ARRB REQUEST: CIA-IR-18: INFORMATION ON ONE DO OFFICE
Originator: ARRB
From: ARRB
To: CIA/HRG
Document date: 04/16/1997
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CIA-IR-14 Breckinridge files.

CIA/0GQ will determine the disposition of the files of Scott D. Breckinriage.

**CIA-IR-15 Electronic "take" from Mexico City Station.

The Review Board has for some time been attempting to determine whether it

has had access to all of CIA's surveillance "take" from the Cuban and Soviet

facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald visit and in the immediate

wake of the assassination. On numerous occasions, the Review Board has asked

whether there was any surveillance take in addition to what is currently in the

collection.

On March 18, 1997, the Review Board provided additional leads to CIA to assist

it in answering these questions. The DO has agreed to check Headquarters

records for the file referenced in HMMW 12451, to search for the crypts cited in

this document, and to search for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches

cited in this document. The DS&T will query its offices for possible records on

Mexico City and Cuba and for the present location of Staff D records. Regardless

of the outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board continues to seek a

full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods.

CIA-IR-16 U-2 files.

Dsat will provide a folder title print out of U-2 materials for Review Board

examination, check for records filed under Richard Bissell's name, and search for

OSP files DS&T has also contacted Lockheed for assistance.

CIA-IR-17 DS&T Redords on Castro assassination plots.

HRG will famish the 1967 IG Report to provide possible search query

suggestions for DS&T follow-up.

CLA-IR-18 DO Office.

The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office.

We understand that you are collecting the relevant information.

"Openit anal Sewice /Defector Staff,

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re CIAIR-18

ATION

Assassination Records Review Board

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

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

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 DOCUMENT

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, CIA-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.

BOARO MEMBERs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit 1. Hall - William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

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Mr. John Pereira

December 18, 1997

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outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board continues to seek a full

accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods.

CIA-IR-16 U-2 Files.

DS&T has provided a folder title printout of U-2 materials for Review Board

examination and has checked for records filed under Richard Bissell's name. The

Review Board staff continues to review these indexes. The DS&T should

continue to search for OSP files.

CIA-IR-17 DS&T Records on Castro Assassination Plots.

The DS&T records should be searched for any records on Castro assassination

plots. The Review Board will provide possible search query suggestions from

the 1967 IG Report.

CAR 18 De Office.:

The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office.

Since January 1997, CIA has had no response and no time frame for a response.

CIA-IR-19 Computer Searches.

The Review Board has requested that full computer searches be conducted on all

of the following people and organizations. The results of the searches should be

documented. Once formal documentation of the completed searches has been

provided, the request is complete.

1. Spas Raikin

2. Leo Cherne

3. Hunter Leake

4. Marilyn Dutz Murret

5. John McVickar

6. Andy Anderson

Results/Comments

This request is complete.

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation. HRG is checking for a DCD

file.

This request is complete.

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation.

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UNCLASSIFIED

6 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Chief, JFK Declassification

Project/HRP/OIM/DA

William McNair, DO/IRO

(U) DO Response to CIA IR 18

ARRB Request for Additional

Information and Records CIA IR 18

1. (U) This memorandum is in response to informal

request number

18 (CIA IR 18) from the staff of the

Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). "The Review Board

has made oral requests from CIA for information about a

particular DO office."

2. (U) The CIA cannot answer the oral request in an

unclassified manner. A classified answer will be provided.

William

McNair

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED

SUBJECT: DO Response to CIA IR 18

DO/IMS/IRO William McNairx44440;mjk (6 August

1998)

Distribution:

Original - Addressee

1 - DO/IRO

1 - C/IMS

1 - IMS/ESG/HCS

UNCLASSIFIED

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CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE DI BULL

2000

17 September 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Ms. Laura Denk

Executive Director, ARRB

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM

CIA-IR-18, Request for Information on

a

Particular DO Office

1. This is in response to subject request.

2.

The Directorate of Operations (DO) previously

responded to this request with a classified memorandum for

review by ARRB staff members.

Following that review, it was

requested that the Agency provide an unclassified response

with as much data a possible.

3.

The DO has now provided an unclassified response

and it is attached hereto.

This concludes the Agency's action on this request.

If you have any questions, please advise.

Att. A/S

i....".

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UNCLASSIFIED

26 August 1998

MEMORANDUM For: Chief, JFK Declassification

Project/HRP/OIM/DA

FROM:

William McNair, DO/IRO

SUBJECT:

(U) DO Response to CIA IR 18

1. (U) This memorandum is an unclassified response to

informal request number 18 (CIA IR 18) from the staff of the

Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). "The Review Board

has made oral requests from CIA for information about a

particular DO office."

2. (U) The "Defector Staff" listed in CSN 5-50 revised

October 1959 and revised October 1963 had the symbol

DDP/CDC, CIA Defector Coordinator (CDC) under the DDP. Only

Soviet cases were handled by the DDP/CDC.

3. (U) The "Defector and Contract Personnel Branch"

had the symbol SR/OS/D. Only Soviet Bloc (that is former

Warsaw

Pact countries)

defector cases were handled by this

branch:

4. (U) The staff and the branch identified in

paragraph 2 and. 3 above, among their other duties, were

responsible for identifying, debriefing, and resettling

foreign defectors of intelligence interest.

12/016

fa / William H. McNair

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED

SUBJECT: (U) DO Response to CIA IR

18

IMS/ESG/HCS WMCNair x44440:mjk (26 August 1998)

Distribution:

Original - C/HRP/OIM

1 - DO/ IRO

1 - C/IMS/ESG

1 - IMS/ESG/HCS

1 - ESG Chrono File

UNCLASSIFIED

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SECRET

6 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Chief, JEK Declassification

Project/HRP/OIM/DA

William McNair, DO/IRO

(U) Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18

1. ARRB

Request for Additional

Information and Records CIA IR 18

2. Unclassified Response to CIA IR 18

1. (U) This memorandum is the classified response to

informal request number 18 (CIA IR 18) from the staff of the

Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). "The Review Board

has made oral requests from CIA for information about a

particular Do office."

The CIA cannot answer the oral.

requests in an unclassified manner.

2. (S) The "Defector Staff" listed in CSN. 5-50 revised

October 1959 and revised October 1963 had the symbol

DDP/CDC, CIA Defector Coordinator (CDC) under the DDP. Only

Soviet cases were handled by the DDP/CDC. This group was the

predecessor of the present group, the Defector Program

Group.

..3. (S) The "Defector and Contract Personnel Branch" had

the symbol SR/OS/D. Only Soviet Bloc (that is former Warsaw

Pact countries) defector cases were handled by this branch.

4.(S) The present group, The Defector Program Group, is

the focal point in the DO and in the Intelligence Community

for the conduct of the US Defector Program in accordance

with DCID 4/1-1. The Program includes the identification,

exploitation, movement, handling, and resettlement of aliens

of interest to the Intelligence Community. With respect to

the DO, DIG represents the DDO and provides staff guidance,

advice, supervision, and coordination for Do efforts

regarding walk-ins and other volunteers, Public Law (e4-t1u

CL BY: 31607}

REASON: 1.5 (c)

DECL:

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SECRET

SUBJECT: DO Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18

defectors, refügees, and asylum seekers of intelligence

interests. DPG also chairs and serves as the Secretariat for

the DCI's Interagency Defector Committee (IDC), which is

composed of ten members of the Intelligence Community as

well as other agencies, and the Defector Resettlement Review

Panel (DRRP), an intra-agency committee.

lliam

MCNair

SECRET

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SECRET

SUBJECT: DO Classified DO Response to CIA IR 18

DO/IRO William MCNair x44440)mjk (6 August 1998)

Distribution:

Original

- Addressee

1 - DO/IRO

1

- C/IMS/ESG

1 - IMS/ESG/HCS

SECRET

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SECRET

17 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Laura Denk

Executive Director, ARRB

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer,

HRP/OIM

CIA-IR-18, Request for Information on

a Particular DO Office

1. (U) This is in response to referent request.

2. (S) This request involved the so-called "Defector

Staff."

The DO has advised that only a classified response

is

possible with

respect to this

staff and advised

as

follows:

A.

That staff is listed in Clandestine Services

Notice 5-50, revised October 1959 and 1963 and carried the

symbol DDP/CDC (CIA Defector Coordinator). Only soviet

cases were handled by the staff.

The staff was a

predecessor of the present group, the Defector Program Group

(DPG) .

B.

The "Defector and Contract Personnel Branch"

was designated SR/OS/D.

This branch handled only Soviet

Bloc defector cases (countries of the former Warsaw Pact).

C.

The Defector Program Group noted above is the

focal point within the DO and Intelligence Community for the

conduct of the US defector program in accordance with DCID

4/1-1.

The program encompasses the identification,

exploitation, movement, handling and resettlement of aliens

of interest to the Intelligence Community. (The DPG?

(represents the Deputy Director of Operations providing)

advice, supervision, and coordination within the Do

{regarding walk-ins and other, Public Law, Section 110

defector refugees, and asylum seekers of intelligence

interest.

The DPG chairs the DCI's ten member Interagency

Defector Committee, the members being drawn from both the

intelligence community and other government agencies.

3.

(U) The Agency believes that the above is fully

responsive to subject request and in thus closing its action

on it. If you have any questions, please advise.

J. Barry Harrelson

SECRET

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CL By:

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CL REASON: 1.5(C)

DECL On:

DRV:

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