MEMO: REQUESTED 'MISSION STATEMENT' RE HRP/ARRB
Originator: CIA
From: HARRELSON, J. BARRY
To: AC/CLEARANCE DIV, OPS
Document date: 02/18/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

18 February 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Linda J. Stevens

Acting Chief

Clearance Division, OPS

J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Reviewer

Requested "Mission Statement" re

HRP / ARRB

1.

This is in response to your request asking that HRP

provide you with a "mission statement" concerning HRP and

its relationship to the Assassination Records Review Board.

It flows from the fact that the ARRB staff has declared the

OPS files of Nagell, Novel and Ruby to "assassination

records" and our subsequent request that the files or copies

thereof be forwarded to HRP.

Also, certain portions of the

files of Walter

Sheridan and Harold Weisberg have or will be

declared assassination records.

2.

The Historical Review Project (formerly the

Historical Review Group, CSI, DCI) has among its several

with the presidentially

appointed Assassination Records Review Board and its legal

mandate to find and transfer to the National Archives all

U.S. Government records relating to the Assassination of

President Kennedy.

broad and includes: the authority to designate

files/documents "assassination records," to determine if a

particular record or certain information within it must be

released to the Archives or postponed until 2007, and, the

power to issue subpoenas in the pursuit of its assigned

activities.

3.

In the instant case, the Board staff has designated

the Nagell, Novel and Ruby security files assassination

records.

Copies of them must now be processed by HRP

according to its current guidelines for release/protection

of information and the files released to the Archives.

respect to the files on Sheridan and Weisberg, further

review by the Board is necessary to designate which, if any,

portions of them are assassination records.

4. I hope that the above fulfills your requirement in

this matter and I look forward to receipt of the files.

J. Barry Harrelso

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