; | C Classification: eC (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—<ontrolled documents.) ay The Committee found Jones' testimony to be very credible. His statements concerning the contents of the Oswald file: Sore setae tee are consistent with FBI communications that were generated as a result of the information which he initially provided. - * Ne Bite aha ne ohh Access to Oswald's Military Intelligence file, which the Department of Defense never gave to the Warren Commission, was Nee 60 mae tee setae " not possible because the Department of Defense had destroyed . ar, the file as part of a general program aimed at eliminating all of its files pertaining to nonmilitary personnel. In Nee ental dhutine response to a Committee inquiry, the Department of Defense ad gave the following explanation for the file's destruction: : ' il. Dossier AB 652876, OSWALD, Lee Harvey, was ' identified for deletion from IRR (Intelligence Records and Reports) holdings on Julian date \ 73060 (1 March 1973) as stamped on the micro-. filmed dossier cover. It is not possible to determine the actual date when physical destruction was accomplished, but is credibly surmised that the destruction was accomplished within a period not greater than sixty days following the identification for deletion. eat are te a” bd ca PTE
‘" Classification: - (This form is to be used for material extracted ‘from ClA—<ontrolled documents.) . Nae ptonstrai + Evidence such as the type of deletion record available, the individual clerk involved in the identification, and the projects:in progress at the time of deletion, all indicate the dossier deletion resulted from the implementation of a Department of the Army, Adjutant General letter dated 1 June 1971, subject: Acquisition of Information Concerning Persons and Organizations not Affiliated with the Department of Defense (DOD) (Incl 1). Basically, the letter called for the elimination of files on non-DOD affiliated persons and organizations. » , s, ees a etate econ 6 totes emree catetl, Yate sateter ont 2. It is not possible to determine who accomplished ; the actual physical destruction of the dossier. The individual identifying the dossier for deletion d .can be determined from the clerk number appearing on the available deletion record. The number indicates that Lyndall E. Harp was the identifying ro , ... Clerk. Harp was an employee of the IRR from 1969.. H , until late 1973, at which time she transferred wu to the Defense Investigative Service, Fort Holabird, Ral Maryland, where she is still a civil service employee. The individual ordering the destruction or deletion cannot be determined. However, available evidence indicates that the dossier was identified for deletion under a set of criteria applied by. IRR clerks to all files. The basis for these criteria were established in the 1 June 1971 letter. There is no indication that the dossier was specifically identified for review or deletion. All evidence shows that the file was reviewed as part.of a generally applied program to eliminate any dossier _concerning persons not affiliated with DOD. te teats 4 3. #The exact material contained in the dossier cannot be determined at this time. However, discussions with all available persons who recall seeing the dossier reveal that it most probably included: newspaper clippings relating to pro- Cuban activities of Oswald, several Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, and possibly some Army counterintelligence reports. None of the. persons. indicated that. they.remember any .- Classification: 5G \ 4 | Classified by derivation: | Ae SF RT BR ET RTL TOR, IPT PP RAAF My SEPUITOP, SITE OR, St 40+ Aree, PE te, agp E A, eneee mao alee,
= of x s A 3 Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) — . ar) “ significant: information in the dossier. It should be noted here that the Army was not asked: to investigate the assassination. Consequently, any Army derived information was turned over to the appropriate civil authority. 4. At the time of the destruction of the Oswald dossier, IRR was operating under the records disposal authority: contained in the DOD Memorandum .to Secretaries of the Military Departments, OASD (A); 9 February 1972, subject: Records Disposal _ Authority (Incl 2). The memorandum forwards National Archivist disposal criteria which is similar in nature to the requirements outlined in the 1 June 1971 instructions. It was not. until 1975 that the Archivist changed the criteria to ensure non-destruction of investigative records that may be of historical value. _/ Upon receipt of this information, the Committee orally requested the destruction order relating to the file on Oswald. Ina letter dated September 13, 1978, the General counsel of the Department of.the army’ replied that no such order existed: Army regulations do not. require any type of specific order before intelligence files can be destroyed, and none was prepared in connection with the destruction of the Oswald file. As a rule, investigative information on persons not directly affiliated with the Defense Department can be retained in Army files only for. short periods of time and in carefully regulatedcircumstances.-- The -Oswald-fite Classification: So ( of 7 Clessified by derivation: SET. “Sree, PATER, a a 7. ee
itn weed remedeete —_ os wet oe fe a Classification: {This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—<controlled documents.) was destroyed routinely in accordance with normal - files management procedures, as are thousands of intelligence files annually.  / The Committee finds this "routine" destruction of the Oswald file extremely troublesome, especially when viewed in ‘light of the Department of Defense's failure to make this file | available to the Warren Commission. Despite the credibility of Jones ' testimony, without access to this file the question of Oswald's possible affiliation with military intelligence cannot be fully resolved. The absence of this file, however, has no bearing upon the Committee's conclusion concerning the absence of any relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald . and the CIA. | Classification: . : Classified by derivation: oN oem lesen! ema AEG 9 ASE 5 RES, BE RYT Ri, STP, waren