9-1~~ CONGRESS 2d Session

SESATE

No.

REPORT w-755

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSASSINATIONOF PRESIDENT JOHN F, KENNEDY: PERFORMANCE OF THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
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FINAL R.EPORT
OF TIIE

TO

STUDY

SELECT COMMITTEE GOVERNMENTAL

WITII RESPECT TO

OPERATIONS

INTELLIGENCE

ACTIVITIES

UNITED

STATES

SENATE

APRIL 23 (under

authority

of the order

of APRIL 14),

1976

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SENATE

SELECT WITH

COMMITTEE RESPECT

TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

OPERATIONS

FRANK CHURCH, Idaho, Chairman JOHN 0. TOWER, Texas, Vice Chairman PHILIP A. HART. Michigan HOWARD II. BAKER, JR., Tennessee WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky ROBERT MORGAN, North Carolina RICHARD SCHWEIKER. Pennsylvania GARY HART, Colorado WILLIAM 0. MILLER, Sfafl Direcfor FREDERICR A. 0. Scawa~z, Jr., Chief Counsel CWRTIS R. SMOTHERS, Counsel lo the Minorify AUDREY HATRY, Clerk oj the Commil~te m)

LETTER

OF TRANSMITTAL

On behalf of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governnlental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities? and pursuant to the mandate of Senate Resolut,ion 21, I am transmit,ting herewitlh to the Senate the volume of the Committees Final Report entitled, The Investigation of the Assassination of President *John F. Kennedy : Perforniancc of the Intelligence Agencies. I want to express the deep appreciation of the Committee to Senator Richard S. Schweiker and Senator Gary Hart for their excellent work on t,his phase of the Select Committees invest,igation. FRASK Crxrmc71, Chairmm~.
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KOTE On May 26, 1976, the Select Committee voted to release the section of its final Report ent,itled. The Investigation of the A4ssassination of President ,John F. Remedy : Performance of the Intelligeuce ,4gencies.? Seuators Church, Raker, Philip Hart, Mondale, Huddleston, Morgan. Gary Hart, Mathias, and Schweiker voted to release this Report. Senators Tower, and Goldwater voted against the release of this report. This Report has been reviewed and declassified by the appropriate executive agencies. hfter the Committees original draft of this report was completed. copies of it were made available to the executive agencies. These agencies subniitted comments to the Conuhittee on security and fact.ual aspects of the draft report. On the basis of these conments. the Coniniittee and staff conferred with representatives of the agencies to determine which sections of the Report should be redrafted to protect sensitive intelligeucc sources and methods. These sections of the original draft were then revised to irflect the a.gencies conceits while retaining the original thrust of the Report. Sanies of individuals were deleted when, in the Committees judgenlent. disclosure of their identities would either endanger their safety or constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy: Consequently, footnote Gtations to test,iniony and documents occasionally contain only tlescriptions of an iudiriduals position.
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CONTENTS
Lett.er of Transmittal------________ -__-_______ -__-----------------I. SUMMARY AND FINDINGS--------________ ------_-----------A. The Scope of the Committees Investigation----_---________ B. Summary --_________----------------~~~-~-------~~~-~~~~~ C. Findings ________________--______________________--------II. BACKGROUND FOR THE WARREN COMMIBSION INVESTIGATION : CUBA AND THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES---------111. THE USITED STATES GOVER?JME??I RESPONSE TO THE ASSASSISATION : NOVEMBER 22, 1963 TO JASUARY 1, 1964-A. The CIA Response--------------------------------------B. The FBI Response__-__-__-------------------------------IV. THE ISTELLIGENCE SGESCIES AND THE WARREN CONJIISSIOR : JASUARY TO SEPTEMBER 196k---------------m-T---A. The Relationship between the FBI and the Warren Commission ___-_______--_____-------------------------------B. The Relationship between the CIA and the Warren Commission ___________--___-___-----------------------------C. Unpursued Leads---------------..------------------------D. Knowledge of Plots to Assassinate Castro-----------------V. DEVELOIJIEXTS AFTER THE WARRES COM\IMI~SSION~-------A. 1965 : Termination of the AJILASH Operation-------------B. 1267 : Allegations of Cuban Involvement in the AssassinationAPPENDIX 9 : The FBI and the Oswald Security Case---____ - __-_-___ APPENDIX B : The FBI and the Destruction of the Oswald Note-------.. APPENDIX C: Ohranology__----------------------------------------Page iii 1

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