MEMO: SURVEY OF CIA'S RECORDS FROM HSCA INVESTIGATION
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From: MCDONALD. CHIEF, CIA HISTORY STAFF
To: DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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mary

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OTE 92-1403

10 February 1992

MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence

VIA:

Director of Training and Education

Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence

FROM:

J. Kenneth McDonald

Chief, CIA History Staff

SUBJECT:

Survey of CIA's Records from House Select

Committee on Assassinations Investigation

1.

As you requested on 16 January, the History Staff has

now surveyed CIA's records from the House Select Committee on

Assassinations (HSCA) investigation into the assassination of

President John F. Kennedy.

As promised in my 30 January

interim report, I can now give you a full account of our

findings, and of my recommendation

for transferring this HSCA

collection at its existing classification to the National

Archives through CIA's Historical Review Program.

2.

After the Office of Congressional Affairs arranged

permission from Congress for History Staff access to the

sequestered 64 boxes of this collection, we examined these and

other related holdings at Headquarters and the Warrenton

Records Center.

As a result of careful, persistent, and

determined inquiries, we are fairly confident--although by no

means certain--that we have seen all the documents that CIA

collected for the HSCA investigation of 1977-1979. The summary

of our

findings which follows is documented in more detail in

attachments A

and B.

3.

General Description:

The HSCA collection (defined as

all

records that the CIA provided to that Committee for its

1977-1979 investigation) is a large and chaotic collection.

Beyond the 64 boxes sequestered by Congress that have been

involved in FOIA litigation, there are 16 boxes of Oswald's 201

file and numerous loose folders (mainly from Mexico City

Station records) that were collected for the Warren Comnission

investigation.

in the sequestered collection.

Of the 64 boxes, 34 have

material collected by the Directorate of Operations, while

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29 contain records from the Office of Legislative Counsel (now

OCA), Inspector General, Office of the General Counsel,

Directorate of Science

and Technology, Office of Security, as

well as several boxes of HSCA staff notes and records.

Box No.

64 contains 72 microfilm reels (each equivalent to a box of

records), which include the Oswald 201 file and Mexico City

Station

records, as well

as other 201 files and information

about Cuban exile groups.

4.

Organization: The collection is arranged haphazardly,

having

been gathered

in response to a

series of HSCA and (in

the case of

the Oswald 201 file)

Warren Commission requests.

Although portions of the collection

are organized by a variety

of systems, there is no overall intellectual control of the

entire body of records.

We found fifteen indexes to the

collection, none of which is adequate for control or retrieval.

5.

Sensitivity: Although the collection is almost

entirely at SECRET or lower classification, there is a

scattering of TOP SECRET and codeword documentation.

Materials

we consider especially sensitive--more for privacy than

national security reasons--include 201 files, phone taps, mail

intercepts, security files, photo surveillance, names of

sources, watch lists, and

MHCHAOS documentation. Such material

occurs

throughout the collection, usually in response to HSCA

requests for name traces.

There

are 22 microfilm reels of 201

files in addition to the Oswald file, while eight boxes contain

security records, including, for example, files on David Atlee

Phillips, Martin Luther King, and Clay Shaw.

6.

Non-CIA Material: The collection includes a lot of

third-agency material, mostly from the FBI. FBI reports

dominate the 16 boxes of Oswald's 201 file, and nearly half of

the 34

boxes of DO-collected material consists of third-agency

material.

The collection's remaining 29 boxes contain mostly

CIA records, as does the box of microfilm, except for Oswald's

201 file.

There is also some documentation of foreign liaison,

mainly with the Mexican government.

7. CIA Complicity? Our survey found nothing in these

records that indicates

any CIA role

in the Kennedy

assassination or assassination conspiracy (if there was one),

or any CIA involvement with Oswald. These records do reveal,

however, that Clay Shaw was a highly paid CIA contract source

until 1956. While nothing surfaced on Carlos Marcello in the

collection, we found substantial documentation on other members

of the mob, including Santos Trafficante.

Although the results of our survey fully support my

earlier recommendation against inviting a panel of historians

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into CIA to examine and report on

this collection, the problem

that this proposal addressed

remains--the widespread

allegations, given new impetus by Oliver Stone's "JFK," that

CIA was part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy•

That CIA has a closed collection of records concerning the

Kennedy assassination is well known, both because it is part of

over 800 cubic feet of HSCA investigation records that Congress

has closed until 2029, and because our 64 boxes of these

records have

been the

subject of FOIA requests, litigation, and

court orders.

Since opening all US Government records on the

Kennedy assassination has been proposed by former President

Ford, Congressman Louis Stokes, and others, many observers will

consider your decision on this

question a

test of your new

openness policy.

9. Options: CIA's three principal options are to keep the

Agency's HSCA records

closed and in our hands, to open them

entirely, or to transfer them to the National Archives. Before

making

my case

for the

third option, I should note the

following considerations with respect to the first

two:

a .

Closed:

To maintain the status quo would keep the

collection classified, closed and in CIA's hands,

sequestered by Congress until 2029. CIA would, however,

be congress me 20,

remain subject to the 1988 court order to review portions

of it in response to FOIA litigation.

While putting the

collection into Historical Review Program processing would

speed and broaden its declassification review (which would

nevertheless take several years), such an internal shift

would probably not change the public perception of our

remains a viable option, it tends both to encourage

suspicion that CIA is part of a cover-up, and to undermine

the credibility of

CIA's openness policy.

If Congress

should decide to open all HSCA records, however, CIA would

be hard put to keep its HSCA collection closed.

b. Opened: To open the HSCA collection would require the

permission of Congress.

Indeed, CIA would presumably not

consider this option except in response to congressional

action or pressure, or in order not to be the last hold-out

in a Government-wide opening of Kennedy assassination

records.

While opening the collection would disclose

good deal of information that deserves continued protection

for privacy or national security reasons, a total release

would dramatically demonstrate CIA's new openness, and

rapidly reveal

that these records contain nothing

pointing

to a CIA role in the Kennedy assassination.

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10. Recommendation: I recommend that CIA transfer its

entire HSCA collection (as defined and identified in this

report) at its existing classification

and Records Administration (NARA), for continuing

declassification review by Archives staff, in accordance with

the relevant laws, regulations and CIA guidelines.

This

transfer should be carried out under the

auspices of CIA's

Historical Review Program.

To retire this HSCA collection to

the National Archives offers

some significant advantages:

a .

It would get the collection off our hands. Retiring

the records to

the National Archives, which is by law the

eventual repository for all permanent IS Government

records, should reduce public suspicion of a CIA cover-up.

Such a transfer would not set a new precedent, since CIA

previously retired over 4000 cubic feet of Office of

Strategic Services

operational records to NARA, as well

as

all CIA records so far declassified under the Agency's

Historical Review Program.

Although CIA has not previously

transferred classified records to NARA, the transfer of

this HSCA collection, resulting from a congressional

investigation, follows the special precedent of the

classified CIA documents retired to NARA's vaults as part

of the records of the Watergate and Iran-Contra

investigations.

b.

Transferring these HSCA records to the National

Archives will

protect their existing classification.

The

Departments of State and Defense have routinely retired

classified records to NARA for years.

In accordance with

statutory guidelines, NARA must ensure the confidentiality

of investigatory sources and

the proper protection of

personal privacy and

national security information,

including intelligence sources and methods.

continue the court-ordered declassification review

according

to CIA guidelines.

CIA can accelerate the

declassification of this collection by funding review

positions at NARA,

as the Department of State and other

agencies have done in the past. (Attachment C outlines

declassification procedures for classified records retired

to the National Archives.)

C.

NARA's professional archivists will bring this

collection under control (as they have done with the 4000

cubic feet of disorganized OSS records that CIA has retired

since 1984), so that it can be usefully researched as it is

declassified. Moreover, many of the records in this

collection (especially photographs, carbon flimsies, and

Thermofax) need expert preservation, which NARA is

organized to provide.

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d.

If Congress should eventually undertake to open this

entire collection

without regard to classification, the

National Archives

will be in

a stronger position to protect

its national

security and

privacy information than the CIA,

whose motives would appear self-serving, if not sinister.

Action: If you wish to retire the Agency's House

Select Committee on

Assassinations collection to the National

Archives,

the following actions (from the offices noted) will

be needed:

Request permission from Congress. (Office of

Congressional Affairs)

Transfer responsibility for court-ordered FOIA

declassification review from CIA to the National Archives.

(Office of the General Counsel, with Information Management

Staff, DO)

Prepare CIA guidelines for NARA'S declassification

review. (Office of Information Technology, DA)

Prepare the appropriate Historical Review Program

documentation and NARA forms, and deliver the records.

(Office of Information Technology, DA)

e .

Announce the transfer jointly with DI. Don Wilson,

Archivist of the United States, and Congressman Louis

Stokes.

(Public Affairs Office)

1s/ J. Keaneth NeDonald

J. Kenneth McDonald

Attachments

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SUBJECT: Survey of CIA's Records from House Select Committee

on Assassinations Investigation

DA/OTE/CSI/HS JKMCD:nkl (10

Feb 92) 30147

Distribution:

Orig Addressee w/atts

1 - Paul Ericson, D/OTE w/atts

1 - James A. Barry, D/CSI, w/atts

1

Page Moffett, DD/@CA w/atts

- Joe Detrani, D/PAO w/atts

1

1

1

- John Hedley, DD/PAO w/atts

- David Gries, VC/NIC w/atts

- Don Cryer, DD/IMS/DO w/atts

- Jack Wright, D/ISD/OIT

- HS Chrono w/o atts

1 - HS Subject (Kennedy Assassination) w/atts

DCI Correspondence w/atts

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SUMMARY

CIA HISTORY STAFF

SURVEY

House Select Committee on Assassinations Collection

10 February 1992

The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Collection consists of the following parts, which

the attached

box

list describes in

further detail:

Sequestered SCA Records The first and major part of

the collection, 64 boxes of records under Job No. 80-T01357A,

is wide-ranging material collected in response to House Select

Committee on

Assassinations

requests for documents relating to

the assassinations of

President John F. Kennedy and, to a far

lesser extent, DI. Martin Luther King. Coordinated by the

Office of Legislative Counsel (now the Office of Congressional

Affairs) and now under OCA control, these are the "sequestered"

boxes that have been the subject of FOIA litigation and court

order.

Boxes 1-34: DO Boxes 1-34 (34 cu. ft. of records) are

about one-half DO-collected

materials, with the remainder

largely of third agency documents, primarily FBI reports

gathered for the Warren Commission.

There is also some

material from the Department of State and the Immigration

and Naturalization Service, as well as the original HSCA

requests.

Also included are staff handwritten notes,

photographs, and copies of newspaper clippings.

These

records cover a wide variety of topics but focus on CIA

operations against Cuba and Castro, Lee Harvey Oswald's

sojourn in the USSR, Oswald's activities in Mexico City and

New Orleans, and a large number of name traces requested by

the HSCA staff.

There is also material on the Black

Panthers, the civil rights movement, and the peace

la more the the parceasted by

movement.

Among the subjects that appear in these boxes

are:

Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw,

Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt,

Nosenko, Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Silvia Duran, Martin

Luther King, Coretta Scott King, James Earl Ray, William

Kunstler, Jim Garrison, G. P. Hemming, Marina Oswald, John

Roselli,

Sam Giancana,

Santos Trafficante, and Rolando

Cubela's AMLASH operations against Castro. These records

also include the 1967 Inspector General's report on CIA

plots against Castro and the testimony of Richard Helms in

executive session before HSCA.

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b. Boxes 35-63 Boxes 35

through 63 in this job (29 cu.

Ft. of records) are equally eclectic, divided as they are

between records

from the Office of Legislative Counsel (now

OCA), Inspector General, Office of the General Counsel,

Directorate, of Science

and Technology, Office of Security

(security files), and the HSCA itself.

These records,

which are mostly CIA material (heavily DO), consist of

reports, memoranda, transcripts, cables, letters, newspaper

clippings, photographs, and charts.

They include materials

relating to the Garrison investigation, Watergate, Cuban

exile activities, and CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel

There is also some material relating to Martin

King, black power, and racial violence, as well as a

on photos of the "unknown man" at the Mexico

City Soviet embassy, and an NPIC analysis of the Zapruder

film.

Box 64: Microfilm

Box 64 of Job. No. 80-T01357A

contains 72 reels of microfilm (although the box is labeled

"CIA/DDO HSCA Records, box 1 of 2," box 2 has not been

found).

The History Staff was assured,

however,

that this

was indeed box 64 of Job No. 80-T01357A.

In addition to a

of Oswald's 201 file (as actually shown to the HSCA

staff in 1978), the microfilm contains material on Oswald's

activities in Mexico City (primarily photographic and phone

tap surveillance of the Soviet and Cuban

embassies and

consulates), Mexico City Station files (including cable

traffic and

the station's "p" Personality files), CIA

security files, Nosenko interrogation transcripts, and a

great deal of information relating to Cuban exile groups.

also 22 reels of 201 files, which

contain 151

individual files.

Some of the material on these microfilm

reels reproduces

DO material in the boxes, although it is

difficult to judge exactly how much.

2.

Oswald's 201 File The second part of the HSCA

collection is Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file, 16 boxes (16 cu.

ft. of records) held in the DO's Information Management Staff

(IMS). This file consists primarily of copies of FBI reports

relating to Oswald, FBI investigations on Oswald and his

activities (including items that FBI sent CIA prior to the

assassination), interviews with Marina Oswald, Department of

State cable traffic concerning Oswald's passport and visa

applications, information tracing Oswald's weapons, material on

Jack Ruby and Silvia Duran, and a tape of Oswald's August 1963

radio debate.

There are also detailed FBI reports concerning

Oswald's assassination of the President and his contacts with

Soviet officials, as well as records relating to Gilberto

Alvarado, who maintained that he witnessed Cubans passing

Oswald cash

at a

party on the night before the assassination.

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3.

Loose Files

The HSCA collection's third part comprises

a number of loose folders that evidently belong within the

collection, including eight bulky Mexico City Station files

(including cable traffic and "p" files) that are also in the

microfilm.

These files are considered to be part of the Oswald

201 file and are held in IMS.

A group of 16 file folders that

appear to be unaccessioned contain a miscellany of HSCA

requests and Agency responses on subjects such as Oswald in the

USSR, Marina Oswald, Roselli, and Giancana. These appear to

belong with Job. No. 80-T01357A.

4.

Organization Partly because of the collection's

origins

in the disorderly process of the Agency's response to

massive investigatory committee requests, the collection badly

organized.

Moreover, years of working through these files in

response to numerous

Freedom of Information Act requests have

disrupted the collection further.

the Agency has not taken intellectual control of the collection

in the fifteen years since it was created.

Partial systems of

organization have been imposed upon various parts of the

collection without reference to or use of sound archival

Although 15 separate (and

unsatisfactory) indexes to the collection eventually surfaced,

the lack of any central index or finding aid makes retrieval of

individual documents extremely difficult. Although CIA review

officers attempted to impose some order to the collection by

numbering each document and adding a folder numbering system to

each box, there is no central control or finding aid for any of

these these systems.

Provenance cannot be traced, and entire

files are missing that cannot be satisfactorily accounted for.

5.

most

suspect that the originals of many, if not most, of these

i that the et toler

Non-record Copies This collection

consists for the

xeroxed copies rather than original documents.

We

xeroxed

documents would

be difficult if not impossible to

locate.

6.

and in poor physical condition, requiring immediate

attention

to prevent further deterioration.

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BOX LIST OF FILES REVIEWED

CIA HISTORY STAFF SURVEY

House Select Committee on Assassinations Collection

10 February 1992

Job No. 80-T01357A

Box 1: CIA Security files on numerous individuals, including

G. P. Hemming, Martin Luther King,

Marina Oswald, and others;

1967 CIA IG report on plotting against Castro; Garrison

investigation.

(File folders 6, 7, 17 and 20 are missing).

Box 2: CIA Security files on William D. Pawley, Frank Sturgis,

Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw,

and others;

numerous FBI documents and

assorted CIA material.

Box 3: Helms hearing testimony; Mexico City Station cable

traffic; CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, and HSCA correspondence.

Box 4: Chronology of Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the USSR:

CIA operations against Cuba, Castro, and the Cuban Intelligence

Service, including information relating to ZRRIFLE, AMLASH,

AMMUG ;

description of CIA 201 system; information on Nosenko

interrogation

regarding Oswald and his Soviet connections. (File

folder 8 is missing).

Box 5:

Notes on Oswald;

various HSCA notes and affidavits;

transcripts of Helms's

testimony; FOIA information.

Box 6: Information relating to Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in

Mexico City, including surveillance from CIA projects LIEMPTY,

LILYRIC, and LIMITED:

Garrison investigation;

CIA support to

Warren Commission; AMMUG debriefing; copies of Mexico City

Station despatches (HMMA) ;

sensitive material on photocoverage of

Soviet, Cuban, Czech, and

Polish embassies in Mexico City;

an

index to HSCA papers

held by CIA;

an index of Warren Commission

exhibits;

information relating to silvia Duran;

a copy of an

agreement between the Director and Chairman Louis Stokes requiring

the CIA to retain for 30 years all materials gathered in response

to Committee requests;

Richard Helms executive session testimony

in 1978 before the committee;

an index to requests

to the CIA

from J. Lee Rankin of the Warren Commission.

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Box 7:

Mexico City Station surveillance of Cuban,

Soviet

embassies;

AMMUG ;

Silvia Duran;

Oswald's activities in New

Orleans

(FBI report);

monthly operations reports from Mexico City

Station;

summaries of HMMA cables; Cuban exile mug books;

Gilberto Alvarado, the Nicaraguan who claimed he saw Lee Harvey

Oswald receive cash in meeting inside Mexico City Cuban embassy;

transcripts of phone calls to and from Soviet embassy; a machine

listing

of documents officially recorded as being in Oswald's 201

file (list missing from folder);

Warren Commission trip to Mexico

City and interview with U.S. Ambassador Thomas Mann; Jack Ruby;

Fair Play for Cuba Committee;

FBI reports on Oswald; HTLINGUAL

documents;

Nosenko interviews;

and interview of Mexico City

Station personnel by committee

staff.

(File folder 37 is missing).

Box 8: HSCA requests primarily for name traces involving

individuals, including James Earl Ray, Clay Shaw, John Roselli,

Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante; 1977 CIA study on Church

committee findings relating to the CIA; HSCA requests to

interview CIA personnel;

ZRRIFLE: information relating to the

Cuban airline flight from Mexico City to Havana; Nosenko

interviews; photos of anti-Castro individuals.

Box 9: Primarily HSCA requests for name traces on individuals and

organizations;

CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City;

copies of cable traffic from Mexico City Station.

(File folder 76

missing).

Box 10: Name traces from 201 files, HTLINGUAL mail intercepts,

and MHCHAOS files, including individuals associated with Black

Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, the civil rights

the peace movement.

Material on Henry

Winston, Maurice Halperin, George Edward Wright, Julian Bond,

Kunstler, James Earl Ray. Also Lee Harvey Oswald and Jim

Garrison.

Box 11: Misc. items on JFK assassination; HSCA material,

including personal history of Nosenko and Oswald chronology.

Box 12: HSCA chronologies 1976-78; draft reviews and CIA

comments;

Oswald dossier forwarded to Warren Commission;

Garrison

investigation of JFK assassination; CIA chronology of

memos received from

Warren Commission;

uSCA chronology,

January-March 1978.

Box 13:

Alphabetical files of individuals marked "completed" or

"pending" based on 201 files.

Box 14: Primarily HSCA requests for name traces on individuals

and organizations;

some 201 files; interviews with POWs from Bay

of Pigs;

FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service reports

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Box 15:

Alphabetical

files based on CIA, State, and FBI on

numerous individuals including Claire Booth Luce, Clay Shaw,

Martin Luther King, and Coretta Scott King.

Box 16: Copies of 201 files; interview and transcripts relating

to Mexico City activities of Oswald and the Mafia.

Box 17: JMWAVE cable; DCI cable traffic.

BoX 18: HSCA chronology; Oswald 201 file; report on CIA

performance.

BOX 19: HSCA staff notes, taken at CIA.

(File folders 2-5, 14,

18, 25, 28 and 34-35 missing. With HSCA records?)

BoX 20: Follow-up requests from HSCA on name traces; handwritten

of committee staff members on CIA 201 files;

surveillance of Soviet embassy in Mexico City; Oswald's

activities in Mexico City;

copies of staff interviews with CIA

personnel (file folders 58-62, 65, 69-70, 73-74, 80, 83, 85-86.

88-92, 96, 101, 103 and 112 are missing, while folder 57 is

empty. With HSCA records?)

Box 21: HSCA requests by JFK file number.

Box 22: HSCA staff notes, misc.

Box 23: HSCA staff notes: misc., including

Helms's testimony in

executive session.

Box 24: HSCA staff notes: misc., including Mexico City

interviews and

speculation about

a dual CIA filing system re

Oswald and Oswald's relationship to Agency.

Box 25: Committee staff notes on materials reviewed at CIA

relating to Oswald and his possible connections with the CIA and

his activities in Mexico City;

a sanitized copy of the 1977 CIA

report on the Church Committee findings;

embassy officials in Mexico City, including Silvia Duran,

Eusebio Lopez, and Alfredo Diaz.

Box 26: Documents re Oswald's Mexico City visit; DCI's

appearance before Warren Commission;

allegations of Oswald's

connection with CIA.

Box 27: Agency file on Oswald, as sent to Warren Commission;

Nosenko interrogation notes.

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Box 28: HSCA files mixed in with FBI and CIA documents;

investigation of Silvia Duran, 28 November 1963; numerous HSCA

handwritten notes.

BOX 29:

Alphabetical file on individuals from various sources,

including Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie.

Box 30:

HSCA report on Cuba trip, 1978; handwritten notes on

Oswald; Domestic Contact Division notes on Garrison

investigation; and information on Nosenko.

Box 31: Administrative materials, correspondence between HSCA and

CIA, index and file of HSCA material returned to Do.

BOX 32: Mexico City Station cables and dispatches.

Box 33: Cuban Mugbook

and Mexico City Station traffic, October

1963-January 1964.

Box 34:

HSCA files on George de Mohrenschildt; Cuban Mugbook;

HSCA reading file; CIA relations with FBI and Warren Commission;

Nosenko on Oswald; and Ruby's alleged travel to Cuba.

Box 35: Review of HSCA trip to Cuba and Mexico; HSCA report on

Silvia

Odio; report, "CIA Operations against Cuba prior to the

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 23 November 1963;"

and Senate Select Committee reports and comments.

Box 36: Review, what could Castro have known?;

review of HSCA

draft report; IG report on Cuban operations for 1960-64, for any

bearing upon

JFK assassination;

Book V of Church Committee final

report, with review by Agency of provocation theory (charges of

Agency

cover-up of Cuban operations); E. Howard Hunt file;

Mexico City/Havana flights;

Win Scott; AMTRUNK; Oswald contacts

with Soviet and Cuban embassies, Mexico City; CIA relations with

FBI and Warren Commission:

• Alpha 66; photo of unidentified man,

Mexico City;

cable traffic, AMLASH, AMWHIP; Mafia plotting;

Jack Ruby/Cuba; QJWIN, ZRRIFLE.

Box 37; Information relating to Cuban exile activities against

Castro, such as the Torriente Group and Alpha 66;

name trace on

E. Howard Hunt; and information relating to the Garrison

investigation.

Box 38: Alphabetical files, including Hemming, Luce, Sturgis,

Roselli, James McCord, and Nosenko; file on U-2 overflights from

Japan;

DDS&T report on photos of unknown man.

Box 39: Photo comparisons of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis

with tramps arrested in Dallas on day of JFK assassination;

chart

of frames from the Zapruder film showing the actual assassination.

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Box 40: Security files (including record of those files

inadvertantly destroyed).

Box 41: Security files (alphabetical), including Lucien Conein;

also material on Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Box 42: Name traces from Office of Security files; Garrison

investigation information;

a copy of a manuscript, "The Kennedy

Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison

Investigation;"

copies of material relating to Oswald shown to

committee staff at CIA.

Box 43: Security files (some missing, inadvertantly destroyed).

Files present include that of Martin Luther King.

Box 44: Security files.

Box 45: Security files, including those of David Atlee Phillips

and Clay Shaw.

Box 46: HSCA requests for information relating to Frank Sturgis,

Clay Shaw, and Watergate;

information relating to JMWAVE and the

Miami Station; FBI reports on left-wing and racial unrest in U.S.

Box 47: Security files, mostly newspaper clippings; list of

notes by HSCA staff member;

Oswald security materal; newspaper

articles on Oswald;

unsanitized material released in sanitized

form via FOIA from

Oswald material.

Box 48:

Security files, including Tokyo Position Control Register

(1960-64); HSCA staff notes reviewed by OS; HSCA staff review at

headquarters of selected OS files

(including Roselli and

Giancana), plus other name traces through OS, including Gerald P.

Hemming.

BOX 49: Name trace requests; transcripts of interviews of CIA

personnel; executive session transcript of a Senate Armed

Services Committee meeting, 21 November 1973, regarding CIA

assassination plots;

CIA plans to assassinate Castro; and the

Mafia/CIA connection in attempts to assassinate Castro.

Box 50: HSCA requests by date; Oswald chronology; draft copy of

Hornbeck Report.

Box 51: Numerous HSCA requests and individual files; Jack Ruby

file as well as Hemming, Hall, Pawley, M. L. King, and others.

Box 52: HSCA reviews by date; Cuban Counter-revolutionary

Handbook, 1962 & 1964; photos of unkown man; NPIC analysis of

Zapruder film, and Hoch memorandum.

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Box 53: HSCA request log and priority

response list; copy of

manuscript, "Castro's Red Hot Hell": information relating to HSCA

leaks, guidelines, procedures, clearances, and secrecy agreements.

Box 54: HSCA staff notes.

Box 55: HSCA staff notes; HSCA chronologies, 1953-77.

Box 56: FBI reports on racial violence in the U.S. in 1967 and

the Black Power movement and Martin Luther King;

material, but not the actual depositions, of Ray Rocca, John

McCone, Richard Helms, and David Phillips.

Box 57:

Mexico City Station file, 1959-68;

correspondence

concerning HSCA visit to Mexico;

HSCA receipts, testimony, etc.;

1975 report on unidentified man at Cuban embassy; HSCA request

fOI JMWAVE traffic.

BOX

58: IG report on Church Committee final report, book V;

annex to task force report (AMLASH); DDCI testimony before

committee (Dec. 1978);

HSCA final report (summary) and

correspondence; internal DO memos re Warren Commission (what to

tell it re Cuban operations?); correspondence/memos re HSCA

interviews and depositions from Win Scott, Golitzyn, Shevchenko,

McCone, Nosenko (for most part, interviews and depositions

themselves not here).

Box 59: HSCA press releases and correspondence.

Box 60: Nosenko material, including polygraph transcripts; misc.

HSCA memos; James J. Angleton material, 1977-78.

Box 61: Copies of House Select Committee draft reports and CIA

comments relating to Cuban exiles and their activities

against

Castro, Silvia Duran, AMLASH, and Oswald's activities in Mexico

City.

Box 62: HSCA requests; photo surveillance around Cuban embassy

in Mexico City;

CIA/HSCA defector study; various interviews

about JFK's death.

Box 63: Warren Commission reports on Oswald; a House report on

Oswald's activities in New Orleans;

Castro; and a folder on Ray Rocca's testimony before the

Rockefeller Commission (his testimony is not present in the

folder);

and information relating to the disposition of CIA

materials relating to the House investigation.

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Box 64: Microfilm

History Staff reviewed Reels for which there were no description.

These were Reels

46, 53-56, 59, 60-62, and 65-71. History Staff

also sampled Reels 1, 14, 18, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, and 44. Reels

115, 20 202

reviewed, as

follows:

Reel 1: CIA Security files in alphabetical order, containing

background investigation results, memos, passport applications.

Reel 14: CIA Security files, in alphabetical order.

Reel 18: True name dossier from Office of Security files; list

of U.S. defectors to Soviet Bloc;

material on WIROGUE and the

Congo; Cuban exile operations to infiltrate men into Cuba.

Reel 22: AMMUG; LIEMPTY;

LILYRIC; LINCHPIN; LIENVOY (Mexico

City surveillance activities of the Cuban and

Soviet embassies in

Mexico City.

Reel 24: Photo surveirdance of Cuban embassy in Mexico City,

August & November 1963; photo surveillance of USSR embassy in

Mexico City, July-December 1963; Garrison investigation articles

and CIA correspondence.

Reel 26: Extensive file on Cuban exile groups in U.S. receiving

CIA help; DRE, Liberation Army of Cuba.

Reel 30: Mexico City Station files; CIA personnel records;

Mexico City message traffic relating to Silvia Duran; photos of

individuals entering or leaving the Soviet embassy and the Cuban

consulate in Mexico City; press accounts of Garrison trial of

Clay Shaw.

Reel 31: Oswald diary; Warren Commission file numbers and

inventory; index of Mexico City traffic; Mexico City

chronology; 1975 CIA report on unidentified man; 1975 CIA report

on Cuba-JFK connection; list of "soft files" at beginning of

microfilm.

Reel 44:

Warren Commission documents relating

to Oswald;

Ambassador Thomas Mann's meeting with the Commission staff in

Mexico City in 1964; Helms affidavit, 1964; Jack Ruby; Marina

Oswald; Clay Shaw;

Reel 46: Nosenko files; Mexico City Station chronological file;

and

a list of all station despatches

from 10/15/63 to 11/27/63 (20

despatches missing).

Reel 53: CIA Security/201 files in alphabetical order.

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Reel 54: CIA Security/201 files;

Mexican/Cuban activities.

maps of Cuba; reports on

Reel 55: CIA Security files.

Reel 56: CIA Security files.

Reel 59: CIA Personnel files (including fitness reports).

Reel 60: CIA Personnel files.

Reel 61: Nosenko interrogation: information relating to

Golitsyn; Cuban exile groups and their anti-Castro activities;

William Pawley's anti-Castro activities.

Reel 62: CIA Nosenko interrogation transcripts; Cuban

Revolutionary Council progress reports, March-April 1963; list of

Cuban consulate employees worldwide; FBI report on Cuban

government in exile in NYC;

monthly expenditures of Cuban

Revolutionary Council (CRC) •

Reel 65 :

Cuban exile organizations such as the Cuban

Revolutionary Council (CRC), Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front

(CDRF), Judicatura Cuban Democratica, and the 30 November Movement.

Reel 66: AMBUD file on CRC, monthly reports, statement of

expenses, proposed programs

and projects, budget projections and

accounting statements of the Council.

Reel 67: AMBUD (Col. Johnson) file; CRC budget and programs,

documents relating to the coordination problems within and between

Cuban exile groups.

Reel 68:

Col. Johnson Working File; weekly summary reports; the

underground in Cuba;

CRC activities and position papers;

translations of Council documents; biographic information on CRC

leaders Dr. Miro Cardona and Tony Varona.

Reel 69: CRC and the Cuban exile community; meeting in San Jose

and

around Latin America--selection of delegates, expenses, and

recruitment efforts.

Reel 70: CRC finances; Brigade 2506; Juan Bosch interview in

Dominican Republic with Cuban exiles;

and information relating to

CRC delegates to various Latin American governments.

Reel 71: Cuban organizations; photos of Mexican embassy entrance.

Reel 72: Photos of Mexican embassy entrance.

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Oswald 201 File

Box 1: mostly FBI interviews/investigation notes; items sent by

FBI

to CIA prior to JFK assassination regarding Oswald's

activities in New Orleans;

State Department correspondence

regarding Oswald defection and return; Silvia Duran material;

newspaper

articles; Mexico City Station files; and other

material.

Box 2:

FBI background investigation of Oswald and his

wife

Marina's activities while in the Soviet Union.

FBI background investigation of Oswald activities in New

Orleans; FBI interviews of Marina Oswald; information relating

to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee;

State Department actions

regarding Oswald's passport and visa applications;

FBI tracing of

weapons connected with Oswald;

information on Jack Ruby; and a

tape of the radio debate in which Oswald participated in August

1963.

Box 4: FBI reports on Oswald; FBI interviews with Oswald and

Marina after the

assassination; copy of Cuban government's

protest to Mexican authorities

over the arrest and

treatment of

Silvia Duran; and

an index to the FBI reports is included in the

box.

Box 5:

FBI investigation of the assassination (3 vols.); a copy

of Oswald's diary while he was in Moscow;

biographic material on

Marina Oswald; a copy of Oswald's chronology while in the Soviet

Union;

and a copy of the questions for the Soviet government

composed by CIA officials.

BoX

6 :

Oswald chronology; biography of Marina Oswald; Warren

Commission correspondence;

name traces of those who appear

in

Oswald diary; Warren Commission correspondence; Oswald Mexico

trip; Oswald address book;

Silvia Duran Mexican interrogation;

newspaper clippings.

Box 7:

FBI reports on Oswald; Nosenko interviews; photos of

Oswald in Minsk; list of Oswald's apartment articles;

and

a name

list of CIA traces for the Warren Commission.

Box 8: Photos shown to Marina

Oswald for ID purposes;

SR/CI

Studies for the Warren Commission; continuing FBI investigation,

Dallas area; interview with Marina; Oswald/Ruby alleged

association; attachments to Oswald chronology in USSR.

Box 9: Copy of Marina Oswald's notebook with addresses; list of

items

prepared by CI on Oswald care for the Warren Commission;

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Oswald's contacts in the Soviet Union; and an FBI report on

Oswald's activities in Mexico;

a CIA brief for presentation to

the Warren Commission on Oswald; Soviet Government documents

relating to Oswald;

and a translation of a Portuguese book, A

Conspiracao.

BoX 10:

FBI investigations; Nosenko material;

anti-Castro

activities in U.s.;

CIA report of Oswald in Mexico City;

report on Oswald defection;

CIA report of Oswald as Kennedy

murderer; assorted FBI items.

CIA

Box 11:

Bulky material, mostly SR/CI Studies for Warren

Commission; FBI reports; Marina Oswald material; Oswald Cuban

application; USSR radio and newspaper traffic; Silvia Duran

interview;

foreign press reaction to JFK assassination and Warren

Commission report;

photos of

unidentified man in Mexico City;

Bernard Fensterwald FOIA case;

assorted CIA and FBI material.

Box 12:

Warren Commission Log Book from National Archives;

master

list of Warren Commission correspondence and exhibits from

National Archives;

and copies of FBI reports on the assassination.

Box 13: HTLINGUAL intercepts (Russian language with some

translations); SE soft file on Oswald; Nosenko information on

other Soviet defectors.

Box 14:

Copies of CIA documents still classified in the Warren

Commission records held at the National Archives;

Oswald's

activities in the Soviet Union; information relating to Gilberto

Alvarado "Source D", Silvia Duran, and Oswald in Mexico;

transcripts of telephone intercepts from the Mexico City Station.

Box 15: CIA-Warren Commission released materials, 1964;

background on

Jack Ruby, Oswald; Oswald's Soviet medical record;

National Archives list of status of CIA documents in Warren

Commission records, 1967; Soviet press reaction to

assassination; internal memoranda and other records of the Warren

Commission;

transcript of executive session of the Warren

Commission; Oswald's Mexico trip, Soviet defection; Oswald's

alleged CIA connections;

Warren

• Commission material; "kook"

cases; follow-up on numerous. "leads";

Helms's file on Oswald and

Warren Commission documents (as of January 1964)•

Box 16:

Garrison investigation, newspaper clippings, and other

reports; Warren Commission memos.

Mexico City Station files (8 bulky files)

(Considered part of the Oswald 201 file; to be placed in box

within Oswald's 201 file)

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Mexico Station files on Oswald (P-files); Oswald chronology;

newspaper clippings; FBI report on Oswald in Mexico city;

material on Oswald in Mexico;

Garrison investigation material

(mostly newspaper clippings); Warren Commission testimony.

HSCA Miscellaneous Folders (16 folders)

(These file folders, which are unaccessioned at present, will be

placed within HSCA. collection, Job No. 80-T01357A)

HSCA requests; information on Oswald in USSR; Marina Oswald;

documents on

Roselli and Giancana.

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NOTES ON TRANSFER TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

AND DECLASSIFICATION OF CIA RECORDS

10 February 1992

1.

Transfer CIA would transfer documents under their

existing classification to the National Archives

and

Records

Administration (NARA) in much the same way that it already

transfers declassified documents

Using a NARA FOrm 258, the

isual transfer document, CIA would note that the documents to be

transferred are classfied.

These records would then go into

secure NARA vaults, where they would be accessible only to

archivists with appropriate security clearances.

Codeword

documents would go into a compartmented vault under the direct

control of the Records Declassification Division, to be processed

only by reviewers with

the necessary SCI access

approvals.

2. Classification

Any transfer of CIA records to NARA under

existing classification would provide continuing security

protection for these documents consistent with Agency standards.

In accordance with statutory guidelines, NARA must ensure the

confidentiality of investigatory sources and the proper protection

of personal privacy as well as national security information,

including intelligence sources and methods.

3. Declassification

Declassification guidelines would be a

matter for negotiation between the CIA and NARA.

Some agencies

(e.g. the Department of Defense) give general guidance, while

others (e.g. the Department of State) offer more specific

guidelines.

Although specific guidelines require

more effort to

develop, NARA prefers them to more general guidelines, since under

specific instructions NARA's reviewers

find

less need

referral

back to the donor agency.

4. Funding and Resources Funding and resources would also be

matter for negotiation between the Agency and NARA. The

Department of State and the Agency for International Development

(AlD), for example,

have funded a certain number of reviewer

positions, while NARA funds all overseer positions (both reviewers

and overseers are NARA employees).

For consistency and quality

control NARA does two reviews for State and AID.

State's own

staff members then do a final

quality check--in effect a third

review--of the product at NARA.

AID consider their

review guidelines to be draft guidance until they review the

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results.

They then

redraft the guidance, as necessary.

past, this has meant only fine-tuning the guidelines, which are

applied to the next group of records, rather than a re-review

of those already processed.

Preservation

CIA's records from the House Select

Committee on Assassinations investigation are in poor physical

condition

and have distinct preservation needs.

contains large quantities of

fragile and deteriorating documents,

including thermofax copies and photographs, which NARA is in a far

better position to care for properly than is CIA.

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