however, KITTY
[127]HAWK has apparently been able to survive KGB scrutiny thus
[128]far, and we continue to abide by the Director's statutory
[129]obligation to protect his identity.
[131]3. We have reviewed our holdings on KITTY HAWK and have
[132]found no reference to any "KGB analysis of the Kennedy
[133]assasSination" or any other information pertinent to the
[134]Committee's interest. Discussion of the assassination of
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[144]President Kennedy took up only a small portion of the time
[145]spent in debriefing KITTY HAWK. You may wish to inform
[146]_Chairman Stokes that in 1966 KITTY HAWK volunteered his
[147]impression that Kennedy's assassination "was planned and
[148]carried out by VIP's, possibly due to Kennedy's opposition
[150]to Texas oil interests."" He added that he believed that the
[151]KGB was embarking on a "disinformation" campaign to have
[153]the assassination blamed on President Johnson, but he had no
[154]specific details of this campaign. KITTY HAWK also said that
[155]he was "personally well acquainted" with Lee Harvey Oswald's —
[156]background because he had helped prepare the file on Oswald
[157]which was turned over to the United States Government by
[159]the Soviet Government. KITTY HAWK was not questioned further
[160]on this point, and there is no further reference in the ~ .
[161]KITTY HAWK file to any KGB or Soviet Government activity with
[162]respect to the assassination.
[164]. 4, Although strictly speaking it is not relevant to this
[165]inquiry, you should be aware of the fact that KITTY HAWK supported
[166]Nosenko's bona fides by reporting that Nosenko had done the
[168]KGB considerable damage (more than Golitsyn) and that the KGB
[169]was looking for Nosenko and intended to kill him if they found ©
[170]him. This is pertinent because those who hold to the theory
[171]that Nosenko was a plant tend also to subscribe to the belief
[172]that any KGB source or defector who supported Nosenko's bona
[173]fides was also KGB-controlled. Introduction of KITTY HAWK
[175]into the assassination controversy can only serve the purpose
[176]of obfuscation.
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