Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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104-10333-100022025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992# AGENDA## Meeting with JFK ARRB StaffMonday, 17 March 19972C06 IP Building1:00 p.m.1. Records Management Briefing   Becky Rant, DA/IRO   Carol Johnson, DA/IMO2. Cable Process   John Rovito, Agency Network Mgt. Center, OIT3. Questions & Answers
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# SECRETJohn -Thank you for agreeing to participate in briefing the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) to be held on Monday, 17 March, at 2:00 p.m., in (2C06 IP Bldg.) I regret the short notice. As we discussed, the ARRB has asked for information relating to the creation, transmission, and dissemination of cables and your name instantly came to mind. Their specific questions are:1- Can you describe the cable process in place in the Agency during the1960-1964 time period?Prior to 1962 messages were delivered to the DPD (Development Products Division) at 1717 H Street or to the Communications Center at "L" Street. In addition there also was a Q building that received special traffic.After 1962 messages came into the CIA Headquarters and were processed in different areas depending on the types of traffic.Imagery traffic would be sent to to a specific floor for the imagery personnel. Intercept and Special Programs would either be passed to a Special Sections Area of the Communications Center or to the Cable Secretariat.2- How did cables come in?Messages came in from the field via the Brandy Station State Channels or military channels.3- How were they decrypted?Messages were deciphered using a OTT (One Time Tape) or a OTP (One Time Pad) process.
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13-00000# SECRET4- What happened from the time a cable was sent from a field site until it arrived on a desk at Headquarters?Messages sent from a field site would be passed to a communicator, encrypted and transmitted via High Frequency Radio. The message received from Brandy and relayed to headquarters and then it was decrypted.The analyst of the Cable Secretariat would then read the message and match what they read against customer requirements. They then would have a typist type the dissemination on the message. The message then would be picked up from the message center by the various staffs and or divisions.5- How were cables disseminated?See item four.Please let me or Becky Rant, DA/IRO, know if you have any other questions or concerns prior to the briefing.CC: Becky L. RantAndréa E. BoyceSent on 13 March 1997 at 03:17:34 PM
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Administrative-Internal Use Only# Directorate of AdministrationBriefing for theJFK Assassination Records ReviewBoard StaffonRecords Management in the DA17 March 1997Carol M. JohnsonDA Information Management Officer2B17 IP Bldg.703-613-1205 Secure 31205Becky RantDA Information Review Officer2B17 IP Bldg.703-613-1204 Secure 31204g:\iro\briefing\jfkbref.pptAdministrative-Internal Use OnlyPage 1
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# Directorate of Administration## TOPICS*   CIA Information Services Strategic Plan*   Information Management Program Segments*   Information Management Goals*   Organization of Records Management In the Agency*   DA Information Management Officer (IMO)*   DA Information Review Officer (IRO)*   Deputy Director for Support (DDS) - 1965*   Deputy Director for Administration (DDA) - 1997*   DA Records
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# Directorate of Administration## CIA Information Services Strategic Plan*   “Information and Records Management, including Classification Management, is a fundamental and essential business requirement for the Agency.”*   “The CIA’s Information Services shall...ensure that each official record is appropriate, accurate, secure and retrievable throughout its life cycle regardless of physical form or media.”
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13-00000Administrative-Internal Use Only# Directorate of Administration## Information Management Program Segments*   Records Management - *identfentor, atorge**   Classification Management - *Executore Orders**   Information Disclosure - *search, retnevals weer for disclosu**   Information Automation - *electronic format*g:\iro\briefing\jfkbref.pptAdministrative-Internal Use OnlyPage 4
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# Directorate of Administration## Information Management GoalsAn effective and efficient information management ensures that records are available:*   to meet day-to-day business needs*   to ensure the continuity and consistency of records*   to provide corporate memory and history*   to protect the rights and interests of the organization, the employees and the public*   to meet legal requirements
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# Organization of Records Management in the AgencyAssociate Deputy Director for AdministrationInformation ServicesThis slide is Administrative Internal Use Only> [Figure: A flowchart depicting the organization of records management in the agency. It shows the relationship between different departments and teams.]OITD/Info Mgt *Recruitment & Training*Policy Research & Audit*Archive & Preservation*System Development*Agency Information & Records Management Panel* = memberDCI/IMO*DA/IMO*DI/IMO*DO/IMO*DS&T/IMO*component/imos component/imos component/imos component/imos component/imosChart 11laddaisled396alrmp.ppt
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Administrative-Internal Use Only# Directorate of Administration## DA Information Management Officer (DA/IMO)*   The DA/IMO is the Deputy Director for Administration's representative for issues relating to records and classification management.*   The DA/IMO is responsible for protecting equities consistent with existing statues, EO guidance and internal rules and regulations governing the creation, maintenance and use, and disposition of information.
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# Directorate of Administration## DA Information Review Officer## (DA/IRO)*   The DA/IRO is the Deputy Director for Administration's representative for reviewing all DA relevant information for release to the public under FOIA, PA, EO, and other information release programs.*   The DA/IRO is responsible for protecting equities consistent with existing statutes, EO guidance and internal rules and regulations governing the review and release of classified information, specifically, in response to:    *   FOIA/PA/EO Requests    *   Congressional Inquiries    *   DOJ Inquiries/Litigations    *   IG Investigations    *   Special Searches & Other Release Programs
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# Directorate of Administration## Deputy Director for Support## (DDS) - 1965*   Office of the DDS (ODDS)*   Office of Security (OS)*   Office of Personnel (OP)*   Office of Medical Services (OMS)*   Office of Logistics (OL)*   Office of Finance (OF)*   Office of Communications (OC)*   Office of Training (OTR)
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# Directorate of Administration## Deputy Director for Administration (DDA) - 1997*   Office of the DDA (ODDA)*   Office of Personnel Security (OPS)*   Office of Facilities & Security Services (OFSS)*   Office of Finance & Logistics (OFL)*   Human Resources Management (HRM)*   Office of Medical Services (OMS)*   Office of Communications (OC)*   Office of Information Technology (OIT)*   Office of Training & Education (OTE)*   Center for Security Evaluation (CSE)
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Administrative-Internal Use Only# Directorate of Administration# DA Records*   Information Management Officers*   Core functions    *   1960s    *   1990s*   Records Life Cycle    *   Creation    *   Maintenance & Use    *   Disposition*   File organizationAdministrative-Internal Use Only Page 11
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13-00000Administrative-Internal Use Only# Directorate of Administration# DA Records## Records Control Schedules*   Temporary*   Permanent## Records Storage*   Short term*   Long term## Accountability*   Personal*   Organization## Search & RetrievalAdministrative-Internal Use OnlyPage 12
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# Directorate of Administration## DA Records*   Access*   Safeguarding*   Preservation    *   Hardcopy    *   Electronic*   OGC Retention List*   Automation![photo description]
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SECRETCombs 1/7DA Briefing 3/17/97dadsInfo Management Chart 11DO more centralged file managementDA more decontulygd w/ 10 components offered sols each office manages their own programsDA/IMO work w/all 10 offices in DA records management, polny, guidanceDA/IRO Sen Agency each Drectorate + DCI- tests 10 DA components-component find info, + IRO reviews for possible releaseIMOs in components do the records search for both DA/IMO & DA/IRO.Archive & Records CtrDA/OIT manages47,440 sq ft of records for DA18,000 sq ft of records totalmost record are 'tempory'pusonnel 75%finance/pupall 56%Archive began early 50'sW/255pe 55 on Bldgs
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# SECRETWarehouse w/ shelvingProgram ongoing to deal w/expired record/purgeRecords Management / Storage*   system that tells what boxes are expiring*   OGC retention list - not destroyed until OGC approvesAccountabilitySearch & Retrieval - To file level - not document - file level*   ARSENS (?) automated query for Archive information*   can search for docs intro'd early 50's*   Old chef list disputed in mid 70'sfinger search (hand search) if file is not considered "reasonable" for FOIAoffices have index of filesRecords on destruction of records of the file center are kept only a stat section of time (kept longer than the legal requirement) (2-3yrs)Office of Personnel Security, enter record destruction info in their index. Some do, some don't.# SECRET
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# SECRETCable Process - John Rovito - EOD 1963Stations can send messages laterally w/o HQS knowledgeSpecial projects like U-2Landline, CW, morse code, teletypeOne time tape - one time pad.L Street were operators, cable secretariatComm ctr -> cable secretariat -> disseminatetyped by typist based on requirements listed in books for directors/staff/doctorate/head on a slip in message.Later cable secretariat could suspend info to other directorates"Special traffic" elint/comment/RI projectdr 63 dift to RW-26 machined crypto.decrypted using a the process - 3 typesQuestion: Housely 63 - are there more than 1 channel/comms?SCI -> channels different Router for each area, LSt, QSt, etc thenNon Shi you can send messages independently.# SECRET
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# SECRETRETURN TO CIABackground Use OnlyDo Not Reproduce4/7State + CI Mover some links - Hergesarerouters & encryptionSCI & Non SCI = different NetworksPrivacy traffic is slugged to individualSlugy tell who it is duod-to-tellCable SecretariatPL perouited limited - CI had thatCable # put on as they are logged in-can tell if #spon Station re sequentialas well (of mots cables are missing)need to retransmitWIHM will are log schedules kept?Chrono records kept?any records kept?Now Cable maintenance is responsibility of theoffice responsible for the informationnot the COMMO LTR.In 59-64 Cable Secretariat was under DCIbut records we kept for only a relativelyshort period of time (microfilm??)maybe up to 76.Computer system put in 1977prior to 77-vital records were microfilmedall messages every stiff cable
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5/7post 64 - Comm picks up "spent traffic"A Building - did it handle RH?RL? prescribed + limitedOfficers running a project determine the channels used.# were special / regular traffic given sequential #s or where they numbered on parallel tracks?SCI - compartmented all in effect from 1952 onspecial designeeMilitaryStateNSAIntel channel
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# SECRETDA QuestionsB&F1.  Financial Accounting vouchered, certified, audited    Finance & Accounting Date, location, timeperiod    indexing or kept by office in US.2.  HRM his microfilm of staffing complements    for that time period3.  C/Financial Services - doesn't think it was    maintained that way, if it was, it was    maintained in a 201, 301 or project file.    OF records were not organized by project    but by accounting practices4.  Station accounting or indigenous personnel    kept 56 yrs. Non natives kept only 20 yrs.Personnel1 Contract personnelIndependent Contractor - office of Finance & LogisticsOP kept them before 96Filed by name, separate security file, rated file, payroll file# SECRET
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SECRET7/7Security1. get Wed from Barry3 SRS - collected, developed, evaluated incl. CI nature5. Security clearance like activities for non-employees but "clearances" per se are not given across the board staff like clearances. They do national agency checks on contractorsSECRET
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# Types of Questions for DA Records BriefingMarch 17, 1997## Budget and Finance1. In Cold Warrior, (p. 52) Mangold refers to a CI secret slush fund which was tightly controlled by Angleton and never audited by the usual procedures. According to Mangold, it was this fund which allowed Angleton to run his own operations without supervision. Did the fund exist? Was this fund ever audited? Are there any records of CI operational expenses for the period 1959-63?2. Mangold also refers (p. 53) to an unnamed CI/B&F officer who says he worked for Angleton from 1958-1964 and never dealt with him directly on a single matter. Is there a list of B&F officers assigned to the CI Staff from 1959-63. Do their records still exist?3. We have seen Directorate of Operations monthly operational reports which contain information on the allocation/distribution of operational funds. Are there other DO or DA records which reflect how a certain project utilized its funding? Can this type of information from the early 1960's still be retrieved?4. What records are kept on disbursements to sources in the field? If, hypothetically, LHO had received money from the Agency, what records would exist?## Personnel1. What records are maintained on contract personnel?## Security1. For the period between 1955-65, what was the universe of files that OS had on individuals of groups?2. How are Office of Security records indexed?3. What was the function of the Office of Security/Security Research Staff (OS/SRS)? Why were defector records kept in this component?4. In the OS/SRS memo of Oct. 31, 1960, written by Marguerite D. Stevens, the file numbers of several defectors are listed: "Robert Edward Webster, EE-18854; Lee Harvey Oswald, MS-11165; Libero Ricciardelli, MS-8295; Vladimir Sloboda, MS-10565; and Joseph Dutkanicz, MS-10724." What do the "MS" and "EE" file prefixes designate? How are these designations assigned?
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5. Does OS process security clearances for non-employees (e.g. sources) to receive access to classified information? What kinds of files are created by this process? How long are these files maintained. For example, Clay Shaw was given a security clearance and had access to classified information based on his "responsibilities" as a source for the Domestic Contacts Division (DCD).6. Where are records that would describe liaison (etc.) cooperation or operations between OS and CI located? How are these records organized?7. Where are records regarding operations that OS participated in or ran located. For example, where are the OS records on the Castro assassination attempts?8. How many files did OS have on Oswald? Which OS components maintained files on Oswald? Why did OS have any files on Oswald?
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# CLASSIFIED FAX## TRANSMISSIONARRB202-724-0088To:Barry HarrelsonDate:March 31, 1997Fax #:703-613-3060Pages:17, including this cover sheet.From:Michelle CombsSubject: DS&T and DO Briefing QuestionsCOMMENTS:Barry,Attached are the final versions of the DS&T and DO briefing questions. There are no changes in the DS&T questions. Questions have been added to the DO list to reflect our conversation March 19 and 20. You, of course, already have our detailed explanations for the earlier DO questions. If you have any questions or if there are any problems, please give me a call. I should be in all day. See you tomorrow.Michelle
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# Questions for Follow-up DO Records BriefingApril 1, 19971. At what point did the DDP begin to keep records of destroyed records? For example, in a *Cold Warrior* footnote, Tom Mangold reports that as any of Angleton's files were destroyed, "a complete record was carefully maintained about what had been done. (George) Kalaris signed off on every file and the DCI's office was notified." (p. 143) Where are these records?2. Could an archival search be run on specific topics for retired records at the CIA'S Record's Center? Perhaps an ARRB staffer could be present during the search to review the abstracts and to suggest other fields or topics to be searched?3. Could a crypt search for records containing relevant crypts be run through cryptographic reference? How would queries need to be framed and stated?4. Why is it so difficult to develop a list for all personnel (official, contract, administrative, or TDY) assigned to the post referenced in RIF 104-10065-10199 from 1959-1964?5. We have been working to identify all technical and surveillance operations in and on the Cuban and Soviet consulates and embassies in Mexico City between September 1 and December 1, 1963. How can we frame a search query to determine if we have a comprehensive and complete list of all operations at that time?6. How can a search query be framed to document all electronic take produced by the Mexico City Station in the immediate wake of the assassination (the first month) and during the period of Oswald's visit? How can we verify that what exists in the Sequestered Collection represents all records of the technical production that was available at the time of the assassination? If additional records or original production still exists, where would it be stored or filed? What searches could be conducted to retrieve any additional records? If such electronic take has been destroyed, do records exist of the destruction?7. Could you describe the process by which operational funds are proposed, approved, received, and distributed (circa 1963). What funding and disbursement records exist? How are they organized? How should a request be formulated to institute a reasonable search of these records?
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8. We have seen DDP monthly operational reports which contain information on the allocation/distribution of operational funds. Are there other DDP records which would reflect how certain projects utilized their funding? How are these records organized? How should a search query be framed?9. Various open sources have linked the CIA to various journalists and publishing companies during the 1960's. How should a query be framed to search for connections between the Agency and journalists or publishing companies?10. Did the Agency have any relationship, projects, or contacts with publishing houses during the time of the assassination and in the aftermath of the Warren Commission? How would a search be formulated to determine whether or not the Agency had a relationship with any of the same publishing houses that were also publishing books about the assassination?11. How would a query be framed to search for files on any office or person dealing with organized crime and Cuba? How should a request be formulated to institute a reasonable search on this topic?12. Is there a comprehensive record or list detailing the identities of individuals on the *Interagency Source Register*? How are these records organized? How can a search query be framed to ascertain whether or not a particular individual appears in the *Register*,13. How could a search query be framed to ascertain whether or not a particular individual was given access to classified information by DCD (then OO)? What kind of files are assembled in the process of clearing non-Agency contacts/sources for access to classified information?14. ARRB's Request for Additional Information and Record No. CIA-13, dated November 1, 1996, contained the following questions:A. What forms of backchannel communications were there between the Mexico City Station (including the COS), JMWAVE, or Headquarters during 1963? By "backchannel" we mean, *inter alia*, any administrative, senior staff, or restricted access communications, or any written or electronic communications other than regular cables or dispatches (of the type included in the JFK Collection).B. Were there, in fact, any backchannel communications between the Mexico City Station (including the COS), JMWAVE, or Headquarters during the time periods 27 Sept - 16 Oct 1963 and 22 Nov - 30 Nov 1963?
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C. To the extent that there were any backchannel communications for the time periods 27 Sept - 16 Oct 1963 and 22 Nov - 30 Nov 1963 (other than those currently contained in the JFK Collection), please make such records available for review.Why has it been so difficult to answer these questions?15. ARRB's Request for Additional Information and Record No. CIA-14, dated December 23, 1996, documented our request for the annual or biannual Station reports for Mexico City Station for 1963 and 1964. Why has it been so difficult to provide these reports?16. The attached Agency document released in 1996 contains the paragraph:11. A memorandum marked only for file, 16 March 1967, signed M.D. Stevens, says that J. Monroe SULLIVAN, #280207, was granted a covert security approval on 10 December 1962 so that he could be used in Project QKENCHANT. (Clay) Shaw has # 402897-A.What do these numbers mean? What does the "A" at the ends of Shaw's number signify? Do the files identified by these numbers still exist? Why was Sullivan granted a covert security approval?17. During the period 1959-1963, what was the purpose or goal of QKENCHANT?18. Under what circumstances were non-agency employees given covert security clearances for the QKENCHANT project?19. Did Clay Shaw receive a covert security approval for the QKENCHANT project? Why was one needed? Did Clay Shaw receive covert security clearances for any project other than QKENCHANT20. What did Clay Shaw do within the QKENCHANT project?21. Do records exist to account for the disposition of all files on Clay Shaw?22. Did Howard Hunt have any involvement with the QKENCHANT project prior to 1964?23. Did J. Monroe Sullivan have any involvement with the QKENCHANT project prior to 1964?
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SECRETSECRET24. The DO telephone directories list an Operational Services/Defector Staff beginning in October 1959? What was the Defector Staff? Did it have an operational component?25. In the period 1959-1964, were DO officers, selected to serve overseas under State Department cover, legally considered to be "members of the Foreign Service, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate?"SECRETSECRET