Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: OBRIEN
To: MORRIS
Document date: 04/25/1996
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

3/31/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10375-10053

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62C-HQ-1029205-1178

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

OBRIEN

TO: MORRIS

TITLE:

DATE: 04/25/1996

' PAGES: 13

SUBJECTS :

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3;4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/22/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC ADMIN PAGE

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Memorandum

SECRET

TO

From

Subject

Mrs. Morris

J. Kevin O'Brien

JEK TASK FORCE

Date

4/25/96

Dep.

Dir.

Chief of

Staff

Off. of Gen.

Counsel

Asst. Dir.:

Crim. Inv.

CJIS

Finance

Info. Res.

Insp._

Lab.

National Sec.

Personnel

Training

Off. Of EEOA

Off. of Public

& Cong. Affs

Director's Office

PURPOSE: To advise that on or about 5/1/96, the

Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB will advise us of their

determinations on 70 FBl documents, previously postponed

(redacted) to protect informants, privacy and foreign

counterintelligence (FCI) information to include sources,

methods

and to request Criminal Investigative

Division (CID) and National Security Division (NSD) to review the

determinations and provide their positions on the determinations,

as to appeal. (U)

RECOMMENDATION: That CID and NSD addend this memorandum with

their positions as to appealing the ARRB decisions and so advise

the JFK Task Force (JFKTF) and the Office of the General Counsel

(OGC) by 5/1/96. (U)

APPROVED:

Crim. Inv.

Info. Res.

faining

Crim. Jus. Into.

Servs.

Inspection

Office of EEO

Laboratory

Affairs

Director_

Finance

National Sec.

Office of Public &

Enclosure

Deputy Director_

_ Gen. Counsel

_Personnel

Cong. Affairs

62-HQ-1029205

1 - Mr. Kennedy, Room 7142

1 - Mr. Collingwood, Room 7240

1 - Mr. R. Bucknam, ROOm 7176

- Mr. Shapiro, Room 7427

32/99

1

- Mr. P. Kelley, Room 7338

- Mr. Bryant, Room 7110

1.

- Ms. Buckleitner, Room 4127

1

- Mr.

Loturco, Room 4026

1

Mr. Swanda, Room 4425

1

- Mr.

Esposito, Room 7116

classiffed by:

Reason

1.5 c,

Declass

on:

5668

(1) (6)

1

- Mr. Divers, Room 4944

1

- Ms. Tucker, ROom 4944

1

Mr. O'Brien, Room 6296

1

- Mrs. Keeley, Room 6362

- Mr. Valentine, Room 6362

Ms. Sitord/Mrs. Leeper, Room 7176

CLRACIK

(17)

(CONTINUED/ - OVER)

GQC-#4: 1029285-1178

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d) PCI William Riley - Appeal - This individual

was unable to provide any information relating to the Kennedy

assassination that would justify a public compromise of his

identity.

Although this symboled

source is deceased, there is no

information regarding the existence of surviving family members

and the impact of the disclosure upon them. Accordingly, the CID

cannot support the release.

e) PCI Sandy Hillard - Appeal - This individual

was unable to provide any information relating to the Kennedy

assassination that would justify a public compromise of his/her

identity.

It appears that this individual was subsequently

opened

as a symboled source, providing intelligence on a variety

of violations in his/her locality.

he/she has been contacted about and has agreed to the proposed

disclosure or, if he/she is dead, that an attempt was made to

contact his/her survivors, the CID cannot support the release.

"£) PCI Floyd Crosby - Appeal - This individual

was unable to provide any information relating to the Kennedy

assassination that would justify a public compromise of his/her

identity. It is unclear whether this individual is still alive.

Absent a

showing either that he has been contacted about and has

agreed to the proposed disclosure or, if he is dead, that an

attempt was made to contact her survivors, the CID cannot support

the release.

9) PCI Albert Persons - Appeal - This

individual was unable to provide any information relating

to the

Kennedy assassination that would justify a public compromise of

his/her identity.

It is unclear whether this individual is still

alive.

Absent a showing either that he has been contacted about

and has agreed

to the proposed disclosure or, if he is dead, that

an attempt was made to contact her survivors, the CID cannot

support the release.

Tabs 3) No recommendation - The source was administered

by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the appeal

/determination.

Tab

4)

a) Velma Graham - Appeal - This individual

provided no intormation relating to the kennedy entalgination

that would justify a public

ble сотр.

compromise of her

particularly in view of the fact that she relocated after

assisting the FBI in for fear of physical reprisal from subjects

upon which she had provided information.

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b-c) No recommendation - The sources were

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tabs 5 - 15)

No recommendation - The sources were

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tabs 16 - 18) Mex-156; Mex-34 - Appeal - The FBI's

criminal intelligence gathering activities in foreign countries,

as furthered by the Confidential Sources Abroad Program, is a

matter of sensitivity which is subject to compromise through

release of symbol numbers and identities of the sources.

Tabs 19 - 35) No recommendation - The sources were

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tab 36) PCIs Benjamin Cohen and James Barone - Release

Good faith efforts to identify and contact these individuals

regarding the proposed disclosures were made, but were

unsuccessful.

Tab 37 - 43) No recommendation - The sources were

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tab 44) Galdino S. Martinez - Appeal - Although a good

faith effort has to locate this individual, because he was

symboled

source in a sensitve position and provided intelligence

from as foreign country, CID cannot support the release.

appeal determination.

' Tab 49) PCI Kitty Peterson- Appeal - Although a good

faith effort has been to locate this individual, due to the

source's long term valuable assistance, coupled

with the

closeness of her connections to local organized crime figures,

source in a sensitve position and provided intelligence from as

foreign country, CID cannot support the release.

Tab 50) No recommendation - The sources were

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determinations.

Tab 51) PCI Manuel Castro - Release

- Good faith

efforts to identify and contact this individual regarding the

proposed disclosures were made, but were unsuccessful.

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Tab 52) No recommendation - The source was

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

X Tab 53) William Alexander - Appeal - A determination to

release cannot be made inasmuch as no information has been

provided regarding the status of the individual as an FBI source

or whether or not he is still alive. proper

Tab 54) PCI Charles Colston - Release - Good faith

efforts to identify and contact this individual regarding the

proposed disclosures were made, but were unsuccessful.

lab 55 No recommendation - The source was

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tab 56) PCI Leonard Hutchison - Appeal - Records cannot

establish whether the source is alive, but indicate the existence

of a family member. Accordingly, unless/until that individual is

contacted and an assessment as made regarding the potential

impact of the disclosure, the CID cannot support the release.

Tab 57) No recommendation - The source was

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tabs 58 - 59)

X a) Ben Yarbrough - Appeal - This individual was

unable to provide any information relating to the Kennedy

assassination that would justify a public compromise of his/her

identity. Records cannot establish whether the symboled source is

alive,

but indicate the existence of a family member.

Accordingly, unless/until that individual is contacted and an

assessment as made regarding the potential impact of the

disclosure, the CID cannot support the proposed release.

b) Wayne High - Appeal - This individual was

unable to provide any information relating to the Kennedy

assassination that would justify a public compromise of his/her

identity.

He was converted from a PCI to a symboled source and

provided

a volume of information for almost a decade.

Accordingly, the CID cannot support the proposed release.

identity.

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X d) PCI James D. Yates - Appeal - This

individual was unable to provide any information relating to the

Kennedy assassination that would justify a public compromise of

his/her identity.

Tabs 60 - 61) The sources were administered by the NSD;

accordingly, the NSD should make the appeal determinations.

XTab 62) Allimae Hudgins - Appeal - This

individual was

at one time a symboled source, and provided positive information

in that capacity on a variety of violations for at least a four

year period.

While records cannot confirm her status, they

reveal family members who should be contacted regarding the same

or the potential impact of the proposed disclosure upon them.

Tab 63) No recommendation - The source was

administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should make the

appeal determination.

Tabs 64 - 69) No recommendation - The sources appear

to have been administered by the NSD; accordingly, the NSD should

make the appeal determinations.

APPROVED:

Director mar

Das. Dis.

5573.--

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ma Did of Fuble

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