STATEMENT BY CIA EMPLOYEE RE OSWALD FILE SEARCH.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
Document date: 03/31/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1104-10300-10394

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

STATEMENT BY GARY H. LONNQUIST!

I had originally helped Joyce Howard with a FOIA request. She

had a list of approximately ten names (all AKA's of OSWALD) she needed

searched on SANCA.

I checked each of the names, went over them with

her to make certain they were relevant to the FOlA case and made a copy

from SANCA, for her, of all names searched. One of the names searched

was OSWALD, HARVEY LEE.

There was one hit: a reference to OSWALD, HARVEY

• LEE in Security File Number 269298.

The subject of SFN 269298 is

• KRUPNOV, KIM GEORGIYEVICH and the file is maintained permanently in OS/SAG.

A short time later (perhaps two weeks) I received a request for

the Security file on KRUPNOV, KIM GEORGIYEVICH. I remembered we had a

file on him but searching SANCA I kept getting 'no hits'. I asked the

Chief/Indicies about it and she said if it was there two weeks ago, it

should be there now.

o check the original FolA case.

TotA masked sohn Bed inger see at tried he agreed

explain to me whey there were 'no hits' on the name I was searching.

Unfortunately, as a new employee I was unable to understand the reason.

Today I can see that it's simply a matter of entering incorrect data

into SANCA. Any deviation, however slight, will result in 'no hits'

because the computer will

give you exactly what you ask for--nothing

more.

Apparently the second request had the name spelled incorrectly

and although I tried quite a few variations, I never got it exactly

correct.

I'm completely satisfied now that nothing irregular occurred

and that the only reason I couldn't find the file the second time was

because I was given an incorrect spelling of the subject's name.

Gary M. Lonnquist

31 March 1977

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