Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: OPCA
To: CID
Document date: 6/12/97
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

3/3.1/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10378-10130

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62C-HQ-1029205-3458

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: OPCA

TO: CID

TITLE :

DATE: 06/12/1997

'PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 3; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/06/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

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(12/31/1995)

SECRET

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

275

Precedence:

ROUTINE

Date:

06/12/1997

• To:

Criminal Investigative

National Security

Office General Counsel

Attn: Mr. Burt, Rm. 4944

Ms. Baehre, Rm. 4944

Mr. Marsh,

Rm.

4427

Attn:

Mr. P. Kelley, Rm. 7338

Mr. Campbell,

Rm. 7338

Ms. Buckleitner,

Rm. 7975

From: Office of Public and Congressional Affairs

JFK Task Force, Rm. 6362

Contact: Barbara L. Hatch, Ext. 9482

Approved By: Keeley Carol f

Drafted By: Hatch Barbara L:blh

Case ID #: (U) 62-HQ-1029205 (Pending)

Title: (U) JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS

COLLECTION

ACT (JFKARCA)

OTHERWISE

EXCOY I WINDRE SHOWN

HERBIN IS UACLASSIFIED

ATE INPORMATION CONTAINED

Synopsis:

(U) On 5/12/1997, the Assassination Records Review

Board

(ARRB) formally advised by letter to the FBI their

determinations on FBI documents.

This communication advises

offices of the information the ARRB protected or released.

(U)

Classifieds

- Declassit

10/01/2017

Details: (U)

On 5/12/1997, the ARRB. formally advised the FBI Of

the determinations voted by them on FBI documents at a meetings

held 4/24/1997. The ARRB listed 108 documents for which they

made determinations. The FBI does not have any appeal issues

with the release of the material.

However, the release of the

• information in these documents will reveal the identities of 31

individuals whom the documents described as Potential Criminal

Informants (PCI), Potential Security Informants (PSI), Sources of

Information (SOI), Confidential Sources (CS)

and Panel Sources

The ARRB decisions will also release what was previously

classified foreign counterintelligence information

The documents concerted the dect Ron 9205-345,

April 24 meeting are listed below by document number, with

descriptions of the information to be released and protected.

DOCUMENTS NOT ATTACHED -OK

SECRET

GIA HAS NG OBUSCTION TO

Ded ASSIRCATON ANCIOR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORIMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. K 3/10/92

DASISAAAFIZED Page 2

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 So/gel

REASON: 1.5 (C,d

DEGLASSIFY ON: X OL6L

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative From: Office of Public and

Congressional Affairs

Re :

(U)

62-HQ-1029205, 06/12/1997

The status of informants and sources, if found through research,

is noted after the name as Living (L), Deceased (D), Date of

Birth (mm/dd/yY), or No Record (NR) .

(U) The FBI provided written justifications presenting

the evidence available to protect the individuals, singular

information,

and classified information related to sources and

toreign relations as listed above. However, the ARRB supports

the position that the information

ordered disclosed is relevant

and significant to the assassination.

They opine the pertinence

and importance to the assassination outweigh any current harm to

the individuals or the FBI's/United States Government's foreign

relations, informants or operational aspects.

(U) The JEKTE will continue to advise CID, NSD and OGC

of the ARRB decisions.

However, due to the narrowed scope of

appeal issues, NSD and CID recommendations will only be sought

for significant matters, none of which are documented in this

memorandum. If you have questions, please contact Barbara I.

Hatch at extension 9482, Carol L. Keeley at extension 9494, or

Carl Valentine at extension 9476.

(U)

1 - 18.

(4129) H062-109060-4366, 124-10058-

10053; (4/31) HQ 62-109060-4447, 124-10058-10057; (4/33) HQ 62-

109060-4453, 124-10058-10055; (4/35) H0 62-109060-4504, 124-

10058-10088; (440) 4262-109060-4539, 124-10058-10083; (4/41) HQ

62-109060-4542, 124-10058-10082; HQ 62-109060-4607, 124-10058-

10075; HQ 62-109060-4689, 124-10027-10211; HQ 62-109060-4793,

124-10026-10296; HQ 62-109060-4828, 124-10042-10192; HQ 62-

109060-4885, 124-10048-10477; HQ 62-109060-4959, 124-10053-10356;

HQ 62-109060-5167, 124-10031-10252; NO 89-69-1414, 124-10256-

10162; NO 89-69-1529, 124-10241-10153; NO 89-69-1533, 124-10241-

10157; NO 89-69-1567, 124-10253-10074; and NO 89-69-1604, 124-

10167-10145 all release the source symbol number NO 1309-C (L) in

its entirety, allowing for the absolute identification of this

informant who is still living and working in Louisiana.

Of these

documents, one (HQ 62-109060-4959) also identifies the source by

his name, Joseph Oster, which was previously released; two others

(HQ 62-109060-4689 and

NO 89-69-1533) additionally release

singular, identifying information about the source; and a forth

(NO 89-69-1567) also contains

and releases his New Orleans file

number, 137-2409. In yet another of the documents, HQ 62-109060-

4366 (4/29), the ARRB again releases the name of another

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative From: Office of Public and

Congressional Affairs

Re:

(U) 62-HQ-1029205, 06/12/1997

source, PCI Pershing Gervais (D), and protects the numeric

portion of a different symbol source, NO 1203-C, until 04/2007.

Couche elean one antonat on

Mr. Oster was contacted by New Orleans Chief Division

Kennedy assassination, along with his identity as the source of

the information.

(U) 19. (16/72) SF 89-58-328, 124-10272-10396 releases

the name and address of source Rolf Tjeder (1922), along with his

San Francisco file number, 134-2706A.

20. (16/74) SE 89-47-192, 124-10272-10442 releases

the source symbol

number SE 785-s (D); singular information which

tends to further identify him; his Seattle file number, 134-943A-

81; and Seattle file numbers 134-13B and 134-854B.

(U)

21. (16/77) SF 89-58-20, 124-10261-10152 releases

the names of PCI's Lyle Vale Winters (NR), John A. Negri (NR),

and Clint Dickson, Jr. (NR) .

(U)

22. (16/78) H062-2115-38, 124-10264-10250

releases the name

of informant Theodore Freedman (D), and

established sources Warren R. Richey (NR) and Mrs. Edmund B.

Gutowski (L).

(U) 23. (16/79) SU 62-1965-15, 124-10264-10342

releases the name

of CS Tom Park

(NR) and, in accordance with a

previous ARRB decision, again releases the name of CS Charles

Campbell (D).

(U)

24. (16/80) SU 62-1965-24, 124-10264-10351

releases

the PCI names and Butte file numbers Eugene Louis Kaiser

(NR), 137-957; Herman Young (1/12/10), 137-921; and CI name and

file number Wilma Grimm (1924), 137-910, as well as her informant

symbol number BI 288-C.

(U)

25. (16/81) SU 62-1965-31, 124-10264-10358

releases the names of PCI's Lloyd Grothe (NR), Reuben Rosen (NR),

Albert Newell (NR), Ernest Callahan (NR), and William G. Race

(NR), along with Races's Salt Lake City file number, 137-977.

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative From: Office of Public and

Congressional Affairs

Re :

(U) 62-4Q-1029205, 06/12/1997

(U) 26. (16/82) SU 62-1965-33, 124-10264-10360 again

releases the name of PCI Herman Young, mentioned above, as well

as PCI's Norman Magrusen

(NR) and Louis Kaiser (NR).

(U) 27. (16/83) SU 62-1965-60, 124-10264-10382

releases the names of PCI's Mimi Boggs (1895), Arnold Clawson

(NR) , and Bud Purdy (NR) .

The ARRB decision protects the

identity of PCI Eldon Piper (L) until 04/2007.

28. (21/85) HQ 105-79841, 124-10274-10332

declassifies and releases the file number of this document which

reveals our investigative interest in the subject, Dr. Osvaldo

Dorticos Torrado, President of Cuba.

(U) 29 - 3O. (27/39) 4997-4428-128, 124-10274-10320;

(30/22) NO 97-74-27, 124-10191-10096 releases the names of PSI's

Harley L. Kelley (1937) and Dorothy Irene Capasso (D), along with

Kelley's Seattle file number, 134-779A.

The ARRB sustained the

postponement of the numeric portion of source symbol numbers sE

772-S, SE 691-S and SE 685-S, the case portions of their Seattle

file numbers, 134-923A, 134-547A and 134-513A, and the names of

former PSI'S William Davis (L) and Leroy McRae (L) until 04/2007.

(U)

31 - 34. (30/5) NO 97-74-13, 124-10181-10353;

(30/15) NO 97-74-84, 124-10184-10310; (30/16) NO 97-74-85, 124-

10184-10311; (30/23) NO 97-74-37, 124-10191-10105 releases the

names and identifying information of Cuban Sources Frederick Von

Osthoff (NR), David Rangel (NR), Orestes Pena (NR) and Sergio

Arcacha Smith (NR), as well as Sources William Mack Duffy (NR) ,

Felix Valdez (NR) and Calixto Garcia (NR).

The ARRB sustained

the postponement of the name and identifying information of Cuban

Source Eduardo A.J. Guevara (L) until 04/2007.

(S) 35. (20/51) 89A-DL-60165-68X1, 124-10179-10358

declassifies

and releases information indicating subject, former

KGB officer Oleg

Maksimovich Nechiporenko, was unwilling to

discuss with the FBI matters that might compromise KGB operations

or otherwise violate Russian laws.

The ARRB decision also

declassifies and releases some administrative designators such as

case characters, and squad assignments.

10/2017 the classification and postponement of one employee's

and ation

The ARRB sustained until

pos1t1on title ana squad assianment

computer

system, and that he should only be granted a single

entry visa in response to future requests.

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SECRET

To: Criminal Investigative From: Office of Public and

Congressional Affairs

Re :

(U) 62-10-1029205, 06/12/1997

declassifies and releases the identity of Fedor Alekseevich

в 20 02 80 4120.10.38325

Garanin, a Soviet diplomat and member of the Soviet State

Security Service, as an individual who had been contacted by "one

Yuri (George) De Mohrenschild" in Washington, D.C. in 1946. The

ARRB sustained until 04/2007, the classification and postponement

of the name and file number of a double agent asset which appears

in handwritten notations on page one of the document. (V)

(s)

38. (21/1031 4062-109060-3942, 124-10163-10134 is

a CIA document which contains a request for information from

Bureau files concerning the subject Adolph Jay Albrecht.

portion of one sentence, reading "

passing to an official Swedish source

releared, where possible leor

redacted in our initial processing.

The ARRB decision

declassifies and releases the words "cleared, where possible,"

but sustains the classification and postponement of the remaining

portion of the sentence segment until 10/2017, along with a

mention on page one that subject was interviewed by a CIA

representative. 6)

CC: 1 - Mr.

Esposito, Rm. 7142

1

- Mr. Bucknam, Rm. 7176

1

- Mr. Shapiro, Rm. 7427

1

Mr.

Bryant, Rm. 7116

1

Mr. Lewis, Rm. 7110

1

- Mr. Collingwood, Rm.

1 - Ms. Keeley, Rm. 6362

1

Ms. Hatch,

Rm. 6362

Mr.

Valentine, Rm.

6362

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