MEMO: MEETING WITH ARRB STAFF DIRECTOR (OSWALD 201 FILE)
Originator: CIA
From: HARRELSON. JFK PROJECT OFFICER, HRP
To: THE RECORD
Document date: 07/06/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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6 July 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM: J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM

SUBJECT: Meeting with ARRB StalE Director (Oswald 201 File)

1.

At the request of Jeremy Gunn, ARRB Executive

Director, I met with him and ARRB Staff members, Michelle

Combs and Bob Skwirot on Friday 26 June 1998. Also present

were Eileen Wukitch) and Denny Hess of the DDO group assigned

to the JFK Project and a HRP contractor:

2.

Gunn had requested the meeting because of an

impression that the Agency had found a new volume of 201

file on Lee Harvey Oswald, one that neither he nor the Board

had been made aware. Following my explanation of the facts

and his review of the documents in question, Gunn stated he

was satisfied.

The "201" file in question is, in fact,

Oswald's 201 which continues to exist and new documents are

added to it as they arrive.

Oswald documents not now within HRP for review and

processing had come to my attention about two weeks

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earlier.

I had directed the DO to determine what they were and to

make them available for our review.

That was in process

while I was away June 22 through 25.

3.

There were nine new documents within the file all

of which are now available for processing.

When we first

started the JFK project and secured the Oswald 201 for

review, processing and release, newly arriving documents

were to be sent to us.

In fact, we had added a document to

the file which had been sent to us per the arrangement but

it was not in the 201. Quite simply, the arrangement broke

down, probably because of a change in personnel, and we did

not receive follow-on documents.

4. A second area of concern was the fact we have

within

the collection Marina Oswalds 201 and it has been

processed.

However, we did not have the original and it was

recently discovered by the DO. It is a three volume set and

our concern was the ARRB would view the recent discovery of

the original as something improper on our part. A thorough

review of both the original and the copy already processed

determined that, except for third agency documents, they are

a mirror image, one to the other. This circumstance too was

explained to Gunn who tested our

review and was

satisfied

that no harm was done.

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5.

Apparently Gunn had alerted at least one member of

the Board prior to our meeting that CIA was discovering new

or additional documents.

Having accepted that the

"discoveries" were explainable as bureaucratic errors and

not duplicity on our part, he then asked for two things:

A.

He is concerned that there may be other 201

files on the key players in the JFK story with information

added to them since 1978, which information we do not have.

Thus, he asked that we run searches on the key players (he

will provide the names) to see if there is additional,

follow-on information in them

I

agreed to do that.

the recent ones but ones which have dribbled in over the

past year, suggest to him and the Board that the Agency may

not have engaged in a serious records search pursuant to the

Act and John Peiria's 3 October 1993 letter.

that this impression was not trúe.

Nevertheless, he asked

that the DCI direct a final search for assassination related

records and that the records, if any, be included

within

collection and processed and, that our final compliance

search.

together with guidance concerning what is relevant.

J.

Barry Harr

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