</s>104-10400-10055 2 CA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 1998 JEK ACI A.C.T. 9-1848G 9-12/1/2 RELEAS 6 September 1975 MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION: Dan Rather and Les Midgley Dan Rather and les Midgleys 3 September 1975 Mr. Rather said that CBS is working up a series of programs entitled "The Assassinations, dealing with the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and they Rev. King, and the Attempt that they have the facts about assassination of President Kenney. Robert Kennedy. They and the Soviet Union. They said that they any possible CIA connection with Oswald. The said that he had any possible Cia connection with the Oswald. some contact with an ex-Marine who worked in the Soviet Union and an interview with him and worked him in the agent, but briton and an interviewer with him in an agent. But wanted to make sure he had covered all the information he referred to wanted him to make Sure he had been covered all all the time. Dick Gregory's paranoia on the subject of CIA connections with the Kennedy death. We went over a variety of matters, but I essentially firmned to have a variety by saying that CIA had no contact with Oswald either during his Russian period or afterwards, with Oswald other during his Soviet period or afterwards, aware of his visits to embassies in Mexico City, which information was absolutely no basis for a conclusion (and some indications to the contrary) that that the Russian some indications were not contrary to the Soviet City, and traveler that CIA has interviewed was indeed a different of his resident CIA had interviewed. I ended by Russian was prepared to give these interviews was indeed an idea of a different personal knowledge of the USSR. Union. I said I could not was prepared that these answers. Agency I although I had no personal Knowledge of the matter. I could have no the Agency as it had been carefully examined from 1963 on, especially due to his personal interest in the 1963. in specialty. Due to this personally interested in the matter, in Mr. Midgiley referred to the fact that some additional information is coming out from the FBI, and I pointed out

John F. Kennedy, assassination, investigations, related individuals and events:

* Dan Rather and Les Midgley discussed a CBS series on the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
* The CIA had no contact with Lee Harvey Oswald during his Soviet period or afterwards
* Oswald's visits to embassies in Mexico City were not a basis for a conclusion that the CIA was involved in his assassination
* The Rockefeller Commission did not have a charter to look into the FBI
* Allen Dulles stated that he believed J. Edgar Hoover would have investigated any possible CIA involvement in the Kennedy assassination, but left no indication of a desire to do so
* Richard Helms became agitated over allegations made by Jim Garrison and expressed concern that false accusations be made against the CIA
* The CIA had shown Oswald's name on a list of individuals who had been interviewed, but this was not an indication of prior FBI source status or military debriefing.

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