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104-10331-101271. = SECRET ll December 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Historical Review Group FROM: _ | . DO, Focal Point or ARRB SUBJECT: DO Position on Identification of ERTHYROID/3 1. The DO strongly opposes the release by the ARRB of the phrase “a good KUBARK asset” that was previously withheld in Attachment. The CIA asked | |to send ERTHYROID/3 to Mexico City to help .in the interrogation of -Because this was during the[ regime, we have admitted that we had a liaison relationship with and we also have released the cryptonym ERTHYROID. ERTHYROID/3 became. well known to the Mexicans as the | | interrogator and, of course, was known by his own service. The phrase “a good KUBARK asset,” however, identifies him as a unilateral_source of the Station unbeknownst to the | and Services. , . 2. The DO often recruits officers, such as ERTHYROID/3, who are members of| with which it has a liaison relationship. These assets provide us valuable ‘information without the knowledge of the service and in many cases they provide information about the service itself and its activities. .To reveal ERTHYROID/3’s identity and his special ‘relationship with the CIA would not only personally endanger ERTHYROID/3 but could cast suspicion’on other recruited officers of other[ | services and compel them to reevaluate their unilateral relationships with the CI}. CL BY 0695930 REASON 1.5(c) DECL Xl DRV HUM 2-82 SECRET
13-00000 . bow . SECRET SUBJECT: DO Position on Identification of ERTHYROID/3 IMS/ESG{ «1 44447/11 Dec 95 Distribution:. Orig & 1 - Addressee 1 - DO/IRO 1 - ESG/HCS 1 - C/ESG 2 SECRET
104-10334-10128)_ ~ be US Wy pnalaeend BRI LL. aU FAX fue sa ual ARE . . ve RB giuuZ one RG Assassination Records Review Board iS ie i 600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor « Washington, DC 20530 ie (202) 724-0088 > Fax: (202) 724-0457 MEMORANDUM December 8, 1995 | | . we BY EACSIMILE To: John Pereira . y er From. David Manwell QD thy» Subject: Anne Goodpasture Deposition This memorandum comlirms yesterday's discussion regarding the arrangements that we have made in preparation tor the G ood pasture deposition. The deposition will take - place in Dallas, Texas on December 15 at the U.S. Attomeys office. Jeremy Gunn will take the deposition, with the assistance of Michelle Seguin. We have secured a court reporter from the firm of Dickman, Davenport, & Langtord located in Dallas and have confirmed the court reporter's clearance level of Secret with the Department of Justice. For your convenience, we have attached a copy of the clearance certification. As discussed yesterday, we believe that this level of clearance will be sutticient for this parheular deposition. We also have taken all necessary security precautions for transport of the classified material. It you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Attachment Roaan Memasas: Joho R Tunhem, Chars Henry F Grates Kermit &. Halle Wilttam L. Joyee « Anua K. Nelson &xecuvive Diaccron: Navid G. Marenail
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104-10331-10129 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY” «a mo From the Desk of¢ D NOTE FOR: J. Barry Harrelson : FROM: DATE: 12/21/95 06:19:45 PM SUBJECT: JFK - Postponed Release Dates ( looked over the Board's press release of 12/20/95 which you faxed to me this morning. You asked me whether the Board had. the power to set future “release dates” of postponed documents as stated in the final paragraph of page 2. ¥ Based on.my review of the JFK Act, the Board's statement that it is their responsibility to set “postponed release dates” is not ' quite accurate. When the Board decides to postpone a document, it also sets a-date or condition for future disclasure, (JFK ACT Sec. S(3XB}}). At that time, the originating agency and the Archivist review the document again. (JFK ACT Sec S(gi( 1). ‘@Mithough it is obviously the Board's hope that the document ultimately gets reluased in full, the agency and Archivist will have the j power td continue to postpone release if necessary. Any decisions to continue postponment, however, must be supported.by a wrtten unclassifi ied statement that will be published in the Federal Register. - As you are well aware, all records shall be released in full by 2017. However, e even then, the agency can always appeal to the President. Postponement is possible beyond 2017 if the President certifies that it is necessary to prevent an identifiable harm to military ; defense, intelligence, law enforecemnt or foreign relations and that harm outweighs the public interest in disclosure. in sum, it would be more accurate to state that the Board is setting future "review" dates and not “release dates” . | hope this answers your question. If you have any further questions, let me know. ce: ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10130 JAN @6 ’°97 @9:13AM D a : _P.e . . we Tat CONFIDENTIAL OFSS 96-3264 _, 19 December 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant Center for the Study of Intel Ligetice . i FROM: (Cc) fi _ Chiét;, Opérations Division Office of Facilities and Security Services SUBJECT: (C) Facility Accreditation Assassination Records Review Board Suite 203 600 E Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 1. (C) An inspection of Subject facility was conducted on 29 November 1996. As a result of this inspection, it was determined that Subject facility meets requirementis for open shelf storage of Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SI/TK) material as prescribed in DCID 1/21. 2. (C) Please advise this office when accreclitation is no Longer required, or when any physical changes to ihis area are anticipated. ~ CL BY (0667387 3 CI, REASON 1.5 (c) DECL Xl DRV FROM COV 1-82 CONFIDENTIAL
104-10331-10133 5 CONFIDENTIAL ne fe ICKY Caw NOTE FOR: | lc- @ OC FROM: John F. Pereira DATE: 01/24/97 10:42:39 AM SUBJECT: Seventh Floor View on JFK Board Extension , Tom, | would appreciate your advice on the following: The Executive Director (David Marwell) of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board called me to say that he is drafting a letter to Senator Specter proposing a one-year extensiori for the Board. The Board's charter expires on 30 September 1997 unless Congress grants an extension. iu his was the subject of a memo, dated 2 January, that | sent to the ADC! via the EXDIR. ) Marwell wants to include in the letter something about CIA's view, or likely view, on the extension. Is there anyone on the 7th floor who might want to provide a response that | could pass to Marwell ? (In. the absence of a response, Marwell probably will say something like, "the Board has no reason to believe that CIA would object to an extension." cc: CONFIDENTIAL:
104-10331-10134 ae 7 ; * SECRET CL BY: 611637 CL REASOM: Section 1.5 6 DECL Of: XI nav Fem: COV 2-87 | 15 January 1998- MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ DCI Fred Wickham @ DO Lee Strickland @ DA FROM: oO J J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer OFFICE: CSIHRG SUBJECT: " ARRB 22 January Meeting -- Agenda ' REFERENCE: 1. The following items are on the ARRB meeting agenda for 22 January 1998: (8) "A. Reconsideration of the [The ARRB staff has advised that briefings by senior CIA and/or. State officials are — not required. However, the Agency Gnd St welcome to make a presentation if it will add to the infermation being presented in the “evidence memorandum". The evidence memorandum must be at ARRB no later than Tuesday 20 January. [ir Gunn has suggested we may want to have individuals standing by fer questions. The current plan is fer Lee Strickland and me to be available at 600 E. St. NW. to answer any questions. {AlU0) =. Office of Personnel Files in the Sequestered Collection (Microfilm). The ARRB staff will recommend to the Board that personnel files be declared NBR (Not Believed Relevant) and their release postponed until 2017. The Agency position is that the privacy of each individual clearly outweighs the public interest, most of the information in these files has no relevance to the assassination story, and any related information exist elsewhere in the collection. At ARRB staff request HRP is preparing five OP files for review by Board members. The ARRB staff will prepare a memorandum for public release describing the files; their memo will be coordinated with the Agency prior to release. (AIQU) ~C. Non-related fitesidecuments in the Sequestered Collection (Microfilm). The ARRB staff will recommend that the files and documents (approximately 35,000 pages) designated non-related by CIA during the 1994 review of the microfilm be declared NBR and released in 2017. If the recommendation is accepted by the Board, the ARRB staff will prepare an unclassified description of the records for public release. This too will be coordinated with the Agency prior to release. D. Other possible items: {AIUO), i. ARRB Request # CIA 1--- The ARRB staff may request that the DO documents at issue in this request be declared Assassination Records to be released in full or sanitized form. SECRET
13-00000 “ a oo SECRET | (8) ii. Crypt (INLUCk ~ ARRB staff did not find our evidence memo on this crypt persuasive. They are expected to recommend that the Board reaffirm its decision to release. (AIU0) iti. 1967 IG report on “Castro Assassination Plots" -- ARRB has requested that an updated version be released to NARA by the end of January. Any disagreements between the Agency and ARAB staff may be added to the agenda. HRP and DO reviewers are currently re-reviewing the report. (U) 2. If you have any questions about any of these items please call me. ce: [___Je no Becky Rant @ DA. @ 0Ci 1 - Sent on 15 January 1998 at 05:24:34 PM - ' SECRET wt
(04-10931-10135 CONFIDENTIAL NOTE FOR: Becky Rant @ DA Frieda Omasta @ DA FROM: J. Barry. Harrelson DATE: 02/06/97 07:56:08 AM SUBJECT: ARRB Request: Alvarado Polygraph tapes (sent to Lee 1/28/97) Alvarado Ugarte, a Nicaraguan, is a key figure in the Oswald/Mexico City investigation. He was interrogated (including polygraph) jointly by the Mexican Police and CIA. Extensive information about the interrogation, including the Agency's written Polygraph report (IRD#66032), has been released to the public under the JFK Act. Copies of the polygraph tapes were found in the FBI's JFK files and referred to the HRG. The ARRB staff has requested the release of the tapes. Does the DA /OS have any objection to release of the tapes? Listening to the tapes will require . some old equipment. According to the file, the tapes should play back satisfactorily on a 6o-cycle machine (reel-to-reel) utilizing 60-cycle current. JFK reviewer Joe Murphy (31842) is the HAG focal point for this request! | C/IRB, OS has been our point of contact for JFK request in the past. [If you have any questions about this request, please give me a call (31 825). cl by (6i16871 cl reason:1.5(c), dec! on X1, drv from: cov1-82 cc: John Pereira CONFIDENTIAL
SECRET 30 January 1998 NOTE FOR: D/OIM FROM: John. Pereira Barry Harrelson SUBJECT: Talking Points for Meeting with Jeremy Gunn, 3 Feb 98 Background: Gunn has been with the JFK Assassination ‘Records Review Board since its inception in 1994. When the Board's Executive Director resigned in the summer of 1997, Gunn replaced him, but continued as General Counsel as well. Gunn may be accompanied to your.meeting by two of his senior staffers who handle CIA matters--Michele Combs and Bob Skwirot. Suggested Discussion Points: (U) 1. CIA is committed to meeting the deadline of 1 September 1998 for completing the review of records and transferring them to the Board. -Recently we shifted seven additional contractor/reviewers to the JFK team, bringing the total to 20. If necessary, additional resources will be madé available. (U) 2. The merger of former HRG into OIM does not create new impediments to CIA's ability to respond to requests from the Board and will not slow down the document review. (S) 3. We are looking forward to meeting the Board's Chairman, Judge Tunheim on 18 February. We have followed up on Tunheim's request to obtain(from records and other information related to Oswald's activities in Mexico. We have asked tthe Mexico City Station} to provide any additional information by mid-February. (U) 4. Per the Board's request, we are sending a team of reviewers to the Board on 4-6 February to review materials from the Army, JCS, and Presidential Libraries. This. joint approach makes sense to us, and is preferable to having documents circulate from agency to agency. The process seems to have worked well earlier for other records. (U) 5S. We intend to respond fully to the Board's many informal and formal requests for additional information. (See listing. of requests, dated 18 December 1997.) However, to the extent that resources are devoted to searching files
13-00000 and compiling information for a response, those resources are. drawn away from the document review. We urge the Board's staff to avoid overly broad requests that may lead to extensive searches. (U) 6. We appreciate the cooperation of Gunn's staff in persuading the Board to accept our recommendation that some 40,000 pages from the sequestered collection be declared non-relevant. (This avoided the need to review these Materials for declassification.)
104-10331-10137 18 February 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: | b Acting 1e Clearance Division, OPS FROM: J. Barry Harrelson Senior Reviewer SUBJECT: Requested “Mission Statement” re HRP/ARRB 1. This is in response to your request asking that HRP provide. you with a “mission statement” concerning HRP and its relationship to the Assassination Records Review Board. It flows from the fact that the ARRB staff has declared the OPS files of Nagell, Novel and Ruby to “assassination records” and our subsequent request that the files or copies thereof be forwarded to HRP. Also, certain portions of the files of Walter Sheridan and Harold Weisberg have or will be declared assassination records. 2. The Historical Review Project (formerly the . Historical Review Group, CSI, DCI) has among its several projects the responsibility to deal with the presidentially | appointed Assassination Records Review Board and its legal mandate to find and transfer to the National Archives all U.S. Government records relating :to the Assassination of President Kennedy. The authority of the ARRB is fairly broad and includes: the authority to designate files/documents “assassination records,” to determine if a particular record or certain information within it must be released to the Archives or postponed until 2007, and, the power to issue subpoenas in the pursuit of its assigned activities. 3. In the instant case, the Board staff has designated the Nagell, Novel and Ruby security files assassination records. Copies of them must now be processed by HRP according to its current guidelines for release/protection . of information and the files released to the Archives. With respect to the files on Sheridan and Weisberg, further review by the Board is necessary to designate which, if any, portions of them are assassination records. 4. I hope that the above fulfills your requirement in this matter and I look forward to receipt of the files.
13-00000 — s SECRET 2. Mr. Gunn will be at IP the week of 24 February to review additional material related to CIA-7. Please provide the documents, or a status of the search, by 20 February 1997. J. Barry Ha son Att: Ref Document SECRET ' 3
104-10331-10138 + {IOLA ee 13 March 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: ( | . 7Information Review Officer FROM: J. Barry Harrelson DA/OIM/Historical Review Program SUBJECT: — LBJ Library Documents~-JFK Assassination | Records 1. The JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) has requested our review of the attached document from the LBJ Library. As you know, the ARRB is in the process of reviewing assassination-related documents for release to the public. In order to assist in this process, please review the attached document for declassification and indicate by yellow highlighting those areas that you determine should be redacted. The earlier redacted version of this document is’ also attached for reference. Based on our preliminary review, we have indicated our proposed redaction in brackets (see paperclipped page). 2. Should you “have any questions concerning this document, please contact Mr. Jim Hanrahan at S31809. We would appreciate your response no later than 31 March 1998. J. Barry Harrelson | - Attachment: LBJ-177-10001-10305, dtd 3/27/63, Cuban Training of Latin American Subversives
104-10331-10141 ‘1 April 1998 DCI/7IRO _ FROM: ‘Barry Harrelson JFK Project Leader SUBJECT: (U) “The Office of Inspector General , January 1952-December 1971° (U) The Presidential Assassination Review Board staff has asked to read the subject document for possible relevance to their work, for the period covering June 1962 to December 1964. We have selected the attached segments as falling within the bounds of their request. (U) We would like you to obtain permission from the IG . for this purpose. In the unlikely event that we are requested to declassify the documents for the assassination record then that becomes a different ball game, subject to -further review. - As you know the staffers we deal with are fully cleared. {Farry Harrelson Attachments A UNCLASSIFIED WHEN: SEPARATED FROM ATTACHMENTS cL. BY: (0611637 9 .CL‘REASON: 1.5c DECL ON: Xl DRV FROM: MET 31-87 nahh Od <8 Me
104-10331-10148 bea, F aot ae 8 April 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: eee | DDI/Information Review Officer FROM: . J. Barry Harrelson DA/OIM/Historical Review Program SUBJECT: LBJ Library Documents- JFK Assassination Records 1. The JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) has requested our review of the attached document from the LBJ Library. As you know, the ARRB is in the process of reviewing assassination-related documents for release to the public. In order to assist in this process, we would appreciate your review of the document for declassification and indicate by yellow highlighting those areas that you determine should be redacted. The earlier redacted version of the document is also attached for reference. Based on our preliminary review of this document, our proposed redactions are incidacted in brackets (see parperclipped pages) - 2. Should you have any questions concerning this document, please contact Mr. Jim Hanrahan at S31809. We would appreciate your response no later than 20 April 1998. J. Barry Harrelson Attachment: LBJ 177-10001-10305, dtd 3/27/63, Cuban Training of Latin American Subversives
104-10331-10150 ‘SECRET cl BY:0569956. | CL REASON: Section 1.5 C ECL ON: X1 prv Fam: HUM 4-82 NOTE FOR: Fredrick C. Wickham a William H. McNair FROM: { OFFICE: ACS DATE: 04/11/98 12:08:20 ‘SUBJECT: Morales and Aliases and Accommodation Addresses . We (HCS and DA/OIM/JFK Team) have been discussing the subject of aliases, accommodation addresses, alias documentation, and pocket litter in general and in particular concerning David Morales with the ARRB staff (Jeremy Gunn, Michelle Combs, and Bob Skwirot) over several meetings with a various mix of attendees. | believe Gunn will accept alias documentation and information thereto to be redacted when release could compromise agreements between the Agency and other governments, be they state (i.e., driver licenses) or federal (i.e., Social Security [but complicated here because of the June 1975 Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, the so-called Rockefeller Commission, which referred to the SSA's knowledge of the CIA's “manufacturing its cards."] and Federal Aviation Agency). "Pocket litter" will be released, i.e., National Rifle Association card, Rotary Club card, insurance cards, and so forth.) But Gunn wants Morales's aliases, especially for those that might apparently only have been used in the 1960s timeframe. We have tried to "clarify" the need to protect aliases, even though more than 35 years old, and in the case of Morales, for a deceased employee (whom the ARRB has released). Attached you will find an example of one of our “clarification memos” 40610545.D More specifics about the Morales and his aliases, and so forth, follows: @ In some 47 documents currently being discussed, there are 27 in the 1960-66 timeframe and 20 in the 1971-75. @ in some of the documents, the same alias was used in both timeframes as was the accommodation addresses, some with apparently non-connected “co-addresses.” @ = Of the re-checked aliases, both are still in the records as “active” although apparently in Morales's file, there is a notation of at least one “possibly compromised." @ in at ieast one of the 1975 documents, one or more probably non-connected "co-addressees” are listed at the same PO boxes. ® Because of earlier releases of “driver's license" or “permit,” when we fully redacted names and addresses, we have a problem now releasing the alias used exclusively in the 1960s along even the state part of the address, let alone the street portion less the specific house number because it would expose the state government collusion (again previously the phrase “through your established contact) or the perception thereof. Some of these are complicated by the previous SECRET
13-00000 SECRET release of "Washington" Field Office. We have tried to explain there is no way to identify which aliases Morales might have used in which operations and no way to identify which operations or officers would be subject to exposure if the Morales aliases and addresses are released. , Any advice or additional justification verbiage weicome. cc: Sent on 11 April 1998 at 12:08:20 SECRET