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9-1~~ CONGRESS SESATE REPORT2d Session No. w-755

THE INVESTIGATION OF THEASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F, KENNEDY: PERFORMANCEOF THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

BOOKVFINAL R.EPORT

OF TIIESELECT COMMITTEE

TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONSWITII RESPECT TO

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIESUNITED STATES SENATE

APRIL 23 (under authority of the order of APRIL 14), 1976

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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONSWITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

FRANK CHURCH, Idaho, ChairmanJOHN 0. TOWER, Texas, Vice Chairman

PHILIP A. HART. Michigan HOWARD II. BAKER, JR., TennesseeWALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota BARRY GOLDWATER, ArizonaWALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., MarylandROBERT MORGAN, North Carolina RICHARD SCHWEIKER. PennsylvaniaGARY HART, Colorado

WILLIAM 0. MILLER, Sfafl DirecforFREDERICR A. 0. Scawa~z, Jr., Chief CounselCWRTIS R. SMOTHERS, Counsel lo the Minorify

AUDREY HATRY, Clerk oj the Commil~tem)

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTALOn behalf of the Senate Select Committee to Study GovernnlentalOperations with Respect to Intelligence Activities? and pursuant tothe mandate of Senate Resolut,ion 21, I am transmit,ting herewitlh tothe Senate the volume of the Committees Final Report entitled, TheInvestigation of the Assassination of President *John F. Kennedy :Perforniancc of the Intelligence Agencies.I want to express the deep appreciation of the Committee to SenatorRichard S. Schweiker and Senator Gary Hart for their excellent workon t,his phase of the Select Committees invest,igation.FRASK Crxrmc71,Chairmm~.

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KOTEOn May 26, 1976, the Select Committee voted to release the sectionof its final Report ent,itled. The Investigation of the A4ssassinationof President ,John F. Remedy : Performance of the Intelligeuce,4gencies.? Seuators Church, Raker, Philip Hart, Mondale, Huddle-ston, Morgan. Gary Hart, Mathias, and Schweiker voted to releasethis Report. Senators Tower, and Goldwater voted against the releaseof this report.This Report has been reviewed and declassified by the appropriateexecutive agencies. hfter the Committees original draft of this reportwas completed. copies of it were made available to the executiveagencies. These agencies subniitted comments to the Conuhittee onsecurity and fact.ual aspects of the draft report. On the basis of theseconments. the Coniniittee and staff conferred with representatives ofthe agencies to determine which sections of the Report should be re-drafted to protect sensitive intelligeucc sources and methods. Thesesections of the original draft were then revised to irflect the a.genciesconceits while retaining the original thrust of the Report.Sanies of individuals were deleted when, in the Committees judge-

nlent. disclosure of their identities would either endanger their safetyor constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy: Consequently, foot-note Gtations to test,iniony and documents occasionally contain onlytlescriptions of an iudiriduals position.(IV)

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CONTENTSPage

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 INVESTIGA-TION : CUBA AND THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES----------

111. THE USITED STATES GOVER?JME??I RESPONSE TO THEASSASSISATION : NOVEMBER 22, 1963 TO JASUARY 1, 1964--

A. The CIA Response---------------------------------------B. The FBI Response__-__-__--------------------------------

IV. THE ISTELLIGENCE SGESCIES AND THE WARREN CONJIIS-SIOR : JASUARY TO SEPTEMBER 196k---------------m-T----

A. The Relationship between the FBI and the Warren Commis-sion ___-_______--_____--------------------------------

B. The Relationship between the CIA and the Warren Commis-sion ___________--___-___------------------------------

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 Assassination-

APPENDIX 9 : The FBI and the Oswald Security Case---- ____ - __-_-___APPENDIX B : The FBI and the Destruction of the Oswald Note-------..APPENDIX C: Ohranology__-----------------------------------------

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