</s>104-10145-10389 APPROVED FOR RELEASE 1933 HSCA CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM. 78-2915 JFKACT CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Washington, D.C. 20505 (703) 331776 RELEASE 21 August 1978 Herbert E. Hetu Director of Public Affairs MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution Lavon B. Strong FROM : Deputy Director of Public Affairs SUBJECT: Joe Trento Story DOC provided us this draft (by phone) of the article Joe Trento has written entitled, "Mas Howard Hunt in Dallas as the Day JFK Died." It drags out the old "mole" story as well as the one on Hunt." The Director was asked about the story today in Dallas. We will need to consider what response the Agency should make to inquiries. Lavo Lavón B. Strong Distribution: ADDO C/C/I LavON B. STRONG Distribution; OCC Breckenridge,0GC OLC R2309.

Summary: The document discusses a 1966 secret CIA memo alleging that E. Howard Hunt was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The memo, authored by former CIA Director Richard M. Helms and former CI chief James J. Angleton, claims Hunt’s presence in Dallas needed to be concealed due to potential damage to the Agency. Hunt, a Watergate conspirator convicted in 1974, denied being in Dallas that day, asserting he was shopping in Washington D.C. CIA sources suggest his alibi and witnesses were fabricated as part of a cover story. The memo is linked to broader CIA involvement in the assassination, with internal investigations suggesting possible KGB infiltration or mole activity within the Agency. The House Assassination Committee is reviewing the document alongside new evidence indicating four shots were fired at Kennedy’s motorcade, challenging the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone. The text also references a $5 million CIA expenditure on both JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, though no details about MLK’s case are provided beyond this mention.  

Key People: E. Howard Hunt, Richard M. Helms, James J. Angleton, Allan Dulles, Raymond Rocca, Cleveland Cram, Lee Harvey Oswald, Uri Nosenko, Edward J. Epstein.  

Key Locations: Dallas, Mexico City, Washington D.C., Ottawa, Canada, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

Key Events: Kennedy assassination (1963), CIA memo (1966), Watergate scandal (1974), House Assassination Committee hearings, KGB-CIA mole investigation, Warren Commission inquiry, Soviet defector Uri Nosenko’s testimony, CIA internal probe into espionage.  

Key Organizations: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), House Assassination Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, Reader's Digest Press, Cambridge sonics firm.

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