MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. HOUSTON, <SANITIZED> FROM JOSEPH C. GOODWIN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06816152
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2019
• Case Number: F-2013-00862
• Publication Date: May 26, 1967

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26 May 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: AMr.
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Attached a draft, in line with DCI remarks this morning,
of proposed press statement.
Houston
If you agree and the Director concurs, I would like to
see this broadened somewhat by
(a)
adding a final paragraph to the effect that we
have concealed nothing in anyway relating to
the assassination, from responsible State and
Federal government instrumentalities nor do
we intend to, and
(b) attaching to the statement a copy of your,Iletter
to the New Orleans Court.
If we can make it, Sunday papers would be a good time.
However, we are still awaiting the result of a CI doublecheck
on "Doublecheck" in their search for any possible link to
Novel.
Attachment
Jc$seph C. Goodwin
Assistant to the Director
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The Central Intelligence Agency states without reservation
that any and all information in its possession Which might in any
way bear or seem to bear upon the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy was presented to the Presidential Commission which investigated
the assassination.,.
In appearing before the Commission, Mr. John A. McCone, then
Director of CIA, and Mr. Richard Helms, present Director, testified
under oath that no one connected with the CIA had ever interviewed
Lee Harvey Oswald or communicated with him in any way. Mr. McCone:
in a supplementing affidavit, stated unequivocally that Oswald was
not an agent, employee, or informant of the CIA, that the Agency never
communicated with him in any manner or furnished him any compensation,
and. that Oswald was never directly or indirectly associated with the
CIA. All of this was included in the Commission's published report.
To recent press enquiries regarding allegations that CIA
had withheld from the Commission a photograph of Oswald and another
unnamed individual, we have stated honestly, factually that we do
not have and never have seen such a photograph.
Other press questions have concerned alleged admissions by
Gordon Novel's attorney that Novel at one time was an employee or
agent or contact of the CIA. We can state categorically that this
is not true; Gordon Navel has never been connected in any way with
the Central Intelligence Agency.
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