</s>104-10147-10088 CONFIDENTIAL. CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAML C 77-0977 IND RELEASE IN FULL TRAFF ICANTE 1999 15 March 1977 HSCA 1999 HSCa MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence 77-0028 FROM: George L. Cary, Legislative Counsel FROM : George L ., Cary, Richard Sprague, Counsel SUBJECT: Request from Richard Sprage, Counsel to the House Select Committee on Assessations, Por Information Concerning Santos Trafficante 1. At about noon yesterday, Richard Spague called me to say that the Assassinations Committee has subsequent Santos Trafficantie and that (Sprague) would like any information we can provide the Committee regarding Trafficantique, including his relationships with Committee members, including members of the San Antonio Police Department, and Joint Committee regarding Trafficants, including their relationships with his relationships with Cuban and Cuban with plots against Castro. I told Sprague I would look into the matter and be back and in touch with him. 2. After checking with interested offices in the Agency and with the FBI and the Department of Justice, as well as touching base with Hahn Knoche and Commander McMahon, I told Sprague last which we might have within the Parameter of this request was which we may have signed with the Commissioner of the Committee staff has requested was classified that since none of the Committe staff have security clearances that have signed secrecy agreements as originally and that since not one of these agreements is as originally classifieds, that since no one of the Commissioner staff has as such as However, he cited a previous instance in which Hank Knoche, as Acting Director, made a specific exception to normal security purchased by the Department's Department of the Agency concerning telephone basis to a summary prepared by the Agency agency concerning telephone Intercepts to a conversation in Mexico City between Lee Harvey On behalf of Congress in Mexico to correct erroneous information This step was taken in Embassy to September/October 1973. contained in an article by Norman Kemper, performing to these intercepts. JFKACT 2/1/22 10/19/991 RELEASE CONFIBENTIAL 2. IMPORT EL BY S.C.G.A.S.Gaud

Summary: The document is a memorandum from George L. Cary, Legislative Counsel, to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) regarding a request by Richard Sprague, counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), for information about Santos Trafficante. Sprague sought details on Trafficante’s relationships with HSCA members, the San Antonio Police Department, and Cuban entities, including alleged plots against Fidel Castro. The CIA informed Sprague that no classified information could be shared due to lack of security clearances among HSCA staff, though a prior exception was made for telephone intercepts related to Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in Mexico City (September/October 1973). The memorandum also notes the HSCA’s interest in unclassified materials from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, including documents related to JFK and MLK investigations. The CIA proposed providing unclassified information while restricting access to classified data until appropriate clearances were obtained.  

Key People: George L. Cary, Richard Sprague, Santos Trafficante, Lee Harvey Oswald, Hank Knoche, Bernard Fensterwald, Andrew Falklewicz  
Key Locations: Mexico City, San Antonio, Washington D.C.  
Key Events: Request for information on Santos Trafficante’s ties to Cuban entities and assassination plots; prior exception for sharing telephone intercepts related to JFK investigation; HSCA’s FOIA requests for unclassified materials; mention of MLK investigation as part of broader congressional inquiries.  
Key Organizations: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Armed Forces Subcommittee).

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