LETTER: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: T. JEREMY GUNN
To: J. BARRY HARRELSON
Document date: 03/19/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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assassination Records

Collection Aet of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53217 Date:

06-22-2017

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM

TO

: J. BARRY HARRELSON

:I. JEREMY GUNN

TITLE

LETTER: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE

REQUIREMENTS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS

COLLECTION ACT OF 1992

DATE : 03/19/1998

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SUBJECTS : STATEMENT

MEASURES

JFK ASSASSINATION

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RESTRICTIONS : 1A

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

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Central Intelligence Agency

Washingion. D.C. 20505

19

March 1998

Mr. T. Jeremy Gunn

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Gunn:

Re: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TO

THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JEK ASSASSINATION

RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992

The following is a listing of the principal measures

taken to date by the Agency to fulfill the requirements of

the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (the

Act) .

Note: it does not include the numerous informal

meetings, conversations, and exchanges between ARRB and HRP

staff members, many of which covered all of the measures.

INITIAL SEARCHES

a.

In early 1992, even before the Act was passed, the

• Chief of the CIA History Staff reported to the Director that

the staff had located all of the so-called "sequestered

collection" (those records compiled by the Agency for the

House Select Committee On Assassinations investigation) and

had surveyed these and other related holdings on the

assassination both at Headquarters and at the Agency records

center.

The sequestered collection contained sixty-four

record center-size boxes.

In addition,

the staff had

located sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number

of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that

were collected for the Warren Commission.

b.

Before the ARRB was

appointed by the President,

John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group/Center for the

Study of Intelligence, sent a memorandum dated 25 October

1993 to the Agency directorates requesting a name search on

Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination, and any documents

related to the assassination.

This effort and discussions

with various Agency components and Agency Information

Release Officers over the past four years resulted in more

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Mr. T. Jeremy Gunn

than 31 additional boxes of materials being sent for review.

Included within this material were 19 boxes of JFK working

files based on the sequestered collection, two boxes on

Nosenko, seven boxes of LA Division documents and three

boxes from the Bay of Pigs period.

Not all of this material

is related to the JFK story; and in some boxes only a few

folders had anything to do with the assassination or events

surrounding it.

To date, the ARRB staff has designated

approximately 22 boxes of this material as assassination

records. In addition, about 400 pages of material from an

FOIA request for minutes of the DCI's morning meetings which

related to JFK were added to the collection.

The search for

documents is a continuing effort. Guidelines for this

effort have been sent to Agency individuals and components

which review documents

and materials in the course of their

work.

REVIEWS

c.

Historical Review Group, now the Historical Review

Program,

reviewed boxes 1 through 63 of the sequestered

collection and the Oswald 201 file and released most of the

documents therein either in full or in sanitized form to the

National Archives in August 1993.

The total number of pages

released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was

approximately 123,000. An additional release of

approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA material from the

sequestered collection was made in 1995.

d. Box 64 of the sequestered collection contained 72

of microfilm primarily dealing with Directorate of

Operations materials and Office of Security files.

In

addition there were 22 reels of 201 files on 151

individuals.

Following release of the main collection in

August 1993, HRG staff members reviewed the microfilm files

and released approximately 74,000 pages of material to the

National Archives either in full or in sanitized form.

e.

The status of HRP's review of additional records

and re-review of the sequestered collection will be

addressed in regular progress reports to the ARRB staff.

REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION

f. The Agency maintains a rather unique and non-

integrated files system which precludes a single query on a

particular subject and the expected response from the files

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Mr. T. Jeremy Gunn

of all directorates. Following coordination with the ARRB

staff, the Agency arranged for the staff to be briefed by a

representative of each directorate concerning the nature of

the files within the directorate -- how they are organized,

maintained, searched, and how they have been searched

for assassination-related materials.

Following

this effort, the ARRB staff asked for a number of additional

searches by the Agency and they are in various

completion.

stages of

g.. In addition, pursuant to requests both formal and

informal from the ARRB staff, HRP has tasked various

elements of the Agency to conduct special searches for other

materials

thought to be relevant to the assassination story.

Included in this category was the Oswald security file which

was found and has been examined by the ARRB staff. Although

a number of the requests are still outstanding, considerable

material has been provided for review by the ARRB staff some

of which has been found to be relevant. These materials

include the History Staff's histories on various CIA

operations and Agency

components; files on specific

individuals involved in either the Warren Commission or HSCA

investigations; and the product of CIA internal reviews of

programs and operations. Those parts of these materials

which are determined by the ARRB staff to have relevancy to

the assassination story will be reviewed by HRP andi

released as completed.

The status, results, and documentation of specific

requests are to be addressed in a separate memorandum.

Sincerely,

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

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