HW 53217 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE. : DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS DoclId: 324042739 Page 1 ee oe oe ee , JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM ’ AGENCY INFORMATION Peleased under the John Kennedy CIA 104-10331-10110 WSsassination Records JFK Ollection Act of 1992 PROJFILES-CORRESPONDENCE |[(44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53217 Date: - DOCUMENT INFORMATION Ne-22-2017 CIA PEREIRA. C/HISTORICAL REVIEW GROUP DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MEMO: REQUEST OF JFK ARRB FOR COURTESY VISIT WITH DCI 06/13/1996 8 JFK ASSASSINATION ARRB VISIT DCI PAPER UNCLASSIFIED 1A RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 04/23/03 JFK-M-16 : F5 2000.02.08.15:57:00:123044 ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10331-10110
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY CIA SPECIA LECTIONS HW 53217 RELEASE IN FULL CSI 0327/96 13 June 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director. of Central Intelligence VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Executive Director Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence FROM: John F. Pereira Chief, Historical Review Group SUBJECT: | Request of JFK Assassination Records Review Board for Courtesy Visit with DCI 1. Action Requested: Paragraph 4 below contains a recommendation for your approval. The Chairman of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), John Tunheim, has requested that you meet with him and the other four Board members at Headquarters Building some time in the next several months. He asks that the meeting be arranged to coincide with one of their monthly sessions, which are held in Washington. (The schedule of their meetings is attached.) The Board's Executive Director, David Marwell, would also participate. 2. Background: Mr. Tunheim, recently appointed a federal judge in Minnesota, would like to provide you with a brief description of the Board’s purpose and activities. The Board has paid similar visits to the FBI, where they _ met with Director Freeh, and to NSA and the Secret Service. The @REB members were appointed by President Clinton in 1993 as required by statute. Their principal responsibility is to ensure public disclosure of government records related to the assassination of President Kennedy. The statute grants the Board full access to all documents that are related to either the assassination or past investigations into the assassina- tion. 3. CIA has worked closely with the Board and its staff from the beginning. The Board's Executive Director and we have worked out cooperative arrangements for resolving differences of opinion as to what information can be released to the public and what should be withheld because of sensitivities. We have released approximately 227,000 pages of relevant Agency records = FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY DoclId: 3274042739 Page 2?
HW 53217 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY SUBJECT: Request of JFK Assassination Records Review Board for Courtesy Visit with DCI thus far, and are continuing to collaborate with the Board to identify additional information that can be released. 4. Recommendation: That you agree to meet with the JFK Assassination Records Review Board at a date to be determined. “John F. Pereira Attachments: A: ARRB Meeting Schedule B: Biographies of Board Members APPROVED: Director of Central Intelligence —~ Date 2 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY DoclId: 3274042739 Page 3
. . FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY SUBJECT: Request for JFK Assassination Records Review Board for Courtesy Visit with DCI pee Fest/HRG/sPereira:bas/30373 (13 June 96) Distribution: Original - Addressee - Executive Registry - DDCI Executive Director - D/CSI - C/HRG Be pp I 3 OFFICIAL USE ONLY HW 53217 DBocld:324042359 Page 4
4 ; Valdes BU FRI 21210 FAR £02 524 U4ar Anns ‘wUus HW 53217 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor - Washington. DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 « Fax: (202) 724-0457 The Honorable John R. Tunheim, Chair State of Minnesota, Chief Deputy Attorney General, 1986-Present State of Minnesota, Office of the Attorney General, Solicitor General, 1985-86 State of Minnesota, Office of the Attorney General, Manager, Public Affairs Litigation Division, 1984-85 . Law Firm of Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard and Donnelly, Associate Attorney, 1981-84 Senior U.S. District Judge Earl Larson in Minneapolis, Law Clerk, 1980-81 United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Staff Assistant, 1975-77 Education J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, 1980 B.A., Concordia College, 1975 Dr. HeggryF. Graff Columbia University, Professor Emeritus of History, 1991- Present Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Senior Fellow, 1991-92 Columbia University, Department of History, Instructor to Full Professor, 1946-91, Chairman, 1961-64 Education Ph.D., Columbia University, 1949 M.A.,Gplymbia University, 1942 B.S., City College, 1941 Boaao Memaens: John R. Tunheim, Chair « ‘Hency F. Graff - Kermit L. Hall « William L. Joyce - Anna K. Nalson Executive Diaectoa: David G. Marwell DoclId: 324042739 Page 6
HW 53217 Dr. Kermit L. Hall The Qhio State University, Dean; College of Humanities, and Professor of History and Law OFS - Present BS The University of Tulsa, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History and Law, 1992-94 University of Florida, Associate /Full Professor of History and Law, 1981-92 Wayne State University, Assistant/ Associate Professor, Department of History, x 1976-81 ON Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor, Department of History, 1972-76 E ] ti ~* Master of Study of Law, Yale University Law School, 1980 Ph.D., The University of Minnesota, 1972 M.A., Syracuse University, 1967 B.A., The University of Akron, 1966 Dr. William L. Joyce | | | | 7 Prince University, Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986-Present The New York Public Library, Assistant Director for Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1981-1985 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, Curator of Manuscripts, 1972-81, Education Officer, 1988-81 William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan, Manuscripts Librarian, 1968-72 yg Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1974 DoclId: 327404239 Page 7 was
WW 53217 M.A., St John’s University (N.Y.), 1966 B.A., Providence College, 1964 Dr. Afuk K. Nelson | | The American University, Adjunct Professor of History, 1992-Present, 1986-88 Arizona State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1992 The American University, Associate Professor in History, 1991 Tulane University, Adjunct Associate Professor in History, 1988-90 George Washington University, Instructor to Adjunct Associate Professor, 1972-85 George Washington University, Director, History and Public Policy Program, 1980-82 Education Ph.D., George Washington University, 1972 M.A., University of Oklahoma, 1956 B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1954 DoclId: 3274042739 Page 6
HW 53217 DAVID G. MARWELL Biographical Information  BFiuly 1, 1994, the Berlin Document Center (BDC) was wansferred to the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) marking the end of nearly 48 years of American control of this unique organization. With an estimated 25 million Nazi-era personnel-related files, the BDC was once a crucial source of evidence for the Nuremberg Trials and is today an incalculably important source for the study of the Third Reich. The transfer also marked the end of David Marwell’s tenure as Director of the BDC. A well-trained scholar with a PH.D. in History, Marwell came to Berlin in 1988 from the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), U.S. Department of Justice where he held the position of Chief of Investigative Research. At OSI, he was involved in researching and preparing Cases against accused Nazi war criminals residing in the United States. In addition, he was selected to participate in the Klaus Barbie Investigation (1983) and played ‘a major role in the Josef Mengele investigation (1985), both of which received international attention. In connection with the Joseph Mengele and Klaus Barbie investigations, Marwell was in charge of assembling all relevant documentary evidence relating to any possible connection between these individuals and U.S. institutions or personnel. The investigations were two of the most unusual ever undertaken and through them he gained siginificant experiences in the identifying and locating documentary resources. The former Director of OSI, Allan A. Ryan, Jr., in his book Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America, described Marwell as “an experienced and careful historian who could find documents in archives when no one else could." oe When Marwell arrived at the Document Center, the institution had been rocked bya scandal involving a significant theft.of documents. The resulting focus on the Center revealed that it had been neglected in many areas for many years and suffered from an outns8d8G administrative structure, a disaffected and undertrained staff and a lack of professional. guidance. It was Marwell’s job to bring the Center up to standard and prepare it for turnover to the German government. The challenges facing Marwell were not only to manage a complex institution (with an annual budget of eight million deutschmarks) and repair past deficiencies, but also to define a future for an institution in transition. He prepared a "five year plan" for the BDC that set five goals, developed a corresponding program to meet each goal, and designed a © system to monitor the progress. In achieving all of the goals, Marwell: ¢ Introduced computer technology (there was nota single computer at the BDC when he arrived) and developed a sophisticated, integrated information __- retrieval system that has been described as a model for archive = “Sadministration: ¢ Created a fully professional document conservation and restoration program; ¢ Developed a staff (50 Germans and 20+ Americans) that is better trained and far more responsible, flexible and creative than it had been; Docld: 32404239 Page 9