JFK Assassination File 104-10009-10222

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JFK Assassination File 104-10009-10222 (1968)
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JFK Assassination File 104-10009-10222, released by the United States federal government on March 18, 2025. This document was a letter written by Richard Helms, the director of the Director of Central Intelligence to Sir Charles Chambers Fowell Spry, the Director-General of Security of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, on November 25, 1968. The letter regarded the Australian government urging the American government to not declassify document CD-971 from the Warren Commission. The American government responded to the Australian government saying there was no intention to release document CD-971 into the public domain. Prior to public release in 2025, this letter was formally known as Document Number 1042-947c.

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pD/P8.4635/1

26 NOV 1968

Sir Charles C. F. Spry
Director General
Australian Security Intelligence Organization
G. P. O. Box S105DB
Melbourne

CORRES RELATING TO THIS — INCLUDING NAVY'S. OK OF 27 June 68 TO RELATE — FILES IN MAIN OSWALD FILE

Dear Charles,

Thank you for your letter of 15 October recommending against the declassification of Warren Commision document CD-971. I might mention that our inquiry to you in August (1968) was in anticipation of further pressure for the release of Warren Commision papers, a pressure which has not materialized. Accordingly, there is not, at the present time, any indication to release CD-971.

Should the question be raised at some future time, the points made by you in your letter provide every reason to keep the document out of the public domain.

With kindest regards,

Sincerely,
/s/ Richard Helms

Document Number 1042-947c
for FOIA Review on SEP 1976

Richard Helms
Director

cc: DDCI
Signature Recommended:
‎/s/ Richard Helms
Deputy Director for Plans

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25 805 1968
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DDP/FE/PWI/AN/Amos Taylor, Jr. (X 5502)iaib (25 November 1968)
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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