MEMO: ARRB REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO SELECTED AGENCY HISTORIES
Originator: CIA
From: J. BARRY HARRELSON
To: (DFP FOR JFK BOARD)
Document date: 03/03/1997
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Barry

3 March 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

(Directorate Focal Points for JFK Board)

J. Barry Harrelson

DCI /CSI/HRG/JFK Project Officer

ARRB Request for Access to Selected

Agency Histories

ARRB Request for Additional Information

and Records No. CIA-7, atd 8 Nov 1995

I. Background

In August 1996 with the concurrence of the Directorate

Focal Points for the JFK Board, Jeremy Gunn, ARRB General

Counsel, was given access to an inventory of Agency

histories (item # 6 of reference) held by the CSI History

Staff. He made a list of 61 histories which might possibly

contain information of interest to the Board in its search

for additional records relevant to the JFK assassination.

II. Request

The ARRB's request is for access to the selected.

histories to determine their relevancy or non-relevancy to

the JFK assassination story.

It is not a request to review

the material for release.

Access by the Board's staff will

be limited to one or two members with appropriate

clearances. Access to particularly sensitive material will

be limited to Mr. Gunn and/or Mr. David Marwell, Executive

Director of ARRB.

The Board, Mr. Marwell, Mr. Gunn and

their staff "CIA team" have TS/SCI clearances.

III. Procedures

An HRG reviewer will screen the 61 selected

histories to determine if they have some substantive

relationship or connection to the JFK assassination story

individuals, etc.).

a. If so, HRG will contact the Directorate Focal

"Point for the

JFK Board and request that a responsible

component official review the selected history to

determine the level of access that may be given the

ARRB: (1) access to the table of contents; (2) access

to selected pages/chapters, or, (3) access

to the full

history.

If the history is viewed as too sensitive to

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be reviewed by the ARRB staff, the issue will be

discussed with the Executive Director of the Board

and/or the Chairman.

If HRG concludes that the history is not

related to the assassination story, Mr. Gunn will be

asked to refine his request or drop that particular

history from his list.

A certification by the Agency

that the history contains no JFK assassination-related

information may be required.

After review by the appropriate Agency component,

the Directorate Focal Point will advise HRG of the approved

level of access.

3.

HRG will then advise Mr. Gunn of the level of

access and make arrangements for him or a member of his

staff to review the history in designated Agency offices as

appropriate.

4. Notes taken by any ARRB member are subject to

review by the responsible Agency component.

If the ARRB

member identifies a history or any part of it as having

relevancy to the JFK assassination story, HRG will again

review it to confirm the relevancy. The identification of

relevant information in a history does not automatically

make the history an assassination record under the JFK Act.

Further discussion with the ARRB staff would be required to

determine how that information will be dealt with and its

possible release.

5. If you have any questions regarding this request,

please cell me on extension 31825 or Gary Breneman,

extension

31839.

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J. Barry Harrelson

Attachment:

ARRB Request No. CIA-7

* If the history or a part of any history involves DO

equities,

HRG will advise the DO Focal Point and refer the

history directly to the DO JFK team working with CSI/HRG.

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DCI /CSI/HRG/JBHarrelson:bkh (3Mar97)

Distribution:

Orig

- Each adse (see below) w/att

- HRG File

1 - ARRB Request File w/atts

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1 - Gary

Addressees:

Fred Wickham

DO-JFK Focal Point

DI-JFK Focal

• Point

Teresa Wilcox

DS&T-JFK Focal Point

Lee Strickland

DA-JFK Focal Point

Kathryn Dyer

DCI Area-JFK Focal

Point

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