Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: OPCA
To: CID
Document date: 11/5/96
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

3/31/201

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

124-10378-10031

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62C-HQ-1029205-3359

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: OPCA

TO: CID

TITLE :

DATE: 11/05/1996

' PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 3; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/03/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC MEMO

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SECRET

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Presence: DEADLINE 11/07/1996

Date: 11/05/1996

To:

Criminal Investigative

National Security

Office General Counsel

Information Resources

Attn: Ms. Tucker, Rm. 4944

Ms. Dace, RM. 4944

Aten:

Attn :

Mr. Swanda, Rm. 4425

Mr. P. Kelley,

Rm. 7338

Ms. Buckleitner,

Rm. 7975, no encl.

Attn: Mr. McDonald, Rm.

6296

From:

OPCA

AND INTORMSTION CONTAINZO

JEK Task Force, Rm. 6362

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIDD EXCEPS

Contact:

Carol L. Keeley, Ext. 9494 WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

Approved By: Obrien, J Kevin

Drafted By: Keeley Carol L:clk

4/19/99

Case ID #: (U)

62-HQ-1029205 (Pending)

CLASSIFIED BY: SL/nes

REASON: 1.5 /C,a.

Title: (U) JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS

DECLASSIFY ON: X CO Co

COLLECTION ACT (JEKARCA)

(JFK)

Synopsis: (U) On 10/30/1996, the Assassination Records Review

Board (ARRB) formally advised

by letter to the FBI their

determinations on FBI documents.

The FBI has a limited mandated

time in which to appeal these decisions.

(U)

ClassIfied By: G3,

FOIPA/IRD

Reason

1.5%ed

(d)

Declassify On: 10/01/2017

Enclosures:

(U)

Evidence provided by the JFK Task Force (JFKTF)

to support

maintaining the postponements and the documents with

postponements highlighted.

Details: (U)

On 10/30/1996, the ARRB formally advised the FBI

of the determinations voted by them on FBI documents at a meetingr

held 10/16/1996 The ARRB letter listed 90 documents for which

the ARRB made determinations.

The FBI agrees with the ARRB's

determination to postpone or open information in 57 of the

documents.

Of the remaining documents, the ARRB made

determinations not within the scope of the FBI's document release

policies.

The release of the information'in these documents will

reveal the identities of 174 individuals whom the documents

described as potential criminal informants (PCI), security

informants (SI), sources of information (SOI), and confidential

sources (CS) .

The ARRB decisions will also release classified

foreign counterintelligence information.

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative

Re:: (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

From:

OPCA

(U) As mentioned previously, the JFKTF searches the

open and closed indices at Headquarters and reviews any files

identical with the subject for additional identifying personal

information. The JFKTF requests the field office to search their

indices,

review any identifiable documents and respond with the

appropriate information.

This information is forwarded to the

Butte Information and Technology Center (BITC) for their search of

the various data bases for current physical status, death record

or location.

The JFKTE provides this information to the ARRB to

support the FBI's request to sustain the postponement of names

and singular information.

Currently the ARRB releases the

identities and singular information on all sources with no

information available and those deceased. This includes sources

with foreign citizenship, which the BITC cannot search.

(U) The 33 documents concerning the decisions from the

current meeting, which the FBI may wish to appeal, are listed

below by, document number with the

information to be released. The

status of informants and sources, if found through research,

noted after the name with living (L), deceased (D), no record

(NR) or date of birth (DOB).

The FBI provided

written justifications presenting

the evidence

available to protect the individuals,

singular

information,

technical information, and classified information

related. to methods, sources and foreign relations as listed

However, the ARRB supports the position that the

information ordered disclosed is relevant and significant to the

assassination. They opine the pertinence and importance to the

assassination outweigh any current harm to the individuals or the

FBI's/United States Government's Foreign relations, informants,

or operational aspects.

(U) II CID OF NSD recommend appealing, please provide

the addendum with reasons to the JFKTF and OGC by 11/07/1996, as

the FBI only has 7 days to appeal upon receipt of the letter. If

you have any questions,

please contact Carol I. Keeley at

extension 9494 or Carl Valentine at extension 9476.

Additionally at this meeting, the ARRB agreed to

postpone the technical information concerning a surveillance on

Marina Oswald.

In HQ 62-109060-7406, NAR 124-10067-10448 (copy

...oriaged in a large terminal box, 1 1/2 blocks...a pair of

wires that go through the telephone

exchange building to a pair

at rear of plant...traced."

and "...mite... attic... above ceiling (5)

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative

Re:. (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

From: OPCA

Gight fixtures...wired in parallel and brought out of house on (SJ

extra pairs in 1 conductor drop, substituted for original 2

conductor arop...on leasea teleghone pairs through telephone

exchange office...avoid tracing" until 10/2017. The ARRI

previous-y opened this document and the JEKTE requested

reconsideration.

SA's Alan McDonald and Marcus Thomas personally

explained the harmful impact the release would have on current

operations. After this explanation, the ARRB reconsidered their

determination and agreed to the proposed postponements.

(*U,)

1.

AT 44-1559-1A, 1A1, 1A2, 1A3, 1A4, NAR 124-

10126-10122' (17/6), will release PCI's Gene R. Tilley (DOB 1933),

Frank A. Lackey (DOB 1940); Wilbur J. Davis (DOB 1900), Earl L.

Wright (D) and the PCI''s without records George K. Hayes, Daniel

R. Wright, Woodrow W. Cravens, Howard Hill, Taylor E. Hoynes,

Manuel J. Maloot, Fred G. Azar, Pat Herring, Frank Kaylor, Robert

Louis Dunn, Vera Franklin, J. C. Warmack, Margaret Hall, Nellie

S. Halsey, Louis D. Zakas, Daniel N. Baldwin, Willie C. Garmon,

Ralph Williams, Betty I. Cox,

and George Robert Stith.

1,80

2.

will

release SI Edith Fernandez (DOB. 1923), PSI's Ira Petker

(DOB

1930), Anamae Sandoval (DOB 1931), Bobbie Ray Clark (NR), and

William Adam Colley. (DOB 1896/1906). The ARRB sustained the

postponements of the numeric portion of the symbol numbers LA's LS_

Tand NY 1013 Jand the

informantile numbersa the identiti misterios

Apolonin Bonifacio Sandoval (I), and Florance y. Gray (E until

10/2006.

(U) 3: MM 105-8342-236, NAR 124-10174-10408 (17/101),

will release PSI George C. Tarafa (NR).

(U) 4. MM. 105-8243-246, NAR 124-10174-10415 (17/102),

will release CI Mark Amsdell (D).

(U) 5.

SA 89-67-42, NAR 124-10178-10346 (19/12), will

release PCI T. M. Crumpler (NR) .

(U) 6. SV 105-801-26, NAR 124-10227-10330 (17/58),

will release CS William King Keyserling (D).

(U) 7.

IR 105-406-44, NAR 124-10229-10143 (17/59),

will release PCI Jack Pope (NR).

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative From:

Re :

(U)

62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

OPCA

(U) 8.

BU 105-4467-107, NAR 124-10231-10338 (17/73),

will release PSI's John P. Magagna (DOB 1/3/27), Stanley Minor

(DOB 9/24/31), and Osler H. Laster (DOB 1/16/27) .

sustained the postponement offeSI Martin I. Wilneguntil 10/2006.4F

(U) 9. DL 89-43-5943, NAR 124-10236-10073 (18/10),

will

release the confidential SOI (DL 134-55) Zelman Brounoff

(D).

(U) 10: NO 89-69-1108, NAR 124-10236-10279 (18/15),

will release PCI Juanita Karr (DOB 1922) .

(U) 11. NO 89-69-1111, NAR 124-10236-10282 (18/18),

will release CI Fred Kirkland (D)..

(U) 12.

NO 89-69-1149, NAR 124-10236-10309 (18/21),

will release PCI's Elenor Gorman (NR) and Colin Hemenway (NR) .

(U) 13. NO 89-69-1151A, NAR 124-10236-10312 (18/22),

will release PCI's Wanda Stumph (NR) and Susara Wilhemena Gruber

(NR) .

(U) 14

& 10353 (18/23 &

18/25), will release PCI's Richard P. Myers (D),

Lee Conley Rains (NR), Floyd C. Sapaugh (D), Mrs. Martini Lopez

(NR.), Mrs. Alene Infinger (NR), Louis Lee White (NR), Joe E.

Murphy (NR), Dorothy Boyter (NR), Freddie Davis (NR), Edward

James Skibba (NR), Dorothy Louise Ryan (NR), Mary Brogdon (NR) ,

and Dixie L. Abel (NR) .

The ARRB sustained the postponement of

PCI Kenneth O. Arnold

(L) and the numeric portion of NO 1223-S

until 10/2006.

(U) 16.

NO 89-69-1166, NAR 124-10236-10323 (18/24);

WIll release PCI's Josea LaFleur (NR), Al Dargis (D), Warren Reed

(D), James I. Lewis (DOB 1899), Leonard Leroy Shipley (DOB 1925),

George Bohland (D), Paul Bulleman (D), Willie Estes Moody (DOB

1925), Ferdinand A. Keller (NR), Patricia Boudreaux (NR), Henry

E. Bazajou (NR), Everett Ramsey

(NR) , George J. Alonzo (NR), Boyd

ACy (NR) , Jewel

Wallace

(DOB 1905), and Irvin E. LeBlanc (NR) .

(U) 17. AT 89-45-13, NAR 124-10260-10326 (15/84), will

release the PCI's who are deceased: Richard Gerald Dawson,

Robert

Van Faulkner, James Gaston Liles, Ivey Acey Miller, Joe Mitchell,

William Hugh Morris, Fred Padgett, C.

Harmon Settle, Gerald

Maurice Stanfield, and Johnny Tuggle; the PCI's with birth dates,

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To: Criminal Investigative

Re: (U)

62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

From: OPCA

out no record: Billy Leon Cole (1931), Frank Ellington (1930),

Marie Harris

(1891), Frank A. Lackey (1940), James Mathis (1924),

James E. McElroy (1911), Jesse Mae Murray (1928), and Jack Sauls

(1908); and PCI's with no information: Floyd Morris Absher, Aaron

Anthony,

Fred G. Azar, William H. "Borum, Clyde Brock, E. Thurston

Brown, Dillard Bryan, Ed Bryant, Ulysses Byas, Benjamin LaFayette

Chancellor, Grady Samuel Cheek, Arbie C. Cleveland, Woodrow W.

Cravens, Bruce Croker, Elma Dailey, J. L. Davis, Charles Dionne,

B. J. Dooley, Floyd Doster, Robert Louis Dunn, Betty Jane Fagan,

Jerome Fagan, Eugene Fields, Vera Franklin, Charles Gaddis, Pearl

Gilley, Pete Graves, Margaret Hall, Albert

Harper, James Marion

Harrison,

Fred Heath, Pat Herring, Solomon Hill,

Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Johnson, Mack Johnson, Howard Jones,

Brewster M. Land, Thomas W. Lee, Jack Lindsey, Charlie Lipps,

William Everett Marchman, J. B. Martin, Harrison D. McIver,

Robert G. Moseley, Jerome Moreland, John William O'Neal, Kenneth

E. Peoples, William C. Ray, Glenn Robertson, Sue Ann Robinson,

Milton N. Siegel, Gordon Bailey Spain,

Fred Walton Springer,

Joe

Spurlin,

Jr., Olen Stephens, Lucy Stillman, George Robert Stith.

Edward W. Stratlin, Henry Lee Terrell, Oscar Thompson, James M.

Todd, Walter Tonge, Arnold E. Townsend, Lee Watson, Melvin

Watkins, Clarence Henry White, and Irene Young.

The ARRB

sustained the postponements of living PCI's Winfred C. Beck,

George Dodys, James Donald Perry, and James Harold Spears.

(U) 18.

CE 89-46-15, NAR 124-10263-10272 (15/91), will

release PCI's Lilian Arlene Beck. (NR), Bill Duncan (NR), Francis

Leroy Stubbs (NR), Anita Mauldin (NR), and Lynn Sparks.

(U) 19.

PH 157-916-85, NAR 124-10269-10285 (15/149),

will release PCI's Juan Torres and Jesse Mathis. The ARRB

previously released PCI Joe Liever.

(U) 20.

SL 89-36-25, NAR 124-10275-10464 (16/601, will

release PCI Mrs. John W. Allen (DOB 1913).

21. HQ 105-82555-3NR5206, NAR 124-10052-10001

(9/25), will release PSI Michael Tutnauer (DOB 1909) .

The ARRB

previously released Panel Sources Carmen Pinto-Tameirao, Harry

Payne Miller and Charles w. Campbell.

the Arrs sustained the

postponements ofFrank Sweeney (L), Edna Riley (L), and Bruce (C

GeLD (I) Juntil 10/2006.

Uns 22.

HQ 62-109060-1NR5597, NAR 124-10060-10320

(14/128)

will release classified information "Soviet Section"

and "IS-R"

The ARRB sustained the postponement of the symbol

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TO:

Re :.

SECRET

Criminal Investigative From:

(U)

62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

•OPCA

number and the file number until 10/2006.

23-27.

HQ 105-82555-2NR5739, 183, 202, 5NR4837 &

HQ 62-116395-1183; NAR 124-10067-10266, 10169-10000, 10169-10001,

10169-10076, 10273-10095 (9/34, 615&6, 8/74, 9/129) , will release

the code word "Tumbleweed" and other information related to this

double agent operation.

The ARRB sustained the postponements for

Lo/zodentity of the double agent and the word "ongoing" until (S-

28.

HQ 44-24016-1NR1443, NAR 124-10101-10094

(17/1).,

will

release the file caption "Karel Kyncl; IS-CZ".

(W 29. HQ 100-32965-118, NAR 124-10129-10092 (10/17) ,

will release information obtained from a technical surveillance

on the Dominican Republic.

The ARRB sustained the postponement

of the symbol number until 10/2017.

(U8) 30.

HQ 62-109060-1994, NAR 124-10151-10141

(18/103), will release information related to contacts with the

Soviet Embassy.

U|* 31: HQ 62-109060-1NR4729, NAR 124-10160-10028

(18/42).

will release information related to contacts with the

Soviet

Embassy.

32.

HQ 105-82555-6NR5573, NAR 124-10175-10016

(14/65); will release information concerning the Embassy of

Panama

or their Ambassador.

(4) 33. DI 89-43-3911, NAR 124-10239-10374 (18/36) ,

will release information that would reveal a mail cover on the

Soviet Embassy.

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative

From:

Re:. (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 11/05/1996

OPCA

LEAD (s) :

Set Lead 1:

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE and NATIONAL SECURITY

(U)

Review the appropriate documents and reply to OGC

and the JFKTE with recommendations about appealing the ARRB

decisions by 11/7/1996.

CC: 1 - Mr. Kennedy, Rm. 7142 (no encl.)

1 - Mr. R. Bucknam, Rm.

7176 (no encl.)

1 - Mr. Shapiro, Rm. 7427 (no encl.)

1 - Mr. Bryant, Rm. 7110 (no encl.)

½- Mr. Esposito, Rm. 7116 (no encl.)

- Mrs. Morris, Rm. 5829 (no encl.)

1

Mr. Collingwood, Rm.

7240 (no encl.)

1

-

Mr. O'Brien, Rm. 6296

1

-

Mrs. Keeley, Rm. 6362

1

-

Mr. Valentine, Rm. 6362

1

Ms. Siford/Mrs. Leeper, Rm. 7176

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NSD reiterates that all FBI sources are given an

expressed promise of confidentiality. As explained above, not

only would the release of these informants' names violate

promise, it would also be detrimental to FBI future informant

development since the granting of confidentiality is paramount in

gaining a potential informant's confidence and cooperation.

Furthermore, the mass release of this many informants would set

precedent for releasing future informant identities and thus

severely hamper the FBI's ability to protect same. (NU)

In short, the supposed historical significance of the

release of the identity of these individuals posed by ARRB cannot

logically outweigh the potential danger to them or their

families. Once confidentiality is granted, the FBI is obligated

to protect the identity of bona fide sources and informants

absent

statements by them to the contrary. (U)

#23 thru #27 - NSD recommends the FBI appeal the

release of information that would release the code word

"Tumbleweed" and other information related to this double agent

operation. The use of assets in double agent operations is an

indispensable method used by the FBI to gain information from

persons affiliated with or having access to foreign intelligence

services.

The ability of the FBI to assure double agents that

the confidentiality of the relationship will be maintained is

required

to ensure future trust and cooperation by others. (S)

#28 and #32 - N$D recommends the FBI appeal the release

of information relating to FBI investigation of foreign

officials.

By letter dated January 26, 1996, the Department of

State advised that no documents related to the assassination

should be released if they constitute acknowledgement of

investigation of foreign diplomatic officials and establishments

in the United

In the Department's opinion, disclosure of

these counterintelligence investigations could have a significant

adverse effect on U.s. foreign relations. u

#29 thru #31, and #33 - NSD recommends the FBI appeal

the release information obtained from a technical surveillance of

the Dominican Republic, as well as information related to

contacts with the Soviet Embassy and information that would

reveal a mail cover on the Soviet Embassy.

As previously

articulated by the JFKTF, investigative methods and techniques

may vary in application,

but do not normally diminish in

importance with time. Public exposure of the FBI's above

investigative methods and techniques would cause harm to the

FBI's foreign counterintelligence capabilities. It would also

likely result in countermeasures against such coverages and thus

lessen their value. MU

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