MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Centra “. Cy he beac File 1B OCA 3039-92 25 September 1992 1 Intelligence VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence , Executive Director FROM: Stanley M. Moskowitz Director of Congre ‘SUBJECT: . Release of Sequest Attached for your Signature is Foley requesting permission to rele assassination records that have bee the late 1970's: pursuant to an agre Select Committee on Assassinations. these records were to remain segreg sSional Affairs ered JFK Documents a letter to Speaker ase to the Archivist JFK n segregated in CIA since ement with the House Under that agreement, ated until 2007 unless the DCI and the House agreed Otherwise. We have been Sistant that the Speaker st. The Agency will € segregated collection iving Foley's written —S Stanley M. Moskowitz AT Attachment HW 53217 DBoclId: 32404144 Page 2?
Central Intelligence Agency Washingjon, D.C. 20505 30 September, 1992 The Honorable Thomas S. Foley Speaker of the House of Representatives Washington, D.c. 20515 Dear Mr. Speaker: As part of the Historical Review Program and in anticipation of the passage of the Assassination Materials . Disclosure Act of 1992, the Central Intelligence Agency . (CIA) has declassified and is sending records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the National Archives. We have already cleared approximately 35,000 pages of documents for transfer to the Archives. To help us in this process, we seek the agreement of the House of Representatives to release CIA records that are part of a segregated document collection established by agreement between CIA and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) . : In August 1977, Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner and the HSCA agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding to create, upon termination of the HSCA, a segregated and secure collection of all Agency documents reviewed by the Committee. The documents were to remain segregated within CIA for 30 years unless the DCI and the House of Representatives agreed to a shorter period of time. In early 1978, the HSCA and the DCI revised the MOU to provide that only those documents designated by the HSCA--not all documents reviewed by the Committee#-would be placed — in this collection. We established the secure collection in accordance with the MOU, as modified. I know that you share with me the commitment to declassify and publicly disclose as many government docu- ments as possible related to the assassination of President Kennedy. The House, by passing the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act, has also gone on record in supporting the Le DocId: 32404144 Page 3
HW 53217 The Honorable Thomas S. Foley release of such documents. Your consent, on behalf of the House, to the immediate release of CIA records within the . segregated collection will enable the Agency to make its records available to the National Archives as expeditiously as possible. , Sincerely, _Piluctomppte Robert M. Gates Director of Central Intelligence cc: Minority Leader, House of Representatives Chairman, House Permanent Select ._ Committee on Intelligence Ranking Republican Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence DoclId: 327404144 Page 4
SUBJECT: Release of Sequestered JFK Documents; Letter to The Honorable Thomas S. Foley OCA/LEG/DZinn:gh/x37913 (23 September 1992) OCA 3039-92; OCA 3039-92/1 ‘Distribution: Original - Addressee 1 - DCI 1 - DDCI ‘ 1 - ER 1 - DDI 1 - D/CSI 1 - C/LD/OGC 1 - D/OCA 1 - OCA Record 1 - LEG Subject File 1 - LEG Signer File 1 - Soft File HW 53217 DBoclId:32404144 Page 5