MEMO: DECLASSIFICATION OF MICROFILM IN KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DCI - DDCI
To: JOHN F. PEREIRA
Document date: 08/31/1993
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER : 104-10331-10086

RECORD SERIES : JEK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

: PROJEILES-CORRESPONDENCE

DOCUMENT

INFORMATION

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Recorda

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 53217 Date:

06-22-2017

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : JOHN E. PEREIRA

TO : DCI - DDCI

TITLE

:MEMO: DECLASSIFICATION OF MICROFILM IN KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION RECORDS

DATE: 08/31/1993

PAGES : 3

SUBJECTS : RESOURCES

JFK ASSASSINATION

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPEF

CLASSIFICATION : ADMINISTRATIVE

RESTRICTIONS : 1A

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

: 04/30/03

COMMENTS : JEK-M-16 : F2

: 2000.02.08.14:08:05:200054

[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

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CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

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/ 200851-0317/93

31 August 1993

MEMORANDUM FOR:

VIA:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Director of Central Intelligence

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

Executive Director

Director, Center for the

Study of Intelligence

John F. Pereira

Chief, Historical Review Group

Declassification of Microfilm

in Kennedy Assassination Records

1. This memorandum provides a status report, and

requests your decision on an option to accelerate

declassification (para. 5).

2.

As you directed, we have begun reviewing for

declassification the microfilmed records contained in the

collection of materials related to President Kennedy's

assassination.

As you recall, we have transferred to the

National Archives all the hard

copy documents that were

releasable.

The 73 reels of microfilm contain the

equivalent of about 150,000 pages of material, some of which

duplicate the hard copy records.

3. We have assigned all available members of the

Historical Review Group to the task of declassifying the

microfilm. This includes 9 staff officers and 7 annuitants.

With this level of effort we would expect to complete review

of the microfilm within five-six months.

The rate of review

is affected by our need to divert resources to examine the

large volume of JFK documents

that other agencies, such as

the FBI, are continuing to send us for coordination.

4. You may find the pace of declassification described

above unsatisfactory. Therefore, we present another option

for your consideration in the following paragraph.

We have estimated what additional resources would

be needed to permit us to cut the time for declassification

of the microfilm approximately in half.

It would probably

require an additional number of annuitants equivalent to 12

full-time reviewers to enable us to complete the task by the

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SUBJECT:

Declassification of Microfilm

in Kennedy Assassination Records

end of December. This includes allowing time for training.

office space would accommodate

the people and equipment.

John I Pereira

John F. Pereira

Continue present declassification schedule.

Accelerate declassification per para.

5.

APPROVED:

Director of Central Intelligence

Date

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