WITHHELD; MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Originator: CIA
From: BARRY HARRELSON
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 07/27/1995
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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27. July 1995

Memo for the Record

Subject: 17 July, 1995 Meeting with ARRB staff re FBI

documents on Gibson

Attendees: Jeremy Gunn

Phil Golrick

Joan Zimmerman

Bill McNair

Ellie Neiman

Barry Harrelson

Purpose:

To provide the ARRB with justification for

continued postponement of information on Gibson's

relationship with the CIA.

Bill McNair briefed the ARRB staff members on the current

status of Richard Gibson including the Agency's meeting with

Gibson earlier this year.

They were told that despite the

inadvertent release of his name and being contacted by

journalist, Gibson was still denying his agency relationship

and has requested that no more information be released.

Gunn pointed out that Gibson was an important JFK figure and

that the ARRB would lean toward disclosure.

We responded

that the Agency had no problem with the release of Gibson

information that did not indicate a relationship with the

Agency •

Since the agency did not target him for recruitment

until 1964 and he not come to work for the Agency until

1965, most of the information of his activities during 61-63

is releasable. We showed them re-reviewed copies of the

documents that release much more information than had been

released in the copies they received from the FBI.

Bill talked at length about the need to protect sources and

the potential impact on Agency operations as well as the

risk to the individual. We also stressed the point that an

inadvertent release, a mistake by reviewers or comments by

former employees did not constitute official acknowledgment

or mean that there was no longer a need to protect an

individual.

We agreed to provide by the end of the day re-reviewed.

copies of the 7 documents in question. The highlighting

would reflect the agency's policy of continuing to protect

Gibson's relationship with the CIA.

Note: per phone call with Gunn (20 July), the Board did not

address the Gibson documents in the 18 July meeting.

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