</s>104-10322-10106 The Director Central Intelligence Agency Executive Registry 7837894 27/07/18 Washington, D.C. 20505 01C # 78-32/8/4 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 1999 JFK ACT JFK ACI 1999 8 NOV 1978 05-0-99 RELEASE Honorable Louis Stokes, Chairman Select Committee on Assassinations House of Representatives Washington, DC. 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: This will acknowledge with appreciation your invitation to appear before your Committee on either 11 or 12 December. It is planned that either Mr. Carlucci or I will represent the Agency. It would be my intention that whichever of us appears would be by my subjects that you suggest, and possibly other topics as well. Yours sincerely, 1/s/Stanfield Turner STANFIELD TURNER EXECUTIVE REGISTRY OLC/SDBreckinridge.hfs (2 November 1978) FILE # Spee INFER Distribution: 1 - DCT 1 - DDCI 1 - ER 1 - OLC/Subject 1 - OLC/Chrono

Summary  
The document details correspondence between the Select Committee on Assassinations (SCA) and Admiral Stanfield Turner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It outlines plans for public hearings related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., scheduled to conclude by December 1978. The SCA intends to focus on legislative recommendations to prevent future assassinations or improve responses, rather than revisiting past investigations. The committee invites Turner and other experts to participate in discussions on December 11 or 12, emphasizing forward-looking strategies over historical analysis.  

Key People  
- Louis Stokes: Chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations  
- Admiral Stanfield Turner: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency  
- Richard Richardson Pyson: Executive Registry contact  
- Robert W. Ford: Member of the Select Committee on Assassinations  
- Judge Webster, Mr. Knight, Judge Bell: Invited participants for legislative discussions  

Key Locations  
- Washington, D.C. (House Office Building, Annex-2)  
- Ohio (Lookes Stones, Ohio)  
- California (C.U., Calif.)  
- Pittsburgh, Indiana  

Key Events  
- Public hearings on JFK and MLK assassinations concluded by November 1978  
- Scheduled legislative discussions on December 11 or 12, 1978, focusing on prevention and response to future assassinations  
- Invitation for Admiral Turner and other experts to contribute insights on policy improvements  

Key Organizations  
- Select Committee on Assassinations (SCA)  
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  
- Executive Registry (OLC/SDBreckinridge.hfs)  
- House of Representatives (Committee on Assassinations)

MLK Declassified Files

00344514_letterthis_will_acknowled_104-10322-10106.pdf

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