## Page 1

14-00000

104-10332-10023)

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

THE DIRECTOR OR SEALE REUENCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

08 2'5

-

• 16 September 1998

Mr. John R. Tunheim

Chair, Assassination Records

Review Board

600 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20530

Re: JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. Tunheim:

This will respond to your 14 September 1998 letter regarding

Central Intelligence Agency compliance with the "JFK Act."

I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA has fully met its

obligations to locate, review, and release "assassination

records" as defined in the JFK Act.

The Agency's 2 September

1998 Declaration of Compliance-signed, as you note, by CIA's •

Director of Information. Management, Edmund Cohen-confirms my

judgment. I have full confidence in the scope of the Agency's

searches as described in Mr. Cohen's recent declaration.

As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is directly

responsible for CIA's records systems and for ensuring the

adequacy of CIA's search, review, and release of documents under

the JFK Act. Mr. Cohen

signed the Agency's Declaration of

Compliance because he was the most senior Agency official with

direct personal knowledge that its statements were accurate and

complete. There was no more appropriate signatory.

In sum, I understand that the appropriate CIA staff officers

have worked diligently to locate and disclose to the JFK Board

'all relevant records in the Agency's possession and that they do

not believe any other relevant records are being withheld from

the Board. Mr. Cohen's declaration confirms my understanding.

I trust that this will meet your requirements.

Sincerely,

Graycatt

George J. Tenet

---

## Page 2

14-00000

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

Special Assistant/EXDIR

GIA SPECPAMCOLLECTIO

RELEASE IN FULL

Mr. Cohen,

2000

Jim Oliver called and wanted me to

pass on the following message:

Talked Judge Tunheim and he is willing

to release the two letters (Cohen & Tenet)

.and refrain from other derogatory

comments if the Carey declaration

is substantially like

the ones Ed signed.

Michelle

He still would like you to give him

I Call on

31805.

---

## Page 3

14-00000

Central Intelligence Agency

Washinglon. D.C.20505

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

2000

DECLARATION OF DAVID W. CAREY

I, DAVID W. CAREY, hereby declare and say:

1. I presently serve as the Executive Director of the

•of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA or Agency). I have

held the position of Executive Director since July of 1997

and have served with the CIA for over 29 years in a variety

of operational, staff, and management positions.

2. As the Executive Director I am responsible, on

behalf of the Director of Central

Intelligence (DCI) and the

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), for the

overall daily management of the Central Intelligence Agency,

for strategic planning and coordination, and for the

development and execution of the Agency's annual program.

In order to carry out these responsibilities, I have been

delegated

all authorities vested in the DCI and DDCI except

as prohibited by law or Agency regulation or policy.

3. The purpose of this declaration is to provide an

assurance that the Central Intelligence Agency: (1) has made

a diligent records search to locate and disclose to the JFK

Assassination Records Review Board (the Board) all records

in its

possession relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the

assassination of President Kennedy; and (2) is aware of no

other assassination-related records in its possession being

withheld from the Board.

I make these and the following

statements (including those in the attachments by reference)

based upon my personal knowledge, information made available

to me in my official capacity, the advice of CIA's Office of

General Counsel, and the conclusions I reached in accordance

therewith.

4.

With respect to the overall issues of search and

review, and as explained in the attachments or otherwise

included by reference, the CIA's Directorates of

respective offices or directorates have properly and fully:

responded to requests from the Board. Accordingly, I

believe that the Central Intelligence Agency has worked

diligently with the Board to declassify, consistent with the

President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection

Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107) and other statutes,

---

## Page 4

4-00000

assassination-related

records in its possession, in order to

make

such records available to the public.

5 .

There are six attachments to this declaration,

which are incorporated by reference. Attachment I addresses

the universe and scope of documents that have been ther

subject of CIA's review.

Attachment II describes the

methodology and types of the searches conducted.

Attachment

III describes, in general, the records declassified and

released (separate detailed indices will be provided when

documents are released to the National Archives and Records

Administration). Attachment IV addresses questions raised

by the Board regarding perceived gaps in our records,

including possible loss or destruction of records.

Attachment V discusses specific requests. from the Board and

with regard to provision to the National Archives and

Records Administration of assassination related documents,

including any documents which may be newly discovered or

created subsequent to the tenure of the Board.

6. Based upon the foregoing and the attachments

(Attachments I through VI, which are incorporated by

reference) I believe that the CIA is in full compliance with

the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.s.C. 2107).

I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING AND

THE ATTACHMENTS (ATTACHMENTS I THROUGH VI, WHICH ARE

INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE) ARE TRUE AND CORRECT.

Executed this 23m day of September 1998.

DAVID W. CAREY

2

---

## Page 5

14-00000

UNCLASSIFIED

From the Desk of James R. Oliver

Chief, Historical Review Program

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

James R. Oliver@DA

James R. Oliver

OIM

09/24/98 11:12:17 AM

EXDIR Declaration Signature,

23 September 1998

Memorandum for the Record:

This is to confirm that I replaced the first page of the ExDir's signed JFK Declaration, dated 23

September, with letterhead stationery to assure that the statement was comparable to that signec

y Mr. Cohen, as earlier requested by the Board Chairman. The wording of the declaration was

unchanged; only the letterhead stationery was changed.

I called Michelle in the EXDIR's Officer to

confirm that the Executive Director would have no problem with such a change (simply replacing

the first page). She called back, saying that she had asked Mr. Carey, and he had no problem with

this change.

Mr. Harrelson of this office will be hand carrying the EXDIR's declaration to the Board today. At the

same time, and in accordance with my agreement with Chairman Tunheim of yesterday, Mr.

Harrelson will be retrieving the earlier declaration signed by Mr. Cohen, the DCI letter of 16

September, both of which are being withdrawn. The Judge Tunheim also agreed yesterday that

since the EXDIR had agreed to sign the declaration that there will no longer be a need for the critical

language in their report on this issue.

James R. Oliver

CC:

Edmund Cohen@DA

R. Bruce Burke@DCl

Sent on 24 September 1998 at 11:12:17 AM

UNCLASSIFIED

---

## Page 6

14-00000

!

;

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C.20505

Declaration of EDMUND COHEN

I, Edmund Cohen, hereby declare and say:

1. I presently serve as the Director of Information

Management for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA or

Agency).

I have held this position since February 1994; I

have also held the position of Director of the Office of

Information Management since October 1997. I have served

with the CIA for over 30 years in a variety of intelligence,

legal, staff, and management positions:

2. As Director of Information Management, I am

responsible for providing oversight and direction to the

Agency's records and classification management activities,

and information declassification and release programs. I am

also responsible for the development and maintenance of

automated tools to support these activities. I oversee

classification and declassification policies, procedures,

and practices. I manage the Agency Archives and Records

Center, and serve as the CIA Archivist and the Agency

Information Review Officer. I coordinate the conduct of

special searches within the Agency and the release of

information uncovered in such searches. I am also the

Agency's official liaison with the National Archives and

Records Administration and its Office of the Federal

Register, with the Information Security Oversight Office,

and with any other entities on any matters within the

responsibility or authority of the Director of Information

Management.

3.

I make the following statements based upon my

personal knowledge, information made available. to me in my

official capacity, the advice of CIA's Office of General

: Counsel, and the conclusions I reached in accordance

therewith.

---

## Page 7

14-00000

(

Declaration of EDMUND COHEN

4. The Central Intelligence Agency: (a) has made

diligent records searches to locate and disclose to the JFK

Assassination Records Review Board (the Board) all records

in its

possession relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the

assassination of President Kennedy; and (b) is aware of no

other assassination-related records in its possession being

withheld from the Board.

::

5. With respect to the overall issues of search and

review, and as explained in the attachments or otherwise

included by reference, the CIA's Directorates of

Intelligence (DI), Operations (DO), Science and Technology

(DS&T), and Administration (DA) and the DCI Area Information

Review Officer have certified to me that their respective

offices or directorates have properly and fully responded to

requests from the Board.

In addition to these

certifications, I have had briefings on the principal

searches conducted and have had all of my questions answered

to my satisfaction. Accordingly, I believe that the Central

Intelligence Agency has worked diligently with the Board to

locate and declassify, consistent with the President John F.

Kennedy. Assassination

Records Collection Act of 1992, as

amended, reprinted at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note,. and other

statutes, assassination-related records in its possession,

in order to make such records available to the public.

6:

There are six attachments, numbered I through VI,

to this declaration, which I incorporate herein by

reference. Attachment I addresses the universe and scope of

documents that have been the subject of CIA's review.

Attachment II describes the methodology and types of the

searches conducted. Attachment III describes, in general,

the records declassified and released. Separate detailed

indices will be provided when documents are released to the

National Archives and Records Administration.

Attachment IV

addresses questions raised by the Board regarding perceived

gaps in CIA's records, including possible loss or

destruction of records. Attachment V discusses specific

requests from the Board and incorporates specific CIA

responses by reference.

Attachment VI addresses commitments

which this Agency makes with regard to provision to the

National Archives and Records Administration of

assassination-related documents, including any documents

which may be newly discovered or created subsequent to the

tenure of the Board.

2

---

## Page 8

4-00000

: "

Declaration of EDMUND COHEN

7 .

Based upon the foregoing and Attachments I through

VI, I believe that the CIA is in full compliance with the

President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection

Act of 1992.

I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING,

INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS I THROUGH VI, ARE TRUE AND CORRECT.

Executed this

day of September 1998.

220

3

---

## Page 9

Attachment I

---

## Page 10

14.00000

Attachment I

Universe and Scope of CIA Documents

Addressed Related to the JFK Assassination

Summary. This Attachment discusses CIA material

examined in order to fulfill the requirements of the JFK

Assassinations Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act) •

It

addresses the types of CIA documents found in the records of

earlier investigations, including that of the House Select

Committee on Assassinations, and materials and files

recovered in response to searches conducted in 1992 and

thereafter. It discusses the process by which documents

became "assassination-related records."

Discussion.

The Central Intelligence Agency has

provided large numbers of documents and materials over the

years in support of successive reviews and investigations

related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

We estimate that the equivalent of roughly 320,000 pages

comprise the "CIA collection" of documents associated with

prior

assassination reviews, including duplicates. In

addition, we estimate that in responses to the JFK Act, CIA

has reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents from the

National Archives, the Ford, Johnson, and Kennedy

Presidential Libraries and miscellaneous papers from the

National Security Council, the President's Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), the Rockefeller

Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, and

the Senate Select (Church) Committee to Study Governmental

Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.

The documentation exists in many forms, from original

contemporaneous material, such as field reporting from

overseas or analytic reports, to material generated

specifically as an Agency response to investigation

questions.

The largest "CIA collection," as such, is

associated with the records of the House Select Committee on

---

## Page 11

4-00000

Assassinations (HSCA).] The HSCA brought together in one

place in 1978 the principal documents retrieved over the

course of years from earlier investigations, including the

Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, and the

Church Committee.

The Warren Commission in 1963 and 1964 was the first

major review of the JFK Assassination.

Existing records

suggest that Cia provided roughly 4, 000 pages of

documentation to the Warren Commission review, plus

testimony by Richard Helms and John McCone.

The Warren

Commission pursued matters related primarily to events and

actions directly associated with the assassination event.

including materials from CIA's Mexico City Station, which

were considered relevant because of a visit to Mexico City

by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the assassination.

The Rockefeller Commission in 1975 and Church Committee

investigation in 1975 and 1976 were focused on allegations

of wrongdoing by the CIA. Nonetheless, as a part of these

investigations they yielded information which, to many,

appeared to relate in some way to the assassination, such as

an operational capability or willingness to consider

assassination as an intelligence method.

From 1976 through 1979 the House Select Committee on

Assassinations (HSCA) pursued additional leads, generating

still further documentation. The HSCA ultimately brought

together within its broad scope of investigation many of the

documents

from the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller

Commission and the Church Committee. This collection

ultimately became the "HSCA sequestered collection, " which

altogether contains an equivalent of over 300,000 pages, in

paper, photographs, tapes, and microfilm media, including

duplicates.

Because the myriad conspiracy theories included

possible Soviet, Cuban, Mafia or right-wing American

involvement, the scope of the HSCA investigation included

anything or anyone that might appear to support those

theories, including historical institutional behavior

patterns.

Further, although this sequestered collection was

considered to be CIA's, it contains documents from other

agencies, primarily the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI) and over 30,000 pages of HSCA originated material.

The HSCA sequestered collection reflects the major corpus of CIA material or

information reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (or to

which they had access) during the 1976-1979 time frame.

The pulling together

of this collection was coordinated by the Committee and they defined what it was

This Collection has been physically held by CIA since 1979.

although CIA was not authorized access until 1992, when permission was

Congress to review the material in preparation for responding to the JFK Act.

2

---

## Page 12

14-00000

The HSCA sequestered collection is contained in 64

boxes of multimedia material, including paper, photographs,

and microfilm which have been loosely organized into major

categories of information. Boxes 1 through 34 are mostly

material collected by the CIA's Directorate of Operations,

the FBI, and other Government agencies, including field

reporting and handwritten notes.

They also include

newspaper articles, name traces performed in response to

requests by the HSCA staff, and copies of other documents

such as the CIA Inspector General's 1967 report on CIA plots

against Castro and Richard Helms' executive session

testimony before the HSCA.

Boxes 35 through 63 of this collection are largely

records of CIA's Legislative Counsel, Inspector General,

General Counsel, Office of Security, and Directorate of

Science and Technology, as well as internal records of the

HSCA staff. They consist of reports, memoranda,

transcripts, cables, letters, newspaper clippings,

photographs, and charts. Box 64 contains 72 reels of

microfilm-the equivalent of roughly 72 more boxes of paper

documents.

This material includes the file which the

Directorate of Operations maintained on Lee Harvey Oswald

(the 201 file) as well as similar files on additional

individuals.

other documents in the other boxes documents duplicate

While not a part of the sequestered collection, a

separate "Oswald 201 File" has served as a CIA repository

for JFK assassination-related material over the years and to

a large extent material in this file is duplicative of

material in the sequestered collection. Only a few

documents were in the file at the time of the assassination.

The bulk of the approximately 26,000 pages currently in this

file consists of documents collected immediately after the

assassination and during the Warren Commission

investigation. Included are a large number of third agency

documents, primarily from the FBI. Other major additions to

the Oswald 201 file include relevant Mexico City Station

files and material generated by various FOIA requests and

investigations, such as that of New Orleans District

Attorney, James Garrison.

Assassination-related materials beyond the sequestered

collection and the Oswald 201 file which have been located

since 1992 generally fall into three categories. First,

there are new documents which have been generated since

1978, such as defector reports that mention rumors or

perceptions of conspiracies or newspaper or other open

3

---

## Page 13

14-00000

source materials related to an individual associated with

the assassination.

Second, in a number of cases targeted

areas of inquiry or more precise definitions of areas of

interest by the JFK Board have yielded more information and

added documents

to the collection. And third, improved

search techniques have provided better access to those files

which are searchable electronically. Nonetheless, the

material located since 1992 is quite small when compared to

the material in the sequestered collection and the overall

set of material from CIA which has been designated as

"assassination records" by the JFK Board.

In accordance with

the law, the Board has the authority

to designate records which it considers relevant to the

assassination as

"Assassination Records."

are then subject to review for declassification or, as

deemed appropriate by the Board, held for declassification

in the year 2017. The Board has designated the entire

sequestered collection as Assassination Records as well as

selected material generated in the course of searches

subsequent to 1992. The entire set of these documents is

the equivalent of roughly 320,000 pages, including

duplicates.

--

4

---

## Page 14

14-00000

Attachment II

---

## Page 15

14-00000

ATTACHMENT II.

Search MethodologY and Types of Searches Conducted

Summary

This Attachment discusses the methodologies

used in conducting the searches, including what we know of

the searches which were conducted on behalf of the earlier

assassination investigations. It includes, in referenced

tabs,

documentation of selected taskings.

It discusses the

distributed nature of CIA's paper recordkeeping systems and

electronic databases and the custom keyword searches that

are used with electronic databases which CIA maintains.

Discussion.

The collection of CIA materials contained

in the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

"sequestered collection" has existed as a discrete body of

records since 1978. This material resulted from highly

labor intensive and systematic searches by individuals

familiar with the Agency's paper files and records systems

in use in the 1960s and 1970s.

Today, the sequestered

collection comprises the great bulk of CIA-originated

documents which can be associated with the JFK Assassination

and related investigations.

For most of its history, the Agency has had a system of

records which has been shaped by the divergent requirements

of the directorates in accordance with the wide variance of

focus in their missions.

These basic differences in the

missions of the directorates, as well as the compartmental-

ization-of-information procedures (the "need-to-know."

concept), have resulted in each directorate keeping its own

set of records in accordance with directorate-specific

guidelines. This applies equally to paper records as well

as to electronic databases.

Since the late 1970s, the Agency has been in the

process of converting to electronic databases, which allow

for electronic searches for documents using keyword and

" Even within a single database, information may--in accordance with information

compartmentalization requirements based on the need-to-know principle--be stored

separate files by several offices or divisions, each with its distinct

recordkeeping criteria and access requirements.

In order for a search to be

a search for one term or a combination of terms must be conducted

---

## Page 16

4-00000

other indexing tools which provide much more expedited and

efficient searches.

Because the most significant portion of

JFK assassination-related material was generated prior to

this conversion to electronic databases, searches of the

sequestered collection or other contemporaneous CIA records

have had to rely primarily upon labor intensive hand

searches.

Since 1992 and the passage of the JFK Act, CIA has, in

responding to the requests of the Board, had to devise

search methodologies and techniques

to address both the hard

copy and electronic versions of our databases. With respect

to the hard copy material, Agency efforts have concentrated

on those component records most likely to yield

assassination-related documents. Short of a complete manual

review of all documents in the Agency, the techniques used

for searching hard copy materials include expert reviews of

file series and folder names, including associations with

known related topics, retrieving boxes of files from the

Agency's Archives and Records Center, and manually reviewing

those

files identified as likely to contain the sought after

materials.

Electronic files searches can actually be more complex

than manual searches, in major part because of the number of

different electronic

systems in use.

The Directorate of

Operations' electronic databases, for instance, include most

cables since 1978 and they can be searched using single or

multiple search terms against the full text of these cables.

The Directorate of Intelligence's automated systems include

original source material used for analytic assessments as

well as the products themselves and can be searched through

a variety of electronic techniques. The DCI Area

(considered, for this purpose a directorate) maintains the

Executive Registry files which are not normally retrievable

through full text search, but by index searches. The

Directorate of Administration maintains a large and diverse

system of databases and files on employees and contractors

that includes data on

security issues, medical records,

training, etc.

The Directorate of Science and Technology

and its subordinate components maintain other electronic

databases unique to individual missions.

Each of these

systems requires a unique set of access

criteria and search

commands and must be searched by information management

experts of the respective directorates.

Where possible, automated systems were searched using

key words

such as JFK, Kennedy, assassination, executive

action, Oswald, place names, and a large number of names,

crypts, or pseudonyms identifying individuals known to have

2

---

## Page 17

14-00000

been associated with countries, key installations,

organizations, or operations that fell within the period

deemed relevant to the history of the assassination.

The following categories are examples of the guidelines

for relevancy with which both manual and computerized

searches were conducted.

to, individuals, organizations, places, projects,

subjects which are considered central to the Oswald/JFK

assassination history and the ensuing investigations.

A. JFK Assassination Investigations:

• Warren Commission, 1963-64

• James Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney,

1966-68

• Rockefeller Commission, 1975 (JFK assassination & CIA

anti-Cuban plots aspects only)

• Church Committee (Senate), 1975-76 (JFK assassination &

CIA anti-Cuban plots aspects only)

• House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA) ,

1976-79

B. Key Subjects:

• Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, and JMWAVE

Station, as they related to Oswald's activities or

to possible conspiracies.

• KGB interest in Oswald.

• CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 if they involve

JFK figures or subjects; most US anti-Castro

activities in 1963 are considered relevant.

• Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders, and

organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures

or subjects.

• Castro assassination activities (plans and attempts)

without limit on time frame.

• Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK, or New Orleans

during Oswald time frames.

c.

Key Figures: Material with the following terms was

considered JFK assassination-relevant unless the

context is clearly not related or the information is

outside the appropriate time period:

• AMLASH

• AMMUG

• Maurice Bishop (any reference)

• Silvia. Duran

3

---

## Page 18

4-00000

• Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee

• Howard Hunt

• Priscilla MacMillan Johnson

• Valeriy Kostikov

• Mr. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt

• Yuri Nosenko

• Michael & Ruth Paine

• David A. Phillips

• Richard Snyder

• Win Scott

Prior to enactment of the JFK Act, in early 1992, the

Chief of the CIA History Staff, through various manual

searches of shelf lists, located the

"sequestered

collection" of the House Select Committee on Assassinations

(sixty-four record center size boxes). After obtaining the

permission of the Congress, his staff

surveyed these and

other related holdings

on the assassination. In addition,

the History Staff located sixteen boxes of Lee Harvey

Oswald's 201 file and a number of loose folders, mainly from

Mexico City Station records that had been collected for the

Warren Commission.

In October 1993, following enactment of the JFK Act but

prior to the President's appointment of the Board, CIA's

Historical Review Group (HRG) requested the directorates to

conduct a name search on Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK

assassination, and any related documents (Tab 1). This

request resulted in a series of meetings and discussions

with various Agency components and Information Release

More than thirty-one additional boxes of

materials were sent to HRG for review.

Included in this

material were nineteen boxes of JFK working files of Mr.

Russ Holmes, a CIA employee who for many years was the

Agency's focal point officer with responsibility for

responding to questions related to our assassinated-related

records. Also included were

two boxes on Nosenko, seven

boxes of Latin America Division documents, and three boxes

from the Bay of Pigs project. Out of these thirty-one

additional boxes provided to the Board staff, approximately

twenty-two boxes of material were designated by the Board as

assassination records. The preponderant volume of these

records is duplicative of documents in the sequestered

collection.

In April 1995, after the Agency received the Board's

first formal request, and in anticipation of "what are

4

---

## Page 19

14-00000

likely to be many requests from the Board for information..."

the Agency Executive Director asked each directorate and the

DCI Administrative Officer to appoint a focal point officer

for the JFK Assassination review. (Tab 2)

In the spring and summer of 1997, the Agency arranged

for the Board staff to receive a series of briefings by

representatives of each directorate on the files kept within

the records systems of each directorate.

These briefings

covered aspects of the records systems, such as how the

records are organized, maintained, searched and retrieved,

as well as how they had been previously searched for

assassination-related materials.

The Board staff requested a number of additional

searches, which have now been completed. These requests

were both formal and informal and resulted in responses to

the Board staff which included a wide range of additional

material, some of which was judged relevant to the history

of the assassination.

This material includes the histories

various CIA operations and Agency components, files on

specific individuals involved in either the Warren

Commission or in HSCA investigations, and the results of CIA

internal reviews of programs and operations. Although many

requests from the Board and responses from the Agency were

handled informally, the significant initial requests are

listed in the table in Attachment V.

Prompted in part by the surfacing of a small number of

new relevant documents, the Board staff requested CIA in the

summer of 1998 to: (a)

perform an additional set of searches

on certain specific topics; and (b) issue an Agency-wide

notice reminding CIA employees of the requirements of the

JFK ACt.

Specially tailored tasking was sent to the three

Directorate of Operations components deemed most likely to

possess records relevant to the JFK assassination of the

kind of concern to the Board (See Tab 3) •

Among other

considerations, this special tasking included a list of new

or revised search terms, a request for clarification on the

disposition of the James Angleton files, and the requirement

to focus on potential new information from the debriefing of

defectors in which any reference to Oswald or to the Kennedy

assassination occurs.

DCI Tenet issued an Agency-wide Employees Bulletin on

22 July 1998 directing all CIA personnel to "consider

documents in their possession or with which they are

5

---

## Page 20

4-00000

familiar that might have relevance to the Board's review..."

(EB OIM 98-02-See Tab 4) .

Finally, and in a separate tasking, all directorates

were asked to

assure that searches undertaken were

sufficient to enable a directorate representative to provide

a certification of compliance with the JEK Act, and that the

DCI's Bulletin had been forwarded to all directorate

employees. (See Tab 5) .

6

---

## Page 21

14-00000

CSI-0331/93

25 October

1993

MEMORANDUM FOR:

DO/IRO

DI / IRO

DA/ IRO

DS&I/IRO

FROM:

John F. Pereira

Chief, Historical Review Group/CSI

SUBJECT:

1. In recent testimony before the HPSCI the Director

indicated that a continuing search for Jfk assassination-

related documents was in progress. In order to assure that

there are no oversights in this regard, we are requesting

the following, by directorate:

DO & DI: A name search on Lee Harvey Oswald for the

period

1980 through 1993; a subject search on JFK

assassination (Kennedy assassination, etc.), same

period; all appropriate components be asked to forward

to us any documents related to the assassination that

were not provided earlier.

DA & DS&T: All appropriate components be asked to

forward to us any documents related to the

assassination that were not provided earlier; a file

search when an obvious need is recognized.

2. Information responsive to this request should be

forwarded to the Historical Review Group, 404 Ames Building.

Questions may be directed to Frank Most,

30146.

JA Perina.

John

F. Pereira

---

## Page 22



---

## Page 23

14-0000

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

-

DO/INS 45-069/1

ER 95 - 8097

6 April 1995

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Deputy Director for Administration

Deputy Director for Intelligence

Deputy Director for Operations

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Executive Director

Appointment of Directorate Focal Points

for JFK Assassination Board Requests

1. . I would like each of you to appoint a focal point

officer

responding to requests for information from the (President

Kennedy) Assassination Records Review Board. (AIUO)

2. The Agency has received the first (attached) of what

are likely to be many

requests from the Board for information

related to the assassination of President Kennedy and to the

investigations into the assassination.

Up to now, the Board

has focused on the

"sequestered" records CIA had collected

for the House Assassination Committee's investigation and

documents that had been part of the Oswald 201 file. It is

expected that the new requests will require records searches

to be done for additional information. fAIUOt

"The Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for

the Study of Intelligence (CS1), which has been the Agency's

principal liaison with the JFK Board, will continue in that-

role. HRG will receive requests from the Board, and then

forward them to the Directorate focal points for

Responses from the Directorates will be coordinated by HRG,

which will make the responses available to the Board. fAIUOY

focal point officer to

Leo Hazlewood

Attachment

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 24



---

## Page 25

14-00000

• . .

JUL J0

".

SEeRET

-

OIM 98 - 0081

30 July 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Chief, Counterintelligence Center, DO

Chief, Latin America Division, DO

Chief, CE Division, DO

Lee Strickland

Chief, Information Review Group

Office of Information Management.

(U) New Search of CI Files for JFK

Assassination Records

(AroO) Bulletin OIM. EB No. 02-98.

dated 22 July 1998

1.

(U)

The JFK Board has made a number of recent

specific directed requests to assure that the Agency has

complied fully with the requirements of the JFK Act. Among

these was a request for issuance of the Reference Employee

Bulletin, in which the DCI directed that employees leave "no

stone unturned" in assuring that relevant documents are

provided to the Commission.

2. • (U) In part because relevant new documents have

surfaced within the past few montha, the Board has also

requested apecific focus on

renewed searches of the Agency's

"counterintelligence files." The new documente

have

surfaced due to a variety of reasons, including references

to assassination related personalities in recent defector

reports, records made available because of the break up of

the Soviet Union, and advances in search capabilities due to

digitization of

older paper files.

CI, BY: 644243

CL REASON:

1.5C

DECI ON: X1

DRY FRM: HUM 4-82

SECRET

---

## Page 26

14-00000

SpeRET

SUBJECT:

(U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Assassination

Records

attempted to focus any new tasking on those are i in which

the Board that we are not in compliance with the JFK Act.

a land the gong will

Because of the impending statutory termination of the Boar

assocated with the conduct and completion of these

searches. The searches must be completed by 6 August, 1998.

4. 18) Databases to be Searched. The addressees to

this memorandum are requested to perform new searches-using

the search terms in paragraph 5--on ANY of your files which

may contain information relating in any way to the JFK

assassination, including, in particular, all records systems

or files containing information on:

• James J. Angleton and his files

• Debriefings of defectors in which ANY reference to Oswald

or the JFK assassination occurs (Example, [IJDECANTER!

5. (U) Search Terms and Time Periods.

These new

searches should focus on documents that might be retrievable

with the following search terms over the referenced periods:

• The period 1959-1965 using the search terms Executive

Action, Exaction, Ex Action.

• Post-1978 information combining the term "assassination"

with

President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, JFK.

presidential threats, threats to U.S. President,

attempt

(ox attempted), or the crypt GIDEAL.

• Post-1978 information related to the following terms:

Warren Commission, House Select Committee on

Assassinations, HSCA, Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina

Oswald, Jack Ruby, or GPFLOOR.

SECRET

---

## Page 27

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

(U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Aggassination

Records

6. 15) Information is also sought on:

• The identity and current location of personnel (either

the current assignment of employees or any knowledge of

current location of retirees) who participated in

lebriefings or the preparation of reports on debriefing.

• The destruction of James J. Angleton's files.

Such information should be brought immediately to the

attention of the historical Review Program, Olm (Barry.

Harrelson, 31825, Secure).

Same en

(for)

-

SEEKET

---

## Page 28

400000

4

---

## Page 29

14-00000

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

EMPLOYEE

BULLETIN

OIM

OIM EB No. 02-98

22 July 1998

FINAL DOCUMENT SEARCH TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH "PRESIDENT JOHN

F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992" (JFK ACT)

FROM:

George J. Tenet

Director of Central Intelligence

(U) As you know, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (Board) is completing

its task of overseeing the search and declassification of all Federal government records relating to

the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by 30 September 1998. The Board and we want

to do everything possible to place before the American people the full story as reflected in

government and other records.

2.

(U) The Agency has been working on this effort since 1992 and has searched all of the

obvious databases. We want to make certain that we have left no stone unturned and that no

employee has any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—

including any records created [or received] after 1992. The reference to 1992 is largely intended

to encompass documents which may have come into our hands since the collapse of the Soviet

Union and Warsaw Pact.

3.

(AlUO) In accordance with the provisions of the JFK Act, I hereby direct all CIA

personnel to consider documents in their possession or with which they are familiar that might

have relevance to the Board's review and that might not have been found in the course of

electronic or manual searches over the past six years. Representatives of the Historical Review

Program believe that if such documents do exist they would, most likely, be found in files that

would not be generally related to the assassination or that would not be "logical" areas for

systematic searches. These include working paper files or smaller databases related to countries

not normally associated with the assassination. Relevant documents can be in the form of papers,

photographs, recordings, tapes, or other media, and can include documents "related to the

assassination," such as later investigations, key topics/events within the Oswald/JFK Story, or

material related to key figures- such as Nosenko.

---

## Page 30

14-0000

(AIUO) CIA personnel who believe they have information regarding documents relevant

to the JFK review that may not have been found in previous searches should contact their

component or directorate IRO or the JFK Project Coordinator. Directorate IROs and the

Agency's JFK Project Coordinator are as follows:

DO / IRO

DI / IRO

DS&T / IRO

DA / IRO

DCI Area / IRO

JFK Project

Coordinator

Secure Phone

William McNair

Barbara Blufer

Teresa Wilcox

Becky Rant

Mary Lou Cummings

44448

54644

50104

31204

39058

Barry Harrelson

31825

Isl

Director of Central Intelligence

---

## Page 31

00000

5

---

## Page 32

4-00000

ADHINISTRATIVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

OIM 98-0088

12 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM :

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Deputy Director for Administratior

Deputy Director for Intelligence

Deputy Director for Operations

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Administrative Officer, DCI Area

Edmund Cohen

Director of Information Management

Documentation of Searches Conducted in

Support of JFK Act

Memo,

"CIA compliance with the JFK

Assassinations Records Collection Act

of 1992, " dtd 15 Jul 98, fr the

Assassination Records Review Board.

1. The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of

a requirement to provide to the JFK Assassination Records

Review Board a "Final Declaration of Compliance" with the

JFK Act.

The declaration must include:

a description of

component searches undertaken in response to Board taskings

since 1993; information on any possible destruction of

assassination records;. and a representation that a diligent

search for assassination records was undertaken.

We are in

need of assistance of your staff in preparing the

description of these items for inclusion in the compliance

response.

2. The referenced memorandum describes the Board's

requirements for the "Final Declaration" in greater

detail. Jim Oliver, Chief, Historical Review Program

and Barry Harrelson, the Agency's JFK Review Focal Point,

are meeting with the Directorate Information Review Officer

and, as appropriate, other members of your staff to review

the

information needed to support the certifications which

the Agency will need to make.

ADMINISTRAFIVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 33

14-00000

ADMINISTRATIVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

SUBJECT:

Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support

of

JFK Act

In order to meet the

1 September 1998 deadline

prescribed by the Board, we request that the information

described in paragraph 1 be sent to Mr. Harrelson by close

of business, 21 August 1998

Edmund Cohen

2

ADMINISTRATIVE

INTERNAL USE ONbY

---

## Page 34

14-00000

Attachment III

---

## Page 35

14-00000

Attachment III

Records Declassified and Released.

Summary.

CIA to declassify JFK assassination-related documents,

including interaction with the Board and subsequent re-

reviews of materials, as well as the personnel resources

engaged in this effort. It discusses the volumes of records

reviewed, the volumes of records declassified, and the

manner in which the material has or will be nade available

Discussion. In response to the enactment of the JEK

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and in

anticipation of the appointment of the Review Board, CIA,

during 1992 and 1993, reviewed for declassification material

which had been sequestered following the investigation of

the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978.

As a result of this effort, CIA released as declassified to

the National Archives in August 1993 some 127,000 pages of

material

from this collection.

no does in xu sun at eng

Since that time, additional

releases have been made; approximately 74,000 pages from the

microfilm part of the collection were declassified and

released in August 1994 and 30,000 pages of SCA originated

material were declassified and

released in 1995. We

estimate that, since 1992, CIA has devoted over 100 work

years to its effort to respond to the JFK Act (including

experienced annuitants working as independent contractors).

The development of the declassification review

methodology was, from the beginning in 1992, an iterative

process that took into account both the requirements of the

JFK Act to release to the public information relevant to an

understanding of the assassination and the DCI's statutory

mandate to protect intelligence sources and methods under

the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949.

In the years since 1992, considerable effort has been

expended to balancing these two objectives. Interaction

with the Board's staff was a significant factor in reaching

this proper balance. The net result is that practices over

this period evolved to the extent that types of material

that had been redacted at the beginning of the process were,

by the end, no longer considered necessary to withhold.

This has, of course, required a further re-review of the

material released during the earlier period to assure that

---

## Page 36

14-00000

consistent standards were being used for the entire

collection.

Each document in the collection was read by an

Historical Review Program (HRP) Reviewer -- in every case a

retired officer with at least two decades of Agency

experience - who examined every word in the document with

an eye toward releasing documents unless such release could

be expected to cause damage to:

• Human intelligence assets or their families;

• Intelligence methodology clearly requiring continued

protection;

• Intelligence operations or activities warranting

continued protection, including relationships with

foreign governments.

The reviewed documents were then passed to teams of

officers from the components that generated the documents

(in most cases the Directorate of Operations), who were

responsible for determining current sensitivity.

The senior

HRP reviewers validated the component groups' actions prior

to forwarding the materials to the Board.

Names of CIA employees who served all or most of their

careers under cover posed particular problems and, while

many names have been redacted, with Board concurrence for

release at a later date, the current sensitivity, or lack

thereof, of retired individuals' employment by CIA had to be

checked in each case. Names of key players in the post-

assassination scenario, as stipulated by the Board, were

released

as true names or with temporary and traceable

substitute names.

Identification by the Board of those who

were considered key players was a complicated and time-

consuming task. Significant review and analysis went into

the decision to release true names of many Cubans connected

with the Bay of Pigs.

Material from the Rockefeller Commission and Church

Committee investigations, presidential libraries and PFIAB

files which addressed the entire scope of CIA activities

raised issues with respect to relevance to the JFK

assassination. For example, Project MONGOOSE, a clandestine

portion of the publicly acknowledged U.s. anti-Castro

policy, was released.

Another major issue was consistency in reviewing

duplicate copies of documents.

In one case 47 copies

cable were found by different reviewers in separate files

---

## Page 37

4-00000

over the six years of our review process. The National

Archives ground rules called for release of every copy for

inclusion in the NARA collection; therefore, each of these

47 copies is included

as part of the total collection.

AS

duplicate copies were

found, comparison with the 1993

released version revealed not only inconsistencies but

textual phrasing which,

'in a mosaic of related documents,

made likely the identification of a protected individual or

action. As a result, much re-review of the files was

required and did occur.

Another time-consumer was the question of the

identification of overseas station locations, traditionally

not revealed--both to protect Agency individuals, activities

and sources and to avoid foreign relations difficulties with

foreign governments. In these cases, a window of time for

acknowledgment of such facilities was negotiated, directly

relevant to such actions as Oswald's travels and post-

assassination requests for foreign government assistance in

the U.S. investigation.

Except for redaction of names of CIA employees, true

names of clandestine agents (otherwise identified with

traceable cryptonyms), and currently-sensitive cooperation

with specific foreign intelligence services, the final

collection in the National Archives will contain very

limited redactions and, in our opinion, none that would

affect an historian's understanding of the Agency's

information on, and relevance to, the event.

---

## Page 38

4.00000

Attachment It.

---

## Page 39

4-00000

-

ATTACHMENT IV.

Perceived Gaps in CIA Records

Summary•

This Attachment addresses the Board's

requested explanation for the apparent absence of files

which are known to have existed (or for which there is some

evidence that they existed at one time) but cannot now be

located.

Specifically, the Board asked for such information

on the following: Oswald files; certain files of James

Angleton; DCI McCone files; William Pawley; and Win Scott.

This Attachment also addresses

the Board's request that the

Agency's Declaration "

...identify any other records relating

to Oswald or the assassination that CIA knows to have been

destroyed or removed from CIA files."

Discussion.

Files on Lee Harvey Oswald

(a)

The Office of Security (OS) maintained a pre-

assassination subject file on Oswald. This file contained

newspaper articles and reports from other government

agencies. As would be

expected, the number of volumes of

the subject file grew following

the assassination.

The pre-

assassination material remained in volume one and subsequent

material was

filed in volumes numbered II through vI.

However, during a February 1997 search, no volume V was

found.

A second thorough search of the OS file system

failed to produce any record of Volume V.

A careful page-

by-page review of the contents of the existing volumes

revealed there is no time gap in the material. Therefore,

it is believed the label on Volume VI is simply incorrect;

is no time on Volun

it should have been labeled Volume V.

The OS Oswald subject file was reviewed by the HSCA in

1978; however, it was not stored with the rest of the

sequestered material. There is no documentation on why this

file was not incorporated into the sequestered collection

held by the DO; eight boxes of non-Oswald OS files were in

the collection. The Oswald Security File has been reviewed,

declassified, and released to NARA.

(b)

There has been considerable interest over the years in

locating any electronic surveillance tapes that would have

been made during the period that Oswald visited Mexico (26

September - 2 October 1963). A thorough search has been

conducted of the DO's record system as well as the index to

retired records in an attempt to locate any tapes and/or

find documentation to resolve their disposition.

We have

discussed this issue with operational experts and their

---

## Page 40

14-00000

professional opinion is that most likely such tapes were

never returned to Headquarters for retention.

It was normal

practice to recycle audio tapes after they had been listened

to by transcribers and their transcripts made.

Messages between field stations and headquarters used

operational jargon and shortened sentence structures that

can sometimes allow for misinterpretations.

Thus, possible

confusion was created when references to what was being sent

to headquarters referred to "tapes" but really intend

"information" from tapes.

In our search efforts we did locate approximately 185

audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban and Soviet embassies

in Mexico City that were recorded during the immediate time

following the assassination

(22 November 1963 to January

1964) •

The fact that these tapes were retained and returned

to Headquarters could account for the fact that some people

recall that some tapes existed which were sent to

Headquarters.

Based upon the search efforts that were undertaken and

the opinions of operational experts consulted, CIA has

concluded that the tapes in question do not exist and were

almost certainly recycled in the normal course of business

before their potential value was identified.

James J. Angleton (Chief, CounterIntelligence Staff, 1954-

1974)

As noted in a 24 August 1998 memo to the Board, the

files of Mr. Angleton were incorporated within the files of

the CI Staff and the Directorate of Operations.

Three

memoranda, dated 23 November 1976, 5 August 1977, and 29

November 1979, detail the review and incorporation into

the DO Central Records System of the Angleton files as well

as all the files found in CI Staff following Mr. Angleton's

departure.

As a result of this review and incorporation of

files, there is no identifiable collection of Angleton

files.

The three memoranda mentioned above have been

included in the Agency's JFK collection for processing and

release to NARA.

John McCone (Director of Central Intelligence, 1961-1965)

Within the McCone papers are several file folders with

notations that indicate documents are missing.

However,

each folder has an index of the documents that were

originally within it. Of all the missing documents only two

refer to the Kennedy assassination.

One document is

described as "Date of Meeting - 26 Nov; Participants - DCI &

2

---

## Page 41

4-00000

Bundy: Subjects Covered - Msg concerning Pres. Kennedy's

assassination." The second document is described as "Date

of Meeting - 19 May ' 64;

Participants - DCI, J.J. McCloy;

Dinner at Residence - Re: Oswald. (The latter

is annotated:

"Destroyed 1-28-72."]

Both documents were noted as missing when the files

were

reviewed by the CIA History Staff in November 1986.

William Pawley (Industrialist; friend of DCI Dulles and

supporter of Anti-Castro activities)

The JEK collection contains a 201 file on Mr. Pawley

eat was

that ends in 1962. The Directorate of Operations determined

that material through 1965 that should have been in the 201

- through 105 that

file was filed in an operational file. Most of the material

was already within the JFK collection. The Board staff

reviewed all the documents within the operational file and

selected additional documents for inclusion in the JFK

collection. This material will be processed for release to

NARA.

Win Scott (Chief of Station, Mexico City, 1956-1969)

The Agency's Retired Record Table (RRT) shows Mr.

Scott's Mexico City files were retired as Job 78-00594R on

11 August 1972. These records were retired to the Agency's

Archives and Records Center under Item Number 40-76 in the

DO Records Control Schedule in effect at that time. Files

under Item Number 40-76 were described as:

"Temporary. Destroy upon completion of a specific job

or as

they serve their purpose.

Return folders and

documents on loan and destroy remaining papers."

The RRT shows Job 78-00594R was destroyed on 12 January.

- 1987, based upon reference to Item Number 40-76 of the

Records Control Schedule.

The RRT page showing the disposition of Mr. Scott's

files and the page of the Records Control Schedule which

describes Item Number 40-76 have been incorporated in the

Agency's JFK collection and will be processed for release to

Certain Station Files

Within the Board's guidance for CIA's compliance

declaration, the Board asked that the Agency specifically

address the

existence, non-existence or destruction of files

3

---

## Page 42

14-00000

from two

stations in its Final Compliance Statement.

two stations in question are Mexico City for the period

1963-1964, and Moscow

for the period 1959-1962.

The

It has been long-standing practice and policy that

materials that the DO keeps in the field are for immediate

operational needs, and that record materials

are to be

returned to Headquarters for safekeeping.

Limited storage

space overseas as well as the risk of physical loss in the

event of civil unrest or the need for evacuation are

Once at Headquarters,

these materials are normally organized by topic or subject

rather than by station because this is the way that work is

performed.

Particularly with paper records and the passage

of significant time, it is extremely difficult if not

one dore,

impossible to reconstruct with any confidence, a full set of

documents for any particular station.

We do know that files from Mexico City Station are

listed in the documents found in the sequestered collection

and the Oswald 201 file materials.

This divergence from

normal practice with respect to these files can be explained

by the obvious high interest of the Warren Commission in the

events in Mexico City surrounding the time of the assassin-

ation (as shown by the fact that they are contained in the

Warren Commission materials).

It would not have been normal

practice at the time for the

Agency to keep

these records in

this form.

Thus, other than the materials in the sequest-

ered collection and the Oswald 201 file, we have been unable

to identify collections of records which would represent

files for the two stations for the periods requested.

HTLINGUAL

The Church and Pike Committees both expressed concern

about HTLINGUAL, a mail opening project which held

information on American citizens.

As a result of these

investigations, CIA was directed by court order to destroy

all hILiNGUAL material. It is reasonable to believe that an

HTLINGUAL file existed on Lee Harvey Oswald; however, along

with all other files designated as HTLINGUAL files,

it would

have

been destroyed in accordance with the court order.

Within the JFK sequestered collection, there are HTLINGUAL

materials on Oswald -- materials which were apparently

copied from the HTLINGUAL files before they were destroyed

in accordance with the court order. It is not possible,

however, to say that everything on Oswald that was held in

the HTLINGUAL file wound up in the

JFK collection.

See Tab

2 of Attachment V for more details.)

4

---

## Page 43

4-00000

Records Relating to Oswald of the Assassination known to

have been destroyed of removea.

In November 1997, the Information Management Officer of

the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) advised that he

had discovered a record which indicated a file that referred

to the Kennedy assassination had been destroyed on "5/1/95"

A search for information on this document revealed that the

document had been created in 1977 and was described as

"allegations regarding the Lee Harvey Oswald file."

included with other documents grouped under the description:

"Individual Case Files - Consists of documents

accumulated in investigating complaints, suggestions,

or problems of individuals which are brought to the

attention of the IG.

Filed numerically by case number.

Potential

cases filed alphabetically."

It has been confirmed that copies of the documents were

made available to the HSCA and are in the sequestered

collection.

The OIG has reconstructed the file and will

maintain it as a permanent record. Documentation is

provided at Tab 1.

5

---

## Page 44

4.00000

1

---

## Page 45

14-00000

sir.

CONFIDENIIAL

06 January 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

TO:

Barry Harrelson

OIM/HRG

FROM:

Jerry Owens (C)

OIG/ IMO

SUBJECT: (AIUO) Inadvertent Destruction of Records

REF :

(U) Telecon dated 06 January 1998

1. (U) Per your request, attached is a

memorandum

written to the Office of the Inspector Generals (OIG),

Deputy and Associate Deputy IG for Investigations.

The

attached memorandum was also reviewed by OIG/Counsel. It

explains in some detail the events we discussed in

referenced telephone conversation.

2. (AIUO) It is understood by me, the undersigned,

that no further action from the Inspector Generals office is

required, and that this matter may be considered closed.

The Office of Information Management/Historical Review Group

(OIM/HRG) will notify the Assassination Review Board (ARB)

and file a copy of this memorandum in HRG files to refer to

when writing the compliance letter to the ARB.

3. (AIUO) It is also understood that original

documents are not required when material is requested for or

being added to the sequestered collection, and that copies

of the material which were inadvertently destroyed were

previously provided to the HSAC and ARB

for special task

force) before their destruction in 1995.

4.

(AIUO) With the assistance of HRG, the OIG/IMO has

been able to reconstruct the file and will maintain it as a

permanent record, also adding a copy of the attached to that

file.

CL BY 0680987

CL REASON:

1.5 (c)

DECL ON: X-1

DRV fm COV 1-82

CONFIDENTIAL

---

## Page 46

14-00000

-=

CONFIDENTIAL

SUBJECT:

(AIUO)

Inadvertent Destruction of Records

appreciated.

(AIUO) Your assistance in this matter is greatly

If you have any further questions regarding

this matter,

please call me on secure X77081.

Thank you.

erry N. Owens (C

CC :

D/IG/INV w/o att

AD/IG/INV w/o att

IG/Counsel w/o att

OIG/IMO w/att

DCI/IMO w/o att

CONFIDENTIAL

---

## Page 47

4-00000

thru: 19351

vies fames Lorenas Gary 11.

Component: Da 0.l

Type: 37/7700061

comulaint: Allegatiora jaden

RefErred tO IG by:

Liar 2

Date

opened: 29 liarch 1577

Date

opened nui dare:

Date

Closad: 31 llay 19771

Date Closed duirday:

InSPECLOIS:

category:

spee cons:

"'as

lover resolution possible?:

Was

grievant satisfied?:

Case

Felerred to:

Report Sent

to:

Did OG0 refei case to DOJ?:

Did DOJ decide to prosecute?:

Recora center Job lumber: 80-01770F

comments:

---

## Page 48

4-00000

AttachmentI

---

## Page 49

14-00000

Attachment v

Specific Requests From the Board

-

Summary.

The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act

of 1992 mandates a number of specific actions on behalf of

all government departments and agencies.

One of these is

to:

make available to the Review Board any

additional information and records that

the Review Board has reason to believe it

requires for conducting a review under

this Act." (Sec. 5(c)2 H.)

In the exercise of this authority under the Act, the Board

made fifty-three specific requests for additional records

and information in the form of sixteen (16) requests

designated

as "formal" and thirty-seven (37) designated as

"informal."

On each request, the CIA worked closely with

the Board and Board staff to provide the information and/or

documents requested and a written response which records

such actions.

Discussion.

As a part of this Final Declaration, the

CIA has attached at Tab 1 a list of the fifty-three requests

by number and a

short description of the subject of each.

At the Board's request this attachment includes at Tab 2

the

specific response to the request numbered CIA-16 (Oswald

Pre-Assassination File)

Beyond the fifty-three requests, the Board raised two

additional matters which tend to fall within the category of

special requests:

1) A request that the Agency review and declassify the

Board's interviews of former CIA officer and Mexico City

station employee, Anne Goodpasture; the Agency's response to

that request is complete.

2) A request for Board staff access to sealed

Rockefeller Commission records held by the Library of

Congress; these records were given to the Library by

Rockefeller via

a deed of gift which requires a letter from

the DCI before access can be granted. This letter will be

completed by 9 September 1998.

---

## Page 50



---

## Page 51

14.00000

FORMAL

REQUESTS

CIA - 1

CIA - 2

Attachment V. Tab 1

JFK Assassinations Records Review Board Requests

for Additional Information and Records

As of 1 September 1998

-

DESCRIPTION

RESPONSIBLE

COMPONENT

Information on the

organization of CIA

All directorates,

the Office of the

Director and HRP

CIA 2 through 5 were

HRP, DO

STATUS!

REMAINING

ISSUES

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

CIA - 3

CIA - 4

CIA -5

CIA - 6

CIA - 7

Cables and dispatches

Review of 60 CIA histories

HRP, DO

HRP, DO

HRP.

DO

DO

HRP, DO, DS&T

CIA - 8

CIA - 9

CIA - 10

CIA - 11

CIA - 12

CIA - 13

CIA - 14

CIA - 15

CIA - 16

Intelligence Community

Staff Records

Intelligence Community

Publications on Cuba or

USSR, Nov. 20-30, 1963

Interagency Source Register

Sylvia Duran Materials

Files on five persons

allegedly connected with

JMWAVE

Mexico City Back-channel

Communications

Mexico City Station annual

Reports

Win Scott files from

Russ

Holmes files

Oswald Pre-Assassination

Files

DCI/IRO

DI

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

CONTINUING

1 History

peptone access

COMPLETE

Documents

available; being

reviewed by

Board Staff

COMPLETE;

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

DO.

HRP, DO

DO, DA

DO

DO

HRP, DO

DO, DA

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

---

## Page 52

14-00000

INFORMAL,

REQUESTS

CIA-IR-01

CIA-IR-02

CIA-IR-03

CIA-IR-04

CIA-IR-05

CIA-IR-06

FIA-IR-07

CIA-IR-08

CIA-IR-09

CIA-IR-10

CIA-IR-11

CIA-IR-12

CIA-IR-13

CIA-IR-14

DESCRIPTION

Personnel Assigned to Post

from 1959 to 1964

Location of Certain

Cable

Full Computer Search for

HTLINGUAL files

RESPONSIBLE

COMPONENT

DO

HRP

DO

Disposition of Angleton Files

Possible foreign source for

records on Oswald

DO

HRP, DO

OKENCHANT - Information on

purpose and connection with

certain individuals

Claude Barnes Capehart

Unredacted copy of the

"Family Jewels" memorandum

George Bush computer search

Determination if CIA IG

DO

DS&T'

HRP, DCI/IRO

DA, DO

DCI/ IRO

Warren Commission critics

contacts with journalists or

ublishing houses

office/person dealing with

organized crime & Cuba

(focal

DO, DA

DO

HRP

ODCI/ OCA

Breckinridge files

oint

for HSCA

nvestigations

3

STATUSL

REMAINING

ISSUES

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

Documents/files

available; being

reviewed by

Board Staff.

COMPLETE

Board chairman

has requested a

0 Briefing or

his matter. I

e resolved o

5 September

COMPLETE;

Classified

Response

Provided.

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

Documents

available, being

reviewed by

Board Staff.

COMPLETE

---

## Page 53

14-00000

INFORMAL

REQUESTS

CIA-IR-15

CIA-IR-16

CIA-IR-17

CIA-IR-18

CIA-IR-19

CIA-IR-20

CIA-IR-21

CIA-IR-22

CIA-IR-23

CIA-IR-24

CIA-IR-25

CIA-IR-26

CIA-IR-27

CIA-IR-28

CIA-IR-29

CIA-IR-30

CIA-IR-31

CIA-IR-32

DESCRIPTION

Mexico City Station

electronic surveillance and

surveillance tapes

RESPONSIBLE

COMPONENT

DO

U-2 Files Shelflist

DS&T records on Castro

assassination plots

Information on one DO Office

Computer search on specific

individuals and organizations

"Monster Plot"

DRE monthly operational

reports

"A" file on Clay Shaw and Jim

Garrison

Watch Connittee files

Defector file

Zapruder film

Jordan James Pfuntner

Security files on five

individuals

McCone files

Oswald Le Winter

Cherepanov papers

Dulles calendar

AMWORLD- Information on

urpose and relation to Cuba

xile grou

DS&T

DS&T

DO

HRP, DO, DA

HRP

DO

DO

DCI / IRO

DA

DS&T, DA

DO, DA

DA

DCI/ IRO

DO, DA

. DO

DCI/IRO

DO

4

STATUSL

REMAINING

ISSUES

COMPLETE. The

and are avail-

able to NARA

September "99.

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE.

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE.

Classified

Response

---

## Page 54

4-00000

INFORMAL

REQUESTS

CIA-IR-33

CIA-IR-34

DESCRIPTION

FBIS-USR-92-112

Files of CIA

officials/offices

RESPONSIBLE

COMPONENT

DS&T

DO, ODCI

CIA-IR-35

CIA-IR-36

CIA-IR-37

Oswald related information

provided by Source identified

in RIF No 104-10151-10206

Handling of cables in 1963

William Pawley

DO

DO, DA

DO

STATUSL

REMAINING

ISSUES

COMPLETE

DCI Area

complete; DO

files being

reviewed by

Board staff.

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

COMPLETE

5

---

## Page 55

4-00000

---

## Page 56

14-00000

Central Intelligence Agency

Mashingtoa, D.C. 20505

24 December 1997

Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E. Street, N.W. (2nd Floor)

Washington, D.C.

20530

Dear Dr. Gunn:

Re: Request for Additional Information and Records

No. CIA-16 (Oswald Pre-Assassination Files) and

No. CIA-IR-24 (Defector File)

This is a partial response to the ARRB's referent

request for pre-assassination files this Agency may have had

on Lee Harvey Oswald. It is believed the following comments

and two enclosed documents fully respond to the Office of

Security questions. The DO response is pending.

1. At Tab A

containing information from the Agency's Office of Personnel

no prove detai

• is a 22 December 1997 memorandum

Security which provides details about the files it had on

Oswald prior to the assassination plus when and why they

were created.

These include the Office of Security file on

Oswald, a general file on Americans who had defected to

another country and information about HTLINGUAL files.

2. Also enclosed at Tab B is a 27 October 1977

memorandum from the Office of Personal Security which

explains the numbering of that Office's file on Oswald. In

particular, it explains why the "missing" volume V may never

chun ra detain thin

have existed..

3.

An ARRB staff member has reviewed the Oswald

Security

file and the file on American defectors.

4. The Oswald Office of Personnel Security file and

those pages of the defector file deemed relevant by the ARRB

• staff member have been forwarded to HRG for review and will

according to current release guidelines.

If you have any questions about this response, please

advise.

Sincerely,

J. Barry Harrelson

---

## Page 57

14-00000

i

22 December 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

1. Pursuant to ARRB "Resquet No. CIA-16, the Office of

Personnel Security conducted research for and existing pre-

assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald.

responses are provided to those questions which pertain to

the Office of Personnel Security (OPS) .

These responses are

the best reasonable answers based on available information.

Please note OPS was known as the Office of Security prior to

1 October 1994.

Question 1: Please identify, as specifically as

possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time

of the assassination of President Kennedy.

Response: At the time of the assassination, the Office

of Security (OS) held two files which contained information

on Lee Harvey Oswald. One file entitled "Defectors File"

(#0341008), contained a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, and

the second

file was Office of Security subject file on Lee

Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was reflected in

the automated security database known as the Management Data

Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were

originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the

A hand search was also conducted

of microfiche records which were superseded by the automated

system.

This hand search produced the same results as the

automated search of MDP/PS.

2 .

Within the ARRB request is specific mention of an

HTLINGUAL file. MDP/PS reflects OS maintained four official

files under this project--#0077826 (an administrative file),

#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0119144. All of

the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along

with numerous soft files.

Since

this material has been

destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files

contained

any information on Lee Harvey Oswald. The search

of Oswald's name did not produce an index reference to any

of these files.

information regarding the destruction of the HTLINGUAL

files.

This information was retrieved from the Information

Management Branch/Records Control Section and from a review

of general office administrative files.

---

## Page 58

4-00000

Question 2: For other than the 201-289248 file on

Oswald, please explain when each Oswald file was opened, the

purpose for the opening of the file, and the documents

that

were in the file at the time of the

assassination.

Response:

As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have been

destroyed.

Since OS files are usually set up in

chronological sequence, a search of files with numbers in

close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL was

undertaken.

This search revealed the approximate opening

dates for the four official HTLINGUAL files as:

#0077826

#0090079

#0093466

#0119144

Opened approximately July 1952

Opened approximately February 1953

Opened approximately July 1953

Opened approximately May 1955

3. HTLINGUAL waS

a Directorate of Operations project

involving the opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to

and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South

America.

In the Office of Security this project was known

as SRPOINTER with subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER,

INDIAN, BANJO, and SETTER. The Office of Security actually

conducted the opening and monitoring of mail with the

acquired information being referred to the Directorate of

Operations.

4. The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa

1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens

defecting to other countries and information regarding

foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.

This file contained information was from press clippings,

Directorate of Operations reporting, the Federal Bureau of

Preder

Investigation, the Department of State, and the various armed

services.

The pre-assassination documents located in this

file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:

a. Washington Star press clipping of 26 November 1959

entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at

15"

b. Department of State memorandum dated

25 October

1960 with attached list of American "defectors"

from May 1959 to October 1960

C .

Memorandum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated

31 October 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

2

---

## Page 59

4-00000

d. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated

1 November 1960 from M. D. Stevens.

subject:

American Defectors

e.

Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August

1961

f. Defector outline prepared in October 1961 listing

known defectors to the USSR; Red China, Cuba, and

United Arab Republic.

5.

The index reference to the Defectors File

identifies a list dated 13 September 1966 which was known as

the Defector Machine Listing.

This listing was a computer

printout of defectors

and provided limited biographic data

on each name.

This listing was maintained separately from

the actual Defectors File; notations within the Defectors

File show the Defector Machine Listing as permanently

charged to the Security Analysis Group of the Office of

Security. Efforts to locate this listing or determine its

disposition have been unsuccessful.

Information regarding the purpose of the Defectors

File was gleaned from a quick review of selected holdings.

An employee of this Office was, recalls the Defector Machine

Listing as being approximately one and one-half inches thick

and in two parts. One part consisted of an alphabetical

index of defector names

with assigned numbers.

The second

part listed the assigned numbers in numerical

order

and

contained the limited biographic data on each name.

7.

The subject file pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald

#0351164) was established clIca 1960.

It appears this file

was created as a separate repository for the numerous press

clippings and reports received from other government

agencies on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR

and his activities following his return to the United

States.

The first volume of this file appears to have been

preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents

contained in this file are as follows:

a. Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow

dated 31 October 1959

b. The Washington Post press clipping dated

1 November 1959 entitled "Ex-Marine Asks Soviet

Citizenship"

3

---

## Page 60

14-00000

Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow

dated 2 November 1959

d.

Department of State telegram #1448 from Tokyo

dated 9 November 1959

e. Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow

dated 9 November 1959

f. The Washington Post press clipping dated 16

November 1959 entitled "Rebuffed"

g. Evening Star press clipping dated 26 November

1959 entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to

Marx at 15"

h.

Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division

forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960

i.

Department of State Instruction A-273 dated

13 April 1961

j.

Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated

May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter

Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated

3 July 1961 from Dallas,

Texas

1. Note to CI/SI dated 28 September 1961

m.

Form 745 "Indices Search Request" dated

12 October 1961

n.

Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow

dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure

0 ..

Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization

Service name check form to Central Intelligence

Agency dated 5 December 1961

p.

Navy Department message to Moscow dated

3 March 1962

9. Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 1962 with

enclosure

I .

The Washington Post press clipping dated

9 June 1962 entitled "Third

American in 2 Months

4

---

## Page 61

14-00000

-

Leaves

Soviet 'Home'"

s.

Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal

of report from Dallas, Texas.

dated 30 August

1962.

8. In addition to those documents listed above, the

following documents were located in a subsequent. volume of

the Oswald file and also appear to predate the assassination

of President Kennedy •

t.

Undated sunmary of file information on Lee

Harvey Oswald

u.

Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City datec

20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

v.

Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated

17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

w.

Incoming cable #36017 from Mexico City dated

9 October 1963

x. Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated

10 October 1963

Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated

24 October 1963 (no mention of Oswald) .

Question 4: To the extent that Counterintelligence

and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination

files on Oswald, please explain why those offices

maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.

In answering this question, please make appropriate

references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSHB)

and to any other materials (including organizational

charts) that would help explain the jurisdictional and

organization reasons for which CI and OS would have

maintained such files.

Response: It is believed that OS holdings on tee

Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during

which he renounced his US citizenship.

Oswald was in

contact with the American Embassy in

Moscow, and the

Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.

Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the

Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution

of these reports.

In the beginning this material was

probably retained in the Defectors File. As the number of

5

---

## Page 62

14-00000

documents increased, a separate file was created to be the

repository of information on

the alleged American defector.

There is a notation in the Defectors File that a separate

file exists on Oswald.

9. Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of

Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.

Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-

assassination time frame. Of the documents listed above, a

majority of them contain a notation or the initials of

Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the

officer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing

of this information.

10. The Security Research Staff (SRS) was the

component responsible for collecting, developing, and

evaluating information of a counterintelligence nature to

detect and/or prevent penetration of the Agency's

organization, employees, and activities by foreign or

domestic organizations or individuals. SRS conducted

research in connection with employee loyalty cases and

maintained records identifying personalities, environments,

and personal traits of individuals who had been of

counterintelligence interest over the years. SRS maintained

liaison with various

government agencies in connection with

counterintelligence activities and coordinated the

counterintelligence effort throughout OS. Using

organizational charts of this time period, SRS reported

directly to the office of the Director of

Security.

11. A representataive of the Office of Personnel

Security /Management Staff was queried regarding the mission

and functions of SRS during the pre-assassination time

period. He made inquiries relating to the above request.

and the OPS/Information Management Officer retrieved retired

policy records for review.

The information on the mission

and function of SRS was

retrieved from the archived Office

of Security administrative and historical files as well as a

review of the security file on Marguerite D. Stevens.

6

---

## Page 63

14-00000

27 October

1997

-

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM:

Janet A. Ecklund

Chief, Information Management Branch

Office of Personnel Security

SUBJECT: OSWALD, LEE HARVEY

AIN: 0351164

-

The Office of Personnel Security was tasked on 31

January 1997 by the Historical Review Group/Center for the Study

of Intelligence (HRG/CSI), via the Directorate of

Administration/Information Review Office, with researching pre-

assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The tasking was.

generated by the John F. Kennedy Board's desire to review and

declassify relevant material. The results of this review were

forwarded to the HRG/CSI on 27 February 1997.

2.

During the Information Management Branch's

(IMB) research in response to the above tasking it was noted that

Volume V of the Oswald files was not on the shelf where Volumes

I-IV and VI-VII were located. A search of the entire area where

the volumes had been maintained failed to locate Volume V. The

IMB Files Section was subsequently charged with conducting an

all out search for the missing volume. The search failed to find

Volume V.

3.

In July 1997, the Oswald files were reviewed page by

page prior to being turned over to HRG/CSI and another attempt

was made to locate Volume V or to locate persons who might know

what happened to it. Volume V was not located nor were any

persons located who were knowledgeable of its status.

During the complete review of the Oswald files no

time gap was apparent and no one was located who could recall

ever seeing Volume V. This would suggest that either Volume v

had been consolidated into other volumes or that Volume V never

existed, but that a numbering error resulted in what should have

been Volume V being labeled as Volume VI. The use of Roman

numerals on the cover of the volumes might have caused this

error to occur.

---

## Page 64

14-00000

.....

DO Response to Board Request CIA - 16

Oswald Pre-Assassination Files

201 which appeared to be a file inventory.

document identified CI Staff as the file custodian.

CIC has confirmed that all CI Staff holdings were

incorporated into the 201.

Prior to establishing a 201, any documents received

would have been placed in an operational interest file.

We found no reference to the existence of an

operational file.

If such a file had existed, however,

it might not have been registered in the central index.

It was standard procedures that upon opening a 201, the

documents from an interest file would be transferred to

the 201.

Given that Oswald was a subject of the HTLINGUAL

operation, it is reasonable to believe that there was a

file on him. We destroyed all of the HTLINGUAL files

under court order, and no record was made of what files

existed.

We did not review all of the DO record system

to destroy all copies of material which may have been

derived from HTLINGUAL material.

We know, for

instance, that there are HTLINGUAL items related to

Oswald in the HSCA sequestered collection

In sun, the 201 on Oswald contains all the

information we are aware of that we had prior to the

assassination.

---

## Page 65

00000

Attachment II

---

## Page 66

14.00000

anke

Attachment VI

Disposition of CIA/HSCA Sequestered Collection and

other Assassination Records.

This attachment discusses proposed agreements

and understandings between the CIA, the Review Board and

terms under which those records to be declassified will be

dealt with.

Discussion.

1.

"Processing of CIA Assassination Records by September

1998".

Per agreement with the Review Board, the

declassification review of all records, unless specifically

designated for post-September 1998 processing by the Review

Board, in the following categories will be completed and the

releasable version of the records ready for transfer to the

National Archives by September 30, 1998:

• Non-duplicate documents from the CIA-HSCA sequestered •

collection, the Russ Holmes files and the LA Division

working files;

• Documents designated as assassination.records as a result

of Review Board specific requests for additional

information and records (CIA 1-16, CIA-IR 1-37) ;

• All documents from Lee Harvey Oswald's "A" file and post-

1978 201 file; Oswald's 201 file and security file and

Marina Oswald's 201 (microfilm version) have already been

transferred to NARA;

• Any non-duplicate documents discovered in the recent

searches undertaken to ensure full compliance with the

JFK Act; any new documents on Oswald will be added to the

post-1978 part of his 201 file.

2.

"Processing of Duplicate Documents and Commitments. for

the Future Treatment of Assassination Recoras".

• CIA/HSCA sequestered collection duplicates to be

completed and transferred to NARA by September 1999.

---

## Page 67

4-00000

• Russ Holmes Working Files to be completed and a

declassified version transferred to NARA by December

1998.

• Mexico City tapes (186) to be completed and transferred

to NARA by September 1999. [CIA-IR-15]

• Post-September 1998 Discovery of Assassination Records.

Diligent searches have been made and we are aware of no

assassination records being withheld from the Board.

However, given the Agency's decentralized records systems,

it is possible that assassination-related documents will be

discovered in the future. A guide has been prepared for

those officers whose work requires them to review Agency

documents and material (Executive Order Review, FOIA, etc.)

that may be subject to the JFK Act. Any assassination

records that are discovered will be processed according to

JFK release standards and forwarded to NARA. A copy of the

guide is attached. (TAB 1)

• Referrals not complete by 30 September 1998. The CIA

proposes

that it complete its review and return to

originating agency by April 1999 all unreviewed third

agency referral documents which were received prior to 30

September 1998.

To date the following referral have been

identified for possible post-September 1998 review:

a. Army's Investigative Records Repository (from Review

Board) :

File on Alfredo Mirabal Diaz

- 151

pages

b. SSCI -- Church Committee Records

(to be identified by Review Board staff)

c. JFK Presidential Library:

- TBD pages

Records from Robert Kennedy files

1484 pages

These documents have not been

i formally designated as

Assassination Records.

The CIA proposes that these be

handled in a manner similar to the John F. Kennedy

National Security Files on Cuba that were reviewed in

1996 by a joint CIA-State-DOD-Review

Board task force.

2

---

## Page 68

14-011000

3. "Custody of CIA Assassination Records to be Released in

2017."

The CIA proposes

that the classified versions of Lee

Harvey Oswald's Security File and "A" File along with Marina

Oswald's original 201 be transferred to the protected

(secure) portion of the JFK Collection At NARA by 30

September 1998.

The CIA will need to retain custody of the

classified version of the original Oswald 201 and the CIA-

HSCA

sequestered collection to complete the review of

duplicate documents by September 1999.

In September 1999, the classified versions of the

Oswald 201 (original and microfilm from the sequestered

collection) will be transferred to NARA.

Due to the

sensitive nature of the information in the remaining

sequestered collection, particularly the NBR material, CIA

proposes that the Agency and National Archives work out a

joint custody arrangement that would allow these record to

remain in CIA physical custody until 2017.

3

---

## Page 69



---

## Page 70

4-00000

-SECRET

Executive Order

8 October 1997

JFK Records Review Project

I. The Agency's JFK Collection.

(U)

The Agency's JFK records collection is made up

primarily of records pulled together for the Warren

Commission and House

Select Committee on Assassinations

(HSCA) •

There were eighty-one (81) Records Center-sized

boxes in the original collection. Of these, the first

seventeen (17) made up the Oswald 201 file.

The next sixty-

four (64) are referred to as the "JFK files" or sequestered

collection

and break down as follows: thirty-four (34) boxes

of DO materials; nine (9) boxes of Office of Security files;

fifteen (15) boxes of OLC materials; two (2) boxes each of

JC and 1G materials; and one (1) box of DDS&l documents.

HSCA originated material, including notes by HSCA staff

members, are found throughout the collection. Box 64

contains seventy two (72) reels of microfilm.

" (U)

The microfilm contains copies of complete files to

which the HSCA had access during its investigation. In

addition to the Oswald 201 file (12 reels), the microfilm

includes: 201 files on Cubans, Americans, and Soviets linked

to Oswald, the JFK assassination or the various

investigations (approximately 26 reels)and the Cuban

Revolutionary Council and other exile group activities

(approximately 13 reels); the personnel files of CIA staff

employees

organizations, projects, and other subjects of interest to

the HSCA investigation

(approximately 16 reels).

CL BY:

611637

CL REASON:

1:5(c)

DECLON:

x1

DRV FRM: LOC 3-82

SECRET

---

## Page 71

4-00000

- SECRET

(U).

We continue to identify other collections of documents

that properly belong within the JFK collection.

These

include:

The Oswald Security File; Agency working files

generated by JFK assassination investigations and requests;

and CIA documents found by other agencies and Presidential

Libraries and referred to CIA for review under the JFK Act.

II. The Time Frame of JFK Assassination Records.

(U)

In general, the time frame of JEK records commences

when Oswald arrived at the US air base (the U-2) at Atsugi,

Japan, in December 1957 and continues through the end of the

Garrison investigation in 1968.

Note, however, for

information which is clearly related to the story of the JFK

assassination or its investigations,

limitation.

there is no time frame

Any document or request that deals with the

assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, or the various conspiracy

theories should be referred to the HRG/JFK review project.

III. Key Topics, Etc.

(U)

Certain individuals, organizations, places,

projects, and subjects are central to the Oswald/ JFK story

and the ensuing investigations, which causes a number of

documents with no mention of Oswald or the assassination to

fall

within the purview of the JFK Act. Clearly, it is not

possible to list every category of document which may have

been reviewed and released under the JFK Assassination

Records Act.

The following categories contain examples of

information that are

considered to be within the JFK

review.

(U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations:

-- Warren Commission, 1963-64

-- James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68

-- Rockefeller Commission, * 1975;

-- Church Committee (Senate), * 1975-76

• -- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) ,

1976-79

* JFK Assassination, anti-Castro plots and CIA anti-

Cuban operations only.

B. Key subjects

(S) -- Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, JMWAVE Station,

and CIA stations in those cities through which

Oswald passed on his way to and from the Soviet

as they related to Oswald's activities or to

possible conspiracies.

SECRET

---

## Page 72

14-00000

SECRET

(AIUO) -- CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 (Mongoose, etc.)

if they involve JEK figures (see comment on

Meagher's

"index" below); most US anti-Castro

activities in 1963 are considered relevant.

(U)

-- Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders and

organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures.

-- Castro assassination activities (plans and

attempts); no limit on time frame.

-- Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK,

or New Orleans

during Oswald time frames (see attached chronology).

(AIUO) C. Key figures

(the following individuals are considered JFK

assassination-related, unless the context is clearly

unrelated or outside the appropriate time period)

-- AMMUG, Cuban defector;

-- Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any reference) ;

-- Silvia Duran, employee in Cuban Embassy, Mexico

City;

-- Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee;

-- Howard Hunt, CIA employee;

-- Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist;

-- Valeriy Kostikov, KGB Officer in Mexico City;

-- MI. & MIS. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents)

-- Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides;

-- Michael and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds;

-- David Phillips, CIA employee;

-- Richard Snyder, State Department Officer.

-- Winston Scott, COS Mexico City

For a more comprehensive list of subjects

and individuals

related to the JFK assassination, reviewers should consult

Sylvia Meagher's Master Index to the JEK Assassination

Investigations, The Scarecrow Press, 1980.

(U)

Action Officer:

Barry Harrelson (31825)

Attachment:

Oswald Chronology

SECRET

---

## Page 73

14-00000

SECRET

(U) Attachment:

Oswald Chronology, 1956-1963

--Joins Marines

--Arrives Atsugi (U2 Base) Japan

--Returns to US

--Hardship discharge

--Departs New Orleans for Moscow

10/26/56

09/12/57

11/02/58

09/11/59

09/20/59

via LeHavre, London, Helsinki

--Arrives Moscow

--Resides in Minsk

10/16/59

01/07/60-05/22/62

--Departs Moscow via train

06/02/62

--Departs Rotterdam via ship

06/04/62

--Arrives New York

06/13/62

--Fort Worth/Dallas,

06/14/62 - 04/63

- -New Orleans

04/63

- 09/63

--Mexico City

09/25/63

- 10/03/63

--Dallas

10/3/63

- 11/24/63

SECRET

---

## Page 74

14-00000

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

23 September 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Robert M. McNamara@DCl

Robert D. Caudle@DCI

Stephen W. DeVine@DCI

FROM:

Edmund Cohen

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

OIM

Re: blurb from JFK Board

Original Text of Edmund Cohen

Original Text of Edmund Cohen

TO: James R. Oliver@DA

TO:

James R. Oliver@DA

FROM:

Edmund Cohen

OFFICE:

• OIM

DATE:

09/23/98 08:04:16 PM

SUBJECT: gRe: blurb from JFK Board

After reading the note below, I spoke with the GC, who working with Bob Caudle, was seeking to have

included in the Board statement the fact that the DCI had sent a letter endorsing my declaration. /

suggested to the GC that even with this addition, the JFK Board comment would be most unfortunate.

The whole six year effort was designed to put to rest all of the conspiracy theories and this comment

would undercut the effort. In addition, it likely would result in significant additional questions, additional

work for OIM, OCA, OGC and PAS, and put the Agency in a bad light. I suggested that I should ask the

EXDIR to sign the declaration. The GC interposed no objection. I then spoke with the EXDIR who agreed

to sign a declaration if this would satisfy the situation. I informed the GC that the EXDIR was willing to

sign and the GC asked me to inform Bob Caudle, which I did. After you spoke with Judge Tunheim and

got his agreement to: 1) return the Cohen declaration and the DCI letter and substitute the EXDIR

declaration, and 2) eliminate the "blurb," I had the EXDIR sign the declaration.

I subsequently briefed the DDA, ADDA, and ADDA/IS. of the above.

Original Text of Robert D. Caudle

Original Text of Robert D. Caudle

This is what they are going to include in their report, according to fax I just received from Ron Haron:

"The Board has considered release of all CIA assassination records to be critical to successful

implementation of the JFK Act. Accordingly, the Board requested each of ClA's directorates to certify,

ADMINLSTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 75

4-00000

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

under penalty of perjury, that they had conducted thorough searches and identified all relevant records.

The CIA refused. The Board then, as an alternative, asked the highest officials of the Agency - - the

Executive Director and General Counsel - - to certify that ClA had met its obligations under the JFK Act

and that no records on Oswald or assassination were withheld. The CIA refused. Instead, the CIA

designated its Director of Information Management to sign CIA's Declaration of Compliance. In the

Board's view, CIA's highest officials should have been willing to certify, under oath, that the Agency has

complied with all the requirements of the JFK Act. The ClA's failure to do so raises serious concerns for

the Board that the CIA has in fact fully complied with the JFK Act."

CC:

Lanie P. D'Alessandro@DA, R. Bruce Burke@DCl, Lee S. Strick/and@DA, Walter I.

Hazlett@DA, J. Barry Harrelson@DCI

Sent on 23 September 1998 at 08:04:16 PM

CC:

Sent on 23 September 1998 at 08:09:39 PM

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNALUSE ONLY

---

## Page 76

4-00000

1, Barbara Blufer, declare and state based on my personal knowledge and the Information made

available to me in my official capacity that

1. I am the Information Review Officer for (IRO) for the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) of

the Central Intelligence Agency (Agency), I was appolnted to this position on 8 October 1997 and

have held varlous administrative and professional positions within the Agency since (1980). I am

responsible for the revlew of records maintained by offices In the DI that may contain JFK

Assassination recorde and may be responsive to Assassination Records Review Board (ARRS)

requests.

2. Since assuming my present position, I have had limited contact with the ARRB. With

respect em. Richards. m, her a , m men has be un the wi cha comma

with the Board.

3. Mr. Flynn has reported that, to ensure that the ARRB staff understood the DI records

system and search capabllies, the VIRO and the Di Information Management Oficer, Ms.

Diana Hastings, briefed the slaff on 13 May 1987. Other DI participants at the meeting were

«Joyce jump, Marie Menefei, and lise Harman. These officers were at that time assigned to the

DI Office of Information: Rasources. Ms. Hastings focused on the current DI records keeping

system, ard, as best we could, the system that exsted in the 19808. Di participants stressed

that the Direcords keeping system has evolved over time and that the Di le. continuously striving

lo achieve greater.consistancy in our procedures. Di participants candidly informed tie ARRB

staff that none of them-af the meeting had first hand knowledge of Di records keeping In the

1980s, and b) the system in place at that time was entirely paper-based and therefore could not

be considered as accurate as the present system. Members of the ARRB sald they underslood

this limitation.

Soir hynn futher reported that based on his recollection. wi..rynn.s.aware.ora

Imited number.of records searches the DI conducted in direct responso.to ARRB requests On

11 Jung: 1697. i personnel met with membors of the ARRB. Mi: Fynnhad amendedithis

meeting carter to give ARRB staffers. Michelle Combs and Bob Skvrlot; an even more detalled

bristing of Di's document search capabilities. The toples they asked the Dl to search are noted in

an attached memorandum to Barry Harrelson dated 17 June 1997.. The result of further

searchas (CLA -9) ara summarized a 19 June 1997 memorandum a member of the DVIRO's staff

prepared for. Mr. Barry Harraison, ClA's point of contact on the JFK as8a8sination lasue. This

memorandum is also arached.

• 5. On 21 August, Mr. Harrelson contacted me for a further search of Ol records, asking

specifically that the DI follow up on a previously search by extending the timeframe covered in

that original search. According to Mr. Harrelson, the ARRB requested a search for all documents

conceming Mexico, Cuba, or the USSR for the period from 20 November 1983 to 8 December

1983. On the basis of this request, a search was conducted 32 documents nol belonging to the

B. All employees of the Directorate of Intelligence have been furnished with a copy of

DC| Tenet's 22 July 1888 directive to all employees requiring them to search records in their

possession for information related to the JFK assassination that might not have been found In the

course of the searches conducted over the past & years.

7. I declare under penalty of perjury that foregoing is true and correct.

---

## Page 77

14-00000

Executed this 28th day of August 1998.

---

## Page 78

Neil Kently

October 24, 1975

BoX

MEMORANDUM FOR: 111 Divisions, Staffs, and Groups

SUBJECT

President Kennedy Assassination File

Search.

We are requested to search our files for any

classified material relating to the assassination of

the Harren

commission.

Report any documents, etc. on the three indi-

Viduals regardless of whether the information is related

to the assassination or not.

2. The

search must be completed as soon as possible.

A report (even if only a progress report) must be made to

John Michaels, Room 7F36, ext. 7654, no later than 1300,

Lathucklei

DOUGLAS P. MULHOLLAND

Acting Director

Current Intelligence

postzz1

---

## Page 79

4-00000

28hm-78

File Searach on President Kennedy's Assassination - OCI Front Office

1. Office of D/OCI has a file labeled: 'Material regarding

President Kennedy's Assassination,"

It contains:

.. Memo entitled: Rumours About Lee Harvey Oswald

hich discusses the rumor-mongering in the world publi

regarding the presumed assassin. Memo is Secret and dated

23 March 1964.

b. Listing of government leaders expected to attend

Kennedy funeral

C. Memo entitled: Fidel Castro's Speech, which

contained an "objective analysis" of implications of Kennedy's

assassination. Memo is Confidential and dated 25 Nov. 1963

d. FBis study, never disseminated, entitled:

Ine Past Soviet Propaganda Assessment of President Johnson.

Studir is Confidential and dated 25 November 1963

e. FIBS Daily Report - World Reaction Series - on

foreign radio and press reaction of death of Kennedy and

accession of Johnson. Official Use Only and dated 26 November

f. Memo entitled: Castro's speech of 27 November

on the President's Assassination.

Speech says Oswald the

innocent dupe of a complex plot.

Meno is confidential anc

dated 29 November 1963.

g. Uncäassified copy of Wash. Post article on

castro reaction to Kennedy death - November 29, 1963

h. Three copies of Memo entitled: World Reaction

• the Assassination of President Kennedy. Deals with ide

E possible coverup in killing of Oswald - to seal his lip

and protect the extreme right, whose tool he was. memos

F TOP SECRET DINAR and dated, 25 November 1963

are

23,24,7

Carla Despilstia

Copy passed o Me tach

28 Oar 75

---

## Page 80

14-00000

DECLARATION OF MARY IOU CUMMINGS

I, MARY LOU CUMMINGS, hereby declare and say as follows:

1. I am the Information Review Officer ("IRO") for the

offices of the Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) . I

was appointed to this position on 5 January 1998, and

have

helà various administrative and professional positions

within the Agency since 1981.

I am responsible for the

review of records maintained by offices in the DCI area

(Offices of the Director and Deputy Director (DCI&DDCI) ,

community Management Staff (CMS), National Intelligence * :

Council (NIC), Office of the Comptroller (COMPT) , Office of

the General, Counsel (OGC), Office of Congressional

Affairs (OCA), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office

of Public Affairs (OPA), Arms Control Intelligence

Staff(ACIS), and Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI))

that may contain JFK Assassination records and may be

responsive to ARRB requests.

2. By memo date 6 April 1995, the Executive Director (CIA)

requested that focal points for each Directorate be

appointed to be responsible for responding to requests for

information from the Assassination Records Review Board-

(ARRB) :

Until that time the Historical Review GLOUD (HRG)

of the Center for the Studies of Intelligence (CSI) had been

the principal liaison with the JFK Board. As of that date,

DCI area/IRO was appointed to be the DCI area focal point.

HRG would continue to receive requests from the Board

forwarding them to the Directorate focal point for action.

Responses from the Directorate were coordinated by HRG,

which then made the responses available to the Board.

3. In an effort to understand the DCI area records systems

and to ensure the conduct of thorough searches and responses, the

ARRB staff requested a meeting with the DCI area/IRO and key DCI

records management officers. Detailed questions were presented in

advance to CIA personnel who then provided complete responses to

the ARRB

staff during the summer of 1997. At that time HRG

instructed my predecessor to wait for formal taskings from ARRB

before proceeding with additional searches.

See Attachment 1

4. Based on personal knowledge and information reflected in

the records of the Del area/IRO, I am aware that the

following searches and reviews were conducted in response to

Board requests for DCI area records.

---

## Page 81

14-00000

..'

CIA - 1

ORGANIZATIONAL MATERIAL

The DCI area/IRO made available to the Board the following

records:

Organization of the Office of the Director, 1963;

Mission Statements for 1959,1962,1965, and 1966;

Relevant Office of Director Notices;

OGC and OIG Mission Statements for 1964, 1966,1969,1975 ,.

and 1976;

OLC Mission Statements for 1975 and 1976;

Names of Personnel Responsible for Liaison with the

Warren and Rockefeller Commissions, Pike and Church

Committees and the HSCA.

see Attachment 2

HISTORIES

Sixty-one histories were provided to the Board by CSI/HRG.

The ARRB staff is continuing to review the histories

determine their relevancy to the JFK assassination.

See Attachment 3

CIA - 8

Intelligence Comnunity Staff Records

Following the Board's request of 1 March 1996, the records

systems of CMS were searched for JFK assassination related

information with negative results. The Board then asked to

examine CMS shelf listings for the relevant time period. A

redacted copy of the shelf list was delivered to HRG in

April 1998. On 12 August the Board identified 14 CMS records

that they believe may be relevant. On 21 August, ARRB Staff

examined the responsive folders.

See Attachment 4

CIA-IR-08

Unredacted Copy of "Family Jewels" Memoranda

The Board has identified pages of the Memoranda to be included in

the JFK Collection.

The Board

to the necessary redactions

and the request was completed.

See Attachment 5

CIA-IR-09

George Bush Computer Search

The DCI area provided a response of "no record found" of any

contact with Bush in the 1960-1967 time frame.

See Attachment 6

---

## Page 82

4-00000

CIA-IR-10

IG Reports

In 3 August 1998, the DCI area/IRO informed HRG that OIG does no

naintain an index or inventory of IG cases.

material prepared by the IG on the JFK assassination were turnec

over to the Office of External Affairs (OEXA) .

There is no

indication that a report on the handling of Oswald was ever

prepared.

See Attachment 7.

CIA-IR-14

Breckinridge Files

The OIG located six documents that may be relevant to the JFK

Five documenta that they made available to one oara docated

See Attachment 8

CIA-IR-23

Watch Committee Files

Following a thorough search and review of CMS files, 12 documents

were turned over to the Board.

See Attachment 9

CIA-IR-28

McCone Files

The ARRB staff provided a list of McCone records that they wished

to review:

The DCI area/IRO, in turn, gave the ARRB stalI

complete access to the McCone files in March 1998.

The records

selected by the Board's staff are being processed for release.

On 30 April 1998, the DCI area/IRO was notified that the request

was complete.

The DCI area was then notified on 3 August the

there were missing McCone files that remained of interest to the

Board.

As soon as we receive a list of the missing files, we

will begin an in-depth review of Executive Registry records in an

effort to locate the missing file

See Attachment 10

CIA-IR-31

Dulles Calendars

The ARRB staff has completed their review of the Dulles calendars

and has requested that some pages be processed for release.

See Attachment 11

CIA-IR-34

File of CIA Officials and/or Offices

On 5 March 1998, the Board requested records concerning DDCIS

Charles Cabell and Marshall Carter and former General Counsel

Lawrence Houston. The DCI area/IRO recalled seven boxes of

relevant material from Records Center. The boxes were review by

ARRB staff during July 1998 and several records were selected for

---

## Page 83

14-00000

further processing.

OGC is currently reviewing files for

pertinent Houston records.

See Attachment 12

5. In addition to the formal requests, the DCI area/ IRO

completed the declassification review of three NIEs, documents

from the Ford

and Kennedy libraries, and an IG Report.

See Attachment 13

As this declaration demonstrates, the DCI area/IRO including

predecessors, to the best of his/her

ability has caused thorough

searches of the DCI area systems of records for records related

to the JFK assassination not included in the CIA-HSCA Sequestered

Collection and will place any newly discovered or created

assassination records into the JFK collection.

7. I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING AND THE

ATTACHMENTS (ATTACHMENTS 1 THROUGH 13, WHICH ARE INCORPORATED BY

REFERENCE) ARE

Virginia on this 28 day of

May hone lummens

Mary fou Cummings

---

## Page 84

14-00000

DECLARATION OF BECKY L. RANI

I, Becky L. Rant. declare and say as follows:

1. I am the Information Review Officer (IRO) for the Directorate of Administration (DA) of the

Central Intelligence Agency (Agency). I was appointed to this position on 3 February 1997. and have held

various administrative and professional positions within the Agency since 1965. I am responsible for the

review of records maintained by offices in the DA. Office of the Deputy Director of Administration

(ODDA), Center for CIA Security (CCS-formerly the Office of Security ((OS)). Office of Human Resource

Management (HRM), Office of Medical Services (OMS), Office of Finance and Logistics (OFL), Office of

Communications (OC), Office of Training and Education (OTE), Office of Facilities and Security Services

(OFSS), Agency Technology Services (ATS), Center for Security Evaluation (CSE), that may contain JFK

Assassination records and may be responsive to Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) requests.

2. To ensure that the ARRB staff understood the DA records systems and search capabilities, the

DA/IRO and DA Information Management Officer (DA/IMO) briefed the staff on 17 March 1997. The

briefing focused on the DA records systems that existed in the 1960s and the current records systems.

Questions that were provided by the staff prior to the briefing were discussed and an individual from the

Office of Communications (OC) attended to answer questions related to cable processing in the 1960s. In

addition to OC participation, the Offices of Finance & Logistics (OFL), Human Resource Management

(HRM), and Security (OS) provided written responses to the list of questions submitted by the staff. It was

agreed that the additional questions raised by the staff during the briefing would be tasked to the directorate

formally by the Agency JFK Focal Point/Historical Review Program (HRP). An outline of the records

briefing and a copy of the advance questions and the answers provided appear as Attachment 1.

3. Based on personal knowledge and on information reflected in the records of the DA/IRO. I am

aware.of the following searches that were conducted in response to specific AARB requests for DA records:

CIA 1 - Information on Organization of CLA

The DA provided from the records of the Regulatory Services Group/ODDA copies of Agency

regulations and notices pertaining to the organizational structure of the Agency during the time periods

specified by the ARRB staff. DA/IRO gave approval for the cleared staff members to review the material.

Subsequently the DA/IRO approved release of the following items:

31 mission statements and organization charts for the DDA (DDS) and Office of Security (full

release)

2 organization charts and mission statement of the Office of Communications (OC) (sanitized)

16 Agency mission, function and organization charts (full release with concurrence of the other

directorates) (Attachment 2)

..

CIA-7-Histories

The DA JFK Focal Point reviewed the index of histories produced by the CIA History Program -

for release lo the ARRB and approved access with certain restrictions. There is no record in the DAARO's

office that the staff requested access to the DA histories on the list. (Attachment 3)

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY WHEN REMOVED

FROM SECRET ATTACHMENT

---

## Page 85

4-00000

SECREX

CIA-12-JMWAVE 5 Files

The DA conducted file searches in OS and HRM for records on Theodore Shackley, Ronald Cross,

Bart Henry, Doug Gupton, David Morales. We were subsequently advised by HRP that the David Morales

OS file was part of the collection so the OS searched for records on the first four names only. OS

dentified files on Shackley, Cross and Gupton which were reviewed by the ARRB staff. HRM identifier

iles on Morales and Shackley which were provided to HRP. Neither office surfaced records on Bar

CIA-16-Oswald Pre-assassination Files

The Office of Security identified a multi-volume file and provided answers to questions posed by

the ARRB staff. (Attachment 5). The OS file was reviewed and in April 1998 was released to the

National Archives. NOTE: The attached 17 February 1997 OS memorandum describes records holding

related to HTLINGUAL and states that the files were destroyed in April 1994.

CIA-IR-03 HTLINGUAL File

See CIA-16 above and Attachment 5

CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart

Capehart's Office of Security file is in the sequestered collection. The DA JFK Focal Point

provided input on the question of protecting Capehart's relationship with global marine. (Attachment 6).

In coordination with the DS&T, HRP responded to the ARRB staff.

CIA-09 George Bush Computer Search

The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management reviewed the files of George Herbert

Walker Bush and found no documentation indicating that Mr. Bush had an affiliation with CIA during the

1963 time period. Attachment 7

CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission Critics

The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management and Information Management were tasked

with records searches on Edward Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg and Sylvia

Meagher. No records were found on Lane and Thompson. Weisburg and Epstein security files were made

available for ARRB staff review. An OS impersonal file was identified but had been destroyed in 1994.

HRM found only an OSS service card on Weisberg which has been supplied to HRP. OIM identified a file

on Epstein. Several FOIA and PA files also were identified. Attachment 8. Contains the DA response and

the final HRP response letter coordinated with the DA/IRO.

CIA-IR-13 - Office/Person Dealing with Organized Crime & Cuba

The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management and Finance & Logistics provided

esponses to this request. The Official Personnel File of Charles Ford was given to HRP, OS provided :

lescription of the OS file contents and OFL provided travel and financial records. Attachment s

•SECRE

--

---

## Page 86

4-00000

SECRET

CIA-IR-19 Computer Search on Specific Individuals and Organizations

The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Medical Services, Training & Education

conducted searches on the following individuals with described results:

Cherne, OPF provided to HRP; OS file made available for staff review

Leake, OPF provided to HRP, OS and OMS files made available for staff review

Garbler, OPF provided to HIRP, OS, OTE, OMS files made available for staff review

Verna Deane Brown, OPF provided to HRP

John A. McVickar, OPF provided to HRP

Byron Morton, No records

Marie Cheatham, No Records

The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management conducted searches on the following

individuals with results noted:

Spas T. Raikin, OS File described in attachment, No HRM record

Marilyn Murret, Index card only, No HRM record

Andrew Anderson, OS File(may or may no be correct file) made available, No HRM Record

Howard Geubler, No OS or HRM records

Gordon Novel, OS found cross reference to GARRISON file, No HRM Record

Edward S. Butler, OS found cross reference to GARRISON file, NO HRM Record

The Office of Security found no records on INCA (Information Council of the Americas) or

Permindex. Attachment 10

CIA-IR-21 DRE Monthly Operational Reports

HRP requested and was provided the Official Personnel File of George Joannides

CIA-24 Defector File

The Office of Security provided a description of "Defector Files" maintained by OS in a 17

February 1997 memo (See attachment 5)

CIA-IR-25 Zapruder File

The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Finance & Logistics searched for records

on William Green of Kodak Labs. All reported negative results. HRM confirmed that Homer McMahon

was an NPIC employee and provided bio information. Attachment 11

CIA-IR-26 Jordan James Pfuntner

The Office of Security conducted a search and reported that the OS file had been destroyed in

1980-81. Attachment 12

CIA-IR-27 Security Files on 5 Individuals

The Office of Security conducted a records search for files on the following individuals:

Richard C. Nagell

Gordon D. Novel

Jack L. Ruby

Walter J. Sheridan

Harold Weisberg

SECRET

---

## Page 87

14.00000

SECRET

The Nagell, Novel and Ruby files were designated assassination records and copies were provided

to HRP. The Sheridan and Weisberg files were made available and were reviewed by the ARB Staff.

(Attachment 13)

CIA-IR-29 Oswald Le Winter

The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Facilities Security & Services conducted

searches for information on Oswald Winter. HRM and OFSS reported negative results. OS found

information in an impersonation/crank file. The DA/IRO coordinated with the DO on a statement that was

provided to the ARRB staff. Attachment 14

CIA-IR-36 Handling of Cables in 1963

The DA/IRO provided coordination approval on a memorandum prepared by HRP describing

cable handling procedures Attachment 15

List of 38 Names of Interest to the ARRB-Provided by HRP 8/5/98

The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management searched records for information on 38

individuals listed in the attachment. The OS and HRM responses are attached. Attachment 16

4. As this declaration demonstrates, I and my predecessors to the best of our ability have caused

thorough searches of all relevant DA records systems for records responsive to the JFK: ARRB requests for

information. In addition, the offices of the Directorate of Administration have certified to me that all

employees have been furnished with a copy of DCI Tenet's 22 July 1998 directive to all employees

requiring them to search records in their possession for information related to the JFK Assassination that

might not have been found in the course of the searches conducted over the past 6 years.

5. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this 21 day of August 1998.

Becky L./Ran

Information Review Officer

Directorate of Administration

-

SEERET

---

## Page 88

10000-

---

## Page 89

14-00000

Administrative Internat Use Only

Directorate of Administration

Briefing for the

JFK Assassination Records Review

Board Staff

on

Records Management in the DA

17 March 1997

Carol M. Johnson

DA Information Management Officer

2B17 IP Bldg.

703-613-1205 Secure 31205

g:UrolbriefingVfkbref.ppt

Becky Rant

DA Information Review Officer

2B17 IP Bldg.

703-613-1204 Secure 31204

Administrative internat Use Only

Page 1

---

## Page 90

Administrative-titerraitse Onty

Directorate of Administration=

TOPICS

• CIA Information Services Strategic Plan

• Information Management Program Segments

• Information Management Goals

• Organization of Records Management In the Agency

• DA Information Management Officer (IMO)

• DA Information Review Officer (IRO)

• Deputy Director for Support (DDS) - 1965

• Deputy Director for Administration (DDA) - 1997

• DA Records

9: Viro\briefing Vrkbref.ppt

Administrati

wetternet 05e-01ity

Page 2

---

## Page 91

14-00000

Administrative-taterrat toe Daly

Directorate of Administration

CIA Information Services Strategic

Plan

• "Information and Records Management, including

Classification Management, is a fundamental and

essential business requirement for the Agency."

• "The ClA's Information Services shall...ensure

that each official record is appropriate, accurate,

secure and retrievable throughout its life cycle

regardless of physical form or media."

g:lirolbriefing.jrkbref.ppt

Administrative itunal the Only

Page 3

---

## Page 92

4-00000

Administrative interrat toe Craty

Directorate of Administration

Information Management Program

Segments

• Records Management

• Classification Management

• Information Disclosure

• Information Automation

g: VrolbriefingÜrkbref.ppt

Administrative-Internal Use Only

---

## Page 93

14-00000

Achministrative-Internal lisa Daly

Directorate of Administratione

Information Management Goals

An effective and efficient information management

ensures that records are available:

• to meet day-to-day business needs

• to ensure the continuity and consistency of records

• to provide corporate memory and history

• to protect the rights and interests of the organization, the

employees and the public

• to meet legal requirements

g:irolbriefing jfkbref.ppt

Administrative-Intaraat torOmfy

Page 5

---

## Page 94

14-00000

Organization of Records

Associate Deputy Director for Administration

Information Services

Management in the Agency

This slide is Administrative Internal Use Only A0230912

D/Info Mgt *

OIT

Recruitment

& Training*

Policy Research

& Audit*

Archive &

Preservation*

. System

Development*

DCI/IMO*

DA/IMO*

DI/IMO*

DOAMO*

component/imos

component/imos component/imos component/imos

7

Agency Information &

Records Management

Panel

* = member

DS&T/IMO*

component/imos

Chart 11

•Ine

---

## Page 95

4-00000

Achministraive internal Use Only

Directorate of Administration

DA Information Management

Officer (DA/IMO)

• The DA/IMO is the Deputy Director for Administration's

representative for issues relating to records and

classification management.

• The DA/IMO is responsible for protecting equities

consistent with existing statues, EO guidance and

internal rules and regulations governing the creation,

maintenance and use, and disposition of information.

g:lrolbriefingVrkbref.ppt

Administrative-Internet too Onty

---

## Page 96

14-00000

Administrativa Internal llce Caty

Directorate of Administration

DA Information Review Officer

(DA/IRO)

• The DA/IRO is the Deputy Director for Administration's

representative for reviewing all DA relevant information for

release to the public under FOIA, PA, EO, and other

information release programs.

• The DA/IRO is responsible for protecting equities

consistent with existing statutes, EO guidance and internal

rules and regulations governing the review and release of

classified information, specifically, in response to:

• FOIA/PA/EO Requests

• Congressional Inquiries

• DOJ Inquiries/Litigations

• IG Investigations

• Special Searches & Other Release Programs

g:lirolbriefingljfkbref.ppt

Administrative tot

trat toe caly

Pnge 8

---

## Page 97

4-00000

Administrativa latarat tot Only

Directorate of Administration

Deputy Director for Support

(DDS) - 1965

• Office of the DDS (ODDS)

• Office of Security (OS)

• Office of Personnel (OP)

• Office of Medical Services (OMS)

• Office of Logistics (OL)

• Office of Finance (OF)

• Office of Communications (OC)

• Office of Training (OTR)

g:lirolbriefingljfkbref.ppt

cremar to endy

Page 9

---

## Page 98

4-00000

Administrative.InternaLlica Daly

Directorate of Administration

Deputy Director for

Administration (DDA) - 1997

• Office of the DDA (ODDA)

• Office of Personnel Security (OPS)

• Office of Facilities & Security Services (OFSS)

• Office of Finance & Logistics (OFL)

• Human Resources Management (HRM)

• Office of Medical Services (OMS)

• Office of Communications (OC)

• Office of Information Technology (OIT)

• Office of Training & Education (OTE)

• Center for Security Evaluation (CSE)

g:lirolbriefingljfkbref.ppt

Admini

internat Use Only

Page 10

---

## Page 99

4-00000

_Administrative laternet toe Onty

Directorate of Administration

DA Records

• Information Management Officers

• Core functions

• 1960s

• 1990s

• Records Life Cycle

* Creation

• Maintenance & Use

• Disposition

• File organization

g: lirolbriefingUrkbref.ppt

Pagell

---

## Page 100

4-00000

Directorate of Administration=

DA Records

......

• Records Control Schedules

• Temporary

• Permanent

• Records Storage

* Short term

* Long term

• Accountability

• Personal

• Organization

• Search & Retrieval

g:ürolbriefingVrkbref.ppt

Administrative-InternaLlica Only

Page 12

---

## Page 101

4-00000

Administrative Intornal there Saty

Directorate of Administration

DA Records

• Access

• Safeguarding

• Preservation

• Hardcopy

• Electronic

• OGC Retention List

• Automation

g:Urolbriefingljfkbref.ppt

Administrative-Internal Ilse Only

Page 13

---

## Page 102

14-00000

'9?

11:A5DM

ir"

P.1

DRAFT

Types of Questions for DA Records Briefing

March 17, 1997

Budget and Finance

1. In Cold Warrior, (p. 52) Mangold refers to a CI secret slush fund which was tightly

controlled by Angleton and never audited by, the usual procedures. According t

Mangold, it was this fund which allowed Angleton to run his own operations without

supervision. Did the fund exist? Was this fund ever audited? Are there any, records of

CI operational expenses for the period 1959-63?..

2. Mangold also refers (p. 53) to an unnamed CI/B&F officer who says he worked for

Angleton from 1958-1964 and never dealt with him directly on a single matter. Is there

a list of B&F officers assigned to the CI Staff from 1959-63. Do their records still exist?

3. We have seen Directorate of Operations monthly operational reports which contain

information on the allocation/ distribution of operational funds. Are there other DO or

DA records which reflect how a certain project utilized its funding? Can this type of

information from the early 1960's still be retrieved?

4. What records are kept on disbursements to sources in the field? I, hypothetically,

LHO had received money from the Agency, what records would exist?

Personnel

1. What records are maintained on contract personnel?

Security

1. For the period between 1955-65, what was the universe of files that OS had on

individuals or groups?

2. How are Office of Security records indexed?

3. What was the function of the Office of Security / Security Research Staff (OS/SRS)?

Why were defector records kept in this component?

DRAFT

There fog were belied

in full in 104-11-333-10002

JFK-M1-18, F3

---

## Page 103

r.c

DRAFT

4. In the OS/SRS:memo of Oct 31, 1960; written by Marguerite D. Stevens, the fie

numbers of several défectors are listed: "Robert Edward Webster, BE-18854; Lee

Harvey Oswald, MS:11165; Libero Ricclardell, MS 8295; Viadimir Sloboda, MS 10565;

and Joseph' Dutkanict, MS-10724." What do the "MS" and 'EE" fle prefixes,designate?

How are these designations assigned?

5. Does OS process security clearances for non-employees (e.g. sources) to receive

access, to clasaified information? What kinds of files are created by this process? How

long are these fles maintained. For example, Clay Shaw was given a security clearance

and had access to classified information based on his "responsibilities" as a source for

the Domestic Contacts Division (DED).

6. Where are recörds that would describe liaison (etc.) cooperation or operations

between

OS arid CI located? How are these records organized?

7. Where are records regarding operations that OS participated in or ran located. For

example, where are the OS records on the Castro assassination attempts?

8. How many files did OS have on Oswald? Which OS components maintained files on

Oswald? Why did O'S have any files on Öswald?

nuts a bolt

Do the no on th to b

on coble process en

so time period.

dew come in, deer

ypted. What

rappened from the

time a Calle

is sent om deced site centel

how dissem on a deck an Ngs,

DRAFT

mEri

nife

---

## Page 104

4-00000

Budget and Finance

Question

1 - In Cold Warrior Mangold refers to a CIA secret

Blush fund which was tightly controlled by Angleton and not

audited by usual procedures.

Did the fund exist?

Was the fund

audited?

Are there any records of CI operational, expenses

for

the period 1959-63?

According to C/Financial Service Division (FSD/OFL) who

contacted & former finance officer who was a secretary in CI in

1957-60, to the best of their recollection CI did not have their

own finance officer.

C/FS also talked to another officer during

that era who did not recall that CI was one of the early offices

to do their own certification of expenses.

It was his feeling

that there very well may have been a CI fund that was not

handled in the usual way however it is very unlikely to

impossible that any fund was not audited/certified in some

fashion (i.e. reviewed and certified decentrally and only

reported on the books in some aggregate amount). He commented

that he has never in discussion with

finance officers heard of an

account managed by staff officers that wasn't certified by

someone in finance.

Question 2 - Mangold also refers to unnamed CI/B&F officer

who says he worked for Angleton from 1958-64 and never dealt with

him directly on a single matter.

Is there a list of B&F

officers assigned to the CI staff from 1959-63?

Do their records

still exist?

OFL - The Career Management Officer stated that we would

need the name of the B&r officer in order to identify if he/she

was assigned to the CI/Staff. CMO also stated that he does have

some old records during that time period pertaining to

assignments but the list he has is alphabetical by name.

The

current procedure is that the soft file maintained in OFL

contains the assignment of each officer in the biographical

profile.

HRM - Has microfilm staffing complements for the 1959-63

timeframe.

These staffing complements were created on a

quarterly basis and are broken down by the office (location).

level.

With the correct directorate/office name we can visually

search these microfilm records, find the correct office and

produce hardcopy reports listing the employees on the rolls for a

given quarter. The hardcopy report could be reviewed to break

down the office listing by occupation and create a list of names

B&F officers assigned to CI

from 1959-63.

The employee name could then be used to located

current or archived HRM files. CAUTION: 1) If an individual came

---

## Page 105

14-00000

and left an office during the same quarter they might not appear

on the stäffing complement. 2,

an individual was TDY to an

office they would not appear on the staffing complement of that

office. 3) If an individual

was being paid by their home office

they would not appear on

the staffing complement of the outside

office they

were supporting.

Question 3 - We have seen DO monthly operational reports

which contain information on the allocation/distribution of

operational funds.

Are there other DO or DA records which

reflect how a certain project utilized its funding? Can this

type of information from the early 1960s still be retrieved?

The DO operational fund records would contain expenditures

against a certain project or operation.

However, according to

C/FSD the system that preceded the General Accounting System

(GAS) WaS RCA 501 (not sure what this contained) but in all

probability has been destroyed, would have this type of

information also. More information may have been recorded in 201

files similar to today's automated systems.

Question 4 - What records are kept on disbursements in the

field?

If hypothetically LHO had received money from the Agency

what records would erist?

According to the OFL Recoids Cortrol Schedule station

accounting containing indigenous personnel are kept for 55 years,

station accounting not containing indigenous personnel are kept

20 years.

Personnel

Question 1 - What records are maintained on contract

personnel?

Responsibility for records maintained on independent

contract personnel was transferred to CEL o/a 1 October 1996.

Staff contract personnel files continue to be maintained by HRM.

Office Contract Personnel Files contain many of the same

items found in the staff Official Personnel File (OPF) --

application info, actions (Staff contracts only) clearance info,

secrecy agreement, etc., and also contract info (agreements,

amendments, terminations, etc.) A separate payroll file was also

maintained.

IC's - fee for task

Staff Contracts

- hired for job--not to exceed 5 years.

Contract files can be opened/maintained/retired in true

name, pseudo, alias or crypt depending upon the sensitivity of

the contract.

---

## Page 106

14-00000

Question 1 - For the period between 1955-65, what was the

universe of files that os had on individuals or groups?

Ops located information which describes the categories.0f...

files created.during.this.time.frame.but it is. impossible t0......

state this is äll inclusive:

General

- Usually unsciicited correspondence of crank

variety and junk.

Security Research Staff - possibly material of

counterintelligence interest.

DCS contacts - persons who travel abroad and/or have

specific information.

Contractor Employees - industrial contractors with

collateral and/or SCI accesses

Miscellaneous - Includes publications, organizations,

intelligence services, etc.

Alien - Foreign nationals who were of interest

New Building - Persons involved with construction of

original Headquarters Building

Regular - Files which included staff employees, contractors,

GSA/GSI, etc.

Question 2 - How are Office of Security records indexed?

prior to 1964 all- index records were maintained on 3x5 inch

index cards.

When the information was known, these cards

included names (primary, allas, telecodes), ile numbers.

kin/relatives, location/residence, DPOB, citizenship, occupation,

polygraph number, reference source data,

information codes,

remarks, SSN, sex, employer, and file retirement data. To locate

record, the subject of interest was searched in this card

During mid-1964 these index cards with the exception of

impersonal entities, were under conversion to a keypunch system.

The impersonals (companies, publications, intelligence services,

organizations,

etc.) were maintained on

cards until much later,

possibly mid-1970s.

Aside form the subject name indices, the

Office of Security also indexed information of interest within a

file record.

This information could include associates,

companies, publications, other government agency reports

'information, etc.

TODAY'S INDEXING PARAMETERS ARE VERY LIMITED.

-...

---

## Page 107

4-00000

Question 3 - What was the function of the office of

Security/Security Research Staff

(OS/SRS)? Why were defector

records kept in this component?

.The-SecurityResearch.Staff.(SPS/.was. the component

responsible.for collecting...developing. and_evaluating

information of a counterintelligence nature to detect andlor

prevent penetration of the Agency's organization, employees, and

activities by foreign or domestic organizations or individuals.

SPS conducted research in connection with empioyee loyalty cases

and maintained records identifying personalities, environments,

and personal traits of individuals who had been of

counterintelligence interest over the years.

SPS maintained

with various government agencies in connection with

counterintelligence activities and coordinated the counter

intelligence effort throughout OS. SRS reported directly to the

Director of Security.

Question 4 - In the OS/SRS memo of Oct 31, 1960 written by

Marguerite D. Stevens, the file numbers of several defectors are

listed.

What do the MS and EE file prefixed designate? How are

these designations assigned.

As noted in question 1, records were categorized according

to the type and the older file numbers reflected

the

file

category.

"M" designated a miscellaneous record; "S" designated

a Security Research Staff record.

Therefore "MS" most likely

referred to a miscellaneous record of interest to the Security

Research Staff.

"E" or "EE" designations covered subjects of

interest to the Domestic Contacts Division for

information/intelligence purposes. •It appears that

at least some

of these alpha designations were converted, to numerical values

circa 1964.

---

Question 5 - Does OS process security clearances for non-

employees (e.g. sources) to receive access to classified

information?

What kind of files are created by this process?

How long are these files maintained.

Security clearances per se are not processed for non-

employees

(sources/ contacts).

The Office of Security conducts

appropriate national agency checks to try to determine the

reliability of those individuals who are of interest for contact

purposes because of their foreign travels, specific scientific

information, etc.

In a few instances an ad hoc

clearance/ validation may be requested in the event some

classified information would be revealed in the course of

acquiring intelligence from these sources.

The validation period

is normally five years.

files created are maintained in

the individual's name for a period of ten years after the

validation period has expired

The DO would

most likely have

further information on a particular source.

---

## Page 108

14-00000

Question 6 - Where are records that would describe liaison

(etc) cooperation or operations between OS and CI located? How

are

these records organized?

cait che short turnarcond time imposed on responding io this

request no information couid be

readily located to provade an

answes to this

question.

It is believed that it information

s...

this nature does exist,

it may "be located in archived policy o

-....

administrative files of the office of security andior Security

Research Staff.

retrieval and reriew of this information wouls

require an extensive research effort. Officers wino may possess

knowledge of this type of record were queried and it was

suggested that info responsive to this question may possibly be

located in DO recoras.

Question 7 - Where are records regarding operations that OS

participated in or ran located?

For example, where are the os

records on the Castro assassination attempts?

Records on operations and/or projects in which the Office of

Security was involved in the past have most likely been

destroyed, unless they are maintained because of congressional

directives or the records contro

schedules.

The Office of

Personnel Security has the capability of retrieving a listing of

any current records with the prefix or "project" or "operation".

If the title does not include these words, retrieveal would be

difficult unless an exact name or acronym is known for a

Question 8 - How many files did os have on Oswald? Which os

components maintained files on Oswald? Why did OS have any files

on Oswald?

OPS answered in CIA-16. Copy attached.

---

## Page 109

14-00000

Tohr:

Thanr you for agreeing to participate in briefing the JFK

assassina-son Recoras Review Board (ARRB) to be hela on Monday,

17 March, at 2:00 p.m., in 2C06 IP Bldg.

I regret the short

As we discussea, the APPP has

asked for information

relating to the creation, transmission, and dissemination of

cables and your name instantly came to mind.. Their specific

questions are:

1- Can you describe the cable process in place in the Agency

during the

1960-1964 time period?

Prior to 1962 messages were delivered to the DeD

(Development Products Division) at 1717 H Street or to the

Communications Center at "I" Street. In addition there

also was a l building that received special traffic.

After 1962 messages came into the CIA Headquarters and

were processed in different areas depending on the

types of traffic.

--

Imagery traffic would be sent to to a specific floor

for the imagery personnel. Intercept and Special Programs

would either be passed to a Special Sections Area of the

Comunications Center or to the Cable Secretariat.

2- How did cables come in?

Messages came in from the field via the Brandy Station State

Channels or military channels.

3- How were they decrypted?

Messages were deciphered using a OTT (One Time Tape)

or a OTP (One Time Pad) process.

-

---

## Page 110

4-00000

4- What nappened from the time à caris was

sent from a field

site until it arrived

on a dest. àt Headquarters?

Messages

sent from a field site would be passed to a

••'•

i....

communicator; encrypted and transmitted via

...

High Frequency Radio. The message received from Brandy

and relayed to headquarters and then it was decrypted.

The analyst of the Cable Secretariat would then read the

message and match what they read against customer

requirements. They then would have a typist type the

dissemination on the message. The message then would be

picked up from the message center by the various staffs

and or divisions.

5- How were cables disseminated?

See item four.

--

Please let me or Becky Rant, DA/IRO, know if you have any

other questions or concerns prior to the briefing.

CC:

Becky L. Rant

Andrea E. Boyce

Sent on 13 March 1997 at 03:17:34 PM

---

## Page 111

4-00000

'4!

If:-=4

SCOPET

27 FebIuary 1997

MEMOFINDUN, FOP.:

FROM:

-

SUBuECT:

FEFEFENCE:

J. Barry farre-sor.

Riscorical Review Grous

Center for the study of intelligence

Janet A. Eckluna

Chief, Informacion Management Z=anch

Office Of Personnel Secuatty

Request No. Cih-16 fIOm UFK Boars

CS= 97-052 Gated i January 1997

richededix 104-10-335-10014

JFK-M-19,F16

part if 52 py. are.

=.

(5) The Difice of Personnel Security has researched

Enon. the Assassination Records Revier Soard

====ing to the existence of pre-assassicarton Errest on Lee

FaTter Oswala.

z. 15) == response to the specific questions listed

i= Me.

Narwell's letter to the Eistorical derlew Growe, ene

Faironing responses are provided to loose three questions

pertaining to the Office da Personnel Securiay (DPS). These

responses are the best reasonabie answeis based on available

¿=Formation.

Please note OPS was known as the Cifice di

Secually Prior i0 1 Ociober 1994.

question ii (0) Please identify, as specifically as

possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald a= the time

of the assassination o Presiden- Kennedy.

Besperse: (U) Ai ine time of the assassinazion, the

CiFice dE SecuriTy (OS) neia iwo Siles which contained

information on bee jarvey oswald. A file entitled Defectors

File (#0342008) contained a reference io Lee Harvey oswald,

Regraded Confidential

When Separated From

secret Attachment

CL BY: 0605636

CL Reason: 1.5 (c)

DECL ON: X1

DRV FROM: COV 1 - 82

-SECRET

---

## Page 112

14-00000

SECPET

and the office of security also had a subjeci file on Lee

Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was refleczed in

=he automated security database known as the Management Daia

Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were

originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the

above numbers circa 1964. A hand search was aiso conducted

oE microfiche records wrich weze superseded by the automated

sysien.

This hand search produced the same resules as the

automated search of MoP/PS.

(U) In your request specific mention is made of an

ELINGUA file. MOP/PS reflecis OS maiatained four official

Eles under this projeci--÷0Q77826 (an adminisirative filel,

$0090079, $0093466 la general filel, and 70129144. All CE

he EarINguzi files were destroyed on & April i9s4 along

niza numerous soft files.

since this material has been

destroyed, OPS cannot definitively staie whether these files

concained any information on lee Harvey Oswals.

osmalá's aame did not produce an index reference to any de

-nese files.

regarding the destruction of the EraiNeuro Eides. Cris

i-formation was rearieved Erom tira Boifman de ene

=-formation Management Branch/Records Contest Section and

i=om à review of general office administrative files.

euestienzi (J) Other than for the 201-259248 file

on Oswald, Please explain when each Oswalà file was

opened, the purpose for ine opening of the filei and

ene documenis that were in the file aù the time of the

assassination.

Respense:

(ü) Às noted above, all Eti Nouri tiles bave

been destroyed.

since os files are usually set to in

chroaclogical

sequence, a seaich of files with numbers in

close proximity to those recorded for HaLinGuAi was

wadertaken.

This search

revealed the approximate opening

dates for the four official HrLINGUAL files as:

# 0077525

H0090079

#0093466

#0119144

Opened approximately July 1952

Opened apprecinately February 1953

Opened approximately July 1953

Opened approximately May 1955

2

SE

---

## Page 113

14-00000

SISRET

(U) HTLINGUA, was a Directorate of Operations project

that involved opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to

and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South

America.

In OS this project was known as SRPOINTER with

subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER, INDIAN, BANJO, and

SETTER. OS conducted the actual opening and monitoring of

mail with the acquired information referred to the

Directorate of Operations.

(U) The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa

1950 for the purpose of recording information on Us citizens

defecting to other countries and information regarding

foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.

This compilation of information was received from press

clippings, Directorate of Operations. reporting, the Federal

Bureau of Investigazion, the Department of State, and the

various armed services.

The pre-assassination documents

located in this file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:

a .

Washincion Star press clipping of 26 November 1959

entitleá "ü.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at

15"

D. Department of State memorandum dated 25 October

1960 with attached list of American "defectors"

from May 1959 to October 1960

Memorandum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated

31 October 1950 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

d.

Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated

1 November 1950 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

e.

Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August

1961

..f.. Defector, outline prepared in. October 1961 listing

known defectors to the USSR. Red China, Cuba, and

United Arab Republic.

---

## Page 114

14-00000

SECRET

(5)

The inder reference io the Defectors File

identities à lisa dated a3 September 1955 wrick was known as

the Detector Machine distiag.

This listing was a computer

pIinious of detectors wanen refiecied limited biographic

data or each name.

This Listing was maintained separately

from the acuual defecsors File; notations within the

Defectors File show ine Defecio. Machine Listing as

permaneatly charged to the security Analysis Group of OS.

Eiforts io locate this lisuing or determine the disposition

nave beer unsuccessiu!.

(J) Informacion regarding the purpose of the Defeciors

File was gleaned fror. a quick review of selected acidings.

Kaize Nakai of inis citice at one time was assigned to the

Security Analysis Group and recalis the Defecio= Machine

Fisting.

From her recollection, tais machine Listing was

appearimately one and one-halé laches thick and was ta =wo

paris.

one pare consisted of an alprabetical index si

jeferior names with assigned aurioess.

The secona pai-

Listed the assigned numbers in numerial-order and contained

Linined information on each name.

¡ci the specia: investigations Branch of Eavestigations

Division is the current operating component encompassing mosi

== Ine Security Aralyeis Group Eunations siill conducied :=

OPS.

Gail dewell cé this office was queried regarding pitice

noldings relating to the Defecior Machine disting.

Ms.

Jewell had no knowledge of the listing and suggested milliam

Eiibest as à resource. Ma. Gilbera, CiC Tiaison Dificer,

could not recall ine listing, opined it may have been

destroyed, and suggested contacting Zachary Filis of the

Countezintelligence Cense= (CIC).

(C) CIC assumed many of the fuaciions previousiy

conducied by the Security Analysis Group. Ma. Filis was

queried regarding the possibility the Defector Machine

Listing may have been transierred to CIT during the

readigament of duties.

Ma. Files advised the Defector

Machine Listing could not be located in cil holdings; and re

has made inquiries with Directorate of Operations

counterparis regarding the listing.

SEGRET

---

## Page 115

14-00000

The subject file pertaining to vee harvey Oswald

1:0351-54) was established circa

1560. it appears this file

was created as a sepazate repository for the numerous press

crippings and repores received from other government

agencies on the defection ci lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR

and his acrivities following his rezurn to the Unised

The sis= volume of this file appeas to have been

pIeserved as the pre-assassiration file, and the documents

contained in this file are as follows:

Department of State telegram 71304 from Moscow

aared 3i october 1959

the hastition pos- press clipping dated

¿ November 1959 entitled "Ex-Marine Asks Soviet

Citizenscio"

Jeparament of Suare Dispatch 5254 #Em Moscow

cated 2 Wovenber -959

Deparument of Seate telegram #1448 from Tokyo

Lazed e November =955

e. Jepartment of State telegram #1358 EI MOscOW

Sated 9 November 1959

= The Wastine-on 20st press clipping dated 15

November 1959 entitled "Rebuffed"

raning Sian press clipping dated 26 Novembe=

1959 entitled "U.S. Jefector to Reds Turned io

Marx at 15"

Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division

Éorwarded to Office of Security in Masch 1950

Jepasemeni cê Siate instruczion A-273 dated

13 ADI: =951

Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated

May 1961

with enclosure of Oswald letter

SECRET

---

## Page 116

14-00000

SUET

i..

Fedeza: Bureau of Investigation report dated

= July 1s6i iron. Bainas, Texas

1. Noie to cilsi dares 28 September :961

TI.

Form 745 "Indices Search Requesi" dated

12 OCLODEE 1961

n. Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow

dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure

o. Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization

Service name checi: fom to Central

Intelligence

Agency dated 5 December 1961

?. Navy Department message to Moscow dated

3 Marcia 1952

C. Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 2962 with

enciosare

=. The haskincion Pose press clipping dated

9 June 1962 entitied "Third American in 2 Months

Leaves Soviet 'Home'"

5. Federal Bureau of investigation transmittal

of repõra from Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August

1962.

In addition to those documents listed above, the

Ellowing documents were located in a subsequent volume of

the Oswald file and also

appear to predate the assassination

0 President Kennedy.

t. Undated

summary of file information on Lee

Harvey

Oswald

u.

Incoming cable #83958 from Mexico City dated

20 July 1965

(no mention of Oswald)

V.

Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated

17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

6

OREDIT -

---

## Page 117

14-00000

SECRET

cOMiNG Cable #36017

Erom Mexico City dated

%.

Outgoing cabie #74030 to Mexico City dated

-0 October ÷563

incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated

24 OctOber 1963

(no mention o= Oswald).

Question i (U)

To the extent that Counterintelligence

and ine Office o. Security maintained DIe-assassination

files on Oswald, please explain why those offices

maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.

In answering this question, please make appropriate

references to the Clandestine Services Zandbook (CSHB)

and io any other materials (incluäing orgarizational

charts) that would help explain the jurisciczional and

arganization reasons for which Ci aná. OS would have

maintained such files.

Respensei (J) in is believed inai Os holdiags on. Lee

Harvey Oswala began in 1959 wiüh his travel to Russia during --

which he renounced his US citizenshig.

contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the

Depariment of State prepared reports on these contacis.

Most likely because of counterintelligence conceras, the

Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution

of these reporis.

In the beginning this material was

probably retained in the Defectors File. As the aumber of

documenis on this person increased, a separate file was

createà to be the repository of information on the alleged

American defector. There is a notation in the defectors

File that a separate file exists on Oswalà.

(U) Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of

Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Margueriie D.

Sievens of the OS/Security Research Stair during the pre-

assassination time frame.

Of the documents listed above, a

majority of them contain a notation or the initials of

Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the

officer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing

of this information.

7

---

## Page 118

14-00000

SECAST

(U) The Security Research Staff ISPS) was the

component responsible for collecting, develoging, and

evaluazing information ce a counterinteligence nature to

detect and/or prevent penetzation of the agency's

orgarization,

employees, and acrivities by foreign o=

domestic orgarizations or individuals. sas conducted

research in connection with employee loyalty cases and

maintained recoras identifying personaiiiies, environments,

and personal traiis of individuais uno bad been of

counterintelligence interest över the years. SPS maintained

liaison with various goverament agencies in comection mita

counterintelligence activities ana coordinated ine

counterintelligence effort taroughout os.

Using

organizazional charus of this time period, sRs reporced

cirecaly to the citice of the direcior si securiay.

15) Jo= Saaaa= 01 ine JPS/ Managemena State was quested

regarding the mission and Bungalons di SaS during the pre-

assassination time period.

Ma. Saator made lagrizzes

relating in in above request, and the gpS/==femazion

Management Gifteen Ronda Flies bettieved delines Dolicy

records for zeriew.

The information on the mission and

Enaction DE SRS was retrieved from the arcaired Office of

Sacurity administrative and historical Files as well as à

review of the security file ca Marguerite J. Stavers.

3.

(5)

For your triormation, a page-by-gage review of

Ine socumenis contained in the Jefeciors file lia volumes)

and bee Harvey Oswalá's file 17 volumes) aas nos been

conducted lot the purposes of this request. dur efforts

were concentrated on the pre-assassination time izame.

(e) This review was conducted ly ratie Nakai,

OPS/CO/IMB, secure

40552.

maner A.

Eckiund

Arzachment

8

SECRET

---

## Page 119

14.00000

---

## Page 120

14-00000

SECRET

TO ME

MATELETE

! Gare 115

WENOFADUM FOR: ChOrkE Boyd, FREICS=

5P.CM :

Rives

ase ces s.

2580627

SUBJECT

=.

Serrise Broug

documenas masconsive

=s the suajece reguest

=o= thems explaining the organisationer sarusture and

€0= the vears

1958-68 end ter5--2.

Some ca

isorme==s

===

==tes

oneside ene

==== Ename specte:

determined == ze

effective Guzang the dears

-355-68 and 1575-79.

The Firenzonate de Coenantons and the Fastery Seale

nai have

edditioner

insumeras.

the subached socise

dabed == Mazor 2964

= .

= you have and Enestions, Please cait Mariene

Pines ex 60423

5=0=R

suit faies

Mariene a. Saves

AOTACEMENCS

BUCHAGGERS THE SEPARATED FROM SCREE

SECRET

---

## Page 121

14-00000

ADMINISIBATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

MEMORANDUM FOR: Jack Wright @ DA

FROM:

13 June 1995

CROATS

SUBJECT:

Eldon I. Hatch

Information Review Officer, ODDA

Review of Organizational Structure for the year 1958-68 and 1975-79

REFERENCE:

ARRB Additional Information Request CIA-1

1. The attached documents relating to subject have been reviewed for release to the

- Assessination Records Review Board and are to be handled in accordance with the level of classification

security indicated on the documents. The documents have not been reviewed for release to other than

properly cleared personnel.

2. If you have any questions, please call me on 30683.

Elion Acri

Eldon I. Hatch

Attachments: a/s

Handcarried to Jack Wright

CC:

ARMOISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 122

14.0000

---

## Page 123

4-00000

2 6 FEB 1996

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Barry Harrelson

Historical Review Group

FROM:

Lee S. Strickland

DA Focal

Point for JFK Board Requests

SUBJECT:

ARRE Request for Access to Indices to CIA

Histories

REFERENCE:

A.

JEK Board Request No. CIA-7.

atd 9 Nov 1995, Item

B. CSI - 0307/05, dtd 20 Feb 1996, same subject

Regarding equities that concern the Office of the DA, I reviewe

pages 38 through

48 and pages 51-54 and have no problem grantinc

access

and 48.

station names as marked

is to be provided classified, the DA pages may be passed without

The DA P

sanitization.

setting a precedent if we grant the ARRB access to see this

entire list.

Potentially, the ARRB:could request access to any

Assassination canets est .

documents totally unrelated to the JFK

3.

If you have questions, I may be reached on extension

30554 secure.

Cans Fo

Lee S.

-

---

## Page 124

SyMaia

acisidiseroe

•-...

4.00000

---

## Page 125

4-00000

Now MeniolStandard

4

CL 8Y: 0000000

DECL ON X1

ORY FRAt COV 1-82

27 February 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Bonnie K. Hunter-Y- @ OCl

FROM:

•Frieda P. Omasta

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

ADA/IRO

CIA-12 (Shackley et al)

Shackley, Cross, Henry, Gupton (CIA-IR-12) BA/IRO No. 12

This is with respect 10 your 26 February 1998 note wherein you asked that we check HRM for personnel files on Ror Cross, Bart

Henry and William Morris Kent. Iit an effort to bring the status of this particular tasking (CIA-IR-12) up-to-date, I provide the following:

My records show that on 18 July 1997 Barry requested that we conduct file searches on Ted Shackley, Ron Cross, Bart Henry and

Doug Gupton. We were advised by Barry, and as outined in a 22 May 1996 letter from ARRB to John Pereira, that Cross, Henry and

Gupton are pseudonyms used by ClA personnel who testified to the HSCA.

Notwithstanding, we tasked OPS and HRM to conduct searches on these individuals in an effort to locate files. On 22 December 1996.

I advised Barry that HRM had located files on Ted Shackley and would provide them to Barry via this office once they arrived from AC. It

is my understanding that Becky gave you the OPF yesterday. HAM advsied further that they had attempted to locate files on Cross.

Henry and Gupton but failed to locate any files on these individuals in light of the fact that only the pseudos had been provided. We

further advised that it in the future you have access to the true names, we will glady search again.

On 23 December 1997, I advised Barry that OPS had located files on Ted Shackley, Ron Cross and Doug Gupton and that the files were

in OPS for review. They were unable to locate a record on Bart Henry. It is my understanding that you have not reviewed these files to

date but are in the process of making arrangements to do so. Sue-Ann Pierson conducted the search back in July and I am certain that —

she will be glad to you in this matter (40000).

And lastly. I have no record of ever having received a request to search on William Morris Kent. Accordingly, I will request OPS and

HAM to do so.

Please let me know if I have misinterpreted the status of this request. Thank you. Frieda

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

New MemolStandard

---

## Page 126

4-00000

---

## Page 127

14-00000

-

SEEPER

27 February 1997

MEMOPAINDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Janet A. Ecklund

Chief, Information Management Branch

Office of personnel security

Request No. CIA-16 from JFK Board

REFERENCE:

CSI 97-062 dated 31, January 1997.

1.

(U) The Office of Personnel Security has researched

this request from the Assassination Records Review Boarà

relating to the existence of pre-assassination files on Lee

Harvey Oswald.

2.

(U) In response to the specific questions listed

in MI. Marwell's letter to the Historical Review Group, the

following responses are provided to those three questions

pertaining to the Office of Personnel Security (OPS). These

responses are the best reasonable answers based on available

information. Please note OPS was known as the Office of

Security prior to 1 October 1994.

---

Question li (U)

Please identify, as specifically as

possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time

of the assassination of President Kennedy.

(U) At the time of the assassination, the

Office of Security (OS) held two files which contained

information on Lee harvey Oswald.. A file entitled Defectors

..File (#0341008) contained a reference.to.Lee. Harvey..Oswald, -

Regraded Confidential

When Separated From

Secret Attachment.

CL BY: 0605636

CL Reason: 1.5 (c)

DECL ON: X1

DRV FROM: COV 1-82

SECRET

---

## Page 128

4-00000

SECRET

and the Office of Security also had

a subject file on Lee

Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was reflected in

the automated security database

known as the Management Data

Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were

originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the

above numbers circa 1954.

A hand search was aiso conducted

of microfiche records which were superseded by the automated

system.

This hand search produced the same resulis as the

automated search of MDP/PS.

(U)

In your request specific mention is

made of an

ATLINGUAL file. MDP/PS reflects

Os maintained four official

files under this project--#0077826 (an administrative file),

#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0119144. All of

the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along

with numerous soft files.

Since this

_material has been

destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files

contained any information on Lee Harvey Oswald. A search of

Oswald's name did not produce an index reference to any of

these files.

(U) Attached is all of the available information

regarding the destruction of the aTLINGUAl files. This

information was retrieved from Lydia Hoffman of the

Information Management Branch/Records Control Section and

from a review of general office administrative files.

Question zi (U) Other than for the 201-289248 file

on Oswald, please explain when each Oswald file was

opened, the purpose for the opening of the file, and

the documents thai were in the file at the time of the

assassination.

RESDOREEi

(U)

As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have

been destroyed. Since OS files are usually set up in

chronological sequence, a search of files with numbers in

close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL waS

undertaken.

This seaich revealed the approximate opening

dates

for the four official HtLInGuAy files as:

#0077826

#0090079

#0093466

#0119144

Opened approximately July 1952

Opened approximately February 1953

Opened approximately July 1953

Opened approximately May 1955

2

SECRET

---

## Page 129

4-00000

SECRET

(U) HTLINGJA was a Dizectorate of Operations project

that involved opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to

and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South

America. In OS this project was known as SRPOINTER with

subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER, INDIAN, BANJO, and

SETTER.

OS conducted the actual opening and monitoring oi

mail

with the acquired information referred to the

Directorate of Operations.

(U) The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa

1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens

defecting to other countries and information regarding

foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.

This compilation of information was received from press

clippings, Directorate of Operations. reporting, the Federal

Bureau of Investigazion, the Department of State, and the

various armed services.

The pre-assassination documents

located in this file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:

a. Washincile Star press clipping of 26 November 1959

entitled "ü.s. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at

15"

D. Department of State memorandum dated 25 October

1960 with artached list of American "defectors"

from May 1959 to October 1960

c. Memoranaum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated

31 October 1950 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Dejectors

à. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated

1 November 1950 from M. D. Stevens, subject:

American Defectors

e.

Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August

196]

..£. Defector. outline prepared in October 1961 listing

known defectors to the USSR, Red China, Cuba, and

United Arab Republic.

3

accoon

---

## Page 130

4-00000

JOSRET

(J) The index reference to the Defectors file

identities a lisa dated 13 September 1955 which was known as

the Detector Machine Listing.

This listing was a compute-

printout de defectors waian refiected limited biographic

dava or each name. This iisting was maintained separately

from the aciual Defectors File; notations within the

Defectors File snow ine Defeczor Machine Listing as

permaneatly charged to the security Analysis Gioup of Os.

Estorts to locase this listing or determine the disposition.

have beer unsuccesséi?.

(J) Informacion regarding the purpose of the Dejeciors

File was gleaned fror. a quick review of selected noidings.

Katie Narai of this citice at cae time was assigned to the

Securisy Analysis Group and recails the Defector Machine

Listing.

From her recollection, this machine listing was

aper mately one and one-half laches thick and was 1= awo

paris.

pare consisted df an alphabetical index ei

jefessor names nita assigned numbers.

The second pa=s

Listed zine

assigneà nunbers in numerical order and contained

-imited information on each name.

ici

The speciar Havestigations Branch ce ravestigailors

Division is the current operatiag component encompassiag mos=

=i the Securley Analysis Group functions saill conducied i=

J?9.

Gail Jeweil ci

this detece was queried regarding citice

boldings relating to the Defecaor Machine disting.

is.

Jewell had no knowleage of the listing and suggested nailiam

Giibest as a resolace.

Ma. GLiDer, CIC LiaiSOn DEfiCer,

sould not recall the listing, opined it may have been

destroyed, and suggested contacting Zachary filis of ahe

Counterintelligence Center (CIC).

(C) CIC assumed many of the functions previousiy

conducted by the security Analysis Grous.

Me. Filis was

queried regarding the possibility the Defecto= Machine

Listing may have been transierred to Cit during the

-eatigameat of duries. Ma. Filis advised the Deéectos

Machine listing could not be located in CIC holdings; and be

has made inquiries nith directorate of operations

counterparis regarding the listing.

4

SECRET

---

## Page 131

4-00000

-

... ....

....

(U)

The subject file pertaining to bee Harvey Oswala

(#0351164)

was established circa 1960.

It appears this file

was created as a separate repository for the numerous press

clippings and reporis received from other government

agencies on the defection of lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR

and his activities following

his return to the United

States.

The first volume of this file appears to have been

preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents

contained in this file are as

follows:

a. Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow

dated 31 October 1959

D. The Washington lest press clipping dated

I November 1959 entitled "Ex-Marine Asks Soviet

Citizenship"

c. Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow

dated 2 November 1959

d. Department of State elegram #1448 from Tokyo

dated 9 November 1959

e. Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow

dated 9 November 1959

I. The Washington Pest press clipping dated 16

November 1959 entitled "Rebuffed"

g.

Evening Star press clipping dated 26 November

1959 entitled "U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to

Marx at 15"

h.

Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division

forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960

."..

Department of state Instruction A-273 dated

13 ADIiI 1961

Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated

May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter

5

_CECRET

---

-

---

## Page 132

14-00000

SECRET

r..

Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated

3 July 196= from Dailas,

Texas

i .

Note to CI/SI dated 28 September 1961

Пі.

Form 745 "Indices Search Request" dated

12 October 1961

n. Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow

dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure

0.

Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization

Service name check form to Central Intelligence

Agency dated 5 December 1961

p. Navy Department, message to Moscow dated

3 March 1962

a. Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation dated 26 Apzil 1962 with

enclosure

=. The Washincten Post press clipping dated

9 June 1962 entitled "Third American in 2 Months

.. 7u.

Leaves Soviet 'Home'"

s. Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal

of report from Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August

1962.

(U)

In addition to those documents listed above, the

following documents were located in a subsequent volume of

the Oswald file and

also appear to predate the assassination

of President Kennedy.

-

t. Undated summary of file information on Lee

Harvey Oswald

u.

Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated

20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)

v.

Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated

17 August 1963

(70 mention of Oswald)

---

SECRET

---

## Page 133

4-00000

'.

SECRET

w.

Incoming cabie #35017 from Mexico City dated

9 October 1953

%.

Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated

20 October 2963

y.

Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated

24 October 1963 (n0 mention of Oswald).

Question 4i (U)

To the extent that Counterintelligence

and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination

files on Oswald, please explain wny those offices

maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.

In answering this question, please make appropriate

references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSF3)

and to any other materials (including organizational

charts) that would help explain the juriscictional and

organization reasons for which CI and OS would have

maintained such files.

Responsei

(U)

it is believed that OS holdings on. Lee

Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during

which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in

contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the

Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.

Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the

Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution

of these reports.

In the beginning this material was

probably retained in the Defectors File. As the number of

documents on this person increased, a separate file was

created to be the repository of information on the alleged

American defector. Thee is a notation in the Defectors

File that a separate file exists on Oswald.

(U) Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of

Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.

Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-

assassination time frame. Of the documents lisied above, a

majority of them contain a notation or the initials of

Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the

officer responsible. for the collection, analysis, and filing

of this information.

7

_SECRET

---

---

## Page 134

14-00000

SECRET

(U) The Security Research Staff ISPS) was the

component responsible for collecting, deveioping, and

evaluaiing information of a counterinte--igence nazure to

deteci and/or prevent penetration of the agency's

orgarization.

employees, and acrivities by foreign o=

domestic organizations or individuals. spS conducied

research in connection with employee loyaity cases and

maintained recoras identifying personaliiies, environments,

and personal traits of indiviquals who had been ce

counterintelligence interest over the years.

SPS maintained

liaison with various goverament agencies in connection with

counterintelligence activities and coordinated the

counterintelligence effort. intoughout Os.

Using

organizational charts of this time period, SRS reported

cirectly to the cilice de the director ca Security.

(0)

Do= Siao= of Ine SPS/Managemeno Stali was queried

regarding the mission and functions de SaS Guzing the ere-

assassination time period.

Ma. Season made taetiries

relating to the above request, and the OPS/Enformation

Management Caliber Roada Flen Tearieved Terized poLicy

the information on the mission and

Sanction of SPS was retrieved from the archived Office os

Sacurity administrative and historical tiles as well as a

review di ine security file ca Margueriie J. Stevens.

3. 15)

For your infomation, a page-by-page review of

ine documenes contained in the Defectors File (i2 vozumes)

and bee harvey Oswald's

file 17 volumes) has nor been

conducted for the purposes of this request.

weie concentraled on the pre-assassinatior time irame.

(0) This review was conducted by katie Nakai,

OPS/CO/IMB, secure 40552.

A. Ecklund

Atrachment

8

SECRET

---

## Page 135

1.00000

---

## Page 136

14-00000

6

27 February

• 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

I. Jeremy Gunn*

:+- .

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Reviewer

SUBJECT:

ARRB Request No. CIA-IR-7 For Information

On Claude B. Capehart

1. The following is responsive to subject request.

2. The Agency has made a thorough search of its

records for information on Claude B. Capehart and can

state:

a. Mr. Capehart was never an employee of the

Agency;

Mr. Capehart was however, an employee of

company with which the Agency had contracts;

The Agency has files on Mr. Capehart because of

its contractual relationship with his employer.

All such files have been made available to and

were reviewed by ARRB staff members.

3. If you require anything further in this regard,

please advise.

--

---

## Page 137



---

## Page 138

4-00000

ALMIVISTRATIVE

INTERINE USE ONLY

9 February 1999

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

CSI - JFK Project Office=

FROM:

Preda onast Orita

Associate Information Review OffiCer, DA

SUBJECT:

CIA-IR-09 - George Bush/ARRE Request

1.

This is with reference io your 2 Faoruary 1995

memorandum (attached) and ou te-ephone conversation or

5 February wherein you reguested that the Directorate os

Administration (DA)

review

"any ard all personnel files o

George Herbert Walker Sush to determine wether he had ary

affiliation with CIA during the 1953 period.

The Office of Personnei Security and the Office of

Euman Resource Maragement have reviewed its files and rave

been unable to fird azy documentation to snow that Gecage

a.w. Bush. had any affiliation wish CIA Guring the 1953

period.

3. This concludes DA actior or this request.

Attachmenis

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAU USE ONEY

---

## Page 139

400000

---

## Page 140

4-00000

ALMINISTER-VE INTERNAL USE CITY

...

11 February 1993.

MEMORANDUM EOR:

J. Barry Harrelser

JER soject geficer

FROM :

Associate incimation Review Caficer, IDA

SUBJECT:

CIA-1R-11 - ARRE REGUEST ICE SaRIO. CI

Varren Commissior CITES (A/EC NO. 2-

arren Commissio

1.

This is with reference to your 2 February 1999

memorandum (Tab A) and our subsequent telephone conversation

on 6

February wherein you requested trai the Directorate ca

Administration (DA) search for files c= recozás or waszer

Commission critics Edward J. Eosteia,

ssiar Thompsor, Maik

Lane, Harold Weisberg, or Sylvia veagher.

zased upon the linined biographic infommacion

provided or subjects,

the difice of Personnet Securiay

(OpS), the Office of Human Resource Management (PaN) and Ere

office of ine Publication Review Ecard conducted inciouga

searches.

No records were located on josian Thomosor c=

Mark Lane. As you know, OFS located a file or Razola

weisberg as a result of

ius search in zesponse to CIA-I3-27

(DA/IRO NO. 14). At your requesi, or E February 1998 (pai

3) we requested

that OPS make arrangemenes to have tais sile

reviened oy the ARRy to deternine nnica cocumeris are

Assassination Records. Accordingly, CeS dis mou address ere

weisberg file in this CIA-iR-ll resporse.

3.

As a result of DA's searches (Tao Ci ive iscated tire

following files and/or information:

Ecard J. Epstein - AIN 0 487 763 (Eound in CPS;

Flie found in 983

Harold meisberg • comouter printout lattached,

Esund in Fan

Syria Meagher - CeS adrised arat crese was an

records conurol Schedule on : Jaraury 1394

AIMIN STRATTE: OTERNRE USE ONE?

---

## Page 141

OMINISTRITIVE :

INTERNAL USE CNLY

Please let me know when you want me to request the

res

"on Edward Epstein frem OPS and 2RS. Meanwhile, this

concludes DA action on CIA-IR-12:

questions, please

feel free io call me cn 31201.

Atrachments:

As Statac

---

## Page 142

4-00000

35)

UNCLASSIFIED

21

From the Desk of Becky L. Rant

DA/Information Review Office

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

J. Barry Harrelson @ DCi

Gary M. Breneman-Y-@DCI

Becky L. Rant

DAIRO

08/14/98 09:10:11 AM

Response to CIA-1F-11

Barry & Gary:

I have reviewed the draft response to CIA-IR-11 dated 13 August 1998 and following are my

comments and requested changes:

Paragraphs 1 and 2 - OK

Para 2a: EPSTEIN, Edward J. --The DO found no files identifiable with subject; a file was found

on an individual with the same name but; with research, it was determined that the individual was not the

Edward J. Epstein who is the subject of this request. DA searches found a Center for CIA Security,

formerly the Office of Personnel Security, file and a Publications Review Board file on subject, as well as

three "hits" to records destroyed pursuant to normal records destruction schedules. The destroyed

records involved three Freedom of Information requests that mention Epstein's name in the subject line.

None of the requests were for information on Epstein.

Para 2b: LANE, Mark

4th line - Please change Public Affairs to Privacy Act request

Para 2c: MEAGHER, Sylvia - A reference to the fact subject made a Privacy Act request was

found. In addition, the Center for CIA Security found that it had, at one time, a folder on subject and a

1968 Ramparts Magazine article. Both subject's Privacy Act request file and the impersonal folder have

been destroyed pursuant to normal record control schedules.

Para 2d: defer to DO

Para 2e: WEISBERG, Harold

11th line - Please change Office of Security to Center for CIA Security.

In so far as DA equities are concerned, I concur with draft letter once the above changes have

been incorporated

--

Becky

CC:

Frieda P. Omasta@DA

Sent on 14 August 1998 at 09:10:11 AM

3?.s

Li:

1.

,.!

UNCLASSIFIED

---

## Page 143



---

## Page 144

4-00000

FOR DEFICIAL USE ONLY

From the Desk of W. Curtis Chaloner

OPS/CD/IMB (40552) THIS IS A VOICE ACTIVATED COMPUTER. UPPERCASE IS FOR

EFFICIENCY & IS NOT MEANT AS A BREACH OF CYBERSPACE ETIQUETTE.

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

Becky L. Rant

Frieda P. Omasta

Janet A. Ecklund

W. Curtis Chaloner

OPSICO/IMB

06/09/97 04:22:02 PM

RECORD SEARCH, CHARLES D. FORD. AIN 0038497

DEAR BECKY, I CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF SUBJECT'S SECURITY FILE TO INCLUDE MICROFICHE & HARDCOPY. BELOW ARE MR.

FORD'S ACTIVITIES FROM 1959 THROUGH 1964, PER YOUR REQUEST.

MICROFICHE-CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

16 JAN 59.CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE

AUGUST 1959-VACATION IN CANADA FOR 2 DAYS

15 MAR 61-ESTABLISHMENT OF PO BOX LETTER ADDRESS FOR SUBJECT

30 MAR 62-MFR. SUBJECT WAS PROVIDED AN ALIAS (FISCALINI) FOR TASK FORCE "W" TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK ON 31 MAR 62

TO CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN THAT CITY. ATTORNEY GENERAL, ROBERT KENNEDY OFFERED HIS SERVICES TO HELP SOME OF

THE CUBAN PRISONERS SCHEDULED FOR TRIAL IN CUBA. SUBJECT RECEIVED VERBAL APPROVAL FOR HIS ALIAS.

05 JUN 62-SUBJECT WAS UNAWARE OF REINVESTIGATION & WAS NOTIFIED BY SECURITY.

28 JUN 62 ANOTHER NAME WAS ADDED TO SUBJECT'S LETTER ADDRESS

03 DEC 62-SUBJECT WAS BRIEFED TO A SENSITIVE OPERATION CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THE CI STAFF & DOSitOS

20 FEB 63-REQUEST FOR CIA IDENTIFICATION CARD IN ALIAS

06 MAR G3-MFR REGARDING AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

10 MAY G3-REVOCATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE

02 JUL 63-REASSIGNMENT PROCESSING FORM. APPROVED FOR DOMESTIC ASSIGNMENT

08 JUN 6J-SUBJECT GRANTED A "Q" CLEARANCE

31 JUL G3-MFR REGARDING AN INDIVIDUAL WHO BROKE INTO SUBJECT'S HOUSE & ATTEMPTED TO ASSAULT HIS 14 YEAR OLD

DAUGHTER. THE ASSAILANT WAS ARRESTED. NO HARM TO DAUGHTER

HARDCOPY-CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

FOR DEFICIAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 145

4-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

02 & 10 MAY 62-MEMOS REGARDING BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION FROM U.S. ARMY

27 JUN 62-CIA BRING-UP. TO-DATE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TWX. FAVORABLE

22 MAY 6J"Q* CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT INFORMATION & 1962 FAVORABLE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION

26 FEB 64 & 25 MAR 63-POLYGRAPH SCHEDULING MEMOS

BECKY, IF WE CAN BE OF FURTHER ASSISTANCE. PLEASE LET US KNOW. THANKS. CURT.

CC:

Sent on 9 June 1997 at 04:22:02 PM

FOR CELIA USE ONLY

---

## Page 146

14-00000

Nen WralPersonalized

C: BY: 162125

CE. REASON: Socion 1 5

DEZ: ON:

OFTV FAM:

From the Lesk of Becky L. Rant

DAVIRO

NOTE FOR: Barry Harrolson

FROM:

Becky L. Rant

OFFICE:

DAVIRO

DATE:

09/17/97 10:57:20 AM

SUBJECT:

Travel Records

Barry: I am forwarding to you today «pies of the microfilmed accounting ledgers re Charles

Ford's travel. The OFL IMO worked with RIF and the copies are scmewhat better than those you saw

previously. This reilects the search after our visit to OFL to define search terms. I am also forwarding

for your information the paperiork that approved the destruction of financial accountings aiter 6 years 3

months. Please call it you have any questicrs. Becky

CC:

New Note Personalized

---

## Page 147

14-00000

TONFIDENTIAL

CL BY: 0663879

CL REASOME SESSOn I.5 6

DECLOK XI

ORY FRAC COV 1-82

its it!

TO:

Becky L Rant

FROM:

Jeanne Kardaras

OFFICE:

HRM/MS/INFO COORDINATOR

DATE:

03/26/97 03:14:55 PM

SUBJECT: Re: CS/ access to OPFs in Helms Research

Becky - thanks for your note. I'll be sure you and Frieda are kept advised of all file requests that come to me.

I have received the file on Charles D. Ford from Record Center that Barry H. (JFK)

requested and I am forwarding the file thru you for your info I would appreciate it it Pat could handcary the file to John Pereira as

Barry instructed since he (Barry) is off all week.

Have a wonderful Easter - I will be off on Thurs and Fri (my flex). Take care.

Jeanne

CC:

Frieda P. Omasta

Sent on 26 March 1997 at 03:14:55 PM

CONGIDENTAT

---

## Page 148



---

## Page 149

4-00000

?.

" i

MEMORANDUM FOR: Historical Review Program

1 TT.N: JFK. Projeci Orificer

FROM:

Frodi oratorie

Associale Information Review Officer. DD.A

SUBJECT:

CLA IR-19 (D.ATRO .Vo. $2)

1. This is in response lo your j.dugusi 1998 memorandum (allached) wherein you requesied that

the Directorale of Administration (D.A) conduc: searches on the following names idenuned in

CLA-IR-19 of the 27 July 1998 .ARRB memorancum (attached). Specifically, upon the D.A's

review of the 27 July memorandum. we advised your office that we had no record of ever

having been tasked lo conduci searches on these names.

Andrew "Andy"' Anderson

Howard Guepier

Gordon Duane .vove!

Edward Scanne! Sutier Ml. Direcior. intoraton Council di ine Amencas (INC.A.

2. The Center for ClA Secaniy CCS, conducted a search i memorancum altached) in the

Personne: Security Management Data Program Personne! Security MDP/PSi database and.

based upon ine iniormation provided. das dore ie dentify inal che rames oi Cordon Duane

NOVEi and Edward Scannel 3U TLER are cross-referenced in Violume il of the following

"GARRISON CASE" AIN O 601 153. vois I-III

No records were localed in CCS on Howard Guepler or Andrew 1.Andy! Anderson.

3. Please lei us know ii you need ihe volume retered lo above. .Veanwhile, unless you advise us

10 the contrary, this conciudes DiA actien on-CIA. iR.19

1. If you have any questions, piease feel free 10 cai! me on 31201.

Allachments

---

## Page 150

14-00000

CONFIDENTIAL

28 JulY 1997.

....

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

DCI/CSI/HRG

FROM:

reda best racti

Associate Information Review Officer, DDA

SUBJECT:

Priority Request-from JFK Board

1. This is in response to your 3 February 1997

memorandum (copy attached) wherein you reguested, on behalf

of the ARRB Staff, a comprehensive file search on the

individuals listed below.

Specifically, the request is for

access to records of possible pertinence to the JFK

assassination.

A. Leo Cherne

B. Hunter Leake

C. Paul Gärbler

D

Byron 3. Morton, JI.

Marie Cheatham

Verna Deane Brown

G.

John A. MMcVickar

2.

In response to your 3 February memorandum, the

Office of Human Resource Management (HRM), the Office Of

Medical Services (OMS), the Office of Personnel Security

(OPS), and the Office of Training (OTE) conducted thorough

searches and attached are copies of their response

memoranda.

3. In discussions with Jeanne of HRM, it is my

understanding that you still have the files that HRM located

on Cherne, Leake, Garbler, Brown and McVickar.

HRM was

unable to locate records on Morton and Cheatham.

4.

As noted in OMS' 10 February memorandum, OMS

located medical charts on Leake, Garbler and George BrOwn

which you can review if you make arrangements with OMS as

noted in OMS' memorandum.

Also note that if a file exists

on Verna Brown, it will be included with her husband's

chart. OMS was unable to locate records on Cherne, Morton,

Cheatham or McVickar.

CONFIDENTIAL

--.

---

## Page 151

4-00000

CONE-JENTIA

As noted in OpS' mencranáum, Ops was oriy abie to

locate files on Cherne, beake and Garbier.

However, after a

carefui review, they determined that there is no information

contained in the files that links the individuais to or

pertains to JFK or to the Jek assassinatior.

They also

found reference in Verna Dean Brown husbaná's file that she

was employed by the Department of State:

6. OTE was only able to locate

arecord or Paul

Garbler.

However, the record does not

pertain to the

JFK

assassination.

This concludes

DA action on this request.

II yOU

have questions, please feei free to cali me on 3:201.

Attachments: As Stated

CONFSDENEEA

UNCLASSIFIED UPON REMOVAL

OF ATTACHMENTS

--

---

## Page 152

4-00000

CONFIDENTIAt

From the Desk of Jeanne Kardaras

Human Resource Management/Information Coordinator

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson @ DC1.

Jeanne Kardaras

DATE:

12123/96 12:25:48 PM

SUBJECT:

I have completed my search of all Human Resource Management records and have not found any information on the following wo

individuals listed in your request:

Priority Requests from JEX Board dated 12 December 196, 1-/k.1=,

a. Spas T. Raikin • SSN: 085-30-7690, DOB: Oct 26, 1922

b. Marilyn Dorothy Murret - DOB: July 14, 1928

The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated to retrieve all responsive records.

Please advise it I can be of further assistance.

Jeanne

cl by: 0663879, cl reason: 1.5(c), decl on: X1, drv from: cov 1-82.

CC:

Gary L. Moore

Frieda P. Omasta

Lee S. Strickland

Mary V. Amoia-Y- @ DCI

CONFIDENIIAL

---

## Page 153

14-00000

CONFIDENTIAL

20 December 1996

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

J. Barry Harrelson

CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer

Janet A. Ecklund

Chief, Information Management Branch.

Office of Personnel Security

Priority Requests from JFK Board

Request dated 17 December 1996

(C)

In response to referenced request for "additional

files"

searches on Spas I. Raikin and Marilyn Dorothy Murret, the

Office of Personnel Security conducted appropriate searches of

the Management Data Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS) . MDP/PS

is the automated database oi security records used by the Office

of Personnel Security.

The searches undertaken were reasonaoly

calculated to uncover ali responsive records.

The Office di Personnel Security has a file on Spas

I. Raikin (#0134669).

This file reflecus that in August 1957

Foreign Documents Divisior/00 requested a ciearance on Spas I.

Raikin for unclassified contract

employment with Project u.s.

joint Publications

Research Service ir. New York City on an

unwitting

The Cifice of Security responded there was no

information which would preclude use of Mr. Raikin. On 31

January 1967 the Office of Security again granted approval for

Mr. Raikin to be used as an unwitting independent contractor with

the U.s. Joint Publications Research Service.

3.

(C)

The Office of Personnel Security does not maintain

a security file on Marilyn. Dorothy Murret, but there is an index

record to an media articie dated 1971 from Computers and

Automation.

This articie contains the statement that Marylyn

Murrect i5 Lee Harvey Oswald's cousin and thai evidence indicates

she was involved in espionage activities in Russia and Asia.

4.

(U) This review was prepared by Katie Nakai,

OPS/CD/IMB, secure 1055=.

CL BY: 0605636

CL REASON: 1.5 (c)

DECL ON:

X1

DRV FROM: SEC 5-82

CONFIDENTIAL

---

## Page 154

4-00000

dicine U

New MemolStandard

12 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Gary Breneman

FROM:

Frieda P.-Omasta

OFFICE:

ADAVIRO

SUBJECT:

Re: PRIORITY - CIA IR-19 (DAVIRO 32C) JFK/ARRB

REFERENCE:

INCA & Permindex

Gary,

As I mentioned in my note of a few minutes ago, noted below is CCS's search response re INCA &

Permindex. My records show that all DA action is now complete regarding CIA IR-19 DAVIRO 32a, 32b

and 32c). As you were advised in my memoranda dated 6 and 7 August 1998, the Garrison (Volume I|

refers to Gorder Duane NOVEL and Edward Scannel BUTLER) and the Andrew Clarence Anderson files

are available for your review in CCS. Please contact Curt if you wish to see those files. Frieda

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

TO: Frieda P. Omasta @DA

TO:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

Frieda P. Omasta@DA

W. Curtis Chaloner

CCS/PS/CD/IMB

08/12/98 12:46:19 PM

SUBJECT: ERe: PRIORITY - CIA IR-19 (DAVIRO 32G) JFK/ARRB

Frieda, per our telephone conversation CCS has no record for the organizations listed below. Thanks,

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Thank you very much for your status report w/respect to your search on the 38 names and your search re

INCA and Permindex.

Pursuant to a call that I received moments ago from Gary Breneman, would it be possible for you to

advise as to whether you have located any intormation on INCA and/or Permindex. Gary is frantically

trying to close out IR-19 and your response will assist him greatly. Thanks in advance for addressing

these two items separately. Frieda

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA

New MemolStandard

--

---

## Page 155

14-00000

- -

New MemolStandard

11 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson, Gary Breneman

Frieda P. Omasta

OFFICE:

ADAVIRO

SUBJECT:

Re: PRIORITY - Name Traces for JFKVARRB - Andrew (Andy) Anderson

REFERENCE:

CIA IR-19/DAVIRO 32b

Barry:

Below is the HRM response w/respect to its search for files on Anderson, Guebler, Novel and Butler.

CCS is still working on CIA IR-19/DA/IRO 32c w/respect to its search for records on INCA and

Permindex.

Frieda

Original Text of Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-

Original Text of Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-

TO: Frieda P. Omasta @DA

TO:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

Frieda P. Omasta@DA

Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-

HRM.

08/07/98 01:25:05 PM

SUBJECT: Re: PRIORITY - Name TRaces for JFK/ARRB - Andrew (Andy) Anderson

Frieda,

I have completed searches for Andrew Anderson, as Anderson for maximum hits, on Howard

Guebler under Guebler, on Gordon Novel under Novel and Edward Butler ünder Butler, all last names for

maximum possible hits. My searchs on these lour individuals produced no hits, no records, and no

indexed data on one and all.

I note the presumption "Evidently, he (Anderson) was a former employee" because he had a AIN

number of 0 800211. An AIN number is an Agency Identification Number, not necessarily suggesting an

"employee" relationship. An "EIN" is an Employee Identification Number, but what categories of

employment fall under it, I'm not prepared to say.

Dan

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Barry Harrelson, the JFK Project Officer, is requesting that you search once again under the name of

Andrew (Andy) Anderson in light of the fact that CCS has located a file on one Andrew Clarence Anderson

(AIN 0 800211). Evidently, he was a former employee. I regret that we did not have this information prior

10 lasking you the first time.

New MemolStandard

---

## Page 156

14.0000

11

---

## Page 157

4-00000

TOMINISTRATIVE- INTERNAL USE ONLY

CA1R-25

...

6 May 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson @ DCI

..

FROM:

Becky L. Rant

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

DA/IRO

ARRB Special Request • Zapruder Film

REFERENCE:

-..

""""

Barry: HRM's response follows to your request for the address of "Holmer McMann". This sounds like the individual you

described-spelling different. As stated, McMahon resigned in 1970 and the Agency has no current address or record of whether or not

he is still alive. If you want us to pull the file to determine his address while he was an employee, let me now. That into, of course, is 28

years old. Becky

: *

TO:

Becky L. Rant

FROM:

Jeanne Kardaras

OFFICE:

HRM/MSIINFO COORDINATOR

DATE:

05/05/97 04:41:06 PM

SUBJECT: C Re: ARRB Request

Becky-

I have located information on a former employee named Homer Albert McMahon, DOB: 6 Jan 1928, who (first) EOD'& 22 Sept 1952 and

resigned on 20 March 1953 (GS-03) - his title was photographer. He recOD'd on 30 Ocs 1960 and resigned on 11 Sept 1970 - (GS-11).

nis title was photographer and he was assigned to NPIC. HRM would have no address listing for this individual. Mr. McMahon':

retired official personnel file is at Record Center.

Please advise if I may be of further assistance.

Jeanne

--

CC:

Frieda P. Omasta

Sent on 5 May 1997 at 04:41:06 PM

CC:

Frieda P. Omasta

Teresa Wilcox @ DST

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

---

## Page 158

14-00000

UNCLASSIFIED

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

Barry Harrolson @ DCl

Thomas C. Benza

OFFICE:

'OFL

DATE:

12/24197 08:37:39 AM

SUBJECT:

Search Results- Bill Green and Claude Barnes Capelart

Office of Finance and Logistics has search is files for any information on Mr. William Green al Eastman Kodak. There were no

responsive records. We also ran a check on Mr. Claude Barnes Capehart also with negative results.

Any question please call me on extension 58032..

CC:

Frieda P. Omasta, Becky L. Rant

Sent on 24 December 1997 at 08:37:39 AM

UNCLASSIFIED

---

## Page 159

4-00000

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

TO:

Frieda P. Omasta

FROM:

Jeanne Kardaras

OFFICE:

HRM/MS/INFO.COORDINATOR

DATE:

07/23/97.12:55:29 PM

SUBJECT: gRe: ARRB Request - Green & Capehari

Frieda -

Based on information provided, I have found no information on the following individual:

Bill (William) Green at the Eastman Kodak lab

The search undertaken was reasonably calculated to uncove l responsive records, Please advise it I may be of further assistance.

Jeanne

Becky L. Rant, J. Barry Harrelson @ DCl, Thomas C. Benza, W. Curtis Chaloner

Sent on 23 July 1997 at 12:55:29 PM

DOMINISTRATIVE. INTERNALUSE ONLY

---

## Page 160

4-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

24 July 1997

MEMOFANDUM FOR:

J.. Barry Harrelson

DCI/CSI / HRG

VIA:

Becky Rant

DDA/ IRO

FROM:

Janet A. Ecklund

Chief,

Information Management Branch

Office

of Personnel Security

SUBJECT:

Assassination Records Review Soard Name

Trace Request-on William Green

REFERENCE:

Lotus Note dated 23 July 1967

In response to the referenced request, the Office

of Personnel Security's Management Data Program/Fersonnel

Security (MDP/PS) database was searched as requessed.

2.

The searches undersaken were reasorably caiculated

to retrieve all responsive iccumenis.

Based apor the

information provided, no security records were Located.

3.

This memorandum is provided for your information

and appropriate disposicion.

Please direct any Surthes

inquiries regarding this matter ioN. Curtis Charoner au

40552 (secure).

W. Curtis Chaloner

janet A. Icklund

FOR OFFICIAL USE DAZ!

---

## Page 161



---

## Page 162

14-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

TO:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

J. Barry Harrelson@DCI

W. Curtis Chaloner

CCS/PS/CD/IMB

08/13/98 12:54:16 PM

SUBJECT: ARe: JFK/ARRB Request (PRIORITY) CIA-IR-26 (DAVIRO 34)

Barry, the Center for CIA Security had a file for a PUNTER, Jordan J., DPOB (?) 07 May 1902, Akron,

Ohio. This file was destroyed circa 1980-1981 following the Records Control Schedule. Thanks, Curt.

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Curt,

On behalf of ARRB, please conduct a search for records on Jordan James Pfunter. Please respond

directly to J. Barry Harrelson with a copy to Becky and me. Thank you. Frieda

CC:

John K. Reilly@DA, Becky L. Rant@ DA, Frieda P. Omasta@DA, Gary M.

Breneman-Y-@DCI

Sent on 13 August 1998 at 12:54:16 PM

FOR OFFINAL USEONEY

--

---

## Page 163

10000-+

---

## Page 164

4-00000

7

AUMINIS TRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

13

From the Desk of Frieda P. Omasta

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

W. Curtis Chaloner @ DA

Frieda P. Omasta

ADA/IRO

02/06/98 05:26:24 AM

PRIORITY - CIA-IR-27 • ARRB Request for Security Files on 5 Individuals (DA/IRO No. 14)

Curt:

In response to CIA-IR-27, on 26 September 1997 OPS advised Barry Marrelson (JFK Project Officer) that security records are available

for review by his office on the following individuals:

NAGELL. Richard C.

NOVEL, Gordon D.

RUBY, Jack L.

SHERIDAN. Walter J.

WEISBERG, Harold

Barry has just advised that the files on Nagell, Novel and Ruby have been identified as Assassination Records. Accordingly, they have

requested that OPS transfer these files to DCI/CS/HRG (J. Barry Harrelson) for inclusion in these records. Barry has further advised that

a copy of the documents from each file would be acceptable if OPS prefers.

This is with respect to the files on Walter J. SHERIDAN and Harold WEISBERG. Barry has asked that arrangements be made for these

files to be reviewed by the ARRB to determine which documents in each of these files are Assassination Records. In light of a short

deadline, it is requested that the arrangements be made early in February. Once documents have been selected, Barry will need copies of

those documents as well.

Please keep Becky and me posted with respect to these requests. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Frieda

CC:

Becky L. Rant @ DA

J. Barry Harrelson @ DCI

Katie Nakai

Sent on 6 February 1998 at 05:26:24 AM

--

AOMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE OAKY

---

## Page 165

14-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

26 September 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

DCI / CSI/HRG

VIA:

Becky Rant

DDA/ IRO

FROM:

Janet A. Ecklund

Chief, Information Management Branch

Office of Personnel Security

SUBJECT:

Records Search Request for the

Assassination Records Review Board

REFERENCE:

Lotus Note dated 26 September 1997

1.

In response to the referenced request, the Office

of Personnel Security's Management Data Program/Personnel

Security (MDP/PS) database was

searched.

2.

The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated

to retrieve all responsive documents. Based upon the

information provided,

the foliowing security records were

Located.

These security recoras are available for review by

your office after prior written notification.

NAGELL, Richard C.

AIN 0 264

170

NOVEL, Gordon D.

AIN 0 526 113

RUBY, Jack L.

AIN 0 251 219

SHERIDAN, Walter J.

AIN 0 101 572

NEISBERG, Harold

AIN 0 018 231

3.

This memorandum is provided for your information

and appropriate disposition.

please direct any further

inquiries regarding this matter to W. Curtis Chaloner at

40552

(secure).

W. Curtis Chaloner

for

Janet A. Ecklund

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONL!

---

## Page 166



---

## Page 167

14-00000

New MenolStandard

26 November 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

FROM:

Frieda P. Omasta

OFFICE:

ADA/IRO

SUBJECT:

Assassination Records Review Board Request

REFERENCE:

Lewinter aka Lewirter

Barry:

With Curt's response referred to below, this concludes DA action on this request. HRM and OFSS were negative. As you know, OFSS

led OPS to the files as summarized by Curt. Frieda

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner

From the Desk of

From the Desk of W. Curtis Chaloner

Information Review (40552)

NOTE FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson @ DC/

FROM:

W. Curtis Chaloner

OFFICE:

DATE:

OPS/CO/IMB/INFORMATION REVIEW

11/26/97 12:24:59 PM

SUBJECT:

Assassination Records Review Board Request

Barry, attached is the official OPS response. Thanks, Curt.

00C1.00C

CC:

Janet A. Ecklund

Becky L. Rant

Frieda P. Omasta

Sent on 26 November 1997 at 12:24:59 PM

CC:

Becky L. Rant

---

## Page 168

4-00000

FOR DEFE: ENG USE ONEY

C¿ Novemier 100.

Memorandum For The Record

Subject: Lewinter, Oswald

Oswald Lewinter came to the attention of the casice ce

Security in December 1991. CIA/Publio Affairs advised

Lawinter apparently approached the Sritish Broadcastirg

Corporation

(BSC) claiming to be a former Cia casaber.

Lawinter volunteered to provide information accur agero;

operations cverseas. His offer was in conjune=ten va

six part teievision series being produced oy the 550 based

upon the book

: "The Agency" by john Saneleg.

Lewinter is a known fabricator and has usad the terroring

aliases; Oscar Lewinter, Ibrahimir Razin, Gazin Femineer.

Lewinter is indaxed to the os cran. file.

Lewinter is aise known as a fabricator to resee.

N. Curats Cratoner

DDA/0P3.55 243

Infermatter Ferren

---

## Page 169

4-00000

ESEJECT :

FEFERENCE:

2993 STa::

Further Carletcasion

ARRE Request Regarding Osward dewinter

Clarification:

swald Lewinter is a naturalined os cranben and a man aã at

Four ciner names -- George Wearah, Escar rewinter, R==1a

Lewinger, and ibrahimin fazin. Airhough he appeared in the Basa

sermar

we's who in CIa, the CIA has never had ary official

affiliation with

Lewinter. Lewinter was the subject ce

an Agersy

"sura notice" in 1990; a burn notice aberas cae

community. In unis case, the ales= advised trat

intelligence

Lewintar was an

inteliigence swindler, peddler, and fabrigator.

Cia has a repore of an episode invarring ar tabertigerse

Fannicator and convioled drug

dealer Osals

Feminies,

Mearan, born 2 April 19311 1n Fienna, Ruseria.

=-Jung Beer.

=== Iepresentative overseas reported that tenantea, üstag bre

name ci Gecige Mearah, cornaced him and citered =o

ere: SoR cificials wishing to detect in touca data

presentative and in burn the CIA.

This contase ichia

exchange for help and a presidential pardon that ichie nige

siate clean and leave Lewinter (Meazan)

wieneut a record as

convicted felon. Lewinter (Mearan) claimed chis was importana de

NES married :50I

the third timel and saarting a new lifei me vas

repctedly considering quietly acuiring taraect cruisensate.

This

contac= vas not oliowed

uo because

c= tre

"Buna notise."

BACKGROUND USE ONLY

DO NOT REPRODUCE

RETURN TO CIA

•?:: ..

?.:.

.i..

.."

---

## Page 170

4-00000

Lewinter dadd Game to the atterrit it the lotted 1:

Security In December 1201. The Cid's Fundo Gitairs

LeWinter apparently approached the Eritish Ercadcasting

corporation

isBci claiming to be a loomer cia Officer. Lewinter

volunteered io provide incormatior docus agency

opera-ions

overseas. His offer was in conjunction with a six-part telerision

series being produced cy the 3SC based on the bock "the agency'"

oy Johr. Ranelagh. 'u'

BACKGROUND USE ONLY

DO NOT REPRODUCE

RETURN TO CIA

---

## Page 171



---

## Page 172

4-00000

---

## Page 173

4-00000

10 March 1998

'...

....... ....n?.. 10.".

MEMORANDUM FOR :

T. Jeremy Günn,

Executive

Esq.

Director,

ARRS

FROM:

SUBJECT:

J. Barry Harzelson

Senior Reviewer,

ERP

ARRB Request No. CIA-IR-36, For Information

On Processing of

Incoming Cables

1. The following and the attachment are responsive to

subject request.

The attachment is an extract of the

vertinent text from a memorandum provided by the Directora=:

of Operations.

2.

If you have any questions concerning this response,

please advise.

J. Barry Harrelson

Ait.

FOR YOUR COORDINATION:

,6 Inauit 1198

Becky Rant, DA/IRO

Date

*Re Para 3 - The Call stanst vias

Pach ay the Office of the Desecto

intel 1922 when in was placed un

The Office of Communection.

See

---

## Page 174

4-00000

ATTACHMENT IO 1l MARCH 1298 MEMCRINDUM RE: CIA-IR-36

....•

1.

Per the review board stall's request the following.

is a brief explanation of how the Directorate of Operations

(DO! processed cables in the 1963/1964 time-frame. "As we

and potatoes tone ever we seed.

records on the subject,

the information

provided is based solely on the memory of Do officers

familiar with procedures in place at the time.

2. Each area division in the DO maintained and staffed

its own registry.

Although each registry was configured to

meet each division's unique requirements, there were common

functions performed by all the registries to include:

collecting, sorting, and delivering of incoming cables:

maintenance of incoming and outgoing cable "chronos":

collecting and delivering of incoming and outgoing pouch

material; and the issuance and maintenance of "pseudo and

alias" card files.

3. To the specific question regarding processing of

cables, on a daily basis, usually six day per week, each

registry collected its incoming cabie traffic from a central

іли се

processing point, then callea the Cable Secretariate, within

The incoming cables were then

: Duel guidelines.

sorted by registry personnel

according to pre-defined

These guidelines were inique to each division

and were frequently altered to meet changing operational

requirements.

Sorted cables were then delivered to specific

operational/area desks.

. A "chrono" copy of each was

maintained, on

temporary basis, usually for 90 days and

then destroyed.

Outgoing cables were created and coordinated by

appropriate operational/area desks and usually released by

the chief of the division or a designated releasing officer.

"Released" cables were then hand delivered or sent by

pneumatic tube system ( a system long ago dismantled from

the original Headquarters building) to Cable Secretariate

for processing into the Agency's communication network.

"Chrono" copies of outgoing cables were forwarded to the

registry for a 90 day hold and then destroyed.

5.

It is important to note that the cable scenario

outlined here is general in nature and that throughout their

existence registries and their procedures were frequently

altered until the registry system as described above was

eliminated in the

---

## Page 175

14.00000

destroy after reading. l

C8020.01=:09

....

70!-50

1 Febrary 1978

............

.... .

.... =

..:.

TRANSEES CE THE CABLE SECRETARIT

Ellective

1 February 1992. the Casie

i-ansterred

From the Office of

the Directar to the OffiCe of Communications,

tiresiarate

DISTRIBUTION: 43

CABLE SEC

---

## Page 176



---

## Page 177

4-00000

FRiB request.ie

Silen taliane (1) li

HSCA Names

copr

5/4/98

Alvarado, Gliberto

Arcacha-Smith, Sergio

Azcue Lopez, Esucbio

Cabell, Earle

Calderon, Luisa

Cheme, Loo

Cobb, Junc. Viola

Concin, Lucien E.

de Mobrenschildt, George

Diosdado, Cesar

Duran, Silvia Tirado de

Ferrie, David W.

Garrision, James

Garro de Paz, Elena

Gutierrez Menoyo, Eloy

Hall, Loren Eugene

Heming, Gerald Patrick

Johnson, Priscilla Mary Post

Kantor, Marvin

Kostikov, Valcriy Vladimirovich

Martin, Jack

Masferrer y Rojas, Rolando

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson

Mc Vickar, John Anthony

Nagall, Richard Case

Odio, Sylvia

Pawley, William D.

Procaza, Maria Teresa

Raikia, Spas

Ray, Manuel

Ruby, Jack

Salvat Roque, Juan Manuel

Shaw, Clay

snyder, Richard E.

Vebster, Robert Edward

Verbell, Mitchell Livingston III

---

## Page 178

14-00000

AUMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

TO:

Frieda P. Omasta@DA

FROM:

OFFICE:

W. Curtis Chaloner

DATE:

CCS/PS/CD/IMB

08/14/98 09:07:44 AM

SUBJECT: Re: ARRB - 38 names DA/IRO 33

Frieda, thank you for the kind words, however, I do not deserve them as I was not completely thorough.

The oversight was not intentional. Please see attached. Thanks, Curt.

OGCRECD.DOC

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta

Curt,

Thanks so very much for your most thorough and prompt response this request. However, would you

please let us know what, if any, records you may have found on four other names that are identified on the

original list? Thanks Frieda

Elena Garro de Paz

Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo

Jack Ruby

Clay Shaw

CC:

John K. Reilly@DA, Becky L. Rant@DA, J. Barry Harrelson@DCI, Gary M.

Breneman-Y-@DCl

Sent on 14 August 1998 at 09:07:44 AM

T...

AOMINSTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

--

---

## Page 179

14-00000

• '

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

14 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR :

J.. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

FROM:

SUBJECT:

John K. Reilly

Chief, Information Management Branch

Center for CIA Security

Records Search Request

HSCA Names from ARRB

REFERENCE:

ADA/IRO MER dated 13 August 1998

In response to the referenced request, Personnei

Security's Managemeni Data Program/Personnel Security

(MDP / PS)

database and the predecessor to MdP, the Security

Automated Name Check Activity (SANCA) were searched.

2.

The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated

to retrieve all responsive documenes.

Based upon the

information provided, the Center for CIA Security has

located

Security Records which may of may not be

identifiable, specific to ardion referenced to, wish your

regrest.

These

records are arableste for revien cy your

office after prior maiuben moulficatior.

3.

RUB%, Jackara SEAN, Clay aze cross-referenced =o

AIN 7 191 639,

the Garrison File.

IME ras possession of tre

Garrison File.

4.

The Center for CIP Security has no record of a

GARRO DE PAZ, Elena or GUTIERPEZ MENOVO, ElOY.

5.

This memorandum is provided los your information

and appropriate disposition. Please direct any further

inquiries regarding this matter Io N. Curtis Chaloner a=

40552 (secure).

N. Curtis Chalore=

for

John K. Reilly

TOR SPRIGHT NGE CALL

---

## Page 180

14-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

13 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

J.. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

John K. Reilly

nee tot a son management Branch

Records Search Request

HSCA Names from ARRB

REFERENCE:

ADA/IRO MER dated 07 August 1998

1.

In response to the referenced request, Personrel

Security's Management Data Program/Personnel Security

(MDP/PS) database and the predecessor to MDP, the Security

Automated Name Check Activity (SANCA) were searched.

2.

The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated

to retrieve all responsive documents.

Based upon the

information provided, the Center for CIA Security has

located Security Records which may or may not be

identifiable, specific to and/or referenced to, with your

request (attachment A).

These recorás are available for

review

by your office

after prior written notification.

3.

Attachment B reflects Security Records which may

or may not be identifiable, specific, and/or referenced to

your request which were destroyed under the Records Control

Schedule.

4.

Attachment C reflects those individuals whom the

Center for CIA Security has no record.

5.

This memorandum is provided for your information

and appropriate disposition. 'Please direct any further

inquiries regarding this matter to W. Curtis Chaloner at

40552 (secure).

N. Curtis Chaioner

for

John K. Peill!

ATTACHMENT A

The following Security Records are in the possession se

Information Management Branch or enroute and are available

for your office's review here at CCS/IMB. The Center for

CIA Sacurity defers to

the Assassinations Records Review

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONI

---

## Page 181

4-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

Board regarding documents which could be considered

relevant.

CHERNE, LeO

AIN 0 053 082

Post 1978

Memoranda

UNKNOWN

CONEIN, Lucien E.

AIN 0 005 025

YES

DEMOHRENSCHILDT, GeOrge AIN 0 000 775

NO

DIOSDADO, Cesar

AIN 0 432 469

NO

DURAN, Silvia Tirado de AIN 0 351 164 = Oswald File

CCS record reflects listing as Duran, Silvia.

FERRIE, David W.

AIN 7 191 869 = Garrison File

Ferrie is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 546 933 (Whelan,

John Edward) which was destroyed, according to the Records

Control Schedule, on 30 April 1997.

FIORINI, Frank

AIN 0 353 459 = Sturgis File

HALL, Loren Eugene

AIN 0 348 627

YES

AIN 7 191 869 = Garrison File

CCS record reflects listing and Security File (hardcopy) as

Loran not Loren.

JOHNSON, Priscilla Mary Post

YES

AIN 0 071 589

CCS record reflects listing under McMillan, Priscilla J..

KANTOR, Marvin

AIN 0 539 326

YES

CCS record reflects listing also as Kantor, Melvin.

KOSTIKOV, Valeriy V. AIN 0 261 091

NO

MCMILLAN, Priscilla Johnson

YES

AIN 0 071 589

CCS record reflects McMillan also cross-referenced to

Alliluyeva, Svetlana. The Security File (hardcopy) reflects

ATTACHMENT A CONTINUED

Stalina, Svetlana I.. The McMillan Security File (hardcopy)

reflects. Macmillan. not McMillan.

MARTIN, Jack. CCS records reflect the three following

individuals who may or may not be identifiable nith your

request.

MARTIN, Jack M.

AIM L 254

357

FOR DEFICING USE ONLE

--

---

## Page 182

14-00000

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

MARTIN, Jack S.

AIN 0 651 268

YES

MARTIN, Lawrence J.

AIN 0 634 475

YES

MASFERRER Y ROJAS, Rolando

NO

AIN 0 036 859

CCS record reflects listing as Masferrer, Rolando Rojas.

Masferrer is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 780 397

(Montreuil, Raymond A.) .

NO

MCVICKAR, John Anthony AIN 0 269 351

YES

CCS record reflects listing as MoVickar, John A.

NAGELL, Richard Case

AIN 0 264 170

YES

ODIO, Sylvia

AIN 0 351 164

= Oswald File

AIN 0 351 164-6 =-Oswald File

PAWLEY, William D.

AIN 0 078 435

NO

RAIKIN, Spas

AIN 0 134 669

YES

SNYDER, Richard E:

AIN 0 038 984

YES

STURGIS, Frank Anthony AIN 0 353 459

YES

WEBSTER,

Robert Edward

AIN 1 258 236

YES

CCS record reflects listing as Webster, Robert.

Webster is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 387 123

(Whittaker, Frederick).

YES

WERBELL, Mitchell Livingston III

YES

AIN 0 027 686

CCS record reflects listing as Werbell, Mitchell L.

ATTACHMENT B

The following Security Records were destroyed in accordance

with

i the Records Control Schedule.

ARCACHA-SMITH, Sergio

AIN O 523. 948

AZCUE LOPEZ, Esuebio

AIN 6, 352 338

CABELL, Earle

совв,

June

AIN 0 233 554

#IN 0 215 264

DESTRUCTION DATE

1994,

25 October 1994

circa 1930-1921

1394

FOR DEFICIN

LIGE ONLiL

---

## Page 183

14-00000

FOR UrTICIAL USE ONLY

« 'es. ?..

.....

GARRISON, James

AIN 0 535 449

1994

HSCA list

reflects Garrision, James. CCS has no record.

HEMMING, Gerald Patrick AIN 0 592 464

circa 1980-1981

HSCA list reflects Heming or Henning, CCS has no record of

either.

HEMMING, Gerald Patrick AIN 0 429 229

04 August 1995

HSCA list reflects Heming or Henning, CCS has no record of

either.

MASFERRER Y ROJAS, Rolando

AIN 0 352 772

25 October 1994

CCS record reflects listing as Masferrer Rojas, Rolando

Arcadio.

PAWLEY, William D. ' AIN 0 350 653

• 24 October 1994

Ccs record reflects listing as Pawley, William.

PAWLEY, William D.

AIN 0 346 416

CCS record reflects listing as Pawley, William.

20 October 1994

PAWLEY, William D:

AIN 0 121 104

circa 1980-1981

PAWLEX, William D.

AIN 0 357 552

circa 1980-1981

PROENZA, Maria Teresa

AIN 0 342 000-A

CCS record reflects listing as Proenza, Teresa.

circa 1980-1981

PROENZA, Maria Teresa

AIN 0 317 003

1994

CCS record reflects listing as Proenza, Teresa.

ATTACHMENT B CONTINUED

SALVAT ROQUE, Juan Manuel

AIN 0 219 999

circa 1980-1981

CCS record reflects listing as Salvat,

Juan Manuel.

SNYDER, Richara E.

AIN 0 389 179

03 June 1995

STURGIS, Frank Anthony AIN 0 343 309

CCS record reflects listing as Stirgis, Frank.

circa 1980-1981

STURGIS, Frank Anthony.. AIN 9.349 691

1994

CCS record reflects listing as sturgis, Frank.

VECIANA, Antonio Carios Bianca

AIN 0 256

167

1394

WERBELL, Mitchell tringstor ===

290 ON: TO AL USE ONCT

•--

---

## Page 184

14-00000

FOR ORTIETAL USE ONLY

AIN 0 256 167

1994

CCS record reflects listing as

Werbell, Mitchell Livingston.

ATTACIMENT C

The Center for CIA Security has no record of the following

individuals.

ALVARADO, Gilberto

CALDERON, Luisa

RAY, Manuel

.....

......

.... •

....-

---

## Page 185

4-00000

Declaration of Teresa F. Wilcox

I, Teresa F. Wilcox, hereby declare and say as follows:

I am the Information Review Officer (IRO) for the

• appointed to

Directorate of Science an e ela varioss protessional

this position in February 1996, and

positions within the Central Intelligence Agency since 1985 in the

responsible for the review of records maintained by offices

DS&T, to include the Offices of the Deputy Director

for Science and

'echnology ana the Associate Deputy Director Ior science anc

'echnology; the Office of Technical Service (OTS); the Office o

Technical Collection (OTC); the Clandestine Information Technology

Office (CITO); the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) ;

the Office of

Development and Engineering (OD&E); the Office of

Advanced Analytic Tools (AAT); the Office of Advanced Projects

and the Office ot Research and Development (ORD).

addition, I an responsible for searching and reviewing certain

records of the former National Photographic Interpretation Center

2. (AIUO) I am aware that the DS&T has searched appropriate

records systems for information responsive to all requests the DS&T

has received.

I have obtained this knowledge through

my personal

experience, as well my conversations with, and my review of the

records of,

the former DS&T IRO Anthony R. Frasketi, and the DS&T

Information Management Officer, Marsha A. Hubbs.

3.

(AIUO) The following is a

description of DS&T searches

and review of documents undertaken in response to Board

taskings

the DS&T has received.

CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart..

The DS&T made

deletions to security records located by the Directorate of

Administration.

The DS&T Searched ODDS&T records for

Capehart's medical file.

The DS&T forwarded the medical file

to the Board for its review.

CIA-IR-08 Family Jewels Memorandum.

The DS&T reviewed a

package of

documents forwarded by Barry Harrelson.

The DS&T

advised the Board it had no objection

to ARRB access.

CIA-IR-15 Electronic 'take' from Mexico City Station.

This memorandum addresses

the portion of the action,

"In

Regardless of the

outcome of these particular searches, the

Review Board

continues to seek a full accounting for all surveillance

conducted during the relevant time periods."

---

## Page 186

14-00000

In conducting a search for the above information, the

DS&T located in OTS records a file with the folder title,

"Mexico City, Mexico."

We forwarded the entire contents

that folder

for the period 24 May 1961 to 10 June 1965, with

one exception.

Three Operational Monthly Reports were

forwarded to the Board.

The dates covered were 1-30 September

1963; 1-31 October 1963; and 1-30 November 1963.

attachment to Dispatch HMMA 20307 dated 4 December 1962 was

not included.

It was a poor-quality audio tape in Spanish,

between two individuals talking about office procedures. No

substantive information was exchanged during this

conversation.

The DS&T also conducted a search of OTC records.

office would have inherited the Division D records of the

Directorate of Operations (DO). We reviewed old DO Records

Retirement Requests; there are no shelflists (folder-

inventory) associated with these Records Retirement Requests

since the Division D records were recorded initially in the DO

We forwarded for the Board's review the six Records

Retirement Request whose job numbers reflected the years 1959

to 1962.

We advised the Board that Records Center records

indicated the records' disposition as follows:

1

• 59-S-477:

Destroyed September

1977.

2

• 60-S-182R: Destroyed May 1980.

3. 60-5-402:

Transferred to FI/D(DDO), December 1977.

4. 61-S-157R: Four boxes transferred to FI/D (DDO), March

1972; three boxes destroyed, May 1980.

5. 62-5-885:

Destroyed (no date given).

6. 62S000986R: Transferred to the Office of SIGINT Operations

(DS&T) .

These were the only Records Retirement Requests in the

possession of OTC that are in the time frame relevant to the

JFK assassination.

As their descriptions indicate, they do

not appear relevant to the request.

The DS&T also conducted a search of CITO records. This

Osal office inherited some

densio necess me a co. These searches

identified

Searches of OTS, OTC, and CITO records used the following

keywords:

surveil*

Russian

USSR

Cuba*

audio*

electron*

embassy

Mexico*

---

## Page 187

4-00000

CIA-IR-16 U-2 Files.

The DS&T provided the Board a copy

of the U-2 shelflist

We also

searched tor records tiled

under Richard Bisseli's name.

We received no follow-on

request from the Board.

CIA-IR-16 FBIS-USR-92-112. The DS&T provided to the

Board a translation of articles about a KGB file on Oswald.

CIA-IR-17 DS&I Records on Castro Assassination Plots.

following keywords:

KDBADGER.

OTS records on the

Cubela, Black Leaf

aerosol, cigar, depilatory, wiretapping,

sea shell, and project AMLASH.

As a result of

these searches, we provided to the Board a document titled,

"Handwriting Analysis - AMLASH-1," dated 7 April 1965.

CIA-IR-25 Zapruder Film. A search was conducted on

records of the

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (records of

the former National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)

and Office of Imagery Analysis) using the terms Zapruder, JFK,

Commission,

pertinent information.

trent information, he cal

Hits on year 1963 did not reveal

We located no record of a "William

Green" at NPIC in November 1963. We located no log books or

indexes regarding the processing or handling of any

We also reviewed an audiotaped

interview with a former NPIC employee, and made minimal

CIA-IR-33 Search of FBIS records for any files on Oswald,

and request for information on how FBIS-USR92-112 was filed.

No past or present files were found.

An explanation on how

FBIS-USR-92-112 was filed was provided.

Review of three Ford Library Documents (178-10003-10453,

178-10002-10394.

to the Do on 178-10002-10394. Made deletions to summare

Made deletions and deferred

Report on CIA Investigation of MKNAOMI.

Review of two terms.

The DS&T advised that the terms

should not be released because of ongoing CIA activity at the

location.

Review of Alias Documentation issue (104-10220-10179, -

10181

and -10188).

Requested that Board postpone release of

specific information.

A search of OTS records indicated OTS

had no records on particular documents in the 1960s and 1970s.

Review of a slug in current use.

Requested that the

Board postpone its release because the slug is in current use.

---

## Page 188

4-00000

.

Review of Organizational Charts of all Agency

directorates

for the years 1958-1968 (CIA-1). Requestec

deletions.

Review of the proposed release of an Agency facility.

Provided information about DS&T activities at risk if this

facility were acknowledged.

leview of records regarding the release of the name of

Jose Marie Mankel.

Provided information about the potentia

chilling effect on

CIA Sequestered Collection which are Not Believed Relevant

sequestered Comestin

Review of documents concerning a certain entity in the

(NBR) to the JEK assassination.

Four documents had been

previously released (one was released in full, and three were

sanitized); eight documents had been denied in full. The

Board determined

that four documents were NBR.

Review of the Board's request to review an indes

esulting from the CIA's History Staff's review of 6:

histories for any connection to the JFK assassination. The

DS&T concurred in the Board's review of the index.

4. (U) Based on this information, I have concluded that the

DS&T has

diligently searched and reviewed all requests for

information from the Board that the DS&T has received.

(U) I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing

is true and correct.

Executed in Langley, Virginia on this 21* day of August 1998.

Set. Wilcox

Teresa F. Wilcox

---

## Page 189

14-00000

i.:.

SECRET

JFK Declaration of FREDRICK C. WICKHAM, JR.

I, Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr. declare and say as follows:

1.

(U)

• I am the JFK Focal point Officer ("EPO") for

the Directorate of Operations ("DO") of the United States

Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA"). I have held technical

positions associated with the design and implementation of

computer systems, information management positions including

the DO IMO, and currently manage the Do information review

and release programs.

I have been with the CIA since 1967

and have been associated with the JEK records review

activity since 1992 and the JFK FPO since 1995.

2.

(U)

I have obtained the information contained in

this declaration based upon my personal knowledge and

experience,

as well

as conversations with the DO Information

Review Officer, the DO Information Management Officer and

individuals taking action on the specific requests.

(U) DO records were predominately paper with a

hard copy card index in the 1960's and an electronic index

in the 1970's.

The indices were based upon names that meet

specific collection requirements or projects that were

undertaken in the performance of our mission.

Searches that

exceeded the capability of the indices required manual paper

file searches.

I am aware that the DO searched the central

record system, which includes retired records, and hand

searched the convenience files and specialized files located

within various offices.

Specialized collections are often

extremely sensitive and therefore only reside within the

components.

During our newer searches we have not found any

significant documents in the DO files dated 1978 or prior

that appear

to have been missed by the searches through

We did locate one set

tapes which we know was made

•available to the Warren Commission but was not included in

sequestered collection.. We also found one file

that was only partially included in the HSCA sequestered

collection.

CL BY 0524343

REASON 1.5C

DECL X1

DRV MIS 5-82

SECRET

---

## Page 190

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

4.

(S) Many of the searches performed today are not

significantly different than the ones done during the period

of the various commissions

and committees. The searches

performed since 1995 still use the index to the central

record system the same as in 1978 but we have a couple of

new databases that were not available in 1978.

We now

capture all cable traffic electronically and are able to

perform text searches of that repository. That repository

post-dates the HSCA so it is not useful in locating older

records.

Additionally, we have converted a small amount of

very sensitive paper files into computer searchable form.

While these specific collections are part of the DO's record

eye to they are no dietronic

they included within the indices to the DO's central records

system.

We have searched all of these records systems for

information responsive to requests the DO has received.'

Some of the specific requests could not be satisfied by the

electronic searches and we resorted to manual paper searches

in an effort to locate the information.

5.

(U) The DO provided several briefings to the

Assassination Records Review Board and their staff, starting

in 1995, to describe the records created by the DO and the

record system that manages that

information.

We also

described what is meant by the need to continue protection

of sources and methods, and the impacts the revelation of

information would

have on the lives of individuals and

current operations.

General Counsel, Deputy Director for Operations, Chief of

the Information Management Staff, and several other DO

i Director,

The presenters included the Agency's

managers associated with the conduct of operations and

protection of sources and methods. We also provided

detailed descriptions of current operations.

We provided

information about specific individuals whose lives or

livelihood would be threatened as examples of harm that

would occur if certain information was released.

Additionally, we presented a description of the operational

environment that existed and the intensity under which

searches were performed in the wake of the assassination.

6.

(U) The CIA issued

an Agency-wide employee

bulletin for a

new search for JEK Assassination records (OIM

98-0081, dated 30 July 1998). As requested by the ARRB, the

DO distributed the employee bulletin via Lotus Notes on 17

2

SECRET

---

## Page 191

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

August and placed it on the morning message that people

receive when they first log onto the system.

7. (U)

We have received numerous specific requests for

additional information.

Based on personal knowledge and

on

information reflected in our records, I am aware of the

following efforts that were conducted in responding to

specific ARRB requests for DO records. I have abbreviated

the questions to sáve space:

CIA-1 - Information on the organization of CIA

(U) The March 1995 ARRB request called for the

availability of "comprehensive organizational charts

(or the best available substitutes)." The request

contained about three pages of various requirements,

including:

A. organizational charts of the Directorate of Plans

(DDP); "CIA Stations

.. . in Mexico City (1960-68

only), Miami, other stations that we will discuss

orally;" any other offices

•. • any pro-Castro groups,

• or anti-Castro groups;

B. names and affiliations of all CIA personnel

responsible for liaison with the Warren Commission, the

House Select Committee on Assassinations, . . .;

C. all manuals, handbooks, ... guides explaining: •

• organizational structure,.. • filing systems, . .

• for drafting memoranda;

D. copies of the instructions, guidelines, and other

materials used by your reviewers;

(U)

Over a thousand pages of material were

provided in responding to this request.

(U) In May 1997 the ARRB further requested that 35

pages from CSN 5-50, 2 pages of the JMWAVE chart, and

3

SECRET

---

## Page 192

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

13 pages

from Regulation No. 1-130 and HR #1 be

reviewed

for release.

(U) Although the AARB staff had access to all of

the requested material, in January 1998 the Agency

answered that the various CSN 5-50 pages contained

basic information regarding the mission and functions

of the Office of Operations (now the Directorate of

Operations (DO)) and could not be released. However, in

April 1998, we agreed to provide structure charts for

the DDP in

1961 and 1963, with Division and Staff

titles and a JMWAVE Chart.

CIA-2 - Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information

(U) The ARRB request was dated May 1995 and was

six pages of file code numbers, crypts, names, dispatch

designators, and cable location designators and

requested identification thereof. A variety of methods

I responses was utilized, (some dated June and July

1995 and some undated) to answer, including a pairec

listing (returned to CIA) microfilm file summary

sheets, and descriptive sheets.

CIA-3 - Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information

(U) This ARRB request was dated June 1995 and was

three more pages of queries similar to CIA-2. A

variety of methods of responses was utilized, (some

dated June 1995 and some undated) to answer, including

a paired listing marked (returned to CIA), microfilm

file summary sheets, and handwritten notes.

CIA-4 -- Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information

(U)

This four-page ARRB request dated June 1995

was for

"descriptions of each crypt, a brief

identification of each individual .

• • , and

indications of whether these crypts, operations, and

4

SECRET

---

## Page 193

14-00000

:

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

individuals are presently active or inactive." This

request was answered orally and by informal notes.

CIA-5 - Queries About Some Information

(U) This ARRB request was dated July 1995 and was

for identification of some twelve crypts, names, file

codes, or acronyms. This was answered by a paired

listing dated July 1995 (Returned to CIA).

CIA-6 -- Request for Systematic Review of Traffic

(U) This request was dated September 1995 and was

for "the CIA to assemble all of the cable traffic and

dispatches for ..

• September 26, 1963 through October

20, 1963 and November 22, 1963 through December 30,

1963 between" . . . Mexico City and Headquarters and

Mexico City and JMWAVE.

The DO provided a classified response in

January 1998.

All cable traffic and dispatches for the

period September 26, 1963 through October 20, 1963 and

November 22, 1963 through December 30, 1963 between:

• (a) the Mexico city Station and Headquarters, and (B)

the Mexico City Station and JMWAVE are not available as

a chronological collection. The Office of

Communications (OC) only hela cables long enough to

ensure that they were successfully transmitted to the

recipient. Because processes and resources to perform

cleanup activity varies,

cables were sometimes held for

longer periods but not with the intention of becoming a

long-term reference collection.

The offices of record

for the origination of cable traffic and dispatches did

not create files in this manner.

The desks maintained

a temporary paper cable chrono.

These were not usually

retained for more than 90 days. There is no electronic

repository for cables and dispatches from the stations.

Cables were printed out and went into specific files

dealing with subjects or operations. Accordingly, it

is not possible to recreate as a collection all of the

5

SECRET

---

## Page 194

4-00000

:

SECrET

=

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

CIA - 7 - Review of CIA Histories

(S) ARRB staffers Jeremy Gunn and Michelle Combs

have reviewed all of the requested histories except one

still under pre-review by the component because of

sensitive information - we expect this to be resolved

in the near future. They were granted access to

identify any relevance to the assassination of

President Kennedy. They selected a number of pages to

be included within the materials to be declassified and

released to the National Archives. The histories

reviewed were as follows:

record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro

Government of Cuba, written by Colonel J. Hawkins,

USMC, on 5 May 1961, and controlled by WH division.

• Domestic Operations

Base, written by Perry E.

Crookham, in May 1967, and controlled by SO

Division.

We are also aware that relevant parts of

pp. 29-31 have been released in the Bay of Pigs

declassification project.

..

The TS history entitled Foreign Intelligence

Staff/Division D 1948-1965, written by Fred Griffin,

Frank B. Rowlett, and Vyrl E. Leichliter, in April

1974, and controlled by CIA History Staff.

• The Stockholm Station, Volume I, II, and III, 1942-

1967, written by William D. O'Ryan, in November

1967, and controlled by EUR Division.

• The Oslo Station, 1943-January 1968. This history

was written by William D. O'Ryan and Elizabeth Hart,

in 1967-1968, and controlled by EUR Division.

• Covert Action Project Funds, FY 1964 and FY 1965

(With Historical Perspective December 1947 - January

1964), written by CA Staff, in January 1964, and

controlled by CA/PEG.

6

SECRET

---

## Page 195

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

The Helsinki

Station, February 1951-February 1964,

Volumes I, II, and III, written by Melvin W. Jokinen

and Hank Jarvinen in 1967, and controlled by EUR.

Domestic and Areawide Operations (WH/6) August 1963

- 30 June 1967, written by Maurice Currie, in June

1968, and controlled by WH Division.

• Soviet Russia Division -- Reports and Requirements

1945 - 1966, Volumes I, II, and III, written by Mrs.

Elizabeth Sanford Peyton and Anthony Arnold, in June

1973, and controlled by SB.

• Madrid Station -- Spain, Volume I and II, 1942-

1966, written by David Wright and Gardner

MacPherson, in April 1967, and controlled by EUR

Division.

• The Ottawa

Station, 1953- 1968, written by William

D. O'Ryan, in April 1968, and controlled by EUR

Division.

• CIA Participation in Police Assistance Programs for

• Developing Countries, 1955 - October 1965, written

by Robert Bowling, Geraldine L. Jelsch, and Lyle T.

Shannon, in October 1965, and controlled by CI

Staff.

• History of Lisbon Station, April 1942 - October

1965, written by Robert Ruth and John C. Bishop, in

October 1965, and controlled by EUR Division.

The Maritime Branch (MB) at Headquarters, April

1951 - 1966, written by S. H. Chapman, in June

1968, and controlled by SO Division.

• History of The Hague Station 1942 - 1966, written

by Marion Linde and William D. O'Ryan in 1967, and

controlled by EUR Division.

• The Alaska Station (Plans for Operations Aimed at

Soviet Siberia From Alaska) 1949 - 1964, written by

7

SECRET

---

## Page 196

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

George N. Belic and John Bogart in January 1971, and

controlled by SB.

Western Europe Operations Directed at Cuba 1962 -

1964, written

by WE Division Officers in July 1967,

and controlled by EUR Division.

• Major Policy Authorizations for the Conduct of

covert Paramilitary Activities by CIA,

1948 - 1966,

written by Alfred I. Cox in August 1968, and

controlled by SO Division.

• Iceland - The History of the Reykjavik Station,

1950 - 1966, written by Rolfe A. Haatvedt in

February 1967 and published in February 1968, and

controlled by EUR Division.

• History of Station Port of Spain, August 1949 -

November 1967, written by Stannard K. Short in March

1969 and published in May 1969, and controlled by WH

Division.

• Monrovia Station -- Liberia, December 1958 - August

1969, written by C. Frank Stone II, Lester C. Houck,

and Louis B. Spaeth in October 1969 and published in

January 1970, and controlled by AF Division.

• The Algiers Station,

1947 - 1965, written by M. 'S

Caver in December 1972, and controlled by AF.

• History of the Copenhagen Station,

1943 - 1968,

written by William D. O'Ryan in early 1969 and

published in October

1969, and controlled by EUR

Division.

The History of Tunis Station, March 1956 - October

1968, written by Louis B. Spaeth in October 1968 and

published in December 1969, and controlled by AF

Division.

8

-SECRAT

---

## Page 197

14-00000

:

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

• History of the Cyprus Station, 1950 - 1968, written

by Dean L. Dodge in June 1968

and published in July

1969, and controlled by NE Division.

• History of the Brussels Station, 1942 - 1968,

Volumes I and II, written by William D. O'Ryan in

Autumn 1968 and published in May 1969, and

controlled by EUR Division.

• History of the Rangoon Station, 1947 - July 1968,

Volume II, written by Carleson C. Ames in September

1968 and published in January 1969, and controlled

by FE Division.

• The Africa Division,

1959 - 1967, written by w. H.

Dunbar in December 1971 and published in June 1972,.

and controlled by AF.

• Operations in Angola, 1942 - 1967, written by

Lester C. Houck in May 1970, and controlled by AF.

• The Conakry Station, February 1959 - June 1968,

written by M. S. Caver in September 1971, and

controlled by AF.

• Operations in Mozambique, 1942 - 1969, written by

Lester C. Houck in September 1971, and controlled by

• The Bangkok Station, 1945 - 1965, Volume III, .

written by Gerard Campagna in May 1971, and

controlled by FE.

• The Phnom Penh Station, 1953 - 1965, Volume II,

written by Allen W. Ginder. in February 1974, and

controlled by CIA History Staff and DDO.

• History of the Bukavu Base, September 1963 - June

1967, written by Lester C. Houck and Roscoe N.

Sandlin, Jr. in August 1969, and controlled by

Africa

Division.

9

SECRET

---

## Page 198

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

Lagos station, 19so- 1961, written by WIlliam h.

Dunbar in March 19/1, and controlled by DDP.

The Khartoum Station, November 1955 - July 1969,

written by Lawrence R. Devlin in November 1972, and

controlled by DDP.

• The Melbourne Station and Canberra Base, 1954 -

1966, written by Ruth Hyde in June 1970, and

controlled by DDP.

•• Covert Action Operations Soviet Russia Division,

1950-1968, written by Donald M. Jameson in December

1972, and

controlled

by CE.

• History of Guatemala Station, December 1960-Marci

965, written in March 1965 by Paul L. Loeb anc

controlled by wh.

• History, Japan - FI/D Operations, 1950-1955, written

in June 1970 by Vyrl E. Leichliter and controlled by

the successor component to FI/D.

The Illegal Border-Crossing Program, 1946-1959,

written by Anthony Arnold, George N. Belic, Boris

Ilyin and John Basarab in July 1971 and controlled

by CE.

• Air Support of Cuban Operations 1960-1962, written

by Andrew Russo in January 1973, and controlled by

History Staff.

• Counterintelligence Operations Soviet Russia

Division,

1946 - 1965, Volumes I and II, written by

Frederick Walters in August 1972, and controlled by

•Memorandm or the Record on IS MISC 13 (EILE OF CA

material) dated 11 April 1978, written by Eulalie

Hammond.

10

SECRET

---

## Page 199

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

• The Cuban Invasion -- Maritime Aspects,

1961,

written by Savilion H. Chapman in November 1966, and

controlled by Special Operations Division.

• The Covert Actions Project Funds FY 1964 and FY 1965

(With Historical Perspective), December 1947 -

January

1964. This TOP SECRET

history was written by

CA Staff in January 1964, and controlled by CA/PEG.

• Funding Covert Operations,

1960 - 1964. This TOP

SECRET history was written by CA and Cover Staff

Officers in September 1964, and is controlled by

CA/PEG.

• Foreign Intelligence Staff/Division D, 1948-1965

This TOP SECRET history was written by Fred Griffin,

Frank B. Rowlett, and Vyrl E. Leichliter in April

1974, and is controlled by CIA History Staff.

• History of the Vietnamese Generals' Coup of 1'-2

November 1963, Saigon Station Log and Analysis. This

history's access is controlled by FE/VNC or its

successor.

The following were very sensitive and we discussed the

collections with ARRB staffers.

An agreement was

reached to provide access to specific sections that may

contain relevant information:

• Covert Action Project Funds: pages preceding Tab 1,

and pages 1 through 6 under

• Foreign Intelligence Staff/Division D: Sections III

(1952-1965) (pages 39 through 50) and IV (Division D

Contributions to US National Policy) (pages 51

CIA-10 -- Interagency Source Register

(U) This request was dated June 1996. The DO

provided a classified

response to the ARRB together

11

SECRET

---

## Page 200

14-00000

SEGRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

with a copy of DOI 50-46, "The Interagency Source

Register," and advised that an unclassified response

was not possible.

CIA-11 -- Sylvia Duran Materials

(U) This request was dated May 1996 and was "in

particular.

• [for] a

'ten-page statement' she may

have given to the Mexican police." IMS/ESG "searchec

its main index system, its 'names' data base, and hard

copy files." The Agency response, dated October 1997,

indicated to the ARRB that "no such 'statement' has

ever been

found and we cannot confirm that it ever

existed."

CIA-12 -- Files on five persons allegedly connected

with JMWAVE

(U) This ARRB request was dated May 1996 for "all

201 files, personnel files, Office of Security files,

P-files, or any other files related to ... David Sanchez

Morales ... Ted Shackley ... Ron Cross ... Bart Henry and

Doug Gupton.

(U) The DO maintains no files on former employees,

such as Morales, Shackley, or Gupton (P) .

(U) In a response dated August 1998, the DO

responded to DA/OIM/HRP/JEK that we were

unable to

identify Ron Cross and Bart Henry as true names,

registered aliases, or pseudonyms and, therefore, could

not provide any files.

CIA - 13 - Mexico City Back-channel Communications

(U) The DO provided a classified response

explaining that these types of communications are

usually administrative matters, e.g., they contain

sensitive personnel information and they are not placed

in operational files or saved, collectively, in other

12

SECRET

---

## Page 201

14-00000

:

SECRET

SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

databases. Unfortunately, there is no way of

retrieving these cables through

reasonable search

using any generic or specific term, since cables were

not captured by any organized filing process.

CIA - 14 - Mexico City Station Annual Reports

(U) The DO was asked for specific annual reports from

Mexico City.

(S) We informed the ARRB that we were successful in

locating an official DO file which contained station

"annual reports" for the years 1957 through 1973.

file included two dispatches which forwarded the

The

RMDs

from Mexico Station for the years 1960 and 1961.

However, the RMDs, which were sent as separate

attachments (sent in a different pouch from the

covering dispatch memorandum) were not present in the

file.

(NOTE:

Attachments which contained true names

of CIA officers or assets or information that would

identify operational sources with CIA were customarily

sent in separate transmissions as a security measure if

a pouch (es) were compromised).

We also note that in

a speed letter, dated 1978, written by DDO/LA/STB to

OIC, that the RMDs for Mexico City Station, for the

years, 1962, 1963, or 1964 could not be located.

(S) Based upon further review, we are providing an

updated response to the ARRB as follow: The only

report that was annually required of a station was that

relating to its ability to meet its mission directives,

now called "operational directives".

These annual

reports called the Station's "Relative Mission

Directives" (RMD)

were

used to compose an overall

annual division or staff submission to the Deputy

Director for Operations, as an evaluative tool.

The

RMDs, themselves are a

summary of station activities

reported to Headquarters in other correspondence during

the course of the

year, were used to compile a division

level evaluation--in a sense, an annual report card--on

how

it was doing against operational requirements.

The

station reporting was extracted into the larger

13

SECRET

---

## Page 202

14-0000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

division summary, much as it

is today. The RMDs from

year-to-year could and often did change with the

operational requirements the Agency was expected to

fulfill.

As such, the RMDs for each station had value

only as data to the larger examination of how the

Agency performed its intelligence mission in a given

year and what trends or changes this review would

suggest for the ensuing year.

(U)

Station reporting of the type described above

would be treated as transitory information and as such

meet the definition of a temporary record. It is

entirely possible and quite probable that these

facilitative reports were systematically destroyed.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

authorized the Agency to destroy facilitative reports

in 1954 (NARA Reference: II-NNA-1057); the destruction

of intelligence. collection requirement files in 1962

(NARA Reference:

NN-163-1), and operational management

objective files

at the subcomponent level (which would

include reports from. Stations and base) in 1977 (NARA

Reference:

NC1-263-77-10).

The 1977 authorization

remains in force today.

CIA - 15 - Win Scott files from Russ Holmes files

(U) The Retired Record Table RRT shows

Mr. Scott's Mexico City files were retired as Job 78-

00594R on 11 August 1972. These records were retired

to the Agency's Archives and Records Center under Item

Number 40-76 in the Records Control Schedule in effect

at the time.

Files under Item Number 40-76 were

described as:

"Temporary. Destroy on completion of specific job

or as they serve their purpose.

Return folders and

documents on loan and destroy remaining papers."

The RRT

shows Job 78-00594R was destroyed on 12

January 1987.

The RRT

page showing the disposition of Mr.

Scott's files and the page of the Records Control

Schedule which describes Item Number 40-76 have been

14

SECRET

---

## Page 203

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

incorporated in the Agency's JEK collection and will be

processed for release to NARA.

CIA - 16 - Oswald Pre-Assassination Files

(S)

The Directorate of Operations reviewed the DO

records to determine if there were any additional files

containing pre-assassination records relating to

Oswald.

Research identified a document in the Oswald

201 which appeared to be a file inventory. The

document identified CI Staff as the file custodian.

CIC has confirmed that all CI Staff holdings were

incorporated into the 201.

(S) Prior to establishing a 201, any documents

received would have been placed in an operational

interest file.

We found no reference to the existence

of an operational interest file. If such a file had

existed, however, it might not have been registered in

the central index.

It was standard procedure that

upon opening a 201, the documents from an operational

interest file would be transferred to the 201.

(S) Given that Oswald was a subject of the

HTLINGUAL operation, it is reasonable to believe that

there was a file on him.

We destroyed all of the

HTLINGUAL files under court order, and no record was

made of what files existed.

We did not review all of

the DO record system to destroy all copies of material

which may have been derived from HTLINGUAL material.

We know,

for instance, that there are HTLINGUAL items

related

to Oswald in the HSCA sequestered collection.

(S) In sum,

the 201 on Oswald contains all the

information we

are aware of that we had prior to the

assassination.

CIA-IR-01 - Personnel Assigned to Post from 1959-1964

(S) The request for a listing of personnel

assigned

to Moscow 1959-1964 was discussed with Board

15

SECRET

---

## Page 204

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of

Fredrick C. Wickham,

Jr.

Staff.

Instead of a listing, the files on individuals

who

were

assigned to Moscow

and a history of the Moscow

Station were made available.

In addition, the staff

interviewed a former COS Moscow.

The Board staff is

satisfied with the response and will prepare its

own

documentation.

CIA-IR-03 - Full Computer Search for List of HILINGUAL

Files

(C) First, as an outcome of the Pike and Church

Committees investigations, all HTLINGUAL files which

were identifiable, as such, were destroyed under court

order.

Copies of

materials from these files that may

have been made prior to the destruction order and put

into other files have, however, surfaced as files are

reviewed. This includes material in the HSCA

sequestered collection.

(C) The DO ran a search on the term "HTLINGUAL."

Some records were identified as destroyed. Some were

not so marked but are not locatable under the job

number identified; however, given that there is no

requirement to record destroyed records under the

Federal statutes for disposition programs and given

limited resources for noting files destroyed, this is

not uncommon. The HTLINGUAL search further identified

files because they had been the subject of Freedom of

Information Act queries; however, these were not

HTLINGUAL files per se, but files which contained the

FOIA requester queries for HTLINGUAL information.

(U) ARRB staff member Michelle Combs has reviewed

the HTLINGUAL file run and has selected some folders

for review.

OIM has identified that they have only

redacted records for the large FOIA case that is

listed.

IMS/ESG/HCS is retrieving its records for

unredacted copies of the records and will make them

available.

CIA-IR-04 - Disposition of Angleton Files

16

SECRET

---

## Page 205

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

(U) The DO provided the following unclassified

response about the Angleton Files:

The files that

Kalaris mentioned in Mangold's book were incorporated

with the files of the CI staff.

Per memorandum dated

1976-1979, the CI files were reviewed and incorporated

into the DO record system.

Items that were duplicates

or not worthy of retention were destroyed. The memos

describe the file collection and the process that was

Iollowed.

Because the files that were once known as

Angleton's have been dispersed within the Do records,

they are

no longer identifiable as a collection.

CIA-IR-06 -- @KENCHANT

(U) IMS/ESG/HCS initially provided

a classified

response to DA/OIM/JFK for this request in February

1998.

In a follow-up response for declassification of

the response, IMS/ESG/HCS worked with the providing

office and then approved DA/OIM/JFK's unclassified

response.

CIA-IR-07 - Claude Barnes Capehart

(U) The Do provided a classified response, which

stated that we found no record when conducting a name

trace for records on Capehart.

Subsequently, we were

advised by the CIA's Project Manager, Mr. J. Barry

Harrelson, that this request was primarily being

researched by the Directorate for Science & Technology.

CIA-IR-09 -- George Bush

(S) The ARRB requested information about George

Bush because of a reference to "George Bush of the

Central Intelligence Agency" in a certain FBI document

dated November 1963.

17

---

## Page 206

14-00000

SEGRET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

(S) IMS/FAB provided a main index search response

to IMS/ESG/HCS. A 201 (that dated back only to 1977)

and a DCD file were located.

(U) DA/OIM/JEK responded to the ARRB in February

1998 that the "search determined the Agency has no

record of any association with George Herbert Walker

Bush during the 1963 time period."

CIA-IR-11 - Warren Commission critics (Does CIA

maintain files or records on specified critics - other

than press clippings?)

(U) The DO provided an unclassified response for

"any files or records on Warren Commission critics

Edward J. Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane, Harold

Weisberg, or Sylvia Meagher below.

La Meagher below tre

In addition to

these records, our research did surface a reference to

a file titled

"Garrison Investigation of Kennedy

Assassination" which was opened in 1969 and closed in

1996. At the direction of the ARRB staff, no material

in response to FOIA requests or news clippings in

Public Affairs was included.

A. Edward J. EPSTEIN - The DO has no identifiable

information on subject. Our search did surface the

name Edward Epstein; however, by using additional

biographic data known about subject, we were able to

dismiss this name as a false "hit."

B.

Josiah THOMPSON - Subject was of operational

interest to the DO circa 1962; therefore, a 201 file

does exist on this individual. ARRB staff member Combs

reviewed

this file in August 1998.

C.

Mark LANE - Our search produced references to two

documents: (1) An Agency dispatch from Germany dated

23 January 1970, and (2) An OGC letter dated 29 March

1977.

Both of these documents are available for

review. The OGC letter concerns a 1976 FOIA request --

Mark Lane was one of the individuals requesting the

FOIA action - which involves two dispatches dated 1967

18

SECRET

---

## Page 207

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

and 1968. Because these two documents are the subject

of a FOIA request, they are not included in this

response.

D.

Harold Weisberg - There is a 201 file on subject

which contains very limited information.

This file can

be made available for review by an ARRB

staff member.

The Do retired records system, CARD, has a reference to

an agent as

an Agency dispatch (EGBA-87605, 1969) which indicates

subject was in correspondence with Julius Mader.

This

document was in the files when it was reviewed by staff

member Combs in August 1998.

E. Sylvia Meagher - We found no DO information.

CIA - IR-12 - Contacts with journalists or publishing

houses

(U) The DO provided both an unclassified and

classified response about contacts with journalists or

publishing houses, regarding whether CIA might have

attempted to influence any journalists or publishers

regarding public discussion of the assassination.

Searches with generic terms such as "journalists,"

"publishers," "publishing houses," and "media" would

not produce

meaningful responses. This question

required the research of crypts mentioned in various

documents in the JFK "assassination records."

These

crypts referred to projects managed under the overall

guidance of a staff in the DO and in all instances were

projects

concerning press and propaganda programs

designed to promote anti-communism and to counter

Soviet press and propaganda initiatives worldwide.

Specifically, the

the following reasons (Corresponding cryptonyms to

these projects were provided in a classified document,

and are not included below):

A.

to counter Soviet activities in international

intellectual organizations, in order to unite and

promote anti-Communist intellectuals.

19

SECRET

---

## Page 208

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

B. to be involved in book publishing matters and the

international distribution of anti-Communist books.

C.

to purchase and distribute books.

D. to cover the international mailing of American

books translated into Spanish

and French languages.

E. to purchase and mail books to selected addressees

in Latin America and Africa.

F. to cover a worldwide news and feature story

service.

G. as a Press and Propaganda Developmental and Target

of Opportunity project involving Latin America.

CIA-IR-13 -- Organized Crime

(S) As part of DA/OIM/JFK's research, IMS/ESG/HCS

was requested to do a trace on "Charles Ford." The

trace resulted in no hits.

(S) Later, to answer CIA-IR-03 on HTLINGUAL

material, a computer run was made.

The list contained

a citation to testimony to Congress by Charles Ford in

September of 1975.

A copy of Ford's testimony to a

Senate Committee regarding a Mafia connection to

assassination plots against Castro was provided to

DA/OIM/JFK in February 1998.

(U) At the request of HRP JEK, several project

Crypts were searched and results provided in connection

with this request.

CIA - IR-15 - Mexico City Station electronic

surveillance and surveillance tapes

(S)

The Directorate of Operations has checked

Headquarters

records for files referenced in HMMW 12454

20.

SECRET

---

## Page 209

14-011100

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

and for files on the crypts cited in this document and

searched for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches

cited in this document. As previously explained, the

crypts in HMMW 12454 have been researched. The dispatch

was apparently written in haste and in truncated

language without correct knowledge of the operational

for the specific operations in Mexico City. The

in the dispatch are the more generic crypts for

teltap operations, not for the then-current operations

in Mexico City, which are in question.

(U)

There has been considerable interest over the

years in locating any electronic surveillance tapes

that would have been made during the period that Oswald

visited Mexico (26 September - 2 October 1963). A

thorough search has been conducted of the DO's record

system as well as the index to retired records in an

attempt to locate any tapes and/or find documentation

to resolve their disposition. We have discussed this

issue with operational experts and their professional

opinion is that most likely tapes such as these were

never returned to Headquarters for retention.

It was

normal practice to recycle audio tapes after

they had

been listened to by transcribers and their transcripts

made.

(U) Messages between field stations and

headquarters used operational jargon and shortened

sentence structures that can sometimes allow for

misinterpretations. Thus, possible confusion was

created when references to what was being sent to

headquarters referred to "tapes" but really intend

"information" from tapes.

(U)

In our search efforts we did locate

approximately 185 audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban

and Soviet embassies in Mexico City that were recorded

during the immediate time following the assassination

(22 November 1963 to January 1964). The fact that

these tapes were retained and returned to Headquarters

could account for the fact that some people recall that

some tapes existed which were sent to Headquarters.

21

SECRET

---

## Page 210

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

(U)

Based upon the search efforts that were

undertaken and the opinions of operational experts

consulted, CIA has concluded that the tapes in question

do not exist and were almost certainly recycled in the

normal

course of

business before their potential value

was

identified.

CIA-IR-18 - Information on one DO Office

(S) The DO provided an unclassified response on

the "Defector Staff" listed in CSN 5-50 revised in

October 1959 and the "CIA Defector Coordinator,

DDP/CDC, " revised in October 1963. The "Defector and

Contract Personnel Branch" had the symbol SR/OS/D.

Only Soviet Bloc (formerly Warsaw Pact countries)

defector cases

were handled by this branch.

Staffs and

branches identified, among other duties, were

responsible for identifying, debriefing, and resettling

foreign defectors of intelligence interest.

CIA - IR-19 - Computer search on specific individuals

and organizations

(U) The DO provided an unclassified response to

the ARRB Staffs'

request to review Agency files on some

38 names who were the subjects of the HSCA. All files'

and traces were

reviewed by the ARRB staffers on 19 and

20 August.

A. Leo Cherne, (Leopold Chernetsky), a US citizen, was

sorn in 1912

has Office of Security file #53082,

has

201 file #07662 (two vOlumes), has

an A-file #048058,

and

subject does have a pseudo.

B. Hunter Leake has

an A-file (#105075) DCD file

number, pseudo not found.

C. John McVickar. Trace results only.

D. Andy Anderson. No identifiable traces running

variations of "Andy."

22

SECRET

---

## Page 211

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

E. Byron B. Morton Jr.

-- Trace resulted one document.

F. Marie Cheatham. - Trace resulted in one document.

G. Paul A.

Garbler. Our records reveal that Garbler

had three

pseudos assigned to him.

Also, Garbler had

four aliases on record.

H. Verna Deane Brown. The trace resulted in one

document.

I. George Stanley Brown. Results of trace search was an

A-File.

J. Howard Guebler. There was one trace result, who may

or may not be iden to Subject which is an index card.

K. Gordon Duane Novel. Trace resulted in three index

cards. He is the subject of 201-0834822 and has an A

file (#A185210); however, the A file has been

incorporated into his 201 file. No record of a pseudo

on this name.

L. Ed Butler -- Trace resulted in an A file (#121440)

on Edward Scannell Butler, III, the Director of INCA.

M. INCA (Information Council of the Americas).

AllStar trace search on "INCA" provided the following

index card(s) information that may or may not be iden

to the "Information Council of the Americas, Inc."

N. Permindex. One trace result was found.

CIA-IR-20 -- Monster Plot NBR

(U) This is

a large number of files from the

microfilm part of the collection that Michelle Combs

reviewed

and then crafted

a "SECRET" classified memo

identifying the reels and folders of the files that

were then declared "Not Believed Relevant."

23

SECRET

---

## Page 212

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK. Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

CIA-IR-21 -- DRE Monthly operational reports

(U) This request involved "Howard" and some

extensive research for the name as a true name, pseudo,

or alias for anyone out of JMWAVE and/or connected to

the DRE operation.

(U) We also did extensive research for DRE monthly

reports. In the JEK collection, there was a gap in the

reporting between December 1962 and April 1964.

(U) This also covered the question of George

Joannides' Performance Appraisal Reports and their

inclusion in the collection with some redactions.

CIA-IR-22 - "A" file on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison

(U) The DO provided this unclassified response:

"It was the DO's understanding that there were

illegible markings on pages of the copy of the "A"

file on Clay Shaw. Legible copies were promised

and have recently been delivered.

The DO has recently provided a copy of the "A"

file on Jim Garrison."

CIA-IR-26 -- Jordan James Pfunter

(U) IMS/ESG/HCS did a records search on subject

name.

The information is contained in a 201 file and

an A file.

This information was provided to the ARRB by

DA/OIM/JFK in February 1998, and they were advised that

other information was available from a Third Agency.

CIA-IR-29 -- Oswald LeWinter

(U) The ARRB provided the name to be traced.

Apparently he is/was claiming to be an Agency employee

and the Acting Assistant Director of Counter Espionage.

24

SECRET

---

## Page 213

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

(S) A name trace was run. The resultant

information was included in an IMS/ESG/HCS

"clarification memo" for the ARRB.

The text, which was

classified "Secret," reads as follows:

"Oswald LeWinter is a naturalized US citizen and

a man of at least

four other names -- George

Mearah, Oscar LeWinter, Razin LeWinter, and

Ibrahimin Razin. Although he appeared in the

East German Who's Who in CIA, the CIA has never

had any official affiliation with LeWinter.

LeWinter was the subject of an Agency "burn

notice" in 1990; a burn notice alerts the

intelligence community. In this case, the alert

advised that LeWinter was an intelligence

swindler, peddler, and fabricator. (C)

CIA has a report of an episode involving an

intelligence fabricator and convicted drug

dealer Oswald LeWinter, AKA George Mearah, born

2 April 1931, in Vienna, Austria.

In July 1990,

a CIA representative overseas reported that

LeWinter, using the name of George Mearah,

contacted him and offered to put high-level GDR

officials wishing to defect in touch with our

representative and in turn the CIA.

This

contact

would be in exchange for help and

presidential pardon that would wipe the slate

clean and leave LeWinter (Mearah) without a

record as a convicted felon. LeWinter (Mearah)

claimed this was important [because] he was

married (for the third time) and starting a new

life; he was reportedly considering quietly

acquiring Israeli citizenship. This contact was

not followed up because of the "burn notice."

CIA-IR-30 -- Cherepanov Papers

(U) This undated and undocumented request from the

ARRB waS

derived from

a passage in the book Molehunter

(pp. 121-123) regarding the Cherepanov papers.

25

SECRET

---

## Page 214

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK

Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

IMS/ESG/HCS located a workbook copy in English and

provided access to ARRB staffer Michelle Combs.

She

was further offered access to the original Russian

copies. Combs then wrote a

memorandum dated April 1997

that identified the collection as papers that

"primarily examine the habits, potential vulnerabil-

ities, and KGB approaches made to various members of

the American Embassy staff." Combs went on to say that

"no information of believed relevance to the assassin-

ation of President John F. Kennedy was found in these

papers. No pages were designated as assassination

records."

CIA-IR-32 -- AMWORLD

(C) The confidential draft of the IMS/ESG/HCS

response was shown to ARRB staffer Combs in February

1998. That text follows:

" (C) **CIA-IR-32 AMWORLD. The Review Board

seeks information regarding the purpose of

AMWORLD and its connection with the Cuban exile

groups. After a thorough search of the Do

records system, to include telephonic

communications with various DO Latin American

Division officers, we formulated the following

as a definition of the purpose of the AMWORLD

operation. The AMWORLD operation was a covert

Agency effort to provide support to several

Cuban exile groups.

operation designed to bring the exile groups

under the direct control of Manuel Artime

Buesa. AMWORLD's mission was to cause a popular

uprising in Cuba through the use of propaganda

and paramilitary forces to ultimately overthrow

Fidel Castro.

(C) The Agency provided direct and indirect

financial aid and technical advisory support to

these groups but did not participate directly

in the day-to-day operations.

ARTIME was

responsible for recruitment of AMWORLD

26

SECRET

---

## Page 215

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

personnel; he obtained sites for training and

deployment, and he had primary responsible for

day-to-day operations.

AMWORLD was based in

three locations.

The AMWORLD propaganda

efforts were based in Costa Rico.

The

paramilitary efforts were run out of the

Nicaragua base.

The third base was located in

Miami to service AMWORLD requirements including

the collection of operational leads, servicing

of dead drops and assisting in the vetting of

AMWORLD personnel."

(C) Combs asked two follow up questions: Was part

of the program to put in place a government in exile?

Was there ever a government in exile?

IMS/ESG/HCS put

these questions to LA and DO/IRO. The DO/IRO has

provided the following additional write up, classified

confidential:

"(C) Based on file reviews and recollections

from officers involved in the Cuban program,

•there was never a Cuban Government in Exile:

During the planning for the Bay of Pigs

operation it was envisioned that after the

invasion site had been secured, Miro Cardona and

the Cuban Revolutionary Council would be flown

to the area to establish a new Cuban Government.

The invasion site was never secured.

(C) The AMWORLD Project, begun well after the

failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and after

the release of Manuel Artime Buesa and other Bay

of Pigs veterans from Cuban prisons, was

designed to support and unite several Cuban

exile groups under the control of Artime in an

effort to enhance the cohesion of the exiles and

augment Artime's capability to launch propaganda

and paramilitary attacks against the Cuban

mainland.

The overall mission of AMWORLD was to

foment a popular uprising in Cuba which could

lead to the ultimate overthrow of Fidel Castro.

There is no evidence that AMWORLD's mission even

remotely came close to fruition and no evidence

that a projected government in exile was ever

considered

as a viable option.''

27

SECRET

---

## Page 216

14-00000

sin.

SEERET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

CIA-IR-34 -- Files of CIA officials/offices

(U) IMS/ESG/HCS ran a computer search for 'OPI 40"

files. This computer run

was then made available to

ARRB staff member Michelle Combs

for review.

Her

review encompasses some 42 boxes

from a variety of

retired DDP files.

The identified folders were gathered

exclusivere microt

in an aggregate of seven boxes (including one that

is

exclusively microfilm and microfiche of so-called

Registry logs) .

(U) The ARRB staff member's review is about half

completed.

She has so far selected some 44 records

totaling 123 pages to be included in the JFK

collection. When the ARRB staff member's review is

completed, the selected records will be copied and

subjected first to a duplicate check by DA/OIM/JFK

reviewers, then reviewed by those reviewers, then

reviewed by HCS reviewers.

(U) We have been unable to locate any "operational

diaries" by William Harvey.

CIA-IR-35 - Oswald related Information

(S) The surfacing of a report in the continuing

Oswald 201 file attributed to IJDECANTER prompted the

ARRB to request a review of that defector's 201 file.

Certain

such reporting records will be included in the

JFK collection as records in Oswald's 201. A Board

request for an updated search of records for Oswald

related

material generated some 128 hits, which were

reviewed by Ms: Michelle Combs of the ARRB staff.

Three records, selected by Ms. Combs and sanitized with

her concurrence, were selected for inclusion in the JFK

assassination records collection.

CIR-IR-36 - Handling of Cables in 1963

28

SECRET

---

## Page 217

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

(U)

The DO provided an unclassified response to

the ARRB staff's request for a brief explanation of how

the Directorate of Operations processed cables in the

1963/1964 timeframe.

We are unable to locate any

Agency-wide definitive records on the subject for this

time frame,

and the intormation provided below is based

solely on the memory of DO officers

familiar with

procedures in place at the time and in the specific

offices

in which they served.

(U)

Each area division in the DO maintained and

staffed its own registry.

Although each registry was

configured to meet each division's unique requirements,

there were common functions performed by all the

registries to include: collecting, sorting, and

delivering of incoming cables; maintenance of incoming

and outgoing cable "chronos;" collecting and delivering

of incoming and outgoing pouch material; and the

issuance and maintenance of "pseudo and alias" card

files.

(U) On a daily basis, usually six days per week,

each registry collected its incoming cable traffic from

a central processing point, then called the Cable

Secretariat, within the Office of Communications.

The

incoming cables were then sorted by registry personnel

according to predefined guidelines. These guidelines

were unique to each division and were frequently

altered to meet changing operational requirements.

Sorted cables were then delivered to specific

operational/area desks. A "chrono" copy of each

incoming cable was maintained, on a temporary basis,

usually for 90 days, and the receiving office placed a

copy into an operational file based upon subject or

activity.

(U) Outgoing cables were created and coordinated

by appropriate operational/area desks and usually

released by the chief of the division or a designated

releasing officer.

"Released" cables were then hand

delivered or sent by pneumatic tube system (a system

long ago dismantled from the original Headquarters

building) to Cable Secretariat for processing into the

Agency's communication network.

"Chrono" copies of

29

SECRET

---

## Page 218

14-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JEK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

outgoing cables were forwarded to the registry for a 90

day hold and the sending office placed a copy in the

appropriate operational file.

(U) There

was a centralized processing section for

the directorate that received copies of the cables to

review them and update the central index cards.

CIA-IR-37 - William Pawley

(U)

The DO provided an unclassified response to

the ARRB's request to review all files on william

Pawley and any files on his possible connection with

Cuban exile groups in the 1962-1963 time frame.

Agency's 201 file on Pawley consists of three volumes,

the same as in the JEK sequestered collection, and

November 1962 is the date of the last record indexed to

his 201. However, the Agency holds operational files

for the period 1963 to 1965 which related to Pawley.

Those files were made available for review by the ARRB

staff and they selected a number of documents for

inclusion in the materials being processed for release

to NARA.

Unnumbered Reguest -- Worldwide Query

(U) In March 1998 the ARRB asked "whether a

worldwide query was sent out the day after the

assassination for all case officers to query their

sources for any information on the assassination and

Oswald. Are or would all the answers be in the

collection?"

(S) The following information has been identified:

A "book message," that is a message to all stations

and bases, DIR 84608, dated 22 November 1963 (date/time

This message advised all

stations and bases about the assassination of President

alert. " Kennedy. The message advised all to be

"on

This cable is found in Oswald's 201 file, Box

1, Volume 3.

30

SECRET

---

## Page 219

14-00000

•SECRET

SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

в.

A "book cable," DIR 85133, dated 26 Nov. 1963

(date/time group 2623192) was sent. This message was

sent "routine" but with ten addressees on a "prior-ity

basis."

The ten "priority" addressees were: Paris,

Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Brussels, The

Hague, London, and Ottawa. This cable advised all

stations and bases of the identity of the alleged

assassin by name of Lee Harvey Oswald. This cable can

be found in Oswald's 201 file, Box 1, Volume 4.

C. Neither of these two cables indicates that a

"routing" coding was to be used to ensure that all

responses, if any, would be classified to Oswald's 201

file.

8.

(U) I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE

FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.

Executed in Langley, Virginia on this 21d day of September

1998.

JER EPO, Directorate of Operations

---

## Page 220

4-00000

SECRET

SUBJECT:

JFK Declaration for the Directorate of Operations

DISTRIBUTION:

Original - JFK Official File

1 -

D/OIM/DA

1 - C/JEK Declassification Project/HRP/OIM/DA

1 - C/IMS /ESG

1

IMS/ESG/HCS

1 - ESG/ Chrono

33

---