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104-10331-10189 °1998. UNCLASSIFIED 24 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: (U) Chief, JFK Declassification Project/HRP/OIM/DA FROM: (U) Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr. Chief, Information Management Staff External Support Group SUBJECT: (U) DO Response to Request for Files on Selected Names From House Select Committee on Assassination Investigation REFERENCE: (U) ARRB Request for Additional Information and Records ‘1. (U) This memorandum is in response to a request from the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). The staff has requested a review of Agency files on. some thirty-eight (38) names who were the subject of the House Select Committee Investigation on Assassinations. 2. (U) Some of the 38 had 201 files; some had A files; some had both 201 and A files; one (Jack Martin) was generic and there were three 201 files; one (Sylvia-Odio) had no- file; and one (John A. McVickar) had a trace hit. “3. (U) All files and the trace cited in paragraph 2 above were reviewed by ARRB staffers on 19 and 20 August Fredrick Cc. “Wickham, Jr. UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 Mee wee ne UNCLASSIFIED . SUBJECT: (U) | DO Response to Request for Files on Selected Names From House Select Committee on Assassination Investigation IMS/ESG/HCS k31660:mjk (24 August 1998) Distribution: . Original - Addressee , 1 = C/IMS/ESG 1 - IMS/ESG/HCS 1 - ESG Chrono File UNCLASSIFIED
104-10331-101901.. CONFIDENTIAL cL By-(i85904. eh ae CL REASDE: Section 1.5 € pect ow: X1 pay Fam: COV 1-82 John F. Pereira 10: { pel 1 | OFFICE: CSWHRG DATE: 10/20/97 10:08:23 AM SUBJECT: 24)Re: Release Issue/JFK Board Following is in response to questions raised by the EXDIR: 1. Members of JFK Board: Chairman: Judge John Tunheim (Federal District Court, Minnesota) Four other members: Henry Graff: History Professor Emeritus, Columbia U. Kermit Hall; Dean of Humanities, Ohio State William Joyce; Assoc. Librarian, Princeton U.’ Anna Nelson; History Professor, American U. 2. Intermediate steps before appeal to President: a) We are discussing our concerns with JFK Board Staff, and will ask the Board to reconsider its decision. "bb a that a senior Agency officer brief the Board on the sensitivity of 3. Who would make the appeal to the President ? Thus far, the process calls for the Agency's General Counsel to forward the appeal te the White House Counsel, with the approval of the EXDIR andfor DCI. 4, Has there been an appeal to the President before ? CIA has submitted one appeal, in early 1996. The issues concerned identification of certain. European stations and liaison relationships. The White House directed the Board and the Agency to “work it out", which was done. After the ADDO briefed the Board, a compromise was reached. The FBI has submitted three appeals, none of which was successful. 5. Does ISCAP have a role? No CONFIDENTIAL
13-00000 o CONFIDENTIAL oa Thus far, ISCAP has had no role with regard to JFK, as far as we are aware. ce: Regina A. Genton @ DCI, Brian S. Latell @ DCI, Edmund Cohen @ DA, James R. Oliver @ ee: DEI, J. Barry Harrelson @ DCI CONFIDENTIAL
(04-10334-10194 =e ° ae, ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 24 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson FROM: ' James R. Oliver @ DA OFFICE: OIM SUBJECT: Re: The [RO’s ARRB Declarations REFERENCE: - Original Text of James R. Oliver Original Text of James R. Oliver 10: Fredrick C. Wickham @ D0 To: Fredrick €. Wickham @ DO FROM: James R. Oliver OFFICE: oi DATE: 08/24/98 09:03:08 Ald SUBJECT: 2 Re: The iRO's ARRB Declarations Fred, This is a followup to my LN of Friday. Please refer to D/OIM's mema to the DDs of 12 August (OIM 98-0088). ‘have talked to Barry and we agree that the most important steps needed for the DO certification are as follows: 1. Your own title and duties, and your experience. _ 2. A detailed description of the searches which have been undertaken in all parts of the DO since 1993 on behalf of the Board.. (if you . _ have any insight as to how the searches at the time of the Warren Commission and the Church Commission were done —which led to Assassination related documents--this would also be helpful] 3. & description of D0 Briefings provided to ARAB staffers. . ff we can get the above information, Eileen W. and Gary 8. can put together a package which includes the individual responses provided to the Board. "It is-critical that we get on this soonest. We need a final product by WEDNESDAY and, as you can see, this is a big job. - Thanks for your help. Jim 0. Original Text of Fredrick C. Wickham Cl: Donald R. creo] poo Sent on 24 August 1998 at 09:03:09 Al” ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
13-00000 . wv to. 7 ee é . . a “ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 70: Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO FROM: James R. Oliver @ DA OFFICE: OIM DATE: 08/21/98 05:38:38 PM ‘SUBJECT: S5Re: The IRO's ARRB Declarations Fred, Yes, these are two distinct actions. The option for the Board was that they would receive detailed declarations from each of the DDs to the. Board or there would have to be internal declarations that would support the declaration before the EXDIR or GC could sign for the agency. . The decision was to go with internal declarations and ‘the Agency declaration will specifically say that certifications have been made by each of the directorates. And that means that the DO will have to do one which looks something like the sample we gave you. We need to get together soonest to determine how it can be done in time (early part of next week). Jim 0. Original Text of Fredrick C. Wickham Original Text of Fredrick C. Wickham / guess | ‘m a little confused in that the example looks more like the directorate certification that needs to be done prior to the Agency. 1 thought you were focused only on the EB being sent electronically. On the assumption the a memo will be acceptable for stating the EB was distributed | have started in that direction. ce: J. Barry Harrelson, Lee S. Strickland @ DA; ie Bruce Burke Sent on 21 August 1998 at 05:38:38 PM ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10195 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: OFFICE: SUBJECT: REFERENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 5 September 1998. J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer OIM/HRP Oswald's “Original A" File and Request for Search for Attachments HRP has completed its review of Oswald's original A (OCD) file; except for a couple of 1978 HSCA memos, it is duplicated in the sequestered collection (microfiim). The file is ° releasable in full" and will be ready for transfer to NARA by the end of week. in her review of the file, ARRB staffer Michelle Combs noticed that two attachments to a key document were not in the file: 1) 00-B 3,232,789 and 2) 28 June 1962 memo re contact with the source of the OOB. She requested that copies of the documents be aided to the file if not already in the sequestered collection. Our search of the original file, the microfilmed copy in the sequestered collection and the JFK database failed to locate the two documents. If unable to find the documents, please provide explanation for incorporation into the file. 1 have provided Eileen a copy of the document which cites the attachments. ce: James R. Oliver@DA Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO Senton5 September 1998 at 12:19:47 PM ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10196 27 October 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM: CHiér, Information Management Branch Office of Personnel Security SUBJECT: OSWALD, LEE HARVEY AIN: 0351164 1. The Office of Personnel Security was tasked on 31 January 1997 by the Historical Review Group/Center for the Study of Intelligence (HRG/CSI), via the Directorate of se Administration/Information Review Office, with researching pre- assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The tasking was generated by the John F. Kennedy Board’s desire to review and declassify relevant material. The results of this review were forwarded to the HRG/CSI on 27 February 1997. 2. During the Information Management Branch’s (IMB)research in response to the above tasking it was noted that Volume V of the Oswald files was not on the shelf where Volumes I-IV and VI-VII were located. A search of the entire area where the volumes had been maintained failed to locate Volume V. The IMB Files Section was subsequently charged with conducting an all out search for the missing volume. The search failed to find Volume V. 3. In July 1997, the Oswald files were reviewed page by page prior to being turned over to HRG/CSI and another attempt was made to locate Volume V or to locate persons who might know what happened to it. Volume V was not located nor were any persons located who were knowledgeable of its status. 4. During the complete review of the Oswald files no “time gap was apparent and no one was located who could recall ever seeing Volume V. This would suggest that either Volume V had been consolidated into other volumes or that Volume V never existed, but that a numbering error resulted in what should have been Volume V being labeled as Volume VI. The use of Roman numerals on the cover of the volumes might have caused this error to occur.
104-10331-10197| . ADMINISTRATIVE «INTERNAL USE ONLY 5 September 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: a po a @ 00 FROM: J. Barry Harrelson. JFK Project Officer OFFICE: OIM/HRP SUBJECT: Marina Oswald's Original 201 File REFERENCE: -ARRB has requested that the all original files of the Qswalds be transferred to NARA’s JFK Collection by 30 Sept. A copy of Marina's 201 minis the FBI documents exist in the microfilm part of the sequestered collection, and- a releasable version has been prepared for transfer to NARA. Since the original file contains both CIA and FBI documents some of which are still be classifed, the current plan is to put the entire original file inte the protected part of the collection. HAP will keep a complete copy of the file. Ata later date a joint CIA-FBI team can-seview the file to determine if it can be released in full { will confirm this with Steve Tilley at NARA. Let me know soonest if you have any problems with this approach. ce: James R. Oliver @ DA _ Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO Sent on 5 September 1998 at 12:17:31 PM ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10198 Sew ey & September 28, 1998 7 Memorandum for the Record Subject: ARRB Actions, September 28, 1998 A. The Board directed that the substitute language i in the first of the two outstanding foreign documents be “an official service.” In the second foreign document, the Board accepted the release of the LHO paragraph in full and postponed the rest of the document. The Board ordered the tax record documents referred to the IRS. On the Brigade medical files, the Board directed Mr. Skwirot to attempt to reconstruct the “white-banded” version of the document. On the Mexico City History, the Board intends to release the two surveillance operations (p. 229 and p. 296-298). Mr. Skwirot is to tag five or six other disputed issues for consideration by the Board on September 29. On the CI History, the Board directed Dr. Combs to work for a green document with Cc CI) and report back by 10:00 a.m. Tuesday. If this isnot possible, the Board will consider Dr. Combs’ recommendations. (Note: L___havises that CI - Staff hours commence at 0900.) Elder document: No change.
104-10331-10200 so — | SECRET cL By: (65647 CL REASON: Section 1.5¢ - DECL ON: X1 orv Fra: COV 2-87 NOTE FOR: Brian S. Latell FROM: OFFICE: DCi DATE: 11/05/97 07:27:26 PM SUBJECT: csi Resource. -Request. regarding JFK. | passed to the EXDIR the information| [provided regarding the possible resource implications of the letter from the Assassination Records Review Board Executive Director, T. Jeremy Gunn, and the possibility that you will ask that some of the $5.5 million additional money Congress has added for declassification be allocated to this task (and perhaps also the Korea project). | also showed him Gunn's letter. The EXDIR asks that you provide him the following information: What is the size of the JFK declassification problem? How much work remains to be done? — How many people do you have working on the JFK project now? What difference would X more make?. .Sent on 5 November at 07227: SECRET
13-00000 ¢ » Referrals from other Agencies are increasing - To be reviewed: At least 40,000 pages. This is a rough estimate and could easily be higher. We reviewed in August, September and October over 18,000 pages compared with less than 10,000 the previous 7 months.: Declassification and Transfer to NARA: The increase in assassination records plus the. requirement to declassify and transfer to NARA all JFK assassination records to NARA by 30 September 1998 will require a significant increase in support resources: (indexing, redaction, reproduction). Currently most of the indexing and reproduction for the project is done on overtime. Two support ICs assist the reviewers with the review and redaction tasks. To meet the deadline, I estimate that the current cost of support will .double. Resources: See previous memo. The projected requirements are a rough estimate at this time. They assume that HRG will have computer connectivity with the CIA SCIF at ARRB offices and access to summer employees (5) to assist with preparing documents for NARA during June-Aug. 1998. The actual cost could increase ‘depending on the decisions by the Board on the NBR: proposals and if number of referrals and new assassination records are much higher than projected. 7
104-10331-10202 ny 5 SECRET CLBY:611637 Gl. REASOM: Section 1.8 ¢ Gtet om XI pay Fam: LOC 5-82 5 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ OCI - Fred Wickham @ 00 Lee Strickland @ DA Kathryn Dyer @ DCI Oct FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer "OFFICE: . CSIHRG SUBJECT: . 17 November JFK Board Meeting-- CIA issues (update) *\ REFERENCE: 1. The following CIA items are on the agenda for the 17 November ARRB meeting: e {s) Reconsideration of the release o Va. as the location of the CiA Record Center. in addition to written evidence being prepared by DA, the Agency has been offered the opportunity to brief the Board. @ Chairman Tunheim's proposal to advance the opening date of the Nosenko NBR (Not Believed Relevant) material from the 2017 per the JFK Act to the year 2070. , , The ARRB staff disagrees with the Board on this issue and will recommend that the release date remain 2017. However, they are not confident that-the Board will accept their recommendation and has requested the Agency's position on the 2010 date. If the Agency opposes the 2010 change-in the date, | will need a memo from the DO explaining why. We could offer a compromise--accept the 2010 date provided the Agency has the same right in 2010 as 2017 to review and appeal the release of the records. | have ask OGC for a legal opinion. Please note that this decision affects only those documents designated “NBR” by ARRB. The documents declared to be Assassination Records (AR) will be re-reviewed and released, either sanitized or in full, during the coming year. @  {&) Proposed release of reference to CIA employee being undes } We have provided written evidence {D0 note coordinated with ~ According to the ARRB staff, some Board members consider CIA use'‘of las an “open secret" and are inclined to release. We have been offered the - opportunity to brief the Board. SECRET
13-00000 SECRET @ Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) financial records. ARREB staff plans te recommend te the Beard that monthly summaries be considered ARs and the remaining material be designated NBR Samples of these documents have been provided to DA, 00, and DCINRO. If you have any comments or objections, please forward them to me by COB Wednesday. an Documents containing tong lists of names, crypts, companies, etc. These include both Agency documents and notes of HSCA staffers. (FY! - no action required at this time) The ARRB staff will ask the Board to delay processing of such documents and, in some cases, declare them NBR. The staff considers them marginal te the story and believes that they are not worth the time involved. (8) 2. We need to advise the ARRB staff no later than COB 12 November (Wednesday), if we plan to brief the Board a andjo____] Written evidence is due to ARRB staff by COB 13 November (Thursday). They need at least one day to review the material and prepara their presentations for the Board. ecky Rant @ DA ereorr
104-10331-10203] . ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY From the Desk of R. Bruce Burke Associate Deputy General Counsel NOTE FOR:. Dawn R. Eilenberger@DC! FROM: R. Bruce Burke @ DCI OFFICE: OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL DATE: 10/01/98 01:08:09 PM ‘ SUBJECT: JFK Review. Board item for the BLAT Dawn: The following paragraph on the winding down of the JFK Review Board may be used in the occ Weekly Report. Bruce “ASSOCIATE DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL (INFORMATION) End of JFK Review Board. As of 1 October, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (JFK Review Board) ceased to exist. In order to obtain more protection and processing time for - Agency records related to the assassination of President Kennedy, OGC and OIM worked very hard to negotiate with the JFK Review Board (before its termination) a comprehensive MOU that would _ govern the final disposition of these records in a way favorable to the Agency. Although the MOU was negotiated and ready for signature, at the eleventh hour, the FBI agreed to turn over to the National Records and Archives Administration (NARA) all of its voluminous administrative records _concerning its implementation of the JFK Act. Citing this precedent; the JFK Review Board insisted | that CIA agree to do the same in the MOU, or the MOU would not be signed by the Board. Since in the absence of an MOU we would have to turn over to NARA i immediately all of the remaining documents in CIA's possession considered by the JFK Review Board to be assassination-related records, OGC and OIM negotiated non-stop with the Board and its General Counsel and produced a compromise which protects all of the Agency's interests. Specifically, the compromise dramatically reduced the scope and numbers of administrative records CiA would be required to turn over to NARA, while preserving intact all of the other provisions of the MOU favorable to the Agency.” an cc: Edmund Cohen@DA Lee S. Strickland@DA DA DCl Sent.on 1 October 1998 at 01:08:09 PM ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10206 10 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: Information Review Officer, DS&T FROM: . : . J. Barry Harrelson . Historical Review Group, CSI/DCI SUBJECT : JFK Assassination Records-Request for . Review of SCI Documents 1. Attached for your review are two documents from the JFK Assassination Records Collection which contain equities of the Directorate for Science and Technology. As you know, the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) is in the. process of reviewing assassination-related documents for release to the public. In order to assist in this process, please again review the attached documents for declassification and indicate by yellow: highlighting those areas that you determine should be redacted. The earlier version of these documents, released in 1993 and 1994 respectively, are attached for reference. 2.- Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at S31825 or Mr. Jim Hanrahan at S31809. We would appreciate receiving your response by 1 December 1997. J. Barry Hanesicon Attachments: (1) 104-10106~-10175, TCS 7055-78 dtd Aug 9, 1978 (2) 104-10106-10143, SC-01836-78 dtd 22 Jun 78 ' THIS DOCUMENT IS UNCLASSIFIED WHEN SEPARATED FROM ATTACHMENTS frou oe SECRET
13-00000 + oe t er) O/DCI/CSI:HRG: BKHunter Distribution: ‘Orig - Adse w/atts 1 ~- Jim Hanrahan w/cy atts 1 - B.Harrelson w/o atts 1 o>; JFK Subject’. files: w/atts J HRG w/o atts
104-10331-10208 a CONFIDENTIAL cL py.(ose41__) 61 REASOU: Section 1.5 pect om: 18 November 2007 pav Fas: FIN 3-82 NOTE FOR: John F. Pereira FROM: , GFFICE: . DCI DATE: . 11/18/97 01:47:44 PM SUBJECT:. Response to Jeremy Gunn "The EXDIR asks that CSI draft for his signature a response to Assassination Records Review Board Executive Director T. Jeremy Gunn's 28 October 1997 letter to David Carey requesting accelerated review and declassification of CIA records. The EXDIR wants to recieve this response by COB 21 November. The EXDIR has not yet made a decision regarding CSI's request for additional funding contained in the 31 October memorandum “Request for Additional Funds for the JFK Assassination Records Review Project" (which you faxed to me on 7 November). ce: | be. Sent on 18 November 1997 at 01:47:44 PM CONFIDENTIAL
104-10331-10209 \ | e - . ’ CL BY{611837 | Ci REASOE: Section 1.6 € acer on: X49 ony ease COV 2-87 21 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ DCI ; Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO Lee Strickland @ DA DCI FROM: __ J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer ~ OFFICE: . oo CSWHRG SUBJECT: ARRB meeting 17 November - Results REFERENCE: 1. Reconsideration of the release of Warrenton as CIA Records Center: The Board accepted the Agency's request for reconsideration; postponed until 2017. . 2. ClAuse fh The Board did not find the Agency's eviderice persuasive; released. This determination affects 16 documents ( 3.duplicates) that were pending Board action. Future documents will be impacted by this _ decision. Copies of the documents have been sent to BO and OGC for reconsideration/appeal review. , 3. Release date of Nosenko NBR records: The Board moved the release date from 2017 to 2010 giving the Agency the right to review and appeal at that time. 4, Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) Financial Records: The Board accepted the ARRB staff's recommendation (concurred in by CIA) that only “General Statement for Month” records for January 1960 and to January 1995 be processed as Assassination Records, and that the approximately 6,000 remaining pages of financial records be declared to have “no believed relevance (NBR)” to the JFK assassination. 5. Ramparts Damage Assessment Document: The Beard accepted the ARRB staff's recommendation (concurred in by CIA) that the paragraphs on the one relevant SECRET
13-00000- - me _ SECRET organization be processed as a assassination record, and that the remainder of the CIA Ramparts Memorandum be declared NBR. The memorandum distusses the truth or fallacy of the allegations in Ramparts the Agency used non-governmental organizations for support and funding of worldwide anti-Communist operations. Over one hundred organizations are mentioned in the Ramparts article. The relevant organization is the International Rescue Committee; the IRC aided Oswald on his return to the US. 6. Book Cables Dissemination Lists: The Board accepted the Agency's request that book cable dissemination list be protected in full even if they contain stations that are releasable. : 7. Document # 104-10072-10232 : The Board rejected the Agency's request to protect the full erypt (nen The document has been sent to the DO for reconsideration/appeal review. 8. Other Documents: The Board accepted the Agency's and ARRB staff's recommendations on 204 additional documents. Reconsideration and Appeals: ° if the Agency wishes to ask the Board te reconsider a decision or plans to appeal to the President, the ARRB staff has requested that it be notified prior te the letter te the Agency informing the DCI of the Board's decision. We expect the letter on or around Dec. ist; the Board's determinations will also. be published in the Federal Register on that date. As mandated by the White House, the Agency has seven days after notification to appeal a JFK Board decision to the President. ce: [poo Kathryn Dyer @ DCI Becky Dyer @ DA Sent on 21 November 1997 at 05:04:45 PM SECRET