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104-10331-10211 | to a __ ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY NOTE FOR: Regina A. Genton FROM: John F, Pereira OFFICE: CSHHRG DATE: 11/21/97 03:24:36 PM SUBJECT: JFK Project Per your request, attached is a statement regarding our commitment to take steps to complete the processing of records related to the assassination of JFK, AFFIRM.DO ce: q Brin Latell va aaa once : y y Bey at ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
13-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE ~ INTERNAL USE ONLY 21 November 1997 FOR: D/EXDIR , JFK PROJECT The following is in response to your request for a statement “reaffirming” CSI's commitment to apply available resources to complete the processing of records related to the assassination of President Kennedy. As Jeremy Gunn stated in his letter of 28 October to the -EXDIR, the pace of reviewing JFK-related documents is accelerating. He also stated that the JFK Board has . established 1 September 1998 as the deadline for all 7 agencies to finish the processing of records and transfer them to the National Archives. In order to complete all the necessary tasks required by the Board and meet the deadline, we will clearly need to increase the resources now dedicated to JFK. There are a growing number of requests from the Board to review records from both CIA and other agencies, to search files for additional information, and to brief the Board and its staff. At present, one staff officer and 13 part time independent contractors are devoted to JFK. In addition, we draw on a small CSI computer unit for support and share overtime employees who perform indexing and document copying for the Center. In the absence of additional resources being provided from elsewhere, CSI (or OIM) will need to shift resources from other projects to JFK for all tasks to be done on time. One option is to interrupt other declassification projects, such as that on DI finished intelligence on the Soviet — Union, and the Guatemala covert action, and assign reviewers and others working on those projects to JFK. The moves would need to happen in the next few weeks. Another important consideration is that the directorates, particularly the DO, will need to increase their resources to keep pace with HRG. These resources are required to coordinate declassification of records and to prepare responses for requests from the Board for additional information and files. Whatever resource adjustments are made to bolster the effort on JFK, there will still be an unpredictable factor that could require a surge in additional resources later. This stems from the potentially large number of documents from the FBI and other agencies containing CIA equities that
the Board could ask us to review. There is a good chance that such documents will surface near the September deadline, which would leave little time to complete the processing.
ar enventlde 104-10331-10218 i pa ©ne Hondred Fourth Congress HOWARD L BERMAN, Cauromen GAN BURTON bean Reeeare prea Pere ' feeeomeron tome See eens Congress of the Wnited States Base AE eer eens Canaumen ‘e 2 : eo: e ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Sensex mownaesciey Cuurcmen Committee on International Relations RT ee see PETERT. WONG, New Youn , ‘ 4 a - CYNTHIA A. MCKINNEY, Geonaus SAM BROWNBACK Kena a House of ‘Representatives ALBERT RUSSELL WHA, Masneser SRVENZGUBLOe oe oo JAMES F.MORAN Vena banana “MATH” SANFORD, ours Cancun Washington, DE 20515 veciaes tvanooeen AGRO HOUGHTON, Mew You . Democnanc Coase of Srare J, Comer or Grass February 28, 1995 Adm. William 0.. Studeman Director of Central Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency | Washington, D.C. 20505 Dear Admiral Studeman: I am writing to request information related to the assassination of President Kennedy. — First, I would like to know the whereabouts of Mr. Gilberto Lopez. Until November, 1963, Mr. Lopez had been living in Tampa, Florida. On November 23, 1963 Mr. Lopez entered Mexico from Nuevo Laredo, Texas, and on November 27 he boarded a Cubana Airlines flight from Mexico City to Havana, Cuba. I would like to know what happened to him after he arrived in Havana. ' Second, I would like to know what happened to the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico City at the time of the Kennedy assassination. When was he recalled to Havana and what positions has he held subsequent to his recall? Thank you for you attention to this matter. I look forward to hearing from you soon. ROBERT G. TORRICELLI Ranking Democrat Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Memorandum DATE: March 17, 1995 To: | —_ loca FROM: Barry Harrelson, CSI/HRG RE: Torricelli Request cc: John Pereira The JFK collection contains a number of documents on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez including a small 201 file (14 pages). I have attached two documents that summarize the material on him in the collection. I did not locate any information on Lopez’s activities in Havana or his current whereabouts. The most recent references in the collection are from 1977-79 and deal with HSCA’s investigation. There are numerous references to Joaquin Hernandez Armas, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico in 1963, in the JFK collection. Most of the documents deal with a telephone conversation between the President of Cuba ( Dorticos) and the Ambassador a few days after the assassination of JFK. I found no information in the collection on when Hernandez Armas was recalled or subsequent positions held. According to one document, he was still in Mexico City in June 1965.
o4-10334-10224 | H ? ae ~ a — SONFIBENTIA— Page 1 | WTC/Memorandum for the Record EVENT: QUICK COM | DATE:05/1696 TIME: 1100 STATUS: COMPLETE PLACE: 7B00 OHB FOR: REP MCINTOSH SUBJ: JFK ASSASSINATION DOCUMENTS | oo — (PARTICIPANTS ) — ASSOC NAME mm PANTS ) ROLE caf “Ywezyocay BRFR OTHER | (PERS STAFF) —( EXECUTIVE SUMMARY )-— A staffer from Rep David Mcintosh (R-IN) district office called asking whether CIA had a packet of unclassified Kennedy assassination material we could send to the Congressman's district office. I told him that under the 1992 law bearing on the Kennedy recoids, all declassified material was being tumed over to the National Archives (NARA) | advised him to contact the Archives, but suggested to him that the material consisted of a large collection of documents rather than some book or compilation that could be easily sent to him. (U) | — ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ) — No further text (U) | | Of ice. of Congressional Affairs | DCVOCACLGIRESchroederdms/29940 (16 May 96) Distribution: _ OFiginal - -OCA Records “t- - DIOCA.. f- -DONMS ee io DO/ORMS/CAG _ ot- -DCVCSI:. ~ ae RESchroeder Ghono: . — (FOLLOW-UP ACTION ITEMS) - “oe a ° There were no ‘Action items on file for this event. : c GL REASON 1.5C DECLON- Xi DRV FM COV 1-82
104-10331-10231 ” aad . = — . SECRET _ a fetes? CL BY: 611637 rf CL REASOW: Section 1.5 C DECL OM: XT pry FRM: HUM 4-82 70: i Warren G. STUETZLERL@ DO FROM: J. Barry Harrelson OFFICE: CSI/HRG DATE: 12/19/97 10:30:35 AM SUBJECT: (3)Re: JFK Board Request CL BY:(0691596 CL REASON: 1.5(c) DECL ON: X1 DRV FROM: HUM 4-82 The answers to the ARRB questions will be shared with the ARRB staff on Background Use Only basis. An unclassified memorandum for the record will be prepared by the ARRB for public. A classified version may be prepared and place in secure storage at National Archives. Information and any documents will not be atributeg tc cauawteqath one proposal is te attribute the material to the station's files with no date. The Agency will have the opportunity to review the drafts of the memos. To date the ARRB staff have been very responsive to our concerns when preparing these type memos. Original Text of (Warren G. STUETZLER Original Text of Warren G. STUETZLER Original Text of Warren &. STUETZLER Original Text of(Warren G. STUETZLER CL BY: Gl REASON: Section 1.5 BECL ON: ORY FRM: TO: d. Barry Harrelson @ DCI FROM: Warren G. STUETZLER SECRET
13-00000 providing the answeéfslbe made public? Will the information be attributed, te SECRET ... | OFFICE: DATE: © "12/03/97 08:48:13 SUBJECT: Re: JFK Board Reques ct ariensrea_ | GL REASON: 1.5{c) DECL ON: X1 DRV FROM: HUM 4-82 Some followup questions on the ARAB query: How will the answers to the 10 questions be used? Will the answers just be used by the staff. or will they be made public? (/f public, in what form?) What about attribution: will the involvement 0 in Please note that th oreign Secretary/may be.called upon by the opposition-controlled congress in the next couple of weeks or so to testify in open session about CIA involvement it This would greatly raise the political profilefof any business we do with lespecially something like the ARRB stuff that might become public.) ce: Fredrick C. Wickham, John Pereira @ DCI Sent on 3 December 1997 at 08:48:12 ce: John F. Pereira Sent on 19 December 1997 at 10:30:35 AM SECRET
104-10331-10264 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: ‘SUBJECT: REFERENCE: ¥ e SECRET . 24 January 1996 Ken Duncan, State INR J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Office CIA/DCI/CSI/HRG CIA Stations/Bases Our phone call of 24 Jan 96 The following stations and bases appear in docujents under consideration by ARRB. The documents are from Oswald 201 file land are dated November/December 1963. (S) Europe Latin America Other Release: Release All: a Release: London Managua Ottawa Paris San Jose Bonn Panama City Protect: Berlin San Salvador mo, | Frankfurt Santo Domingo Stuttgart Buenos Aires Hamburg Lima Tunis Munich Santiago Montevideo Protect: *Madrid *Rome *Brussels *The Hague *Bern Luxembourg CL Py sa mh UREA —GLt ie: ie het ae meg * These stations/bases were released by the ARRB at their December and January meetings and are under consideration for appeal. (UV) SECRET
104-10331-10265 MEMORANDUM FOR: Ken Duncan, State INR FROM: SUBJECT: REFERENCE: SECRET = - | wurle mi ¢ 24 January 1996 loFele 144b (wpdele ) J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Office. CIA/DCI/CSI/HRG CIA Stations/Bases Our phone call of 24 Jan 96 The following stations and bases appear in docunfents under consideration by ARRB. The documents are from Oswaid. 201 file and are dated November /December 1963. (S) ° Europe . Release: London Paris Bonn Berlin Frankfurt Stuttgart Hamburg. Munich Protect: *Madrid *Rome . *Brussels *The Hague *Bern *Geneva Luxembourg Latin America Other Release All: Oo Release: Managua . Ottawa San Jose . Panama City Protect: San Salvador — Santo Domingo Buenos Aires Lima Santiago ‘Montevideo * These stations/bases were released by the ARRB at their December and January meetings and are under. consideration for appeal. (U) _ Ree PLS Been Genavenn. Rome . Brussels | | SECRET
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104-10331-10260 a oo ADMINISTRATIVE | > V/HRF INTERNAL USE ONLY “ @- 13 April 1992 . MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: FROM: | John Carver SUBJECT: Problem of the Oswald 201 Files John Pereira asked me last Friday to go ahead and_ order ue the £1 i s of the Oswald 201 files from IMS. I - called who told me he'd have.to talk it over with: Fred Wickham and get back to me. Fred Wickham, C/IMS/MPG, had earlier told me that OCA is custodian for these files, and that: ‘he would need a go-ahead from OCA. I have calie several times a day recently about this, but he's been too busy to catch. ; eT 3 This morning, | of IMS called to tell me that DO will require a ndum from OCA authorizing any transfer of any part of the Kennedy Assassination Files. The addressee for this memo: Fred Wickham Chief, IMS/MPG ID4107 OHB He also said that DBO would really not relish sending us any. Original files. He reminded me that DO has made copies of the whole, and he could specifically offer me the redacted copy of any file, plus a copy of the original, so we could immediately see what DO had determined in its own review. (This would — undoubtedly give us a leg up, letting us pretty well ignore anything DO hadn't deleted and concentrate on judging their deletions in light of the new rules. It would also hide any document in the original files DO doesn't want us to see.) | further invited us to come over to his. shap and take a Iook at the files there. (It does appear that DO is nervous about letting any of this material leave DO control, for reasons which are not yet clear.) called me at 0812 today, just before I got in. When I called back about 0822, he had already gone into a meeting, so I'll have to keep trying. Finally got him at 0850. Told him about the requirement for a memo from OCA. Also about DO's ‘preference for handling our review in their quarters, with their copies of the Originals. He told me that this is apparently part of a “larger problem.“ He'll have to get in touch with Ken McDonald ‘and John Pereira about this and will get back to me, probably tomorrow. Was glad we're gearing,up to start this project.
104-10331-10290 CIA SPECI CIAL CO LLEC Cl 13 May 1993 JFK ASSASSINATION FILE REVIEW Coordination with Office of Congressional Affairs The Office of Congressional Affairs has told us that they would like to rely on our review (HRG & DO) of OLc ‘materials in the JFK files. They have asked us specifically. to alert them to any statements made about members of > Congress or staff members of HSCA or other committees. . If you find any such statements or anythina else tha sensitive let me know and. I will call f seems Frank
104-10331-10298 - 28 March 1994 Memo for the Record a Subject: Meeting with O/S Officials Regarding AMMUG Poly Attendees: HRG O/S Barry Harrellson |C/Info Mgt Branch - Frank Most Info Mgt Br Info Mgt Br Joe Murphy led off, stating two O/S concerns: (1) that the specific list of poly questions with relevant and non-relevant questions and their sequence: constituted a method that had never been revealed and (2) that we needed to delete’ identifying hata on Vladimir Rodrueguez Lahara. _ Barry quickly settled point 2 explaining that the DO had long since agreed to the release of his name and the crypt, and that the Cubans knew who we had, but that we have carefully protected his assumed name and location. (Point accepted by.O/S). A more lengthy discussion ensued regarding the list of questions (point 1). The outcome was an agreement to compromise, releasing the questions deemed important to the investigation and ro nian ie will call (O/S) with proposed deletions and negotiate further thn ~ (Serge then raised a question about the Solie report that had been released including a section on the Nosenko poly that included a list of questions. We confirmed that was correct. O/S was not pleased but agreed that it was water over the dam and. was molified by an inspection of the report. Solie seemed to have modified the list of questions in an effort to conceal methodology. We then brought up the matter of the recently received HSCA documents regarding the security violation in the HSCA file room in 1978. Frank provided the background. It was quickly agreed that the only question was whether we needed to protect the name of the CIA security officer involved. O/S agreed to inspect his security file and see if the name ‘was publicly released at the time. Finally, Barry asked about the tapes of the Alvarado interview (CIA tapes found in FBI files). O/S will. request that they not be released by FBI; O/S will return the tapes to FBI for the time being. © Frank
104-10331-10300 . 6 . a FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Vike i 10 May 1994 NOTE FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Call from Jack Tunhein, Chairman JFK Assassination Board 1. Asks to meet me Thursday, 12 May at Ames, 1:30 - General discussion. 2. Asks for advice on designing space. _ ‘ ’ . . 1 ‘= wants security advice, especially on a conference room. - does not plan to keep many documents, but wants secure space where we can discuss classified information. -- Office at 633 Indiana Ave. Justice has part of the building. ~- Contact on space: Calvin Snowden, GSA (202) 708-5702 3. Full Board meets on 31 May or 1 June, would like us to brief them. . 4. Clearances: Board has to be "read in" - Contacts for clearances: Marvin Crisloff Office of White House Counsel ~ White House Chief of Staff's Office is also involved. - | OS told me three (3) Board members are cleared: John Tunehim, Anna Nelson, Kermit Hall. Further paper work needed on Joyce and Graff. -L_____ereferred me td }x43420 and (~——}x43419 on space security. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
104-10331-10308 BRIEFING-Arp Offsite, 23-24 January 1995 Historical Review Group a I. Background . | A. Established in 1992 by DCI as part .of Openness Policy” - Part of Historical Review Program managed by csr - HR70-14 resulted from recommendations Of Task .Force B. DCI Woolsey confirmed the Program before HPSCTy” 1993 | "Increased accessibility" to Cold War records |’ : C. Collaborate with History Staff, Academic: Coérdinator D. Purpose: Declassify certain categories of 30-year old records, of historical value - Topical approach used rather than systematic - Briefed Excom in 1993 E. Kennedy Assassination records assigned to HRG II. Releases . A. Mandatory: - Kennedy Assassination records - Foreign Relations of the United States series, State. Department B. Voluntary: 1.Soviet National Intelligence Estimates (10 yrs old) 2."Studies in Intelligence" articles 3. Covert actions (11. identified by DCT) 4. Other collections c. Records Released: 1. JFK-Reviewed more than 325,000 pp (Sequestered, Oswald 201) . Includes ~163,000 pp microfilm print outs-72 reels Released to NARA 217,000 pp Third Agency (esp FBI), Hse Assntn Cmmttee, SSCT HPSCI, Ford Library 7 est. 100,000 pp 2. WNIES-more than 400 estimates
13-00000 - Interagency mechanism 3. FRUS-5,700 in 1994 (4,700 in 1993) - State Historian's views on covert action 4. Other: a - Covert actions under review- Bay of Pigs, Guat. - Top down approach ‘s - History Source Collection-28,000 pp. - Raoul Wallenberg Collection- 1,500 pp~ - Selected documents for conferences (Harvard, Cuban Missile Crisis) - Dulles: History (700 pp) - "Studies in Intelligence" TOTAL RELEASES: 7 FY 1994-125,000 pp a, eo “FY 1993-104,000 pp oO oe E. Other factors Had planned to do "block review" on Vietnam and Korea DI and NIC publications. . -- On hold in view of E. O. 12356 III. All of this adds to already heavy work load of the IROs and others in directorates IV. JFK Board: Describe the Board - Will review all redacted documents V. HRG Review Process-next page
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13-00000 New Note (Personalized) CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE EXECUTIVE OFFICER. x30185 NOTE FOR: JOHN QUINONES FROM: Sara S. Lucas DATE: 21 02 95 04:29:25 PM SUBJECT: DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW PRESENTATION 1. THE HISTORICAL REVIEW GROUP, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE, IS. PREPARED TO HELP SUPPORT THIS EFFORT. WE PROPOSE A DISPLAY OF THE COVERS OF SEVEN STUDIES , HANDOUTS OF ANOTHER THREE, AND SOME SORT OF GRAPHIC/HANDOUT - ON THE VOLUME OF MATERIAL REVIEWED. vee rand 2. WE WILL, OF COURSE, NEED SOME HELP ON THE GRAPHICS -- SINCE WE HAVE NO CAPABILITY HERE OTHER THAN FOLKS WHO HAVE NICE HANDWRITING. 3. AS TIME PERMITS, PLEASE PROVIDE GUIDANCE ‘ON WHERE TO BE WHEN, AND A POC FOR GRAPHICS ASSISTANCE. THANKS, SARA LUCAS x30185 ce: BRIAN LATELL — _ JOHN PEREIRA _-BARRY HARRELSON New Note (Personalized)
104-10331-10310 UNCLASSIFIED NOTE FOR: 7 John F. Pereira @ DA _ FROM: Fenton Babcock: Y: DATE: 02/2495 11:46:13 ‘AM - SUBJECT: . ARRB Proposed interpretive Regulation | ins me in sending this response to your invitation to comment on the subject document. We have focused particularly on subsections 1400.2 (page 3) and 1400.7 (gage 4). oe The requirement therein for release of all materials that contain names, cryptanyms, code names, pseudonyms, and aliases needs some ' qualification consistent with the DCI's responsibility to protect assets of continuing national security value, liaison equities, and privacy of U.S. citizens. Beyond the above statutory concerns of the DCI, there is one that seemingly should be countenanced by the ARRB as a prospective administrative burden o on the Cll. That is the likely flow of FOIA Requests from full release of such identifi cation detail. Why cant these considerations be recognized in the ARRB document as proper subjects of productive, responsible i dialogue with the CIA? ; ce: UNCLASSIFIED
104-10331-10314 ¢ 7 June 1995 Memo for File Subject: ARRB request re “slug line” deletions The policy of deleting ALL crypts & designators in the slug line was questioned by ARRB members at the_1& Mav meeting. | with CIA. The DO representatives present | & McNair) _ deferred to the Office of Communications. ae Per 6 June 1995 discussion with DA/IRO, “the slug line is strictly an internal di -line”, and the © release of crypts or other designators in the slug. tine is not a communications issue; slug crypts are not “commo_ generated”. The DA has no objection to the release ot” otherwisa releasable crypts in the slug line of CIA cables. The DA response was provide to J. Gunn, ARRB staff, and Bill McNair, DO/IRO, via phone on 6 June 1995. wa Son CC: HRG reviewers DO reviewers
104-10331-10315) : relationship with the CIA. SECRET 27. July 1995 Memo for the Record Subject: 17 July, 1995 Meeting with ARRB staff re FBI documents on Attendees: Purpose: To provide the ARRB with justification for continued postponement of information On | briefed the ARRB staff members on the current - status of including the Agency's. meeting with | |earlier this year. They were told that. despite the inadvertent release of his name and being contacted by journalist, [ ___]was still denying his agency relationship and has requested that no more information be released. pointed out that [| was an important JFK figure and that the ARRB would lean toward disclosure. We ot a the that the Agency had no problem with the release of information that did not indicate a relationship wit Agency. Since the agency did not target him for recruitment until 1964 and he not come to work for the Agency until 1965, most of the information of his activities during 61-63 is releasable. We showed them re-reviewed copies of the documents that release much more information than had been released in the copies they received from the FBI. ‘Bill talked at length about the need to protect sources and -the potential impact on Agency operations as well as the risk to the individual. We also stressed the point that an inadvertent release, a mistake by reviewers or comments by former employees did not constitute official acknowledgment or mean that there was no longer a need to protect an individual . We agreed. to provide by the end of the day re-reviewed. copies of the 7 documents in question. The highlighting noe the agency's policy of continuing to protect relationship with the CIA. Note: per phone call. with (20 July), the Board did not address the documents in the 18 July meeting. SECRET | ra eree
13-00000_ Secret - Working Paper Other issues discussed Crypts other than LIs and AMs - there was a discussion re deleting digraph and letting rest of crypt; everyone seemed receptive, but no decision. Bill mentioned Iranian takeover as good example of damage caused by release of documents with crypts, file #s, etc. Gunn ask if there was an internal “damage” study prepared. Bill said he would check. Marwell rejected the approach of the Agency having the opportunity to discuss Board actions before official notification. If we have evidence, need to present upfront, not come back with additional evidence after the decision. The balancing of public interest vs Agency needs came up several times; Marwell commented that even if a document or item is not important to the Oswald story, the Agency must still defend. Bill stated’ several timed during the meeting “If important _ to the story, we can live with release”. | Barry 12 October 1995 Secret