|; Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records collection Act of 1997 (42 USC SIT Hotes. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 3/31/201 Identification Form Agency Information “AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10372-10286 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 62C-HQ-1029205-1168 ” Document Information ORIGINATOR: DOS FROM: DOS TO: HQ TITLE : DATE: 04/03/1996 ‘PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS : JFKARCA OF 1992 : DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 04/01/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC 3 MEMO SSeS v9.1 . 2 Docld: 32319954 Page 1
DATE: Lin44-2017 rence C) S17 ‘United States Department of State We ashington, D.C. 20520 _ April 3, 1996 He SECRET | oo ECL: 1.6X1 MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT M. BRYANT FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SUBJECT: OX JFK Assassination - Release of Information from FBI Investigations of Foreign Officials (U) At your request we have consulted the relevant . geographic bureaus within the Department of State to determine the possible impact release of FBI documents reiating to Cuba, Poland, Mexico, and Israel would have on our bilateral relations with those countries. . OR Solely from the standpoint of our bilateral relations, the Department has ne objection to release of the information you forwarded relating to Cuba, Mexico, and Poland. “ne pent geographic bureau responsible for Poland, however, requests that the name of the informant net be made public (see attached). (Sy ‘The Departmert does object to release of the forwarded information on Israel... In the _opinton.of the gecgraphic bureau responsible. for Tsrael (memo attached) release of that material would damage US foreign relations yy revealing FBI ‘collection of information involving: Israeli Giplomatic ‘personnel, other Israeli officials, and US citizens” ‘conducting Yotitiné contacts with Israelis. We would expect the (Government of Israel to react quickly and negatively to the ‘release. of” -Such maté@rial. The Department notes, int addition, that this Goes not affect its objection to the release of any document that would compromise intelliyence scurces, methods and anal ytical procedures or which would constitute official acknow.edgement of counter-intelligence operations. ;As state’ previously, it is the Department’ S Opinion that dis sclos ure ot these counter — ss a = 8 ad SECRET Do did Yes baplir aelde— ” ,
= "Released under the John F. ne Hssassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC Fil? Hote;.. Z/ DATE: 11-14-2017 C) March 27, 1996 SECRET DECL: 1.5 (c), (d) MEMORANDUM TO: : INR/IC - Kenneth Duncan FROM: NEA/IAI- Richard Roth {—_ SUBJECT: JFK Assassination - Release of Information from FBI Investigation of Foreign Officials Say }ef This is in response to your memorandum of March 21 on the above subject. We oppose release of the referenced material. (S) Release of the material would damage U.S. foreign relations by revealing FBI collection of information involving; Israeli diplomatic personnel, other Israeli officials, and U.S. citizens coriducting routine contacts with Israelis. /We would expect the Government of Israel ito react quickly and negatively to the release of such material. (S) We also note that the referenced material clearly indicates there is no connection between the information discussed by the’Israeli diplomat and the subject of the investigation. We therefore do not believe that the material would be of any value to investigators if it were released. Its release would serve no useful purpose. SECRET Docld: 32319954 Page 3