</s>104-1046-1022 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 RELEASE AS SANITIZED 1998 INTERNAL USE ONLY Journal - Office of Legislative Council Thursday - 2 March 1978 Page 8 30. (Secret) - PLC) LIAISON Elliott Brown, staff of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, called to alert me to the article by Jack Anderson on illicit drug trafficking in Ecuador in today's Washington Post. He said the article may focus broad congressional attention to the problem Brown will get back to me to arrange the meeting with Chairman Lester Wolf (D ., N. Y ., ) and requested the Agency's field report on the subject which Chairman Wolf (W.Y.) to request earlier. 31. (Secrets) - PLC) LIAison Bill Ashbaugh, OGC, called seeking guidance to respond to a call received from an investigator with the Office of Security operating under DOD credentials. The individual entered on duty with the Agency in October 1974 and had been a police officer with the Memphis City Police Department, during which time he was an eye-witness to the Dr. Martin Luther King assassination, a staff member of the Home Select City Councilmember, who had been appointed as a member of The House Select was to interview him in the Committee offices within the hour. I told Ashbaugh that Gary Cornell, Deputy Staff Chief of the Committee, was my office and I would discuss the matter that the Call and call him back. I explained to Cornwall that the individual is actually an Agency employee and came on the board in 1974. Cornwell agreed that the interviewer need not be aware of the respond fully to the questions asked by the staff, but to stay strictly within his Defense cover. Cornwall fully agreed and said no to stay away will be made in the Committee files on his present CIA connection. Ashbaugh was notified and I requested that he instruct the individual to maintain his cover during the interview. 32. (Unclassified - PCL) LIAION Peter Regis, House Judiciary Committee staff, called and asked that a meeting with a rearranged sometime next week for him to go over the notes he made from his review of CIA documents on alleged Nazi war criminals residing in the U.S. which we have been holding due to their classification. He will call me to set up a definite time. 33. (UNCLASSIFIED - GMC) LAISON Took a call from Beverly Lumpkin, staff of theHouse International Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations, regarding the sending of a courier to pick up a narrative summary of material which the Subcommittee would like to have reviewed for public release under procedures established in the Memorandum of Understanding. A courier was arranged and picked up the summary. # 31. C 06 2/1356

Summary:  
The document contains entries from March 2, 1978, detailing communications between agency staff and congressional committees. Entry 31 discusses an individual who was a Memphis City Police Department officer during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in 1968. This person, now employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was to be interviewed by Gary Cornell, Deputy Staff Chief of the House Select Committee on Assassination, under strict confidentiality protocols. The interview was arranged with instructions for the individual to maintain a Defense cover and avoid disclosing their CIA affiliation. The committee agreed not to document the person's CIA connection in its files. Other entries reference unrelated matters such as drug trafficking in Ecuador, Nazi war criminals in the U.S., and logistical arrangements for document reviews by congressional subcommittees.  

Key People:  
- Gary Cornell (Deputy Staff Chief of the House Select Committee on Assassination)  
- [Individual involved in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination; SSN REDACTED]  
- Elliott Brown (House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control staff)  
- Bill Ashbaugh (OGC, Office of General Counsel)  
- Beverly Lumpkin (House International Relations Subcommittee staff)  

Key Locations:  
- Memphis City Police Department (involved in MLK assassination investigation)  
- Washington D.C. (congressional committees and agencies)  

Key Events:  
- Arrangement for interview of a Memphis police officer involved in the 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination case  
- Coordination between CIA and congressional committees on classified matters  
- Logistical steps for document review by subcommittees under Memorandum of Understanding procedures  

Key Organizations:  
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  
- House Select Committee on Assassination  
- House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control  
- House Judiciary Committee  
- House International Relations Subcommittee

MLK Declassified Files

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