MEMO: CSI ACCESS TO ALL RECORDS RELEVANT TO HSCA INVESTIGATION, 1976-1979
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MCDONALD. CHIEF, CIA HISTORY STAFF
To: DD/CONGRESS. AFFAIRS
Document date: 4/12/92
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CSI 92 0201

13 April 1992

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs

J. Kenneth McDonald

Chief, CIA History Staff

Center for the Study of Intelligence Access to

All Records Relevant to House Select Committee

on Assassinations Investigation, 1976-1979

1.

In his 21 February 1992 speech to the Oklahoma Press

Assocation the DCI announced that he was "transferring

custody of

all documents CIA possesses relating to the assassination of

President Kennedy to the Historical Review Program, " which he

assigned to the Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) in the

same speech.

David Gries, the new Director of CSI, has asked

CSI's Historical Review Group to begin work on declassifying the

collection of records that CIA holds as

a result of the 1976-1979

investigations

by the House Select Committee on Assassinations

(HSCA) of President Kennedy's assassination.

2.

Pursuant to the DCI's directions, we therefore request

approval for all members of CSI (which includes

his staff, the History Staff, and the Historical Review Group) to

have access to all records that CIA holds relevant to the HSCA

investigation.

We understand that 64 boxes of material have been

not to tha hat

the Director and

specifically designated as related to this investigation.

3. Upon receiving your approval for CSI access to these

records, the Director, CSI, would

like the components noted below

to transfer custody of the following 64 boxes of material related

to the HSCA investigation to CSI, when requested by the Chief,

Historical Review Group, CSI:

Box Nos. 1-34 & 64

Box Nos. 35-36

BoX NOS. 37-38

Box No. 39

Box Nos. 40-48

Box Nos. 49-63

Directorate of Operations

Inspector General

Office of the General Counsel

Directorate of Science and

Technology

Office of Security

Office of Congressional Affairs

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SUBJECT:

Center for the Study of Intelligence Access to All

Records

Relevant to House Select Committee on

Assassinations

Investigation, 1976-1979

4. We understand that the DO's Information Management Staff

holds the 35 DO-originated boxes, and that the 29 other boxes are

held together at the Agency Records Center.

J. Kenneth McDonald

Cc :

D/CSI

C/HRG/CSI

APPROVED:

04/21/22

Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs

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