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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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• SECRET

26 September 1996

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

John F. Pereira

Central Intelligence Agency

Reconsideration of Release of

"Warrenton" in the Lopez Report

SUBJECT:

david,

1.

The attached memorandum is provided in support of

our request that the JFK board reconsider its decision to

release the reference to Warrenton Records Center in the

Lopez Report (p. 44).

2. We request that this memorandum and attachment

be returned to CIA once the Board has completed its

deliberations on this issue.

Attachment

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25

September 1996

MEMORANDUM FOR:

VIA:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Information Review Officer,

Directorate of Administration

Deputy Director for Administration

Director of Facilities and Security Services

Chief, Facilities Management Group, OFSS

Chief, Warrenton Training Center, FMG/OFSS

(S) Warrenton Training Center Cover

Considerations

1.

(S)

This memorandum is written pursuant to yesterday's

discussion with regard to the

release of JFK-related documents

that refer to "Warrenton" and/or derivatives of a Records Center.

It documents executive-level "evidence" as to why "Warrenton"

cover needs to be protected. In brief, significant damage to

mission, people, and the very existence of the Warrenton Training

Center (WTC) would occur as a result of the second- and third-

order effects of any confirmed affiliation with the Agency.

2. (S) As background, the Central Intelligence Agency has

gone to great lengths to protect sensitive missions and prevent

identification of covert personnel as Agency employees.

The

latter is especially profound as the very lives of these

employees are often placed in jeopardy at hostile overseas posts.

The anonymity provided by cover is essential to their protection.

Furthermore, the Warrenton Training Center (WTC) provides the

sanctuary whereby Department of State and Diplomatic

Telecommunications Service Project Office (DTSPO) personnel can

train alongside Agency employees without fear of being "tagged"

as working for the Agency.

3.

(S) The cover

mechanism itself is very fragile. Per

mandate of the cover providers, the National Communications

System (NCS), and the Department of the Army, the affiliation of

WTC and the Agency, is classified SECRET vice CONFIDENTIAL. WTC

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SUBJECT: (S) Warrenton Training Center Cover Considerations

cover operates solely on the ability to sustain plausible denial.

In spite of previous rumors of an Agency affiliation, categorical

denial of such has worked to the point that the media

refers to WIC as a "Top Secret military installation. "currently

addition, the public-at-large truly believes that WIC is a

military installation. Given a generally inquisitive media

(one radio station, two newspapers -- all with connections to

affiliates in the Washington Metropolitan Area) and recent

publicity over a WTC ground water

contamination issue, the re-

lease of references to "Warrenton" in the JFK-related documents

would precipitate an unwelcome focus on WTC.. This would lead to

the

real possibility that cover would be compromised.

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(S) With the closure of Vint Hill, WTC is the sole

remaining

federal facility in the Warrenton area. As a result,

the affiliation of Agency records or "Records Center," under any

ruse, will provide a direct link to the Warrenton Training

Center.

This will pose severe problems for installation

activities. While the Agency Archives and Records Center is

located at Station "A," the media frequently refers to WTC in its

entirety.

Activities at the other three WTC Stations that would

be compromised are as follows:

a.

Station B serves as the principal training site for

the Office of Communications, DTSPO, and the Department of

State.

However, it also is the site of sensitive activities

engaged in by personnel from the Directorate of Operations,

the Office of Engineering and Development, the Directorate

of Intelligence,

and the Office of Technical Collections.

It is also a training site for covert employees from all

Directorates, to include foreign language immersion for

officers assigned overseas.

In addition, secret Community-

wide conferences are held at this low-profile location.

Within the past year, conferences have ranged from the

Agency's NOC Conference to the Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence to the strategic planning meeting by Community

Executives, Ambassadors, and members of the White House

Cabinet in

preparation

for the Bosnian Peace Talks.

b.

Station C serves as the Agency's primary

transmission site for world-wide communications.

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c .

Station D serves as the Agency's primary receiving

site for world-wide communications.

It also handles a

significant quantity of message traffic for the White House

and member organizations of the Intelligence Community on a

24-hour basis.

This message traffic is vital to national

security preparedness.

WIC's cover allows it to maintain a very low profile. It is that

low profile which protects the personnel and missions as

described above.

Removal of that protective cover, by act or

deed,

would provide easy targets of opportunity for counter-

intelligence activities, terrorist activities, demonstrations,

and emotionally unstable individuals.

5.

(S) In summary, any affiliation of WTC and the Agency,

no matter how insignificant the individual occurrence or document

release may seem, has the very real potential to jeopardize

lives, disrupt the Agency mission,

disrupt world-wide classified

message traffic, and, thereby, do irreparable harm to the

national security of the United States.

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TO:

John F. Pereira

FROM:

Brian S. Latell

Rebecca V. Strode

OFFICE:

DATE:

DCI

10/20/97 02:21:49 PM

SUBJECT: Re: Release Issue/JFK Board

Thanks. I passed along to D/EXDIR and EXDIR. The D/EXDIR may want Brian Latell to provide some more background on this issue at

the meeting tomorrow.

Original Text of John F. Pereira

Original Text of John F. Pereira

Following is in response to questions raised by the EXDIR:

1. Members of JFK Board:

Chairman: Judge John Tunheim (Federal District Court, Minnesota)

Four other members: Henry Graft; History Professor Emeritus, Columbia U.

Kermit Hall; Dean of Humanities, Ohio State

William Joyce; Assoc. Librarian, Princeton U.

Anna Nelson; History Professor, American U.

2. Intermediate steps before appeal to President:

a) We are discussing our concerns with JFK Board Staff, and will ask the Board to

reconsider its decision.

b) We'll propose that a senior Agency officer brief the Board on the sensitivity of

Warrenton.

3. Who would make the appeal to the President?

Thus far, the process calls for the Agency's General Counsel to forward the appeal

to the White House Counsel, with the approval of the EXDIR and/or DCI.

• 4. Has there been an appeal to the President before?

CIA has submitted one appeal, in early 1996. The issues concerned identification of

certain European stations and liaison relationships. The White House directed the

Board and the Agency to "work it out", which was done. After the ADDO briefed the

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Board, a compromise was reached.

The FBI has submitted three appeals, none of which was successful.

5. Does /SCAP have a role ?

Thus far, ISCAP has had no role with regard to JFK, as far as we are aware.

CC:

Regina A. Genton, Brian S. Latell, Edmund Cohen @ DA, James R. Oliver @ DA, Linda C. Cipriani, J. Barry Harrelson

Sent on 20 October 1997 at 02:21:49 PM

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14 November 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR: (U)

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board

(U) Deputy Director for Administration

Central Intelligence Agency

(S) Required Protection of Warrenton Training

Center (WTC) as CIA Facility

1. (S) This memorandum is submitted pursuant to the

decision by the Assassination Records Review Board (hereafter

"ARRB" or "Board") to release the term "Warrenton Records Center"

in the context of a CIA facility and the Board's subsequent

decision on 17 November 1997 to reconsider this issue.

It

provides additional information as to why Warrenton Training

Center ("WTC'") as a CIA facility must be protected from public

disclosure and hence the cover of this clandestine facility

maintained.]

2. (U) As a preliminary matter, I would respectfully ask

the Board and staff to note the classified nature of this

document, to limit access to those individuals properly cleared,

(S) The documents at issue contain the term "Warrenton Records Center'" :

however the actual name of the CIA facility at Warrenton is the "Warrenton

Training Center." In point of fact, even CIA personnel tend to use the terms

interchangeably.

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SUBJECT:

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Required Protection of Warrenton Training Center

as CIA Facility

and to return this memorandum for retention to Agency

representatives at the conclusion of your deliberations...

3.

(S) As we advised previously, identifiable and serious

damage to the mission, the people and the very existence of WTC

could reasonably be expected to occur as a result of any

confirmed affiliation with the Agency. Before examining with

particularity the damage that would flow from disclosure, I

believe that it would be helpful to understand in some detail the

activities which currently constitute the WTC mission and what

new, costly and critical activities are being developed for WTC.

4. (S) WTC is much more than a records archive for the CIA

operating under the relatively fragile cover of the National

Communications System (NCS) of the Department of the Army.?

melative by

While it does serve this function, and thus houses at the site

known as Station A some of the Agency's most important and

sensitive Top Secret Codeword material,' it is currently the very.

heart of the CIA's worldwide communications effort, a critical

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(S) Pursuant to classification guidelines promulgated by the Director of

Central Intelligence, this fact is currently and properly classified at the

SECRET level.

(S) Because of the sensitivity of CIA records, the Archivist of the United

States has authorized the CIA to maintain this archive for both permanent and

temporary records pending ultimate transfer to the National Archives no sooner

than 50 years after their origination. This records center currently houses

nearly 130,000 cubic feet of records classified up to and including Top Secret

codeword and composed of various media ranging from paper to original imagery.

from our national aerial and satellite surveillance platforms. In addition,

the center also houses the CIA's vital records which would provide the only

basis for continuity of operations should disaster befall CIA headquarters:

In addition and because of the security offered, the Center serves a similar

role for the National Security Council and the Office of the Management and

Budget.

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SUBJECT: (S) Required Protection of Warrenton Training Center

as CIA Facility

element in our foreign signals intelligence effort, and a

principal location for training and conferencing of officers

engaged in highly clandestine technical intelligence collection

activities.

The facilities

at WTC in support of these efforts

include:

• Station B serves as the principal communications training

site not only for CIA (and thus for CIA communicators who

are sent worldwide under official or non-official cover)

but also houses the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service

(DTS) Program Office which is responsible for various

CIA/Department of State communications efforts and the

actual Department of State Communications School. This

site also supports extensive and very sensitive (a)

technical procurement, testing and training, (b) human

operational activities, and (c) conferencing; examples in

this regard include:

• covert employees of the Office of Technical

Collection

which procures, distributes, tests

and

repairs equipment for our signals intelligence

program as well as other technical collection

platforms such as the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

which has played and continues to play a critical

role in the Bosnian theater;

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(S) The Office of Technical Collection is a component within the

Directorate of Science and Technology which is responsible for the

development, deployment and management of the CIA's Signals Intelligence

(SIGINT) and Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) programs as well

as other technical intelligence collection programs. By way of example, our

SIGINT program includes unilateral activities directed against foreign

communications networks, liaison activities with cooperating foreign

governments, and support activities for the Do's

human intelligence mission.

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covert employees of the Office of External

Developments

and the various area divisions of the

Directorate of Operations

(hereafter "DO") which

operations overseas elandestine human intelligence

senior officials of the Administration,

Ambassadors, and senior executive branch offices

in preparation for diplomatic initiatives, such as

the Bosnian Peace Talks; and

members and staff from the Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence.

Station C serves as the CIA's primary transmit site for

high frequency (HF) covert communications (covcom) and

thus maintains communications with our most sensitive and

secret officers and assets operating overseas largely

with non-official cover; and

• Station D serves as the Agency's primary receive site for

world-wide classified and encrypted communications with

5

(S) The Office of External Development (OED) is one of the most sensitive

components within the Directorate of Operations and is responsible for the

recruitment and placement of "non-official cover" (NOC) officers overseas who

are responsible for the recruitment and management of foreign nationals who

provide clandestine services for CIA.

6. (S) The various DO area divisions utilize WTC for immersion language

training, covert communications training, and other seminars and studies where

such training could not be accomplished through the Department of State or

identified CIA facilities because of their pending overseas assignments.

Hence, if WTC was associated with CIA, then the presence

of a student at WIC

serve to identify

that officer as a soon-to-be-assigned espionage

officer for American intelligence - an identification inconsistent with their

pending diplomatic or commercial cover and the success of their mission.

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our covert foreign stations and bases, and, also

processes a significant volume of highly sensitive

message traffic for the White House and the Secretary of

State.

5.

(S) As detailed on the attached annotated photographs,

WTC and its four constituent stations are a critical support

element for the clandestine intelligence collection mission of

the CIA and the United States.

Whether sending a message to a

covert foreign national asset in Havana, or receiving a message

from the CIA Chief of Station in Moscow, or supporting military

and diplomatic representatives in Bosnia, WTC is a key element in

that effort. Moreover, it is extremely vulnerable to physical

attack because of the proximity of uncontrolled public roads and

spaces.

Accordingly, and as considered in more detail in

paragraph 6 below, any affiliation of WTC with the CIA, no matter.

how insignificant the individual occurrence or document release

may seem, has the very real potential to jeopardize lives,

negatively affect the Agency mission, and thereby do irreparable

harm to the national security of the United States.

6.

(S) But in addition to this established mission and

extant risks, there are new activities at WTC in direct support

of the nation's leadership which must be considered --

specifically, the establishment of the Director of Central

Intelligence (DCI) Emergency Relocation Site (ERS) , and an

alternative ERS site for the Secretary of State.

WTC has been

chosen to be the primary DCI ERS given its location,

communications, information services, and life support

capabilities.

Needless to say, the fact that WTC is not an

officially recognized CIA facility adds a dimension of secrecy

which will be needed to enable the DCI to continue his work

during any emergency situation. Additionally, active

consideration is being given to also designating WIC 'as the

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as CIA Facility

Agency's primary Emergency Communications Center. Given the

amount of time, money and resources which will be expended to

insure that the facility is maintained in such a way that it will

be prepared for any emergency situation, it would certainly be in

the best interests of the US Government not to permit any

official affiliation, no matter how minor, of WTC and the CIA.

7.

(S) The preceding descriptions of ongoing and planned

activities at WTC presents, I believe, an intuitive sense of the

damage to national security which would follow from a linking of

WTC with CIA.

In sum, the conduct of covert communications and

support activities as well as the presence of officers who will

soon be serving overseas under cover in highly sensitive

positions can not take place at a facility linked to CIA. But

there are some very specific damage issues that I wish to

highlight and they include:

• (S) Serious and Immediate Impairment to Physical and

Personnel Security: Our Department of the Army cover -

allows us to maintain a relatively low profile in the

Warrenton community and a very low profile outside of the

immediate area. If WTC became recognized as a CIA

facility, the increased visibility and scrutiny would

place employees, facilities, and daily aperations at

greater risk.

In sum, WTC would become an easy "target

of opportunity" for the media, foreign counter-

intelligence agents, terrorist and militia activities,

demonstrators, and emotionally unstable individuals.

Facts, examples, and specific concerns include:

• WTC, like most domestic CIA sites, is a very

lightly guarded facility in terms of personnel

guards and physical fencing. It survives and

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maintains

security through a low profile.'

In the

past in the United States, identification of CIA

facilities have led to a number of surreptitious

entries, bombings, and physical disruptions.

Simply stated, CIA is a target for both hostile

individuals and organizations;

• On the individual level and in the past three

years, WTC has experienced an increase in security

incidents including a physical breach of Station D

compound security, two suspect package incidents,

and additional unsolicited contacts and "gate

turn-around" incidents;'

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(S) As detailed on the attached annotated photographs, the array of

communications equipment and its proximity to public spaces and roads is

clear.

For example, Station C has two gates: the first is only 50 feet from

a public road and the second is approximately 600 feet.

There are no

electronic intrusion alarms on the fence line and, most often, only one

security officer is present at a gate. All facility signs simply state:

"Warrenton Training Center / NCS / U.S: Army / Admission By Permit Only"

• (S) The current Kasi prosécution provides ample evidence of the risks

posed by the public identification of CIA domestic facilities. Any individual

intent upon seeking retribution for perceived wrongs quite naturally seeks a

target providing the largest possible public notice and while CIA headquarters

is an excellent target, a covert facility is even a better target, and a

covert facility supporting the foreign espionage activities of the CIA is the

best possible target for a political and public statement.

9. (S) The breach of compound security was by an out-of-state vehicle which

followed an employee through a remote gate and the driver had no credible....

explanation for their actions; the incident is considered suspicious and

unexplained. The suspect package incidents include a box which was placed

(not dropped) next to our facility which we believe was intended to test and

thus observe our response to suspicious packages.

Gate turn-arounds number 8-

10 per month and include only those vehicles which ignore clear signs that

they are entering a classified government facility but proceed in any event to

our gate; it is instructive to note that, very few of these individuals state

7.

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Moreover, in the past several years, the federal

government has had a heightened awareness of the

violent domestic organization threat posed by the

self-styled "militias" which have a stated intent

to destroy government communications capabilities

and facilities. We know, from information

provided by federal law enforcement authorities,

that the target list of such organizations

includes federal communications centers and WTC

Stations C and D exactly fit this target profile;

• By way of examples in this regard, in June of this

year, the Sheriff of Fauquier County reported to

WIC information regarding, first, a local militia

group, and, second, "unusual" comments from

individuals living near Station C that we were

communicating with UFO's;

• Any higher profile would realistically and

seriously threaten the physical and personnel

security of WTC. And, as evidenced by the

attached map of WTC, such threats do not need to

penetrate the fence line: Agency officials are of

the opinion that a bomb commensurate with the one

which exploded at the Oklahoma City federal

building could do substantial damage to the

Agency's communications eguipment and could kill

numerous federal employees at WIC from outside the

fence line in circumstances we do not control and

could not prevent.

or imply that they know that WTC is a CIA facility and, hence, it would appear

that our cover, in fact, is quite good.

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(S) Likely Future Compromise of Covert Employees in .

Overseas Assignments: As discussed above, numerous CIA

employees involved in communications, technical

intelligence collection, and human intelligence

collection train and operate at WTC for the exact reason

that it provides a secure environment disassociated from

the CIA.

We know from ample evidence that foreign

intelligence services have as a primary goal the

identification of US citizens who appear to be ordinary

public servants or private business people but are, in

actuality, clandestine intelligence officers.

Simply

stated, the identification of this facility with CIA will

label any and every individual associated as a likely

intelligence officer and thus substantially negate their

operational ability if not place their lives in jeopardy.

• (S) Loss of Emergency Relocation Site for DCI:

Emergency relocation sites (ERSs) - whether they be for

the President or Cabinet officials -- have value only as

long as their identity is secret. The public disclosure

of the fact that WTC would serve as such an ERS site --

which could come from a general compromise of WTC as a

CIA facility plus subsequent visual surveillance -- would

negate Agency planning in this regard, vitiate

expenditures, and leave the Agency with few realistic

options for survivability. We must assume that any

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(S)

We know from captured STASI (the former intelligence service of East

Germany) and clandestinely-acquired KGB files that substantial resources have

been directed at such identifications. Typically, a suspect American will be.

surveilled for some time in order to identify his or her target and

cooperating foreign nationals. To identify a communicator is one of the

highest priorities since it provides a possible entrée to cryptographic

compromise as well as an opportunity to "roll-up" or identify the numerous

human intelligence. collection officers who rely on that particular

communicator to transmit information back to the United States.

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entity which had the willingness and capability to attack

the CIA would be inclined to inflict the maximum damage.

Identification of WTC even as a generic CIA facility

poses an unacceptable risk to this key aspect to CIA

continuity of operations.

• (S) Potential Compromise of Classified Communications or

Technical Collection Platforms: In addition to the

foregoing physical threat to our communications

facilities (e.g., the potential to destroy towers,

satellite dishes and transmitting facilities by terrorist

act), the disclosure of WTC as the transmit and receive

site for CIA classified communications to foreign embassy

sites as well as foreign assets in the field presents a

significant opportunity for any number of foreign nations

to enhance their signals and communications intelligence

efforts at our expense. While the scope and

classification level of this memorandum does not permit a

detailed discussion, I am convinced that this disclosure

would make WTC a target of hostile foreign intelligence

services.

• (S) Loss of Covert, Quick Reaction Procurement

Capability: In support of OTC and other tenant elements,

WTC uses its Army cover to procure items on a non-

attributable basis to CIA. These items are acquired in

near real time with minimal delay and direct delivery.

The official term for such procurements is "SC-1" or "Sterility Code

1" which means that the tangible items purchased cannot be traced to

CIA but

only to a non-sensitive government agency.

For example, if an officer is

assigned undercover to a foreign capital and is undeclared to that country,

then it would be most imprudent to carry a personal computer and a cellular

telephone which could easily be traced to CIA:. At a minimum, that officer

would be subject to foreign counter-intelligence surveillance and all of his

or her contacts compromised (i.e., identified and neutralized) .

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If the WTC cover is eroded due to affiliation with the

Agency, past procurements could be retroactively

compromised while subsequent procurement activity would

necessitate involving headquarters elements, indirect

delivery and forwarding to WTC. The loss of response

time would negatively impact on the operational

capabilities of WTC tenant organizations.

• (s)

Loss of Secure Training and Conference. Capability:

Station B is often used as a conference. facility not only

by Agency groups, but also by other US Government

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organizations.

For example, Secretary of State Warren

Christopher's pre-planning session for the Bosnian Peace

Accord Talks was held at WTC based on the need for a

discreet location in which Department of State (DOS)

officials, to include two ambassadors, and the military

could secretly discuss strategic planning without undue

attention (media coverage).

"If CIA affiliation is

acknowledged in any way, WTC's value to the entire US

Government is greatly diminished. Additionally, its

value to the Agency is also diminished in that personnel

from OED and other operational elements who use this

facility would be running a greater risk of exposure and

cover compromise if they visited WTC. Since access roads

can be monitored and registration lists.and/or luggage

tags can be obtained at hotels used to accommodate some

of these visitors, their association with the CIA would

be much harder to protect.

• (S) Heightened Scrutiny of Classified Mission: For more

than 40 years, WTC has operated as an Army facility.

We

have been a good "neighbor" and have developed close

working relationships throughout the town. To confirm

what many have suspected but could never prove (or what a

few "knew" but willingly protected) will have a negative

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impact on our credibility and will create an "open

season" for the local media and others as they quite

naturally attempt to learn any and all aspects of our

mission -- those clandestine officers who could cone and

go previously with little notice will now be a highly

visible target. 1

• (S) Endangerment of Department of State Officers and

Loss of WTC as Training Site for Dos: As the Department

of State is an integral part of WTC, their concerns must

also be taken into consideration. They have advised of

their significant concerns that a loss of WTC cover will

lead to the mis-identification of Dos communicators

overseas as CIA officers.

They have stated that it is

the fact of the current WIC cover which permits them to

train Dos communicators alongside Agency communicators at

a very efficient cost.

The only solution to the loss of

•cover would be to move the DoS communications school to

another location, a very costly endeavor in both time and

money.

8. (S) In summary, it is my considered judgment that the

release of the term "Warrenton Records Center", which will create

an affiliation of WTC and the CIA, would cause major disruptions

to CIA operations, possible physical harm to CIA facilities and

personnel, and hence identifiable and serious damage to the

national security of the United States. Accordingly, I

respectfully request that the Board defer release of such

information. In doing so, I am mindful of the Board's mission

12 (S) It is not unreasonable to believe that the loss of cover for WTC would

require a five fold increase in physical security personnel at WTC and even

then

security could not be ensured given the proximity of the facility to

public spaces and roads.

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and the necessity for the American public to have the fullest

possible disclosure regarding the assassination of President

Kennedy, however, I believe that this reference is not relevant

• to the public's understanding and that disclosure would cause

harms significantly disproportionate to any public benefit.

9. (U) If the Board should have any questions with regard

to this matter, I have asked Lee Strickland, who serves as Chief

of the Agency's Information Review Group, to be available to the

Board in order to provide such additional classified or

unclassified information as might be required.

Richard D. Calder

(S) Attachment

Annotated View of WIC Station C

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station C

Main Road

Aux, llary Tover

Main Towers

Auxillary Tovei

Auxillary Torei

Auxillary lovex

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(S)

Required Protection of Warrenton Training Center

as CIA Facility

(S) Attachment

Annotated View of WIC Station D

Station D

Satellite Dish

Satellite Dish

HE Tower

HE. Tower

Satellite Dist

Satellite Dish

Gate

Main Road

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Required Protection of Warrenton Training Center

as CIA Facility

OFSS/FMG/WTC/SNAlcivar:kak/49570 (07 Nov 97)

modified OIM/IRG/LSStrickland/31289 (13 Nov 97)

Distribution:

Orig - Addressee

2 - DDA

1 - OIM/IRG Chrono

1 - C/OIM/IRG

1 - D/OIM

1 - OIM Legal Advisor

1 - D/OFSS

1 - C/FMG/OFSS

1 - DO/CCO

1 - C/ WTC/FMG/OFSS

1 - DC/WTC

1 - OFSS Registry

g: lipcrawp|general\lss arrb_wtc.doc

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