ARRB REQUEST: CIA-IR-24: DEFECTOR FILE
Originator: ARRB
From: ARRB
To: CIA/HRG
Document date: 02/27/1997
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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27 February 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

FROM:

Janet A. Ecklung

Chief, Information Management Branch

Office of Personnel Security

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Request No. CIA-16 from JFK Board

CSI 97-062 dated 31 January 1997

1. (U) The Office of Personnel Security has researched

this request from the Assassination Records Review Board

relating to the existence of pre-assassination files on Lee

Harvey Oswald.

2. (U) In response to the specific questions listed

in MI. Marwell's letter to the Historical Review Group, the

following responses are provided to those three questions

pertaining to the Office of Personnel Security (OPS) . These

responses are the best reasonable answers based on available

information. Please note OPS was known as the office of

Security prior to 1 October 1994.

Question li (U)

Please identify, as specifically as

possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time

of the assassination of President Kennedy•

Response: (U) At the time of the assassination, the

Office of Security (OS) held two files which contained

information on Lee Harvey Oswald. A file entitled Defectors

File (#0341008) contained a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald,

Regraded Confidential

When Separated From

Secret Attachment

CL BY: (0605636

CL Reason: 1.5 (c)

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and the Office of Security also had a subject file on Lee

Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was reflected in

the automated security database known as the Management Data

Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS) . These files were

originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the

above numbers circa 1964. A hand search was also conducted

of microfiche records which were superseded by the automated

system.

This hand search produced the same results as the

automated search of MDP/PS.

(U) In your request specific mention is made of an

HTLINGUAL file. MDP/PS reflects OS maintained four official

files under this project--#0077826 (an administrative file),

#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0119144. All of

the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along

with numerous soft files. Since this material has been

destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files

contained any information on Lee Harvey Oswald. A search of

Oswald's name did not produce an index reference to any of

these files.

(U)

Attached is all of the available information

regarding the destruction of the HTLINGUAL files. This

information was retrieved from Lydia Hoffman of the

Information Management Branch/Records Control Section and

from a review of general office administrative files.

-Question zi (U) Other than for the 201-289248 file

on Oswald, please explain when each Oswald file was

opened, the purpose for the opening of the file, and

the documents that were in the file at the time of the

assassination.

Response:

(U) As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have

been destroyed. Since OS files are

usually set up in

chronological sequence, a search of files with numbers in

close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL was

undertaken.

This search revealed the approximate opening

dates for the four official HTLINGUAL files as:

#0077826

#0090079

#0093466

#0119144

Opened approximately July 1952

Opened approximately February 1953

Opened approximately July 1953

Opened approximately May 1955

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(U) HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project

that involved opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to

and from the Soviet Union, (China, Pakietan, and South

America. In OS this project was known as SRPOINTER with

subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER, INDIAN, BANJO, and

SETTER. Os conducted the actual opening and monitoring of

mail with the acquired information referred to the

Directorate of Operations.

(U) The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa

1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens

defecting to other countries and information regarding

foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.

This compilation of information was received from press

clippings, Directorate of Operations reporting, the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, and the

various armed services.

The pre-assassination documents:

located in this file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:

a. Washington Star press clipping of 26 November 1959

entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at

15"

b. Department of State memorandum dated 25 October

1960 with attached list of American "defectors"

from May 1959 to October 1960

C.

Memorandum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated

31 October 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

d. Memorandum for Deputy Director of security dated

1 November 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American

1 Defectors

e.

Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August

1961

£. Defector outline prepared in October 1961 listing.

known defectors to the USSR, Red China, Cuba, and

United Arab Republic.

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(U) The index reference to the Defectors File

identifies a list dated 13 September 1966 which was known as

the Defector Machine Listing. This listing was a computer

printout of defectors which reflected limited biographic

data on each name.

This listing was maintained separately

from the actual Defectors File; notations within the

Defectors File show the Defector Machine Listing as

permanently charged to the Security Analysis Group of OS.

Efforts to locate this listing or determine the disposition

have been unsuccessful.

(U) Information regarding the purpose of the Defectors

File was gleaned from a quick review of selected holdings.

Katie Nakai of this office at one time was assigned to the

Security Analysis Group and recalls the Defector Machine

Listing. From her recollection, this machine listing was

approximately one and one-half inches thick and was in two

parts. One part consisted of an alphabetical index of

defector names with assigned numbers. The second part

listed the assigned numbers in numerical order and contained

limited information on each name.

(C) The Special Investigations Branch of Investigations

Division is the current operating component encompassing most

of the Security Analysis Group functions still conducted in

OPS. (Gail Jewell of this office was queried regarding office

holdings relating to the Defector Machine Listing. ( Ms.

Jewell/had no knowledge of the listing and suggested William

Gilbert as a resource. Mr. Gilbert), CIC Liaison Officer,

could not recall the listing, opined it may have been

destroyed, and suggested contacting Zachary Filis) of the

Counterintelligence Center (CIC) •

(C) CIC assumed many of the functions previously

conducted by the Security Analysis Group. Mr. Filia was

queried regarding the possibility the Defector Machine

Listing may have been transferred to CIC during the

realignment of duties. Mr. Filis/advised the Defector

Machine Listing could not be located in CIC holdings; and he

has made inquiries with Directorate of Operations

counterparts regarding the listing.

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(U) The subject file pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald

(#0351164) was established circa 1960. It appears this file

was created as a separate repository for the numerous press

clippings and reports received from other government

agencies on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR

and his activities following his return to the United

States. The first volume of this file appears to have been

preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents

contained in this file are as follows:

a. Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow .

dated 31 October 1959

b. The Washinaton Post press clipping dated

1 November 1959 entitled "Ex-Marine Asks Soviet

Citizenship"

c. Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow

dated 2 November 1959

d. Department of State telegram #1448 from Tokyo

dated 9 November 1959

e. Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow

dated 9 November 1959

f. The Washington Post press clipping dated 16

November 1959 entitled "Rebuffed"

g. Evening Star press clipping dated 26 November

1959 entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to

Marx at 15"

h. Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division

forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960

i. Department of State Instruction A-273 dated

13 April 1961

j. Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated

May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter

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k. Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated

3 July 1961 from Dallas, Texas

1. Note to CI/SI dated 28 September 1961

m.

Form 745 "Indices Search Request" dated

12 October 1961

n. Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow

dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure

0. Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization

Service name check form to Central Intelligence

Agency dated 5 December 1961

p.

Navy Department message to Moscow dated

3 March 1962

q. Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 1962 with

enclosure

I. The Washington Post press clipping dated

9 June 1962 entitled "Third American in 2 Months

Leaves Soviet 'Home'"

s.

Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal

of report from Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August

1962.

(U) In addition to those documents listed above, the

following documents were located in a subsequent volume of

the Oswald file and also appear to predate the assassination

of President Kennedy.

t. Undated summary of file information on Lee

Harvey Oswald

u.

Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated

20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated

17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

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w.

Incoming cable #36017 from Mexico City dated

9 October 1963

x. Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated

10 October 1963

Y.

Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated

24 October 1963 (no mention of Oswald).

Question 4i (U) Io the extent that Counterintelligence

and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination

files on Oswald, please explain why those offices

maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.

In answering this question, please make appropriate

references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSHB)

and to any other materials (including organizational

charts) that would help explain the jurisdictional and

organization reasons for which CI and OS would have

maintained such files.

Response: (U) It is believed that OS holdings. on Lee

Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to. Russia during

which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in

contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the

Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.

Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the

Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution

of these reports. In the beginning this material was

probably retained in the Defectors File. As the number of

documents on this person increased, a separate file was

created to be the repository of information on the alleged

American defector. There is a notation in the Defectors

File that a separate file exists on Oswald.

(U) Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of

Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.

Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-

assassination time frame. Of the documents listed above, a

majority of them contain a notation or the initials of

Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the

officer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing

of this information.

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(U) The Security Research Staff (SRS) was the

component responsible for collecting, developing, and

evaluating information of a counterintelligence nature to

detect and/or prevent penetration of the Agency's

organization, employees, and activities by foreign or

domestic organizations or individuals. SRS conducted

research in connection with employee loyalty cases and

maintained records identifying personalities, environments,

and personal traits of individuals who had been of

counterintelligence interest over the years. SRS maintained

liaison with various government agencies in connection with

counterintelligence activities and coordinated the

counterintelligence effort throughout OS. Using

organizational charts of this time period, SRS reported

directly to the office of the Director of Security.

(U) (Don Staton of the OPS/Management Staff was queried

regarding the mission and functions of SRS during the pre-

assassination time period. MI. (Staton made inquiries

relating to the above request, and the OPS/ Information

Management Officer Ronda Allen retrieved retired policy

records for review. The information on the mission and

function of SRS was retrieved from the archived Office of

Security administrative and historical files as well as a

review of the security file on Marguerite P. Stevens;

3. (U) For your information, a page-by-page review of

the documents contained in the Defectors File (12 volumes)

and Lee Harvey Oswald's file (7 volumes) has not been

conducted for the purposes

of this request. Our efforts

were concentrated on the pre-assassination time frame.

4.

(U) This review was conducted by (Katie Nakai

OPS/CD/ IMB, secure (40552

Janet Arti

Ecklund

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27 October 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM:

{Janet A. Ecklund

Chief,

Information Management Branch

Office of Personnel Security

SUBJECT:

OSWALD, LEE HARVEY

AIN: 0351164

1.

The Office of Personnel Security was tasked on 31

January 1997 by the Historical Review Group/Center for the Study

of Intelligence (HRG/CSI), via the Directorate of

Administration/Information Review Office, with researching pre-

assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The tasking was.

generated by the John F. Kennedy Board's desire to review

and

declassify relevant material. The results of this review were

forwarded to the HRG/CSI on 27 February 1997.

2.

During the Information Management Branch's

(IMB) research in response to the above tasking it was noted that

Volume V of the Oswald files was not on the shelf where Volumes

I-IV and VI-VII were located. A search of the entire area where

the volumes had been maintained failed to locate Volume V. The

IMB Files Section was subsequently charged with conducting an

all out search for the missing volume. The search failed to find

Volume v.

In July 1997, the Oswald files were reviewed page by

page prior to being turned over to HRG/CSI and another attempt

was made to locate Volume V or to locate persons who might know

what happened to it. Volume V was not located nor were any

persons located who were knowledgeable of its status.

4.

During the complete review of the Oswald files no

time gap was apparent and no one was located who could recall

ever seeing Volume V. This would suggest that either Volume v

had been consolidated into other volumes or that Volume V never

existed, but that a numbering error resulted in what should have

been Volume V being labeled as Volume VI. The use of Roman

numerals on the cover of the volumes might have caused this

error to occur.

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22 December 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

1. Pursuant to ARRB "Request No. CIA-16, the Office of

Personnel Security conducted research for and existing pre-

assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The following

responses are provided to those questions which pertain.to

the best reasonable answers based on available information.

Please note OPS was known as the Office of Security prior to

1 October 1994.

Question 1: Please identify, as specifically as

possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time

of the assassination of President Kennedy:

Response: At the time of the assassination, the office

of Security (OS) held two files which contained information

on Lee Harvey Oswald.

One file entitled "Defectors File"

(#0341008), contained a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, and

the second file was Office of Security subject file on Lee

Harvey Oswald (#0351164).

This information was reflected in

the automated

security database known as the Management Data

Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were

originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the

above numbers circa 1964. A hand search was also conducted

of microfiche

records which were superseded by the automated

system.

This hand search produced the same results as the

automated search of

MDP/PS.

2.

Within the ARRB request is specific mention of an

HTLINGUAL file.

MDP/PS reflects OS maintained four official

files under this project--#0077826 (an administrative file),

#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0119144. All of

the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along

with numerous soft files.

Since this material has been

destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files

contained any information on Lee Harvey Oswald.

The search

of Oswald's name did not produce an index reference to any

of these files. Attached is all of the available

information regarding the destruction of the HTLINGUAL

files. This information was retrieved from the Information

nation was rett

Management Branch/Records Control Section and from a review

of general office administrative files.

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Question 2: For other than the 201-289248 file on

Oswald, please explain when each Oswald file was opened, the

purpose for the opening of the file, and the documents that

were in the file at the time of the assassination.

Response: As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have been

destroyed.

Since OS files are

usually set up in

chronological sequence, a search of files with numbers in

close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL was

undertaken.

This search revealed the approximate opening

dates for the four official HTLINGUAL files as:

#0077826

#0090079

#0093466

#0119144

Opened approximately July 1952

Opened approximately February 1953

Opened approximately July 1953

Opened approximately May 1955

3.

HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project

involving the opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to

and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South

America.

In the Office of Security this project was known

as SRPOINTER with subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER,

INDIAN, BANJO, and SETTER. The Office of Security actually

conducted the opening and monitoring of mail with the

acquired information being referred to the Directorate of

Operations.

4. The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa

1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens

defecting to other countries and information regarding

foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.

This file contained information from press clippings,

Directorate of Operations reporting, the federal Bureau of

Investigation, the Department of State, and the various armed

services.

The pre-assassination documents located in this

file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:

a. Washington Star press clipping of 26 November 1959

entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at

15"

b.

Department of State memorandum dated 25 October

1960 with attached list of American "defectors"

from May 1959 to October 1960

c.

Memorandum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated

31 October 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

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d. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated

1 November 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American

• Defectors

e.

Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August

1961

£.

Defector outline prepared in October 1961 listing

known defectors to the USSR, Red China, Cuba, and

United Arab Republic.

5.

The index reference to the Defectors File

identifies a list dated 13 September 1966 which was known as

the Defector Machine Listing.

This listing was a computer

printout of defectors and provided limited biographic data

on each name.

This listing was maintained separately from

the actual Defectors File; notations within the Defectors

File show the Defector Machine Listing as permanently

charged to the Security Analysis Group of the Office of

Security. Efforts to locate this listing or determine its

disposition have been unsuccessful.

6. Information regarding the purpose of the Defectors

File was gleaned from a quick review of selected holdings.

An employee of this Office recalls the Defector Machine

Listing as being approximately one and one-half inches thick

and in two parts.

One part consisted of an alphabetical

index of defector names with assigned numbers.

The second

part listed the assigned numbers in numerical order

and

contained the limited biographic data on each name.

The subject file pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald

(#0351164) was established circa 1960. It appears this file

was created as a separate repository for the numerous press

clippings and reports received from other government

agencies on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR

and his activities following his return to the United

States.

The first volume of this file appears to have been

preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents

contained in this file are as follows:

a .

Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow

dated 31 October 1959

b.

The Washington Post press clipping dated

1 November 1959 entitled "Ex-Marine Asks Soviet

Citizenship"

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C.

Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow

dated 2 November 1959

d. Department of State telegram #1448 from Tokyo

dated 9 November 1959

e. Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow

dated 9 November 1959

f. The Washington Post press clipping dated 16

Vovember 1959

entitled "Rebuffed"

g. Evening Star press clipping dated 26 November

1959 entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to

Marx at 15"

h. Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division

forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960

i. Department of State Instruction A-273 dated

13 April 1961

j. Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated

May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter

k. Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated

3 July 1961 from Dallas, Texas

1. Note to CI/SI dated 28 September 1961

Form 745 "Indices Search Request" dated

12 October 1961

n.

Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow

dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure

Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization

Service name check form to Central Intelligence

Agency dated 5 December 1961

p.

Navy Department message to Moscow dated

3 March 1962

Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 1962 with

enclosure

The Washington Post press clipping dated

9 June 1962 entitled "Third American in 2 Months

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contaccordiate woniikeeeee

Leaves Soviet 'Home'"

S.

Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal

of report from Dallas,

1962.

Texas, dated 30 August

8. In addition to those documents listed above, the

following documents were located in a subsequent volume of

the Oswald file and also appear to predate the assassination

of President Kennedy.

t.

Undated summary of file information on Lee

Harvey Oswald

u.

Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated

20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated

17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

w. Incoming cable #36017 from Mexico City dated

9 October 1963

x. Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated

10 October 1963

Y. Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated

24 October 1963 (no mention of Oswald) .

Question 4: To the extent that Counterintelligence.

and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination

files on Oswald, please explain why those offices

maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.

In answering this question, please make appropriate

references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSHB)

and to any other materials (including organizational

charts) that would help explain the jurisdictional and

organization reasons for which CI and OS would have

maintained such files.

Response:

It is believed that OS holdings on Lee

Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during

which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in

contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the

Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.

Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the

Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution

of these reports.

In the beginning this material was

probably retained in the Defectors File. As the

number of

documents increased, a separate file was created to be the

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repository of information on the alleged American defector.

There is a notation in the Defectors File that a separate

file exists on Oswald.

9. Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of

Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were

handled by Marguerite D.

Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-

assassination time frame.

Of the documents listed above, a

majority of them contain a notation or the initials of

Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the

officer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing

of this information.

10. The Security Research Staff (SRS) was the

component responsible for collecting, developing, and

evaluating information of a counterintelligence nature to

detect and/or prevent penetration of the Agency's

organization, employees, and activities by foreign or

domestic organizations or individuals. SRS conducted

research in connection with employee loyalty cases and

maintained records identifying personalities, environments,

and personal traits of individuals who had been of

counterintelligence interest over the years. SRS maintained

liaison with various government agencies in connection with

counterintelligence activities and coordinated the

counterintelligence effort throughout OS.

Using

organizational charts of this time period, SRS reported

directly to the office of the Director of Security.

11. A representataive of the Office of Personnel

Security /Management Staff was queried regarding the mission

and functions of SRS during the pre-assassination time

period. He made inquiries relating to the above request,

Manage ene is

and the OPS/Information Management Officer retrieved retired

policy records for review.

The information on the mission

and function of SRS was retrieved from the archived Office

of Security administrative and historical files as well as a

review of the security file on Marguerite D. Stevens.

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•@IAIR-2Y

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

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December 18, 1997

Mr. John Pereira

Chief

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS

-.?:

Re: Status of CIA Responses to Assassination Records Review Board's Requests for

Additional Information and Records

Dear John:

I am writing to follow-up on our telephone call earlier today and to convey my serious

concern about the status of CIA's responses to the Review Board's requests for

additional information and records. Although CIA has completed its responses to

several requests, and many others have been answered in part, a significant number of

requests have not been answered - including some that were made more than two

years ago. On many occasions we have been assured that responses would be

forthcoming, only to have promised dates come and go without answers. It is now

extremely important that these requests be answered promptly so that we may conduct

a proper follow-up if necessary. The issues that we can now identify as being of the

highest priority are identified in the text below by double asterisks (**)' and we request

that they be answered within the next month. We request that the remaining requests

be answered by April 1, 1998.

The remainder of this letter is divided into two parts: first, a listing of the formal

requests for information and records, and second, a listing of the informal requests for

information and records. Please let me know if your understanding of any of the

following points differs from ours so that we can resolve any potential discrepancies.

'As identified more fully below, the issues are: CIA-1 Organizational Material,

CLA-6 Cables and Dispatches, CIA-13 Backchannel Communications, CIA-IR-03

HTLINGUAL Documents, CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton Files, CLA-IR-07 Claude

Barnes Capehart, CIA-IR-15 Electronic "take" from Mexico City, CIA-IR-21 DRE

Monthly Operational Reports, CIA-IR-22 "A" Files on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison.

BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim. Chair • Henry F. Graff - Kermir 1. Hall - William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

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Mr. John Pereira

December 18, 1997

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**CIA-IR-22 "A" File on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison.

In July 1997, the ARRB staff was shown an "A" file on Clay Shaw which pre-

dated a 201 file. We were also told that an "A" file on Jim Garrison also existed.

The Shaw file was declared to be an assassination record and it was our

understanding that both files were to be sent to HRG for processing. We have

not yet received confirmation from HRG that the files are in process as

assassination records.

CLA-IR-23 Watch Committee Files.

In his memoirs, George Ball reports that upon first hearing of the shots in Dallas

he called DCI John McCone and asked him to activate the Watch Committee.

McCone replied that he already had. The Review Board requests the files of the

Watch Committee for the period January 1963-May 1964.

CIA-IR-24 Defector File.

The ARRB staff has identified documents on Lee Harvey Oswald from the Office

of Security's "Defector File." It is our understanding that these documents are

now being processed as assassination records. No further tasking on this subject

is anticipated.

CIA-IR-25 Zapruder Film.

The Board has requested any and all records, not previously located in the

Sequestered Collection, on any handling by the CIA of the Zapruder film. In

particular, we are interested in any records of NPIC's handling of the Zapruder

film or copies of the Zapruder film in November and December 1963. Any log

books or indexes which would indicate the individuals involved in the

processing and handling of any assassination films should be inclyded in this

request.

CLA-IR-26 Jordan James Pfuntner.

The Review Board requested that a complete search for any records on this

individual be undertaken, including a search of the Interagency Source Register

The ARRB staff provided HRG with additional identification data on this

individual. The Review Board seeks a full and accurate formal response to this

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CIA IR-24

Central Intelligence Agency

. Washington, D.G. 20505

24 December 1997

DI. T. Jeremy, Gunn

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street,

(2nd Floor)

Washington, D.C. 20530

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

Dear DI. Gunn:

2000

Re:

Request for Additional Information and Records

No. CIA-16 (Oswald Pre-Assassination Files)

No. CIA-IR-24 (Defector File)

This is in response to the ARRB's referent request for

pre-Assassination files this Agency may have had on Lee

Harvey Oswald.

It is believed that the following comments

and two enclosed documents respond fully to your request.

At Tab A is a 22 December 1997 memorandum

containing information from the Agency's Office of Personnel

Security which provides

• details about the files it had on

Oswald prior to the assassination plus when and why they

were created.

These include the Office of Security file on

Oswald, a general file on Americans who had defected to

another country and information about HTLINGUAL files.

Also enclosed at Tab B is a 27 October 1977

memorandum from the Office of Personal Security which

explains the numbering of that Office's file on Oswald..

particular, it explains why the "missing" volume V may never

have existed.

An ARRB staff member has reviewed the Oswald

Security file and the file on American defectors.

The Oswald Office of Personnel Security file and

pages of the defector file deemed relevant by the ARRB

member have been forwarded to Historical Review. Group

for review and will be processed according to current JFK

If you have any questions about this response, please

advise.

Sincerely

J. Barry Harrelson

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