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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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8 April 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR :

Lee Strickland

Chief, IRG/OIM

FROM :

SUBJECT:

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

Pending ARRB Issues for EXDIR Info Brief

Covert Actions. / Within the Ford Presidential

Library referred

materials is a document which raises

concerns.

It is a Helms' MFR on a PIFAB Meeting. Within it

there are references to CIA covert financial support to?

political parties in Peru, Greece, Italy and Brazil and to

labor unions in France and Italy. f

Status and Issues: The ARRB staff has agreed to recommend

to the Board that the information related to those covert

actions be considered non-related and the documents

designated "Not Believed Related" (NBR) . The document will

grouped with similar

• "NBR" documents and be presented to

the Board for action at its 13 April or 12 May meeting.

(AIUO)

2. Alias Documentation and Accommodation

Addresses.

The security file of former Agency employee,

David Morales

(deceased -- true name already released),

within the sequestered collection contains documentation

on

five of his alias.

We anticipate similar problems as we re-

review other security files within the sequestered

collection.

The ARRB staff has proposed a compromise

resolution to this problem as follows:

-- Protect all references to official documents

reflecting the alias such as (SSN, Drivers Permit, etc.i

- Release items designated as pocket litter such as

club cards, etc.;

-- Protect elements of accommodation addresses to avoid

identifying specific locations; and

Then make a decision to actually release or protect

the alias itself depending on the timeframe and its

importance to the JFK story.

CL BY :

40611637

CL REASON: 1.5 C

DECL ON:

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DRV FRM: Multiple

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Status and Issues: The DO JFK Team is currently reviewing

this proposal If they agree with, the Agency and ARRB will

spell out the guidelines which will be submitted to the

Board at the 13 April meeting accompanied by a staff

recommendation to accept.

If the Do has problems

with the

proposed guidelines, I will request that the issue be

postponed until the May meeting.

LAIUO)

35 3.

ARRB Request, CIA-1, Organizational Materials.

This request asked for organization charts on various Agency

directorates/components for the years 1958-1968. All Agency

directorates provided material responsive to the request.

The ARRB staff has reviewed the material and selected items

to be incorporated into the JFK collection. All selectea

material has been reviewed by appropriate components/IROs

and can be released, either in full or in sanitized form

except for the DO material. The DO has

state total me items selected will denied

full.

Status and Issues: The ARR will present the selected

material, including a DO JMWAVE chart, to the Board to be

declared

Assassination Records at the 13 April meeting.

They will also propose that a generic DO organization chart

be prepared in lieu of the records in contention.

The chart

would include those components that were involved in the

Oswald story and anti-Castro activities.

These JMWAVE and

DO organization charts have been the subject of several

discussions and meetings with the ARRB staff over the past

few months.

The ARRB staff is clearly leaning toward

Beart eng

recommending that the JMWAVE chart be released; an actual

vote on these records by the Board will not take place until

the May meeting.

This

4. ARRB Request, CIA-IR. -15. Mexico City Tapes.

This request asked for a thorough search of Agency files and

documents for and CIA "surveillance

"take' from Cuban and

Soviet facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald

visit and in the immediate wake of the assassination."

Among the items provided by the DO were five boxes

containing audio tapes from tel-tap on Cuban and Russiar

embassies and facilities.

A number of the tapes are datec

22 November 1963;

many others are dated 23 November 1963

through December

1963.

Status and Issues:

The ARRB staff has asked the question,

what could possibly be sensitive or classified on the tapes

given that we have acknowledge a unilateral tap on the

embassies and the existence of the tapes is public

knowledge.

Barring any additional information from the Do,

the ARRB staff plants to present the issue to the Board at

the 13 April meeting and request that it declare at least

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the tapes from 22 and 23 November to be Assassination

Records.

A vote on releasing the tapes will be delayed

until the May meeting.

LITAMIL - 9/

-- a CIA Penetration of the Cuban/

(Embassy.

The identity of LITAMIL-9 was inadvertently

released in 1993.

He is now identified in true name as ay

CIA agent in John Newman's book, Oswald and the CIA. As of

1993, 2LITAMIL-9 was still alive, living in Mexico city and

he has family in Cuba,

Up to now, the ARRB Board has agreed

to protect his identity and crypt

and delay the release of

his 201 file until the Agency could make some judgments

about the potential damage created by the release on

additional documents with his name/crypt in them.

Status and Issues:

The ARRB has requested that we address

(LI-9 issue at the May meeting.

The DO has confirmed that

LI-9 is still alive and living in Mexico City.

The HRP/DO

JFK teams are currently reviewing the 201 and other (LI-9

material in the file.

It is unlikely that the Board would

agree to delay release until 2017, however, there is

precedent for delaying release of records on individuals for

shorter periods or until death.

(S) 6. Richard Gibson, CIA asset.

Gibson, who presently

lives in England, is a left wing journalist who was

associated with the Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPFCC), an

entity to which Oswald wrote letters and claimed to be a

member.

Gibson did not become an Agency asset until after

the assassination, however, he had been of interest to the

FBI when he headed the FPFCC.

Unfortunately a combination

of previous releases and release by the Board led to press

reports in 1994/1995 about his relationship with the CIA. At

that time, CIA officers were dispatched to advise him about

the possible compromise and promise him the very best

attempt at protecting the relationship.

ARRB also agreed

to delay the release of any additional information until the

Agency and FBI had determined the full extend of the files

(on Gibson and the potential damage.

Status and Issues:

The Gibson documents are scheduled for

ARB action at the May meeting. It appears to be possible

to release Gibson's role in the JFK assassination story and

protect his relationship with the Agency in our JEK <

assassination records; however,. the FBI has a four volumes

file which covers both FBI interest and Gibson's

'relationship with the Agency.

The HRP/DO JFK teams are

currently reviewing the Gibson material and I will be

meeting with the FBI to review what they are releasing on

Gibson and the disposition of their file.,

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(AIUO).7:

ARRB Request, CIA-IR-34, Files of CIA Officials

and/or Officers. This is a major request:

The board has

ask for

"the office files of the individual occupying the

following positions during the period 1959-1964.

The Office of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

General Charles Cabell 1953-1962

General Marshall Carter 1062-1965

The office of the Deputy director for Plans

Richard Bissell 1958-1965

Richard Helms 1962-1965

The chronological files of C. Tracy Barnes, 1959-1964

Office

of General Counsel, Lawrence Houston,

1959-1964

Operational Diaries of William Harvey 1962-1963.

records officers.

And, while it may seem overly broad, HRE

has developed a methodology with the ARRB which provides the

access required by the Board and guarantees that their

review is focused. The request is for access to review the

files for possible assassination related material and the

Board has no interest in reviewing multiple files which have

nothing to do with the assassination story.

A meeting is

held between the ARRB staff, HRP JFK team and the

appropriate IRO to discuss the scope of the request.

Usually, the ARRB staff are first provided shelf lists,

indexes, records lists, etc. for the purpose of

narrowing/selection what they think is important. HRP

assist the IRO or component representatives in reviewing

selected files to ensure they deal with appropriate

subjects and timeframes. Once access is approved, the

appropriate IRO and component sets up a file review session

with the ARRB staff.

If material requested is particularly

sensitive, access

can be limited to the ARRB Executive

Director or members of the Board. Any records selected as

Assassination Records are subject to review under the JFK

Act.

This process has be used for numerous requests for

access including DCI McCone Files, Family Jewels materials,

histories and security files

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