Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: CG
Document date: 06/16/1998
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

3/31/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10378-10243

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62C-HQ-1029205-3835

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO: CG

TITLE :

DATE: 06/16/1998

'PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/11/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

(12/31/1995)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Precedence:

PRIORITY

Date: 06/16/98

To: Chicago

Attn: Anne P. Trecek

From: Office of Public and Congressional Affairs

JFK Task Force, Rm. 11144

Contact: Catherine

L. Lamey, Ext. 6185

approved By Keeley caroL alliant

Drafted Bys Lamey catherine & Cll 3835

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

Title:

John F. Kennedy Records Collection

• Act of 1992 (the Act)

Synopsis: The JFK Task Force (JFKTF) requests Chicago to search

for records and forward records to the JFKTF.

Enclosure: ARRB letter requesting material; copy of EC forwarded

to Chicago on 3/24/1998 and attachments.

Details: In 1992, Congress signed the Act mandating federal

agencies to release all documents concerning the presidential

assassination or information related by conspiracy theory to the

assassination. The Act narrowly defined the types of information

that agencies could still protect by postponement until the year

The Act also established the Board as a separate entity to

oversee the release of material from federal agencies to the

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) • Beyond the

Board's oversight responsibilities,

the Act charged

the Board

with the duties of reviewing agencies' proposed

postponements

with the agencies' evidence for approval or denial and

researching additional areas of information for any new material

provat on

related to the assassination.. The FBI has been working with the

Board since its inception to

meet the requirements of the Act.

On November 29, 1996, the Board wrote a letter to the

FBI setting forth

a formal compliance program.

The letter

requested the FBI's cooperation with the Board "in discharging

its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American people

that the goals of the JFK Act will be accomplished to the

greatest reasonable extent."

The compliance program is the

Board's answer to demonstrating "to the American public that a

thorough, good-faith,

and diligent effort has been made to locate

and release all remaining assassination-related records within

the control of the United States government land that the

Government is not hiding any such materials from public

disclosure)."

With this philosophy in mind, the Board has

forwarded letters to the FBI requesting additional information

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey.

DATE: 11-14-2017

To: Chicago From:

office of Public and Congressional Affairs

Re: 62C-HQ-1029205, 06/16/1998

for their review and possible inclusion in the JFK collection.

On March 23, 1998, the JFKTF received a letter from the

Board requesting field files from Chicago regarding Harry Dean.

BY EC dated 03/24/1998, the JFKTF requested Chicago to search

for

files and references to Harry Dean and to forward any responsive

documents to the JFKTF. Records of the JFKTF do not indicate a

response from Chicago.

The original documents are necessary to meet the

requirements of the Act.

Should the Board determine the

documents to be assassination records the originals will

eventually be transferred to NARA.

Therefore, any responsive

documents should be copied before forwarding to the JFKTF.

the Board decides the documents do not fall within the realm of

the Act, the documents will be returned to your office, but not

until the Board completes this project.

Chicago should respond even

if the search is negative.

The response is important for the FBI's compliance with the Act.

If you have any questions, please contact Catherine Lamey at

(202) 324-6185.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

DATE: 11-14-2017

To: Chicago

From:

Office of Public and Congressional Affairs

Re:

62С-HQ-1029205, 06/16/1998

LEAD (S)

Set Lead 1:

TO Chicago

AT Chicago

Chicago is requested to search all their indices (ie.

general indices, confident lal inde eriginal documents should be

ELSUR, etc.) for all files

and references to Harry Dean.

forwarded to the JEKTF, FBIHQ, Attention: Catherine L. Lamey,

Room 11144; by 7/1/98.

• cc 1 - Carol L. Keeley, Room 11144

1 - LuAnn Wilkins,

Room 11141

1 - Catherine L. Lamey,

Room

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