Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: IRD
To: CID
Document date: 10/21/1996
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

3/31/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10376-10380

HQ

62C-HQ-1029205-1363

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO :

IRD

CID

TITLE:

DATE: 10/21/1996

"PAGES:

12

SUBJECTS:

JFKARCA OF 1992

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS:

:TB; IC; 3; 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/27/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: • INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Precedence: DEADLINE 10/23/1996

To:

Criminal Investigative

National Security

Office General Counsel

Date: : 10/21/1996-

Atto: Ms. Tucker, Rm. 4944

Attn: Mr. Swanda, Rm. 4425

Attn: Mr. Kelley, Rm. 7338

Ms.

Buckleitner,

Rm. 7975, no enci.

ALL TUPORANTTON CONTAININ

POTIN T3 UNCLASSTYYEO EXCEN

WHIRO SHOWN OTIICAWISE

9494

Ezon: Information Resources

JEK Task Force, Rm.

6362

Contact: Carol I.

Keeley, Ext.

Approved By: OBrien J Kevin

Drafted By: Keeley Carol I K

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

(Pending)

Title: (U) JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS

3/25/99

CLASSIFED BY F6LE Sispude

REASON: 15 (ad)

DECLASSIFY ON: X

2266)

COLLECTION ACT (JEKARCA)

Synopsis:

(U) On 10/11/1996, the Assassination Records Review

Board (ARRB) formally advised by letter to the FBI their

determinations on FBI documents.

The FBI has a limited mandated

time frame in which to appeal these decisions.

(U)

classified By: G-3_ FOIFA/IRD

Reason

DeclassiLy On: 10/01/2017

Enclosures:

(U)

Evidence provided by the JFK Task Förce (JFKTF)

to support maintaining the postponement and the documents with

postponements highlighted.

Details:

On 10/11/1996, the ARRB formally advised the FBI

of the determinations voted by them on FBI documents at a meeting

held 9/27/1996.

The ARRB letter listed 174 documents for which

the ARRB made determinations.

The FBI is in agreement with the

ARRB's determination to postpone or open information in 64 of the

documents.

Of the remaining documents, the ARRB voted to either

sustain some, but not all of the information requested by the FBI

or open the documents in full. The release of the information in

these documents will reveal the identities of 223 individuals who

were described as potential criminal informants (PCI), security

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To: Criminal Investigative From: Information Resources

Re:' (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 10/21/1996

(U) 1.

HQ 105-82555-4273, NAR 124-10060-10063

(14/122), will release the identities of ES's Wilfredo Roger (NR)

and Jorge Perez (NR) .

(U) 2. MX 105-3702-831, NAR 124-10079-10309 (14/79),

will release the identity of SI Enrique Gomez Junco (DOB 1934).

(U) 3. MX 105-3702-1288, NAR 124-10079-10460 (14/113),

will release the identity of SI Ernesto Abreu Gomez (DOB 1914).

(U)4.

DI 44-1639-266, NAR 124-10108-10175 (14/25),

will release the identities of PCI's Pedro DeFillo (NR), Humberto

Betancourt (DOB 1930), Harvey Gordon (DOB 1902), Paul Gunta (NR),

and Miguel Amato (NR) .

The ARRB sustained the postponement of

the identity of Randall L. Davis (L) and his occupation until

9/2006.

• (U) 5. DI 44-1639-5618, NAR 124-10110-10017 (17/3),

will release the identity of PCI Gordon Spencer Engelhart (NR) .

(U) 6. HQ 105-126128-76, NAR 124-10115-10150 (17/4 &

50) , will release the identity of PCI Herman Ford (DOB 1934) .

(U) 7.

DI 44-1639-94, NAR 124-10119-10141 (14/37),

will release the identity of PCI Tom Ward (D). The identity of

PCI Larry Thurston Speck (L) was previously opened earlier by the

(U) 8. DI 44-1639-119, NAR 124-10119-10166 (14/41),

will release the identity of PCI

Nicki Parker (NR).

(U) 9. DL 105-1716-15, NAR 124-10137-10040 (17/35),

will release the identity of PSI Emma L. Cash (DOB 1900).

ARRB sustained the postponements of the numeric portion of the

symbol numbers and the case portion of the file numbers until

9/2006.

(U) 10.

HQ 105-126129-18X1, NAR 124-10137-10078 117/17

839) , will release the identities of panel sources Richard

McKinney (D) and Elizabeth McKinney (DOB 1930) .

(U) 11. HQ 105-126129-11, NAR 124-10137-10095 (17/19 &

41), will release the identity of ES Frolick Rainey (D).

(U) 12. CG 44-645 Sub C-26, NAR 124-10142-10021

(17/43), will release the identity of PCI Henry James Goss

(NR) .

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Criminal Investigative

From: Information Resources

Re: (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 10/21/1996

sustained the postponement of PCI Edward Ira Craig (L) until

9/2006.

(U) 43.

IR 89-21-25, NAR 124-10256-10370 (15/66), will

release the identity of PCI William Earl Crego (D).

(U) 44. LR 89-21-30, NAR 124-10256-10375 (15/69), will

release the identity of PCI Benjamin J. Yarbrough (DOB 1914) .

(U) 45. IR 89-21-50, NAR 124-10256-10388 (15/70), will

release the identities of PCI's Ricks Stuggens Hall (NR) , Wayne

High (DOB 1930), and Alvin Rich (NR). The ARRB sustained the

postponement of PCI Mark R. Loyd (L) until 9/2006.

(U) 46. NO 89-69-1902, NAR 124-10259-10155 (15/78),

will release the identity of PCI Joan S. Terriell (DOB 1925) .

(U) 47. AQ 89-27-41, NAR 124-10260-10248 (15/83), will

release the identity of PCI J. T. Crane (D).

(U) 48. AT 89-45-55, NAR 124-10260-10361 (15/85), will

release the identity of PCI Milton N. Siegel (NR) .

(U) 49. AT 89-45-56, NAR 124-10260-10362 (15/86), will

release the identity of PCI E. Thurston Brown (NR) .

CI 62-2758-30, NAR 124-10262-10327 (15/87),

will release the identities of PCI's James Christ (NR), Ruth

Sanchez (NR), Catherine Maddy (DOB 1938), Irvin Cole Howell (NR),

Dixie Daniels (NR), Nancy Miller (NR), Jack Lewis Trusty (NR),

Roger Edward Buchanan (DOB 1919), James Bowman (NR), Martin

Ernest Maier (D), Andrew Jackson Chatum (NR), Chester Arthur Poff

(NR), Hazel J. Howard (NR), John G. Kokenskis (NR), Samuel S. ..

Young MR, Leonard Cantrell Me, Done Perim me ARre

Marvin W. Giles (NR), and Harold J. Kinsley (NR) •

sustained the postponements of PCI's William H. Reed (L) and

Betty Sue Stamps

(L) until 9/2006.

(U) 51.

CE 89-46-16, NAR 124-10263-10273 (15/92), will

release the identity of PCI Gilbert Huff (D).

(U) 52. CE 89-46-17, NAR 124-10263-10274 (15/93), will

release the identity of PCI Lee Barrett (NR) .

(U) 53.: CE 89-46-20, NAR 124-10263-10277 (15/94), will

release the identity of PCI James Bailey (NR).

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To: Criminal Investigative From: Information Resources

Re:' (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 10/21/1996

(U) 54.

CE 89-46-22, NAR 124-10263-10279 (15/96), will

release the identity of PCI Bruce Franklin Moore (D).

(U) 55. CE 89-46-25, NAR 124-10263-10282 (15/98), will

release the identity CS (racial) Mrs. Della Z. Mitchell (NR).

(U) 56.

CE 89-46-26, NAR 124-10263-10283 (15/99), will

release the identities of PCI's William B. Biggs (NR) and James

L. Roberts (NR). The ARRB sustained the postponement of PCI

Edgar August Hill (L) until 9/2006.

(U) 57.

CE 89-46-28, NAR 124-10263-10285 (15/100);

will release the identity of PCI Erskine Pruitt (DOB 1909) .

ARRB sustained the postponement of PCI Jimmy Helms (L) until

9/2006.

(U) 58.

CE 89-46-30, NAR 121-10263-10287 (15/102),

will release the identities of

PCI's James Morrell (DOB 1907),

Robert I. Ford (DOB 1910), James Isaac Arledge (D), William E.

Roland (D), Hub Ruff (D), Foster Lee Padgett (D), Jack H. Davis

(DOB 1913), Thomas L. Rich (NR), Ivan Peterson (NR), Ralph J.

Caine (NR), Ernest G. Ballen (NR), Harvey Smith (NR), W. S.

Ruchman (NR), Vance Butler Reins (NR), Walter Justice (NR), Mary

Fannie Jones

(NR) and James Fisher Bryan, Jr. (NR).

(U) 59.

CE 89-46-32, NAR 124-10263-10289 (15/103),

will release the identities of PCI's George James (NR) , Judy

Taylor (NR), Otis White (NR), and Joe Carman (NR) .

(U) 60.

CE 89-46-33, NAR 124-10263-10290 (15/104),

will release the identities of PCI's James Hutten Costen (NR) ,

William D. Driver (NR), Paul Shirley (NR), DI. George Kenneth

Butterfield, Sr. (D), Sanford Dalton

(NR) , Willa Mae Majette

(NR), and Willie Arthur Alston (NR). The ARRB sustained the

postponement of PCI Ruby Cobb (L) until 9/2006.

(U) 61.

CE 89-46-34, NAR 124-10263-10291 (15/105),

will release the identities of PCI's Fred Willard Gossett (NR),

ROY Thompson Powell (NR), Earl Creech (NR), Elaine Mabry (NR),

George Ellison (NR), and

Ruth Tillotson (NR). The ARRB sustained

the postponement of

9/2006.

PCI James Hubert Pelham, Jr. (L) until

(U) 62.

CE 89-46-35, NAR 124-10263-10292 (15/106),

will release the identities of

pCI's Walter Hunter (D), Rufus

clyde Richs (NR), Natalie Harbin (NR), and Malcolm Phelps (NR).

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TO: Criminal Investigative From:

Information Resources

Re: (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 10/21/1996

M. Haberstok (NR), and Frank Cameron (NR) .

(U) 77.

CE 89-46-63, NAR 124-10263-10320 (15/120),

will release the identity of PCI Harrison Spann (D).

(U) 78. CE 89-46-64, NAR 121-10263-10321 (15/121) ,

will release the

identity of PCI Sam D. Cox (NR).

(U) 79. CE 89-46-66, NAR 124-10263-10323 (15/122),

will release the identity of PCI's Thebaud Jeffers (NR), Ernest

Morris Dow (D), Frank Hoyle (D), Arthur James Wyatt (D), Reverend

Smith Turner (NR), and Warren Gardner (NR). The ARRB sustained

an are bar ane:

the postponement of PCI James Franklin Carpenter (L) until

9/2006.

(U) 80.

. CE 89-46-69, NAR 124-10263-10326 (15/123),

will release the identity of PCI Douglas Collins (DOB 1931) .

(0) 81. CE 89-46-73, NAR 124-10263-10330 (15/124), will

release the identity of PCI William Fletcher Curtis (NR) .

(U) 82.

CE 89-46-141, NAR 124-10263-10389 (15/126),

will release the

identities of PCI's Doris Virginia Mauldin (DOB

1930), Willie I. Smith, JI. (DOB 1920), and James Earl Lark (NR) .

SV 89-36-15, NAR 124-10266-10007 (16/66), will

release the identities of PCI's Joseph Rastus Rider (D), Herbert

Lee Wynn (DOB 1936), and Robert Ladd Bushman (NR) .

(U) 84. SV 89-36-16, NAR 124-10266-10008 (16/67), will

release the identity of PCI Ralph Junior McKinley (NR). PCI'S

Emile DeCandt (NR), Oliver Hollis (D), and Lottie Mae Westendorff

were previously opened by the ARB.

The ARRB sustained the

postponement of Lee Richard McCaskill until 9/2006.

(U)

85 - 86.

SA 89-67-245 & 246, NAR 124-10267-10389 &

10390 (15/156&157), will release the identities of PCI's Alfredo

D. VillaReal (NR) and Jose P. Perez (NR) .

(U) 87.

SA 89-67-247, NAR 124-10267-10391 (15/158),

will release the identity of PCI Marjorie V. Koehler (NR).

(U) 88.

SA 89-67-248, NAR 124-10267-10392 (15/159),

will release the identity of PCI Ila Jeanie George (NR).

(U) 89.

Kx 89-27-67, NAR 124-10268-10020 (15/127),

will release the identities of PCI's John Edward Davenport (NR),

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To: Criminal Investigative From: Information Resources

Re:: (U) 62-HQ-1029205, 10/21/1996

will possibly release the identities of PCI's Carlo Montalbano

and Benjamin Michael Novellino (NR). The ARRB sustained the

postponement of the numeric portion of the symbol number on page

s of the summary and page 3 of the search slip until 9 2006.

MXR> 103 & 104. HQ 44-41824-5 & EBE, NAR 124-10089-

10006 & 10011 (14/11&12), will release the text from technical

surveillance of the Czechoslovakian Consulate General, the file

numbers of subjects related to Czechoslovakia, and file numbers

of see references on individuals making contacts with foreign

establishments (these references are not identical to the subject

the ARRB is interested in). The ARRB sustained the postponement

of the symbol number and its related file number until 10/2017.

(4) (X)

HQ 62-109060-1NR4962, NAR 124-10053-10355

(14/47),

will release the FBI's investigative interest in an

individual believed to be KGB and information from a technical

source.

106. HQ 62-109060-7883; NAR 124-10073-10322

(11/72), will release a classified file number and the

information that General Dico Dimitrov was trying to contact

"nationality" diplomat.

The ARRB sustained the postponement of

[SCan Israeli

with the

substitute language of "nationality" until

10/2017.

(uXE 107.

CG 62-6115-657, NAR 124-10242-10407 (15/4),

will release the identity of PSI Tadeusz Jerzy Baron (DOB 1929)

The ARRB sustained the postponement of the numeric portion of the

symbol numbers until 9/2006.

108.

CG 62-6115-661, NAR 124-10242-10411 (15/6),

will release the identities of PSI's Khoe Kong-tat (DOB 1921),

Shun Sheung Cheung (DOB 1912), Frank Hrachovsky (NR, file

missing), and Anthony Zadjlik

(NR). The ARRB sustained the

postponements ofPSI's Teodors Zierins (I) and Arutiun Pashinian (C]

(L) and the numeric portion of the symbol numbers until 9/2006.

will relax

109. NK 62-3060-63, NAR 124-10254-10329 (15/37),

the paragraph concerning the informant contacting

people in the Cuban Mission and a pro-Castro organization. The

ARRB sustained the postponement of the numeric portion of the

symbol number and the case portion of the file number until

9/2006.

110.

HQ 62-116395-1649, NAR 124-10264-10498

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Information Resources

can u0.05

(15/184), will release information about Cuban groups contacting

"Cuban officials and establishments.

LEAD (s) :

Set Lead 1:

ALL RECEIVING OFFICES

Review the appropriate documents and reply to OGC

and the JFKTF with recommendations as to appealing the ÄRRB

decisions by 10/23/96.

CC: 1 - Mr. Kennedy, Rm. 7142

1 - Mr. Collingwood, Rm.

7240

1 - Mr. R. Bucknam, Rm.

7176

1

- Mr. Shapiro, Rm. 7427

1

- Mx. Esposito, Rm.

7116

1

- Mr. O'Brien, Rm. 6296

1

- Mrs. Keeley, Rm. 6362

1

- Mr. Valentine, Rm. 6362

1

- Ms. Siford/Mrs. Leeper,

any 4085, 1a. 1276

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