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[6]30 October 1975
[8]MEMORANDUM FOR ‘THE RECORD
[10]SUBJECT: Chief, toi Meeting with Mr. Paul Wallach, Chief
[11]oe ; Counsel of Senate Select’ Committee on Intel-_
[12]ligence
[14]This meeting occurred on “Wednesday, 29 October. 1975
[15]as a result of concern on the.part of Senate Select _
[16]Committee officers that the Agency:was not forthcoming
[17]with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case,
[18]i.e., ‘the assassination of President. Kennedy. The
[19]following points ' were made by ‘the principals as indicated.
[21]‘Chief, CI - ‘To ‘open ‘the: meeting ‘Mr. ‘Kalaris made it.clear
[22]that the Agency is anxious: to demonstrate that we have
[23]nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made
[24]available to the Warren Commission. He added that the
[25]procedure for making material available to the Senate
[26]Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources,
[28]methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of
[30]bo material. He then presented several examples of the
[31]sanitization process in-which cables. taken directly from
[32]the 201 file were edited so that all evidence of: source,
[34]. method and liaison information was removed.
[36]Chief Counsel.- As an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated
[37]that his position was that he considered that the Senate
[38]Committee should have the same access as the Rockefeller
[39]Commission. He added that in his discussions with several
[40]senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that
[41]a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who
[42]had had access to the original file,had appeared on several
[43]talk shows and was going to write a book based on his”
[44]review of Agency holdings on the’ Oswald case.
[46]Chief, cI - Mr. Kalaris then pointed out “that there were
[47]certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material
[48]which could not be released for use outside of the building.
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[58]He gave two examples. of this. One was the fact that the:
[59]Mexican Government security liaisoni contact on the case. - |
[60]was the (current_President of Mexico. He said, and Mr.
[61]Wallach agreed, this was obviously a matter which had to.
[63]be. protected. The second case was the \Mexican Government
[65]: pénetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again Mr. Wallach ’
[67]agreed.
[69]Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer ae
[70]might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers
[72]. to work with ‘the. original file with thé exception of those
[74]particularly sensitive items which ‘would either be steri-
[75]lized or summarized. Mr. Kalaris added that to-establish
[76]the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for
[78]the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against
[79]the originals by the Senate reviewers.
[81]Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach - conferred with his colleagues
[82]and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did
[83]inquire as to approximately how many such items there would
[84]be. He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat
[85]difficult to access but that there should not be more than
[86]100 such items.
[88]‘Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that it would be
[90]necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree
[91]that. these notes not be taken from the building. The.
[92]purpose of the notes is.simply to allow the reviewers. to
[93]keep track of where they have been and what they have seen. —
[94]It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be ‘checked
[95]with us.
[97]Chief, cI - At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and
[99]‘ requested approval of the above procedure. Mr. Blee
[101]concurred.
[103]Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that his people would
[104]tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted
[105]to discuss and we would confer with them on those points.
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[110]_ three files. of other agency docum
[111]‘notes for review.” It:
[113]Comment
[115]Mr. Wallach nentioned: ‘that. Mre » Proctor: (DDI) is a
[116]family. friend and he wanted to. make. contact | by Phone.
[118]At. the ‘end. of. ‘the. day" the Yevi
[120]as agreed: the
[121]Monday to start reviewing files. and .that‘we- would have.
[122]at least 15. volumes. ready. for them," “Mrv Wallach was to”
[123]call on Friday to confirm our teadiness.
[125]Robert (. Wali
[126]Deputy: Chief, CI/OG
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[131]‘Review Staff - Walt: Elder-