John and other COPA board members:

Here is some wording which I propose be included in an official COPA letter to
be mailed to DCI Deutch as soon as possible. If I do not hear from you by 
Monday at 6 PM, I will go ahead and send it on my own as a private citizen.

Dear Director Deutch:

        On behalf of the JFK assassination research community, we 

respectfully request that you exercise you authority as Director of

Central Intelligence to implement, as soon as possible, the declassification

and release of the Lopez Report on Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City

which was prepared for the US House Select Committee on Assassinations.

We have been impressed with your efforts to declassify documents, such as the 

Venona cables and the Corona project.

        It is also vitally important that CIA release HSCA staff, including

Ed Lopez, the author of the report, from their security restrictions, so that

they can freely discuss the Lopez report and explain it to the public. Instead

of waiting for the Assassination Records Review Board to release the Lopez

report, you can release it now under the CIA's Historical Review program and  

provide unredacted copies to HSCA staff who will then be free to discuss it.

        We understand the fact that there are some portions of the Lopez

report which must remain redacted. Those few portions can be satisfactorily

released in full by substituting the exact equivalent in plain language for

the classified term.