“… or review and direct response to you. - Pages contain information furnished by another Government agency(ies). You will be advised by the FBI as to the releasability of this information following our consultation with”
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“13-00000 cc Mr. Ladd Mr. Rosen Mr. Malley 67 ■ Hr. Pennington The Attorney General net to fell May 13. 1953 * Director, FBI Te% 05-6165-192 Cone 11/22/57 TTK PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL JUNE D HENRY WILLIAM GRUNEWALD INFORMATION CONCERNING DECLASSIFIED BY. JU …”
“… arding this matter. He also stated that I should not hesitate in the future to get in touch with him concerning any problems in which the FBI's interest should be protected. He reminded me that the President had great faith in the Director and the FBI and that in many instances …”
“13-00000 67F * Subject HENRY WILLIAM GRUNEWALD This serial, the original memorandum from the FBI to the Attorney General dated -3/16/53 -______ ♦ , which was returned to the Bureau signed by the Attorney General authorizing FBI to co …”
“… " ..*. The Immigration and Saturalisation Service files and the Alien Property files have been obtained and will be ade available, aious FBI reports, in accordance with policy. Advice would be ppreciated whether the Bureau has a personnel - file on Grunowald, and, if so, -wheth …”
“… be completed. Mr. Chairman, you have asked about assassination materials that may be held by other intelligence community agencies. The FBI will describe its holdings separately, which I assume include both intelligence and law enforcement records. The National Security Agency …”
“… he agencies. For example, in the 17 boxes of Oswald records that we have, approximately 40 percent of those documents originated with the FBI, and were simply made available for information to CIA......... About 20 percent originated with the State Department or other agencies, …”
“… the Review Board until September 30, 1998. At the January 22 closed meeting, the Board processed for public release approximately 3,600 FBI records, 1,000 CIA records, and 350 records from other agencies. The nearly 5,000 records processed by the Board is its highest total for …”
“… sed responsiveness of the CIA bodes well for the completion of these requests in a timely manner. Since our December report, the Board's FBI team has reviewed an additional 20,000 pages of records from the FBI's HSCA files. Included in these files are the names of individuals w …”
“13-00000 ARKD @003 -2- has opened up previously classified records from numerous agencies and departments, including the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice, as well as the Military Services, Secret Service, Senate and House Committees, …”
“… ug line although it could be released in the text of the cable. Exhibit B. Letter to the Legal Attache in Paris from the Director of the FBI, October 12, 1960. Subject: Lee Harvey Oswald * Internal Security. This document was one of several records exempted by the FBI because i …”
“… nt would again disclose matters that should be kept secret. The Board subsequently voted to open the record. Illustration 3. In several FBI documents that were subject to appeal to the President, the FBI argued that certain types of its electronic surveillance had not”
“… now open. Illustration 4. See Exhibit B. The Review Board was presented with a heavily redacted but provocative documentpertaining to an FBI “Internal Security” inquiry into Lee Harvey Oswald in October 1960. The FBI declined to release the Information, arguing that it containe …”
“… ecret was continued. The document was opened in full at a declassification session in July 1997. Illustration 7. See Exhibit E. Like the FBI, the CIA typically is reluctant to release information regarding technical surveillance. Exhibit E is a monthly operational report from M …”
“… assination Records Review Board was set up to review and release the voluminous amounts of information in the Government's possession. The FBI, the Secret Service, the CIA, the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, the Church Committee in the Senate, and the House Select …”
“… igence and surveillance policy, and have published extensively on matters relating to the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As a consultant in 1975 to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities (the so-called Church Committee), I researched classif …”
“… re to ensure that his communications to his superior, John Poindexter, were not indexed in the NSC's central records system. Although the FBI maintains a central records system, FBI officials dating from 1940 had authorized a series of special records procedures to ensure that s …”
“information could be withheld if a FBI report was circulated outside the Bureau. These included: the Do Not File procedure for memos requesting and authorizing "black bag jobs; …”
“… ssification order, legislation of 1984 totally exempting CIA "operational" files from disclosure, and legislation of 1986 authorizing the FBI to withhold and deny the existence of FBI informant files. Section 6 dovetails FOIA's exemptive provisions but, at the same time, introdu …”
“… be expected to ensure full and reasonable disclosure. In 1980, I filed an FOIA request for the Official and Confidential File of former FBI Director J. Frigar Hoover and in 1983 received approximately 6,000 heavily redacted pages of this 17,700 page file. Exercising my right t …”
“both in 1983 and 1985. When withholding this document (and five others pertaining to the same matter), the FBI had originally claimed that its release would reveal FBI sources and methods and violate personal privacy rights. Yet, Fortas had not bee …”
“… ased Hoover file. The resulting publicity heightened public and media interest in the heavily redacted Hoover file. By 1989, if not 1985, FBI officials were no longer willing to risk FOIA litigation challenging their claimed interpretation of the FOIA's exemptive provisions. My …”
“the release of the wiretap transcripts as well as other FBI memos recording how the FBI dealt with these transcripts. My experience involving how the FBI has processed my requests for other FBI wir …”
“released 1941 wiretap transcript'' particularly interested me as I had learned from documents contained in former FBI Assistant Director D. Milton Ladd's still extant office file that Grunewald, as other conservative critics of the Roosevelt Administration …”
“… question cannot be resolved. The heavily redacted Grunewald files further disclosed that Grunewald became the subject in 1953 of a third FBI wiretap. In 1952, a House Committee held public hearings on the subject of influence peddling that centered on Grunewald’s activities, am …”
“involving the 1941 and 1945 taps, were heavily redacted—the FBI withheld on personal privacy grounds the names and intercepted conversations of Grunewald's telephone partners, rendering the released tr …”
“… ly community. Let me conclude by briefly list some of these non-assassination-related questions: (1) the liaison relationship between the FBI and the CIA before and after the assassination; (2) the liaison relationship between the FBI and the Secret”
“13-00000 Service and the background to the FBI's revised deJimi Nation agreement of 1964 with the Secret Service; (3) the politics of presidential commissions (the purpose for creation …”
“… mpartial, independent board. It may be useful to state precisely what these records are. First, they encompass all of the records of the FBI, the CIA, Secret Service, military intelligence, and other Executive branch agencies which may pertain to the Kennedy assassination. They …”
“boxes of the internal files generated by. the Warren Commission are still sealed. Experts estimate that a much greater volume of FBI and CIA files remain sealed. Many pages of documents that have been released have been so extensively redacted that their informational …”
“… er time, other theories multiplied. Now, it takes whole books just to list books about the murder. Some of these books picture the CIA or FBI as plotters.”
“… . This bill itself speaks of protecting secret agents and intelligence sources and methods. It speaks also ■ of privacy rights. . CIA and FBI reports and National Security Agency intercepts contain much material that, by these criteria,- would have to remain secret. In fact, st …”
“… ght might have only a remote rela tionship to the murder. The clamor would be no less fero cious. How much of the central files, of the FBI and CIA would have. be opened, for example, to persuade disciples of Mark North or Mark Lane or Oliver Stone that neither FBI nor CIA of …”
“… r of President Kennedy. The injunction would apply to all congressional committees and all execu- ‘ tive agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Ser vice, and the National Archives. The bill could direct these record-holders to make the materials public. It could spec …”
“… s of Congress would make rules for their files. The President, the heads of de partments; the Directors of Central Intelligence and the FBI, and the Archivist f the United states would make rules for theirs. This alternative statute would limit the powers and n responsibilit …”
“… significant information being released. Case 1: In 1969 Harold Weisberg, a leading Warren Commission critic, made a simple request to the FBI. He wanted to see the results of the spectrographic, tests which had been conducted on”
“… ), bullet fragments and items of evidence allegedly struck by bullets during the assassination of President Kennedy. Denied access by the FBI and the Attorney General, in 1970 he brought suit. A four-year legal battle ensued. First, the district court, relying on the Justice Dep …”
“1974, it specifically overturned the Weisberg case, requiring that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies demonstrate that allegedly exempt records fall within one or more of six enumerated harms. In 1975, w …”
“13-00000 5 Weisberg obtained important records on these scientific tests, including records that the FBI had first said did not exist, then claimed were missing or destroyed. Other records were never located or were meaningless. From the date …”
“… in 1975, had been released nearly in full almost a decade earlier, by the CIA itself. Case 4: In 1969, Harold Weisberg made a request for FBI records on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. J. Edgar Hoover himself ordered that”
“… ed a new request for King assassination records. He specifically included a request for crime scene photographs. After he filed suit, the FBI claimed that it did not have any crime scene photographs. This statement was false. Ultimately, the FBI released more than 150 crime scen …”
“13-00000 8 FBI supervisor named Long had kept a tickler on the King assassination . A tickler is a file containing extra copies of documents kept at han …”
“… can be withheld from the public. Let me add , that while it is important to have obtained the public pledges from CIA Director ’Gates and FBI Director Sessions”
“… be fully resolved, however, this additional time will allow us to complete our work, including the review and public release of critical FBI and CIA records, submit a comprehensive and complete final report to the Congress and the”
“13-00000 important exception of the FBI and the CIA. I will elaborate on the status of records held by these two agencies later. The overwhelming majority of previously redacted …”
“FBI files on its investigation of the assassination. The important work in which the Review Board has been engaged can be best and most grap …”
“document and several others that relate to the FBI's interest in Oswald before the assassination. After protracted negotiations with the FBI, an initial FBI appeal to the White House in an …”
“… overnment, we were able to release the information. The unredacted memorandum shows that the Swiss Federal Police had been enlisted by the FBI to try to locate Oswald and to determine whether or not he had enrolled at a school in Switzerland. Now the public is able to see the doc …”
“… s well as other individuals who had knowledge of the autopsy and related photographic records. Identification and Location of Additional FBI Records and Information. The Review Board has continued its efforts to locate additional FBI assassination records by making several requ …”