ar enventlde 104-10396-(0017 forae vid tulad FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB / Mr. J. Barry ve AES April 16, 1997 - Page 10 a iS AVE Aapres oN Secu WA ah SY DU peeved SCR r—~_ CIA-IR-14 Br¢ckinridge files. CIA will determine the disposition of the files of Scott D. Breckinridge. **CIA-IR-15 Electronic “take” from Mexico City Station. The Review Board has for some time been attempting to determine whether it has had access to all of CIA’s surveillance “take” from the Cuban and Soviet facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald visit and in the immediate wake of the assassination. On numerous occasions, the Review Board has asked whether there was any surveillance take in addition to what is currently in the collection. On March 18, 1997, the Review Board provided additional leads to CIA to assist it in answering these questions. The DO has agreed to check Headquarters records for the file referenced in HMMW 12454, to search for the crypts cited in this document, and to search for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches cited in this document. The DS&T will query its offices for possible records on Mexico City and Cuba and for the present location of Staff D records. Regardless of the outcome of these particular searthés, the Review Board continues to seek a full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods. CIA-IR-16 DS&‘k will provide a folder title print out of U-2 materials for Review Board examityation, check for records filed under Richard Bissell’s name, and search for OSP DS&T has also contacted Lockheed for assistance. CIA-IR-17 DS&RRegords on Castro assassination plots. ish the 1967 IG Report to provide possible search query &T follow-up. HRG will suggestions for CIA-FR-18 DO Office. The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office. We understand that you are collecting the relevant information. { Sve Opack ona Some [ Befee OW"
Se CIA FRIE Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW + 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 « Fax: (202) 724-0457 December 18, 1997 CIA HAS NO cauecr: ONTO. Mr. John Pereira DECLASSIFICATICN ANDIOR *.. Chief Tine OF Cia INFORMATION Historical Review Group DOCUMENT Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 02505 Re: Status of CIA Responses to Assassination Records Review Board’s Requests for Additional Information and Records Dear John: I am writing to follow-up on our telephone call earlier today and to convey my serious concern about the status of CIA’s responses to the Review Board’s requests for additional information and records. Although CIA has completed its responses to several requests, and many others have been answered in part, a significant number of requests have not been answered — including some that were made more than two years ago. On many occasions we have’been assured that responses would be forthcoming, only to have promised dates come and go without answers. It is now extremely important that these requests be answered promptly so that we may conduct a proper follow-up if necessary. The issues that we can now identify as being of the highest priority are identified in the text below by double asterisks (**)' and we request that they be answered within the next month. We request that the remaining requests be answered by April 1, 1998. The remainder of this letter is divided into two parts: first, a listing of the formal requests for information and records, and second, a listing of the informal requests for information and records. Please let me know if your understanding of any of the following points differs from ours so that we can resolve any potential discrepancies. ‘As identified more fully below, the issues are: CIA-1 Organizational Material, CIA-6 Cables and Dispatches, CIA-13 Backchannel Communications, CIA-IR-03 HTLINGUAL Documents, CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton Files, CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart, CIA-IR-15 Electronic “take” from Mexico City, CIA-IR-21 DRE Monthly Operational Reports, CIA-IR-22 “A” Files on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison. Boaro Memeens: John R. Tunheim, Chair + Henry F. Graff + Kermit 1. Hall + William L. Joyce + Anna K. Nelson
13-00000 Mr. John Pereira December 18, 1997 Page 10 outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board continues to seek a full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods. CIA-IR-16 U-2 Files. DS&T has provided a folder title printout of U-2 materials for Review Board examination and has checked for records filed under Richard Bissell’s name. The - Review Board staff continues to review these indexes. The DS&T should continue to search for OSP files. CIA-IR-17 DS&T Records on Castro Assassination Plots. The DS&T records should be searched for any records on Castro assassination plots. The Review Board will provide possible search query suggestions from the 1967 IG Report. The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office. Since January 1997, CIA has had no response and no time frame for a response. CIA-IR-19 Computer Searches. ; The Review Board has requested that full computer searches be conducted on all - of the following people and organizations. The results of the searches should be documented. Once formal documentation of the completed searches has been provided, the request is complete. a 3 2 ilk Ss . . . ah, « . « : ° e . « e. . . ° e ° , ° < 3. Hunter Leake ARRB awaits documentation. HRG is checking for a DCD file 4. Marilyn Dutz Murret This request is complete 5. John McVickar ARRB awaits documentation. 6. Andy Anderson ARRB awaits documentation 1. Spas Raikin This request is complete.
13-00000 { . UNCLASSIFIED 6 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, JFK Declassification Project /HRP/OIM/DA FROM: William McNair, DO/IRO SUBJECT: (U) DO Response to CIA IR 18 REFERENCE: ARRB Request for Additional Information and Records CIA IR 18 1. (U) This memorandum is in response to informal request number 18 (CIA IR 18) from the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). “The Review Board has made oral requests from CIA for information about a particular DO office.” 2. (U) The CIA cannot answer the oral request in an unclassified manner. A classified answer will be provided. William McNair UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT: DO Response to CIA IR 18 DO/IMS/IRO William McNairx’4440}mjk (6 August 1998) Distribution: ; Original - Addressee 1 - DO/TRO 1 - C/IMS 1 - IMS/ESG/HCS UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 ce FT ret . = fee 3 we jewel Stott et kG var 17 September 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Ms. Laura Denk Executive Director, ARRB FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM SUBJECT: CIA-IR-18, Request for Information on a Particular DO Office 1. This is in response to subject request. 2. The Directorate of Operations (DO) previously responded to this request with a classified memorandum for review by ARRB staff members. Following that review, it was requested that the Agency provide an unclassified response with as much data a possible. 3. The DO has now provided an unclassified response and it is attached hereto. 4. This concludes the Agency’s action on this request. If you have any questions, please advise. =8—. Att. A/S
13-00000 4 o UNCLASSIFIED 26 August 1998 MEMORANDUM For: Chief, JFK Declassification Project/HRP/OIM/DA FROM: William McNair, DO/IRO SUBJECT: (U) DO Response to CIA IR 18 1. (U) This memorandum is an unclassified response to informal request number 18 (CIA IR 18) from the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). “The Review Board has made oral requests from CIA for information about a particular DO office.” 2. (U) The “Defector Staff” listed in CSN 5-50 revised October 1959 and revised October 1963 had the symbol DDP/CDC, CIA Defector Coordinator (CDC) under the DDP. Only Soviet cases were handled by the DDP/CDC. 3. (U) The “Defector and Contract Personnel Branch” had the symbol SR/OS/D. Only Soviet Bloc (that is former Warsaw Pact countries) defector cases were handled by this branch. 4. (U) The staff and the branch identified in paragraph 2 and.3 above, among their other duties, were responsible for identifying, debriefing, and resettling foreign defectors of intelligence interes~* i j 1 Qe, | William H. McNair UNCLASSIFIED |
13-00000 - 7 - UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT: (U) DO Response to CIA IR 18 i IMS/ESG/HCS WMcNair x(44440:mjk (26 August 1998) Distribution: Original - C/HRP/OIM 1 = DO/TRO 1 - C/IMS/ESG 1 - IMS/ESG/HCS 1 - ESG Chrono File \ UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 SECRET 6 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, JFK Declassification Project /HRP/OIM/DA FROM: William McNair, DO/IRO SUBJECT: (U) Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18 REFERENCE: | 1. ARRB Request for Additional Information and Records CIA IR 18 2. Unclassified Response to CIA IR 18 1. (U) This memorandum is. the classified response to informal request number 18 (CTA - IR 18) from the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). “The Review Board has made oral requests from CIA for information about a particular DO office.” The CIA cannot answer the oral. requests in an unclassified manner. 2. (S) The “Defector Staff” listed in CSN 5-50 revised October 1959 and revised October 1963 had the symbol DDP/CDc, CIA Defector Coordinator (CDC) under the DDP. Only Soviet cases were handled by the DDP/CDC. This group was the predecessor of the present group, the Defector Program Group. ..3.(S) The “Defector and Contract Personnel Branch” had the symbol SR/OS/D. Only Soviet Bloc (that is former Warsaw Pact countries) defector cases were handled by this branch. 4.(S) The present group, The Defector Program Group, is - the focal point in the DO and in the Intelligence Community for the conduct of the US Defector Program in accordance with DCID 4/1-1. The Program includes the identification, exploitation, movement, handling, and resettlement of aliens — of interest to the Intelligence Community. (With | respect to / (Ene DO, DPG represents the DDO and provides staff guidance, ; advice, supervision, and coordination for DO efforts can regarding walk~ ins and other volunteers, Public Law (PL-110) —/ i, a ne REASON: 1.5(c) DECL: X1; 31607 DRV: MIS 1-87 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: DO Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18 (, “defectors, tefugessy and asylum seekers of intelligence’ | | interests. | | DPG also chairs and serves as the Secretariat for | the DCI’s Interagency Defector Committee (IDC), which is composed of ten members of the Intelligence Community as \ wen as other agencies, and the Defector Resettlement Review 1 Panel. ADRRP) ¢--an- intra~ agency” committee. OT en a en a ~~ 7s , ge SECRET
13-00000 | SECRET SUBJECT: DO Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18 DO/IRO William McNair x44440}mjk (6 August 1998) QS Distribution: Original - Addressee 1 - DO/TRO 1 - C/IMS/ESG 1 - IMS/ESG/HCS SECRET -
13-00000 SECRET 17 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Laura Denk Executive Director, ARRB FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM SUBJECT: CIA-IR-18, Request for Information on ‘a Particular DO Office 1. (U) This is in response to referent request. 2. (S) This request involved the so-called “Defector Staff.” The DO has advised that only a classified response is possible with respect to this staff and advised as follows: A. That staff is listed in Clandestine Services Notice 5-50, revised October 1959 and 1963 and carried the symbol DDP/CDC (CIA Defector Coordinator). Only soviet cases were handled by the staff. The staff was a predecessor of the present group, the Defector Program Group (DPG) . B. The “Defector and Contract Personnel Branch” was designated SR/OS/D. This branch handled only Soviet Bloc defector cases (countries of the former Warsaw Pact). C. The Defector Program Group noted above is the focal point within the DO and Intelligence Community for the conduct of the US defector program in accordance with DCID 4/1-1. The program encompasses the identification, exploitation, movement, handling and resettlement of aliens of interest to the Intelligence Community. (The DP DPG)_ \Fepresents the Deputy pirector of Operations providing) advice, supervision, and coordination within the DO “"_ ‘regarding walk-ins and other, Public Law, Section 110 » /@efector refugees, and asylum seekers of intelligence ~- 4 interest. The DPG chairs the DCI’s ten member Interagency , “Defector Committee, the members being drawn from both the . (intelligence community and_o other government | agencies. _ / 3. (U) The Agency believes that the above is fully responsive to subject request and in thus closing its action on it. If you have any questions, please advise. J. Barry Harrelson SECRET
13-00000 SECRET ee SECRET CL By: {0611637 | CL REASON: 1.5(C) DECL On: X1 DRV: MIS 1-87 |