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•Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

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November 27, 1996

VIA FACSIMILE

The Honorable John M. Deutch

Director of Central Intelligence

The Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

CIA MES NO CRJECTION TO

DAGLAC:

Re:

The Central Intelligence Agency's Compliance with the JFK Assassination

Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Mr. Deutch:

Since 1994, the Assassination Records Review Board ("Review Board") has been

working with a number of Federal agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency,

to locate and publicly release records related to the assassination of President Kennedy.

These actions have been taken pursuant to The President John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994) ("JFK

Act"). We have been working with Mr. John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group

and Mr. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, Historical Review Group of CIA and

have appreciated the cooperation we have received.

The purpose of this letter is to request your agency's cooperation in assisting the

Review Board in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American

people that the goals of the JFK Act have been accomplished to the greatest reasonable

extent. We want to assure the American people that the United States Government has

identified, located, and released all records relating to the assassination of President

Kennedy. Indeed, one of the paramount purposes of the JFK Act is to certify to the

public that the United States Government is not withholding relevant materials related

to the assassination. See, e.g., Assassination Materials Disclosure Act, H. R. Rep. No. 102-

625, Part 1, 102d Cong. 2d Sess. (1992) ("The Federal Government's fäilure to release

official materials has contributed to numerous conspiracy theories and fueled charges of

government complicity in the assassination... a salutary purpose is served in opening

these files [relating to the JFK assassination ] to allay the suspicion of government

cover-up.").

BOARD MEMBERs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell

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The Review Board has recently considered how it, along with the relevant federal

agencies, can best demonstrate to the American public that a thorough, good faith, and

diligent effort has been made to locate and release all remaining assassination-related

records within the control of the United States Government (and that the Government is

not hiding any such materials from public disclosure). Pursuant to the Congressional

mandate under the JFK Act to "create an enforceable, independent, and accountable

process for the public disclosure of such records," 44 U.S.C. § 2107(2)(a)(3), the Review

Board seeks to have the relevant federal agencies provide a complete and specific

accounting of their efforts to locate and release assassination-related records, including

a full explanation for any destruction of such records.

Accordingly, the Review Board requests that each relevant agency adhere to the formal

compliance program (hereinafter "JFK Act Compliance Program") outlined below and

devised by the Review Board pursuant to its powers under Section 7(j)(1)(A), (B), (C),

(D), and (F) of the JFK Act. We hereby request that you undertake the following

measures by the dates provided (these dates were set in view of the fact that the

Review Board's operations currently are scheduled to expire on September 30, 1997):

1.

Designation of Agency Compliance Official (or officials) and statement of

intent to comply with the IEK Act. We request that by December 9, 1996,

your agency designate an Agency Compliance Official who ultimately will

be responsible for ensuring that the agency has complied with its

obligations under the JFK Act, including the identification, location, and

organization of assassination records and the transmission of those

records to the National Archives and Records Administration ("National

Archives"). Although the Review Board assumes that Mr. John Pereira or

Mr. Barry Harrelson will serve in this position, we nevertheless await

your formal confirmation. If necessary, your agency may designate

additional persons with knowledge of the measures that have been

undertaken to locate assassination records.

We also request that by December 9, 1996, the agency convey its

agreement to adhere to the compliance procedures outlined in this letter.

To the extent that any compliance procedure described below appears to

be unreasonable or to present difficulties that we may not have

anticipated, please explain why and make alternate suggestions to us.

2.

Initial Statement of Compliance. We request that the Agency Compliance

Official prepare, by January 6, 1997, an initial written statement of the

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agency's compliance with the JFK Act ("Statement of Compliance"),

setting forth the steps that the agency has taken to locate and process

assassination records. The Review Board recognizes that many of the

relevant federal agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, have

previously written letters to the Review Board apprising it of their

progress at various stages of identifying and processing assassination.

records under the JFK Act. The Statement of Compliance, while it may

include information previously reported to the Board, is to be the agency's

comprehensive and final report to the American public of what it has

done to locate records relating to the assassination. This Statement of

Compliance shall include, to the fullest reasonable extent, the following

information:

a.

A complete description of all steps that your agency took to

identify and locate assassination records including, but not limited

to, an identification of the major record collections and files that

were consulted in the agency's search, any departmental file

indices consulted, the names and titles of the persons who were

responsible for conducting the searches, the physical locations of

the records that were searched, the off-site storage facilities (e.g.,

Federal Records Centers) searched, the specific steps that were

taken to locate and retrieve materials in archives, and any other

criteria used by the agency to locate assassination records,

b.

A description of the steps that the agency took in direct response to

specific requests of the Review Board to locate certain additional

records or information relating to the assassination. In particular,

we ask that the CIA describe what specific steps it has taken to

address the following requests: CIA-9, Publications and Analytical

Materials (See David G. Marwell letter dated March 6, 1996 to Mr.

John Pereira); CIA-11, Silvia Duran's Original Statement (See David

G. Marwell letter dated May 3, 1996 to Mr. John Pereira); CLA-12,

JMWAVE Materials (See David G. Marwell letter dated May 22,

1996 to Mr. John Pereira); for HTLINGUAL records (See T. Jeremy

Gunn Memorandum dated October 1, 1996 to Mi. Barry Harrelson);

and for Monthly Operational Reports on Cuban Exile Groups (See

Manuel E. Legaspi Memorandum dated October 17, 1996 to Mr.

Barry Harrelson).

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3.

4.

c.

To the extent that any assassination-related records have been

destroyed by the agency or any agency official, a full and specific

explanation of the circumstances surrounding the destruction of

such records.

d.

The status of remaining work that you can now identify that needs

to be completed by your agency in order to comply fully with the

JFK Act, including an identification of the categories of records

that must be processed and transmitted to the National Archives, a

description of any additional searches for files that mist be done,

and the projected date(s) for completion of these tasks.

Review Board Interview With Agency Compliance Official (or Officials).

Shortly after the submission of the agency's written Statement of

Compliance, we ask that the Agency Compliance Official (as well as any

persons who helped prepare the agency's initial Statement of

Compliance) be made available to the Review Board for an interview

regarding the location of agency assassination records. The interview will

be used as an opportunity to resolve any outstanding questions regarding-

the agency's search, including any follow-up tasks to be completed by the

agency. The Review Board anticipates that these interviews will be

conducted in January 1997.

Submission of Final Agency Declaration of Compliance. By July 1, 1997,

Federal agencies are expected to complete the process of identification,

location, and declassification of its assassination records at which time

they should submit to the Review Board a final declaration certifying,

under oath, their compliance with the provisions of the JFK Act (the "Final

Declaration of Compliance"). Because of the volume of CIA records, such

a "final" statement may not be practicable at that time. However, we do

expect that CIA will provide a complete status appraisal by July 1, 1997.

This final declaration shall set forth all of the information initially set forth

in the initial Statement of Compliance and shall also supplement the initial

Statement of Compliance by detailing any further steps that were

conducted by the agency in identifying and locating assassination records.

The agencies' Final Declarations of Compliance will be included in our

final report to Congress.

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Compliance Depositions. Starting on or about August 1, 1997, the Review

Board, pursuant to its statutory authority, may conduct depositions,

under oath, of the Agency Compliance Official along with any other

agency officials with responsibility for complying with the JFK Act. The

decision to take a compliance deposition of an agency will be made on a

case by case basis, taking into account the importance of the agency to the

work of the JFK Act and the sufficiency of the agency's efforts to account

fully for its compliance with the JFK Act. In the event that the Review

Board decides to commence a compliance deposition of an agency, the

responsible agency designee(s) will be expected to testify under oath with

respect to any and all issues relating to the agency's record search,

including the scope of the search, the identity of files searched, the

destruction of any relevant records, and any other matters set forth in the

Final Declaration of Compliance. Any person obligated to appear for a

deposition under oath shall be fully entitled to obtain legal representation.

We look forward to receiving your initial response, by December 9, that designates your

Agency Compliance Official and includes your statement regarding your position with

respect to the provisions outlined in this letter. To the extent that you have any

questions or suggestions regarding the Compliance Program, please do not hesitate to

contact our General Counsel, T. Jeremy Gunn, at (202) 724-0088.

Thank you for your cooperation with our work.

Sincerely,

David G. Marwell

Executive Director

CC:

The Honorable Nora Slatkin, Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Michael O'Neil, General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency

John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group, Central Intelligence Agency

Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, Historical Review Group, Central

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

General Counsel

9 December 1996

David G. Marwell

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street N.W., 2nd Floor

Washington D.C. 20530

Dear MI. Marwell:

The Director of Central Intelligence has forwarded to

me your 27 November 1996 letter for response. I commend the

efforts of the Review Board and its staff in reviewing and

releasing hundreds of thousands of United States Government

documents for greater public understanding about the

assassination of President Kennedy.

• I also confirm the

Central Intelligence Agency's commitment to continue working

closely with the Review Board in carrying out its statutory

authorities.

With regard to the requests made in your letter, I

understand the Review Board's desire to demonstrate to the

public that it has carried out its duties thoroughly and

You have requested that CiA appoint an Agency

Compliance Official to be responsible for ensuring CIA's

compliance with its obligations under the JFK Act.

The DCI

has full confidence in Mr. John Pereira as Chief of the

Historical Review Group (HRG) and has determined that Mr.

Pereira will continue to act as the CIA official responsible

for ensuring full compliance with the JFK Act and will

remain the Agency's focal point with the Review Board.

You have also reguested that CIA provide an Initial

Statement of Compliance.

Mr. Pereira and Mr. Barry

Harrelson, the senior review officer for HRG, as well as the

rest of the ire staff, have always been available to you

without restriction.

The Review Board and your staff have

been provided access to any relevant documents or

information you have requested. As you know, the Review

Board was fully informed as to the steps CIA took tc

designate Agency records as part of the President Kennedy

collection. HRG

has also arranged for multiple briefings by

senior CIA officials from a wide variety of CIA components

so that the Review Board can better understand the

information it is reviewing.

Given the current effective

relationship between HRG and your staff, should you reguire

additional assurances of this Agency's compliance with the

JEK Act, I suggest that you contact Messrs. Pereira and

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Harrelson directly. As usual, they will provide you with

the specific information you need as quickly as possible to

continue to record CIA's compliance with the JFK Act.

As to your request for a complete description of the

steps CIA has taken to respond to specific requests, I

understand that there are several outstanding requests. HRG

has assured me that these reguests have been discussed with

your staff and responses will be provided to you as quickly

as possible. Given the number and breadth of the reguests

that are being made by the Review Board and the limited

staff resources available to CIA to process such requests, I

ask that the Review Board continue to prioritize all its

requests for information or documents. With the Review

Board's priorities established in this way, the Agency can

immediately work on those requests that are most important

to the Review Board. Of course, as CIA responds to these

spont to eate

requests, uRG will provide any information the Review Board

needs as

to how the searches were conducted. I believe that

this method will best meet the needs of the Review Board and

will allocate CIA's limited resources in the most efficient

manner possible.

Finally, as to your requests to interview CIA officials

responsible for this Agency's compliance with the JFK Act,

Mr. Pereira has always been available to the Review Board

for informal discussions as well as for giving sworn

testimony including depositions. CIA has never objected to

the Review Board deposing or interviewing informally any of

its current or former employees and has, in fact.

facilitated such interviews.

You will also recall that, on

6 August 1996, Messrs. Pereira and Harrelson gave sworn

testimony at an open hearing of the Review Board.

I trust that this responds to the concerns raised in

your letter.

Of course,:

if you should have any questions

regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact

Linda C. Cipriani, an attorney in the Office of General

Counsel, at (703) 874-3124.

With every good wish, I am

Sincerely yours,

Ales best

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April 16, 1997

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

Re:

Status of CIA Responses to Assassination Records Review Board's Compliance

Program and Requests for Additional Information and Records

Dear Barry:

I am writing to memorialize the Review Board's understanding of the status of CLA's

responses to our formal and informal requests for additional information and records

that have been requested pursuant to the Review Board's authority under Section

7()(1)(C)(ii)of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994) JFK Act).

It is important that everyone at the Agency who is responsible for providing answers to

our requests for additional information and records understand that the answers will

need to be incorporated by reference into the Agency's Final Compliance Statement.

Essentially, CIA will need to attest, under oath, that it has made all reasonable and

diligent searches and that its answers are true and correct to the extent of the best,

reasonably available information. In this regard, is important to note that when the

Review Board requests, for example, a 201 file, it is not asking that you identify relevant

records within the Sequestered Collection. Rather, it is asking to review the original

201 file in its current and most complete version.'

*The Review Board has no basis for assuming that a 201 file as it appears in the

Sequestered Collection today is necessarily complete. It is fully possible that a relevant

document was not identified by CIA or the HSCA in 1978-79 and therefore is not

included in the Sequestered Collection, or that a relevant document that was initially

placed in the Sequestered Collection in 1978-79 may have been misplaced at some point

during the subsequent twenty years. Therefore, in response to requests for files, it is

not sufficient merely to point to places where responsive records appear in the

Collection. On a case-by-case basis, we are very willing. to hear your explanations for

the possible burdensomeness of any particular search or your analysis of why a search

BOARD MeMBeRs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall - William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell

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As we have written in our formal requests and as we have said to you orally, you

should interpret our requests in the broadest reasonable sense. However, to the extent

that you believe that a request poses an unreasonable burden that we may not have

anticipated, or to the extent that you have suggestions to modify or to amend our

requests in such a way as to better reach our goals, you should not hesitate to make

suggestions or seek claritication. However, unless we specifically hear from you to the

contrary, it is our presumption that CIA will respond fully to the requests as posed.

In response to your request, the ARRB staff has now identified six of our outstanding

weeks with regard to these six issues. We wish to obtain a reasonably complete

response to these requests within one month. These six issues are identified in the text

by double asterisks (**)?

The remainder of this letter is divided into two parts involving first, the formal requests

for information and records, and second, the informal requests for information and

records. Please let me know if your understanding of any of the following points

differs from ours so that we can resolve any potential discrepancies."

I. Formal Requests.

CIA-1 Organizational Material.

CIA has collected information responsive to this request for Review Board

action. The ARRB staff has identified records that it believes will enhance the

will not be fruitful.

"As identified more fully below, the six issues are: CIA-7 (Histories); CIA-16

Oswald Pre assassination files); personnel assigned to a designated pos

KENCHANT; the electronic take from the Mexico City Station; and files on Georg

Stanley Brown.

This memorialization follows-up, in large part, on your conversations of March

19 and 20, 1997 with Michelle Combs and on the DO and DS&T briefings to the ARRB

staff on April 1, 1997.

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historical understanding of the assassination by providing some background on

CIA records.

CIA should now review the DO and DS&T organizational material and

re-examine some of the proposed redactions. Several documents have been

cleared by the directorate IRO's for either release in full or release with minor

redactions. The ARRB staff will consult with CIA to determine whether these

records should be designated "assassination records". or whether they could be

made available publicly in a manner similar to the material from the 1996 Boston

trip. HRG would like to discuss this issue before the materials are formally put

before the Review Board.

CIA-2 through CLA-5.

These requests have been satisfied and no further action is needed by CIA.

*These are:

DCI

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-Organization of the Office of the Director 1963

-Mission Statements for 1959, 1962, 1965 and 1966

-some Office of the Director notices

-OGC and IG Mission Statements for 1964, 1966, 1969, 1975, and 1976

-OLC Mission Statement for 1975 and 1976

-Organization and Functions of the DI pre-1961

-Organizational Charts for 1961, 1964, and 1969

-Mission Statements for 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1970

-Mission Statements 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963, and 1974

-Organizational Chart 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, and 1966

-Office of Security Organizational Charts for 1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1966,

1967, 1969, and 1975

-Office of Security Mission Statements for 1958, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1969,

and 1975.

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CIA-6 Cables and Dispatches.

The Review Board first made this request on September 11, 1995. On September

11, 1995, CIA agreed to make these materials available by December, 1995. On

October 1, 1996, CIA agreed to make these materials available by November,

1996.

We are aware that many of the cables requested are already in the JFK files, but

not all are included. Those that we have not been able to locate in the collection

include: Mexico City Station to Headquarters (September 26-30, 1963);

Headquarters to Mexico City Station (September 26-30, 1963); JMWAVE to

Headquarters (September 26-November 21, 1963); Headquarters to JMWAVE

(September 26-November 21, 1963); and all traffic between the Mexico City

Station and JMWAVE for the periods September 26-October 20, 1963 and

November 22-December 30, 1963.

**CIA-7 Histories.

The Review Board first requested access to several internal CIA histories and to

indices of histories on November 8, 1995. On August 8, 1996, after reviewing a

list of histories that you provided, the ARRB staff designated approximately

sixty histories for which further review was sought. To date, the ARRB staff has

reviewed the seven histories that CIA has made available and has made

suggestions with respect to further processing of those seven histories. CIA

should make the remaining sixty-plus histories available.

CIA-8 Intelligence Community Staff records.

The Review Board first requested information on the Intelligence Community

Staff on March 1, 1996. On October 1, 1996, CIA agreed to report on the status of

this request within two weeks. The Review Board has not yet received any

substantive response to this request.

CIA-9 Intelligence Community publications on Cuba or USSR (November 20-30, 1963).

The LBJ Library has already identified several publications for mandatory

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review. Michelle Combs reviewed the materials and identified some that should

probably become available to the public. The DI has been tasked to locate the

additional publications that have been requested.

CIA-10 Interagency Source Register.

CIA has provided a full description of the ISR, which should now be submitted

as a formal response to the Review Board's request. Once the formal statement is

provided, this request will be complete. (Under separate cover, the Review

Board is sending to you an additional request for information and records, CLA-

17, which provides a list of names that we request you check against the

Interagency Source Register.)

CLA-11 Sylvia Duran materials.

CIA reports that it has exhausted its reasonable leads for pursuing additional

information. CIA has agreed to provide a formal letter for the record detailing

what searches were done and confirming that the responsive document currently

in the JFK collection is a true copy of the original letter. Once this formal

statement is provided, this request will be complete.

CIA-12 JMWAVE and David Sanchez Morales.

On May 22, 1996, the Review Board requested access to "all 201 files, personnel

files, Office of Security files, P-files, or any other files" relating to five persons

allegedly connected to JMWAVE. It is our understanding that, in response to

this request, several months ago CIA located and made available for our review

many records responsive to this request. However, it is also our understanding

They include:

Intelligence Report (11/22/63;11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/26/63; 11/27/63;

12/11/63; 12/13/63; 12/18/63; and 12/20/63).

Intelligence Memorandum (11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/25/63; 11/25/63; 4/20/64;

and 10/16/64).

President's Intelligence Checklist (11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/25/63; 11/26/63;

11/27/63; 11/28/63; and 11/30/63).

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that all of the records provided were located in the Sequestered Collection.

evited in then one that we have freuesten The to perter we so response

and no time frame for a response.

CIA-13 Mexico City Backchannel Communications.

This request, dated November 1, 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up briefing

on April 1, 1997. The DO provided no response and no time frame for a

response.

CIA-14 Mexico City Station Annual Reports.

This request, dated December 23, 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up briefing

on April 1, 1997. The DO provided no response and no time frame for a

response.

CIA-15 Win Scott files identified in Russ Holmes Files.

CIA has completed its response and no further action is needed.

**CIA-16 Oswald Pre-Assassination Files.

The HRG reportedly received a lengthy answer from the Office of Security on the

LHO files and a formal response to the Review Board's request is in process.

Oswald's Office of Security file has been located and will be delivered to HRG

for review in April. Access to other files will require a special request from HRG

to the Office of Security and should be requested by HRG for ARRB staff review.

II. Informal Requests.

All of the following informal requests have previously been made to CIA. For future

reference, they will be referred to by the "Informal Request" (IR) number provided

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**CIA-IR-01 Personnel assigned to post from 1959-64 (see RIF 104-10065-10199).

This request, originally made in November 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up

briefing on April 1, 1997. It is our understanding that the DO believes that it is

not able to answer this request. The ARRB staff does not find DO's response to

be credible. We believe that with all of the resources at the Agency's disposal -

including ready contact with individuals who should be able to answer this

question from memory - this question can be answered. The ARRB staff has

provided suggestions as to how this information could be obtained, including

suggesting the types of files and cables that could be searched.

CIA-IR-02 Location of cable identified in JFK 1993.07.20.10.18:29:650630.

The cable was delivered to the Review Board on March 20, 1997. No further

action by CIA is needed.

CIA-IR-03 Full computer search for list of documents in HTLINGUAL file.

CIA should undertake a computer run for all HTLINGUAL documents. All

computer searches for these documents should be documented in a formal letter

for the record.

CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton's files.

The Review Board seeks to ensure that it has taken all reasonable steps to

count or a files nata med les Le get passed do use rolle peaceived

controversy surrounding the disposition of Angleton's files, the Review Board

believes it prudent to obtain a clear understanding of the types of files that he

maintained and their ultimate disposition. (The Review Board does not seek to

explore any subjects in Angleton's files beyond those that may have pertained to

the assassination.) To date, CIA has made available certain documents provided

by the CIC and the case files for Mangold o. CLA. The Review Board requests any

additional information in the possession of CLA that would explain the

disposition of Angleton's files.

"The ARRB staff has spoken with a retired CIA official who claims to be able to

answer this question from memory, but who refused to do so.

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CIA-IR-05 Possible foreign source for records on Oswald.

CIA was informally requested, more than two years ago, to use its contacts to

pursue certain records related to Oswald that were orally described to CLA. The

Review Board believed that, for reasons of security classification of information,

it would be appropriate for CIA to make the initial inquiries rather than the

Review Board, Under separate cover, we are providing documentation of the

action the Review Board has taken to further this request.

**CIA-IR-06 QKENCHANT.

The Review Board seeks information regarding the purpose of QKENCHANT

and its connection with Clay Shaw, Howard Hunt, and Monroe Sullivan.

The Review Board was initially provided some information in regard to this

request that now appears to be incorrect. CIA is now seeking additional

information to correct or to clarify its previous answers. The Review Board seeks

an immediate, full, and accurate response to this request.

CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart.

The ARRB staff has reviewed all records that CIA has been able to locate to date.

During the course of this review, additional questions were raised that you

agreed to pursue. You also agreed to conduct additional searches to determine

whether there may be additional retrievable records on Mr. Capehart.

CIA-IR-08 Unredacted copy of the "Family Jewels" memoranda.

HRG will locate this item.

CIA-IR-09 George Bush computer search.

The Review Board provided CIA with a copy of an FBI document, dated

November 29, 1963, prepared under the name of John Edgar Hoover, which

states: "The substance of the foregoing information [on the assassination of

President Kennedy] was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central

Intelligence Agency….." We have been informed that the DO has no record of a

"George Bush" being in the employ of CIA in 1963 with the exception of Mr.

George William Bush who has already given a sworn affidavit that he is not the

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"George Bush" in question. CIA is now checking whether the search query

included George Herbert Walker Bush prior to 1970. CIA should determine

whether George Herbert Walker Bush is the person to whom the memorandum

refers and should provide a definitive statement regarding the scope of its search

and the basis of its conclusion.

CIA-IR-10 IG Reports.

CIA will determine whether the IG's office maintains an index or inventory of its

reports and determine whether the IG's office prepared a report on the handling

of Oswald.

CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission critics.

We are asking that CIA determine whether it possesses any files or records on

Warren Commission critics Edward J. Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane,

Harold Weisberg, or Sylvia Meagher. The Review. Board is not requesting.

information per se regarding any FOLA requests by these individuals or any

Public Affairs news clippings.

CIA-IR-12 Contacts with journalists or publishing houses.

The Review Board seeks to determine to what extent, if any, CIA might have

attempted to influerice any journalists or publishers regarding public discussion

of the assassination. This request, originally discussed in March 1997, was raised

at the DO follow-up briefing on April 1, 1997. The DO had no response and no

time frame for a response.

CIA-IR-13 Office or person dealing with organized crime and Cuba.

The Review Board requested that CIA make a particular personnel file available.

The file was made available by CIA for review. The Review Board will discuss

with you whether any further steps need to be taken.

"To the extent that CLA possesses FOLA files or records on any of these

individuals, and to the extent that those records contain information that was not filed

with the courts, such records are being requested for review by the Review Board.

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CLA-IR-14 Breckinridge files.

CIA (OGC) will determine the disposition of the files of Scott D. Breckinridge.

**CIA-IR-15 Electronic "take" from Mexico City Station.

The Review Board has for some time been attempting to determine whether it

has had access to all of CIA's surveillance "take" from the Cuban and Soviet

facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald visit and in the immediate

wake of the assassination. On numerous occasions, the Review Board has asked

whether there was any surveillance take in addition to what is currently in the

collection.

On March 18, 1997, the Review Board provided additional leads to CLA to assist

it in answering these questions. The DO has agreed to check Headquarters

records for the file referenced in HMMW 12454, to search for the crypts cited in

this document, and to search for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches

cited in this document. The DS&l will query its offices for possible records on

Mexico City and Cuba and for the present location of Staff D records. Regardless

of the outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board continues to seek a

full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods.

CIA-IR-16 U-2 fles.

DS&T will provide a folder title print out of U-2 materials for Review Board

examination, check for records filed under Richard Bissell's name, and search for

OSP files. DS&T has also contacted Lockheed for assistance.

CIA-IR-17 DS&T Records on Castro assassination plots.

HRG will furnish the 1967 IG Report to provide possible search query

suggestions for DS&T follow-up.

CLA-IR-18 DO Office.

The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office.

We understand that you are collecting the relevant information.

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CIA-IR-19 Computer searches.

The Review Board has requested that full computer searches be conducted on all

of the following people and organizations. The results of the searches should be

documented.

1. Spas Raikin

2. Leo Cherne

3. Hunter Leake

4. Marilyn Dutz Murret

5. John McVickar

6. Andy Anderson

7. Byron B. Morton, Ir.

8. Marie Cheatham

9. Paul Garbler

10. Verna Deane Brown

** 11. George Stanley Brown

12. Howard Guebler

13. Gordon Duane Novel

14. Ed Butler

15. INCA (Information

Council of the Americas)

16. Permindex

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation. OP file starts in 1988. HIRG is

checking on a 201. No OMS file.

ARRE awaits documentation. HIRG is checking for a DCD

file.

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file. No OMS file. DO

is checking.

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file. No OMS file.

ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file. No OMS file.

ARRB awaits documentation. OP file. OMS file. HRG has

requested personnel file.

ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file.

ARRB awaits documentation.

ARRB awaits documentation. HIRG will check for files.

ARRE awaits documentation. HRG will check for files.

ARRB awaits documentation. HRG will check for files.

ARRB awaits documentation. HRG will check for files.

ARRB awaits documentation. HRG will check for files.

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AKKD

To и tr

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

April 16, 1997

Page 12

Conclusion

Please let me know if you have any supplements or corrections. We would very much

like to ensure that these mattets are handled expeditiously. As always, we appreciate

your cooperation and assistance.

Sincerel

T. Jeremy

General Counsel and

Associate Director for Research and Analysis

CC:

Linda Cipriani, Esq.

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Executive Örder

8 October 1997

JFK Records Review Projeat

(U)

The following is intended as a guide for those

people whose work requires them to review Agency documents

and materials that may be subject to the President John F.

Kennedy Assassination Records 'Collection Act of 1992.

Some of the records within the Agency's JPK collection are

assassination specific, others are ancillary.

They deal

with individuals and events not directly linked with Oswald*

or the assassination; but they are thought to have had a

assassination.

desassinahip to the assassination, or investigation Into the

I. The Agency's JFK Collection.

(U)

The Agency's JFK records collection is made up

primarily of records pulled together for the Warren

Commission and House Select Committee on Assassinationg

(HSCA) • There were eighty-one (81) Records Center-sized

boxes in the original collection.

Of these, the first

seventeen (17) made up the Oswald 201 file.

The next sixty-

foux (64) are referred to as the "JFK files" or sequestered

collection and break down as follows: thirty-four (34) boxes

of DO materials; nine (9) boxes of Office of Security files;

fifteen (15) boxes of OLC materials; two (2) boxes each of

OGC and IG materials; and one (1) box of DDS&T documents.

HSCA originated material, including notes by HSCA staff

members,

are found throughout the collection.

BOX 64

contains

seventy two (72) reels of microfilm.

(U)

The microfilm contains copies of complete files to

which the HSCA had access during its investigation. In

addition to the Oswald 201 file (12 reels), the microfilm

includes: 201 files on Cubans, Americans, and Soviets linked

to Oswald, the JPK assassination or the various

investigations (approximately 26 reels) and the Cuban

Revolutionary Council and other exile group activities

(approximately 13 reels); the personnel files of CIA staff

employees

(approximately

Patron aproximate yo le teele,

CL BY:

611637

CL REASON: 1.5 (c)

DECL ON:

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•SEGRET

(U)

We continue to identify other collections of documente

that properly belong within the JK collection.

These

include:" The Oswald Security File; Agency working files

generated by JFK assassination investigations and requests;

and CIA documents found by other agencies and Presidential.

Libraries and referred to CIA for review under the JFK Act.

II. The Time Frame of JFK Assassination Records.

In general, the time frame of JFK records commences

when Oswald arrived at the US air base (the U-2) at Atsugi,

Japan, in December 1957 and continues through the end of the

Garrison investigation in 1968.

Note, however, for

information which is clearly related to the story of the JFK

assassination or its investigations, there is no time frame

limitation. Any document or request that deals with the

assassination,

Lee Harvey osward, or the various conspiracy

theories should be referred to the HRG/JFK review project.

III. Key Topics, Etc.

(U)

Certain individuals, organizations, places,

projects; and subjects are central to the Oswald/JFK story

and the ensuing investigations, which causes a number of

documents with no mention of Oswald or the assassination to

fall within the purview of the JFK Act: Clearly, it is not

possible to list every category of document which may have

been reviewed and released under the

JFK Assassination

Records Act. The following categories contain examples of

information that are

considered to be within the JFK

review.

(U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations:

-- Warren Commission, 1963-64

-- James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68

-- Rockefeller Commission, * 1975;

-- Church Committee (Senate), * 1975-76

-- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) ,

1976-79

* JFK Assassination, anti-Castro plots and CIA anti-

Cuban operations only.

B. Key subjects

(S) - Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, JMWAVE Station,

and CIA stations in those cities through which

Oswald passed on his way to and from the Soviet

Union, as they related to Oswald's activities or to

possible conspiracies.

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(AIUO) " CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 (Mongoose, etc.)

dE they invoLve is figures (see comment on

Meagher' 8

"index" below); most US anti-Castro

activities in 1963 are considered relevant.

(U)

-- Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders and

organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JEK figures.

-- Castro assassination activities (plans and

attempts) ; no limit on time frame.

- Mafia, if related to Çastro, JFK, or New Orleans

during Oswald time frames (see attached chronology) . :=

(AIUO)C. Key figures

(the following individuals are considered JFK

assassination-related, unless the context is clearly

unrelated or outside the appfopriate time period)

-- AMMUG, Cuban defector;

-- Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any réference) ;

-- Silvia Duran, employee in Cuban Embassy, Mexico

City:

-- Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee;

-- Howard Hunt, CIA employee;

Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist;

- Valeriy Kostikov, KGB officer in Mexico city;

-- Mx. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents)

-- Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides;

- Michael and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds;

-- Davia Phillips, CIA employee;

-- Richard Snyder, State Department Officer.

-- Winston Scott, COS Mexico City

For a more comprehensive list of subjects and individuals

related to the JFK assassination, reviewers should consult

Sylvia Meagher's Master Index to

the JFK Assassination

Investigationg, The Scarecrow Press, 1980.

(U) Action Officer: Barry Harrelson (31825)

Attachment:

Oswald Chronology

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SECRET

(U) Attachment:

Oswald Chronology, 1956-1963

--Joins Marines

--Arrives Atsugi (U2 Base) Japan

--Returns to US

--Hardship discharge

--Departs New Orleans for Moscow

via LeHavre, London, Helsinki

--Arrives Moscow

--Resides in Minsk

--Departs Moscow via train

--Departs Rotterdam via ship

--Arrives New York

--Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas

- -New Orleans

--Mexico City

--Dallas

10/26/56

09/12/57

11/02/58

09/11/59

09/20/59

10/16/59

01/07/60-05/22/62

06/82/62

06/04/62

06/13/62

06/14/62 - 04/63

04/63.

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09/25/83-10/03/63

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DRAFT

October 16, 1997

HAND-DELIVERED

J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Review Officer

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

Re:

Submission of CIA's Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFK

Assassination Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Barry:

In connection with the work of the ClA to locate and release records relating to

President Kennedy's assassination pursuant to the President John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 ('JFK Act"), please submit to the Review

Board the CIA's initial formal report regarding its work.

As you know, the procedures for documenting the CIA's compliance with the JFK Act

were set forth in the Review Board's November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA Director.

ongoing work of the CIA under the JFK Act.

To facilitate the completion of the CLA's work by September 1998, including the

submission to Congress of a final report detailing the work accomplished by the CIA

and other Federal agencies under the JFK Act, please submit the CIA's Initial

Compliance Statement to the Review Board no later than November 6, 1997.

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Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

October 16, 1997

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Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

T. Jeremy Gunn

Executive Director

and General Counsel

Cc: Linda Cipriani, Esq.

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GSINATION

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45A

DRAFT

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

BOARD

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

October 17, 1997

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

Mr. John Perefja

IN THIS DOCUMENT

Director

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, DC 20505

Re: Completion of Review of Assassination Records

Dear John:

The Assassination Records Review Board ("Review Board") has less than one year to

complete its statutory responsibility of ensuring that all Federal records related to the

assassination of President Kennedy are made publicly available at the National

Archives and Records Administration ("NARA"). Because of the importance to the

Review Board of completing the review and release of Central Intelligence Agency

records, I am taking this opportunity to raise with you some of our concerns and to

describe our goals.

Let me first reiterate our deep appreciation for the cooperation that we have received

thus far from the Agency. We are very mindful of the enormous amount of work that

has been accomplished thus far. We very much hope to be able to report, at the

completion of our work, that the Agency has fully complied with the letter and spirit of

the JFK Act and that the Review Board is confident that all CIA assassination records

have been fully processed and transferred to the National Archives. Unfortunately, it is

clear at this point that the pace of review of CIA records will need to increase

significantly during this final year so that the Review Board and the CIA will be able to

complete our responsibilities and that the Review Board can issue the type of report

that we all ideally envision.

It is our goal to have all CLA assassination records reviewed and transferred to NARA

by September 1, 1998. By "all" assassination records, I include the unredacted originals

as well as copies containing Board-approved postponements. (I am excluding,

therefore, duplicates of those records that have been transferred to NARA.) The

Review Board is prepared to take all necessary steps within its statutory authority to

ensure that this work is accomplished.

BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell

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Mr. John Pereira

October 17, 1997

Page 2

The Review Board has promised Congress that this work will be completed by

September 1998. The Review Board also is obligated to keep Congress informed, on a

monthly basis, of the steps it has taken to ensure completion of this goal. We now need

to keep Congress informed of any difficulties that we are facing in the course of

completing this work.

As you know, the JFK Act in many ways imposed difficult obligations. For example, it

required the CIA (and other agencies) to complete its review and transfer of records to

NARA within 300 days of the time the statute was enacted in 1993. Although this

statutory deadline was not met, we would like to make it as clear as we possibly can

that we intend to ensure that the goal to review and transfer all assassination records to

NARA is accomplished during the lifetime of the Review Board.

We have raised with you previously our concerns about whether the Agency has

allocated sufficient resources to complete its work on its assassination records by

September 1, 1998. In a meeting at CIA headquarters on October 16, 1996, CLA

Executive Director Nora Slatkin promised members of the Review Board that the CIA

would devote whatever resources are necessary to complete the task.

In order to ensure that this work is completed, the Review Board has developed a

timetable for review of remaining CIA records. The CIA's Historical Review Group

suggests that refinement of the timetable is necessary, but has of yet offered no specific

changes.

In order to fulfill our responsibilities under the JFK Act and in order to honor our

pledge to Congress, we believe that the following steps are necessary:

First, we need to establish a reasonable but strict schedule for the CIA's review

and release of records. The CIA must devote all of the resources necessary to

review the records under this schedule. We believe that the only way to ensure

that the CLA's work is completed is to adhere to such a schedule.

Second, if the CIA has not completed its scheduled review by the proposed

deadline, the Review Board will require that all CIA records identified as

assassination records under the JFK Act be transferred forthwith to the National

Archives regardless of whether they have been reviewed or processed by the

CIA pursuant to the Board's authority at 44 U.S.C. § 2107.7(j)(B).

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Mr. John Pereira

October 17, 1997

Page 3

Third, the Board will presumptively vote to open in full all records that have not

been reviewed in conformity with the schedule.

We can assure you that we have no desire whatsoever to take steps two and three.

However, at this point, we see no other method for satisfying our obligation to ensure

that the CIA's assassination-related records are released by September 1998, unless the

CIA agrees to schedule the review in a timely, consistent, methodical, and enforceable

manner. Although you should not hesitate to contact us regarding any ideas you have

for streamlining or improving the accomplishment of this task, there should be no

misunderstanding by the Agency regarding what we believe our goal to be and the

steps that we are prepared to take to ensure the fulfillment of our statutory obligations

and our promises to Congress. It is our perception that if the Agency allocates

additional resources to the accomplishment of this project, we all will be able to

accomplish the goals of the JFK Act.

We therefore strongly urge the Agency to allocate now whatever resources are

necessary to complete its review records in an orderly and systematic manner. To the

extent that the Agency is able to meet the necessary deadlines, there will be no need for

us to resort to the extreme -- but potentially necessary - measures to complete our

obligations to Congress and the American people.

Sincerely,

T. Jeremy Gunn

Executive Director

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Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

VIEW

BOARO

October 30, 1997

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/ON

RELEASE OF THIS DOGUMENT

AS SAMMIZED

VIA FACSIMILE

J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Review Officer

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

Re:

Submission of CIA's Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFK

Assassination Records Collection Act 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Mr. Harrelson:

I have been asked by Jeremy Gunn to take responsibility, along with Robert Skwirot

and Michelle Combs, for handling the Review Board's JFK Act Compliance Program

with respect to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Gunn has informed me that you have agreed to provide us with the CIA's initial

compliance statement (as it is described in our November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA) by

the end of November 1997. Thereafter, we can establish a reasonable time for the CLA

to prepare and submit its Final Declaration of Compliance. The CLA's Final Declaration

will be submitted to Congress and the President.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely®

Ronald Is. Hawn

Ronald G. Haron

Associate General Counsel

CC:

(Linda Cipriani, Esq.

Золно MeMBERs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell

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SSINATION

RECO

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

REVIEW

BOAR

CA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT

AS SANITIZED

February 11, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Review Officer

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

Re:

CIA Initial Compliance Statement To Be Submitted Under the JFK Assassination

Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Mr. Harrelson:

Thank you for submitting to the Review Board the CIA's December 11, 1997 DRAFT of

its initial Statement of Compliance under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act ("JFK Act"). You submitted the draft to obtain the Review

Board's initial comments. We have made a preliminary review of the draft and offer

the following comments.

The Statement is helpful in providing general background history regarding the

measures undertaken by the CIA to assemble files relating to the assassination of

President Kennedy. The Statement also gives a good overview description of those

files. At this time, we do not propose that you make any major changes that would

delay the formal submission of the initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board.*

1 We note that the initial draft statement generally describes the records

identified in response to specific Review Board requests. For the initial Compliance

Statement, this will be sufficient. To the extent that additional records are later

identified or requests completed, these can be included in the Final Declaration of

Compliance. We also note that "[t]he status, results and documentation of specific

[Review Board] requests" are more specifically being addressed in separate memoranda

being submitted to the Review Board, and this process is ongoing. These responses are

extremely helpful in articulating what the CIA has done to search for records on the JFK

assassination. Therefore, the Review Board will request that these detailed responses

ultimately be incorporated by reference into the Final Declaration of Compliance.

BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy Gunn • DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Thomas E. Samoluk

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Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

February 11, 1997

Page 2 -

Therefore, please submit the CIA's official initial Statement of Compliance to the

Review Board as soon as possible, but no later than March 16, 1998.

After formal submission of the CIA's initial Statement of Compliance, we would

schedule an informal interview with you (and perhaps other members of the Historical

Review Group) to ask questions regarding the Compliance Statement and regarding the

sufficiency of the CIA's record searches. After addressing any outstanding issues, the

CIA would thereafter submit its Final Declaration of Compliance.

I recognize that you are extremely busy processing CIA records for inclusion in the JFK

Collection. However, it is essential that the CIA devote sufficient time and attention to

its Final Declaration of Compliance because, as we have stated before, the Final

Declaration will constitute the CIA's representation to the American public, under oath,

that the CIA has diligently searched for records relating to the JFK assassination and

that the CIA is not withholding any materials regarding the assassination.

Sincerely,

Tonald I. Haron

Ronald G. Haron

Associate General Counsel

CC:

Linda Cipriani, Esq.

(By facsimile)

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3/13/98

BEFORE

THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD

WASHINGTON, D.C.

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

2000

DECLARATION OF BRIAN LATELL

I, Brian Latell, do hereby declare and say:

1. I presently serve as the Director of the Center for

the Study of Intelligence ("CSI'') for the United States

Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA or "Agency'') and have

held this position since September 1994. I also hold the

position of Chairman of the Editorial Board ("Board'') for

Studies in Intelligence (Studies), a publication of CSI. I

have served as a foreign intelligence officer for the United

States Government for over 36 years and, at CIA, I have held

a variety of senior positions of management and analytical

responsibility including serving as a member of the National

Intelligence Council for 14 years and National Intelligence

Officer (NIO) for Latin America for four of those years. I

hold a doctorate, masters and undergraduate degree from

Georgetown University, have

served as a Visiting Scholar at

the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and presently

hold an appointment to Georgetown University's School of

Foreign Service as an Adjunct Professor.

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2. The purpose of this declaration is to provide the

Assassination Records Review Board with my view of the

status of Studies as a classified publication available

within the Intelligence Community and as an unclassified

publication available to the public. I make the following

statements based upon my personal knowledge, information.

made available to me in my official capacity, and the

conclusions I reached in accordance therewith.

3. Studies is an independent, scholastic endeavor with

the mission to promote scholarship in intelligence

literature. Articles submitted to Studies are intended for

educational purposes only and present solely the personal;

academic views of the individual authors. The final

responsibility for accepting or rejecting an article rests

with the Board. Its criterion for publication is whether

the article makes a contribution to the literature of

intelligence. Articles submitted to Studies are not

required to be coordinated through channels and, indeed, are

not vetted through management by either the Board or the

author.

In addition to senior Agency officers, the Board

also has membership representing other agencies of the

Intelligence Community.

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4. In the beginning of Studies, articles were

primarily written by CIA authors. In the past decade,

however, Studies has been enriched by an increasing number

of contributions from authors from other components of the

Intelligence Community, from members of the academic world

in the United States and abroad, and from a few private

citizens, most of whom have had some past intelligence

connection. The Board welcomes this trend and looks forward

to increasing contributions from non-Agency authors.

5. Once an article is submitted for consideration in

Studies it

is circulated to the members of the Board for

their review. The Board then decides whether an article

meets the criteria for publication and, if it does, begins

the publication process. All unclassified submissions are

reviewed by the Publications Review Board (PRB)' to ensure

the unclassified nature of the article. The articles are

edited, approved by the Chief of CSI, and published in the

classified version of Studies. Most of the unclassified

articles published in this version are then picked up by the

unclassified version of Studies and with further slight

editing are published. If an article has been deemed to

contain classified information by its author, and it is

subsequently requested to be released, it will be reviewed

" PRB is the same body that reviews private writings proposed for

publication by current and former Agehcy employees as required under

Agency regulation.

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by either the History Staff, the Historical Review Program,

or more recently by the Publications Review Board --

pursuant to the personal manuscript standards -- to allow

declassification or the creation of an unclassified version.

By deeming or marking a given article as classified, we

represent only that this personal writing contains some

information of a proprietary (hence classified) nature to

the US Government; that fact does not alter the nature of

this private work or convert it into an official federal

4,

record containing official government information.

6. The independence and integrity of the Board, and

its historical

commitment to academic traditions, has never

been questioned by Agency management.. I, as well as several

of my predecessors, can recall no cases of interference by

Agency management with the publication decisions of the

Board, no matter how

' sensitive the subject matter or

critical of the Agency. Indeed, it is the antithesis of

official information and the embodiment of personal,

academic scholarship and work. The very intent is academic

in the context of educational mentoring from one individual

to those in succeeding generations. The Agency teaches

through its institutional and official course materials;

individual intelligence officers teach personally through

Studies.

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7.

For the foregoing reasons, I believe that, while

"Studies in Intelligence" is published under the auspices

of the United States Government, it is neither an expression

of official information nor an official release of official

Executive Branch information, but rather a forum for the

private academic expressions of the authors.

8 .

County, Virginia.

Executed this 13th day of February 1998 at Fairfax

BRIAN LATELL

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Contral Inictligance Agangy

CLASSIFIED

ATTACHMENT

Mastangion O C20505

19 March 1998

CIA SPECIAL CULLECTIONS

RELEASE AS SANITIZED

MI. T. Jeremy Gunn

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street. N.W.

Washington D.C. 20530

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Dear MI. Gunn:

Re: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TO

THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JEK ASSASSINATION

RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992

The following is a listing of the principal measures

taken to date by the Agency to fulfill the requirements of

the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (the

Act).

Note: it does not include the numerous informal

meetings.

conversations,

and exchanges between ARRB and HRP

staff members, many of which covered all of the measures.

INITIAL SEARCHES

a.

In early 1992, even before the Act was passed, the

Chief of the CIA History Staff reported to the Director that

the staff had located all of the so-called sequestered

douge sola coat coc

collection" (those records compiled by the Agency for the

House Select Connittee On Assassinations investigation) and

had surveyed these and other related holdings on the

assassination both at Headquarters and at the Agency records

center.

The sequestered collection contained sixty-four

record center-size boxes. In addition, the staff had

'located sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number

of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that

were collected for the Warren Commission.

b.

Before the ARRB was appointed by the President,

John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group/Center for

the

Study of Intelligence, sent a memorandum dated 25 October

1993 to the Agency directorates requesting a name search on

related to the assassination.

This effort and discussions

with various Agency components and Agency Information

Release Officers over the past four years resulted in more

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than 31 additional boxes of materials being sent for review:

Included within this material were 19 boxes of JFK working

files based on the sequestered collection, two boxes on

Nosenko, seven boxes of liA Division documents and three

boxes from the Bay of Pigs period.

Not all of this material

is related to the JFK story; and in some boxes only a few

folders had anything to do with the assassination or events

records.

In addition, about 400 pages of material from an-

FOIA request for minutes of the DCI's morning meetings which

related to JFK were added to the collection.

The search for

documents is a continuing effort.

Guidelines for this

effort have been sent to Agency individuals and components

which review documents and materials in the course of their

work.

REVIENS

C.

Historical Review Group, now the Historical Review

Program.

reviewed

boxes 1 through 63 of the sequestered

collection and the Oswald 201 file and released most of the

documents therein either in full or in sanitized form to the

National Archives in August 1993. The total number of pages

in Zucut 193.

released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was

approximately 123,000.

An additional release of

approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA material from the,

sequestered collection was made in 1995.

d.

Box 64 of the sequestered collection contained 72

reels of microfilm primarily dealing with Directorate of

Operations materials and Office of Security files.

In

addition there' were 22 reels of 201 files on 151

individuals.

Following release of the main collection in

August 1993, HRG staff members reviewed the microfilm files

and released approximately 74,000 pages of material to the

National Archives either in full or in sanitized form.

e.

The status of HRP's review of additional records

and re-review of the sequestered collection will be

addressed in regular progress reports to the ARB staff.

REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION

f. The Agency maintains a rather unique and non-

integrated files system which precludes a single query on-a

particular subject and the expected response from the files

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of all directorates.

Following coordination with the ARRB

staff, the Agency arranged for the staff to be briefed by a

representative of each directorate concerning the nature of

the files within the directorate -- how they are organized,

maintained, searched, and how they have been searched

previously for assassination-related materials.

Following

this effort, the ARRB staff asked for a number of additional

searches by the Agency and they are in various stages af

completion.

g. In addition, pursuant to requests both formal and

informal from the ARRB staff, HRP has tasked various

elements of the Agency to conduct special searches for other

materials thought to be relevant to the assassination story.

Included in this category was the Oswald security file which

was found and has been examined by the ARRB staff. Although

a number of the requests are still outstanding, considerable

material has been provided for review by the ARRB staff some

of which has been found to be relevant.

These materials

include the History Staff's histories on various CIA

operations and Agency components; files on specific

individuals involved in either. the Warren Commission or HSCA

investigations; and the product of CIA internal; reviews of

programs and operations. Those parts of these materials

which are determined by the ARRB staff to have relevancy to

the assassination story will be reviewed by HRP andi

released as completed.

The status, results, and documentation of specific

requests are to be addressed in a separate memorandum.

Sincerely,

J. Barry Harrelso

JFK Project Officer

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Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

VIEW

BOAR

July 7, 1998

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT

HAND DELIVERY

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

Chief, JFK Project

Historical Review Program

Office of Information Management

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

Re: - Final Search for all Original CIA Records Related to the Assassination of

President John F. Kennedy

Dear Barry:

This letter is in follow-up to our meeting of June 26, 1998, where we discussed the

) comprehensiveness of CIA's search for assassination records. As we expressed in the

meeting, the Assassination Records Review Board is extremely concerned as to whether

all original records held by the Central Intelligence Agency, particularly those

controlled by the Directorate of Operations, have been identified in previous searches

for records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Review Board is aware that the former Chief of the Historical Review Group, John

Pereira, ordered a search of all CIA records in 1993. Since that date, however, we have

identified at least three examples of records clearly relevant to the assassination that

have been identified through the efforts of the Review Board staff and that were

subsequently located by CIA. These records were not identified through the 1993 CIA

search.

In order to comply with the strictures of the JFK Act and to ensure that all original CLA

records relevant to the assassination are identified, the Review Board requests the

following:

1. CLA conduct a new search of all Office of Security and Directorate of

Operations (including all counterintelligence components), for any documents

relevant to the assassination. Particular care should be taken to examine possibly

relevant documents dated shortly before and any time after the 1993 search.

BOARD MEMBeRs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy GUnn • DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Thomas E. Samoluk

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2. CLA Director George Tenet send a directive to all CIA personnel that explictly

requires all offices to search their files and notify the Historical Review Program

immediately if they have any records that might possibly be considered relevant

to the assassination-including any records created after 1992.

3. CIA arrange for a meeting between the Review Board staff and appropriate

CIA officials to discuss CIC and other counterintelligence records.

4. CIA conduct a search for updated or continued records on individuals, from a

list of names to be provided by the Review Board, of subjects who were of

interest to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. We are particularly

interested in any records that CIA acquired on these subjects since the original

_files were sequestered in 1978. A list will be provided to you shortly.

The Review Board appreciates your cooperation and assistance in resolving these

issues. As time is growing short, we would like very much to ensure that these matters

are handled expeditiously.

) Sincerep

Jeremy

Executive Direc

CC:

Assassination Records Review Board

Mr. James Oliver

Lee Strickland, Esq.

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Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

REVIEN

"OARD

July 15, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL

CLA HAS NO OBUECTION TO •

DECLASSIFICATION ANDIOR

RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT

AS SANTIZED

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.

General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

Re: CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. McNamara:

I am writing to address the completion of CIA's outstanding obligations under the

President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. §

2107 ("JFK Act"), including submission by CIA of a Final Declaration of Compliance

certifying, under the Act, its work to identify and release records relating to President

Kennedy's assassination. As we have advised CIA previously, the Final Declaration

will constitute CLA's representations, under penalty of perjury, regarding disclosure of

its records relating to the Kennedy assassination.

Accordingly, set forth below is our understanding of (1) the status for completion of

CIA's work under the JFK Act and (2) the form and content of CIA's Final Declaration.

A. Completion of CIA's Work Under the JFK Act

1. Processing of CLA Assassination Records by September 1998

We confirmed with CIA that it intends to place into the JFK Assassination Records

Collection ("JFK Collection") at the National Archives and Records Administration

("NARA"), by September 1998, all identified assassination records except certain

documents confirmed by the Review Board staff as being duplicates, which may be

processed later.' Thus, CIA commits to placing the following assassination records into

the JFK Collection by September 30, 1998:

' In addition, some peripheral documents may be processed after September

1998, but only if identified beforehand to, and approved by, the Review Board.

BOARD MEMBERs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy Gunn • DEpuTY DIRectoR: Thomas E. Samoluk

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Non-duplicate documents within the hardcopy set of the CIA-House Select

Committee on Assassinations ("HSCA") Sequestered Collection (i.e, CIA files

that were reviewed by the HSCA for its investigation of the JFK assassination

and which were sequestered pursuant to agreement of the CIA and HSCA).?

Non-duplicate documents within the microfilm version of the CIA-HSCA

Sequestered Collection (the microfilm version is a more expansive set of records

than the hardcopy set of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection in that it contains

complete underlying files, not just the specific records reviewed by the HSCA)3

Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK Collection.'

As for the microfilm copy of the Oswald 201 file (which we assume duplicates

the original Oswald 201 file processed by the CLA), we request that it be placed in

the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September 1998 (after Review

Board examination). Certain recently discovered documents relating to Oswald

also must be added to the JFK Collection.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Office of Security File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK

Collection.

• Marina Oswald's 201 File. Whilé Marina Oswald's 201 file has been processed

for the JFK Collection (as part of the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection), we

request that the original file be transferred to the protected portion of the JFK

2 As CIA has reported, the hard copy and microfilm versions of the CIA-HSCA

Sequestered Collection were first placed into the JFK Collection in 1993 and 1994. See

CIA Initial Statement of Compliance (dated March 19, 1998), at 2. Documents from

those collections are being re-processed, however, to the extent that the Review Board

has mandated that such documents be opened up to a greater extent.

3 NARA reports that it does not have the computerized version of the record

identification forms ("RIFs") for documents in the microfilm Sequestered Collection.

CIA explained that it must first complete the processing of non-duplicates and update

the computer data before that data is transferred to NARA. CIA anticipates that this

will be done sometime after October 1998.

* However, NARA reports that many documents do not have the proper RIFs

attached. CIA will coordinate with NARA to correct this.

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Collection by September 1998.

Non-duplicate documents within Kennedy assassination working files of CLA

officer Russ Holmes (19 boxes).

Non-duplicate documents selected from 7 boxes of Latin American Division

working files.

•

CIA organizational materials, including the IMWAVE organizational chart

specifically designated as an assassination record by the Review Board (CIA-1]5

• Excerpts of certain CIA histories designated by the Review Board [CLA-7).

• Excerpts of CIA's "Family Jewels" memorandum [CIA-IR-08].6

• Excerpts of a CIA personnel file that relate to organized crime/Cuba [CLA-IR-13].

• Excerpts of the personnel file of Mr. George E. Joannides, the case officer

responsible for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) during a period

in the early 1960's [CIA-IR-21].

CIA "A" files for Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison (CIA-IR-22].

Designated Watch Committee Reports (CIA-1R-23).

Oswald-related documents from the a general defector file maintained by the

CLA's Office of Security (CIA-IR-24).

Certain records from the files of former CIA Director John McCone as designated

by the Review Board [CIA-IR-28].

5 "CIA-1" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified by

the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to a formal,

written request (numbered 1) from the Review Board.

6 "CIA-IR-08" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified

by the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to an

informal request (numbered 8) from the Review Board.

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Designated records from security files of Jack Ruby, Walter Sheridan, Harold

Weisberg, Richard Case Nagel, and Gordon Novel [CIA-IR-27).

Excerpts from the calendar of former CLA Director Allen Dulles [CIA-IR-31].

In addition to the assassination records identified above, the Review Board currently is

inspecting additional files CIA has made available in response to Review Board

requests. We may designate additional assassination records from these files. They are:

intelligence community reports on Cuba/Soviet Union [CIA-9]; files relating to CIA

officials stationed at JMWAVE (CIA-12]; and files of various high-level CIA officials

(former Deputy CIA Directors Charles Cabell and Marshall Carter, former Deputy

Directors for Plans Richard Bissell and Richard Helms, former General Counsel

Lawrence Houston, C. Tracy Barnes, and William Harvey) [CIA-IR-34]. Additional

assassination records may be identified from other requests for additional information.

2. Mexico City Tapes [CIA-IR-15]

We also have discussed with CIA the potential processing of recordings maintained by

CIA and apparently reflecting audio surveillance of certain "Soviet bloc" and Cuban

facilities in Mexico City for the period November 22, 1963 through early January 1964,

including possible surveillance of the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. Because CIA has

not yet listened to the full tapes, it could not yet confirm the targets or substance of this

"electronic take." CIA has committed to listening first to the tapes for the period

November 22-23, 1963 (approximately 18 tapes), and thereafter will discuss with the

Review Board potential placement of these and later audio recordings into the JFK

Collection. CIA said it will complete its review of the November 22-23 tapes in July.

3. Processing of Duplicate Documents under the JEK Act

a. The CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. Although a version of the CIA-HSCA

Sequestered Collection (both microfilm and hardcopy) were placed in the JFK

Collection in 1993 and 1994, the CIA has since been forwarding more open versions of

certain documents in light of Review Board decisions. All such "re-processed"

documents will be placed in the JFK Collection by September 1998 except that, to the

extent that there are other duplicate copies of these re-processed documents in the

Sequestered Collection, such duplicates will be re-processed and placed into the JFK

Collection within one year after the Review Board terminates (i.e., by September 1999).

b. Russ Holmes Collection. The CIA currently has not placed the Russ Holmes

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Collection (consisting of CIA officer Russ Holmes' working files relating to the Kennedy

assassination) into the JFK Collection. The Review Board recognizes that many

documents within the Holmes files may be duplicates of CIA documents found in the

CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection or Oswald 201 file. Nonetheless, the Review Board

considers placement of the Holmes files into the JFK Collection to be of paramount

importance in view of the selection and organization of documents that was made by a

CIA officer. Accordingly, the CIA has committed to placing into the JFK Collection, by

September 1998, all documents from the Holmes files not found elsewhere in the CIA

materials at NARA. Duplicates of documents found elsewhere in the open JFK

Collection can be processed after September 1998.

Given the unique organization of the Russ Holmes files, however, the Review Board

requests that CIA make every effort to process those files, in their entirety, as soon as

possible. Our understanding is that CIA will attempt to place the complete set of

Holmes files, including duplicates, into the JFK Collection by December 1998 but

absolutely no later than September 1999.

4. Custody of CIA Assassination Records to be Released in 2017

We have discussed with CIA its concerns regarding physical custody of certain records

whose release has been postponed, under the JFK Act, until 2017. CIA has indicated

that it may want to retain physical custody of certain postponed records pending

disclosure in 2017.

The Review Board believes that original, postponed records should presumptively be

held by NARA in accordance with the JFK Act. See 44 U.S.C. § 2107(5)(e)(2) ("Each

Government office shall... transmit to the Archivist... all assassination records the

public disclosure of which has been postponed... to become part of [NARA's]

protected Collection.") Accordingly, all postponed assassination records of the CIA

should presumptively be transferred to the legal and physical custody of NARA by

September 30, 1998. The Review Board requests that the originals of any postponed

records from the Oswald 201 file, the Oswald Office of Security file, and the Marina

Oswald 201 file be placed in the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September

1998. The Review Board understands that originals of postponed records from the CLA-

HSCA Sequestered Collection and the Holmes Collection would be transferred in

September 1999 after duplicates have been processed.

To the extent CLA believes that certain other records, particularly those designated as

NBR, must remain in CIA's physical custody until 2017, we suggest further discussions

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to resolve definitively how those record groups will be handled.

5. Completion of CLA Responses to Review Board Requests

We have identified certain Review Board requests for additional information (both

formal and informal) for which responses are still due from CIA. We understand that

some outstanding responses are in draft form or otherwise nearing completion. CIA's

completion of all outstanding responses is an essential aspect of its compliance with the

JFK Act. We identified the following responses due from CLA (certain priority items are

listed first):

Priority Responses Due

Accounting of Pre-Assassination Files on Oswald (partial response received) [CILA-16]

Accounting of James Angleton Files (CIA-IR-04)

Accounting of Electronic "Take" from Mexico City [CIA-IR-15]

Possible Foreign Source for Oswald Records (CLA-IR-05]

Possible IG reports re Oswald (CIA-IR-10]

Files on Warren Commission Critics [CIA-IR-11]

S. Breckenridge Files [CLA-IR-14]

Other Responses Due

Intelligence Community Staff Records (CLA-8]

Interagency Source Register (CIA-10]

Computer Search for HTLINGUAL Documents (CIA-IR-03]

QKENCHANT (CLA-IR-06]

Contacts with Journalists [CLA-IR-12]

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DO Office Information (CLA-IR-18)

Computer Name searches (CIA-IR-19]

Zapruder Film [CLA-IR-25]

AMWORLD [CIA-IR-32]

Search for document mentioned in RIF No. 104-10151-10206 [CLA-IR-35]

William Pawley Files [CLA-IR-37)

6. CIA Review and Declassification of Other Records

Besides CIA records, CIA is continuing to review its equities in other records, including

Church Committee records and records from the Presidential libraries. In addition, the

review Board's interviews with former ClA official Ann Goodpasture must be

eviewed and declassified by CIA so that the interviews can be sent to Ms. Goodpastur

for her corrections and then included with the Review Board's open records.

Finally, the Library of Congress has a sef of closed Rockefeller Commission records in

its Manuscript Division that may require CIA review and declassification. It is our

understanding that these records are closed until 2001 and can be inspected only by

permission of the CIA Director. To assess what should be done regarding release of

these records, the Review Board first seeks to inspect them. Accordingly, please

authorize the Library's Manuscript Division to permit our inspection and let us know

when this authorization has been granted.

B. CLA's Final Declaration of Compliance

CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance will constitute its public statement, under

penalty of perjury, that (1) CIA has located and disclosed all records relating to Lee

Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy that it could identify

through a diligent records search and (2) CLA is aware of no other assassination-related

records being withheld from the public. We request that CIA submit its Final

Declaration to the Review Board absolutely no later than September 1.

To demonstrate that CIA has disclosed all relevant materials, we make the following

recommendations for CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance:

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1. CIA Should Describe More Specifically its Searches for

Assassination Records

We consider it essential that CIA describe with more specificity the searches that it

conducted for records relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and to the JFK assassination,

including searches done by CLA in the early 1990's. See CIA Initial Compl. Stmt., at 1.

This is important particularly in light of the fact that CIA record keeping is apparently

decentralized among various components of CIA. Therefore, we ask that the Final

Declaration confirm that the relevant components of CIA - the DCI and its offices, the

CIA Directorates (Operations, Intelligence, Science & Technology, and Administration),

and the CIA office responsible for maintaining CIA's archives - in some manner.

inventoried their holdings for the relevant time period for records relating to Oswald or

the assassination. To the extent that computer database searches were run by different

components of CIA, please confirm that fact and, if possible, identify the names or

topics searched

For its early 1990's searches, the CIA should attach the 1993 search request issued by the

Historical Review Group ("HR") and unclassified versions of memoranda from

components of CIA that describe their searches or search results. In addition, we

recently requested CIA to re-undertake its searches based on the discovery of certain

assassination records that were not idertified by CIA's earlier searches." We specifically

requested that CIA Director George Tenet issue a directive to all CIA offices requiring

them to search their files for assassination records. See July 7, 1998 J. Gunn Letter to B.

Harrelson. As part of its Final Declaration, we request that CIA document the steps it

took in response to our recent request, including attaching the requested search

directive from CIA Director Tenet.

" We understand that most CIA records relating to the assassination of President

Kennedy were collected and identified in 1978 for the House Select Committee on

Assassinations and, therefore, currently reside within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered

Collection being processed under the JFK Act. It is not our intention to have the CIA re

do exhaustive searches done in 1978. However, we want CIA to demonstrate, in the

Final Declaration, that it has searched its various components and that the searches

were sufficient to identify major records on the assassination not included within the

CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection (it is our understanding that the Sequestered

Collection does not encompass post 1978 records).

& For example, Oswald's Office of Security file was not identified through CIA's

early searches. Similarly, we have identified recent documents related to Oswald.

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In addition, the Final Declaration should confirm whether or not CIA has saved any

1963-64 files of the Mexico City Station (and certain files from another station). If those

files have not been retained, please confirm that fact in the Final Declaration. To the

extent those files have been archived, however, then please confirm that they have been

examined for the purpose of determining whether they contain assassination records.

2. CIA Should Identify More Specifically the Records It Has Released

Relating to Oswald and the Assassination of President Kennedy

We recommend that CIA identify more specifically the CIA files that have been, or will

be, placed in the JFK Collection at NARA. Although we leave this to CIA's discretion,

we recommend that, to the extent practicable, CIA attach a non-classified listing of the

files encompassed within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. We believe that an

identification of the files within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection will demonstrate

the breadth and variety of assassination records being made public by the CIA.

3. CIA Should Specifically Account for Certain Important Record Groups,

Including Any Destruction of Assassination Records

We request that CIA, in its Final Declaration, account for any important records

regarding the assassination that may have been destroyed or that otherwise cannot be

located.

For example, CIA has reported that the original surveillance tapes that recorded the

Oswald telephone conversations with the Cuban Consulate and Soviet Embassy in

Mexico City were destroyed, and that CIA has no copies of these audio recordings.

However, CIA apparently has preserved certain recordings from Mexico City that post-

date the assassination (see I A.2 of this letter). We assume that CIA will provide a

complete accounting for these records in its response to Review Board request CIA-IR-

15, which relates to CIA's "electronic take" from Mexico City for the relevant time

period. That response should be attached to the Final Declaration (CIA may also want

to attach any formal explanation of this issue that it previously provided to the HSCA).

We want to ensure that CIA explains the circumstances for the destruction of the audio

recordings of the Oswald telephone calls in Mexico City, confirms that no copies of this

audio surveillance has been retained by CIA, and gives a full accounting of the post-

assassination Mexico City tapes.

We also request an accounting of certain records of former CIA Director John McCone.

In reviewing his files, we noted that certain documents on the assassination (or dated

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around the time of the assassination) are identified on an index as missing or destroyed.

In the Final Declaration, please explain, as best as possible, the circumstances for this.

We previously requested an accounting for the files of former Counter-Intelligence

Chief James Angleton [CIA-IR-04] in view of the fact that no discrete files of Mr.

Angletori had been identified under the JFK Act. Since Mr. Angleton was involved in

the CLA's assistance to the Warren Commission, we request that CIA's statement

regarding Mr. Angleton's files (i.e., CIA's response to CIA-IR-04) be attached to the

Final Declaration®

We also ask that CIA verify that all assassination-related materials from the files of Win

Scott, former Chief of Station for Mexico City, are in fact in the CIA-HSCA Sequestered

Collection. CIA should describe what was done to inventory the Scott files to make

certain that no other assassination-related materials exist in addition to those in the

Sequestered Collection.

The Final Declaration should identify any other records relating to Oswald or the

assassination that CIA knows to have been destroyed or removed from CIA files.

4. The CIA Should Identify, and Incorporate by Reference, Each of Its Written

Responses to Review Board Requests for Additional Information

CIA has been cooperative in providing written responses to formal and informal

requests submitted by the Review Board regarding CIA records. These responses will

collectively demonstrate much of the work that CIA has done under the JFK Act. We

request that CIA attach to its Final Declaration a list of CIA's written responses and

identify each by subject, date of response, and the Review Board request number. The

Final Declaration should state that each response is being incorporated therein by

reference.

5. CIA Should State That It Is Aware of No Records on Oswald or the

Assassination of President Kennedy Being Withheld from the Public

After describing its records search under the JFK Act, identifying the assassination

records that it has located, and accounting for records that were destroyed, ClA should.

include a representation that it is aware of no other undisclosed files or records relating

to Lee Harvey Oswald or the assassination of President Kennedy, including records

post-dating the 1978 HSCA investigation. We want the CIA to explicitly confirm, for

example, that it is not aware of any undisclosed 1980's or 1990's intelligence or records

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relating to Oswald or the assassination.

As part of its overall representation, we request that CIA attach to the Final Declaration

its complete formal response to the Review Board's request for an accounting of all pre

assassination files that CIA had on Lee Harvey Oswald [CIA-16]. We believe that CLA's

responsè to CIA-16 has been very valuable and therefore should be included as part of

CLÄ's Final Declaration.

• Also as part of its certification that no assassination records are being withheld, we

request that CLA represent that any remaining assassination records being processed

after September 1998 are, in fact, duplicates of records already in the JFK Collection (or

are peripheral documents that have been identified to the Review Board for processing

after September 1998). CIA should explain, in a general way, its methodology for

identifying duplicates so that there is a reasonable level of assurance that unique

documents are not being withheld.

6. CIA Should State Its Future Commitments With Respect to

the Disclosure of Assassination Records

As we discussed with CIA, CIA will undertake certain actions, after September 1998, to

continue release of duplicate records and to release postponed records in 2017. We

request that CIA, in the Final Declaration, memorialize its commitment to undertake

these tasks and describe what will be done (as contemplated in IT A.3 and A.4 of this

letter). In addition, we ask that CIA confirm in the Final Declaration that it will place

any newly discovered or created assassination records into the JFK Collection.

7. CIA Should Execute the Final Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury

CIA's Final Declaration should be made under penalty of perjury? We have made this

request of all agencies that have searched for records under the JFK Act. The Review

Board considers it essential that CIA's representations regarding its search for, and

release of, assassination records be made under penalty of perjury.

Because of the decentralized nature of CIA records, we ask that the responsible

* The Final Declaration(s) would be executed under oath in the form prescribed

by 28 U.S.C. § 1746. Thus, the appropriate CIA officials) would state at the conclusion

of the Final Declaration(s) that "I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is

true and correct. Executed in

_, Virginia on this _ day of — 1998."

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July 15, 1998

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individual for certain important components of CIA execute an affidavit on behalf of

that component certifying, under penalty of perjury, that a diligent search for

assassination records was undertaken. Accordingly, we seek a separate certification

from: (1) the DCI area; (2) the Directorate of Operations, including its

counterintelligence components; (3) the Directorate of Intelligence; (4) the Directorate of

Science & Technology; (4) the Directorate of Administration; and (5) the Office of

Information and Management, which we understand to be the office responsible for

maintaining CIA's archive records.

Thank you for your continued cooperation in meeting the CIA's obligations under the

JFK Act, responding to specific inquiries of the Review Board, and adhering to our

compliance program. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincer

T. Jeremy

Executive Director and

General Counsel

CC:

Linda Cipriani, Esq:,

CIA

J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer,

Steven D. Tilley, Chief, JFK Assassination Records Collection

NARA

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CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

2000

In a 15 July 1998 memo to CIA General Counsel, the JFK Assassination Records Review

Board outlined what it expects will be contained in CIA's Final Declaration of

Compliance, due to be submitted to the Board no later than 1 September 1998. The

following is a summary of all points in section B which covers the Declaration:

B. CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance

1. Specific Description of Searches

a.) Confirmation that relevant components inventoried their holdings for the

relevant time periods for records on Oswald or the assassination. These relevant

components are: DCI area, Directorates (DO, DA, DI, DST), and the AARC ?

[Input details to be provided by the IROs]

b.) Attach 1993 search request from HRG and "unclassified versions of memos

from components that describe searches and results."

[Note: search request is easy; 1993 responses, however, were thin to non-existent]

Attach recent DCI directive, unclassified version of followup memo to CI,

LA, CE and results of the searches. If possible, search terms and databases searched

should be included.

[Input details to be provided by the above offices]

c.) 1963-64 files of Mexico City Station. If retained, confirm that they have been

searched for assassination records. If not, state so.

[DO to provide information]

2. Provide an unclassified index identifying what files are in the JFK Collection at

NARA. To the extent possible, attach an unclassified listing of what files are in the CIA-

HSCA Sequestered Collection.

(To be done after October 98]

3. Account for Certain Important Record Groups, include. any destruction of Ass.

Records

b.) E.g. is from Mexico City tapes. Attach comment on the time and manner of

destruction of any records, including information to the effect that destroyed records were

first made available to the HSCA (if that is the case)

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[DO/IRO to provide input]

с.) Explain missing McCone files relating to the time of the assassination.

[DCVIRO to provide input)

d.) Attach CIA's statement on James Angleton's files, especially the fact that

Angleton was involved in assisting the Warren Commission but no files have been found

on this activity.

[DO/IRO to provide input]

e.) Verify that all relevant materials from Win Scott's files are in the FiSCA

Sequestered Collection. Describe how the Scott files were inventoried to ascertain that

all assassination records were included.

[DO/IRO to provide input]

f.) Identify any other records relating to Oswald/assassination that CIA knows to

have been destroyed or removed from CIA holdings.

4. Include CIA's Written Responses for ARRB Requests for Additional Information,

with Cross References for each.

(HRP files]

5. Statement that CIA is Aware of No Records on Oswald/Assassination Being Withheld

from the Public.

b.) Include CIA response to CIA-16

c.) State that all assassination records being processed after Sept 98 are duplicates

of records already in the JFK Collection or have been identified by the ARRB as

peripheral.

Explain our methodology for identifying duplicates.

[HRP will handle all answers to No 5]

6. CIA's Future Commitments to Disclosure of Newly Discovered Assassination

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'FAX TRANSMISSION

ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD

600 E STREET, N.W. SECONO FLOOR

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530

202-724-0088

FAX: 202-724-0457

Tos Barry Harrelson

Fox#: 703-613-3063

From: Michelle Combs

Subject: Search Terms

COMMENTS:

Date:

July 22,1998

Pages: Z, including this cover sheet,

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Search Terms

Lee Harvey Oswald

Harvey Lee Oswald

Marina Oswald

Jack Ruby

Exaction

Ex Action

Executive Action

Assassination

President Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy Assassination

JFK

JFK Assassination

Presidential Threats

Threats to U:S. President

GPFLOOR

GPIDEAL

Assassination Attempts

Warren Commission

HSCA

House Select Committee on Assassinations

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HSCA Names

Alvarado, Gilberto

Arcacha-Smith, Sergio

Azcue Lopez, Esuebio

Cabell, Earle

Calderon, Luisa

Cherne, Leo

Cobb, June Viola

Conein, Lucien E.

de Mohrenschildt, George

Diosdado, Cesar

Duran, Silvia Tirado de

Ferrie, David W.

Garrision, James

Garro de Paz, Elena

Gutierrez Menoyo, Eloy

Hall, Loren Eugene

Heming, Gerald Patrick

Johnson, Priscilla Mary Post

Kantor, Marvin

Kostikov, Valeriy Vladimirovich

Martin, Jack

Masferrer y Rojas, Rolando

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson

McVickar, John Anthony

Nagell, Richard Case

Odio, Sylvia

Pawley, William D.

Proenza, Maria Teresa

Raikin, Spas

Ray, Manuel

Ruby, Jack

Salvat Roque, Juan Manuel

Shaw, Clay

Snyder, Richard E.

Sturgis, Frank Anthony (aka Fioriri)

Veciana, Antonio Carlos Blanch

Webster, Robert Edward

Werbell, Mitchell Livingston II

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file

HSCA NAMES

Alferov, Ivan Gavilovich

Alpizar Perez, Evelio

Alvardo, Gilberto

Alvarez, Ramon Joseph

Alvarez Fernandez, Santiago

Alvarez Rodriguez, Santiago

Amron, Irving

Araujo Bernal, Lepoldo

Arcacha-Smith, Sergio

Artime Buesa, Manuel

Azcue Lopez, Esuebio

Bagley, Tennent H. (Pete)

Bakulin, Valentin Vasilyev

Balbuena, Luis

Barker, Bernard

Barnes, Winifred C

Bartes Clarins, Francisco Antonio

Bartes, Frank

Bartine, Dominick E.

Batista Falla, laureano

Bentin, Sam

Blanco Fernandez, Juan Francisco

Bloc(k), Morris

Bosch Avila, Orlando

Browder, Edward, Jr.

Buetos-Videla, C.Z. (aka Charlotte L. Zehrung)

Bustamente O'Leary, Jose Angel

Cabell, Earle

Cain, Richard S.

Carballido, Emilio

Cavillo, Manuel

Cellini, Dino Vincent

Charles, Clemard Joseph

Chayes, Abram

Cherne, Leo

Christ, David L.

Cisneros Diaz, Rogelio

Citrynell, Harold

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Cobb, June Viola

Coe, Virginius Frank

Conein, Lucien E.

Conte Aguero, Luis

Croizer, Ross L.

Cubela, Rolando

Cuesta Del Valle, Antonio

Dalzell, William

Davidson, Irving

Davis, Rudolph Richard, Jr.

Davis, Thomas E.

Davis, Bruce F.

De Varona, Manuel Antonio

De Torres, Bernardo

de Mohrenschildt, George

Diaz, Lanz Marcos

Diaz-Lanz, Pedro Julio

Diosdado, Cesar

Donovan, John

Du Bois, David (aka Mc Canns, David Graham)

Duque Miyar, Evelio

Duran, Silvia Tirado de

Dutkaniez, Joseph

Echevarria Valdivia, Homer Samuel

Espinosa-Hernandez, Victor

Fernandez, Alberto

Ferre, Luis Albert

Ferrie, David W.

Flick Charles, E

Flores, Jose Jesus Clarck

Frank, Susan Heligman

Galan Ric, Victor

Garanin, Fedor Alexeevich

Garrison, James

Garro de Paz, Elena

(Gibson, Richard T

Godoy y Solis, Joaquin

Golitsyn, Anatoliy

Golub, Grigoriy Y.

Gonzales, Reinol

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Guitart Camizano, Agustin

Gutierrez Menoyo, Eloy

Hall, Loren Eugene

Halperin, Maurice Hyman

Hem(m)ing, Gerald Patrick

Hernandez Sanchez, Carlos Eduardo

Hernandez Hechevarria, Alberto

Hoke, John Lindsay

Hunt, Everette Howard, Jr.

Isaacs, Harold

Itkin, Herbert

Johnson, Priscilla Mary Post

Jones, Louis Henry

Kail, Samuel G.

Kantor, Marvin

Kara-Patnitsky, Waldemar boris

Karty, Floryan R.

Keenan, Thoman J.

Koch, Gene John

Korengold, Robert J. (Bud)

Kostikov, Valeriy Vladimirovich

Kutner, Louis

Laborde, Lawrencw J.

Lawson, John Howard

Leonov, Nickolay Sergeyev

Lesnick, Max

Loganov, Valentin Sergeyevich

Lopez, Gilbert Polocarpo

Lorenz, Marita

Luce, Clare Booth

Lynch, Grayson

Maheu, Robert A.

Martin, Willian Hamilton

Martin, Jack

Masferrer y Rojas, Rolando

Mastrocola, Bruce G. (aka Leo Cherne)

Matlak, Dorthe K. (Mrs.)

McCord, James W.

McDonald, Hugh

McLaney, Michael

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McLendon, Gordon

McMillan, Prisilla Johnson

Mc Vicker, John A

Merloa, Joseph R.

Meyer, Karl

Miller, Newton

Mirabal-Diaz, Alfredo M.

Mitchell, Bernon

Moore, J. Walton

Morales, David S.

"Morales Navarette, Ricardo

Morgan, Eilliam

Morgan, William Alexander

Morua, Martin

Moss, Edward K.

Nagell, Richard Case

Newton; William J.

Nobregas, George

Nunez Portuondo Emilio

Obyedkov, Ivan Dimitriyrvich

Odio, Eunice

Otero, Rolando

O Sullivan, Fredrick Stephen

Paneque Batista, Victor Manuel

Pawley, William D.

Pedroso Amores, Acelo

Perez Alamo, Duney

Petrulli, Nicholas

Phillips, David Atlee

Pico Ramon, Reinaldo

Pino Machado, Quintin

Pittman, John Orion

Posada, Luis Clemente

Posey, Buford Wallace

Prio Socarras, Carols

Proenza, Maria Teresa

Raikin, Spas

Ramirez Ortiz, Antillio

Randall, Fredrick C.

Rasco, Jose Ignacio

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Ray, Manuel

Reggab, Mohammed

Ricciardelli, Libero

Rodriguez, Emilio Americo

Rodriguez y Gonzales, Armesto Napolean

Rodriguez, Tamayo, Francisco

Rodriguez Lopez, Rogelio

Rorke, Alexander

Rothman, Norman

Ruby, Jack

Ruiz, Pedro

Ruiz Perez, Ortestes G.

Salvat Roque, Juan Manuel

Seymour, William Houston

Shaw, Clay

Shaw, Robert Taylor

Sierra, Martinee Paulino

Sloboda, Vladimir

Snyder, Richard E.

Soto Vazquez, Antonio

Stoner, Jessie B.

Sturgis, Frank Anthony (aka Fioriri)

Ulman, Vlastimil

Uzolv, Sergy

Veciana Blanch, Antonio Carlos

Vega Rerez, Manuel

Wasserman, Jack

Webster, Robert Edward

Werbell, Mitchell Livingston II

Whitehouse Insua, Eduardo Julius

Wichtrich, Alfonso Rudolph

Wickes, Alastar

Wilson Hudson, Carlos Juan

Winston, Henry

Zambernardi, Robert M.

Zarraga Martinez, Carlos

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CIASPECIA

SEEMONS

RELIAM

AINPULL

200

EMPLOYEE

BULLETIN

OIM

OIM EB No. 02-98

22 July 1998

FINAL DOCUMENT SEARCH TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH "PRESIDENT JOHN

F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992", (JFK

ACT)

FROM:

George J. Tenet

Director of Central Intelligence

1.

(U) As you know, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (Board) is completing

its task of overseeing the search and declassification of all Federal government records relating to

the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by 30 September 1998. The Board and we want

to do everything possible to place before the American people the full story as reflected in

government and other records.

(U) The Agency has been working on this effort since 1992 and has searched all of the

obvious databases. We want to make certain that we have left no stone unturned and that no

employee has any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—

including any records created [or received] after 1992. The reference to 1992 is largely intended

to encompass documents which may have come into our hands since the collapse of the Soviet

Union and Warsaw Pact.

3.

(AIUO) In accordance with the provisions of the JFK Act, I hereby direct all CIA

personnel to consider documents in their possession or with which they are familiar that might

have relevance to the Board's review and that might not have been found in the course of

electronic or manual searches over the past six years. Representatives of the Historical Review

Program believe that if such documents do exist they would, most likely, be found in files that

would not be generally related to the assassination or that would not be "logical" areas for

systematic searches. These include working paper files or smaller databases related to countries

not normally associated with the assassination. Relevant documents can be in the form of papers,

photographs, recordings, tapes, or other media, and can include documents "related to the

assassination," such as later investigations, key topics/events within the Oswald/JFK Story, or

material related to key figures-such as Nosenko.

4.

(AIUO) CIA personnel who believe they have information regarding documents relevant

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

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ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

to the JFK review that may not have been found in previous searches should contact their

component or directorate IRO or the JFK Project Coordinator. Directorate IROs and the Agency'

s JFK Project Coordinator are as follows: *

DO / IRO

DI / IRO

DS&T / IRO

DA / IRO

DCI Area / IRO

JFK Project

Coordinator

William McNair

Barbara Blufer

Teresa Wilcox

Becky Rant

Mary Lou Cummings

Secure Phone

44448

54644

50104

31204

39058

Barry Harrelson

31825

Is/

Director of Central Intelligence

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE QNLY

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It file

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

General Counsel

29 July 1998

Ronald Haron, Esq.

General Counsel

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street N.W., 2nd Floor

Washington D.C.

20530

Dear Mr. Haron:

Congratulations on your recent appointment as General

Counsel to the President John F. Kennedy Records Review Board

("Review Board").

You have my assurances that,

as the Review

Board enters its

final stages of the review and release of

records pertaining to President Kennedy's assassination, you will

continue to have CIA's full cooperation.

I am in receipt of the 15 July 1998 letter from former

General Counsel Jeremy Gunn in which he outlines CIA's

the is he

outstanding obligations under the President John F. Kennedy

a collection

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

("JFK Act"). While I recognize that much work needs to be done

over the next few months, I am confident that J. Barry Harrelson,

Senior Review Officer for CIA's Historical Review Program

("HRP"). together with the rest of the Agency team dedicated

to

document review under the JFK Act, will complete the outstanding

obligations set forth in that letter.

With respect to the Review Board's request that CIA submit a

Final Declaration of Compliance under penalty of perjury, we are

in the process of identifying the appropriate CIA official to

sign such a Declaration.

Both HRP and my office will work

closely with you to ensure the Declaration contains the

recommendations made in Mr. Gunn's letter.

With respect to the suggestion that CIA execute a separate

affidavit by an officer from each of the CIA's four Directorates

as well as from the DCI area, the Office of Information

Management, and the counterintelligence components of the

Directorate of Operations, I believe that this is an

unnecessarily cumbersome and confusing means by which to attest

to Agency-wide record searches. Rather, I propose that the

Executive Director of the CIA appoint one senior official as a

Records Validation Officer ("RVO").

sat protove Pointe

An RVO has the authority to

locate, identify, and preserve records created or maintained by

any Agency Directorate or component which are actually or

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Ronald Haron, Esq.

potentially relevant to the subject matter of the search. An RVO

also has authority to execute affidavits or to testify under oath

with respect to all the record searches done by every Directorate

For your information, this is the usual

method by which CIA attests under oath to record searches done by

more than one Directorate in criminal and civil litigation before

the federal courts.

I appreciate this opportunity to assure you of CIA's

continued cooperation with the Review Board. Should you have any

further questions or concerns regarding this matter, you may

contact Linda Cipriani of my office at

(703) 874-3124.

Sincerely,

Dawn RElenterger >

forRobert M. McNamara, Jr

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.

Ronald Haron, Esq.

DCI/OGC/LD/LCCiprian):n1 76124

OGC-98-51950

Distribution:

Original - Addressee

1

- GC

1

- LCC

1 - Lit File - LDG00021

1

- RDC FYI

1 - OGC Registry

(27 Jul 98)

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UAJ/

AKKo

8001

SOINATION

REC

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION RIND/OR

RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT

AS SANIZED

August 10, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esg

General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

Re: CIA Compliance With the JEK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. McNamara:

Thank you for your July 29 letter regarding CIA's subinission of its Final Declaration of

Compliance with the F'resident John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act

of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 ("JFK Act'). I am writing to address CLA's desire that one

official certify, under oath and on behalf of the entire agency, that CIA has conducted a

thorough search for records relating to President Kennedy's assassination. Your letter

and concerns were brought directly to the attention of Review Board members for their

consideration. We understand that CLA would prefer that each CIA Directorate not

be required to certify separately that it has done an adequate search for records on the

'assassination, as the Review Board had requested.

The Review Board specifically considered your proposal that the certifying official be a

records validation officer appointed by the CIA's Executive Director. The Review

Board requests, however, that the CIA's certification be made at the highest levels of the

CLA. The Review Board believes that certification by a records validation officer would

be insufficient to assure, to the fullest extent possible, public confidence in the CIA's

representations that it has searched for and released all relevant materials relating to

President Kennedy's assassination. In view of the importance of the CIA's formal

representations regarding its holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald and President Kennedy's

assassination, the Review Board requests that CLA's Final Declaration of Compliance be

certified, under oath, both by CIA's Executive Director and its General Counsel.

I ask that CLA confirm that it will agree to this manner of certification.

BOARD MEMBERS: John R; Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kormit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

ExECUTIVe DIRECTOR: T. Jaremy Gunn • DepuTY DirEctoR: Thomas E. Samoluk

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10:40

AKKB

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.

August 10, 1998

Page 2

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Ronold S. Hacon

Ronald G. Haron

General Counsel

CC:

(Linda Cipriani, Esq.,

CIA

J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer,

4002

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ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL, USE ONLY

OIM

98-0088

12

August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration

Deputy Director for Intelligence

Deputy Director for Operations

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Administrative Officer, DCI Area

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Edmund Cohen

Director of Information Management

Documentation of Searches Conducted in

Support of JEK Act

Memo, "CIA compliance with the JEK

Assassinations Records Collection Act

of 1992, " dtd 15 Jul 98, fr the

Assassination Records Review Board.

1.

The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of

a requirement to provide to the JFK Assassination Records

Review Board a "Final Declaration of Compliance" with the

JFK Act.

The declaration must include:

a description of

component searches undertaken in response to Board taskings

since 1993; information on any possible destruction of

assassination records; and a representation that a diligent

search for assassination records was undertaken. We are in

need of assistance of your staff in preparing the

description of these items for inclusion in the compliance.

response.

2. The referenced memorandum describes the Board's

requirements for the "Final Declaration" in greater

detail. Jim Oliver, Chief, Historical Review Program

and Barry Harrelson, the Agency's JFK Review Focal Point,

are meeting with the Directorate Information Review Officer

and,

as appropriate, other members of your staff to review

the information needed to support the certifications which

the Agency will need to make.

ADMINISTRATIVE -

INTERNAL USE ONLY

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ADM

IVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

SUBJECT:

Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support

of JFK Act

3. In order to meet the 1 September 1998 deadline

prescribed by the Board, we request that the information

described in paragraph 1 be sent to Mr. Harrelson by close

of business, 21 August 1998

Edmund Cohen

:."•

2

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY

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ADMINISTRATIVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

SUBJECT:

Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support

of JFK Act

DA/OIM/ EdCohen: bkh/31352 (11 Aug 98)

share/oim/ed/oim/irg/pjt/jfk/dd draft 980812.doc

Distribution:

Original - Addressees

1

- DCI IRO

1 - DA IRO

1 - DI IRO

1 - DO IRO

1 - DS&T IRO

1

- D/OIM

• C/IRG

C/HRP

• OIM/HRP/HRO (Barry Harrelson)

1

DA Registry

1

- OIM/ Subj

1

- OIM/Chrono

3

ATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONEX

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INTERNAL USE ONLY

25 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: (U) Electronic Dissemination of Employee Bulletin

(AIUO) I was requested to send the EB 02-98 (Final Document

Search - JFK). The request was distributed to all of the.

Jirectorate via lotus notes on Mondav 1I Audust 1098, the notice

was placed in the system on the 18t and received by the

Directorate personnel on the 19th

Additionally, we placed it on

the morning

message that people receive when they first log onto

the

system.

Fredrick C. Wickham,

ADMINISTRATIVE

INTERNAL USE ONLY

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ADMINISTRATIVE

RNAL USE ONLY

SUBJECT:

(U) Electronic Dissemination of Employee Bulletin

IMS/ESG/HCS Fwickham x44448:mjk (21 August 1998)

Distribution:

Original - C/HRP/OIM

1 - C/IMS/ESG

1 - IMS/ESG/HCS

1 - ESG Chrono File

ADMINISTRATIVE -

JAL USE ONLY

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UNCLASSIFIED

27 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Chief, JFK Declassification

Project/HRP/OIM/DA

Fredrick C. Wickham, JI.

Chief, Information Management Staff,

External Support Group

DO Results of New Search for JFK

Assassination Records

1.

This memorandum is in response to the request from

the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).

The staff requested that the CIA issue an Agency-wide

employee bulletin for a new search for JFK Assassination

Records. OIM-98-0081 dated 30 July 1998 was issued.

2. DO/Infórmation Management Staff ran a corporate

search of COMET the DO's electronic message repository.

That search generated some 128 hits. Michelle Combs of the

ARRB staff reviewed the search results and selected three

records for inclusion in the JEK assassination records

collection.

3. The three selected documents have been sanitized

with Ms. Combs' concurrence. The sanitization is more

extensive than JEK guidelines because of the documents'

proximity to the present and to current sources and methods.

4. The documents are not herewith attached. They are

being provided separately by DO/IMS/ESG/HCS.

Fredrick C. Wickham,

JI.

UNCLASSIFIED

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•

UNCLASSIFIED

SUBJECT: (U)

DO Results of New. Search for JEK

Assassination Records.

IMS/ESG/HCS FWickham x44448:mjk (28 August 1998)

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

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Office of General Counsel

31 August 1998

Ronald G. Haron, Esq.

General Counsel

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20530

Re: CIA Compliance With the JEK Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. Haron:

This letter responds to your 19 August 1998 request that the

Central Intelligence Agency confirm, in writing, who will certify

its

compliance statement.

This is to confirm that Edmund Cohen,

the CIA's Director of Information Management, will sign.

As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is

responsible for providing oversight and direction to the Agency's

records and classification management activities, and information

declassification and release programs.

He is also responsible

for the development and maintenance of automated tools to support

these activities.

He oversees classification and

declassification policies, procedures, and practices. He manages

the Agency Archives and Records Center, and serves as the CIA

Archivist and the Agency Information Review Officer.. He

coordinates the conduct of all special searches within the Agency

and the release of any information uncovered in such searches.

Finally, as Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is

responsible to conduct, on behalf of the Agency, liaison with the

National Archives and Records Administration and its Office of

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the Federal Register, and with the Information Security Oversight

Office;

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with any other entities on any matters within the

responsibility or authority of the Director of Information

Management.

We believe that Mr. Cohen is clearly the most knowledgeable

individual within the Agency, by position and experience, to

such a certification. Based upon our short telephone

discussion, I understand that he is, in addition, at least as

senior as the anticipated signatories from other agencies or

departments from which the Board has requested certifications.

From a practical standpoint, we at CIA make a concerted effort to

assure that the most knowledgeable. individuals speak on behalf of

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Mr. Ronald G. Haron, Esq.

the Agency on important matters such as this. It is for this

reason that we have chosen Mr. Cohen.

If you wish to discuss this matter further, please call me

on (703) 874-3123.

Sincerely,

Eatingen

General Counsel.

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Contact Betsy Quint-Moran' (x37929) regarding suspense items.

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EXDIR office to take lead in preparing and coordinating response with OGC.

SUMMARY:

The JFK Assassination Records Review Board has received the Agency's Final Declaration

of Compliance. The Board is requesting certifications by the individual directorates, as well

as the office of the DCl, or alternatively that the EXDIR and the General Counsel certify that

CIA has met its obligations under the JFK Act and certify that no records on the

assassination or Lee Harvey Oswald have been knowingly withheld. Absent the requested

certifications, the Board considers depositions of senior Agency officials necessary and

requests the DDO be made available ASAP, but no later than 21 September, for

examination.

Date: 14 September 1998

Received in ER: 14 September 1998

Action Officer: (Tracie Matecka *37932

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ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD

600 E STREET. N.W. SECOND FLOOR

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530

202-724-0088

FAX: 202-724-0457

To: George Tenet, DCI

Date:

Fen #: 703-482-3064

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3, including this cover sheet.

From: John R. Tunheim, Chair

Subject: ClA Compliance with the JFK Act

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SSINATION

Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

BOARD

September 14, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL

The Honorable George Tenet

Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505*

Re: CIA Compliance With the IFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. Tenet:

We have received the CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance (dated September 2, 1998)

regarding the completion of CIA's work under the President John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 ('JFK Act"). On behalf of

the Board, I am writing to express the Board's disappointment that CIA has been

unwilling to have the most senior officials of your agency attest to CLA's compliance

with the JFK Act.

The Board had first asked CIA to submit separate certifications from each directorate, as

well as the office of the DCI, attesting to their searches for assassination-related records.

We stressed these measures to obtain assurance that all components of the CIA had

complied with the JFK Act, as well as to assure the American people that the U.S.

Government had left no stone unturned in releasing records on the assassination of

President Kennedy. The CIA refused to submit separate certifications, insisting it was

their practice for one official to speak on behalf of the entire Agency. The Board then

requested that CIA's most senior officials, the Executive Director and General Counsel,

certify CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance under the JFK Act. CIA refused.

In 1992, CIA Director Gates testified to Congress that he was "determined personally to

make public or to expose to disinterested eyes every relevant scrap of paper in CIA's

possession" that related to the Kennedy assassination. See The Assassination Materials

Disclosure Act: Hearing on S.J. Res. 282 Before the Senate Comm. on Governmental Affairs,

102d Cong., 2d Sess. 55 (1992). The Board has merely asked that CLA's highest officials

confirm that they are fully confident that this commitment has been fulfilled. While we

recognize the substantial documentation provided by CIA to demonstrate its work

under the JFK Act, we are disappointed that CIA has been uncooperative in responding

BOARD MEMBeRs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy Gunn • DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Thomas E. Samoluk

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The Honorable George Tenet

September 14, 1998

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to this most simple of requests. For me personally and for other members of the Board,

this raises significant concerns as to whether CIA's highest officials actually have

confidence in the reliability of the results for which the Review Board and CIA have

expended considerable effort, energy and resources over the past five years. Such

concerns may be noted in our Final Report.

Therefore, the Review Board specifically requests that CIA submit certifications by the

individual directorates, as well as the office of the DCI, or, in the alternative, that the

Executive Director and the General Counsel certify that CIA has met its obligations

under the JFK Act and certify that no records on the assassination or Lee Harvey

Oswald have been knowingly withheld. We continue to believe that these more

stringent certifications are needed, in part because of CIA's belated discovery of core

records relating to the assassination.

Absent certification by the highest levels of ClA, as sought by the Board, the Board

considers depositions of senior Agency officials to be absolutely necessary.

Accordingly, pursuant to our authority under the JFK Act, the Board requests that CIA

make the Deputy Director for Operations immediately available for deposition. The

Directorate of Operations has been the primary repository for records directly relating

to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination. In fact, the Directorate of Operations only

recently uncovered additional records relating to a KGB source with information

relating to Lee and Marina Oswald. We ask that the Deputy Director of Operations be

made available for examination as soon as possible, but no later than September 21. He

will be expected to testify on behalf of the Directorate of Operations regarding its

record systems, and its searches for assassination records, including searches conducted

by the Counter-intelligence staff.

Thank you for your cooperation, and please inform us as soon as possible regarding

CIA's compliance with this Review Board request.

Sincerely,

Johun. Tickein

John R. Tunheim

Chair

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CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT

September 16, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.

General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

Gary M. Stern

General Counsel

National Archives and Records Administration

8601 Adelphi Road

College Park, Maryland 20740-6001

Re: CIA Compliance With the IFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Messrs. McNamara and Stern:

The Review Board considers it essential that certain remaining obligations of the CIA

under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 14

U.S.C. § 2107 (JFK Act") be identified and memorialized before the Board ceases

operations on September 30, 1998:

I therefore am enclosing, for your agencies' consideration, a draft Memorandum of

Understanding setting forth the outstanding obligations of CIA under the JFK Act. We

believe that it is in the interest of the CIA, the National Archives, the Review Board, and

ultimately the public to put in writing our collective understanding of the additional

work that CIA must undertake and the reasonable time frames within which it should

be completed. It is our intent to reduce any future ambiguity or disagreements that

may potentially arise as CIA completes its work. We also believe that this MOU will

facilitate the ability of the Archivist of the United States to carry out his statutory

obligation to certify to the President that all assassination-related records have been

released in accordance with the Act (see 44 U.S.C. § 2107(12)).

The terms of a Memorandum of Understanding have been discussed among the staffs

of the Review Board, the National Archives, and CIA. We believe that the enclosed

draft proposal is a fair accommodation of competing interests. Please review the

BOARD MEMBERs: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff - Kermit L. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: T. Jeremy Gunn • DeputY Director: Thomas E. Samoluk

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enclosed draft MOU so that we can resolve any outstanding issues and ultimately reach

an agreement on an MOU before September 30, 1998.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Ronald S. Havan

Ronald G. Haron

General Counsel

CC: J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer,

CLA

Steven D. Tilley, Chief,

JFK Collection, NARA

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING

CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS OF THE CIA UNDER THE JFK ACT

WHEREAS the operations of the Assassination Records Review Board ("Review

Board") cease on September 30, 1998 in accordance with the President John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 ("JFK Act");

WHEREAS the JFK Act provides that "the provisions of this Act [as applied to Federal

agencies] shall continue in effect until such time as the Archivist certifies to the

President and the Congress that all assassination records have been made available to

the public in accordance with [the] Act" (FK Act § 12); and

WHEREAS the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA"), the Review Board, and the

National Archives and Records Administration ("NARA") seek to ensure that the CLA

completes its continuing obligations under the JFK Act in a timely fashion;

IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the CIA (including any successor intelligence agency), the

Review Board, and NARA that:

1.

All CIA records identified as assassination records under the JFK Act will be

placed in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (IFK Collection) at NARA

in College Park; Maryland by September 30, 1998 unless otherwise noted in this

Memorandum of Understanding;

2.

CIA may transmit the following assassination records to the JFK Collection after

September 30, 1998:

a. Duplicate documents within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection

(both hardcopy and microfilm sets)! The CIA will ensure that, by

September 30, 1999, duplicate copies of documents from the CLA-HSCA

Sequestered Collection (both hardcopy and microfilm sets) will be

placed in the JFK Collection.

b. Duplicate documents within the working files of CIA officer Russ

Holmes. The CIA will ensure that, by December 31, 1998, duplicate copies

of documents from the Russ Holmes working files will be placed in

the JFK Collection.

' "Duplicate documents" are exact copies of documents that are already publicly

available in the JFK Collection as part of other CIA files or records.

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c. The audio tapes, and any transcriptions or summaries made by the

CIA, from surveillance of certain Soviet and Cuban diplomatic facilities in

Mexico City for the period November 22, 1963 to January 1964. These

tapes (approximately 185), and any transcriptions or summaries, shall be

placed in the JFK Collection by September 30, 1999. The CIA will submit

these tapes to the JFK Collection on a rolling basis, as CIA completes

review of individual tapes. Any postponements shall be identified to

NARA and postponed information forwarded to the "Protected

Collection" (l.e., the classified, postponed records within the JFK

Collection) in accordance with Section 5(e) of the JFK Act.

d. Working files from the DCI area, mostly from DCI's Executive:

Registry, that had been compiled in anticipation of passage of the JEk Act.

These working materials, which consist mostly of duplicate documents,

shall be placed in the JFK Collection by Decmber 31, 1998.

e. A document containing a list of names and cryptonyms created by the

HSCA staff. Given the detailed nature of information in this document

(RIF No. 104-10061-10115), the Board agrees that this can be processed by

December 31, 1998.

f. Any other non-duplicate assassination-related records created or

discovered by the ClA after September 30, 1998.

The CIA will review its equities in records that have been referred to it, and the

CIA will cooperate with NARA and other Federal agencies to ensure that such

records are released under the standards of the JFK Act and placed into the JFK

Collection. The CIA will review the following major categories of records:

a. Church Committee records identified by the Review Board in August

1998 as being assassination-related.

b. Records from the files of Robert F. Kennedy, maintained at the JFK

Library, that the Library and/or Review Board has identified as either

assassination records or as records that would enhance the historical

understanding of the assassination.

c. Records of the Rockefeller Commission, maintained by the Manuscript

Division at the Library of Congress, to the extent that the Library of

Congress identifies assassination records that are not available as part of

the Ford Library set of Rockefeller Commision documents in the JFK

Collection.

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d. The Army's Investigative Records Repository file on Alfredo Mirabal

Diaz.

The CIA will complete its review and and recommendations for release of the

major record categories listed above no later than April 30, 1999. To the extent

there may be other agency documents requiring CIA review under JFK Act, the

CIA will continue to undertake such review.

4.

The CIA shall handle the certain original or postponed records in the following

manner:

a. By September 30, 1998, CIA shall transmit to the "Protected?

Collection," in accordance with Section 5(e) of the JFK Act, the originals of

all postponed records from Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file, Office of

Security file, and "A" file.

b. By September 30, 1998, CIA shall transmit to the "Protected

Collection" the hardcopy original of Marina Oswald's 201.

c. By September 30, 1998, the CIA will transmit to the "Protected

Collection" all of the original microfilm rolls for the CIA-HSCA

sequestered collection.

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e. By October 30, 1998, the CIA will transmit to the "Protected Collection"

the entire Oswald 201 file that was printed from the CIA-HSCA

sequestered collection microfilm (this will provide the CIA with time to

make its own reference copy).

f. By December 31, 1998, CIA shall transmit to the "Protected Collection"

the originals of all postponed records from the Russ Holmes working files

(this will permit the CIA to process duplicate records in the Holmes

Collection by that date).

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The Review Board and the CIA have determined that certain materials reviewed

under the JFK Act are not believed to be relevant to the Kennedy assassination

(designated "NBR"), but nonetheless should ultimately be placed in the JFK

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Collection. These NBR materials are: certain files contained within the CLA-

HSCA sequestered collection; certain CIA work files relating to Yuri Nosenko

(but not related to the assassination); certain materials within the Russ Holmes

Collection; and the complete version of certain records, portions of which were

designated as assassination-related by the Review Board in connection with its

requests for additional records and information. These hard copy materials will

be physically retained by the CIA and then forwarded to the JFK Collection for -

public release by October 26, 2017. Within two months of the execution of this

agreement, the CIA shall provide to NARA, in writing, a list of the hardcopy files

being retained until 2017 and confirm the arrangements for securing this

material. NARA shall have the right to inspect and inventory this material for

archival and administrative purposes before 2017, and these materials shall be

made available for inspection by NARA upon its request."

The CIA shall cooperate and coordinate with NARA in carrying out the

provisions of the JFK Act, including Section 5(g) of the JFK Act, which provides

for the "periodic review" of postponed assassination records. Such review "shall

address the public disclosure of additional assassination records in the Collection

under the standards of the Act" (§ 5(g)(2) (A)) and "shall serve to downgrade

and declassifiy security classified information" (§ 5(g) (2)(C)).

The CIA recognizes that, in the year 2017, "[elach assassination record shall be

publicly disclosed in full...." JFK Act § 5 (g). To the extent that records are

postponed but are to be released on a date prior to 2017, NARA shall release the

records on the date the Review Board set for release. If the CIA seeks continued

postponement of any record in the year 2017 (or an earlier scheduled release

date), it will be incumbent upon the CIA to obtain from the President

"certification" that continued postponement is necessary. See JFK Act §

5(g)(2)(D). Within six months of the scheduled release date, the CIA shall be

responsible for notifying NARA of any specifc records, including any records

within the microfilm rolls for the CIA-HSCA sequestered collection, for which it

will seek Presidential certification of continued postponement.

With respect to the NBR material identified in paragraph 5, these NBR materials

shall be physically transferred to NARA by October 26, 2017 for release. In the

event CIA seeks further postponement of any NBR material, it shall identify that

material to NARA and seek Presidential certification that the material needs to

be postponed.

2 The Nosenko materials related to the assassination have been placed in the JFK

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With respect to the review of other agency documents referred to CIA, the

review of any new assassination records, or the periodic review of postponed

assassination records, the CIA shall, in good faith, continue to apply the

postponement criteria of the JFK Act as previously interpreted by decisions of

the Review Board.

This Memorandum of Understanding is intended to clarify the CLA's obligations

under the JFK Act in view of the expiration of the Review Board's term on

September 30, 1998. This Memorandum of Understanding shall not be

interpreted to limit CIA's obligations under the JFK Act.

Signed:

David W. Carey

Executive Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Date:

Signed:

Laura A. Denk

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

Date:

Signed:

John W. Carlin

Archivist of the United States

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

2000

16 September 1998

Mr. John R. Tunheim

Chair, Assassination Records

Review Board

600 E Street, NW

Washington. DC 20530

Re: JFK. Assassination Records Collection Act of 1993j

Dear Mr. Tunhein:

This will respond to your 14 September 1998 letter regarding

Central Intelligence Agency compliance with the "JFK Act."

I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA has fully met its

obligations to locate, review, and release "assassination

records" as defined in the JFK Act.

The Agency's 2 September

1998 Declaration of Compliance-signed, as you note, by CIA's

Director of Information Management, Edmund Cohen-confirms my

judgment.

I nave full confidence in the scope of the Agency's

searches

as described in Mi. Cohen's recent declaration.

As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is directly

responsible for CIA's records systems and for ensuring the

adequacy of CIA's search,

review, and release of documents under

the JFK Act. MI. Cohen

signed the Agency's Declaration of

Compliance because he was the most senior. Agency official with

direct personal knowledge that its statements were accurate and

complete. There was no more appropriate signatory.

In sum. I understand that the appropriate CIA staff officers

have worked diligently to locate and disclose to the JFK Board

all relevant records in the Agency's possession and that they do

not believe any other relevant records are being withheld from

the Board. Mr. Cohen's declaration confirms my understanding.

I trust that this will meet your requirements.

Sincerely.

Seafatt

George J. Tenet

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