Serial 589

0 292359Z NOV 78
FM NEW YORK (89-495) (P) (212)
TO DIRECTOR (89-4286) (P) IMMEDIATE
SAN FRANCISCO (89-250) (P) IMMEDIATE VIA FBIHQ
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UNCLAS
RYMUR; OFFICE OF ORIGIN: SAN FRANCISCO

Re Bureau request for a copy of all NBC T.V. pre-assassination videotape regarding captioned matter.

[Deleted name], Legal Division, NBC T.V., New York, New York, advised this date that it would take at least ten days to two weeks to make a copy of this tape. The copy will be videotape cassettes containing approximately twenty minutes of tape per cassette. The delay in taping is caused by the demands placed on the limited personnel and facilities available for this purpose.

[Deleted name] further advised that each cassette will be made available as it was taped, beginning with the assassination

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crime scene footage. This material will be available in a few days.

On November 30, 1978, a special agent of the NYO [New York Office] will begin reviewing all of the NBC pre-assassination material at NBC T.V., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York, in an effort to place a priority on the order in which the video tape cassettes are made available to NYO.

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