MEMO: RELEASE OF JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS
Originator: CIA
From: JOHN BERG
To: CHIEF, HRG, CHIEF, IMS, D/CSI
Document date: 06/25/1993
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

D0/023-1586

25 June 1993

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM :

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Chief, Historical Review Group

Chief, Information Management Service

Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence

John Berg

Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy

Director for Operations

Release of JFK Assassination Records

A.

Memorandum from DDO dated 9 June 1993:

Subject:

Release of JFK Assassination

Records - Differences;

B .

Memorandum by Dave Gries of 22 June 1993:

Subject:

JFK Assassination Records-- Proposal

for discussion

1. Regarding the items discussed in the referenced memos,

it appears

that

further interpretation is

required.

--On the subject of cryptonyms, we cannot give wholesale

approval for their release, but if

the crypts have been

previously blown or exposed they can be released.

There may be

cases in which, if the crypt has been retired, does not relate

to existing or

another project and does not contain

a valid

digraph, it may also be released. Note, however, that crypts

which are related to a series (ZZBOAT/1, ZZBOAT/2 etc.), would,

when exposed, link operations or assets to one another or which

refer to other operations or projects cannot be released.

--On the subject of pseudonyms, if the pseudonym has been

previously blown, there is no objection to its release.

Note

that release of

pseudonyms

serves to link officers with

assets/operations and this

"guilt by association" could lead to

futher, undesireable,

Care must

also be taken so

that the release of pseudonyms is not done in such a manner so

as to enable a researcher to accummulate through an inspection

of numerous documents the approximate size of a given station.

(The sense of this

is

to mean that only a small number of

pseudonyms would

be considered for release.)

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SUBJECT:

Release of JFK Assassination Records

--On the subject of cable, dispatch and file numbers, there

is no objection

to the release of this information

as it

pertains to Mexico City, to include 201 numbers of key players

in the JFK story. All has cable numbers can be released

to Mexico City. The release of cable/dispatch

numbers from other Stations can only be done if there has

one done it there has en

prior public identification of a Station in that location. The

release of file numbers pe se, however, would reveal the

methodology by which we file/store and retrieve information

which is still in practice today and thus we cannot approve it

on a blanket basis. Blanket release of 201 numbers reveals

similar information as well as targeting/acquistion

methodologies which we similarly need

2.

I

realize that the above guidelines continue to mean

that much information will be "blacked out."

As bad as it may

appear, none of this information is substantive and its

omission does not detract from the "story."

Its release,

however, could permit detailed analyses of our commo,

methodology, contacts and staffing which we cannot accept.

New Subject: Release of William Pawley's name

It is agreed that an attempt will be made to locate

Pawley's next of kin to request their permission to release

information pertaining to his relationship with CIA.

the

next of kin cannot be indentified or located, the subject can

be revisited. (Note:

the information in the Congressional

record or in

eup or tent on that relationship.)

Ber

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