ARRB-CIA ISSUES: OSWALD SECURITY FILE
Originator: CIA
Document date: 04/03/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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OIM 98-0036

3 April 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy Executive Director

VIA:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Director of Information Management/DA

Lee S.

Strickland

Chief,

Information Review Group, OIM/DA

Release of Oswald Security File Pursuant To

Request of Assassination Records Review Board

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•1. Action Reguired: None; this brief is for information

only regarding a required release pursuant to the request of the

Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB or JFK Board).

This

release has been coordinated with the DO JFK Focal Point Officer,

the DA Information Review Officer, the Office of General Counsel,

and required external bodies; it is scheduled for transfer to the

ARRB for release to the National Archives on or about 17 April.

2. Background:. The Oswald Security File, maintained by

the Office of Security, surfaced in February 1997 as our JEK

records review personnel were responding to the ARRB's "Request

for Additional Information and Records No. CIA-16 (Oswald Pre-

AssasSination Files)", dated 28 January 1997. Before this, the

file had been reviewed in 1978 by the House Special Committee on

Assassination (HSCA). Unfortunately, and probably by oversight,

the file was not included in the so-called JFK sequestered

collection' and thus had not been included to date in our

releases to the ARRB.

In any event, however, approximately 92%

of the documents therein are duplicative of documents previously

released elsewhere in the JEK collection by CIA.

• At the conclusion of its investigation, the House Select Committee on

Assassination (HSCA) sequestered all of the files that the HSCA

staff had

requested or been granted access.

"sequestered collection" includes 63

boxes of hardcopy records and notes and 72 reels of microfilm.

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SUBJECT: Release of Oswald Security File Pursuant To

Request of Assassination Records Review Board

3.

The Office of Security subject file on Lee Harvey Oswald

was established circa 1960. It appears this file was created as

a separate repository for the numerous press clippings and

reports from other government agencies on Oswald's defection to

the

USSR and his activities following his return to the United

States.

Initially, references to Oswald had been placed in a so-

called "Defectors'

File"

• Both the Oswald security file and the

Defectors File were maintained by the Security Research Staff --

the CI arm of the Office of Security at that time.?

4. Information to be Released: The Office of Security in

its response to the ARRB request of 28 January 1997 advised it

had located six volumes of the Oswald Security file, numbered 1-4

and 6-7; a search failed to locate a volume 5.

The six volumes

include over 400 documents and about 2,000 pages of which 1,000

pages are newspaper clippings. All of these documents are to be

released in full or with' minor redactions; more specifically, the

fully coordinated documents ready for release include: 3

Volume 1: Pre-assassination documents

relative to Oswald's

defection

• Volume 2: Miscellaneous memoranda on Oswald

and copies of

cables

between

Mexico City and Headquarters

• Volume 3:

file on Marina Oswald

Partial Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

• Volume 4: Newspaper clippings

Volume 6: Newspaper clippings and memoranda (many related to

the Garrison Investigation)

3 This may explain why this Oswald file was not included in the sequestered

collection with

several other security files which had been maintained

normally (i.e., with most other security records) by the Security Records

Division.

3 Representative samples of the documents to be released are attached for your

information; please note that the "blackened" areas are not deletions but are the

result of red highlighting used in the original review by the then-Office of

Security.'

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SUBJECT:

Release of Oswald Security File Pursuant To

Request of Assassination Records Review Board

Volume 7:

documents.

A third agency (EBI) report and some HSCA related

5. Potential Media Reaction: There is potential for media

criticism on two counts:

the unexplained missing volume 5 and the

delay in releasing the

security file.

The Office Of Security has been unable to locate a Volume 5.

or that the filer simply skipped a number.

The file was primarily

a repository for externally generated documents, and there do not

appear to be significant time gaps.

The delay in releasing the file is somewhat alleviated by the fact

of the documents have been previously released in

the sequestered JEK Collection. Of the remaining 88 (35 documents)

all but six (6) documents will be released in full. The file

contains nothing of a controversial or politically sensitive nature.

6. As indicated by the signatures below, the Directorate of

Administration, the Directorate of Operations, and the Office of

General Counsel concur in this release.

In addition, all

necessary external coordinations (i.e., EBI, INS, and the House

of Representatives) have been effected.

Cu

Lee S. Strickland

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SUBJECT:

Release of Oswald Security File Pursuant To

Request of Assassination Records Review Board

CONCUR:

DO JFK Focal Point Officer

Date

DA Information Review Officer

Date

•Office of General Counsel

Date

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Secret

OIM 98-0036 Addendum

7 April 1998

Subject:

Release of Office of Security File on Oswald

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Copies of documents not previously released by the

CIA

There are 37 records in the Oswald Security File that

are not duplicative of material in the CIA's JFK

Assassination Collection:

* 18 of the items are the Information Request Flags,

MERs and signature sheets found in the front of each

of the six folders (one example of each is attached) .

* 5 are notes/routing slips by CIA officers

* 9 FBI documents

* 4 State documents

* 1 USIA document.

The 3rd

agency documents have been coordinated with their

respective agency and it is likely that copies of these have

already been released by those agencies.

Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

Classified Attachments

This memorandum is unclassified when

attachments removed.

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CONFIDENTIAL

CL BY: 2143726

CL REASOR: Section 1.5 C

DECL ON: X1

DRV FRM: HUM 1-82

8 April 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

J. Barry Harrelson

FROM:

Brenda L. Oiney @ DA

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

OIM/IRG

IMPORTANT: Oswald security file questions/37 documents

Original Text of Ramona G. Dunn-C-

Original Text of Ramona G. Dunn-C-

CL BY: 2170463

CL REASON: Section 1.56

DECL ON: XI

DRV FRM: HUM 1-82

NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

Lee-

Lee S. Strickland

Ramona G. Dunn-C- @ DCI

EXDIR STAFF

04/08/98 01:11:33 PM

IMPORTANT: Oswald security file questions/37 documents

(1) is the material highlighted by yellow marker redacted information?

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(2) tab 1-MFR notes there are certain types of information which weren't reviewed by HSCA staff. to what does this refer? Is this

information included in the package of material we're releasing to the ARRB?.

3) tab 2-mfr - mention of polygraph report on Agustin Trueba Calvo. why is this included?. mir notes that the report was removed from

Oswald's file and returned to Polygraph branch. Is Trueba connected to Oswald in some way? Is the actual polygraph report being

released to the ARRB?

(4) tab 2-office of security sensitive docs listing. are the listed documents being released to the ARRB? had they been released

previously?

5) tab 3-FBI report mentions Jack Martin is a CIA agent. Is this bogus information? did we check? has the alleged Martin/CIA

connection been mentioned in previous JFK releases?

6) tab 3.. FBI report-Schlumberger Well Service and theft of munitions from Nouma LA bunker. were Gordon Dwane Novel and Arcacha

Smith employed by the CIA? Was Schlumberger involved with us? did we pay them off with munitions. (/ know these questions are

lubricious but I have to check)

thanks for your assistance.

R

CC:

Sent on 8 April 1998 at 01:11:33 PM

CC:

Sent on 8 April 1998 at 01:25:04 PM

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CIA SPECIA

JOLLECTIONS

RELEASEIN FULL

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OIM 98 - 0036/1

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Executive Director

FROM:

Lee S. Strickland

Chief, Information Review Group, OIM

SUBJECT:

Your Request for Copies of All Documents

in Oswald Security File not Previously

Recorded

1. There are 37 records in the Oswald Security File

that are not duplicative of material previously released in

the CIA'S JFK Assassination Collection.

Tab 1: 18 of the items are the Information Request Flags,

MR's and signature sheets found in the front of each

of the six folders (one example of each is attached).

Tab 2: Five notes/routing slips by CIA officers

Tab 3: Nine FBI documents

Tab 4: Four State documents

Tab 5:: One USIA document

2. Please note that the third agency documents have

been coordinated with their respective agency and it is

likely that copies of these have already been released by

those

agencies:

Lee

•S.

Strickland

Attachments

UNCLASSIFIED WHEN

SEPARATED FROM ATTACHMENTS

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IN PULL

23 April 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR: Robert Skwirot, ARRB Staff

FROM :

J. Barry Harrelson, DA/OIM/HRP

SUBJECT:

OSW Security Files

1. Forwarded herewith as identified by attached

inventory are 412 documents from the OSW Security Files. Of

the total number, 317 are RIFs and 95 are sanitized. Five

documents

were recently forwarded to ARRB for review. They,

are:

104-10300-10046 / 25Ma. ARRB Alease

104-10300-10045

• 25Ma.

104-10300-10053

104-10300-10157 /- 25Мал "

104-10300-10027

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17 Fek. Cosint Release-KiT.

The ARRB-approved set of classified documents,

highlighted copies, is also provided. Please return these

to CIA/DA/OIM/HRP upon completion of your review.

Six

J. Barry

Harrelson

Attachments:

(1)

Inventory list

(2)

(3)

Documents for passage to NARA

Classified Documents for return to CIA (u/s/d)

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SUBJECT: OSW Security Files

DA/OIM/HRP: JCassa (4/23/98)

Distribution:

Orig - Adse w/atts as

noted

1 - ARRB Subject File w/inventory list only

1 - C/HRP w/o atts

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16 March

1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM:

SUBJECT:

GRAFTON TAYMAN

Lee Harvey Oswald

#351 164 - Volume 11

1. On 16 March 1978, during the review of the

above captioned file by the undersigned for persual by

the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Interrogation

Research Division report of a polygraph on Agustin TRUEBA

Calvo (IRD #40382) was discovered.

2. This polygraph report, reflecting a FOlA H537-801,

was removed from Subject's file and

returned

to the

Polygraph Branch on the same date.

GRAFTONITAYMAN

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