MEMO: RELEASE OF JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS- -PERCEPTION PROBLEM
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS
To: JOHN F. PEREIRA
Document date: 6/1/93
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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RECORD NUMBER: 104-10331-10057

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Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53217 Date:

06-22-2017

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM

: JOHN F. PEREIRA

TO : DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS

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MEMO: RELEASE OF JEK ASSASSINATION RECORDS-

-PERCEPTION PROBLEM

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1 June 1993

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations

VIA:

Director

Center for Study of Intelligence

FROM:

John F. Pereira

Chief,

Historical Review Group

SUBJECT:

Release of JFK Assassination

Records--Perception Problem

DD/093-1419

1.

This is to advise you of a potential credibility

problem facing the Agency with regard to release of the

President Kennedy assassination records.

Paragraph 5

contains a request that you make a determination as soon as

possible to solve this problem.

2.

As we near the completion of the first review of

the hard copy documents related to the Kennedy assassi-

nation, it has become apparent that a potentially serious

credibility problem looms.

This concerns the negative

press, congressional, and public reaction that may well be

caused by the extensive deletions in the documents that CIA

will release to the National Archives and the public.

3.

The problem arises from the fact that we are still

trying to resolve differences with the Directorate of

Operations reviewers as to what information can be released

categories wherever they appear may well give the impression

that CIA is not forthcoming and is withholding a lot of

relevant information.

Examples of the categories are:

- cable, dispatch, intelligence report

and file numbers

- cryptonymns no longer in use

- methods that are well known, e.g.,

telephone taps, surveillance

(fact of)

- pseudonyms of former employees

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- source descriptions used on disseminated

reports

- old organization designators, phone and room

numbers

(Attached are examples of documents that appear to have

been excessively sanitized because of deletions of this

We have been negotiating these points with the Do

reviewers one by one for several months.

Given the deadline

of 22 August 1993 for release of the JFK records, there is

not enough time left to continue trying to resolve all the

specific differences.

determination

Thus, we appeal to you to make a blanket

' as soon as possible as to which of the above

categories of information may be released.

The Executive

Director is aware of this problem and has

asked us what

should be done to solve it.

John Sharia

John

F. Pereira

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