Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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13-00000SECRETExecutive Order8 October 1997JFK Records Review Project(U) The following is intended as a guide for those people whose work requires them to review Agency documents and materials that may be subject to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Some of the records within the Agency's JFK collection are assassination specific, others are ancillary. They deal with individuals and events not directly linked with Oswald or the assassination; but they are thought to have had a relationship to the assassination, or investigation into the assassination.I. The Agency's JFK Collection.(U) The Agency's JFK records collection is made up primarily of records pulled together for the Warren Commission and House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). There were eighty-one (81) Records Center-sized boxes in the original collection. Of these, the first seventeen (17) made up the Oswald 201 file. The next sixty-four (64) are referred to as the "JFK files" or sequestered collection and break down as follows: thirty-four (34) boxes of DO materials; nine (9) boxes of Office of Security files; fifteen (15) boxes of OLC materials; two (2) boxes each of OGC and IG materials; and one (1) box of DDS&T documents. HSCA originated material, including notes by HSCA staff members, are found throughout the collection. Box 64 contains seventy two (72) reels of microfilm.(U) The microfilm contains copies of complete files to which the HSCA had access during its investigation. In addition to the Oswald 201 file (12 reels), the microfilm includes: 201 files on Cubans, Americans, and Soviets linked to Oswald, the JFK assassination or the various investigations (approximately 26 reels) and the Cuban Revolutionary Council and other exile group activities (approximately 13 reels); the personnel files of CIA staff employees (approximately 5 reels); and operational files on organizations, projects, and other subjects of interest to the HSCA investigation (approximately 16 reels).```CL BY:CL REASON:DECL ON:DRV FRM:6116371.5 (c)X1LOC 3-82SECRET```
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(U) We continue to identify other collections of documents that properly belong within the JFK collection. These include: The Oswald Security File; Agency working files generated by JFK assassination investigations and requests; and CIA documents found by other agencies and Presidential/ Libraries and referred to CIA for review under the JFK Act.## II. The Time Frame of JFK Assassination Records.(U) In general, the time frame of JFK records commences when Oswald arrived at the US air base (the U-2) at Atsugi, Japan, in December 1957 and continues through the end of the Garrison investigation in 1968. Note, however, for information which is clearly related to the story of the JFK assassination or its investigations, there is no time frame limitation. Any document or request that deals with the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, or the various conspiracy theories should be referred to the HRG/JFK review project.## III. Key Topics, Etc.(U) Certain individuals, organizations, places, projects, and subjects are *central* to the Oswald/JFK story and the ensuing investigations, which causes a number of documents with no mention of Oswald or the assassination to fall within the purview of the JFK Act. Clearly, it is not possible to list every category of document which may have been reviewed and released under the JFK Assassination Records Act. The following categories contain examples of information that are considered to be within the JFK review.(U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations:-- Warren Commission, 1963-64-- James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68-- Rockefeller Commission, * 1975;-- Church Committee (Senate), * 1975-76-- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), 1976-79* JFK Assassination, anti-Castro plots and CIA anti- Cuban operations only.B. Key subjects(S) -- Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, JMWAVE Station, and CIA stations in those cities through which Oswald passed on his way to and from the Soviet Union, as they related to Oswald's activities or to possible conspiracies.
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(AIUO)- CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 (Mongoose, etc.) if they involve JFK figures (see comment on Meagher's "index" below); most US anti-Castro activities in 1963 are considered relevant.(U) Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders and organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures.-- Castro assassination activities (plans and attempts); no limit on time frame.-- Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK, or New Orleans during Oswald time frames (see attached chronology).(AIUO)C. Key figures (the following individuals are considered JFK assassination-related, unless the context is clearly unrelated or outside the appropriate time period)-- AMMUG, Cuban defector;-- Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any reference);-- Silvia Duran, employee in Cuban Embassy, Mexico City:-- Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee;-- Howard Hunt, CIA employee;-- Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist;-- Valeriy Kostikov, KGB officer in Mexico city;-- Mr. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents)-- Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides;-- Michael and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds;-- David Phillips, CIA employee;-- Richard Snyder, State Department Officer.-- Winston Scott, COS Mexico CityFor a more comprehensive list of subjects and individuals related to the JFK assassination, reviewers should consult Sylvia Meagher's Master Index to the JFK Assassination Investigations, The Scarecrow Press, 1980.(U) Action Officer: Barry Harrelson (31825)Attachment: Oswald Chronology
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(U) Attachment:Oswald Chronology, 1956-1963--Joins Marines 10/26/56--Arrives Atsugi (U2 Base) Japan 09/12/57--Returns to US 11/02/58--Hardship discharge 09/11/59--Departs New Orleans for Moscow 09/20/59via LeHavre, London, Helsinki--Arrives Moscow 10/16/59--Resides in Minsk 01/07/60- 05/22/62--Departs Moscow via train 06/02/62--Departs Rotterdam via ship 06/04/62--Arrives New York 06/13/62--Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas 06/14/62 - 04/63--New Orleans 04/63 -09/63--Mexico City 09/25/63 - 10/03/63--Dallas 10/3/63 11/24/63
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October 16, 1997**HAND-DELIVERED**J. Barry HarrelsonSenior Review OfficerHistorical Review GroupCenter for the Study of IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, D.C. 02505Re: Submission of CIA's Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFKAssassination Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107Dear Barry:In connection with the work of the CIA to locate and release records relating to President Kennedy's assassination pursuant to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 ("JFK Act"), please submit to the Review Board the CIA's initial formal report regarding its work.As you know, the procedures for documenting the CIA's compliance with the JFK Act were set forth in the Review Board's November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA Director. These procedures entailed the submission of an intial report by the CIA, which we referred to as an Initial Statement of Compliance. This past Spring, we informally agreed to extend the time for submission of the Initial Compliance Statement pending ongoing work of the CIA under the JFK Act.To facilitate the completion of the CIA's work by September 1998, including the submission to Congress of a final report detailing the work accomplished by the CIA and other Federal agencies under the JFK Act, please submit the CIA's Initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board no later than November 6, 1997.
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13-00000Mr. J. Barry HarrelsonOctober 16, 1997Page 2Thank you for your cooperation.Sincerely,T. Jeremy GunnExecutive Directorand General Counselcc: Linda Cipriani Esq.
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# DRAFTAssassination Records Review Board600 E Street NW · 2nd Floor · Washington, DC 20530(202) 724-0088 · Fax: (202) 724-0457October 17, 1997Mr. John PereiraDirectorHistorical Review GroupCenter for the Study of IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, DC 20505CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TODECLASSIFICATION AND/ORRELEASE OF CIA INFORMATIONIN THIS DOCUMENTRe: Completion of Review of Assassination RecordsDear John:The Assassination Records Review Board ("Review Board") has less than one year to complete its statutory responsibility of ensuring that all Federal records related to the assassination of President Kennedy are made publicly available at the National Archives and Records Administration ("NARA"). Because of the importance to the Review Board of completing the review and release of Central Intelligence Agency records, I am taking this opportunity to raise with you some of our concerns and to describe our goals.Let me first reiterate our deep appreciation for the cooperation that we have received thus far from the Agency. We are very mindful of the enormous amount of work that has been accomplished thus far. We very much hope to be able to report, at the completion of our work, that the Agency has fully complied with the letter and spirit of the JFK Act and that the Review Board is confident that all CIA assassination records have been fully processed and transferred to the National Archives. Unfortunately, it is clear at this point that the pace of review of CIA records will need to increase significantly during this final year so that the Review Board and the CIA will be able to complete our responsibilities and that the Review Board can issue the type of report that we all ideally envision.It is our goal to have all CIA assassination records reviewed and transferred to NARA by September 1, 1998. By "all" assassination records, I include the unredacted originals as well as copies containing Board-approved postponements. (I am excluding, therefore, duplicates of those records that have been transferred to NARA.) The Review Board is prepared to take all necessary steps within its statutory authority to ensure that this work is accomplished.BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair · Henry F. Graff · Kermit L. Hall · William L. Joyce · Anna K. NelsonEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell
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13-00000Mr. John PereiraOctober 17, 1997Page 2The Review Board has promised Congress that this work will be completed by September 1998. The Review Board also is obligated to keep Congress informed, on a monthly basis, of the steps it has taken to ensure completion of this goal. We now need to keep Congress informed of any difficulties that we are facing in the course of completing this work.As you know, the JFK Act in many ways imposed difficult obligations. For example, it required the CIA (and other agencies) to complete its review and transfer of records to NARA within 300 days of the time the statute was enacted in 1993. Although this statutory deadline was not met, we would like to make it as clear as we possibly cân that we intend to ensure that the goal to review and transfer all assassination records to NARA is accomplished during the lifetime of the Review Board.We have raised with you previously our concerns about whether the Agency has allocated sufficient resources to complete its work on its assassination records by September 1, 1998. In a meeting at CIA headquarters on October 16, 1996, CIA Executive Director Nora Slatkin promised members of the Review Board that the CIA would devote whatever resources are necessary to complete the task.In order to ensure that this work is completed, the Review Board has developed a timetable for review of remaining CIA records. The CIA's Historical Review Group suggests that refinement of the timetable is necessary, but has of yet offered no specific changes.In order to fulfill our responsibilities under the JFK Act and in order to honor our pledge to Congress, we believe that the following steps are necessary:First, we need to establish a reasonable but strict schedule for the CIA's review and release of records. The CIA must devote all of the resources necessary to review the records under this schedule. We believe that the only way to ensure that the CIA's work is completed is to adhere to such a schedule.Second, if the CIA has not completed its scheduled review by the proposed deadline, the Review Board will require that all CIA records identified as assassination records under the JFK Act be transferred forthwith to the National Archives regardless of whether they have been reviewed or processed by the CIA pursuant to the Board's authority at 44 U.S.C. § 2107.7(j)(B).
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13-00000Mr. John PereiraOctober 17, 1997Page 3Third, the Board will presumptively vote to open in full all records that have not been reviewed in conformity with the schedule.We can assure you that we have no desire whatsoever to take steps two and three. However, at this point, we see no other method for satisfying our obligation to ensure that the CIA's assassination-related records are released by September 1998, unless the CIA agrees to schedule the review in a timely, consistent, methodical, and enforceable manner. Although you should not hesitate to contact us regarding any ideas you have for streamlining or improving the accomplishment of this task, there should be no misunderstanding by the Agency regarding what we believe our goal to be and the steps that we are prepared to take to ensure the fulfillment of our statutory obligations and our promises to Congress. It is our perception that if the Agency allocates additional resources to the accomplishment of this project, we all will be able to accomplish the goals of the JFK Act.We therefore strongly urge the Agency to allocate now whatever resources are necessary to complete its review records in an orderly and systematic manner. To the extent that the Agency is able to meet the necessary deadlines, there will be no need for us to resort to the extreme -- but potentially necessary - measures to complete our obligations to Congress and the American people.Sincerely,T. Jeremy GunnExecutive DirectorSkwirot e:\wp-docs\ciastatu.wpd
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# Assassination Records Review Board600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530(202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202)724-0457![Assassination Records Review Board Logo]October 30, 1997![CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED]VIA FACSIMILEJ. Barry HarrelsonSenior Review OfficerHistorical Review GroupCenter for the Study of IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, D.C. 02505Re: Submission of CIA's Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFKAssassination Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107Dear Mr. Harrelson:I have been asked by Jeremy Gunn to take responsibility, along with Robert Skwirot and Michelle Combs, for handling the Review Board's JFK Act Compliance Program with respect to the Central Intelligence Agency.Mr. Gunn has informed me that you have agreed to provide us with the CIA's initial compliance statement (as it is described in our November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA) by the end of November 1997. Thereafter, we can establish a reasonable time for the CIA to prepare and submit its Final Declaration of Compliance. The CIA's Final Declaration will be submitted to Congress and the President.Thank you for your cooperation.Sincerely,![Signature of Ronald G. Haron]Ronald G. HaronAssociate General Counselcc: Linda Cipriani, Esq.BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair Henry F. Graff Kermit L. Hall William L. Joyce Anna K. NelsonEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell
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13-00000![Assassination Records Review Board logo]**Assassination Records Review Board**600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TODECLASSIFICATION AND/ORRELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENTAS SANITIZEDFebruary 11, 1998VIA FACSIMILEMr. J. Barry HarrelsonSenior Review OfficerHistorical Review GroupCenter for the Study of IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, D.C. 02505Re: CIA Initial Compliance Statement To Be Submitted Under the JFK AssassinationRecords Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107Dear Mr. Harrelson:Thank you for submitting to the Review Board the CIA's December 11, 1997 DRAFT ofits initial Statement of Compliance under the President John F. Kennedy AssassinationRecords Collection Act ("JFK Act"). You submitted the draft to obtain the ReviewBoard's initial comments. We have made a preliminary review of the draft and offerthe following comments.The Statement is helpful in providing general background history regarding themeasures undertaken by the CIA to assemble files relating to the assassination ofPresident Kennedy. The Statement also gives a good overview description of thosefiles. At this time, we do not propose that you make any major changes that woulddelay the formal submission of the initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board.[^1][^1]: We note that the initial draft statement generally describes the recordsidentified in response to specific Review Board requests. For the initial ComplianceStatement, this will be sufficient. To the extent that additional records are lateridentified or requests completed, these can be included in the Final Declaration ofCompliance. We also note that "[t]he status, results and documentation of specific[Review Board] requests" are more specifically being addressed in separate memorandabeing submitted to the Review Board, and this process is ongoing. These responses areextremely helpful in articulating what the CIA has done to search for records on the JFKassassination. Therefore, the Review Board will request that these detailed responsesultimately be incorporated by reference into the Final Declaration of Compliance.BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. NelsonEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy Gunn • DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Thomas E. Samoluk
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13-00000Mr. J. Barry HarrelsonFebruary 11, 1997Page 2Therefore, please submit the CIA's official initial Statement of Compliance to the Review Board as soon as possible, but no later than March 16, 1998.After formal submission of the CIA's initial Statement of Compliance, we would schedule an informal interview with you (and perhaps other members of the Historical Review Group) to ask questions regarding the Compliance Statement and regarding the sufficiency of the CIA's record searches. After addressing any outstanding issues, the CIA would thereafter submit its Final Declaration of Compliance.I recognize that you are extremely busy processing CIA records for inclusion in the JFK Collection. However, it is essential that the CIA devote sufficient time and attention to its Final Declaration of Compliance because, as we have stated before, the Final Declaration will constitute the CIA's representation to the American public, under oath, that the CIA has diligently searched for records relating to the JFK assassination and that the CIA is not withholding any materials regarding the assassination.Sincerely,![Signature of Ronald G. Haron]Ronald G. HaronAssociate General Counselcc: Linda Cipriani, Esq. (By facsimile)
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# BEFORETHE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARDWASHINGTON, D.C.# CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONSRELEASE IN FULL2000# DECLARATION OF BRIAN LATELLI, Brian Latell, do hereby declare and say:1.  I presently serve as the Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence (``CSI'') for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (``CIA or ``Agency'') and have held this position since September 1994. I also hold the position of Chairman of the Editorial Board (``Board'') for *Studies in Intelligence (Studies)*, a publication of CSI. I have served as a foreign intelligence officer for the United States Government for over 36 years and, at CIA, I have held a variety of senior positions of management and analytical responsibility including serving as a member of the National Intelligence Council for 14 years and National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Latin America for four of those years. I hold a doctorate, masters and undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, have served as a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and presently hold an appointment to Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service as an Adjunct Professor.
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2. The purpose of this declaration is to provide the   Assassination Records Review Board with my view of the   status of *Studies* as a classified publication available   within the Intelligence Community and as an unclassified   publication available to the public. I make the following   statements based upon my personal knowledge, information,   made available to me in my official capacity, and the   conclusions I reached in accordance therewith.3. *Studies* is an independent, scholastic endeavor with   the mission to promote scholarship in intelligence   literature. Articles submitted to *Studies* are intended for   educational purposes only and present solely the personal,   academic views of the individual authors. The final   responsibility for accepting or rejecting an article rests   with the Board. Its criterion for publication is whether   the article makes a contribution to the literature of   intelligence. Articles submitted to *Studies* are not   required to be coordinated through channels and, indeed, are   not vetted through management by either the Board or the   author. In addition to senior Agency officers, the Board   also has membership representing other agencies of the   Intelligence Community.
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4. In the beginning of *Studies*, articles were primarily written by CIA authors. In the past decade, however, *Studies* has been enriched by an increasing number of contributions from authors from other components of the Intelligence Community, from members of the academic world in the United States and abroad, and from a few private citizens, most of whom have had some past intelligence connection. The Board welcomes this trend and looks forward to increasing contributions from non-Agency authors.5. Once an article is submitted for consideration in *Studies* it is circulated to the members of the Board for their review. The Board then decides whether an article meets the criteria for publication and, if it does, begins the publication process. All unclassified submissions are reviewed by the Publications Review Board (PRB)[^1] to ensure the unclassified nature of the article. The articles are edited, approved by the Chief of CSI, and published in the classified version of *Studies*. Most of the unclassified articles published in this version are then picked up by the unclassified version of *Studies* and with further slight editing are published. If an article has been deemed to contain classified information by its author, and it is subsequently requested to be released, it will be reviewed[^1]: PRB is the same body that reviews private writings proposed for publication by current and former Agency employees as required under Agency regulation.