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

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3 January 1996

Note To: D/CSI

Subject: JFK Appeal

1. Attached is an advance.copy of the memorandum for:

the DCI being prepared by DO/IMS (with OGC's help)

requesting an appeal of certain ARRB decisions.

The

memorandum is currently (this a.m.) being redone in DO/IMS

for technical reasons

(wrong font, distribution, etc.).

DDO is expected to see it this afternoon or tomorrow.

The

After

DO approval, the memorandum will pass through OGC (Smith)

and CSI for comments before going to the DCI.

2. HRG reviewers are not convinced that the "LICRYPT

issue"

(Attachment A) should be appealed. While the DO

makes a good case on the particular document in question,

given the extensive information on liaison with the Mexicans]

that has been released in documents dated after November 22

1963, HRG reviewers question this as an appeal issue. I

discussed the issue with John, but we did not come to a

final HRG

position.

3. HRG reviewers support the appeal in Attachment B and

John agrees.

4. HRG reviewers can support the appeal of the four

stations in Attachment C.

However, we believe that opening

a Nov/Dec 1963 window for Oswald related documents might be

a better approach.

We are concerned that the State

Department has not been part of the discussion--the impact

(on cover and foreign relations of acknowledging stations.

Although the Do is appealing the release of these four

stations, it has agreed to acknowledge all of the South and

Central American stations plus London, Paris, Ottawa, Bonn

and the German bases. I raised the State issue with OGC

((Linda Cipriani).

She agreed on the need to include State

in the discussion; once the decision is made to appeal, she

will contact her

counterpart at State.

I have not had an

opportunity to discuss the State issue with John.

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