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104-10331-10353 SECRET CL BY:611637 a CL REASOH: Section 1.5 6 meet om: X1 ony Fane: COV 2-87 NoTeFOR: [|  /@oo | - FROM: d. Barry Harrelson OFFICE: OM/HRP DATE: 04/16/98 02:09:10 PM “mee . SUBJECT: Alert: May meeting issue ee | will provide follow-up message for distribution -- this is a DO team alert. thave a meeting with Gunn and staff Monday am to address as many outstanding issues as possible including the following: TCINLUCK': Initial response to 12 April memo was "same old stuff". Bob, ARRB, wanted to know what happen to the proposal re letting release stand in issue document and protect where needed in other documents? Did DO agree to letting ARRB.staff see detailed message from division? , 2 Locurients will be scheduled for May meeting. Recommend we re-visit-documents and plan to-discuss with Bob S. when he comes out next week. | have assigned these to Hal Bean; he will-be in contact. If you have a file on these documents that will help Hal come up to speed, please share it with him. 3 Pocuments- ARRB member had questions iminor per Bob} on 5 of the documents. in addition, there are two documents from the original 10 that we have a disagreement on. { need to get these document to Lee and lawyers tomorrow (Friday) so that I can address on Monday. ce: Sent on 16 April 1998 at 02:09:10 PM SECRET oP ADH Etta a ee
104-10331-10354 . & a Lihunbreer Lowes; © CONFIDENTIAL 2 July 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD /SUBJECT: AMLYRIC-1 201 FILE FROM: Gary M. Breneman, IC, HRP/OIM aa At the request of. the ARRB staff the DO made subject 201 file available for review by a staff member. “ea That review took place and £followng “thevreview, the staff mets xr, Michelle Combs, consulted with Robert - Skwirot. He advised that nothing further was required from the Agency. The file was returned to of even date herewith. ; bee ees Gary\M.) Byeneman CONFIDENTIAL
104-10331-10357 é ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY From the Desk of J. Barry Harrelson NOTEFOR: James R. Oliver@DA a FROM: J. Barry Harrelson OFFICE: OIM/HRP DATE: 02/19/99 03:13:45 PM _ SUBJECT: Meeting with NARA - JFK | will be meeting with Steve Tilley, NARAVJEK , 1:30 March 2 2 (Tuesday), fo review the status of the JFK project. Issues include: . 1. The completion of the review of ARRB files held by NARA (approximately 18 gray | boxes of records); + 2. The review of 5-6 record center boxes of Church Committee testimonies identifi ed By the ARRB in its last few days. 3. Pending MOU items - - a. Sequestered Collection "duplicate" review [ in progress] b. Mexico City audio tapes (DO) [in progress] c. DCI area working files (1 record center box) d. JFK Project Files ( HRP file, Harrelson working file, DO cables, IRO certifi ications) e. Robert Kennedy records from JFK Presidential Library (4 gray boxes) f. Transfer of "un-redacted versions of sanitized documents to NARA secure storage (DO) [required by law - - mircoform is acceptable] g. List of NBR Records (HRP) : / _ 4. Cuban files in JFK Presidential Library - - possible trip §. Collections review by joint teams - - need index / copies of sanitized documents 6. HRP assistance to NARA in reconstructing CIA's JFK collections and integrating duplicate material. After the meeting | will prepare a comprehensive list.of tasks remaining in the JFK projects for distribution to OIM management and the IROs. - cc: D0 Sent on 19 February 1999 at 03:13:45 PM ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
13-00000 e New Note\Standard _ NOTE FOR: FRON: Kathryn i. Dyer DATE: | 04/29/97 04:42:20 PM . SUBJECT: Records Request Would you please order the following boxes for JFK related inquiries: - 82M00097R Box: 8 (Fir. 10) Box 26 (Fir. 24) 82R00370R Box 2 (Fir. 6-7) 91B01063R Box 2 (Fir. 31-32) 92B01039R Box 1 (Several) ' Box 8 (Fir. 141,146) 92B01090R . Box 12 = (Fir. 143) Box 26 (Fir. 229) a. 92B01102R Box 10 (Fir. 26). The above represents first cut and highest priority. Will return your shelf lists in the morning. Thanks. cc: New Note\Standard
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104-10331-10364 21 May 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: © Mary Lou Cummings; DCI/IRO FROM: , DCI/OIG/IMO SUBJECT: (C) Breckinridge, LHO Report, and Report Indexes/iInventory 1.  (AIUO) The OIG/IMO has made exhaustive searches both manually and electronically. The attached is all of the responsive material that could be found. 2. (AIUO) It appears that all reports and material done by the IG on JFK or LHO have long since been turned over to OLC (currently OEXA). Shelflists and a memorandum confirming this are attached. 3. An electronic search produced 240 ‘hits’ on Breckin ge. I personally went through all 240 and have selected only a few from that number that may be responsive. 4. (AIUO) The Office of the Inspector General does not keep an inventory or index of IG cases. 5S. (AIUO) I£ you have any questions regarding this riemo, please call me on X77081. Thank you. « Distribution: rig - addressee 1 cy - DCI/OIG/IMO file
104-10334-40365 _ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Ath ; yen” From the Desk of | 7 NOTE FOR: _J. Barry Harrelson FROM: | } OFFICE: - DATE: 07/22/96 03:15:09 PM SUBJECT: OGC searches under JFK Act _ Per your request, OGC has conducted searches for documents regarding Lawrence Houston and Scott , Breckinridge for the time Period 1959-64. There are no OGC files on either individual. ‘However, documents were located on each individual as described: below. With respect to Scott Breckinridge, compute searches of OGC record systems were conducted and approxinately 100 documents were located, dating from 1977 to 1996. I have reviewed the computer summaries of all these documents, only 5 mention HSCA or President Kennedy which [ will make available to you. The remainder deal with prepublication review of manuscripts written by Breckinridge. One document deals with a unrelated FOIA request by another individual which mentions Breckinridge's name. 1 will retain these summaries should you wish to review them yourself. With regard’s to Lawrence Houston, during the relevant time period, oac published a volume entitled “Opinions of the Office of General Counsel, Central intelligence Agency". Each volume contains all the opinions fromall the attorneys in the office during a particular year. | am currently in the processing of reviewing the volumes for 1959-64. Please advise as to how you want to handle the appropriate review of these volumes. cc: - Sent on 33 July 1998 at 03:15:09 PM FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
13-00000 Bhechneut 1 21 May 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: (Mary Lou Cummings) DCI/IRO SUBJECT: (C)’ Breckinridge, LHO Report, and Report Indexes/Inventory 1. (AIUO) The OIG/IMO has made exhaustive searches both manually and electronically. The attached is all of the responsive material that could be found. 2. {(AIUO) It appears that all reports and material done by the IG on JFK or LHO have long since been turned over to OLC (currently OEXA). Shelflists and a memorandum confirming this are attached. 3. An electronic search produced 240 ‘hits’ on Breckin ge. I personally went through all 240 and have selected only a few from that number that may be responsive. 4. (AIUO) The Office of the Inspector General does not keep an inventory or index of IG cases. 5. (AIUO) I£ you have any questions regarding this memo, please call me on X77081. Thank you. Distribution: rig - addressee 1 cy - DCI/OIG/IMO file
104-10331-10367 INTERNAL USE ONLY 23 March 1994 Memorandum For: C/HRG Subject: Nosenko and the Mangold Litigation I received a call from { OGC, this morning concerning the Nosenko files in the JFK files. I described the files ‘again (about 4000+ pages that include transcripts of all his interrogations and numerous studies on his bona ~ fides and treatment by the Agency including the Solie and Hart reports and an 835 page comprehensive study). Since Nosenko is an important figure in the JFK assassination story and the files are part of the sequestered collection, HRG is reviewing the files under the JFK Assassination Records Collections Act. However, we were aware that some of the documents were part of the Mangold litigation and wanted to make sure that they were properly coordinated. ) said that the Mangold litigation should not be a a “factor in HRG's review. If the files were subject to the JFK Records Act, they should be processed under that Act. When the review is complete, a list of the documents released should be provide so that OGC can treat them the "game in the Mangold case. background on the handling of Nosenko files and what were the "secrets" given what we know is publicly available. She said for years the agency "glomared" Nosenko except for the Oswald information: however, once Golitsyn became public that ended. . Today, the battle over his bona fides and how he was treated are public knowledge. The Agency up until a couple years ago had not released some of. the studies (she mention Solie) but she was not sure that this was still the case or if it was possible to continue to deny them. DO *] a I also talked with Kathy Stricker (yesterday) to get some | ~ protected the information provided by Nosenko on other Soviet sources and leads for possible recruitment. This type of information should continue to be protected. Kathy Stricker's comments are consistent with HRG's handling of the Nosenko files. We are considering all of the files as related; his bona fides is a key element of the story and there was a large amount of information including parts of the studies on him in both the Oswald 201 and the JFK hard copy collection. We have deleted information provided on other sources and operations not related to the JFK story. We are also recommending release of the rest of the studies. Although they contain potentially embarrassing information for the Agency (as did the IG report on the Castro plots), there doesn't appear to be grounds for denying under the JFK Act.
104-10331-10369] 6 January 1997 ‘MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Appreciation fox Task Peformed © byl 1. This is to express appreciation for the excellent work ed recently by the DCI Area’ Security Officer, in responding to a high priority requirement. The task involved making arrangements on an expedited basis to have a secure facility (scif) constructed on the premises of the Presidential Board that is responsible for assuring the release of all, government records related to the assasination of President John Kennedy. 2. The requirement for the scif was triggered by a request on 16 October 1996 from Judge John Tunheim, Chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), to CIA Executive Director Nora Slatkin. Tunheim requested that the ' Agency transfer a large volume of sensitive records to the Board’s offices in Washington, D.C. Responsibility for the documents was to remain with CIA, which meant that a dedicated scift controlled by Agency personnel was needed. 3. It was thanks to Mr. [__]initiative and personal involvement at every step from beginning to completion of the facility that the requirement was fulfilled without delay. He promptly surveyed the location proposed for the scif, discussed the security details and costs directly with the Board’s Executive Director, and contacted appropriate CIA components to assure the installation was completed promptly and security | requirements were met. Throughout the entire process he was diligent about’ keeping our office fully informed on the progress of the project. 4. mr.[_ ]deserves a good deal of credit for his fine efforts, which were key to the Agency’s success in meeting its commitment to the Presidential Board. John F. Pereira Chief, Historical Review Group
(04-10331-10971 os 7 a a . june 19987 : a * >" Note to: Brian Subject: Status of ARRB decision on 16 documents 1. As of COB Friday, no official word if the DO is going to appeal or not. Bill McNair called late Friday and ask for set of the documents (apparently they did not keep a set when took them over). Told him OGC had a set; we are preparing a set for him to pick-up this a.m. 2. The decision date to notify President of “appeal” is COB Wed. If needed Bob Eatinger, OGC, will call Krislov, White House Counsel's Office, and ask for more time. Either way, we need Sr package for the DCI ready no later then early Tue. ; 3. Attached are notes on the 16 documents prepared by Chuck Briggs. I basically agree with his comments, ,however, the only “appeal issue” is. names. Inactive crypts that do. not identity an agent/asset or a liaison relationship should be released. Writing in substitutions or codes would be a major undertaking. 4. The names in these 16 documents can probably be released with no harm provided the individual are notified; they are part of the story. However, this collections contains hundreds of names of included who served/retired under cover. Even if these 16 documents are released in | full the WH should be notified that we will be appealing | future releases of names of such individuals.
13-00000 Barry, Re-reviewing the 16 documents which the ARRB says should be released in full led me to the following (see the attached for my rationale): Agree with Release in Full (RIF): 8 RIF if retiree over status is changeable: 2 RIF if ARRB will not accept substitute. code for crypts: 5 - Continue sanitized release, protecting pseudonym: 1 , The substitute suggestion for crypts applies to documents #7, 17, 18, 19, and 21. The pseudo protection argument applies to document #5; it also applies to #19 except that Bob Shaw has surfaced his CIA connection himself although the DO insisted on his being our hold list. Bob was a minor major player in the file and should be told that his name needs to be released. In this unique JFK law instance (and with the many cryptonym identifications in the public domain, whether official, inadvertent, by Agee or conspiracy buffs), the ‘best tackic to ensure credibility and ARRB cooperation in protecting truly sensitive information would seem to be to release Mexico City crypts if the ARRB is adamant. a Charles A. Briggs
104-10331-10374 . SECRET From the Desk of Robert J. Eatinger | NOTE FOR: DCI @ Ci C/@ DCI FROM: Robert J. Eatinger DATE: 08/03/95 08:15:24 AM SUBJECT: JFK Board's Second Letter to the DC! This note is corrected per comments by Barry Harrelson. Corrections are in first paragraph: FYI, The JFK Assassination Records Review Board sent its second letter te the DCl on 31 July 1995. This letter notifies the DCI that it has decided to release in full CIA documents considered during its July hearings. Two of these documents contain the. crypt "LIENVOY." This was the crypt for thd _siftlatap operation in Mexico City in 1963. This teltap picked up the Lee Harvey Oswald telephone calls. As with the previous letter, the Center for the Study of Intelligence has the action to get recommendations to the DCI on whether to appeal to the President. | understand that John Pereira will discuss this with Fred Wickham {the 00 focal point for these issues) whether te pursue an appeal. | de not know what the DO's recommendation will be. - During the hearing with the Board on 2 August 1995, we stressed the necessity to keep secret the fact the teltap operation was.) The DO sought to explain the mosaic problem to the Board on the release of LIENVOY. The Board's position appears to be that release of the crypt when it will not compromise the fact that the teltap was a: houldbe - permitted under the Act. The Board probably will require us te justify on 4 document-by-document basis the redaction of LIENVOY, and will not agree to redact every mention of the crypt. We should know by the end of the week what position the Board will take on the CIA documents mentioning LIENVOY or talking about the operation. The DO officers at the hearing tried to get the Board to reconsider its determination to release the crypt in the two’ ‘documents. However, the Staff of the Board does not believe the Board can or is inclined to reconsider. ce: J. Barry Harrelson @ DA SECRET
The following Agency members will attend the meeting with the ARRB on Wednesday, 2 August 1995: Eleanor Neiman Directorate of Operations  purecrorace li sperationel tl Bia) Directorate of Operations t (A s. wets) > — a ce i fap wer) Fred Wickham - Cy, Directorate of Operations _ aaanees William McNair oe Directorate of Operations Robert Eatinger Office of General Counsel — Barry Harrelson | Historical Review Group
104-10331-10375 wa? ‘ 7 August 1995 Notes for the Record (TI) Subject: Meeting with ARRB Staff 4 August, 1995 Attendees: Jeremy Gunn Mary McAuliffe BoB Skwirot Barry Harrelson 1. First part of meeting focused on action by the ARRB at the 2/3 August meeting. Gunn emphasize that the feedback he was giving me was unofficial and preliminary; that the staff had not complete its review of board actions. Action by the ARRB was taken on approximately 39 documents; a mix of “release in fulls”, “release with redactions” and__ “tabled”. These actions included: A. LIENVOY released when context did not indicate activities (at least 8 documents); I was. given an advance list. References to LIENVOY in Uiaison) context and the words and { |were postponed to the year 2017. Gunn stressed that the ARRB discussed each LIENVOY individually -- no blanket release or denial [note: 7 of the 8 document were ones that HRG and DO reviewers had concluded did not indicated B. True names -- replaced with alias/pseudo when known subject to re-review in December; one exception where the name was illegible. C. (LI-9) protected for 10 years; however would like more information re ‘current risk. Gunn said the Board was having a problem with GI-9)due to amount of information in public domain (Newman's book). They appeared to accept the need not to release new information on(LI-9jor his relationship with the CIA at this time, but there is a debate re postponing information that has been released in other documents. Gunn suggested a statement trom GEo3) would be useful evidence. D. They also oe CERAM for additional information re continuing to protect (LITAMIL-7)} and 2. The remaining “Mexico City” documents will be on the agenda for the ARRB meeting schuedule for 27/28 August. ' They plan to complete the Chrono and Lopez Report at that meeting.
104-10331-10376 Marwell recommended providing evidence of bilateral SECRET September 12, 1995 WORKING PAPER Notes from meeting w/ ARRB staff Sept. 11, 1995 Issue: Presentation to Board at Sept. 20/21 meeting It was agreed that “STATIONS” would be the focus of the presentation -- 10:00 am, 20 Sept., one hour. ¥ agreements as well as identifying current harm. Said that the Board was leaning strongly toward releasing stations, particularly those in Europe. 3 Mary pointed out that there were still issues on the Mexico City station window. There are documents from the 50s, references in summaries to the founding of the station and, most important, the visit by the HSCA to Mexico City. Ellie said there was the possibility of opening windows of stations when Oswald was present, however, this was a key issue for the Agency and a senior Directorate/Agency decision. She indicated_that the DO would oppose expanding the Mexico City window| As for the older documents, we pointed out that we had already agreed to the release of those documents. Marwell suggest that the 20 Sept. presentation would be a good opportunity to address the Private Line and other Tel Taps issue rather than requesting a separate meeting. After the meeting Marwell elaborated on the presentation. He said to try to avoid going. over old ground (US-Mexico relationship); when possible provide specific/hard evidence (bilateral agreements carry weight); war-stories do not go over well. He emphasized the importance of- using the language of the law especially when citing harm. He specifically mentioned Sec. 6. (B){copy attached} which sets a standard of “interfere with the conduct of intelligence activities” . (Note: In a previous meeting with Gunn, he stressed similar themes including avoiding what he called “chicken little” arguments. He also raised the question on sensitivity of acknowledging we had a station in Moscow during the 60s. “It would have been logical to have one: during the Cold War.” ] SEGRET
104-10331-10377 . | HRG INTERNAL USE ONLY ll January 1996 Note to: C/HRG Subject: Meeting with ARRB Staff, 5 January 1996 1. Marwell stated very strongly that without an appeal to the President, the Agency will have little credibility. His staff is finding it more and more difficult to defend Agency positions. To date, the Board has been able to tell the staff “told you so”. i _the strong statements made... to the Board concerning the Agency should appeal. We need to demonstrate a willingness to go to the President. If not, Marwell expects a continued erosion of the Agency's ability to protect information in these documents. 2. Gunn and Mary McAuliffe seconded Marwell's comments - and emphasized the need to have our best defense upfront: . Mary said her credibility with the Board was almost shot. They are particular concerned about the second “name day” scheduled at the end of this month. was Barry HRG INTERNAL USE ONLY
10334-10379] ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY From the Desk of Linda C. Cipriani NOTEFOR: —-. Fred Wickham @ DO / « §. Barry Harrelson - FROM: DATE: © ‘02/01/96 02:23:28 PM a - SUBJECT: JFK - Release by National Archives | just spoke with Steve Tilly at the Archives. He met with his legal advisors and they agreed to hold ty _—_dosumen until we go forward with the appeal. However, he warned me that if the Board orders him to release it, then he will have to do so. He will notify us if that happens. He, of course, told me that we should make a decision within the next few days since the Board could call him at any time. { em relieved that this problem could be reselved without geing to the White House, but Tilly made it clear that this appeal should go out quickly or else the document will be released. ce: ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10383 -September 24, 1998 - MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD _ ‘Subject: Notes on Board Actions at the ARRB Meeting of September 23, 1998 3. i ha oO @ | _ Position Control Register (aka The Dead Sea Scrolls, 104-10133-10207) NBR. _ Debriefing of Itkins’ partner (104- 10107-10132), NBR. Disposition of Agency-held income tax records (e.g. 104-10244-103 65), to be resolved by staff consultations. Cuban Brigade medical records: Board will protect names of individuals not clearly deceased, but will require redaction of all these documents according to current guidelines. Yuri Nosenko Working Files, NBR. Russ Holmes Files identified in staffer Ben Rockwell’s memo, NBR. The Family Jewels Elder Memo: Paragraph 3 declared an assassination record; Board will reconvene Monday to review the entire unredacted memo, requiring a NARA - index number. into - Family Jewels'Gottlieb Memo on TSD: Additional perearaphe opened up. [us te haw ple ws The 1964 Mexico IG Report: The Board declined to accept the proposed redactions. To be renegotiated by staff and presented to the Board Monday. — . The Board is considering whether to declare all CIA administrative files dealing with the assassinations records review process, including internal communications, as assassination records, and will make a-decision at its meeting on Monday. \ oho oe Tea
13-00000 - + ae 8 May 1997 FOR THE ARRB STAFF: Attn: Kathy FBI. Memo dtd 12/11/63; subject: Lee Harvey Oswald and Polygraph Reels (see below)* on Gilberto Nolasco Alvarado Ugarte *Reel #1, 5 Dec 63 Reel #2, 5 Dec 63 Reel #1, 6 Dec 63 Reel #2, 6 Dec 63 Reel #3, 6 Dec 63 Reel #4, 6 Dec 63
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