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SCHWEIKER REPORT

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES FRANK CHURCH Idaho Chairman JOHN G TOWER Texas Vice Chairman PHILIP A HART Michigan HOWARD H BAKER JR. Tennessee WALTER F MONDALE Minnesota BARRY GOLDWATER Arizona WALTER D HUDDLESTON Kentucky CHARLES McC MATHIAS JR. Maryland ROBERT MORGAN North Carolina RICHARD SCHWEIKER Pennsylvania GARY HART Colorado WILLIAM G MILLER Staff Director FREDERICK A 0 SCHWARZ Jr. Chief Counsel CURTIS R SMOTHERS Counsel to the Minority AUDREY HATRY Clerk of the Committee LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL On behalf of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities and pursuant to the mandate of Senate Resolution 21 I and transmitting herewith to the Senate the volume of the Committee's Final Report entitled "The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F hennedy Performance 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 this phase of the Select Committee's investigation FRANK CHrncii Chaim (t)

(Iv) NOTE On May 26 1976 the Select Committee voted to release the section of its final Report entitled "The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F Kennedy Performance of the Intelligence Agencies. Senators Church Baker Philip Hart Mondale Huddle ston 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 After the Committee's original draft of this report was completed copies of it were made available to the executive agencies These agencies submitted comments to the Committee on security and factual aspects of the draft report On the basis of these comments the Committee and staff conferred with representatives of the agencies to determine which sections of the Report should be re drafted to protect sensitive intelligence sources and methods These sections of the original draft were then revised to reflect the agencies concerns while retaining the original thrust of the Report Names of individuals were deleted when in the Committee's judge ment disclosure of their identities would either endanger their safety or constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy Consequently foot note citations to testimony and documents occasionally contain only descriptions of an individual's position (v) CONTENTS Page Letter of Transmittal I SUMMARY AND FINDINGS 1 A The Scope of the Committee's Investigation 1 B 'Summary 2 C Findings 6 II BACKGROUND FOR THE WARREN COMMISSION INVESTIGA TION CUBA AND THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES 9 III THE UNITED 'STATES GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE ASSASSINATION NOVEMBER 22 1963 TO JANUARY 1 1964 23 A The CIA Response 23 B The FBI Response 32 IV THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND THE WARREN COMMIS SION JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1964 45 A The Relationship between the FBI and the Warren Commis sion 46 B The Relationship between the CIA and the Warren Commis sion 57 C Unpursued Leads 60 D Knowledge of Plots to Assassinate Castro 67 V DEVELOPMENTS AFTER THE WARREN COMMLSSION 77 A 1965 Termination of the AMLASH Operation 77 B 1967 Allegations of Cuban Involvement in the Assassination 80 APPENDIX A The FBI and the Oswald Security Case 87 APPENDIX B The FBI and the Destruction of the Oswald Note 95 APPENDIX C Chronology 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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