MEMO: NEW SEARCH OF CI FILES FOR JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS
Originator: CIA
From: STRICKLAND. C/IRG, OIM
To: C/CI CTR; C/LA DIV; C/CE DIV
Document date: 07/30/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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OIM 98-0081

30 July 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Chief, Counterintelligence Center,

Chief, Latin America Division, DO

Chief, CE Division, DO

Lee Strickland

Chief, Information Review Group

Office of Information Management

(U) New Search of CI Files for JFK.. "

Assassination Records

(AIUO) Bulletin OIM EB No. 02-98.

dated 22 July 1998

1. (U) The JFK Board has made a number of recent

specifie directed requests to assure that the Agency has

complied fully with the requirements of the JFK Act. Among

these was a request for issuance of the Reference Employee

Bulletin, in which the DoI directed that employees leave «no

stone unturned" in assuring that relevant documents are

provided to the Commission.

2. (U)

. In part because relevant new documents have

aurfaced within the past few months, the Board has also

reguested specific focus on renewed searches of the Agency's

"counterintelligence files." The new documents have

surfaced due to a variety of reasons, including references

to assassination related personalitias in recent defector

reports, records made available 'because of the break up of

the Soviet Union, and advances in search capabilities que to

digitization of

older paper files.

CL BY:

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(C) In discussions with the Board staff we have

attempted to focus any new. tasking on those areas in which

they have expressed their greatest concern.

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Imperative, however, that we satisfy the Board on these

Issues or the Agency will be subject to a determination by

the Board that we are not in compliance with the JFK Act.

Because of the impending atatutory termination of the Board

and their need to issue their report, there is some urgency

associated with the conduct and completion of these

searches.

The searches must be completed by 6 August, 1998.

4. :(5) Databases to be searched. The addressees to

this memorandum are requested to perform new searches- using

the search terms in paragraph 5--on ANY of your files which

may contain information relating in any way to the JFK

assassination, including, in particular, all records systems

or files containing information on:

• James J. Angleton and his files

• Debriefings of defectors in which ANY reference to Oswald

or the JFK assassination occurs (Example, IJDECANTER)

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Search Terms and Time Periods.

These new

searches should focus on documents that might be retrievable

with the following search terms over the referenced periods:

• The period 1959-1965 using the search terms Executive

Action, Exaction, Ex Action.

• Post-1978 information combining the term "assassination"

with President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy.. JFK,

presidential threats, threats to U.S. President, attempt

(or attempted), or the crypt GPIDEAL.

• Post-1978 information related to the following terms:

Warren Commission, House Select Committee on

Assassinations, HSCA, Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina

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6. (S) Information is also sought on:

• The identity and current location of personnel (either

the current assignment of employees or any knowledge of

curient location of retirees who participated in

debriefings or the preparation of reports on debriefings

of IUDECANTER.

• The destruction of James J. Angleton's files.

Such information should be brought immediately to the

attention of the Historical Review Program, OIM (BarIX .

Harrelson, 31825, Secure).

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