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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
CONREELITAL
30 October 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT : Chief, CI Meeting with Mr Paul Wallach Chief
Counsel of Senate Select Committee on Intel-
ligence
This meeting occurred on
Wednesday 29 October 1975
as a result of concern on the part of Senate Select
Committee officers that the Agency was not forthcoming
with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case ,
i.e the assassination of President Kennedy The
foiiowing points
were made by the principals as indicated.
Chief, CI To open the mee ting Mr _ Kalaris made it clear
that the Agency is anxious to demonstrate that we have
nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made
available to the Warren Commission He added that the
procedure for making material available to the_ Senate
Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources ,
methods and liaison_ which were delaying the turnover of
material. He then presented several examples of the
sanitization process in which cables taken directly from
the 201 file were edited 50 that a11 ~evidence of source,
method and liaison information was removed .
Chief Counsel As an opening reply Mr _ Wallach stated
that his position was that he considered that the Senate
Committee should have the same access as the Rockefeller
Commission He added that in his discussions with several
senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that
a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who
had had access to the original file,had appeared on several
talk shows and was going to write a book based on his
review of Agency,holdings on the Oswald case
Chief CI Mr _ Kalaris then pointed out that there were
certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material
which could not be released for use outside of the building.
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He gave two examples of this was the fact that the
Mexican Government security (1iaiso contact on the case
was the kurrent President of .Mexico} He said and Mr _
Wallach agreed;-this was obviously a matter which had to
be protected. The second case was the Mexican Government)
penetration of the Cub an Embassy . Again Mr _ Wallach 24
agreed_
Chief , CI Mr _ Kalaris then suggested that the answer
might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers
to work with the original file with the exception of those
particularly sensitive items which would either be steri-
lized or summarized_ Mr _ Kalaris added that to establish
the sensitivity of these items he would be Willing for
the sterilizations_ summarizations to be spot checked against
the originals by the Senate reviewers
Chief Counsel Mr _ Wallach conferred with his colleagues
and then agreed that this would be acceptable _ He did
inquire as to approximately how many such items there would
be He was informed by Mr: _ Kalaris that it was somewhat
difficult to access but that there should not be more than
100 such items
Chief Counsel Mr _ Wallach commented that it would be
necessary for his people to take notes but he would agree
that these notes not be taken from the building- The
purpose of the notes is simply to allow the reviewers to
keep track of where they have been and what they have seen_
It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be checked
with us
Chief, CI At this point Mr _ Kalaris called Mr . Blee and
requested approval of the above procedure _ Mr . Blee
concurred.
Chief Counsel Mr _ Wallach commented that his people would
tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted
to discuss and we would confer with them on those points_
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Comment
Mr Wallach mentioned that Mr _ Proctor (DDI) is a
family friend and he wanted to make contact by phone _
At the end of the the reviewers returned the
three files of other agency documents and offered their
notes for review _ It was agreed they_would return on
Monday to start reviewing files and that we would have
at least 15 volumes ready for them _ Mr _ Wallach was to
call on
Friday to confirm our readiness
Robert G Wall
Deputy Chief, CI/oG
CC : Chief , CI
ADDO
SA/ DDO
Review Staff Walt Elder
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