PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF CERTAIN JFK FILES (RE CONYERS RQST)
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/21/1992
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

: 104-10331-10280

RECORD SERIES

JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

PROJFILES -CORRESPONDENCE

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 53217 Date:

06-22-2017

AGENCY ORIGINATOR :

CIA

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PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF CERTAIN JFK FILES (RE CONYERS

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07/21/1992

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SUBJECTS : JFK ASSASSINATION

JFK FILES

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPEI

CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAI

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CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

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21 July 1892

C/HRS/

File-JFK

Preliminary Review of Certain JFK Files (re Conyers rqst)

Boxes 40 to 48. It is my obsevation based on the one box that I

reviewed (48)

and conversations with the other reviewers that

most of this group of files consists of Office of Security

files on individuals. As such they are largely biographic and,

in the case of the gangsters involved in Mongoose, heavily

concerned with their legal problems. With some exceptions these

files contain mostly tangential references to operational

matters. They are not a gold mine of information on Castro

Mongoose, and the Bay of Pigs.

(Frank)

Box 40 contains OS files primarily on anti-Castro Cubans and

individuals involved in the Garrison case who had Agency

connections or contacts. Also contains several files on Agency

employees

involved with

anti-Cuba and/or mafia activities. Most

of the files contain bio/file check data on the individual with

little or

However, files on

prominent individuals* in the CIA's anti-Castro/Cuba projects

contain

some substantive information on activities such as

AMWORLD, JMATE, JMWAVE and recruitment plans.

*Manuel ARTIME - AMWORLD project leader

Bradley AYERS - former Agency/ leaks to Jack A. & book

Francisco BARTES - anti-Castro Cuban leader

Charlotte BUSTOS-Videla - Agency employee

David Christ - Agency employee

Viola June COBB - journalist close to Castro

(Barry)

Box 41. Similar with less substantive information; most files

individuals involved with Garrison case that had or claimed to

have CIA connections. Box includes file on Fair Play for Cuba

Comm. composed primarily of Congressional hearings. Also a file

on Lucien Conein of Viet Nam fame.

Conclusion: OS files which are oriented toward individuals'

personal life and security clearance requirements not a good

starting point for substantive info on anti-Castro projects and

Bay of Pigs.

"(Barry)

Box 42 and Box 43 are almost exclusively security bio fles with

little substantive information relevant to Castro, Mongoose,

and the Bay of Pigs. There are five folders on Garrison alone

but these are almost entirely open source material (Honey)

Boxes 44 & 45 contain bio folders-which in turn contain various

references as follows:

References to Castro, anti-Castro, and Bay of Pigs were

Found in various news clippings including Washington Post and

NYTimes and in various memos to the Senate Select Committee on

Assassination, (For the Record, blind memos, etc, re names on

police requests). These references could be characterized as

shallow.

(Eileen W.)

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Box 46 contains 25 envelopes,

Occasional pieces on links with Cuban exile groups.

Envelope 6 concerns Frank Sturgis - focus is Watergate but

there is mention of anti-Castro training, etc.

Envelope I1 concerns Carlos TEDINO Gonzales, alleged CIA,

and his link to two Cuban majors arrested in plot to kill

Castro. No substantive info.

Envelope 15 concerns Manuel Antonia DE VARMEY Loreda,

Cuban exile. File concerns anti-Castro activity in the US,

including info on the Mafia link.

(Chuck)

Box 47 contains no relevant official information: 12 envelopes

or folders; envelopes 5-8 (over 1 linear foot) are nothing but

newspaper clippings, some of which relate.

(Chuck)

Box 48 is almost entirely security files on individuals

involved with plans to assassinate Castro, but documents

contain mostly their biographies and legal

aspects of various

cases

against these individuals. Actual information on the

plots is very limited.

(Frank)

Microf1lm Reels. The three reels mentioned as possible sources

51A

quite a bit on AMLASH, AMWHIP, and AMTRUNK. We also looked at

reel 51 which also has information on Cuebela.

(Eileen S.)

FRANK

(Note on FOIAs on following page).

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FOIA 1648:

"What Would Castro Have Known", a 13 page outline

of the various schemes to assassinate Castro with some

reference to possibility of knowledge of these plans having

reached Castro. File also includes a 16 page memo from John

Blake to John Shattuck, Natl Staff Counsel, ACLU, setting forth

justification for withholding in whole or part

some 74

documents.

FOIA 1644. A memo from Hank Knoche to David Belin entitled,

Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey Oswald File

Regarding Allegations of Castro Cuban Involvement in the JFK

Assassination. Pages 1 to 7 covered comments

by Castro in an

interview by AP correspondent Daniel Harker plus press

follow-up articles. Balance of memo covered testimony of

Oswald's Marine colleague on Oswald's Cuban contacts; threats

by Cuban Third secretary at the Hague; the Alvarado story

(Nicaraguan informant); comments by a woman who had been at a

party in Mexico with Oswald present; the claimed encounter with

Oswald at a

student group

meeting by a Mexican journalist in

Tampico.

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