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Dear garold; 4/16/99

I would like to thank you and Mrs. Weisberg for letting myself and my friends visit you in the nursing home on Sunday March 28'. It was wonderful meeting you after reading your work for many years. Find enclosed some documents that Malcolm Blunt (the English gentleman that was with me) found at the National Archives and thought might be of interest to you. I hope you are feeling better and I hope to hear from you soon. Your friend

Bill Prenas 12 Carroll Pkwy. Lowell, Ma. OlgS1 (978)453-990S

Michelle Combs Associate Director for Research and Review

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MEMORANDUM

September 12, 1998

To: Laura Denk Executive Director

cc: Bob Skwirot CIA Team Leader

Subject CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission Critics

In an effort to determine whether the CIA opened or maintained files on Warren Commission critics because they criticized the Warren Commission's work and findings, the Review Board requested access to all extant records on Edward J. Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, or Sylvia Meagher. The Review Board did not request information per se on Freedom of Information Act requests by these individuals or any Public Affairs news clippings.

In response to the Review Board's Informal Request for Additional Records and Information CIA-IR-16, the CIA provided the following files or information on the requested individuals. Each file was examined by the Review Board staff and relevant records were designated as assassination records for inclusion in the JFK Collection at the National Archives.

Edward J. Epstein: CIA located an Office of Security file and a Publications Review Board file on Epstein as well as three indications of records destroyed under a standard records destruction schedule. The destroyed records involved three Freedom of Information Act requests. None of the requests were for information on Epstein. The Review Board staff did not designate any additional records as assassination records.

Josiah Thompson: The CIA has a small 201 file on Thompson which indicates that he was considered to be of possible operational interest to the Agency in 1962 while he was living overseas. Interest was dropped, however, and Thompson never worked for the CIA in any capacity. The Review Board staff did not designate any additional records as assassination records.

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Mark Lane: The CIA did not open a 201 file on Lane. The Agency's records on Lane consist of: a dispatch dated January 23, 1970, an Office of the General Counsel letter dated March 29, 1977, six Freedom of Information. Act requests, and one Public Affairs request. These documents were not designated as assassination records. An additional reference to Lane was found in a document from a foreign government_ That information was designated an assassination record and has been processed for release to the JFK Collection at the National Archives.

Harold Weisberg: CIA holds several files on Weisberg. An Office of Strategic Services (OSS) history form 1003a indicates that he served in the OSS from January 15 to September 30, 1945, first as a consultant and then as a research analyst, until he transferred to the Department of State. CIA also holds an eight-page 201 file which contains newspaper articles, one reference to the Garrison investigation, a reference to the fact that Weisberg corresponded with "Julius Mader," and administration documents. This file is a part of the CIA sequestered collection and has been processed for release to the JFK Collection at the National Archives. An Office of Security file on Weisberg was reviewed by the Review Board staff and a small number of documents were marked as assassination records. Finally, Agency records show Weisberg has made more than 40 Freedom of Information Act requests.

Sylvia Meagher: CIA no longer has any records on Meagher. At one time the Office of Security had a file on Meagher and a 1968 Ramparts Magazine article. A reference to a Privacy Act request made by Meagher was also found. The Privacy Act request and the Office of Security folder have been destroyed under normal record control schedules.

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13 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR: Laura Denk Executive Director, ARRB

FROM; J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM

SUBJECT: Response to CIA-IR-11

1. The following is responsive to ARRB Request CIA-IR-11, a request for files and records on Warren Commission critics, Edward, J. Epstein, Mark Lane, Sylvia Meagher, Josiah Thompson, and Harold Weisberg.

2. The Agency has made a thorough search of its files systems in an attempt to find files on these individuals. At the request of ARRB staff, it did not include material found in news clippings or responses to FOIA requests. All files found have been reviewed, or made available for review, by ARRB staff.

a. EPSTEIN, Edward J. --The DO found no files identifiable with subject; a file was found on an individual with the same name but, with research, it was determined that the individual was not the Edward J. Epstein who is the subject of this request. DA searches found an Office of Security file and a Publications Review Board file on subject, as well as three "hits" to records destroyed pursuant to normal records destruction schedules. The destroyed records involved three Freedom of Information requests that mention Epstein's name in the subject line. None of the requests were for information on Epstein

b. LANE, Mark -- The DO search produced references to two documents (1) An Agency dispatch dated 23 January 1970 and (2) an OGC letter dated 29 March 1977. DA searches revealed six FOIA requests and one Public Affairs requests from subject; all records concerning these have been destroyed. No other files were found. An additional reference to Mark Lane was found in a document from a foreign government; that information has been processed for release.

c. MEAGHER, Sylvia -- A reference to the fact subject made a Privacy Act request was found. In addition, the Office of Security found that it had, at one time, a folder on subject and a 1968 Ramparts Magazine article. Both subject's Privacy Act request and the Office of Security folder have been destroyed pursuant to normal record control schedules.

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d. THOMPSON, Josiah -- The search revealed that subject was of operational interest to the DO in 1962 and there is a 201 file on him.

e. WEISBERG, Harold -- An OSS "Service History" Form 1003a indicates subject worked for OSS from 15 January to 30 September 1945, first as a consultant and then as a research analyst. On the latter date he was transferred to the State Department. The search turned up a thin 201 file on subject and a reference to the fact he corresponded with one "Julius Mader." A notation was found which stated that additional information on subject was contained within file 100-300-017 entitled "Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination;" this file is in the JFK microfilm collection at Reel 25, Box 25. An Office of Security file was also found. Lastly, the search revealed that subject has made over forty FOIA requests to the Agency.

3. This completes CIA action on referent request. If you have any questions, please call me.

J. Barry Harrelso \ 4.---74 c------

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

Date: 10/29/98 Page: 1

AGENCY : CIA RECORD NUMBER : 104-10305-10002 RECORD SERIES : JFK-MISC

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CIA-OFF. OF SECURITY

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO :

TITLE : SECURITY FILE:WEISBERG, HAROLD DATE : 00/00/

PAGES : 15 SUBJECTS : WEISBERG,HAROLD

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : SECRET

RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : OPEN

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/29/98 OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS : JFK-M-05:F5 1998.10.29.11:20:53:763120: ARRB REQUEST. CIA-IR-27. ORIGINALLY PART OF UNIT INDEX AS 104-10305-10000

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11 January 1968

JBJECT: WEISBERG, Harold

Subject was security approved for employment with OM on 7 July

1944. He was assigned to the Presentation Branch (Editorial), Washington,

and on 12 February 1945 he was transferred to the R&A Branch (Latin America),

Washington according to a note in his file by HALPERIN (Maurice HALPERIN).

One of WEISBERG!s listed references, Lydia LEE aka Lydia Lee HEFLIN,

was identified as a Soviet agent by Bede MASSING known by MASSING in the

193Or s. Another of VEISBERGrs references, Sidney KAUFMAN, was under

investigation by the FBI in 1959 on suspicions of espionage. (KAUFMAN

was employed by OSS in 1943.)

Harold WEISBERG is the author of four books on the assassination of President KENNEDY - "Whitewash", "Whitewash II", "Photographic Whitewash",

and "OSWALD in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the CIA". All of his

books have questioned the findings of the Warren Cou;Tr;ssion and have

attacked the FBI Report as a"tissue so thin andgapIemic so undisguised that

it would demean the labors of a hick police force." WEISBERG testified

before a secret session of the Orleans Parish Grand.Jury for almost three

hours on 28 April 1967, charging that the Warren Commission had failed in

its mission of fact gathering and saying that the last thing he wanted to

see was a reopening of the Warren Commission or anything like it. Rather,

he said, he expected a "new and thorough investigation by Congress which

would be entirely open to the public even though right now the Government

is trying every possible way to prevent GARRISONIs investigation."

WEISBERG was born 8 April 1913 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He listed

his parentsr dates and places of birth as "unknown" except for the country

given as "Russia" with racial background given as "Jewish". He listed

employment with the U. S. Senate SubcorTrittee on Education and Labor (which was

known as the Senate Civil Liberties Committee) from 1936 to 1939 as an editor,

investigator and Asst. Secretary. His reason for leaving this employment

was given as "termination of work". From 1939 to 1942 he worked as a free

lance writer (was Washington representative with CLICK magazine). In a

statement dated 5 December 1944 concerning his employment history, WEISBERG

described his writing as "original work on Nazi cartels and their interference

with our defense preparations, un-American activities both by Nazi and

native Am.ericans and resistance to the Nazi in the occupied countries of

Europe." In 1942 Subject entered the Army and received an Honorable Discharge

in November 1944 with the rank of Corporal. He was a Private in. the U. S.

Army when he EOD with OSS in 1944 and the notation concerning his transfer

the Presentation Branch to the R&A Latin American Branch of OSS in March

1945 indicated he was a civilian at the time. A security certification in

WI"- ACID

le dated 20 Novenber 1945 reported that there was nothing derogatory the security investigation conducted on him and that his security

record while employed with OSS was satisfactory. A FHB dated 1 June 1944 carries a notation "Do not contact Senate employment".

In September 1967 a confidential Source known to the Office of Security reported that in 1940 an abortive attempt was made to link Charman Martin DIES (of the Rouse of Representatives Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities) with the notorious Nazi "jew baiter", William Dudley PELLEY, of the famous Silver Shirts, who was eventually convicted of sedition at Indianapolis. and sentenced to Federal prison. One of the principals in this plot was Harold WEISBERG, Editor for the La. Follette Civil Liberties Committee, who fed the DAILY WORKER confidential information:I'VE:Bathe La Follette Civil Liberties Committee files. Others involved In this plot were Gardner JACKSON, Secretary of Labor's Non-Partisan League (CIO); David Dubois MAYNE, former agent for PKhLEY (allegedly paranoia); John M. MNSHAW, leg man for Drew PEARSON; Drew PEARSON; and Frank E. HOOK, left-wing Congressman from Michigan. JACKSON, an alleged Communist and newspaperman and a close friend of Drew PEARSON and Robert Sharon ALLEN, had . a series of conferences with PEARSON on how best to proceed to destroy DIES. .PEARSON introduced HENSHAK to WEISBERG and JACKSON, and recommended him as the man to arrange things. HENSEAW was the catalyst between WEISBERG and MAYNE, and persuaded MAYNE to forge the documents which were used to smear DIES. According to this confidential Source, HENSEAW was a secret Washington agent for William Dudley PELLE! and tried to get a job on the DIES Committee while on PELLEY's payroll. HENSBAW subseanently was indicted for perjury, pleaded guilty and received a suspended four year jail sentence. This matter eventually was brought to the floor of the House and PE LEY appeared to denounce the forgeries. This case was investigated by the FBI as a "Treason Racket Case" but a D. C. Grand Jury refused to indict MAYNE; although, a second Grand Jury indicted him for forgery and uttering and false pretenses on 14 May 1940.

A memo in Subject's file dated 12 July 1949 reflects that he was one of a number of employees fired by the State Department but no details were given.

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EFt YOUR TELETYPE 785 12, DATED

7 NOV 67, YIOUR TELETYPE 78543, • I

ATED 30 NOV 67

I. HAVING MADE AN APPOINTMENT WITH ME,: BASTES CALLED ON ME ThIS

ORNING TO GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION HE THOUGHT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO

HE AGENCY. AFTER OUR DISCUSSION OF THAT MATTER, HE TOLD ME THAT ON

2' MAR 6S HE HAD, AT THE INSISTENCE OF HAROLD WEISBERG, AUTHOR OF WHITEWASH" AND OTHER BOOKS ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, MET

EISBERG IN THE LOBBY OF THE FONTAINEBLEAU MOTEL HERE IN NEW ORLEANS:

EISBERG REQUESTED BARTES TO GO TO HIS ROOK IN THE FONTAINEBLEAU,

AYING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO. TAPE THEIR CONVERSATION. BARTES

EFUSED AND SAID THAT ANYTHING THAT WEISBERG HAD TO SAY TO HIM

OULD BE SAID IN THE LOBBY. WEISBERG INSISTED THAT HE HAD THINGS

N HIS ROOM VETCH HE WOULD LIKE FOR. 3AHTES TO SEE BUT BARTES STILL

EFUSED TO GO TO HIS ROOM. WEISBERZ.WAS:VERY MAD ACCORDING-TO: ----

ARTES AND TRIED TO BLACKMAIL HIM BY SAYING THATHEKNEWOFPEOPLE v WHO INTENDED TO HARM HIM. BARTES DOES NOT SCARE EASILY AND HrYTOLD EISBERG THAT IF HE KNEW OF SUCH PEOPLE, HE SHOULD REPORT THEN TO

HE POLICE, THAT IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO HIM, WEISBERG WOULD FIND

IMSELF IN TROUBLE. ACCORDING TO BARTES, WEISBERG RAD SOME VERY AD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT BOTH CIA AND THE F3I.

2., BARTES SAYS- THATHE REPORTED HIS MEETING WITH' WEISBERG TO 41::: FBI It: OEW OALEA'JS tNO GAVE THEE A RUN-DOWN OF HIS CONVERSATION-ITH WEISE:Re.

z. EECAUSE CF ;!Y INSTRUETIONS ".CT TO DISCUSS THE. GARRISON CASE,

LISTEN:7J TO 211A17S AND DID NOT O'.:CTION AIM ABOUT THE

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31 March 1971

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Book by Harold WEISBERG Entitled "Frame - Up"

Subject book follows the pattern and line of disparagement in others of its ilk regarding the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy. This book concerns the assassination of Martin Luther King and the case of James Earl RAY. Key paragraphs in the book are the following: Once again the federal government was preventing the workings of our own law, frustrating the concepts of our own kind of justice - contriving evidence and shaping it to fit a predetermined political need..

"This is what it did in the Warren Report. Here it was accomplishing exactly the same ends. " Attached is a summary on Harold WEISBERG dated 11

January 1968 prepared by undersigned in connection with the GARRISON investigation.

WEISBERG' s references to CIA in Subject book are concerned with Ray's first lawyer, Arthur HANES. Most of the references merely say "HANES former FBI and CIA. man. 11 In one instance WEISBERG is more specific about HANES. On p. 46 - "In addition to his career as an FBI agent, HANES is also 'a one-time contract employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. (Part of the Bay of Pigs preparations were in Birmingham. )"

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On p. 237 WEISBERG alleges that the FBI liaison man

with the White House is also a CIA man. OS records were negative

on this individual, one Courtney EVANS.

In the Section "NOTES” at the end of the book WEISBERG

briefly mentions "CIA's generosity" with the Cuban exiles. He also

refers to a mental patient in a Louisiana Hospital who had a CIA

telephone number in his possession. This is Godfrey Lyle KIRKPATRICK.

Attached is a summary dated 18 July 1968 on KIRKPATRICK prepared by

undersigned also in connection with the GARRISON investigation.

Sarah K. Hall SRS /OS

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2 January 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations Deputy Director for Administration

SUBJECT: Harold Weisberg

1. Subject came to see me today with his lawyer, James Lesar. Mr. Lesar, in establishing the appointment, indicated that his client, Weisberg, had documentary proof that he had been surveilled by the Agency. I had touched base with Security ahead of this appointment, and the only thing they brought forward is the attached letter to then Director Helms, dated 15 April 1971.

2. Weisberg pointed out that he had worked as an intelligence officer for the British in World War II and subsequently was attached to OSS. He referred to the attached letter saying that it had been unanswered and indicated he had written another letter which also had never been answered. He stated there were three levels of belief that he had been surveilled by CIA:

a. documentary proof;

b. substantial reason to believe; and

c. moral certainty- from other evidence.

In response to my request for an explanation of his evidence, Weisberg refused to offer any. He pointed out that he had authored several books, including one dealing with the Warren Commission investigation of the Kennedy assassination. He also offered that some surveillance had occurred in 1967. He referred to two embassies that were under surveillance in connection with his own surveillance. (This 1 could not get him,to clarify. ) He referred to telephone tapping, but did not say where. He indicated there must be at least two files on him in the Agency. It could well be, he indicated, that other agencies had forwarded

material on him to the Agency. He also referred to other operations against him other than surveillance without further clarification. He added that the surveillance had been in more than one city.

3. Weisberg indicated that both he and his lawyer, Lesar, had worked with Bernard Fensterwald in connection with Freedom of Infor-mation suits. Lesar suggested it was known that we have at least two files, if not more, on Fensterwald and probably Weisberg's name appears in those files.

4. I queried Lesar as to what it was he wanted from this Agency. His reply was that they wanted a response to the 1971 letter; that, if they did not get adequate response about Agency surveillance of Weisberg, they were going to court. Weisberg stated that undoubtedly the people that I have to check with will lie to me. He pointed out that this of course would cause considerable embarrassment to the Agency when they file suit under the Freedom of Information Act and the documents are actually turned up. Weisberg said he has been hurt by this surveil-lance and he wants it stopped; and, while not explicit, there was the implicit threat of suit for damages_ I would like your assistance in a careful search for any references to Weisberg in our files so that we can prepare for possible eventualities.

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yGeneral Counsel

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MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel

SUBJECT Harold Weisberg

1. Reference is made to your memorandum, dated 2 January

1975, in which you requested a close search of the Offi4e of

Security file pertaining to Harold Weisberg and any of er files

which may contain references to his name. Of particu ar

interest,. according to your request, were items whic would

indicate that Mr.' Weisberg had ever been subjected, o surveillance

activity of any type by the Office of Security, /

2. The Office of Security file on Harold W isberg disclosed

that he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania n 8 April 1913

of Russian born parents- He attended the Univ rsity of Delaware

for three years, 1931 to 1934, without attai g a degree, and

worked as a newspaper correspondent, United ta:tes Government

employee and freelance writer prior to ent ing the United

States Army in December 1942. While in m' itary service,

Mr. Weisberg served with the Office of'S ategic Services in

North Africa. According to a Personal story Statement,

completed by Mr. Weisberg in December 44,.. he was given an

"Honorable-Medical" discharge from the United States Army in

November 1944. A background investi tion, completed in July 1944,.

was completely favorable as to Mr. W isberg's loyalty. and reputation.

He has had no subsequent affiliatio with the Agency since,1944,

3. The Office of Security f' e did disclose that one of the

persons listed' by Mr. Weisberg a a social reference. on his 1944

Personal History Statement, Lyd Lee, was identified by another

source as a Soviet Agent. A se and reference, Sidney Kaufman,

listed by Mr. Weisberg on his 944 Personal History 'Statement,

was subsequently investigated .y the Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion in 1959 on suspicion of spionage. There was no indication,

however, that Mr. Weisberg e er engaged in such activity or was

even aware of the allegatio s against these two individuals whom

he had listed as references

4. Since 1944, the only material placed in Mr. Weisberg's Security file, in addition to the 1971 letter to'. . Helms which you mentioned in your request, have been s rlaries, prepared by the Office of Security and newspaper sources, relative to the book he hds written entitled "WhiteWash" "Whitewash II", "Frame-Up", "Photographic Whitewash", and "Osw Id in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the_CIA." 1 of these publi, cations are critical of.the Warren COMMi$SiD Report, relative to the assassination of President Kennedy, d have called for additional -Congressional investigation to d termine the real story behind the death of the President-

S. While the name of Mr. Harold We' berg Appears in several other files maintained by the 0 ice of Security, each of the citings pertain to Mr. Weisberg' books on - his efforts-on disproving the findings of the Warr n, CoMmission.

fi. Mr. Weisberg's Security fil= reflects no information to indicate that he has ever been p sonally subjected to any electronic, mechanical or hUman suer eillance of any type. However, it is interesting to note hat Mr. Weisberg has been a friend of .Robert S. Allen, a s aicated reporter whose columns appear in-the. Northern V' nia Sumnewspaper, for over thirty years. Mr. Allen and his iting partner, Paul J. Scott, were subjected to: telephone tap ng by the Agency for several months in 1963. The circumstan es and results of this telephone tapping is depicted in the fit= concerning Project MOCKINGBIRD. There is no indication, thoug that any telephonic transmissions between Mr. Allen and Mr, Wei •erg were ever intercepted during this Agency surveillance.

Charles W. Kane

FEB 197S

MEMORANDUM FOR: Generel Counsel

SUBJECT : Harold Weisberg

1. This towerandulawill confirm the verbal advice which was provided s resentetive of your office on Z7 January lO75 concernig the Subject.-

2. Office of Security files contain toinfornation which would indicate that Harold Weisberg has ever boon the subject of technical or physical surveillance by the Office of Security.

Charlet W.. Wane Director of Security

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Dear. Mr.. Reall3

your yesterday'silieech Before the .anteric.an Society of IlawspaPer Editors

_ you are quoted -lir hawing said that the en does not augage in any kind of:spying

or sorveillaneeeagalust Interim/3s: have;no doubt-You. think you spoke the truth.' •

yon. did not,:, this there is do boubt, for I am in Possession

of the unquestionable aiidence;

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I • am one of those .neringt 1131011 it ilea directed.'

Becanaer believe-you: think yondid speak trathfb11,,y, I thinly It is arose than.

if you had deliberately' spoken falsely, for this would be a.reflection of ta). intoler-

• able lateraal' autonomy.

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intelligence is anti-democratio. But I. also believe that donies.o intelligence

by the agency of foreiga'inte114gence is anti-democratic. Rather than being

opcosed to our country's intelligence, I have, voluntarily, been -part of it,

., my younger day. .I mean -this in both official and unofficial senses, for as

an inveetigaV.ve reporter I:did. produce valuable intelligence &ring World. War

and delivered it to several government agencies. I was, in fact, what would

-44e7 be called an "unregistered foreign. agent", for.I also worked with and .

etrpolied. infornaticair to the'intalligence service of a_frivIaly foreign -cower.

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Ea ever, the intelligence'operation against ne is of a different end. I +hi r1.1r

wrongful character. Most or all because I am a writer.

I an writing to ask that you conduct a thorough investigation and then provide

me with copies of all of it If your subordinates tall you. that what I say is not

true, I am prepared to sue under 5 T.S.C.. 552, where none of the exemptions could

be invoked. by your agency, and to ixrodnce in court, copies of some of it.I would.

much prefer that it not get to that point, as I hope you would.' .

May I also suggest that if you are opixtsed. to such things, what i ask of you

gives you. a chance to at least try to tut an eta to then?

I would also appreciate the full text of your -..47e-Ar4 Yesterday.

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;::11.r.- William Colby, Director 7eentral Intelligence Agency • .1Washington, D.C.

COlbyi

.Today'a Washington Post headlines from your comnnricaton the words, "Things Have Changed" at the CIA. You • dAmot_say merely some tnings.

• You say there has been a basic change, that the past has been outlived, that reformend honesty are the new way. Under your directorship and within my experience this has not been true. purpose in this letter is to give you, personally, an opportunity to make it more the reality than the claim and the headlines- mong the CIA intrusions into my life and rights there has been surveillance.

Even after I told him I have copies and live witnesses, your general counsel denied this. "

Has this change of which you boast extended to an abandonment'of semantics? Or to the filtering of what goes upward in the bureaucracy? Since our meeting earlier this "year there ties been relevant published testimony and have obtained. information from other agencies. Both, inevitably, mean that •,.with respect to intrusions into my rights, hurtful and improper.

- At;,tnmepoint this will cease being a private matter, restrictedto meetings and correspondence to which there has never been honest or meaningful response. We share belief in the need, for in effective intelligence agency in today's world.

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do not share belief in the meaningful nPse of your headlined words. I believe this letter gives - you, „personally, an opportunity to add, meaning to ffOu±wordsby shaking your bureaucracy down and forcing it to come up with the full truth. InU:-can-do it and the proof is there. If you do not make the effort and if you do not succeed'your boasting of change is no more than propaganda.

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WEISBERG, Harold. . Route 8 . Frederick, Md.. 21701

DCI Security Staff has a record of Subject writing one time'- 15-A

pril 1971-

.Letter Was to Mr. Helms and Subject wanted the full. text of Mr:.. He

lms'

.speech. Letter was sent to Director of Security. '

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'SRD had information indicating that SUbject had visited Mr: Warne

r earlier

',this, year with his lawyer. Subject had stated that he had-proof h

e was

..being surveilled by this Agency. In February of this year a reply

was

.‘„sent to the General Counsel's office stating. that we do not have any

inTormatiOnthaild indicate any technical or physical surveillance

Has. conducted on Subject.

'Subject was a former OSS employee. -

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ALBANY 52-3586 JFK ASSN. 2/89 ALBANY 9-1014-1 (CR) JFK ASSN. 9-12-88 ALBANY 44-267 L.H. OSWALD 8-2-77 ALBANY 105-5001 RUTH PAINE 7/88 ALBANY 105-5001 MICHAEL PAINE 7/88 ALBANY 70-999 JFK ASSN. 11-2-76

ALBUQUERQUE 44-391

L.H. OSWALD NO DATE ALBUQUERQUE 44-391

JACK RUBY

NO DATE

BALTIMORE 225-4-29 (CR)

JFK ASSN. 11/91

BIRMINGHAM 89-45 VOL. 1 JFK ASSN. MISSING

BOSTON 44-337 JACK RUBY 3/78 BOSTON 62-3861 JFK ASSN. MISSING BOSTON 89-43 JFK ASSN. NO DATE BOSTON 157-55 JFK ASSN. MISSING BOSTON 175-112 JFK ASSN. MISSING

CHARLOTTE 183-300-3 (CR)(1979) JFK ASSN. 5-27-93 CHARLOTTE 62-4172 PRES. COMM.

ON CIA 11-2-77 CHARLOTTE 42-42847 M. PAINE 11-18-79 CHARLOTTE 65-1446 PRES. COMM.

ON CIA 7-2-74 CHARLOTTE 21-0-40 (CR) CIA ACT. 5-11-7'7 CHARLOTTE 245-0-62 (CR) CIA ACT. 1-12-89 CHARLOTTE 100-8894 HSCA ACT. 12-2-77 CHARLOTTE 100-9613 HSCA ACT. 12-3-77

CHICAGO 44-645 JACK RUBY SERIALS 1-620 DEST. 2/78

DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS

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31-5614-733 (CR) JACK RUBY 3-8-76 4-190-45 (CR) JACK RUBY NO DATE

94—'55-158 (CR) JACK RUBY 12-1-77 94-55-163 (CR) JACK RUBY 12-1-77 94-55-166 (CR) JACK RUBY 12-1-77 94-55-170 (CR) JACK RUBY 12-1-77 94-55-173 (CR) L.H. OSWALD NO DATE 4-55-174 (CR) L.H. OSWALD NO DATE 56-59-1 (CR) JACK RUBY NO DATE 94-47 JACK RUBY NO DATE 0[z976-1 (CR) L.H. OSWALD 2-14-72 117-30-14 (CR) JACK RUBY 1-22-74 183-36-2 (CR) JACK RUBY 4-13-78 105B-5731 SEN. SEL. 10-2-89

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PFFICE FILE NUnER SUBJECT D ST. DATE

DENVER 100-4737 G. DEMOH.. 2-1-89 DENVER 105-1653 M. PAINE 2-19-91 DENVER 105-1653 R. PAINE 2-19-91

HOUSTON 9-1926 MARINA OSWD. 6-20-89 HOUSTON 70-1040 JFK ASSN. 2-8-78 HOUSTON 100-1649 G. DEMOH.. 11-30-77

LOS ANGELES 44-895 JACK RUBY NO DATE

MINNEAPOLIS 44-248 L.H. OSWALD 11/76 MINNEAPLOIS 44-248 JACK RUBY 11/76

MILWAUKEE 62-1243 WARREN COMM. 2-28-77. MILWAUKEE 62-1855 JFK ASSN. 2-28-77

NORFOLK 44-148 JACK RUBY 5-24-73 NORFOLK 44-148 L.H. OSWALD 5-24-73 NORFOLK 105-00-107 (CR) JFK ASSN. 7/68 NORFOLK 66-981 SEN. SEL.

COM. INT. 4-20-91

NEW HAVEN 44-140 JACK RUBY NO DATE NEW HAVEN 44-140 L.H. OSWALD NO DATE NEW HAVEN 62-2284 WARREN COMM. 3-21-78 NEW HAVEN 105-5594 R. PAINE 5-2-90 NEW HAVEN 105-5594 M. PAINE 5-2-90

PHOENIX 44-213 L.H. OSWALD 6/77 PHOENIX 100-2995 G. DEMOH.. 7/74 PHOENIX 62-2033 SEN. SEL. COM. MISSING

SALT LAKE CITY 89-44 JFK ASSN. 1978

SAN ANTONIO 31-4455 JACK RUBY 11/77 SAN ANTONIO 9-0-401 (CR) MARGUER OSWD. PRIOR TO 77 SAN ANTONIO 44-748 JACK RUBY 5-26-76

SAN FRANCISCO 44-494 L.H. OSWALD VOL. 1 ONLY SAN FRANCISCO 44-494 JACK RUBY VOL. 1 ONLY

SAN JUAN 44-197 L.H. OSWALD NO DATE SAN JUAN 62-579 WARREN COMM. NO DATE

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