</s>104-10068-10056 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM 10 January 1977 RELEASE IN FULL 1997 mug 8-4-97 MEMORANDUM FOR: MEMORDUM FOR : Chief, Counterintelligence Staff FROM Russell B. Holmes CT Operations Group SUBJECT Article by Norman Kempster Appearing in The Los Angeles Times of 1 January 1977 and Los Angeles Unified Data on Oswald." (Copy Attached.) 1. The undersigned embargo at the continual irresponsibility of the American press in its reporting on ice Harvey Oswald and the Agency's handling of the case. It is particularly galling when the Chief Counsel, Richard A. is particularly calling when the Office on Assassinations, re- leases to the press statements which the agency has not been determined to the Agency and which the Agency has not seen given the opportunity to refute. 2. It is evident from such releases that the Agency is once again to be laid laid open to public scrutiny by the hostile press again to the committee by an unsympathetic Congressional Committed and other betted by an unsypathetic Congressional charged will and tried and sentenced without being allowed the basic rights of our defendant before a court of law, al- thought and rejected out presented by the Agency in its own defense would be rejected by the agency in this own defense 3. The inference of Sprague's public statements (as cited by Kempster in the attack article) pertaining to the Agency's alleged mishandling of the Oswald case is that the Agency was dishonesty that it deliberately withheld pertinent Agency has dishonot that the federal Bureau of Investigation and the Warren Commission. The Federal Bureau of investigation and the investigation does not include with the impression he left. with the Agency representatives during his first visit here with 24 years ago. (that he will not prejudice or emphasis added) the Agency for any sins not prior to commission or commission." Memorandum dated 29 November 1970 from 0/3/4/97 from 0%A/0/0/.01." E2 IMPDET CL BY 008885 JFK 3/14/97 E2 IMPDET RELEAS GO047

Summary: The document details a CIA memorandum from November 29, 1970, addressing criticisms of the Agency's handling of Lee Harvey Oswald's activities related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It references Norman Kempster's article in *The Los Angeles Times* (January 1, 1977), which alleged the CIA withheld information about Oswald's contacts with Soviet and Cuban officials. The memorandum critiques the Agency's communication practices, noting that information about Oswald's October 1963 interactions with the Soviet Embassy was initially omitted from reports sent to federal agencies. It also discusses the Select Committee on Assassination's investigation into Kennedy's murder and its potential expansion to include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., though no direct details about MLK's assassination are provided. The text highlights discrepancies in information dissemination, including a delay in sharing Oswald's visa applications and his visits to embassies in Mexico City. It further references the FBI's response to the Warren Commission and the CIA's internal procedures for handling intelligence reports.  

Key People: Russell B. Holmes (CIA official), Richard A. Sprague (Chief Counsel of the Select Committee on Assassination), Norman Kempster (journalist), Lee Harvey Oswald, David Phillips (former CIA agent), Marina Nikolaevna Pesakova (Oswald's wife).  

Key Locations: Mexico City, Washington D.C., New Orleans, Dallas.  

Key Events: Oswald's contacts with Soviet and Cuban embassies in 1963, the Select Committee on Assassination's investigation into Kennedy's murder, discrepancies in CIA information sharing, FBI-Warren Commission interactions, and allegations of CIA withholding data about Oswald's activities.  

Key Organizations: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Select Committee on Assassination, Warren Commission.

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