“… on Between 1964 and 1979, the American intelligence services were subjected to unparalleled scrutiny, much of it fueled by the CIA's and FBI's ties to the Watergate debacle and by revelations of domestic political surveillance by both agencies and the military intelligence serv …”
“… t troubled by the disclosures are the same ones that most often figure in conspiracy theories. nl42 Disclosing materials that the CIA and FBI want postponed might actually affirm that neither a”
“… - -Footnotes- niso. See Assassination Materials Disclosure Act II, supra note 96, at 93 1 (statement of Floyd I. Clarke, Deputy Director, FBI) (noting that "immediately following the assassination, the FBI began a massive and intense investigative effort"); Epstein, Trilogy, sup …”
“than two weeks after the assassination and the Commission's interaction with the FBI's intelligence efforts). - - • • -End Footnotes - - • - • - The entire intelligence community worked to learn everything it could about …”
“… Footnotes- - • * • • • • - • • - - 5 nl54. See Assassination Materials Disclosure Act III, supra note 96, at 381- (prepared statement of FBI Director William Sessions) (stating that among 250,000 pages requested”
“by the House Assassinations Committee are a large number of FBI documents that "implicate national security interests"). n155. See Assassination Materials Disclosure Act I, supra note 96, at 7 (statem …”
“… ward a New Vision of Informants: A History of Abuses and Suggestions for Reform, 22 Hastings Const. L.Q. 81, 91-92 (1994) (describing the FBI's mishandling of KKK informants).”
“Footnotes- - The Kennedy assassination documents contain thousands of names of informants drawn from every walk of life. The FBI has taken the position that these names must be protected indefinitely and that any disclosure will impair the Bureau's ability to recrui …”
“… perhaps representative of the issues raised about the Review Board's disclosure of informants. The Exhibit contains a message sent by the FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) in Houston to the SAC in Dallas and to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on November 26, 1963, four days after t …”
“… all’s name, especially given her purported relationship with the Dallas police and organised crime. The Board, however, also accepted the FBI’s argument that the name of the person who provided the - - information about McCall should be protected. Consequently, a document that ha …”
“… 10:10AM P.33/44 PAGE 33 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *28 nl7s. See O'Leary, supra note 174, at A1. - -End Footnotes- The value of confidential FBI and CIA sources to the Warren Commission's work is underscored by the documents released thus far by the Board. For example, Exhibit Four …”
“… n176. See Exhibit Four Infra p. 45. n177. See id. nl78. See id. nl79. Parts of the document had been declassified in 1976, but the FBI wanted to continue to postpone release of the portions in brackets. See id. - - - - -End Footnotes- - - In matters of informants and a …”
“The FBI provided the Board with this heavily redacted document, arguing that release of the body of material in the message from the FBI field of …”
“be divulged. As a result of the cable's release, we know that the FBI had knowledge of and interest in Oswald's activities well before the assassination, to the extent of relying on officials of the Swiss Fe …”
“… erving that Oswald announced his plans to attend Swiss college, but that he never arrived to attend classes). nl94. See id. (documenting FBI's request to Swiss police for information about Oswald). ----- - • - -End Footnotes- • • XI. Of Times and Theories How to address the …”
“leap from the pages of the current issues of Scientific American. nl97 There is no doubt that the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence services snooped on us and other nations, friend and foe. nl98 The CIA in particular argues that current intel …”
“States); Nelson Blackstock, Cointelpro: The FBI’s 1 Secret War on Political Freedom (1976) (describing the FBI’s counterintelligence operations and violations of constitutional rights); …”
“… ng terms when so much still remains under lock and key. By breaking confidences with former informants and disclosing clandestine CIA and FBI operations, a fuller record will put to the test the most sinister of all conspiracy theories: that the President was murdered by his own …”
“… ecords. Otherwise, the Review Board might cease operations without having reviewed claimed postponements in tens of thousands of pages of FBI and CIA records. Postponement Criteria for the Segregated Collections In a further effort to enhance the Review Board’s work, the Revie …”
“13-00000 04/23/97 WED 15:54 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB 0003 B -2- Review Board, the ARRB staff, the CIA, and the FBI to complete the significant amount of work that remains; and finally, to provide reasonably consistent standards for the review of postpo …”
“… t may, in fact, be committing the crime of espionage against their native country by cooperating with US authorities. Furthermore, unlike FBI informants, CIA sources and FBI national security assets presume that their names will not be released publicly and they certainly presume …”
“… tity.3 In cases where the identify of the source is peripheral to the assassination story, the information will be postponed until 2017. FBI National Security Assets FBI national security assets should be treated in the same”
“manner as CIA sources. FBI Informants Informant issues represent the largest category of postponements in the FBI’s Segregated Collection, as they do in the "core” …”
“… mants, “PSIs," “PCIs,” “established sources,” "panel sources,” and the like - designations that indicate an ongoing relationship with the FBI. It would not extend to individuals who requested that their identity be protected in an isolated contact with the FBI or to local, and s …”
“… information about an assassination-related issue. To overcome this presumption of release for informants with “positive" information, the FBI would need to make a particularized showing that the identifying information should not be released. To the extent that an informant’s id …”
“… Review Board that harm to national security or to personal safety would result from the release of the employee name.)........... .... FBI “Foreign Counterintelligence" Postponements It is presumed that the FBI will, at least partially, carry over its post-appeal standards for …”
“… Sullivan NARA Press and Public Affairs Officer t •• Home Combs Skwirot Denk Military Team Leader Special Assistant : CIA Coordinator FBI Team Leader Research and Review ♦Tieman Senior Analyst NSA USSS : Goslee Legaspi Zimmerman DIFrisco, Legaspi, Ahmed, Fagnant, Senior …”
“… ans International Trade Mart. The second showed ‘ that 00/Contacts Division had requested a name trace: 'about 1949 and that the check of FBI records then con ducted was negative. Central Cover Staff had no record.”
“… anaging director of the International Trade Mart In New Orleans. He is 5 4 years old. Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General, said that the FBI had investigated SHAW late in 1963. “On the evidence that the- FBI has, there was no connection found" with the assassination. 7. Memora …”
“13-00000 MAR 18 ‘97 06:58PM P.13 1 A 3 the FBIIS Mexi repex Ambassador Mann points out that this Scott inf beFBI en ormation included may in have Mexican reports tho indicates and that the CIA w o uld been cited asthe source hove (R. Sindic Phillips, ates Scott”
“… rds under review Condition of records Sequestered documents Oswald 201 file Microfilm (printouts) Other records HSCA SSCI HPSCI FBI, other third agency - Warren Commission, Rockefeller Commission Presidential libraries -Ford, Kennedy, Johnson 3. Status report on pro …”
“… ‘ Other records refl e ra is [1,000 to do] DCI Morning meeting minutes (400 pages) SSCI to complete HSCA - 14,000 pp HPSCI 1- 11 FBI, other third agency —10,000 pp- Warren Commission, Rockefeller Commission Presidential libraries -Ford, Kennedy, Johnson Ford Library do …”
“… 12 July 1994 Room 105, NARA Official Attendees: Members of the Board, Steve Tilly, NARA. Public: 25/30 in attendance including four from FBI (Terry & Grant), Lesar, and Newman. Also one network (ABC?) rep. Purpose: Transact official business, briefing form Tilly on recent rel …”
“… Tilley gave a briefing on status of releases. Releases since last meeting include tapes of telephone calls from the Johnson Library, the FBI files, Church Committee (7 boxes), and DOJ's FOIA litigation files. This month an additional 10 boxes of Church Committee and some Pike …”
“… rue document and that most of the DIA files was administrative or news clipping. He said he had seen at least 30 DOD documents in CIA and FBI files that did not appear in the DIA release. Newman then ask if the agencies could withhold documents from the Board; Jack responded th …”
“14-00000 /1 (printouts) - Other records - DCI Morning meeting minutes (400 pages) HSCA - 20,000 pp) - SSCI HPSCI FBI, other third agency - 10,000 pp Warren Commission, Rockefeller Commission Presidential libraries -Ford, Kennedy, Johnson 4. How assas …”
“… is much duplication through out the collection. Boxes 1-34 (Directorate of Operations) : contains a mix of CIA, third agency (primarily FBI) and Warren Commission documents plus a significant amount of HSCA originated material*. These records cover a wide range of topics but …”
“… ndence and final report, plots against Castro, photos of unknown man, defector study, Nosenko, name files, Mexico City - station files’, FBI reports, Warren Commission reports. / * approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA originated material has' been removed from the files and tra …”
“… ices/etc . that were used to identify individuals mentioned by crypt or code| name in assassination records. [ the amendment recommended by FBI covers CIA concerns; ideally the word “used” should be changed to “created”]”
“… and 201 files. It may be possible to “postpone” the 201 and OP files under the Privacy exemption and National Security Act, however, the FBI approach to amending the regulation to deal with “incidental appearance of assassination material” seems a better approach. Our proposed …”
“… then I do not see a problem. However, with out clarifying language, this section could lead to the type of situation described by Gloria. FBI also requested clarification.]”
“… k the board will buy changed “used” to “created”. Our proposed response, as written, does question the scope but not directly. (note: The FBI proposed wording, if accepted by the board, would satisfactorily limit the scope of this section). She does have a point in changing “in …”
“… dent . testimony at a public hearing on March Counsel, Assassination Records Review Kennedy and investigations undertaken 7, 1995, from the FBI and from several Board, 600”
“… at 18. comments include the Federal Bureau of many of which were incorporated into 1 The Board is also mindful of Congress's Investigation (FBI), the Central the interpretive regulations as issued instruction that the Board apply a Intelligence Agency (CIA). NARA, and here in final”
“… FFICIAL USE ONLY 27 October 1994 NOTE FOR THE FILE SUBJECT: JFK Board/Security Clearances 1. On 27 October, I called Terry O'Connor, FBI to provide him with the following information that he had requested. The CIA contact person for receiving clearances on staff members o …”
“… ing? Are they considering deposing officials at other agencies? On a related issue: On Friday, Marty Boland?told me that we (White House, FBI, 01M) can’t find the Board’s secrecy agreements. Were they located over the weekend?. If not, the EXDIR requests that OIM obtain new sign …”
“… d offers options to address that issue. Thus far, CIA security officials have conducted diligent searches, both internally and externally (FBI, White House), to locate any secrecy agreements that members of the Board may have signed. Those searches have been unsuccessful - to dat …”
“… ), anc offers options to address that issue. Thus far, CIA security officials have conducted diligent searches internally and externally (FBI, White House), to locate any secrecy agreements that members of the Board may have signed. Those searches have been unsuccessful - to date …”
“Moreover, this effort has been complicated by the fact that, at outset, the FBI was given responsibility for the security clearance process relating to the Board. Our primary goal in this situation is to preserve our …”
“… hment cc Steven D. Tilley, NARA J. Barry Harrelson, CIA Nina Noring, State Richard S. Werksman, USIA William Leary, NSC Carol Keeley, FBI”