Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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by either the History Staff, the Historical Review Program, or more recently by the Publications Review Board -- pursuant to the personal manuscript standards -- to allow declassification or the creation of an unclassified version. By deeming or marking a given article as classified, we represent only that this personal writing contains some information of a proprietary (hence classified) nature to the US Government; that fact does not alter the nature of this private work or convert it into an official federal record containing official government information.6. The independence and integrity of the Board, and its historical commitment to academic traditions, has never been questioned by Agency management. I, as well as several of my predecessors, can recall no cases of interference by Agency management with the publication decisions of the Board, no matter how sensitive the subject matter or critical of the Agency. Indeed, it is the antithesis of official information and the embodiment of personal, academic scholarship and work. The very intent is academic in the context of educational mentoring from one individual to those in succeeding generations. The Agency teaches through its institutional and official course materials; individual intelligence officers teach personally through Studies.
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7. For the foregoing reasons, I believe that, while ``Studies in Intelligence" is published under the auspices   of the United States Government, it is neither an expression   of official information nor an official release of official   Executive Branch information, but rather a forum for the   private academic expressions of the authors.8. Executed this 13th day of February 1998 at Fairfax   County, Virginia.BRIAN LATELL
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13-00000g:\ipcrdwp\general\lss\arrb_dec.doc12 february 1998draft by marty; revisions by lss
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# 13-00000# Central Intelligence Agency![Seal of Central Intelligence Agency]Washington DC 2050519 March 1998# CLASSIFIED ATTACHMENTMr. T. Jeremy GunnExecutive DirectorAssassination Records Review Board600 E Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20530Dear Mr. Gunn:# CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RELEASE AS SANITIZEDRe: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THECENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TOTHE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATIONRECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992The following is a listing of the principal measures taken to date by the Agency to fulfill the requirements of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (the Act). Note: it does not include the numerous informal meetings, conversations, and exchanges between ARRB and HRP staff members, many of which covered all of the measures.## INITIAL SEARCHESa. In early 1992, even before the Act was passed, the Chief of the CIA History Staff reported to the Director that the staff had located all of the so-called "sequestered collection" (those records compiled by the Agency for the House Select Committee On Assassinations investigation) and had surveyed these and other related holdings on the assassination both at Headquarters and at the Agency records center. The sequestered collection contained sixty-four record center-size boxes. In addition, the staff had located sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that were collected for the Warren Commission.b. Before the ARRB was appointed by the President, John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group/Center for the Study of Intelligence, sent a memorandum dated 25 October 1993 to the Agency directorates requesting a name search on Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination, and any documents related to the assassination. This effort and discussions with various Agency components and Agency Information Release Officers over the past four years resulted in more
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Mr. T. Jeremy Gunnthan 31 additional boxes of materials being sent for review. Included within this material were 19 boxes of JFK working files based on the sequestered collection, two boxes on Nosenko, seven boxes of LA Division documents and three boxes from the Bay of Pigs period. Not all of this material is related to the JFK story; and in some boxes only a few folders had anything to do with the assassination or events surrounding it. To date, the ARRB staff has designated approximately 22 boxes of this material as assassination records. In addition, about 400 pages of material from an FOIA request for minutes of the DCI's morning meetings which related to JFK were added to the collection. The search for documents is a continuing effort. Guidelines for this effort have been sent to Agency individuals and components which review documents and materials in the course of their work.REVIEWSc. Historical Review Group, now the Historical Review Program, reviewed boxes 1 through 63 of the sequestered collection and the Oswald 201 file and released most of the documents therein either in full or in sanitized form to the National Archives in August 1993. The total number of pages released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was approximately 123,000. An additional release of approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA material from the sequestered collection was made in 1995.d. Box 64 of the sequestered collection contained 72 reels of microfilm primarily dealing with Directorate of Operations materials and Office of Security files. In addition there'were 22 reels of 201 files on 151 individuals. Following release of the main collection in August 1993, HRG staff members reviewed the microfilm files and released approximately 74,000 pages of material to the National Archives either in full or in sanitized form.e. The status of HRP's review of additional records and re-review of the sequestered collection will be addressed in regular progress reports to the ARRB staff.REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDS AND INFORMATIONf. The Agency maintains a rather unique and non-integrated files system which precludes a single query on' a particular subject and the expected response from the files2
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13-00000Mr. T. Jeremy Gunnof all directorates. Following coordination with the ARRBstaff, the Agency arranged for the staff to be briefed by arepresentative of each directorate concerning the nature ofthe files within the directorate -- how they are organized,maintained, searched, and how they have been searchedpreviously for assassination-related materials. Followingthis effort, the ARRB staff asked for a number of additionalsearches by the Agency and they are in various stages ofcompletion.g. In addition, pursuant to requests both formal andinformal from the ARRB staff, HRP has tasked variouselements of the Agency to conduct special searches for othermaterials thought to be relevant to the assassination story.Included in this category was the Oswald security file whichwas found and has been examined by the ARRB staff. Althougha number of the requests are still outstanding, considerablematerial has been provided for review by the ARRB staff someof which has been found to be relevant. These materialsinclude the History Staff's histories on various CIAoperations and Agency components; files on specificindividuals involved in either the Warren Commission or HSCAinvestigations; and the product of CIA internal reviews ofprograms and operations. Those parts of these materialswhich are determined by the ARRB staff to have relevancy tothe assassination story will be reviewed by HRP andreleased as completed.The status, results, and documentation of specificrequests are to be addressed in a separate memorandum.Sincerely,![Signature]J. Barry HarrelsonJFK Project Officer3
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# Assassination Records Review Board600 E Street NW · 2nd Floor · Washington, DC 20530(202) 724-0088 · Fax: (202) 724-0457July 7, 1998HAND DELIVERYMr. J. Barry HarrelsonChief, JFK ProjectHistorical Review ProgramOffice of Information ManagementCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, D.C. 20505.Re: Final Search for all Original CIA Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. KennedyDear Barry:This letter is in follow-up to our meeting of June 26, 1998, where we discussed the comprehensiveness of CIA's search for assassination records. As we expressed in the meeting, the Assassination Records Review Board is extremely concerned as to whether all original records held by the Central Intelligence Agency, particularly those controlled by the Directorate of Operations, have been identified in previous searches for records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.The Review Board is aware that the former Chief of the Historical Review Group, John Pereira, ordered a search of all CIA records in 1993. Since that date, however, we have identified at least three examples of records clearly relevant to the assassination that have been identified through the efforts of the Review Board staff and that were subsequently located by CIA. These records were not identified through the 1993 CIA search.In order to comply with the strictures of the JFK Act and to ensure that all original CIA records relevant to the assassination are identified, the Review Board requests the following:1.  CIA conduct a new search of all Office of Security and Directorate of Operations (including all counterintelligence components), for any documents relevant to the assassination. Particular care should be taken to examine possibly relevant documents dated shortly before and any time after the 1993 search.
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Mr. J. Barry MarrelsonJuly 7, 1998Page 22. CIA Director George Tenet send a directive to all CIA personnel that explictly requires all offices to search their files and notify the Historical Review Program immediately if they have any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—including any records created after 1992.3. CIA arrange for a meeting between the Review Board staff and appropriate CIA officials to discuss CIC and other counterintelligence records.4. CIA conduct a search for updated or continued records on individuals, from a list of names to be provided by the Review Board, of subjects who were of interest to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. We are particularly interested in any records that CIA acquired on these subjects since the original files were sequestered in 1978. A list will be provided to you shortly.The Review Board appreciates your cooperation and assistance in resolving these issues. As time is growing short, we would like very much to ensure that these matters are handled expeditiously.Sincerely,T. Jeremy GunnExecutive Directorcc: Assassination Records Review BoardMr. James OliverLee Strickland, Esq.
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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) 724-0457July 15, 1998VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAILRobert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.General CounselCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, D.C. 20505![CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED]Re: CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992Dear Mr. McNamara:I am writing to address the completion of CIA's outstanding obligations under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 ("JFK Act"), including submission by CIA of a Final Declaration of Compliance certifying, under the Act, its work to identify and release records relating to President Kennedy's assassination. As we have advised CIA previously, the Final Declaration will constitute CIA's representations, under penalty of perjury, regarding disclosure of its records relating to the Kennedy assassination.Accordingly, set forth below is our understanding of (1) the status for completion of CIA's work under the JFK Act and (2) the form and content of CIA's Final Declaration.## A. Completion of CIA's Work Under the JFK Act### 1. Processing of CIA Assassination Records by September 1998We confirmed with CIA that it intends to place into the JFK Assassination Records Collection ("JFK Collection") at the National Archives and Records Administration ("NARA"), by September 1998, all identified assassination records except certain documents confirmed by the Review Board staff as being duplicates, which may be processed later.[^1] Thus, CIA commits to placing the following assassination records into the JFK Collection by September 30, 1998:[^1]: In addition, some peripheral documents may be processed after September 1998, but only if identified beforehand to, and approved by, the Review Board.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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Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.July 15, 1998Page 2• Non-duplicate documents within the hardcopy set of the CIA-House Select Committee on Assassinations ("HSCA") Sequestered Collection (i.e, CIA files that were reviewed by the HSCA for its investigation of the JFK assassination and which were sequestered pursuant to agreement of the CIA and HSCA).[^2]• Non-duplicate documents within the microfilm version of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection (the microfilm version is a more expansive set of records than the hardcopy set of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection in that it contains complete underlying files, not just the specific records reviewed by the HSCA).[^3]• Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK Collection.[^4] As for the microfilm copy of the Oswald 201 file (which we assume duplicates the original Oswald 201 file processed by the CIA), we request that it be placed in the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September 1998 (after Review Board examination). Certain recently discovered documents relating to Oswald also must be added to the JFK Collection.• Lee Harvey Oswald's Office of Security File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK Collection.• Marina Oswald's 201 File. While Marina Oswald's 201 file has been processed for the JFK Collection (as part of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection), we request that the original file be transferred to the protected portion of the JFK[^2]: As CIA has reported, the hard copy and microfilm versions of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection were first placed into the JFK Collection in 1993 and 1994. See CIA Initial Statement of Compliance (dated March 19, 1998), at 2. Documents from those collections are being re-processed, however, to the extent that the Review Board has mandated that such documents be opened up to a greater extent.[^3]: NARA reports that it does not have the computerized version of the record identification forms ("RIFs") for documents in the microfilm Sequestered Collection. CIA explained that it must first complete the processing of non-duplicates and update the computer data before that data is transferred to NARA. CIA anticipates that this will be done sometime after October 1998.[^4]: However, NARA reports that many documents do not have the proper RIFs attached. CIA will coordinate with NARA to correct this.
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Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.July 15, 1998Page 3Collection by September 1998.*   Non-duplicate documents within Kennedy assassination working files of CIA officer Russ Holmes (19 boxes).*   Non-duplicate documents selected from 7 boxes of Latin American Division working files.*   CIA organizational materials, including the JMWAVE organizational chart specifically designated as an assassination record by the Review Board [CIA-1].[^5]*   Excerpts of certain CIA histories designated by the Review Board [CIA-7].*   Excerpts of CIA's "Family Jewels" memorandum [CIA-IR-08].[^6]*   Excerpts of a CIA personnel file that relate to organized crime/Cuba [CIA-IR-13].*   Excerpts of the personnel file of Mr. George E. Joannides, the case officer responsible for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) during a period in the early 1960's [CIA-IR-21].*   CIA "A" files for Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison [CIA-IR-22].*   Designated Watch Committee Reports [CIA-IR-23].*   Oswald-related documents from the a general defector file maintained by the CIA's Office of Security [CIA-IR-24].*   Certain records from the files of former CIA Director John McCone as designated by the Review Board [CIA-IR-28].[^5]: "CIA-1" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified by the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to a formal, written request (numbered 1) from the Review Board.[^6]: "CIA-IR-08" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified by the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to an informal request (numbered 8) from the Review Board.
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Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.July 15, 1998Page 4*   Designated records from security files of Jack Ruby, Walter Sheridan, Harold Weisberg, Richard Case Nagel, and Gordon Novel [CIA-IR-27].*   Excerpts from the calendar of former CIA Director Allen Dulles [CIA-IR-31].In addition to the assassination records identified above, the Review Board currently is inspecting additional files CIA has made available in response to Review Board requests. We may designate additional assassination records from these files. They are: intelligence community reports on Cuba/Soviet Union [CIA-9]; files relating to CIA officials stationed at JMWAVE [CIA-12]; and files of various high-level CIA officials (former Deputy CIA Directors Charles Cabell and Marshall Carter, former Deputy Directors for Plans Richard Bissell and Richard Helms, former General Counsel Lawrence Houston, C. Tracy Barnes, and William Harvey) [CIA-IR-34]. Additional assassination records may be identified from other requests for additional information.2. Mexico City Tapes [CIA-IR-15]We also have discussed with CIA the potential processing of recordings maintained by CIA and apparently reflecting audio surveillance of certain "Soviet bloc" and Cuban facilities in Mexico City for the period November 22, 1963 through early January 1964, including possible surveillance of the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. Because CIA has not yet listened to the full tapes, it could not yet confirm the targets or substance of this "electronic take." CIA has committed to listening first to the tapes for the period November 22-23, 1963 (approximately 18 tapes), and thereafter will discuss with the Review Board potential placement of these and later audio recordings into the JFK Collection. CIA said it will complete its review of the November 22-23 tapes in July.3. Processing of Duplicate Documents under the JFK Acta. The CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. Although a version of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection (both microfilm and hardcopy) were placed in the JFK Collection in 1993 and 1994, the CIA has since been forwarding more open versions of certain documents in light of Review Board decisions. All such "re-processed" documents will be placed in the JFK Collection by September 1998 except that, to the extent that there are other duplicate copies of these re-processed documents in the Sequestered Collection, such duplicates will be re-processed and placed into the JFK Collection within one year after the Review Board terminates (i.e., by September 1999).b. Russ Holmes Collection. The CIA currently has not placed the Russ Holmes
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Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.July 15, 1998Page 5Collection (consisting of CIA officer Russ Holmes' working files relating to the Kennedy assassination) into the JFK Collection. The Review Board recognizes that many documents within the Holmes files may be duplicates of CIA documents found in the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection or Oswald 201 file. Nonetheless, the Review Board considers placement of the Holmes files into the JFK Collection to be of paramount importance in view of the selection and organization of documents that was made by a CIA officer. Accordingly, the CIA has committed to placing into the JFK Collection, by September 1998, all documents from the Holmes files not found elsewhere in the CIA materials at NARA. Duplicates of documents found elsewhere in the open JFK Collection can be processed after September 1998.Given the unique organization of the Russ Holmes files, however, the Review Board requests that CIA make every effort to process those files, in their entirety, as soon as possible. Our understanding is that CIA will attempt to place the complete set of Holmes files, including duplicates, into the JFK Collection by December 1998 but absolutely no later than September 1999.4. Custody of CIA Assassination Records to be Released in 2017We have discussed with CIA its concerns regarding physical custody of certain records whose release has been postponed, under the JFK Act, until 2017. CIA has indicated that it may want to retain physical custody of certain postponed records pending disclosure in 2017.The Review Board believes that original, postponed records should presumptively be held by NARA in accordance with the JFK Act. See 44 U.S.C. § 2107(5)(e)(2) ("Each Government office shall... transmit to the Archivist...all assassination records the public disclosure of which has been postponed... to become part of [NARA's] protected Collection.") Accordingly, all postponed assassination records of the CIA should presumptively be transferred to the legal and physical custody of NARA by September 30, 1998. The Review Board requests that the originals of any postponed records from the Oswald 201 file, the Oswald Office of Security file, and the Marina Oswald 201 file be placed in the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September 1998. The Review Board understands that originals of postponed records from the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection and the Holmes Collection would be transferred in September 1999 after duplicates have been processed.To the extent CIA believes that certain other records, particularly those designated as NBR, must remain in CIA's physical custody until 2017, we suggest further discussions
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Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.July 15, 1998Page 6to resolve definitively how those record groups will be handled.5. Completion of CIA Responses to Review Board RequestsWe have identified certain Review Board requests for additional information (both formal and informal) for which responses are still due from CIA. We understand that some outstanding responses are in draft form or otherwise nearing completion. CIA's completion of all outstanding responses is an essential aspect of its compliance with the JFK Act. We identified the following responses due from CIA (certain priority items are listed first):Priority Responses DueAccounting of Pre-Assassination Files on Oswald (partial response received) [CIA-16]Accounting of James Angleton Files [CIA-IR-04]Accounting of Electronic "Take" from Mexico City [CIA-IR-15]Possible Foreign Source for Oswald Records [CIA-IR-05]Possible IG reports re Oswald [CIA-IR-10]Files on Warren Commission Critics [CIA-IR-11]S. Breckenridge Files [CIA-IR-14]Other Responses DueIntelligence Community Staff Records [CIA-8]Interagency Source Register [CIA-10]Computer Search for HTLINGUAL Documents [CIA-IR--03]QKENCHANT [CIA-IR-06]Contacts with Journalists [CIA-IR-12]