Conspiracy books frequently claim that Clay Shaw must have been a
spook because of his "covert security approval" connected with a
project called QK/ENCHANT.

Nobody knows what this is, but it's supposed to be *really* spooky.

A document from the HSCA, CIA Segregated Collection, puts a different
light on this.

It's Record Number 180-10143-10220, Agency File Number 29-04-01.

The document is a series of handwritten notes, presumably by an HSCA
staffer.  It is headed "6/28/78" and "Clay Shaw."  The relevant
portion is as follows:

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18 Sept. 68
             memo re: [REDACTED]
                    or [REDACTED]

poss. CIA connection -- granted covert
     security approval for use under Project
     [REDACTED] on an unwitting basis
      10 Dec. 62.

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Interested lurkers might want to see a CIA memorandum dated 26 April
1967.  This is the one that says that "J. Monroe SULLIVAN, #280207,
was granted a covert security approval on 10 December 1962 so that he
could be used in Project [REDACTED].  SHAW has #402897-A."

I *think* that an unredacted version of the latter is available, and
says "QK/ENCHANT."  This is what buffs point to in order to label Shaw
a spook.

But his "approval" (not "clearance") was for use on an "unwitting"
basis.

.John