Bruce Leonard Solie hid CIA files on LHO and Richard Case Nagell from the HSCA

[Tom Graves]

CIA documents show that Bruce Solie hid Office of Security files on Lee Harvey Oswald and Richard Case Nagell from the HSCA.

One wonders if Solie's withholding Oswald's file had anything to do with the fact that in late 1959, all of the incoming non-CIA cables on Oswald's defection were routed to Solie's office rather than to where would have normally gone -- the Soviet Russia Division.

The following is the first document in Richard Case Nagell’s 221-page Office of Security file (RIF: 104-10305-10005)


23 August 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

From: Bruce L. Solie
Chief, Security Analysis Group [formerly known as the Security Research Staff's Research Branch]

Subject: Nagell, Richard Case
#264 170

1. This memorandum identifies those Office of Security files which were reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) staff members in conjunction with the HSCA's investigation into the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Under procedures established with the HSCA, certain items of information were not reviewed by HSCA staff members [emphasis added].  These items were placed in envelopes, sealed, appropriately identified, and put back into the Security file prior to HSCA’'s review. Office of Security personnel reviewing these files should maintain the integrity of each envelope below so that interested parties may know what was and what was not reviewed by HSCA staff members.

3. In some instances, the above files contain material marked in the lower right-hand corner with a green circular dot. This mark should alert Office of Security personnel to the fact that this material was located and placed in the file at the time of the HSCA review and was seen by an HSCA staffer(s). This material should not be removed from the file.

4. Attached to this memorandum is a review sheet which identifies the name of the HSCA reviewer(s) and the date of his review.

5. Questions regarding the above procedure and or the HSCA's review should be redirected to the Security Analysis Group.

-- Bruce L Solie



My comments:

1. Other than a different date and the replacement of Nagell's name and OS file number (Nagell, Richard Case #264 170) with Oswald's (Oswald, Lee Harvey #351 164), the first page of the Office of Security's file on Oswald reads exactly the same as the one for Nagell (see above).

2. It's interesting to note that at the bottom of a January 1997 memo from ARRC's David G. Maxwell to CIA's John Pereira (Director of the Historical Review Group, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA) there is a footnote that says, "One Office of Security file on Oswald (or relating to Oswald) may have been numbered 351-164. In addition, Margaret Stevens [Solie's assistant] may have held an Office of Security "MS-" file on Oswald."

[Tom Graves]

I'm "bumping" this thread for Fred Litwin.

[Fred Litwin]

I read it. I see nothing here to indicate they were hiding Nagell stuff.

[Tom Graves]

I read it. I see nothing here to indicate they were hiding Nagell stuff.

Dear Fred,

Why did Solie put this at the beginning of Nagell's Office of Security file?


23 August 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

From: Bruce L. Solie
Chief, Security Analysis Group [formerly known as the Security Research Staff's Research Branch]

Subject: Nagell, Richard Case
#264 170

1. This memorandum identifies those Office of Security files which were reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) staff members in conjunction with the HSCA's investigation into the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Under procedures established with the HSCA, certain items of information were not reviewed by HSCA staff members [emphasis added]. These items were placed in envelopes, sealed, appropriately identified, and put back into the Security file prior to HSCA’'s review. Office of Security personnel reviewing these files should maintain the integrity of each envelope below so that interested parties may know what was and what was not reviewed by HSCA staff members. [emphasis added]

3. In some instances, the above files contain material marked in the lower right-hand corner with a green circular dot. This mark should alert Office of Security personnel to the fact that this material was located and placed in the file at the time of the HSCA review and [the green circular dot?] was seen by an HSCA staffer(s). This material should not be removed from the file.

4. Attached to this memorandum is a review sheet which identifies the name of the HSCA reviewer(s) and the date of his review.

5. Questions regarding the above procedure and or the HSCA's review should be redirected to the Security Analysis Group.

-- Bruce L Solie

. . . . . .

-- Tom

[Fred Litwin]

Yes, I have answered that. There might have been sensitive information in the file, not relating to Nagell. Like the location of
a CIA office reporting on Nagell, etc.

The HSCA had very little interest in Nagell. They did NOT ask him to testify.

The ARRB also found that his story had no merit.

fred

[Tom Graves]

Yes, I have answered that. There might have been sensitive information in the file, not relating to Nagell. Like the location of
a CIA office reporting on Nagell, etc.

The HSCA had very little interest in Nagell. They did NOT ask him to testify.

The ARRB also found that his story had no merit.

fred

Dear Fred,

I see.

(LOL)

-- Tom