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8 October 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Executive Director
VIA:
Director, Center for the Study
of Intelligence
FROM:
John F. Pereira
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Chief, Historical Review Group
Courtesy Visit of JFK Assassination
Records Review Board, 16 October 1996
Memo for DCI fr C/HRG, dtd 13 June 96,
Same Subject
(U) This memorandum provides background information for a
meeting between you and the JFK Assassination Records Review Board
(ARRB), which is scheduled for 16 October 1996 in your office
between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. The meeting was requested by ARRB
Chairman, John Tunheim as a courtesy call.
(U) Background: Mr. Tunheim, recently appointed a federal
judge in Minnesota, asked that he and the other four Board members
have an opportunity to provide you with a brief description of the
Board's purpose and activities. The Board's Executive Director,
David Marwell, and General Counsel, Jeremy Gunn will also parti-
cipate. The ARRB members were appointed by President Clinton in .`
1993 as required by statute. Their principal responsibility is to
ensure public disclosure of all government records related to the
assassination of President Kennedy.
The Board probably
(FOUO) Topics the Board May Discuss:
will discuss their concern about whether they will be able to
complete their work by the congressionally-imposed deadline of
October 1997. This concern relates to the very time-consuming
process that the ARRB and its 30-person staff is obliged to use
in reviewing all of the thousands of relevant documents that are
redacted, which for CIA comprise the bulk of our documents.
(FOUO) The Board may also seek your personal commitment to
continue the Agency's dedication of resources--people and
computer capability--to the review of JFK documents. CIA has
worked closely with the Board and its staff from the beginning.
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We have succeeded thus far in working out cooperative arrange-
ments for resolving differences of opinion as to what information
can be released to the public and what should be withheld because
of sensitivities.
(U) The Board may also express interest in gaining access to
records that are not part of the JFK records (the sequestered
collection), but which the Board regards as possibly containing
useful background information or leads for further inquiry. We
have released some 227,000 pages of relevant Agency records thus
far and are continuing to collaborate with the Board to identify
additional information that can be released.
(U) Suggested Talking Points: You may want to emphasize the
Agency's commitment to continuing the very positive relationship
with the Board, including making people and computer expertise
available to process relevant documents.
(S) You may want to assure the Board that CIA is determined
to give the Board and designated staff full access to all assas-
sination records, as required by the JFK statute. At the same time,
it would be helpful to stress that there are certain categories of
sensitive information that require continued protection and should
not be released. Among the types of information contained in the
JFK records that we need to protect are:
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Identities of agents and CIA officers who retired under
cover.
The Agency's relationships with liaison services, and
information received from foreign governments.
A specific example in this category is the Agency's
current request to the Board to protect (the liaison
(relationship with Australia, and to withhold
documents received from Australia.
Need to protect non-official cover.
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The Board is planning at its 15-16 October meeting
to review documents that identify companies that
provided (commercial cover. We are arranging to have
the DO brief the Board on the potential damage to the
non-official cover program and companies involved if
such cover is compromised.
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Locations of certain stations and facilities.
In this latter connection, the Board is expected
to consider at its 15-16 October meeting our request
that the Warrenton Training Center not be disclosed
as a CIA facility.
John 2. bencin
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John F. Pereira
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List of Board Members
Biographies of Board members
Executive Director
General Counsel
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13 June 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director of Central Intelligence
VIA:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Executive Director
Director, Center for the Study of
Intelligence
John F. Pereira
Chief, Historical Review Group
Request of JFK Assassination Records
Review Board for Courtesy Visit with DCI
1. Action Requested:
Paragraph 4 below contains a
recommendation for your approval. The Chairman of the JFK
Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), John Tunheim, has
requested that you meet with him and the other four Board
members at Headquarters Building some time in the next several
months. He asks that the meeting be arranged to coincide with
one of their monthly sessions, which are held in Washington.
(The schedule of their meetings is attached.) The Board's
Executive Director, David Marwell, would also participate.
2. Background: Mr. Tunheim, recently appointed a
federal judge in Minnesota, would like to provide you with
a brief description of the Board's purpose and activities.
The Board has paid similar visits to the FBI, where they
met with Director Freeh, and to NSA and the Secret Service.
The ARRB members were appointed by President Clinton in 1993
as required by statute. Their principal responsibility is to
ensure public disclosure of government records related to the
assassination of President Kennedy. The statute grants the
Board full access to all documents that are related to either
the assassination or past investigations into the assassina-
tion.
3. CIA has worked closely with the Board and its staff
from the beginning. The Board's Executive Director and we have
worked out cooperative arrangements for resolving differences
of opinion as to what information can be released to the public
and what should be withheld because of sensitivities. We have
released approximately 227,000 pages of relevant Agency records
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thus far, and are continuing to collaborate with the Board to
identify additional information that can be released.
4. Recommendation: That you agree to meet with the JFK
Assassination Records Review Board at a date to be determined.
F. Bouira
John F. Pereira
Attachments:
A: ARRB Meeting Schedule
B: Biographies of Board Members
APPROVED:
Director of Central Intelligence
Date
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Assassination Records Review Board
Members:
Chair: John R. Tunheim (Federal judge, Minnesota)
Dr. Henry Graff (Professor Emeritus of History,
Columbia University)
Dr. Kermit L. Hall (Dean, College of Humanities,
Ohio State University)
Dr. William L. Joyce (Associate University Librarian,
Princeton University)
Dr. Anna K. Nelson
(Adjunct Professor of History,
American University)
Dr. David G. Marwell
ARRB Executive Director
Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn
ARRB General Counsel
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The Honorable John R. Tunheim, Chair
Experience
State of Minnesota, Chief Deputy Attorney General, 1986-Present
State of Minnesota, Office of the Attorney General, Solicitor General, 1985-86
State of Minnesota, Office of the Attorney General, Manager, Public Affairs Litigation
Division, 1984-85
Law Firm of Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard and Donnelly, Associate Attorney,
1981-84
Senior U.S. District Judge Earl Larson in Minneapolis, Law Clerk, 1980-81
United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Staff Assistant, 1975-77
Education
J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, 1980
B.A., Concordia College, 1975
Dr. Henry F. Graff
Experience
Columbia University, Professor Emeritus of History, 1991- Present
Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Senior Fellow, 1991-92
Columbia University, Department of History, Instructor to Full Professor,
1946-91, Chairman, 1961-64.
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1949
M.A., Columbia University, 1942
B.S., City College, 1941
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Dr. Kermit L. Hall
Experience
The Ohio State University, Dean, College of Humanities, and Professor of History and
Law, 1994 - Present
The University of Tulsa, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History
and Law, 1992-94
University of Florida, Associate/Full Professor of History and Law, 1981-92
Wayne State University, Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of History,
1976-81
Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor, Department of History, 1972-76
Education
Master of Study of Law, Yale University Law School, 1980
Ph.D., The University of Minnesota, 1972
M.A., Syracuse University, 1967
B.A., The University of Akron, 1966
Dr. William L. Joyce
Experience
Princeton University, Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special
Collections, 1986-Present
The New York Public Library, Assistant Director for Rare Books and Manuscripts,
1981-1985
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, Curator of Manuscripts,
1972-81, Education Officer, 1988-81
William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan, Manuscripts Librarian,
1968-72
Education
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1974
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M.A., St John's University (N.Y.), 1966
B.A., Providence College, 1964
Dr. Anna K. Nelson
Experience
The American University, Adjunct Professor of History, 1992-Present, 1986-88
Arizona State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1992
The American University, Associate Professor in History, 1991
Tulane University, Adjunct Associate Professor in History, 1988-90
George Washington University, Instructor to Adjunct Associate Professor,
1972-85
George Washington University, Director, History and Public Policy Program,
1980-82
Education
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1972
M.A., University of Oklahoma, 1956
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1954
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DAVID G. MARWELL
Biographical Information
On July 1, 1994, the Berlin Document Center (BDC) was transferred to the German
Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) marking the end of nearly 48 years of American control
of this unique organization. With an estimated 25 million Nazi-era personnel-related files,
the BDC was once a crucial source. of evidence for the Nuremberg Trials and is today an
incalculably important source for the study of the Third Reich. The transfer also marked
the end of David Marwell's tenure as Director of the BDC.
A well-trained scholar with a PH.D. in History, Marwell came to Berlin in 1988 from
the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), U.S. Department of Justice where he held the
position of Chief of Investigative Research. At OSI, he was involved in researching and
preparing cases against accused Nazi war criminals residing in the United States. In
addition, he was selected to participate in the Klaus Barbie Investigation (1983) and played
a major role in the Josef Mengele investigation (1985), both of which received
international attention.
In connection with the Joseph Mengele and Klaus Barbie investigations, Marwell was
in charge of assembling all relevant documentary evidence relating to any possible
connection between these individuals and U.S. institutions or personnel. The
investigations were two of the most unusual ever undertaken and through them he gained
siginificant experiences in the identifying and locating documentary resources. The former
Director of OSI, Allan A. Ryan, Jr., in his book Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War
Criminals in America, described Marwell as "an experienced and careful historian who
could find documents in archives when no one else could."
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When Marwell arrived at the Document Center, the institution had been rocked by a
scandal involving a significant theft of documents. The resulting focus on the Center
revealed that it had been neglected in many areas for many years and suffered from an
outmoded administrative structure, a disaffected and undertrained staff and a lack of
professional guidance. It was Marwell's job to bring the Center up to standard and prepare
it for turnover to the German government.
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The challenges facing Marwell were not only to manage a complex institution (with
an annual budget of eight million deutschmarks) and repair past deficiencies, but also to
define a future for an institution in transition. He prepared a "five year plan” for the BDC
that set five goals, developed a corresponding program to meet each goal, and designed a
system to monitor the progress. In achieving all of the goals, Marwell
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Introduced computer technology (there was not a single computer at the
BDC when he arrived) and developed a sophisticated, integrated information
retrieval system that has been described as a model for archive
administration;
Created a fully professional document conservation and restoration program;
Developed a staff (50 Germans and ON,
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EDUCATION
T. Jeremy Gunn
1652 Wild Pine Way
Reston, Virginia 20194
(703) 481-8196
Ph.D. Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion, 1991
Field: Religion and Society
Affiliation: Graduate Associate, Center for European Studies
Awards: French Government Grant; Krupp Foundation Fellow, Gilbert Chinard Award,
Institut Français de Washington; Center for European Studies Grant
J.D. Boston University School of Law, 1987, Magna cum laude
Awards: Hennessey and Liacos Distinguished Scholar
A.M. University of Chicago, General Studies in Humanities, 1978
Award: University Fellowship
B.A.
Brigham Young University, International Relations and Humanities, 1974, High Honors
with Distinction (highest 1%)
Awards: several scholarships
EMPLOYMENT
General Counsel and Associate Director for Research and Analysis, JFK Assassination
Records Review Board, Washington, D.C., 1994-present
Covington & Burling, Associate Attorney, Washington, D.C., 1988-94.
Practice Areas international law (public and private); civil litigation (including class
action and other complex cases); appellate (including Supreme Court) litigation; extensive
church-state litigation; and six month full-time work in poverty law for Neighborhood Legal
Services Corporation.
United States District Court, Law Clerk to the Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock, Boston, MA,
1987-88
Ropes & Gray, Summer Associate, Boston, MA, 1987
Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Summer Associate, Boston, MA, 1986
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University, Graduate Teaching Fellow, 1980-84
Ethics and International Relations (Stanley Hoffmann)
Rise of American Power (Emest May)
Art and Politics (Simon Schama)
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Paris and London in the Nineteenth Century (John Clive)
Moral Values in European Thought (James Wilkinson)
French Society and Politics 1715-1815 (Patrice Higonnet)
French Society and Politics 1815-1945 (Patrice Higonnet)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, instructor in History, 1980-81; 1981-82
Brigham Young University, Instructor in History and Humanities on overseas study program
in Paris, France 1975
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Articles
A Standard for Repair. The Establishment Clause, Equality, and Natural Rights (New
York and London, 1992)
"Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ensuring Effective International Legal Protection,"
American Journal of International Law (1996) (book review) (forthcoming)
“Adjudicating Rights of Conscience Under the European Convention on Human
Rights," in Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives
(John Witte and Johan van der Vyver, eds., 1996). 305.
"The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, the Helsinki Process, and American
Foreign Policy," 88 American Joumal of International Law 854 (1994) (book
review)
"Neutrality, Expression, and Oppression," 23 Journal of Law & Education 391
(1994)
"Applying Coercion: The Latest Element of Establishment," in Why We Need
Public Schools: Church/State Relations and Visions of Democracy (Art Must, ed.,
1992).
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair, Committee on Human Rights, District of Columbia Bar (1995-present)
Co-Chair, Committee on Public International Law, District of Columbia Bar (1994-95)
General Counsel, National Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty (1990-94)
Member, Board of Directors, Washington Council of Lawyers (1993-present)
International Advisory Board, World Report on Freedom of Conscience and Belief
U.S. Institute of Peace Working Group on Religion, Ideology, and Peace (1994-present)
Who's Who of American Lawyers (8th ed.)