From: Steven D. Tilly
JFK Liaison
Textual Reference Division
NARA
April 17, 1995
Charles Battaglia
Staff Director
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
211 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Battaglia:
It has come to my attention that certain transcripts of testimony given before the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities may not be among the records transferred to the National Archives for inclusion in the JFK Collection. I discussed this matter with Ms. Judy Hodgson on April 13, and she suggested that I inform you in writing about this matter.
Early last week, I received a phone call from a researcher who has spent considerable time reviewing the Church Committee records. The researcher informed me that he had been reviewing again Book V of the Committee’s final report which is entitled “The Investigation Of The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of Intelligence Agencies.” The researcher directed me to page 42 of the report where testimony by the “FBI supervisor,” datedApril 8, 1976 , was referenced in
footnote 113. The researcher stated that he did not remember seeing this
transcript during his research and asked if I could locate it.
Due to the intense interest in the Church Committee records, I had a member of my staff create a folder title list for the records so we would have a finding aid for the records. A finding aid was needed since we have not received the data disk for these records. I instructed the individual making the list to be as precise as possible in describing each folder and to specifically list each transcript of testimony by name of witness and date. I am enclosing a copy of this list for your information.
In response to the researcher’s inquiry, I learned that the testimony of the “FBI supervisor” was not among the records in our custody. I began to read other footnotes in the report and realized that other transcripts of testimony were referenced that I had not seen on our list. I decided to review every footnote in the report and compiled of (sic a) list of transcripts of testimony, summaries of interviews, and affidavits described in the footnotes that are not among our holdings. I have also enclosed a copy of this list for your use. I call your attention to the fact that most of these transcripts are dated in 1976. A review of our folder title list shows that most of the transcripts in the records in our custody are dated in 1975. It goes without saying that the individuals who gave this testimony, whether identified by name or title, are very significant persons in the history of the assassination.
JFK Liaison
Textual Reference Division
April 17, 1995
Charles Battaglia
Staff Director
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
211 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Battaglia:
It has come to my attention that certain transcripts of testimony given before the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities may not be among the records transferred to the National Archives for inclusion in the JFK Collection. I discussed this matter with Ms. Judy Hodgson on April 13, and she suggested that I inform you in writing about this matter.
Early last week, I received a phone call from a researcher who has spent considerable time reviewing the Church Committee records. The researcher informed me that he had been reviewing again Book V of the Committee’s final report which is entitled “The Investigation Of The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of Intelligence Agencies.” The researcher directed me to page 42 of the report where testimony by the “FBI supervisor,” dated
Due to the intense interest in the Church Committee records, I had a member of my staff create a folder title list for the records so we would have a finding aid for the records. A finding aid was needed since we have not received the data disk for these records. I instructed the individual making the list to be as precise as possible in describing each folder and to specifically list each transcript of testimony by name of witness and date. I am enclosing a copy of this list for your information.
In response to the researcher’s inquiry, I learned that the testimony of the “FBI supervisor” was not among the records in our custody. I began to read other footnotes in the report and realized that other transcripts of testimony were referenced that I had not seen on our list. I decided to review every footnote in the report and compiled of (sic a) list of transcripts of testimony, summaries of interviews, and affidavits described in the footnotes that are not among our holdings. I have also enclosed a copy of this list for your use. I call your attention to the fact that most of these transcripts are dated in 1976. A review of our folder title list shows that most of the transcripts in the records in our custody are dated in 1975. It goes without saying that the individuals who gave this testimony, whether identified by name or title, are very significant persons in the history of the assassination.
While compiling this list, I remembered other testimony that was supposedly taken from the Church Committee but not among these records. One researcher has informed me that John Rosselli testified before the Committee on
I am also enclosing a copy of a document created by the Committee staff, apparently around the middle of August 1975, entitled “Assassination Testimony File.” This document was located by the individual who compiled the folder title list. I have compared this document with the folder title list and highlighted in yellow the transcripts that we located while compiling the folder title list. While this document only lists testimony taken early in the Committee’s history, there still appears to be significant documents from 1975 that are also not in our holdings. I realize that some of these individuals may have testified about other events under investigation by the Committee. However, some of the documents listed are clearly assassination related, such as Rosselli’s testimony of
Ms. Hodgson informed me that the records of the Church Committee are stored in the
Please contact me on (301) 713-6620 if you wish to discuss this matter. As I informed Ms. Hodgson, I have informed the Assassinations Records Review Board about this issue.
Sincerely,
Signed
STEVEN D. TILLEY
JFK Liaisoin
Textual Reference Division
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Enclosures
Cc: Dr. David Marwell
Executive Director
Assassinations Records Review Board.
LIST OF MISSING CHURCH COMMITTEE TESTIMONY
(Includes some interviews and summaries)
1. FBI Supervisor,
2. Chief, SAS/CI,
3. Western Hemisphere Division Desk Officer,
4. Thomas Karamessines,
5. Amlash Case Officer,
6. Executive Officer,
7. Section Chief,
8. Chief JMWAVE,
9. Intelligence Officer,
10. Richard Helms,
11.
12. Staff Interview of
13. Staff Interview of William C. Sullivan,
14. Alex Rosen,
15. FBI Supervisor I,
16. FBI Supervisor II,
17. FBI Supervisor
18. General Investigative Division Supervisor,
19. Soviet Section Supervisor,
20. Former Section Chief,
21. Supervisor,
22. Mexico City Legat,
23. FBI Special Agent,
24. SAC,
25. Staff Interview of FBI Inspector,
26. Staff Discussion with Ambassador John Sherman Cooper,
27. James Angleton,
28. James J. Rowley,
29. FBI Agent I,
30. FBI Agent II,
31. Washington Lawyer,
32. Supervisor,
33. Client No. 1,
34. Client No. 2,
35. James Hosty,
36. Staff summary with former FBI Headquarters Supervisor,
37. FBI Headquarters Supervisor,
38. James Hosty,
39.
40. J. Gordon Shanklin,
41. Affidavits of various FBI personnel, pages 96-97
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