CIA MATTERS - FOCAL POINT OFFICERS FOR ARRB REQUESTS
Originator: CIA
From: JOHN F. PEREIRA
To: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Document date: 03/30/1995
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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30 March 1995

MEMORANDUM FOR:

VIA:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Executive Director

Director, Center for the study of

Intelligence

John F. Pereira

Chief, Historical Review Group

Appointment of Directorate Focal Points

for JFK Assassination Board Requests (AIUO)

1. Action Requested:

It is recommended that you request

the Directorates to appoint focal point officers for purposes of

responding to requests from the (President Kennedy) Assassination

Records Review Board. (AIUO)

2. Background: President Clinton appointed the Board to

oversee the release of records related to both the assassination

of President Kennedy and the investigations into the assassination.

The Board has forwarded to us the first (attached) of what are

likely to be many requests for additional information from CIA

records.

The Board will not complete its work until late 1997

at the earliest. (AIUO)

The Historical Review Group (HRG) has reviewed more than

in the

Assassination Committee's investigation and in the Oswald 201 file.

Up to now, no new searches have been required.

Now that the Board

has begun

to generate requests for additional information, the

Agency needs to create a mechanism for processing the requests and

for tasking components to conduct records searches. (AIUO)

3. Recommendation: That you request each Directorate to

appoint a focal point to work with HRG as the principal liaison

with the Board, and that you name someone to perform the same

function for the del Area.

Attached is a proposed memorandum

for your signature.

(AIUO)

John

F. Pereira

Attachments:

A.

ARRB Request No. CIA-1

B.

Proposed Memorandum

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ER 95-8097

6 April 1995

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy Director for Administration

Deputy Director for Intelligence

Deputy Director

for Operations

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Administrative Officer, DCI

FROM:

Executive Director

SUBJECT:

Appointment of Directorate Focal Points

for JFK Assassination Board Requests

1.

I would like each of you to appoint a focal point

officer for your Directorate who would be responsible for

responding to requests for information from the (President

Kennedy) Assassination Records Review Board.

(AIUO)

2. The Agency has received the first (attached) of what

are likely to be many requests from the Board for information

related to the assassination of President Kennedy and to the

investigations into the assassination.

Up to now, the Board

has focused on the "sequestered" records CIA had collected

for the House Assassination Committee's investigation and

documents that had been part of the Oswald 201 file. It is

expected that the new requests will require records searches

to be done for additional information.

(AIVO)

3. The Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for

the Study of Intelligence (CSI), which has been the Agency's

principal liaison with the JFK Board, will continue in that

HRG will receive requests from the Board, and then

forward them to the Directorate focal points for action.

Responses

from the Directorates will be coordinated by HRG,

which will make the responses available to the Board. (AIUO)

Please provide the name of your focal point officer to

John Pereira, Chief, HRG (x303737secure) by 13 April.

(AIUO)

Leo Hazlewood

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Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW O 2nd Floor U Washington, DC 20530

March 22, 1995

Mr. John Pereira

Director

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT

RE: ARRB Additional Information Request No. CIA-1

Dear John:

I would like to thank you and your staff for your assistance and cooperation during

our start-up phase. I trust that this bodes well for our work together during the

upcoming years.

In order to facilitate and coordinate our efforts, I will be sending to you, from time-

to-time, requests for additional information and records to facilitate the completion of

the ARRB's responsibilities under the JFK Act. We will be numbering these requests,

as shown above, to help us track our queries and your responses. Please do not

hesitate to contact me or Jeremy Gunn if our requests are insufficiently clear or if

they are unduly burdensome.

For our first request, we ask that you make available the following items:

(a)

Comprehensive organizational charts (or the best available substitutes)

of the following entities for the years 1958-1968:'

First, the Directorate of Plans (DDP or DD/P) including:

Western Hemisphere Division (DDP/WH)

Special Affairs Staff (DDP/SAS)

Task Force W

'We are of course aware that the names, organizational structure, and reporting

relationships of the entities identified below have changed over time. We have listed some

divisions, offices, and staffs in order to facilitate the identification of organizational charts. If

the Agency refers or referred to these entities by any other names or acronyms, we would of

course intend our request to include those other names or acronyms.

Telephone: (202) 724-0088 • Facsimile: (202) 724-0457

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Mr. John Pereira

March 22, 1995

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- Special Task Force Operations

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Counterintelligence Staff (DDP/CD

Soviet Russia Division (DDP/SR)

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Foreign Intelligence Staff (DDP/FI)

Technical Services Division (DDP/TSD)

Records Integration Division (DDP/RID)

Division D

Western Europe Division (WE);

Second, the Directorate of Support (DDS or DD/S) including:

Office of Security (DDS/OS) (including Security Research Sèction);

Third, the Directorate of Intelligence (DDI or DD/I) including:

National Photographic Interpretation Center (DDI/NPIC)

- Office of Operations (DDI/OO)

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Domestic Contacts Division including all DCD bases in Louisiana,

Florida, and Texas;

Fourth, the Directorate of Research (DDR or DD/R) including:

- Special Projects Branch

- Technical Services Division;

Fifth, CIA stations in

Mexico City (1960-68 only)

- Miami (MWAVE)

- other stations that we will discuss orally;

Sixth, the Inspector General;

Seventh, the Office of the General Counsel;

Eighth, to the extent not otherwise included above, any entities with

responsibility for liaison or communications with the Federal Bureau of

Investigation on matters pertaining to intelligence or

Ninth, any other offices, task forces, units, programs, persons, or other

'If there were persons (rather than entities) tasked with the responsibility for

such liaisons with the FBI, please identify those individuals.

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Mr. John Pereira

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(b)

(c)

entities with any responsibilities for surveilling, conducting operations

with respect to, or engaging in liaison with any pro-Castro groups (eg.

Fair Play for Cuba Committee) or anti-Castro groups (e.g., Alpha-66

DRE, JURE, etc.).

The names and affiliations of all CIA personnel responsible for liaison

with the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on

Assassinations, the House Select Committee on Intelligence of the 94th

Congress (the "Pike Committee"); the Senate Select Committee to Study

Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the

"Church Committee"), and the Commission on CIA Activities within the

United States (the "Rockefeller Commission").

All manuals, handbooks, memoranda, or guides explaining:

(i)

the organizational structure and division of responsibilities within

CIA for the years 1958-68 and 1975-79;

(ii)

the filing systems or filing procedures for the entities identified in

(a) above; and

(iii) guidelines for drafting memoranda or completing forms.

Examples of the type of documents we are seeking include the

Clandestine Services Instruction (CSI), the Clandestine Services Handbook

(CSHB), and the Directorate of Operations Handbook (DOHB).

(d)

Copies of the instructions, guidelines, and other materials used by your

reviewers in the review process. Barry Harrelson has already provided

some - if not all - of these materials to Jeremy Gunn.

(e)

A list or lists of cryptonyms, digraphs, codes, pseudonyms, numericals,

file identifications, or other identifications appearing in the assassination

records (to the extent that such a list or lists have been or could readily

be created).

To the extent that these materials are security classified, we will take all necessary

precautions to protect them.

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Mr. John Pereira

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I would like to thank you again for your cooperation. Please do not hesitate to

contact me or Jeremy Gunn for any clarification regarding these requests.

Sincerely yours,

Rice

David G. Marwell

Executive Director

Cc: Barry Harrelson

T. Jeremy Gunn

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DO/IMS 95-069/2

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Historical Review Group

FROM:

Hugh E. Price

Deputy Director for Operations

SUBJECT:

Appointment of Directorate Focal Points

for JFK Assassination Board Requests

REFERENCE:

ER 95-8097, dated 6 April 1995, Same Subject

Based upon the expectation that most of the requests will be for

information from our historical records, the Information Management

Staff will take the lead role. The focal point will be Fred Wickham, Chief,

External Support Group/IMS located in 1D4107 OHB, ext. 44448.

Hugh E. Price

cc: Executive Director

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21 February 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

John Pereira

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson

CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer

DI Focal Point for JFK Board

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

I have been advised by Dick Flynn, DI/IRO, that he has replaced Walter Voskian as the Directorate Focal

Point for Assassination Records Review Board requests.

CC:

Richard Flynn® DI

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