LETTER: JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992
Originator: CIA
From: GEORGE J. TENET
To: JOHN R. TUNHEIM
Document date: 09/16/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

SEP 2 1 1998

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 30505

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 1992

Dear Mr. Tunheim:

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 have full confidence in the scope of the Agency's

searches as described in Mr. 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.

Mr. 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 signatpry.

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,

George J. Tenet

DCI

KEG

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