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CIA Reveals Cryptonym True Names for HSCA, 1978

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Dated 14 July 1978, it supplies the true names behind several cryptonyms used in a prior Agency response to the House Select Committee on Assassinations — identifying cryptonym 'A' as Viola June Cobb and cryptonym 'E' as Manuel Calvillo.

No. The identities behind two further cryptonyms remained withheld in the released copy, and the memo was marked not releasable to foreign nationals with a sensitive-sources warning.

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