NOTE: JFK BOARD'S SECOND LETTER TO THE DCI
Originator: CIA
From: ROBERT EATINGER
To: PAULA A. SWEENEY
Document date: 08/03/1995
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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From the Desk of Robert J. Eatinger

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

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SUBJECT:

(Paula A. Sweeney,@ DCI

(william 1. Parsons.@ Dcl

(Matthew L. Chin-C@ DCl

Robert J. Eatinger

08/03/95 08:15:24 AM

JFK Board's Second Letter to the DCI

This note is corrected per comments by Barry Harrelson. Corrections are in first paragraph:

FYI, The JFK Assassination Records Review Board sent its second letter to the DCI on 31 July 1995. This letter notifies the DCI that it

has decided to release in full CIA documents considered during its July hearings. Two of these documents contain the crypt "LIENVOY."

This was the crypt for the joint CIA/Mexican teletap operation in Mexico City in 1963. This teltap picked up the Lee Harvey Oswald

telephone calls.

As with the previous letter, the Center for the Study of Intelligence has the action to get recommendations to the DCl on whether to

appeal to the President. I understand that John Pereira will discuss this with Fred Wickham (the DO focal point for these issues) whether

to pursue an appeal. I do not know what the DDO's recommendation will be.

During the hearing with the Board on 2 August 1995, we stressed the necessity to keep secret the fact the teltap operation was a joint

(operation with Mexican liaison. The DO sought to explain the mosaic problem to the Board on the release of LIENVOY. The Board's

position appears to be that release of the crypt when it will not compromise the fact that the teltap was a joint operation should be

permitted under the Act. The Board probably will require us to justify on a document-by-document basis the redaction of LIENVOY, and

will not agree to redact every mention of the crypt. We should know by the end of the week what position the Board will take on the CIA

documents mentioning LIENVOY or talking about the operation. The DO officers at the hearing tried to get the Board to reconsider its

determination to release the crypt in the two documents. However, the Staff of the Board does not believe the Board can or is inclined to

reconsider.

CC:

J. Barry Harrelson @ DA

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The following Agency members will attend the meeting

with the ARRB on Wednesday, 2 August 1995:

Eleanor Neiman

Directorate of Operations

Michael Luce

Directorate of operations

(mies desk olicen)

John Kambourian(

Directorate of operations

Fred Wickham

Directorate of Operations

William McNair

Directorate of Operations

Robert Eatinger

Office of General Counsel

Barry Harrelson

Historical Review Group

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