SECRET EVIDENCE ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050048-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 6, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE SATURDAY EVENING PO
6 April 1968
0 the unnatural quiet of the security room of
he National Archives in Washington, beneath
sad row of naked light bulbs, the records of
t Warren Commission investigation of the mur-
d of President Kennedy rest in a long double line
o green metal shelves. It,,is not a pleasant sight.
O c asks: Is this the end of Camelot?
The thousands of pages of documents amassed
b the commission are stored in gray cardboard
boxes alongside the physical exhibits, including
L e Harvey Oswald's 6.5-mm. Mannlicher-Car-
c no rifle. The windowless security area is pro-
t ted by a heavy steel door wired to an alarm
s stem. The entire room is, in effect, a vault; only
tree persons know how to open the black com-
b nation lock on the door.
Only members of the Archives staff who hav
en cleared for security may enter this room. N
otographs may be taken inside it.
The great bulk of the documents in the room
ut 80 percent, were published by the Warre
mmission in 1964 or were made public later. Bu
th
s gregated from these, in one compartment of
t
curity room, are 25 boxes containing document
that no one outside of the Government or e
Warren Commission has read.
By estimate of the National Archives, 10 feet,
or approximately 25,000 pages, of Warren Com-
mission files remain closed in these boxes. Many of
the closed documents are classified, some bearing
the red-ink stamp: TOP SECRET.
Here are some sample titles of secret documents:
^ ? A report by CIA director Richard M. Helms on
"Soviet Brainwashing Techniques."
^ An FBI report of an interview with Yuri No-
senko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to
the United States 10 weeks after the assassination
of President Kennedy.
^ A CIA report on Lee Harvey Oswald's activities
in Mexico, dated October 10, 1963, six weeks be-
fore the assassination.
^ A memo to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from
Richard Helms, titled, "Lee Harvey Oswald's
Access to Classified Information About the U-2."
^ A memo from Helms to J. Lee Rankin, general
counsel of the Warren Commission, concerning
"Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping."
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