September 28, 1964

article on possible repercussions of rept

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Johnson names Soc Dillon, Acting Atty Gen Katzenbach, CIA Dir McCone, McG Bundy as com to advise him on execution of comm recommendations; studies rept at Tex ranch; Sen Mansfield urges immediate Cong consideration of recommendations

rept sharply rebukes Secret Service for failure adequately to prepare for Kennedy's visit to Dallas; reprimands FBI for failure to supply Secret Service with data on Oswald's presence in Dallas; deplores lack of adequate liaison between FBI and Secret Service before Dallas trip; makes no effort to hold any persons in Govt responsible for assassination; notes improvements since then; holds Pres protection requires improved working arrangements of all Fed agencies concerned, including CIA, State Dept, mil intelligence branches; urges State Dept to scrutinize more carefully requests for return to US of defectors like Oswald; its chief charge is that Secret Service did not check bldgs along Dallas motorcade route and did not ask local police to do so; finds conduct of agents in motorcade courageous and devoted; admits that Pres can be mode safe only if he wants to be; makes recommendations far improved security; says that although FBI had considerable data about Oswald, it had no official responsibility under Secret Service criteria to refer such data to agency; holds FBI took unduly restrictive view of its responsibilities in preventive intelligence work prior to assassination; says FBI Dallas agent Hosty made no effort to get Oswald's address or to make contact with him even though actively investigating him; quotes FBI Dir Hoover's defense of Hosty; says only 28 Secret Service agents were assigned to Dallas visit, that 600 members of local law enforcement agencies were engaged in security duty but that Secret Service at that time had no estab procedure governing its relations with them; says that after Kennedy retired to his Ft Worth hotel room in early hrs of Nov 22, 9 off-duty agents went to Ft Worth Press Club and drank alcoholic beverages although they had little chance to eat during day; sees possibility they might have been more alert in Dallas had they retired promptly in Ft Worth; concedes there is no evidence that agents failed to take any action in Dallas within their power that would have averted killing; Rowley told comm that although regulations bar use of alcoholic beverages by agents on travel status, he had not disciplined them to avoid inference that their infractions might have contributed to killing

J Reston discusses rept and continuing mysteries