</s>APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14178 -ADMINISTRATIVE-INTERNAL USE-ONLY- From the Desk of Robert D. Caudle. C/Litigation Division NOTE FOR: Robert M. McNamara@DCI John A. Rizzo@DCi FROM: Robert D. Caude DATE: D/L/C/OGC D/LG/D/D decision on this matter. Perhaps a brief session with the DCI for his decision, SUBJECT: 2/2/19/19 administrative immunity issue M/L /L/G/D:50:04 PM with our explanation to take a negative response (which I believe the appropriate response) could result in a call from the AG and put the DCi in the middle of this issue. I am also reluctant to propose some compromise position to DOJ without DCI blessing. One compromise position could be would agree to administrative inquiry for any acts arising out of the employee's activities as under undercover officer in Memphis in 1968 except to the extent that he may make admissions as complicated in the police officer of Dr. Martin Luther King or in a conspiracy to assassinate or to cover up or provide employee or incomplete information about the assassination. This position would permit the employee to make admissions about other activity in 1968 unrelated to the King assassination fear without an administrative response from CIA. It made admissions about the association, to admits to false or incomplete statements made at any time, we could take action as appropriation. DOJ is unlikely to accept this compromise position - it doesn't get them anywhere if their goal is to offer blanket immunity. CC: Guryon C. Watts@ DCI Sent on 19 February 1999 at 01:50-04 PM ADMINICTRATIVE-INFERNAL USE ONLY-

Summary: This document is an internal administrative communication dated 19 February 1999 regarding a discussion on granting immunity to an employee for actions related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination investigation in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. The sender, Robert D. Caudle, outlines considerations for administrative immunity, noting that the CIA would permit admissions about activities unrelated to the assassination but not those involving conspiracy, cover-ups, or incomplete information regarding the event. A proposed compromise position is discussed, which would allow limited administrative inquiry into non-assassination-related activities while excluding matters connected to Dr. King's assassination. The sender expresses reluctance to propose a compromise without DCI approval and notes that DOJ is unlikely to accept this approach as it does not provide blanket immunity.  

Key People: Robert D. Caudle, Robert M. McNamara, John A. Rizzo, Guryon C. Watts  
Key Locations: Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. (DCI/DOJ)  
Key Events: Internal discussion on administrative immunity for CIA employee actions related to MLK assassination investigation in 1968; proposed compromise position excluding admissions about assassination-related activities; DOJ's potential rejection of compromise terms  
Key Organizations: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Justice (DOJ), Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCI)

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