NOTE: JFK REVIEW BOARD ITEM FOR THE BLAT
Originator: CIA
From: BRUCE BURKE , ASSOC. DGC
To: DAWN EILEN BERGER
Document date: 10/01/1998
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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From the Desk of R. Bruce Burke

Associate Deputy General Counsel

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Dawn:

Dawn R. Eilenberger@DCI

R. Bruce Burke @ DCI

OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL

10/01/98 01:08:09 PM

JFK Review Board Item for the BLAT

The following paragraph on the winding down of the JFK Review Board may be used in the

OGC Weekly Report.

Bruce

"ASSOCIATE DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL (INFORMATION)

End of JFK Review Board. As of 1 October, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board

(JFK Review Board) ceased to exist. In order to obtain more protection and processing time for

Agency records related to the assassination of President Kennedy, OGC and OIM worked very hard

to negotiate with the JFK Review Board (before its termination) a comprehensive MOU that would

govern the final disposition of these records in a way favorable to the Agency. Although the MOU

was negotiated and ready for signature, at the eleventh hour, the FBI agreed to turn over to the

National Records and Archives Administration (NARA) all of its voluminous administrative records

concerning its implementation of the JFK Act. Citing this precedent, the JFK Review Board insisted

that CIA agree to do the same in the MOU, or the MOU would not be signed by the Board. Since in

the absence of an MOU we would have to turn over to NARA immediately all of the remaining

documents in ClA's possession considered by the JFK Review Board to be assassination-related

records, OGC and OIM negotiated non-stop with the Board and its General Counsel and produced a

compromise which protects all of the Agency's interests. Specifically, the compromise dramatically

reduced the scope and numbers of administrative records ClA would be required to turn over to

NARA, while preserving intact all of the other provisions of the MOU favorable to the Agency."

CC:

Edmund Cohen@DA

Lee S. Strickland@DA

Walter I. Hazlett@DA

Wendy A. Loehrs@DCI

Sent on 1 October 1998 at 01:08:09 PM

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