Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). JFK Assassination System - DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32322401 Page 1 Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10379-10192 HQ 62C-HQ-1029205-418 Document Information FBI HQ ALL OFFICES 05/29/1998 3 JFKARCA OF 1992 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 3 Redact 05/20/1999 INDEFINITE 306 Date: 3/31/201
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assazsination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 USC 2107 Hote}. t (12/31/1995) » DoclId:32322401 Page 2? DATE: 11-14-2017 } FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Precedence: PRIORITY Date: 05/29/1998 To: All Field Offices From: Office of Public and Congressional Affairs JFK Task Force Contact: LuAnn Wilkins or Carol Keeley, Ext. 0674 Approved By: Keeley Carol mn AN et Drafted By: Lamey Catherine L fi? Case ID #: 62-HQ-1029205' (Pending) Title: John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act of 1992 (the Act) Synopsis: The JFK Task Force requests each Field Office to conduct a new indices search for any additional information related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination that may have been placed on record since the previous search, and to search their offices, storage areas, or archived files for any documents or information related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans and Miami are ‘requested to include RAs in their search for records. Details: In 1992, Congress signed the Act mandating federal agencies to release all documents concerning the presidential assassination or information related by conspiracy theory to the , assassination. The Act narrowly defined the types of information that agencies could still protect by postponement until the year 2017. The Act also established the Assassination Records Review ; Board (the Board) as a separate entity to oversee the release of material from the federal agencies to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Beyond the Board's oversight responsibilities, the Act charged the Board with the duties of reviewing agencies! proposed postponements with their evidence for approval or denial and researching additional areas of information for new material related to the assassination. The FBI has been working with the Board since its inception to meet the requirements of the Act. On November 29, 1996, the Board wrote a letter to the FBI setting forth a formal compliance program. The letter requested the FBI's cooperation with the Board “in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American people that the goals of the JFK Act will be accomplished to the greatest reasonable extent.” The compliance program’is the Board's answer to demonstrating “to the American public that a thorough, good-faith, and diligent effort have been made to locate and release all remaining assassination- ~related records within the control of the United States Government (and that the wit ewy deteched
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 — a To: All Field off S From: Office of Publi nd Congressional Affairs ‘ Re: 62~HQ-1029205, 05/29/1998 Government is not hiding any such materials from public disclosure).”" With this philosophy in mind, the JFK Task Force met with the Board's FBI staff researchers on January 15, 1997, to clarify the Board's expectations of the FBI. ; At this meeting the Board explained that part of their mission is to provide a thorough explanation of the FBI's records system, indices, definitions of documents, searches requested, and responses of the searches. The FBI wrote and sent an initial compliance letter in June 1997 that defined the FBI's records system and all the tasks performed to date. Even with this ‘letter, the Board believes that although the FBI searched the Central Records System (CRS) and requested the field offices to search their indices for documents related to the assassination, that a presumption exists that some documents may be found only in tickler files and field office archives. Also, additional ~ assassination related information may have been placed on record since previous searches of field office indices were conducted. | . Separate searches should be conducted regarding each of the following core and related subjects: -John F. Kennedy Assassination Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby (aka Jacob Rubenstein) Marguerite Oswald Marina Oswald Michael. Paine Ruth Paine George DeMorenschildt avid Ferrie Clay Shaw ~ in Pre EE EAT nN Me A ie ee ee ge TR mk ere te te ot apenas s -- cys dewtisignge trent eet on AE ip te ae eee A a ben geet Re Pay mys tagres 5 - ~ ein rortaneeaarey pe eerin “one seine ETHERS See * RNY RS Tarot fe age treet Tecoma ap : aa ° . 32323401 Page 3