Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Theoharis -- Apendix B(5) Burem file 67-322 also reflects that, in April 1929, the Bureau conducted an investigation entitled, "William H. Vander Poel, Henry N. Grunewald, Application for Comission in Officer's Reserve Corps." It is noted that Vander Poel had served as an agent of the Bureau of Investigation during World War I. At the time of the investigation, both were seeking to obtain a som-mission in the United States Aray. The Bureau's Lavestigation reflested that Grunewald was not trustworthy, possessed a bad reputation and had boon indisted for violation of the National Prohibition Act, although he was not convicted of this offense. This information was furnished to the Military Intelligmes Service by memoranda to the Department dated May 6, 1929, and september 10, 1929.(6) Bureau file 65-6165 reflects that at the request of ir. Stephen T. Early, Secretary to the President, the Bureau conducted an investigation in June and July, 1940, entitled, "Harry H. Woodring; Henry Willian Grunewald, also known as Henry Gruenwald, Frederich Wilhelm Grunewald, and Henri Grunewalds Misconduct in Office, Espionage." Mr. Early's request was based on allegations received fromdete the effect that Grunewald was believed to be "in cahoots with senator Gerald P. Kye and that had told that Grunewald, on two eccasions, had given the secretary a check in the sum of $4000 for Senator Eye. It was alleged that Grunemld had intimated this money came from Secretary of Mr, Harry E. Woodring and that the money was paid in connection with Kar Department negotiations. On June 25, 1940, the Darem received a memorandum from the Military Intelligence Service ref reflecting that Mr. Smith K. Brookhart had informed that service that he had learned through an alleged employee of the 'French-English Intelligenes Service in 1917-1918 that the head of Hazi espionage in Washington, D. C., s Froderish Kilbela Grunewald, also known as Henry Million Galdet Apartments, Bashington, D. C. It is noted that Donald at that tim me an residing in the Westchester Apartasate and during 1937 404 Grunewald shared offices with NeDonald and former senator arthur 1. Robinson, in the Mansey building, Washington, D. C. (1)(1) 65-6165-3
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# 13-00000Memorandum to Mr. TolsonAt the conclusion of our discussion, the Justice reiterated once again the action he planned to take with the establishment of an "arbitrator." He stated that I should keep in touch with him on a confidential basis regarding this matter. He also stated that I should not hesitate in the future to get in touch with him concerning any problems in which the FBI's interest should be protected. He reminded me that the President had great faith in the Director and the FBI and that in many instances we undoubtedly found ourselves in a position where we could not protect ourselves. He also stated that while the President had issued specific statements concerning wiretapping and usage of electronic devices, he nevertheless realized that the FBI had to have the advantage of such devices in order to adequately handle its responsibilities both in the security and criminal fields. He stated the President's only concern had been his opinion that there were too many electronic devices in the political field. He stated we of course were not guilty of such practices. He stated he recognized this and he also recognized that the entire hysteria concerning the usage of microphones and electronic devices had been brought about as a result of Bobby Kennedy's brash practices. He stated he deeply resented the fact that Bobby Kennedy had thrown his former partner, Sheldon Cohen (Director, Internal Revenue) to the wolves in connection with these matters.ACTION:(1) Pursuant to the Director's instructions I will advise Marvin Watson today of the background and current employment of Courtney Evans.(2) If the Director agrees, I will advise Justice Fortas that the Director is of the opinion that Ross Malone would probably be the best man to serve as an "arbitrator."![handwritten notes]RESPECTFULLY,C.D. DE LOACH![Special Intelligence Service]
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# JOHN EDGAR HOOVERDIRECTORFederal Bureau of InvestigationUnited States Department of JusticeWashington, D. C.May 23, 1941MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTORWith further reference to Henry Williem Grunewald,in whom we are presently interested, I am attaching a memorandumfor Ir. Carson fromFor your approval there is attached hereto a letterfor the attorney General's signature, to the Secretery of theTreasurRespectfullyP. E. Forsorth![illegible writing]![illegible writing]
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The investigation in this matter, which was closed July 1940, revealed that the original allegations were apparently based on surmise and suspicion and not on any definite knowledge of the complainants. Neither the conditions alleged nor any irregularity on the part of Grunewald or former Secretary of Ear Woodring were discovered. There was no evidence developed that Grunewald was engaged in any activity for the German government. The result of the investigation in memorandum form were furnished to Mr. Early on July 9, 1940. [^1](7) Bureau file 65-6165 also reflects that in May, 1941, the Military Intelligence Service advised the Bureau that information had been received by one of its informants that Grunewald was the pay-off man for German agents in the United States and was also contact man for various American peace and subversive organizations. Subsequently, the Bureau ascertained that the informant of the Military Intelligence service was and it was felt that the Military Intelligence service was merely resurrecting old information in view of the fact that the Bureau had previously investigated the same allegations made by. However, on May 13, 1941, a technical surveillance of Grunewald was authorized and from June 4, 1941 through August 1, 1941, such surveillance was maintained on his apartment in the Westchester Apartments. No definite information was developed, indicating that Grunewald had violated any specific Federal statute. [^2](8) Bureau file 65-6165 reflects that on September 15, 1942, the Omaha Office of the Bureau received a complaint from the Military Intelligence service that Henry William Grunewald had, on the previous evening, given $110.00 in currency to two Army Privates attached to Headquarters, Seventh Service Command, while Grunewald. were drinking at a bar in the Fontenelle Hotel in Omaha. The two Privates were then engaged in studying intelligence work, and becoming suspicious of Grunewald's apparent generosity with his money, reported the matter to the Omaha Office. They indicated that had approximately $16,000 in her purse. This money was observed when she opened her purse in order to furnish currency to Grunewald to pass out to the crowd.Grunewald was interviewed by two Agents of the Omaha Office on September 15, 1942, regarding the matter and he identified himself as being connected with the Alien Property Custodian's office in Washington, D. C., by exhibiting travel authority 55G, signed by James E. Markham, of the Alien Property Custodian's Office in Washington, D. C. Grunewald claimed to receive $8000 per year as salary from the Alien Property Custodian's Office. He admitted passing out money promiscuously in the bar and stated that he did not wish the matter reported to his superiors in Washington although he was willing to furnish information about the incident confidentially to the Bureau. He stated[^1]: 65-6165-8[^2]: 65-5165-22; 65-6165 Sub 1, serial 1 to 122
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13-00000Serial Removal Charge Out.4-674 (Rev. 7-18-73)67ESubject HENRY WILLIAM GRUNEWALDThis serial, the original memorandum from the FBI to the Attorney General dated 3/16/53, which was returned to the Bureau signed by the Attorney General authorizing FBI to conduct electronic surveillance, has been permanently removed for retention in the per memorandum to dated 7-13-73. See 62-115687-1 for details and where maintained.67C67ERemoved By 343 Date 1/21/74Complete File and Serial Number 65-6165-124![ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE: 5/19/82 BY sp2.toplas 12-27-39 spsa.4t]
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# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT**TO:** J. Edgar Hoover**FROM:** William P. Rogers Deputy Attorney General**DATE:** April 13, 1953**SUBJECT:** Request of Kean Committee for Henry W. Grunewald FilesEnclosed is a copy of a letter dated April 7, 1953, from the Chief Counsel of the House Subcommittee on Administration of the Internal Revenue Laws, requesting permission to inspect the Immigration and Naturalization Service files and the personal files relating to Henry W. Grunewald including his service with the Office of Alien Property and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The Immigration and Naturalization Service files and the Alien Property files have been obtained and will be made available, minus any FBI reports, in accordance with policy.Advice would be appreciated whether the Bureau has a personnel file on Grunewald, and, if so, whether the Bureau would have any objection to making it available, minus any investigative reports, for examination by a Subcommittee representative. If the Bureau has such a file and no objection to its examination, please advise whether the Bureau would prefer to make it available for examination in one of the Bureau's offices or in this office.
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OFFICIAL USE ONLY14 May 1992Note For: David Pearline, OCASubject: Suggested Qs & As for Hearing on JFK Assassination Documents(Dave Gries suggests additional Qs and As along the following lines)Q. Many of the Oswald documents transferred to the National Archives earlier this week were said to have been in the Archives previously . Is this correct ?Ans. Yes, but most of the documents were originated by other agencies, and we were not aware of what those agencies had previously released.Q. There appears to be little information of interest in the Oswald file that was released. Is this true ?Ans. Yes this is essentially accurate. But the objective in transferring the file was to demonstrate our good faith commitment to release as many documents related to the assassination as possible, and as expeditiously as possibleJohn Pereirax 76160OFFICIAL USE ONLY
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rtt-rw TEXT-ASSASSINATIONS-Ma063911:22 05-15BC-TEXT-ASSASSINATIONS-MULTITAKESTHE REUTER TRANSCRIPT REPORTHOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS LEGISLATION AND NATIONALSECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGTopic: H.J. Res. 454, Assassination Materials Disclosure Actof 1992Witness: CIA Director Robert GatesLocation: Rayburn Building, Room 2154Time: 10 a.m.-May 15, 1992*****The editor of the report is Steve Ginsburg. Tim Ahmann, EricBeech, Peter Ramjug and Paul Schomer also are available to helpyou. If you have questions, please call 202-898-8345. Forservice problems inside the District of Columbia, call 202-898-8355; outside D.C., call 1-800-537-9755.**********This transcript is provided by News Transcripts, Inc. Ifquestions of content arise, call 682-9050*****ROBERT GATES (director, CIA): Thank you, Mr. Chairman.I'm here to provide my views on House Resolution 454,the assassination materials disclosure act of 1992. I very muchappreciate the opportunity to appear before the committee, justas I did before your colleagues in the Senate last Tuesday.I can summarize my statement, I think. It is largelythe same as the one I did earlier. Let me just say, as I havesaid, that I'm in complete agreement with the effort tounderline the joint resolution, that is, the effort todeclassify and make available to the public as quickly aspossible government documents relating to the assassination ofPresident Kennedy.Further, I believe that 'maximum disclosure willdiscredit the theory that CIA had anything to do with hismurder.I have undertaken a number of efforts at CIA toaccelerate the declassification of historical materials,creating a new organization to do that. It will be classified,or review for declassification, all documents over 30 years old,and Soviet estimates up to 10 years ago.I've asked them to take as their first priority thereview for declassification a review of the documents relatingto the assassination of President Kennedy. And we haveproceeded with that, without waiting for legislation.And I've indicated earlier this week, we'vedeclassified the first set of these records, the pre-assassination Oswald file. And these have now been transferredto the National Archives for release.1
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It's a small fraction of what we have, but I want to do it right away as an earnest of our intention to move on, to declassify these documents and to get them before the public as quickly as possible. I've also made publicly available this week the agency's new guidelines for historical review and declassification.In connection with these guidelines I have recently commissioned a task force to review agency procedures under the Freedom of Information Act. I've instructed this task force to ensure that our internal FOIA procedures are consistent with the approach that I've described for historical declassification. Although the task force will have to explore the difference between current documents and those that are often requested under FOIA, and 30-year-old documents placed under historical review programs, my intention is to bring to the FOIA process a much more positive attitude toward declassification and the release of government or CIA records.The chart that I've brought along with me describes the nature of CIA's collection of documents, about 250,000 to 300,000 pages of material. And I don't need I think to go into any further detail on that. As I indicated, only about 11 of the pre-assassination documents belong to CIA, and we have released those, and as I did earlier in the week, brought along that file simply to show how thin it was before that time. It was only after the assassination that CIA accumulated most of the documents that it had; 33,000 pages on Oswald alone.There has been some comment on the pre-assassination Oswald file, and how little it contained. I want to reemphasize that this pre-assassination material is but the first installment of all the material we will review; merely an earnest of our intentions.All of the assassination-related documents we have will be reviewed for declassification, and we will transfer the declassified documents to the archives as they are completed without waiting for work on the entirety to be completed.Mr. Chairman, you have asked about assassination materials that may be held by other intelligence community agencies. The FBI will describe its holdings separately, which I assume include both intelligence and law enforcement records. The National Security Agency and the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research report after a preliminary search that they have identified a relatively small amount of material responsive to previous inquiries by the Warren Commission, the Church committee, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.The Defense Intelligence Agency, which did not come into existence until 1961, has identified no assassination material to date, and it anticipates that any holdings it might have would be minimal, because its mission at the time of the assassination focused on foreign military order of battle.I've indicated in my statement for the record that CIA cannot release a number of documents unilaterally, because of limits in the privacy act, which protects the names of Americans against unauthorized disclosure; the sequestration of many documents by the House Select Committee on Assassinations; and
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13-00000the fact that many of the documents belong to agencies otherthan CIA.However, we've already taken steps to lift thesequestration, to coordinate with other agencies, and to beginthe process of declassification.As I indicated earlier in the week, if necessary, andin the absence of legislation, I will ask the House ofRepresentatives-for-a resolution permitting CIA to release theresults of the declassification effort on the sequestereddocuments. And I hope that we can work together, Mr. Chairman,to remove any obstacles that might arise in releasing thesequestered documents.I also have indicated in my statement for the recordthat I assume there will be some materials that cannot bereleased, for a variety of reasons, including privacy concerns,or the exposure of intelligence sources and methods.And let me again--take a moment to give an example ofthis type of material.During the investigation by the House Select Committeeon Assassinations, I understand that a number of security andpersonnel files of CIA employees were requested. These filescontained fitness reports, or performance evaluations, medicalevaluations, and credit checks on individual CIA officers.Although irrelevant to the question of who killedPresident Kennedy, these and other personal documents ultimatelyended up in the sequestered collection of documents. I do notbelieve that the benefit to the public of the disclosure of thisinformation outweighs the clear privacy interest of theindividuals in keeping it confidential.Similar privacy concerns exist with documentscontaining derogatory information on particular individuals,where the information is based on gossip or rumor.Our files also contain the names of individuals whoprovided us intelligence information on a promise ofconfidentiality, and we would not release their names in breachof such a promise.Where we cannot disclosure such information to thepublic, the agency will make redactions and summarize theinformation in order to ensure that the maximum amount ofinformation is released while still protecting the identity ofan agent, or the privacy of an individual.As I told your Senate colleagues earlier in the week,if legislation is not passed by the Congress and signed by thepresident regarding these papers, to enhance public confidenceand to, provide reassurance that CIA has not held backinformation relative to the assassination, I would appoint apanel of distinguished Americans from outside of government,perhaps including former jurists, to examine whatever documentswe have redacted or kept classified.And they would then issue an unclassified report ontheir findings.I believe that these actions attest to the seriousnessof our intent to get these documents declassified and released,and to open what remains classified to outside nongovernmentalreview.It is against this background that I cite our fewtechnical reservations about the mechanism established by thejoint resolution to achieve this result.3
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First, vesting in a body outside--in an outside body the determination whether CIA materials related to the assassination can be released to the public is inconsistent with my own statutory responsibility to protect intelligence sources and methods.Second, I am concerned that the joint resolution contains no provision requiring security clearances or secure document handling by the assassination materials review board or its staff.Third, I'm concerned that the joint resolution does not provide the agency with the opportunity to object to the release of CIA information contained in documents originated by the Congress or the Warren Commission.Under the joint resolution documents originated by these entities can be released directly by the executive director of the assassination materials review board, without any review by the president or the executive branch.Fourth, the joint resolution provision for a 30-day period for agencies and departments to appeal decisions of the executive director to release information may not provide sufficient time for meaningful review of what could prove to be a large volume of material at one time.Fifth and finally, Section 6 of the Joint Resolution, which outlines the grounds for postponement of a public release of the documents, makes no provision for postponing release of documents that may contain executive privilege, or deliberative process, attorney-client or attorney-work product information. While such privileges could be waived in the public interest, and in fact are not likely to arise with respect to factual information directly relating to the assassination, they would be unavailable in the joint resolution in the rare case they might be needed.These are technical problems, and I believe they can be solved in ways that can expedite the release of documents bearing on the assassination of President Kennedy. But again, whatever the future course of this legislation, CIA is proceeding even now to review for declassification the relevant documents under its control. And further, we will cooperate fully with any mechanism established by the Congress and the president to declassify this material.That concludes my summary of my statement, Mr. Chairman.**********The Reuter Transcript ReportAssassinations/hearingMay 15, 1992MORELLLEnglish
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rtt-rw: TEXT-ASSASSINATIONS-1a082913:50 05-15BC-TEXT-ASSASSINATIONS-1STADDTHE REUTER TRANSCRIPT REPORTHOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS LEGISLATION AND NATIONALSECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGTopic: H.J. Res. 454, Assassination Materials Disclosure Actof 1992Witness: CIA Director Robert GatesMay 15, 1992(First Add)._*****x x x Mr. Chairman.REP. JOHN CONYERS JR. (D-MI): Thank you very much, Mr. Gates. We appreciate your statement. And I only have a couple of observations.Putting them altogether, I'm interested in how much material has been destroyed by CIA that we may never know about? Why the Lee Oswald file was opened at the CIA 14 months after his defection. Was Oswald in fact a Soviet spy? And was that picture in his file that was thought to be him, was that an error? Or was there something involved in that that you can shed some light on?GATES: Well, at the risk of appearing appallingly ignorant, Mr. Chairman, I don't know the answers to any of those questions. But I will take them for the record and respond quickly to the committee.REP. CONYERS: Well, thank you so much. We're here against the background of history and the fact that this is the murder of the century. A president of the United States, sitting president. And I thought it was exemplary of the CIA--I never thought I'd be saying this this morning, either--to find out that you had permitted your representatives to discuss the subject matter with various think tanks around the city, one of which was included was the Institute for Policy Studies, whose cofounder is Marcus Raskin. And I was told that there was a very candid exchange about this subject matter which was the purpose of the meeting. Some dozen or more of your representatives were meeting with them.And I think that that is a very healthy sign of the times. I never thought it would happen, so I never thought I'd say what I am saying today. But one of the parts of that discussion was that Oliver Stone, the producer of the movie, has been parading around the country saying that you will not meet with him.And as a conciliatory member of this Congress, could I facilitate such an arrangement so that it would help relieve the confusions and the disturbances of a lot of people, since he5