(04-10331-1000 | SECRET se e . / 7; [e OTE 92-1403 10 February 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA: Director of Training and Education Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence FROM: J. Kenneth McDonald Chief, CIA History Staff SUBJECT: _ Survey of CIA's Records from House Select Committee on Assassinations Investigation l. As you requested on 16 January, the History Staff has now surveyed CIA's records from the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As promised in my 30 January interim report, I can now give you a full account of our findings, and of my recommendation for transferring this HSCA collection at its existing classification to the National Archives through CIA's Historical Review Program. 2. After the Office of Congressional Affairs arranged permission from Congress for History Staff access to the sequestered 64 boxes of this collection, we exami . e and other related holdings at Headquarters and the Records Center. As a result of careful, persis 7 determined inquiries, we are fairly confident--although by no means certain--that we have seen all the documents that CIA _ collected for the HSCA investigation of 1977-1979. The summary of our findings which follows is documented in more detail in attachments A and B. 3. General Description: The HSCA collection (defined as all records that the CIA provided to that Committee for its 1977-1979 investigation) is a large and chaotic collection. Beyond the 64 boxes sequestered by Congress that have been 2-0 involved in FOIA litigation, there are 16 boxes of Oswald's 201 file and numerous loose folders (mainly from Mexico City Station records) that were collected for.the Warren Commission investigation. Most of this material can be found on microfilm in the sequestered collection. Of the 64 boxes, 34 have material collected by the Directorate of Operations, while CL BY 0986542 SECRET © . DECL OADR
13-00000 SECRET 29 contain records from the Office of Legislative Counsel (now OCA), Inspector General, Office of the General Counsel, Directorate of Science and Technology, Office of Security, as well as several boxes cf HSCA staff notes and records. Box No. 64 contains 72 microfilm reels (each equivalent to a box of records), which include the Oswald 201 file and Mexico City Station records, as well as other 201 files and information about Cuban exile groups. 4. Organization: The collection is arranged haphazardly, having been gathered in response to a series of HSCA and (in the case of the Oswald 201 file) Warren Commission requests. Although portions of the collection are organized by a variety of systems, there is no overall intellectual control of the _ entire body of. records. We found fifteen indexes to the collection, none of which is adequate for control or retrieval. 5. Sensitivity: Although the collection is almost entirely at SECRET or lower classification, there is a scattering of TOP SECRET and codeword documentation. Materials we consider especially sensitive--more for privacy than national security reasons--include 201 files, phone taps, mail intercepts, security files, photo surveillance, names of ; sources, watch lists, and MHCHAOS documentation. Such material occurs throughout the collection, usually in response to HSCA requests for name traces. There are 22 microfilm reels of 201 files in addition to the Oswald file, while eight boxes contain security records, including, for example, files on David Atlee Phillips, Martin Luther King, and Clay Shaw. '6. Non-CIA Material: The collection includes a lot of third-agency material, mostly from the FBI. FBI reports dominate the 16 boxes of Oswald's 201 file, and nearly half of the 34 boxes of DO-collected material consists of third-agency material. The collection's remaining 29 boxes contain mostly CIA records, as does the box of microfilm, except for Oswald‘s 201 file. There is also some documentation of foreign liaison, mainly with the Mexican government. 7. CIA Complicity? Our survey found nothing in these records that indicates any CIA role in the Kennedy assassination or assassination conspiracy (if there was one), or any CIA involvement with Oswald. These records do reveal, ' however, that Clay Shaw was a highly paid CIA contract source until 1956. While nothing surfaced on Carlos Marcello in the collection, we found substantial documentation on other members of the mob, including Santos Trafficante. 8. Although the results of our survey fully support my earlier recommendation against inviting a panel cf historians 2 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET into CIA to examine and report on this collection, the problem that this proposal addressed remains-~the widespread allegations, given new impetus by Oliver Stone's “JFK," that CIA was part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. That CIA has a closed collection of records concerning the Kennedy assassination is well known, both because it is part of over 800 cubic feet of HSCA investigation records that Congress has closed until 2029, and because our 64 boxes of these records have been the subject of FOIA requests, litigation, and court orders. Since opening all US Government records on the Kennedy assassination has been proposed by former President Ford, Congressman Louis Stokes, and others, many observers will consider your decision on this question a test of your new openness policy. 9. Options: CIA's three principal options are to keep the Agency's HSCA records closed and in our hands, to open them entirely, or to transfer them to the National Archives. Before making my case for the third option, I should note the following considerations with respect to the first two: a. Closed: To maintain the status quo would keep the collection classified, closed and in CIA's hands, sequestered by Congress until 2029. CIA would, however, remain subject to the 1988 court order to review portions of it in response to FOIA litigation. While putting the collection into Historical Review Program.processing would speed and broaden its declassification review (which would nevertheless take several years), such an internal shift would probably not change the public perception of our -. closed position. Although keeping these records closed remains a viable option, it tends both to encourage suspicion that CIA is part of a cover-up, and to undermine the credibility of CIA's openness policy. If Congress should decide to open all HSCA records, however, CIA would be hard put to keep its HSCA collection closed. Db. Opened: To open the HSCA collection would require the permission of Congress. Indeed, CIA would presumably not consider this option except in response to congressional action or pressure, or in order not to be the last hold-out in a Government-wide opening of Kennedy assassination records. While opening the collection would disclose a good deal of information that deserves continued protection... for privacy or national. security reasons, a total release would dramatically demonstrate CIA's new openness, and rapidly reveal that these records contain nothing pointing to a CIA role in the Kennedy assassination. 3 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET 10. Recommendation: I recommend that CIA transfer its entire HSCA collection (as defined and identified in this report) at its existing classification to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), for continuing declassification review by Archives staff, in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and CIA guidelines. This transfer should be carried out under the auspices of CIA's Historical Review Program. To retire this HSCA collection to the National Archives offers some significant advantages: . a. It would get the collection off our hands. Retiring: _ the records to the National Archives, which is by law the eventual repository for all permanent us Government records, should reduce public suspicion of a CIA cover-up. Such a transfer would not set a new precedent, since CIA has previously retired over 4000 cubic. feet of Office of Strategic Services operational records to NARA, as well as all CIA records so far declassified under the Agency's Historical Review Program. Although CIA has not previously transferred classified records to NARA, the transfer of this HSCA collection, resulting from a congressional investigation, follows the special precedent of the classified CIA documents retired to NARA's vaults as part of the records of the Watergate and Iran-Contra . investigations. b. Transferring these HSCA records. to..the National Archives will protect their existing classification. The Departments of State and Defense have routinely retired classified records to NARA for years. In accordance with statutory guidelines, NARA must ensure the confidentiality of investigatory sources and the proper protection of personal privacy and national security information, including intelligence sources and methods. NARA would continue the court-ordered declassification review according to CIA guidelines. CIA can accelerate the declassification of this collection by funding review positions at NARA, as the Department of State and other agencies have done in the past. (Attachment C outlines declassification procedures for classified records retired to the National Archives.) c. NARA's professional archivists will bring this collection under control (as they have done with the 4000 ..... cubic feet of disorganized OSS records that CIA has retired since 1984), so that it can be usefully researched as it is declassified. Moreover, many of the records in this collection (especially photographs, carbon flimsies, and Thermofax) need expert preservation, which NARA is organized to provide. 4 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET d. I£ Congress should eventually undertake to open this entire collection without regard to classification, the National Archives will be in a stronger position to protect its national security and privacy information than the CIA, whose motives would appear self-serving, if not sinister. ll. Action: If you wish to retire the Agency's. House Select Committee on Assassinations collection to the National Archives, the following actions (from the offices noted) will be needed: a. Request permission from Congress. (Office of ‘Congressional Affairs) b. Transfer responsibility for court-ordered FOIA declassification review from CIA to the National Archives. (Office of the General Counsel, with Information Management Staff, DO) c. Prepare CIA guidelines for NARA's declassification review. (Office of Information Technology, DA). d. Prepare the appropriate Historical Review Program documentation and NARA forms, and deliver the records. (Office of Information Technology, DA) e. Announce the transfer jointly with Dr.. Don Wilson, Archivist of the United States, and Congressman Louis Stokes. (Public Affairs Office) /8/ J. Keauneth NeDonald J. Kenneth McDonald Attachments 5 SECRET
13-00000 SUBJECT: Survey of CIA's Records from House. Select Committee on Assassinations Investigation * DA/OTE/CSI/HS JKMcD:nkl.(10 Feb 92) 30147 Distribution: © . Orig Addressee w/atts . 1 ~- Paul Ericson, D/OTE w/atts et fet bet bet fet fet ed fet James A. Barry, D/CSI, w/atts DD/@CA w/atts | oe.Detrani, )D/PAO w/atts John Hedley, DD/PAO w/atts David Gries, VC/NIC w/atts Don Cryer, DD/IMS/DO w/atts Jack Wright, D/ISD/OIT HS Chrono w/o atts | HS Subject (Kennedy Assassination) w/atts DCI Correspondence w/atts RETIRES RFRTC ATEN CRNONENE IEG 2 EET ENS AN ROME EOS
13-00000 SECRET SUMMARY CiA HISTORY STAFF SURVEY House Select Committee on Assassinations Collection 10 February 1992 The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Collection consists of the following parts, which the attached box list. describes in further detail: l. Sequestered HSCA Records The first and major part of the collection, 64 boxes of records under Job No. 80-TO1357A, . is wide-ranging material collected in response to House Select Committee on Assassinations requests for documents relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and, to a far lesser extent, Dr. Martin Luther King. Coordinated by the -Office of Legislative Counsel (now the Office of Congressional Affairs) and now under OCA control, these are the “sequestered” - boxes that have been the subject of FOIA litigation and court order. , @. Boxes 1-34: DO Boxes 1-34 (34 cu. ft. of records) are about one-half DO-collected materials, with the remainder largely of third agency documents, primarily FBI reports gathered for the Warren Commission. There is also some material from the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, as well as the original HSCA requests. Also included are staff handwritten notes, photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings. These records cover a wide variety of topics but focus on CIA operations against Cuba and Castro, Lee Harvey. Oswald's sojourn in the USSR, Oswald's activities in Mexico City.and New Orleans, and a large number of name traces requested by the HSCA staff. There is also material on the Black Panthers, the civil rights movement, and the peace movement. Among the subjects that appear in these boxes are: Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw, Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, _Nosenko, Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Silvia Duran, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, James Earl Ray, William Kunstler, Jim Garrison, G. P. Hemming, Marina Oswald, John .-- - -- Roselli, Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante, and Rolando Cubela‘s AMLASH operations against Castro. These records also include the 1967 Inspector General's report on CIA | plots against Castro and the testimony of Richard Helms in executive session before HSCA. CL BY 0986542 SECRET ~  BECL OADR
13-00000 SECRET b. Boxes 35-63 Boxes 35 through 63 in this job (29 cu. Ft. of records) are equally eclectic, divided as they are between records from the Office of Legislative Counsel (now OCA), Inspector General, Office of the General Counsel, Directorate, of Science and Technology, Office of Security (security files), and the HSCA itself. These records, which are mostly CIA material (heavily DO), consist of reports, memoranda, transcripts, cables, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, and charts. They include materials relating to the Garrison investigation, Watergate, Cuban - exile activities, and CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. There is also some material relating to Martin Luther King, black power, and racial violence, as well as a DS&T report on photos of the “unknown man“ at the Mexico City Soviet embassy, and an NPIC analysis of the Zapruder film. c. Box 64: Microfilm Box 64 of Job. No. 80-TO1357A contains 72 reels of microfilm (although the box is labeled “CIA/DDO HSCA Records, box 1 of 2," box 2 has not been found). The History Staff was assured, however, that this was indeed box 64 of Job No. 80-TO1357A. In addition to a copy of Oswald's 201 file (as actually shown to the HSCA staff in 1978), the microfilm contains material on Oswald's activities in Mexico City (primarily photographic and phone tap surveillance of the Soviet and Cuban embassies and consulates), Mexico City Station files (including cable traffic and the station's “P“ Personality files), CIA security files, Nosenko interrogation transcripts, and a great deal of information relating to Cuban exile groups. There are also 22 reels of 201 files, which contain 151 individual files. Some of the material on these microfilm reels reproduces DO material in the boxes, although it is difficult to judge exactly how much. en 2. QOswald's 201 File The second part of the HSCA collection is Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file, 16 boxes (16 cu. © ft. of records) held in the DO's Information Management Staff (IMS). This file consists primarily of copies of FBI reports relating to Oswald, FBI investigations on Oswald and his activities (including items that FBI sent CIA prior to the assassination), interviews with Marina Oswald, Department of State cable traffic concerning Oswald's passport and visa applications, information tracing Oswald's weapons, material on, _. Jack Ruby and Silvia Duran, and a tape of Oswald's August 1963 radio debate. There are also detailed FBI reports concerning Oswald's assassination of the President and his contacts with Soviet officials, as well as records relating to Gilberto Alvarado, who maintained that he witnessed Cubans passing Oswald cash at a party on the night before the assassination. 2 SECRET
13-00000 _ SECRET 3. Loose Files The HSCA collection‘'s third part comprises a number of loose folders that evidently belong within the - collection, including eight bulky Mexico City Station files (including cable traffic and "P" files) that are also in the microfilm. These files are considered to be part of the Oswald 201 file and are held in IMS. A group of 16 file folders that appear to be unaccessioned contain a miscellany of HSCA requests and Agency responses on subjects such as Oswald in the USSR, Marina Oswald, Roselli, and Giancana. These appear to belong with Job. No. 80-T01357A. Organization Partly because of the collection's. origins in the disorderly process of the Agency's response to massive investigatory committee requests, the collection badly organized. Moreover, years of working through these files in . response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests have disrupted the collection further. More importantly, however, the Agency has not taken intellectual control of the collection in the fifteen years since it was created. Partial systems of organization have been imposed upon various parts of the collection without reference to or use of sound archival principles and procedures. Although 15 separate (and unsatisfactory) indexes to the collection eventually surfaced, . the lack of any central index or finding aid makes retrieval of individual documents extremely difficult. Although CIA review officers attempted to impose some order to the collection by numbering each document and adding a folder. numbering system to each box, there is no central control or finding aid for any of. these these systems. Provenance cannot be traced, and entire files are missing that cannot be satisfactorily accounted for. 5. Non-record Copies This collection consists for the most part of xeroxed copies rather than original documents. We- suspect that the originals of many, if not most, of these xeroxed documents would be difficult if not impossible to locate. 6. Preservation Much of the material throughout the cee collection, especially thermofax copies and photos, is fragile - =“ and in poor physical condition, requiring immediate attention to prevent further deterioration. 3 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET BOX LIST OF FILES REVIEWED CIA HISTORY STAFF SURVEY House Select Committee on Assassinations Collection 10 February 1992 N -T01357A Box 1: CIA Security files on numerous individuals, including G. P. Hemming, Martin Luther King, Marina Oswald, and others; 1967 CIA IG report on plotting against Castro; Garrison _investigation. (File folders 6, 7, 17 and 20 are missing). Box 2: CIA Security files on William D. Pawley, Frank Sturgis, Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw, and others; numerous FBI documents and assorted CIA material. , Box 3: Helms hearing testimony; Mexico City Station cable traffic; CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, and HSCA correspondence. Box 4: Chronology of Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the USSR: CIA operations against Cuba, Castro, and the Cuban Intelligence Service, including information relating to ZRRIFLE, AMLASH, | AMMUG; description of CIA 201 system; information on Nosenko interrogation regarding Oswald and his Soviet connections. (File folder 8 is missing). Box 5: Notes on Oswald; various HSCA notes and affidavits; transcripts of Helms's testimony; FOIA information. Box 6: Information relating to Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in _. Mexico City, including surveillance from CIA projects LIEMPTY, -.+** -LILYRIC, and LIMITED: Garrison investigation; CIA support to Warren Commission; AMMUG debriefing; copies of Mexico City Station despatches (HMMA); sensitive material on photocoverage of Soviet, Cuban, Czech, and Polish embassies in Mexico City; an index to HSCA papers held by CIA; an index of Warren Commission exhibits; information relating to Silvia Duran; a copy of an agreement between the Director and Chairman Louis Stokes requiring the CIA to retain for 30 years all materials gathered in response to Committee requests; Richard Helms executive session testimony in 1978 before the committee; an index to requests to the CIA from J. Lee Rankin of the Warren Commission. CL BY 0986542 SECRET DECL OADR
13-00000 SECRET Box 7: Mexico City Station surveillance of Cuban, Soviet embassies; AMMUG; Silvia Duran; Oswald's activities in New Orleans (FBI report); monthly operations reports from Mexico City Station; summaries of HMMA cables; Cuban exile mug books; Gilberto Alvarado, the Nicaraguan who claimed he saw Lee Harvey Oswald receive cash in meeting inside Mexico City Cuban embassy; transcripts of phone calls to and from Soviet embassy; a machine listing of documents officially recorded as being in Oswald‘s 201 file (list missing from folder); Warren Commission trip to Mexico City and interview with’ U.S. Ambassador Thomas Mann; Jack Ruby; Fair Play for Cuba Committee; FBI reports on Oswald; HTLINGUAL documents; Nosenko interviews;..and interview of Mexico City Station personnel by committee staff. (File folder 37. is missing). Box 8: HSCA requests primarily for name traces involving individuals, including James Earl Ray, Clay Shaw, John Roselli, Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante; 1977 CIA study on Church committee findings relating to the CIA; HSCA requests to interview CIA personnel; ZRRIFLE; information relating to the Cuban airline flight from Mexico City to Havana; Nosenko interviews; photos of anti-—Castro individuals. Box 9: Primarily HSCA requests for name traces on individuals and organizations; CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City; copies of cable traffic from Mexico City Station. (File folder 76 missing). . Box 10: Name traces from 201 files, HTLINGUAL mail intercepts, and MHCHAOS files, including individuals associated with Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, the civil rights movement, Ramparts, and the peace movement. Material on Henry Winston, Maurice Halperin, George Edward Wright, Julian Bond, William Kunstler, James Earl Ray. Also Lee Harvey Oswald and Jim Garrison. Box 11: Misc. items on JFK assassination; HSCA material, including personal history of Nosenko and Oswald chronology. Box 12:  HSCA chronologies 1976-78; draft reviews and CIA comments; Oswald dossier forwarded to Warren Commission; Garrison investigation of JFK assassination; CIA chronology of memos received from Warren Commission; HSCA chronology, January-March 1978. Box 13: Alphabetical files of individuals marked “completed" or “pending” based on 201 files. Box 14: Primarily HSCA requests for name traces on individuals and organizations; some 201 files; interviews with POWs from Bay of Pigs; FBI and immigration and Naturalization Service reports on Oswald. 2 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Box 15: Alphabetical files based on CIA, State, and FBI on numerous individuals including Claire Booth Luce, Clay Shaw, Martin Luther King, and Coretta Scott King. Box 16: Copies of 201 files; interview and transcripts relating to Mexico City activities of Oswald and the Mafia. Box 17: JMWAVE cable; DCI cable traffic. Box 18: HSCA chronology; Oswald 201 file; report on CIA performance. . Box 19: HSCA staff notes, taken at CIA. (File folders 2-5, 14, 18, 25, 28 and 34-35 missing. With HSCA records?) Box 20: Follow-up requests from HSCA on name traces; handwritten notes of committee staff members on CIA 201 files; CIA surveillance of Soviet embassy in Mexico City; Oswald's activities in Mexico City; copies of staff interviews with CIA personnel (file folders 58-62, 65, 69-70, 73-74, 80, 83, 85-86, 88-92, 96, 101, 103 and 112 are missing, while folder 57 is empty. With HSCA records?) Box 21: HSCA requests by JFK file number. Box 22: HSCA staff notes, misc. Box 23: HSCA staff notes: misc., including Helms's testimony in executive session. ‘Box 24: HSCA staff notes: misc., including Mexico City interviews and speculation about a dual CIA filing system re Oswald and Oswald's relationship to Agency. Box 25: Committee staff notes on materials reviewed at CIA relating to Oswald and his possible connections with the CIA and-- . his activities in Mexico City; a sanitized copy of the 1977 CIA ~ report on the Church Committee findings; information relating to Cuban embassy officials in Mexico City, including Silvia Duran, Eusebio Lopez, and Alfredo Diaz. Box 26: Documents re Oswald's Mexico City visit; DCI‘s appearance before Warren Commission; allegations of Oswald's connection with CIA. Box 27: Agency file on Oswald, as sent to Warren Commission; Nosenko interrogation notes. 3 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Box 28: HSCA files mixed in with FBI and CIA documents; investigation of Silvia Duran, 28 November 1963; numerous HSCA _ handwritten notes. Box 29: Alphabetical file on individuals from various sources, including Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie. Box 30: HSCA report on Cuba trip, 1978; handwritten notes on Oswald;, Domestic Contact Division notes on Garrison investigation; and information on Nosenko. Box 31: Administrative materials, correspondence. between HSCA and. CIA, index and file of HSCA material returned to DO. BOx 32: Mexico City Station cables and dispatches. Box 33: Cuban Mugbook and Mexico. City Station traffic, October 1963- ~January 1964. Box 34: HSCA files on George de Mohrenschildt; Cuban Mugbook; HSCA reading file; CIA relations with FBI and Warren Commission; Nosenko on Oswald; and Ruby's alleged travel to Cuba. Box 35: Review of HSCA trip to Cuba and Mexico; HSCA report on Silvia Odio; report, “CIA Operations against Cuba prior to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy on.23 November 1963;" and Senate Select Committee reports and comments. Box 36: Review, what could Castro have known?; review of HSCA draft report; IG report on Cuban operations for 1960-64, for any bearing upon JFK assassination; Book V of Church Committee final report, with review by Agency of provocation theory (charges of Agency cover-up of Cuban operations); E. Howard Hunt file; ' Mexico City/Havana flights; Win Scott; AMTRUNK; Oswald contacts with Soviet and Cuban embassies, Mexico City; . CIA relations with... FBI and Warren Commission; Alpha 66; photo of unidentified man, Mexico City;. cable traffic, AMLASH, AMWHIP; Mafia plotting; —.... Jack Ruby/Cuba; QJWIN, ZRRIFLE. a Box 37; Information relating to Cuban exile activities against Castro, such as the Torriente Group and Alpha 66; name trace on E. Howard Hunt; and information relating to the Garrison investigation. Box 38: Alphabetical files, including Hemming, Luce, Sturgis, Roselli, James McCord, and Nosenko; file on U-2 overflights from Japan; DDS&T report on photos of unknown man. Box 39:. Photo comparisons of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis with tramps arrested in Dallas on day of JFK assassination; chart of frames from the Zapruder film showing the actual assassination. 4 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Box 40: Security files (including record of those files inadvertantly destroyed). Box 41: Security files (alphabetical), including Lucien Conein; also material on Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Box 42: Name traces from Office of Security files; Garrison investigation information; a copy of a manuscript, “The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison Investigation;" copies of material relating to Oswald shown to committee staff at CIA. Box 43: Security files (some missing, inadvertantly destroyed). Files present include. that of Martin Luther King. Box 44: Security files. Box 45; Security files, including those of David Atlee Phillips and Clay Shaw. Box 46: HSCA requests for information relating to Frank Sturgis, _ Clay Shaw, and Watergate; information relating to JMWAVE and the Miami Station; FBI reports on left-wing and racial unrest in U.S. Box 47: Security files, mostly newspaper clippings; list of notes by HSCA staff member; Oswald security materal; newspaper articles on Oswald; unsanitized material released in sanitized form via FOIA from Oswald material. Box 48: Security files, including |Position Control Register (1960-64); HSCA staff notes reviewed by OS; HSCA staff review at headquarters of selected OS files (including Roselli and Giancana), plus other name traces through OS, including Gerald P. Hemming. Box 49: Name trace requests; transcripts of interviews of CIA personnel; executive session transcript of a Senate Armed er us Services Committee meeting, 21 November 1973, regarding CIA assassination plots; CIA plans to assassinate Castro; and the Mafia/CIA connection in attempts to assassinate Castro. Box 50: HSCA requests by date; Oswald chronology; draft copy of - Hornbeck Report. Box 51: Numerous HSCA requests and individual files; Jack Ruby file as well as Hemming, Hall, Pawley, M. L. King, and others. Box 52: HSCA reviews by date; Cuban Counter-revolutionary 'Handbook, 1962 & 1964; photos of unkown man; NPIC analysis of Zapruder film, and Hoch memorandum. 5 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Box 53: HSCA request log and priority response list; copy of manuscript, “Castro's Red Hot Hell": information relating to HSCA leaks, guidelines, procedures, clearances, and secrecy agreements. Box 54: HSCA staff notes. Box 55: HSCA staff notes; HSCA chronologies, 1953-77. Box 56: FBI reports on racial violence in the U.S. in 1967 and the Black Power movement and Martin Luther King; deposition material, but not the actual depositions, of Ray Rocca, John McCone, Richard Helms, and David Phillips. Box 57: Mexico City Station file, 1959-68; correspondence concerning HSCA visit to Mexico; HSCA receipts, testimony, etc.; 1975 report on unidentified man at Cuban embassy; HSCA request for JMWAVE traffic. Box 58: IG report on Church Committee final report, book V; annex to task force report (AMLASH); DDCI testimony before committee (Dec. 1978); HSCA final report (summary) and correspondence; internal DO memos re Warren Commission (what to — tell it re Cuban operations?); correspondence/memos re HSCA interviews and depositions from Win Scott, Golitzyn, Shevchenko, McCone, Nosenko (for most part, interviews and ‘depositions themselves not here). Box 59: HSCA press releases and correspondence. Box 60: Nosenko material, including polygraph transcripts; misc. HSCA memos; James J. Angleton material, 1977-78. Box. 61: Copies of House Select Committee draft reports and CIA comments relating to Cuban exiles and their activities against Castro, Silvia Duran, AMLASH, and Oswald's activities in Mexico .- City. Box 62: HSCA requests; photo surveillance around Cuban embassy ~ in Mexico City; CIA/HSCA defector study; various interviews about JFK's death. — Box. 63: Warren Commission reports on Oswald; a House report on Oswald's activities in-New Orleans; CIA plots to assassinate Castro; and a folder on Ray Rocca'’s testimony before the Rockefeller Commission (his testimony is not present in the folder); and information relating to the disposition of CIA materials relating to the House investigation. 6 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Boz 64: Microfilm History Staff reviewed Reels for which there were no description. These were Reels 46, 53-56, 59, 60-62, and 65-71. History Staff also sampled Reels 1, 14, 18, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, and 44. Reels reviewed, as follows: Reel 1: CIA Security files in alphabetical order, containing background investigation results, memos, passport applications. Reel 14: CIA Security files, in alphabetical order. Reel 18: True name dossier from Office of Security files; list of U.S. defectors to Soviet Bloc; material on WIROGUE and the Congo; Cuban exile operations to infiltrate men into Cuba. Reel 22: AMMUG; LIEMPTY; LILYRIC; LINCHPIN; LIENVOY (Mexico City surveillance activities of the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. Reel 24: Photo surveillance of Cuban embassy in Mexico City, August & November 1963; photo surveillance of USSR embassy in- Mexico City, July-December 1963; Garrison investigation articles: and CIA correspondence. Reel 26: Extensive file on Cuban exile groups in U.S. receiving CIA help; DRE, Liberation Army of Cuba. Reel 30: Mexico City Station files; CIA personnel records; Mexico City message traffic relating to Silvia Duran; photos of individuals entering or leaving the Soviet embassy and the Cuban consulate in Mexico City; press accounts of Garrison trial of Clay Shaw. Reel 31: Oswald diary; Warren Commission file numbers and ... inventory; index of Mexico City traffic; Mexico City chronology; 1975 CIA report on unidentified man; 1975 CIA report... on Cuba-JFK connection; list of “soft files" at beginning of ~~ microfilm. Reel 44: Warren Commission documents relating to Oswald; Ambassador Thomas Mann's meeting with the Commission staff in Mexico City in 1964; Helms affidavit, 1964; Jack Ruby; Marina - -- Oswald; Clay Shaw; and Jim Garrison. Reel 46: Nosenko files; Mexico City Station chronological file; and a list of all station despatches from 10/15/63 to 11/27/63 (20 despatches missing). Reel 53: CIA Security/201 files in alphabetical order. 7 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Reel 54: CIA Security/201 files; maps of Cuba;. reports on Mexican/Cuban activities. Reel 55: CIA Security files. Reel 56: CIA Security files. Reel 59: CIA Personnel files (including fitness reports). Reel 60: CIA. Personnel files. Reel 61: Nosenko interrogation: information relating to. ao Golitsyn; Cuban exile groups and their anti-Castro activities; William Pawley's anti-Castro activities. Reel 62: CIA Nosenko interrogation transcripts; Cuban Revolutionary Council progress reports, March-April 1963; list of Cuban consulate employees worldwide; FBI report on Cuban government in exile in NYC; monthly expenditures of Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC). Reel 65: Cuban exile organizations such as the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC), Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front. (CDRF), Judicatura Cuban Democratica, and the 30 November Movement. Reel 66: AMBUD file on CRC, monthly reports, statement of expenses, proposed programs and projects, budget projections and accounting statements of the Council. Reel 67: AMBUD (Col. Johnson) file; CRC budget and programs, documents relating to the coordination problems within and between Cuban exile groups. Reel 68: Col. Johnson Working File; weekly summary reports; the underground in Cuba; CRC activities and position papers; . translations of Council documents; biographic information on RC leaders Dr. Miro Cardona and Tony Varona. Reel 69: CRC and the Cuban exile community; meeting in. San Jose and around Latin America--~selection of delegates, expenses, and recruitment efforts. Reel 70: CRC finances; Brigade 2506; Juan Bosch interview in- .- ..- Dominican Republic with Cuban exiles; and information relating to CRC delegates to various Latin American governments. Reel 71: Cuban organizations; photos of Mexican embassy entrance. Reel 72: Photos of Mexican embassy entrance. 8 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Oswald 201 Fil Box 1: mostly FBI interviews/investigation notes; items sent by FBI to CIA prior to JFK assassination regarding Oswald's activities in New Orleans; State Department correspondence regarding Oswald defection and return; Silvia Duran material; newspaper articles; Mexico City Station files; and other material. Box 2: FBI background investigation of Oswald and his wife Marina's activities while in the Soviet Union. Box 3: FBI background investigation of Oswald activities in New Orleans; FBI interviews of Marina Oswald; information relating to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee; State Department actions regarding Oswald's passport and visa applications; FBI tracing of ‘weapons connected with Oswald; information on Jack Ruby; and a tape of the radio debate in which Oswald participated in August 1963. . , Box 4: FBI reports on Oswald; FBI interviews with Oswald and -- Marina after the assassination; copy of Cuban government's protest to Mexican authorities over the arrest and treatment of ‘Silvia Duran; and an index to the FBI reports is included in the box. Box 5: FBI investigation of the assassination (3 vols.); a copy of Oswald's diary while he was in Moscow; biographic material on Marina Oswald; a copy of Oswald's chronology while in the Soviet Union; and a copy of the questions for the Soviet government composed by CIA officials. — Box 6: Oswald chronology; biography of Marina Oswald; Warren Commission correspondence; name traces of those who appear. in Oswald diary; Warren Commission correspondence; Oswald Mexico trip; Oswald address book; Silvia Duran Mexican interrogation; --.. newspaper clippings. mee Box 7: FBI reports on Oswald; Nosenko interviews; photos of Oswald in Minsk; list of Oswald's apartment articles; and a name list of CIA traces for the Warren Commission. , Box 8: Photos shown to Marina Oswald for ID purposes; SR/CI Studies for the Warren Commission; continuing FBI investigation, Dallas area; interview with Marina; Oswald/Ruby alleged association; attachments to Oswald chronology in USSR. Box 9: Copy of Marina Oswald's notebook with addresses; list of items prepared by CI on Oswald care for the Warren Commission; 9 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET Oswald's contacts in the Soviet Union; and an FBI report on Oswald's activities in Mexico; a CIA brief for presentation to the Warren Commission on Oswald; Soviet Government documents relating to Oswald; and-a translation of a Portuguese book, A_ Conspiracao. Box 10: FBI investigations; Nosenko material; anti-Castro activities in U.S.; CIA report of Oswald in Mexico City; CIA report on Oswald defection; CIA report of Oswald as Kennedy ‘murderer; assorted FBI items. Box 11: Bulky material, mostly SR/CI Studies for Warren Commission; FBI reports; Marina Oswald material; Oswald Cuban application; USSR radio and newspaper traffic; Silvia Duran interview; foreign press reaction to JFK assassination and Warren Commission report; photos of unidentified man in Mexico City; Bernard Fensterwald FOIA case; assorted CIA and FBI material. Box 12: Warren Commission Log Book from National Archives; master list of Warren Commission correspondence and exhibits from National Archives; and copies of FBI reports on the assassination. Box 13: HTLINGUAL intercepts (Russian language with some translations); SE soft file on Oswald; Nosenko information on other Soviet defectors. Box 14: Copies of CIA documents still classified in the Warren Commission records held at the National Archives; Oswald's ‘activities in the Soviet Union; information relating to Gilberto Alvarado “Source D", Silvia Duran, and Oswald in Mexico; transcripts of telephone intercepts from the Mexico City Station. ‘Box 15: CIA-Warren Commission released materials, 1964; background on Jack Ruby, Oswald; Oswald's Soviet medical record; National Archives list of status of CIA documents in Warren ... Commission records, 1967; Soviet press reaction to assassination; internal memoranda and other records of the Warren. | Commission; transcript of executive session of the Warren “ Commission; Oswald's Mexico trip, Soviet defection; Oswald's alleged CIA connections; Warren Commission material; “kook* cases; follow-up on numerous “leads"; Helms's file on Oswald and Warren Commission documents (as of January 1964). Box 16: Garrison investigation, newspaper clippings, and other _ reports; Warren Commission memos. Mexi Cit tation file ulky file (Considered part of the Oswald 201 file; to be placed in box within Oswald's 201 file) 16 SECRET
13-00000 SECRET . Mexico Station files on Oswald (P-files); Oswald chronology; newspaper clippings; FBI report on Oswald in Mexico city; misc. material on Oswald in Mexico; Garrison investigation material (mostly newspaper clippings); Warren Commission testimony. HSCA Miscellaneous Folders (16 folders) (These file folders, which are unaccessioned at present, will be placed within HSCA collection; Job No. 80-T01357A) HSCA requests; information.on Oswald in USSR; Marina Oswald; _ documents on Roselli and Giancana. ll SECRET
13-00000 SECRET NOTES ON TRANSFER TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND DECLASSIFICATION OF CIA RECORDS 10 February 1992 1. Transfer CIA would transfer documents under their existing classification to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in much the same way that it already transfers declassified documents. Using a NARA Form 258, the usual transfer document, CIA would note that the documents to be transferred are classfied. These records would then go into secure NARA vaults, where they would be accessible only to archivists with appropriate security clearances. Codeword documents would go into a compartmented vault under the direct control of the Records Declassification Division, to be processed only by reviewers with the necessary SCI access approvals. 2. Classification Any transfer of CIA records to NARA under existing classification would provide continuing security protection for these documents consistent with Agency standards. _ In accordance with statutory guidelines,-NARA- must ensure the confidentiality of investigatory sources and the proper protection of personal privacy as well as national security information, including intelligence sources and methods. 3. Declassification Declassification guidelines would be a matter for negotiation between the CIA and NARA. Some agencies (e.g. the Department of Defense) give general guidance, while others (e.g. the Department of State) offer more specific guidelines. Although specific guidelines require more effort,.to...... develop, NARA prefers them to more general guidelines, since under specific instructions NARA‘s reviewers find less need for referral. back to the donor agency. aa 4. Funding and Resources Funding and resources would also be matter for negotiation between the Agency and NARA. The Department of State and the Agency for International Development (AID), for example, have funded a certain number of reviewer --~.-.-. positions, while NARA funds all overseer positions (both reviewers and overseers are NARA employees). For consistency and quality control NARA does two reviews for State and AID. State's own staff members then do a final quality check--in effect a third review--of the product at NARA. State and AID consider their review guidelines to be draft guidance until they review the CL BY 0986542 SECRET DECL OADR
13-00000 SECRET results. They then redraft the guidance, as necessary. In the past, this has meant only fine-tuning the guidelines, which are then applied to the next group of records, rather than a re-review of those already processed. 5. Preservation CIA's records from the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation are in poor physical condition and have distinct preservation needs. The collection “contains large quantities of fragile and deteriorating documents, including thermofax copies and photographs, which NARA is in a far better position to care for properly than is CIA. 2 SECRET