Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: COLLINGWOOD
To: BRYANT
Document date: 12/11/97
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

3/31/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10376-10398

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62C-HQ-1029205-2721

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: COLLINGWOOD

TO: BRYANT

TITLE :

DATE :

' PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

12/11/1997

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/28/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

37€

December 11, 1997

Larry,

The attached letters dated October 1 and 28, 1997 to the Director from the Assassination

Records Review Board (ARRB) advises the FBI of their determinations concerning JFK records.

The receipt of the letters would normally be the notice that the FBI has a seven-day period for

appeal to the President. However, the documents presented at the September 17 and October 14,

1997 meetings were finished under new guidelines. The guidelines were designed by the

Board's staff and the JFK Task Force to facilitate the review of the subject files presented to the

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in the late 1970's.

Under the new guidelines for processing the HSCA files, the FBI's JFK Task Force

prepares the file for release in a'draft form and the Board's staff reviews the draft and highlights

the agreed postponements. The material proposed for postponement, but not initially approved

by the staff is negotiated by the Task Force personnel with the staff. This process usually ends

with an agreeable solution and does not go to the Board for a postponement by postponement

approval. If an agreement is not reached, then the Task Force prepares evidence to support the

postponement and presents it to the Board for approval. If the Board decides against the FBI,

then it would be necessary for the operational divisions to review the material for appeal issues.

However, the material voted at the last two meetings were documents already in agreement with

the Task Force and staff, so the Board voted the approval of the lists of document numbers.

Therefore, the FBI documents listed in the attachments either contain postponements

agreed to by the FBI or are opened in full with the FBI's consent, leaving no appeal issues. The

ARRB letter advises that at the two meetings they approved the FBI's postponements and

decision to release the documents.

Werking papers

120-040102

1205-2/21

Enclosure

1 - Mr. Bryant, Room 7142

1 - Mr. R. Bucknam, Room 7176

1' - Ms. Siford, Room 7176

3 - Mr. Parkinson, Room 7427

(Mr. P. Kelley, Room 7338)

(Mr. Campbell, Room 7338)

1 - OPCA Front Office, Room 7240

1 - Mrs. Keeley, Room 11144

1 - Mrs. Wilkins, Room 11144

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