Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLYDO/INS 95-069/1ER 95-80976 April 1995MEMORANDUM FOR:Deputy Director for AdministrationDeputy Director for IntelligenceDeputy Director for OperationsDeputy Director for Science and TechnologyAdministrative Officer, DCIFROM:Executive DirectorSUBJECT:Appointment of Directorate Focal Pointsfor JFK Assassination Board Requests1. I would like each of you to appoint a focal point officer for your Directorate who would be responsible for responding to requests for information from the (President Kennedy) Assassination Records Review Board. (AIUO)2. The Agency has received the first (attached) of what are likely to be many requests from the Board for information related to the assassination of President Kennedy and to the investigations into the assassination. Up to now, the Board has focused on the "sequestered" records CIA had collected for the House Assassination Committee's investigation and documents that had been part of the Oswald 201 file. It is expected that the new requests will require records searches to be done for additional information. (AIUO)3. The Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), which has been the Agency's principal liaison with the JFK Board, will continue in that role. HRG will receive requests from the Board, and then forward them to the Directorate focal points for action. Responses from the Directorates will be coordinated by HRG, which will make the responses available to the Board. (AIVO)4. Please provide the name of your focal point officer to John Pereira, Chief, HRG (X30373-secure) by 13 April. (AIUO)![Leo Hazlewood signature]Leo HazlewoodAttachmentADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY
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SECRETOIM 98-008130 July 1998MEMORANDUM FOR:Chief, Counterintelligence Center, DOChief, Latin America Division, DOChief, CE Division, DOFROM:Lee StricklandChief, Information Review GroupOffice of Information Management.SUBJECT:(U) New Search of CI Files for JFKAssassination RecordsREFERENCE:(AIUO) Bulletin OIM EB No. 02-98,dated 22 July 19981. (U) The JFK Board has made a number of recent specific directed requests to assure that the Agency has complied fully with the requirements of the JFK Act. Among these was a request for issuance of the Reference Employee Bulletin, in which the DCI directed that employees leave "no stone unturned" in assuring that relevant documents are provided to the Commission.2. (U) In part because relevant new documents have surfaced within the past few months, the Board has also requested specific focus on renewed searches of the Agency's "counterintelligence files." The new documents have surfaced due to a variety of reasons, including references to assassination related personalities in recent defector reports, records made available because of the break up of the Soviet Union, and advances in search capabilities due to digitization of older paper files.SECRETCL BY: 644243CL REASON: 1.5CDECL ON: X1DRV FRM: HUM 4-82
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SECRETSUBJECT: (U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Assassination Records3. In discussions with the Board staff we have attempted to focus any new tasking on those areas in which they have expressed their greatest concern. It is imperative, however, that we satisfy the Board on these issues or the Agency will be subject to a determination by the Board that we are not in compliance with the JFK Act. Because of the impending statutory termination of the Board and their need to issue their report, there is some urgency associated with the conduct and completion of these searches. The searches must be completed by 6 August, 1998.4. (S) Databases to be Searched. The addressees to this memorandum are requested to perform new searches--using the search terms in paragraph 5--on ANY of your files which may contain information relating in any way to the JFK assassination, including, in particular, all records systems or files containing information on:*   James J. Angleton and his files*   Debriefings of defectors in which ANY reference to Oswald or the JFK assassination occurs (Example [I JDECANTER])5. (U) Search Terms and Time Periods. These new searches should focus on documents that might be retrievable with the following search terms over the referenced periods:*   The period 1959-1965 using the search terms Executive Action, Exaction, Ex Action.*   Post-1978 information combining the term "assassination" with President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, JFK, presidential threats, threats to U.S. President, attempt (or attempted), or the crypt GPIDEAL.*   Post-1978 information related to the following terms: Warren Commission, House Select Committee on Assassinations, HSCA, Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby, or GPFLOOR.2SECRET
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JUL 30 '98 03:36PM HIDSECRETSUBJECT: (U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Assassination Records6. Information is also sought on:*   The identity and current location of personnel (either the current assignment of employees or any knowledge of current location of retirees) who participated in debriefings or the preparation of reports on debriefings of [IJDECANTER.]*   The destruction of James J. Angleton's files.Such information should be brought immediately to the attention of the Historical Review Program, OIM (Barry Harrelson, [31825, Secure].![signature of James R. John for Lee S. Strickland]3SECRET
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ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY# EMPLOYEE BULLETINOIM EB No. 02-9822 July 1998OIM# FINAL DOCUMENT SEARCH TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH "PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992" (JFK ACT)FROM:George J. TenetDirector of Central Intelligence1. (U) As you know, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (Board) is completing its task of overseeing the search and declassification of all Federal government records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by 30 September 1998. The Board and we want to do everything possible to place before the American people the full story as reflected in government and other records.2. (U) The Agency has been working on this effort since 1992 and has searched all of the obvious databases. We want to make certain that we have left no stone unturned and that no employee has any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—including any records created [or received] after 1992. The reference to 1992 is largely intended to encompass documents which may have come into our hands since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.3. (AIUO) In accordance with the provisions of the JFK Act, I hereby direct all CIA personnel to consider documents in their possession or with which they are familiar that might have relevance to the Board's review and that might not have been found in the course of electronic or manual searches over the past six years. Representatives of the Historical Review Program believe that if such documents do exist they would, most likely, be found in files that would not be generally related to the assassination or that would not be "logical" areas for systematic searches. These include working paper files or smaller databases related to countries not normally associated with the assassination. Relevant documents can be in the form of papers, photographs, recordings, tapes, or other media, and can include documents "related to the assassination," such as later investigations, key topics/events within the Oswald/JFK Story, or material related to key figures—such as Nosenko.
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4. (AIUO) CIA personnel who believe they have information regarding documents relevant   to the JFK review that may not have been found in previous searches should contact their   component or directorate IRO or the JFK Project Coordinator. Directorate IROs and the   Agency's JFK Project Coordinator are as follows:Secure PhoneDO/IRO William McNair 44448DI/IRO Barbara Blufer 54644DS&T/IRO Teresa Wilcox 50104DA/IRO Becky Rant 31204DCI Area/IRO Mary Lou Cummings 39058JFK ProjectCoordinator Barry Harrelson 31825/s/Director of Central Intelligence
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ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLYOIM 98-008812 August 1998MEMORANDUM FOR:Deputy Director for AdministrationDeputy Director for IntelligenceDeputy Director for OperationsDeputy Director for Science and TechnologyAdministrative Officer, DCI AreaFROM:Edmund CohenDirector of Information ManagementSUBJECT:Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support of JFK ActREFERENCE:Memo, "CIA compliance with the JFK Assassinations Records Collection Act of 1992," dtd 15 Jul 98, fr the Assassination Records Review Board.1. The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of a requirement to provide to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board a "Final Declaration of Compliance" with the JFK Act. The declaration must include: a description of component searches undertaken in response to Board taskings since 1993; information on any possible destruction of assassination records; and a representation that a diligent search for assassination records was undertaken. We are in need of assistance of your staff in preparing the description of these items for inclusion in the compliance response.2. The referenced memorandum describes the Board's requirements for the "Final Declaration" in greater detail. Jim Oliver, Chief, Historical Review Program and Barry Harrelson, the Agency's JFK Review Focal Point, are meeting with the Directorate Information Review Officer and, as appropriate, other members of your staff to review the information needed to support the certifications which the Agency will need to make.ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY
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ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLYSUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support of JFK Act3. In order to meet the 1 September 1998 deadline prescribed by the Board, we request that the information described in paragraph 1 be sent to Mr. Harrelson by close of business, 21 August 1998![signature of Edmund Cohen]Edmund Cohen2ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY
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# Attachment III
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# Attachment IIIRecords Declassified and Released.**Summary.** This Attachment discusses the process used by CIA to declassify JFK assassination-related documents, including interaction with the Board and subsequent re-reviews of materials, as well as the personnel resources engaged in this effort. It discusses the volumes of records reviewed, the volumes of records declassified, and the manner in which the material has or will be made available to the public.**Discussion.** In response to the enactment of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and in anticipation of the appointment of the Review Board, CIA, during 1992 and 1993, reviewed for declassification material which had been sequestered following the investigation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978. As a result of this effort, CIA released as declassified to the National Archives in August 1993 some 127,000 pages of material from this collection. Since that time, additional releases have been made; approximately 74,000 pages from the microfilm part of the collection were declassified and released in August 1994 and 30,000 pages of HSCA originated material were declassified and released in 1995. We estimate that, since 1992, CIA has devoted over 100 work years to its effort to respond to the JFK Act (including experienced annuitants working as independent contractors).The development of the declassification review methodology was, from the beginning in 1992, an iterative process that took into account both the requirements of the JFK Act to release to the public information relevant to an understanding of the assassination and the DCI's statutory mandate to protect intelligence sources and methods under the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949.In the years since 1992, considerable effort has been expended to balancing these two objectives. Interaction with the Board's staff was a significant factor in reaching this proper balance. The net result is that practices over this period evolved to the extent that types of material that had been redacted at the beginning of the process were, by the end, no longer considered necessary to withhold. This has, of course, required a further re-review of the material released during the earlier period to assure that
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consistent standards were being used for the entire collection.Each document in the collection was read by an Historical Review Program (HRP) Reviewer in every case a retired officer with at least two decades of Agency experience who examined every word in the document with an eye toward releasing documents unless such release could be expected to cause damage to:*   Human intelligence assets or their families;*   Intelligence methodology clearly requiring continued protection;*   Intelligence operations or activities warranting continued protection, including relationships with foreign governments.The reviewed documents were then passed to teams of officers from the components that generated the documents (in most cases the Directorate of Operations), who were responsible for determining current sensitivity. The senior HRP reviewers validated the component groups' actions prior to forwarding the materials to the Board.Names of CIA employees who served all or most of their careers under cover posed particular problems and, while many names have been redacted, with Board concurrence for release at a later date, the current sensitivity, or lack thereof, of retired individuals' employment by CIA had to be checked in each case. Names of key players in the post- assassination scenario, as stipulated by the Board, were released as true names or with temporary and traceable substitute names. Identification by the Board of those who were considered key players was a complicated and time- consuming task. Significant review and analysis went into the decision to release true names of many Cubans connected with the Bay of Pigs.Material from the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations, presidential libraries and PFIAB files which addressed the entire scope of CIA activities raised issues with respect to relevance to the JFK assassination. For example, Project MONGOOSE, a clandestine portion of the publicly acknowledged U.S. anti-Castro policy, was released.Another major issue was consistency in reviewing duplicate copies of documents. In one case 47 copies of a cable were found by different reviewers in separate files2
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over the six years of our review process. The NationalArchives ground rules called for release of every copy forinclusion in the NARA collection; therefore, each of these47 copies is included as part of the total collection. Asduplicate copies were found, comparison with the 1993released version revealed not only inconsistencies buttextual phrasing which, in a mosaic of related documents,made likely the identification of a protected individual oraction. As a result, much re-review of the files wasrequired and did occur.Another time-consumer was the question of theidentification of overseas station locations, traditionallynot revealed--both to protect Agency individuals, activitiesand sources and to avoid foreign relations difficulties withforeign governments. In these cases, a window of time foracknowledgment of such facilities was negotiated, directlyrelevant to such actions as Oswald's travels and post-assassination requests for foreign government assistance inthe U.S. investigation.Except for redaction of names of CIA employees, truenames of clandestine agents (otherwise identified withtraceable cryptonyms), and currently-sensitive cooperationwith specific foreign intelligence services, the finalcollection in the National Archives will contain verylimited redactions and, in our opinion, none that wouldaffect an historian's understanding of the Agency'sinformation on, and relevance to, the event.3
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# Attachment IV
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# ATTACHMENT IV.## Perceived Gaps in CIA Records*Summary.* This Attachment addresses the Board's requested explanation for the apparent absence of files which are known to have existed (or for which there is some evidence that they existed at one time) but cannot now be located. Specifically, the Board asked for such information on the following: Oswald files; certain files of James Angleton; DCI McCone files; William Pawley; and Win Scott. This Attachment also addresses the Board's request that the Agency's Declaration "...identify any other records relating to Oswald or the assassination that CIA knows to have been destroyed or removed from CIA files."## Discussion.## Files on Lee Harvey Oswald(a) The Office of Security (OS) maintained a pre- assassination subject file on Oswald. This file contained newspaper articles and reports from other government agencies. As would be expected, the number of volumes of the subject file grew following the assassination. The pre- assassination material remained in volume one and subsequent material was filed in volumes numbered II through VI. However, during a February 1997 search, no volume V was found. A second thorough search of the OS file system failed to produce any record of Volume V. A careful page- by-page review of the contents of the existing volumes revealed there is no time gap in the material. Therefore, it is believed the label on Volume VI is simply incorrect; it should have been labeled Volume V.The OS Oswald subject file was reviewed by the HSCA in 1978; however, it was not stored with the rest of the sequestered material. There is no documentation on why this file was not incorporated into the sequestered collection held by the DO; eight boxes of non-Oswald OS files were in the collection. The Oswald Security File has been reviewed, declassified, and released to NARA.(b) There has been considerable interest over the years in locating any electronic surveillance tapes that would have been made during the period that Oswald visited Mexico (26 September - 2 October 1963). A thorough search has been conducted of the DO's record system as well as the index to retired records in an attempt to locate any tapes and/or find documentation to resolve their disposition. We have discussed this issue with operational experts and their
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professional opinion is that most likely such tapes were never returned to Headquarters for retention. It was normal practice to recycle audio tapes after they had been listened to by transcribers and their transcripts made.Messages between field stations and headquarters used operational jargon and shortened sentence structures that can sometimes allow for misinterpretations. Thus, possible confusion was created when references to what was being sent to headquarters referred to "tapes" but really intend "information" from tapes.In our search efforts we did locate approximately 185 audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City that were recorded during the immediate time following the assassination (22 November 1963 to January 1964). The fact that these tapes were retained and returned to Headquarters could account for the fact that some people recall that some tapes existed which were sent to Headquarters.Based upon the search efforts that were undertaken and the opinions of operational experts consulted, CIA has concluded that the tapes in question do not exist and were almost certainly recycled in the normal course of business before their potential value was identified.James J. Angleton (Chief, CounterIntelligence Staff, 1954-1974)As noted in a 24 August 1998 memo to the Board, the files of Mr. Angleton were incorporated within the files of the CI Staff and the Directorate of Operations. Three memoranda, dated 23 November 1976, 5 August 1977, and 29 November 1979, detail the review and incorporation into the DO Central Records System of the Angleton files as well as all the files found in CI Staff following Mr. Angleton's departure. As a result of this review and incorporation of files, there is no identifiable collection of Angleton files. The three memoranda mentioned above have been included in the Agency's JFK collection for processing and release to NARA.John McCone (Director of Central Intelligence, 1961-1965)Within the McCone papers are several file folders with notations that indicate documents are missing. However, each folder has an index of the documents that were originally within it. Of all the missing documents only two refer to the Kennedy assassination. One document is described as "Date of Meeting - 26 Nov; Participants - DCI &2
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Bundy; Subjects Covered - Msg concerning Pres. Kennedy'sassassination." The second document is described as "Dateof Meeting - 19 May '64; Participants - DCI, J.J. McCloy;Dinner at Residence - Re: Oswald. [The latter is annotated:"Destroyed 1-28-72."]Both documents were noted as missing when the fileswere reviewed by the CIA History Staff in November 1986.William Pawley (Industrialist; friend of DCI Dulles andsupporter of Anti-Castro activities)The JFK collection contains a 201 file on Mr. Pawleythat ends in 1962. The Directorate of Operations determinedthat material through 1965 that should have been in the 201file was filed in an operational file. Most of the materialwas already within the JFK collection. The Board staffreviewed all the documents within the operational file andselected additional documents for inclusion in the JFKcollection. This material will be processed for release toNARA.Win Scott (Chief of Station, Mexico City, 1956-1969)The Agency's Retired Record Table (RRT) shows Mr.Scott's Mexico City files were retired as Job 78-00594R on11 August 1972. These records were retired to the Agency'sArchives and Records Center under Item Number 40-76 in theDO Records Control Schedule in effect at that time. Filesunder Item Number 40-76 were described as:"Temporary. Destroy upon completion of a specific jobor as they serve their purpose. Return folders anddocuments on loan and destroy remaining papers."The RRT shows Job 78-00594R was destroyed on 12 January1987, based upon reference to Item Number 40-76 of theRecords Control Schedule.The RRT page showing the disposition of Mr. Scott'sfiles and the page of the Records Control Schedule whichdescribes Item Number 40-76 have been incorporated in theAgency's JFK collection and will be processed for release toNARA.Certain Station FilesWithin the Board's guidance for CIA's compliancedeclaration, the Board asked that the Agency specificallyaddress the existence, non-existence or destruction of files3