“… at day; and 1 Private collections of records from individuals including Warren Commission attorney Wesley Liebler, author David Lifton, FBI Special Agent Hosty, Attorney Frank Ragano, as well as others. I am also pleased to announce today that the Review Board has just acquir …”
“… f these records are dearly of great significance, some are of only marginal interest, and the relevance of others cannot be identified. FBI Sequestered Collection. The FBI divides its assassination records into two general categories. The first is the "Core and”
“Related Files," consisting of nearly 600,000 pages of files collected in the course of the massive FBI investigation into the assassination. The Review Board will complete its review of this significant collection by the end of FY 1997. The …”
“… that all that remains for the Board can be accomplished in an additional year. VIII. An Approach to the Review of the Remaining CIA and FBI Records It is clear to the members of the Review Board that there is much work to be done. The review of the remaining CIA and FBI recor …”
“… o be approved by the Review Board and the agency thereupon voluntarily consents to the release of the information. In our review of the FBI’s "Core and Related Files"and the CIA’s "Oswald 201 File," the records that have been the focus”
“… uld result from the release of the information outweigh the public interest in the information? In considering our review of the CIA and FBI "Sequestered Collections," the Board recognized that it needed to develop a different approach, one that would take into account the vari …”
“… ost important records, but with the benefit of our invaluable experience. I am happy . to report that we have received assurances from the FBI and CIA that they will work with us in a final year to make sure that the necessary resources are applied so that our task can be complet …”
“time will be primarily to secure the release of documents from the CIA and the FBI. Those are the two main agencies left from which they still have a considerable number of documents to be released. Mr. Chairman, in clos …”
“… was available to the public up until several years ago. You probably cannot see it from here, but it is a document that was sent from the FBI's representative in Paris to Director Hoover on October 12, 1960. That is”
“… duals had about this was great. Well, the board aggressively pursued the release of this information, initially ordering its release. The FBI appealed that decision to the president. Subsequently we worked out with them, including an aggressive effort to contact Swiss authoritie …”
“… cument tells about the investigation that Swiss authorities did to determine whether Oswald was, indeed, enrolled. He was someone who the FBI was following because of his interest in defecting to the Soviet Union. That's a good example of the type of work that the review board i …”
“… additional year we will be able to get through the records, which will largely involve the sequestered collections at the CIA and at the FBI — records sequestered by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. I'd be happy to answer any questions, Mr. Chairman, that you and t …”
“… of the register of the collection, which lists the major groups of federal records and private papers along with a supplemental listing of FBI records. Not only has the collection increased dramatically in size; the significance”
“… e wake of the assassination can finally be assessed with some fairness and thoroughness. The fact is that the information provided by the FBI, CIA and other agencies was instrumental to preventing the United States government from overreacting when the circumstantial public evid …”
“… portive and we've appreciated that support. REP. HASTERT: Why have you waited to this point in the process to begin reviewing the CIA and FBI records? MR. TUNHEIM: Well, we've been reviewing CIA records and FBI records from the very beginning, Mr. Chairman. The volume of records …”
“… ghly relevant to the assassination, others are not. Within the CIA there are about 62 boxes of material and 72 reels of microfilm. In the FBI in the same kind of sequestered collection is about 280,000 pages of records. Those records are the focus of the review board's work over …”
“… 60 and didn't show up. Nothing sinister or unusual in that at all. The question I have is, when you were testifying you indicated that the FBI originally appealed the decision to not-or to withdraw the redaction of this particular document. You also indicated that the vast majori …”
“good working relationship with the people within that agency who are doing their work. The FBI appealed a significant number of our decisions, but now all of those appeals have been withdrawn. And we've got a working relationship wit …”
“… peration of the government circa 1963-64, because they had an overriding mandate. But yet they were going up against agencies such as the FBI and CIA with”
“13-00000 entrenched interests, and especially Hoover's FBI was sort of a wonder to behold. You dealt with it very gingerly. So it's a great — and the FBI had not been second-guessed since Hoover b …”
“13-00000 PAGE 34 Federal News Service, JUNE 4, 1997 you believe the CIA and FBI will release information sooner? And if so, presumably they'll still be redacted, which still could lead to Oliver Stone movies and Linco …”
“… our indulgence and just ask one more question, if I may. Mr. Tunheim, if I might, my previous question about difficulty with the CIA and FBI. Sometimes I don't make things broad enough. And I guess my query would be, it's been brought to my attention that perhaps there's been so …”
“… of declassification (review by retired senior officers, coordination with DO, OGC, others) • Criteria for redaction - Coordination with FBI, other agencies on third agency documents. • Presidentially-appointed JFK Assassination Records Review Board - - Differences with the Boa …”
“… ess of declassification (review by retired senior officers, coordination with DO, OGC, others) Criteria for redaction Coordination with FBI, other agencies on”
“… INTERNAL USE ONLY appeals within 7 days of receiving Notification Letter 4. CIA has never before presented an appeal to the President; FBI presented an appeal last year but the White House told the parties to work out their difficulties. III. February Sth Appeal 1. In Nove …”
“… Sequestered Other records: 17 (hardy copy/mierliter (63 +72) Minutes of DCI morning meetings; working files Third Agency documents: FBI, SSCI, Presidential libraries 2. Pages released (227,000) Percentage of pages redacted; 70 % 3. Process of declassification Former seni …”
“liaison issued We later noted that the only other appeal thus far involves the FBI, and the White House has told the Bureau to resolve the matter with the Board. (S) 3. Pereira noted to the staffers that we're dealing w …”
“… ood working relationship with the staff. Under the provisions of the Act, the Board will be working until October 1997, dealing with CIA, FBI, DepState, as well as private individuals and even foreign governments. They are interviewing people, and as Pereira noted, "getting theor …”
“… erican trip as illustrative of Mexican sensitivity to the liaison issue. We later noted that the only other appeal thus far involves the FBI, and the White House has told the Bureau to resolve the matter with the Board. (S) 3. Pereira noted to the staffers that we're dealing w …”
“… ood working relationship with the staff. Under the provisions of the act, the Board will be working until October 1997, dealing with CIA, FBI, DepState, as well as private individuals and even foreign governments. They are interviewing people, and as Pereira noted, "getting the …”
“… he SSCI (Church Committee and the Ford Presidential Library (Rockefellow Commission) plus numerous referrals from other federal agencies (FBI, State, Army, etc.). Due to delays in the appointment of its members and the time required to hire and clear a staff, the ARRB did not …”
“… 201 after the its transfer to HRG, were released in September 1998. Office of Security File (2041 pages): Contained key Oswald documents, FBI investigative”
“… abroad, who, upon being informed, demanded and received compensation for the violation of his confidential relationship with CIA and the FBI. The other outraged former employee, also living abroad, threatened to contact the President if it became known in his adopted country th …”
“… he tions, U.S. cryptologic systems, war plans assassination were under the control of the that are still in effect, and protection of the FBI, the CIA, and the Congressional Commit President.8 tees who investigated the assassination. The FOIA provides special protections for ea …”
“… is discre standards of the Review Board. tion. The burden was on the agencies to make the case for postponement, not to judge the a. The FBI's “core and related" files. level of public interest in a particular docu ment. The JFK Act established the Review The FBI's "core and r …”
“files indude risk of harm did outweigh the public interest FBI files on Lee'Harvey Oswald's wife in disclosure, it then had to take two addi Marina and mother Marguerite, Oswald's tional steps: (1) e …”
“13-00000 Chapter 5: The Standards for Review: Review BOARD “COMMON LAW” b. CIA's Lee Harvey Oswald "201 " file. e. FBI records on the congressional commit tees that investigated the assassination. CIA opens a 201 file on an individual when it has an "ope …”
“files related to topics the assassination. other than the Kennedy assassination. To the c. The FBI's "House Select Committee on extent that the Review Board found records in these files that concerned topics other than “Assassinations" …”
“… records clear and convincing evidence that [the- on an issue-by-issue basis. For example, with harm from disclosure outweighs the public FBI records, the Review Board first sched interest in release.] uled a group of FBI records for review and notified the FBI of the meeting d …”
“each post "position papers" summarized the FBI's gen ponement type. eral policy preferences for continued classifi cation of certain categories of information. b. Commentary. Althou …”
“the FBI's general policy preferences on the basis that the arguments did not constitute pelling interests: are cies to present evidence wesoling …”
“possible, con nearly all of the information in the FBI's pre sultation with the government offices creates assassination Lee Harvey Oswald file and the an understanding on each side as to the …”
“… y the Department of to provide evidence on an informant. (See State spent a substantial amount of time illustration.) The form allowed the FBI to resolving the issues that arose in the appeal simply fill in the answers to a series of ques process, and for those important records …”
“such as the CIA assassination. For those records that truly had and FBI to work out an approach for review of no apparent relevance to the assassination, records that would allow the Review Board to the Review …”
“… xplored as potentially rele Board would need to make a decision. For vant to the assassination, the Review Board example, with regard to FBI informants, the created the "Segregated Collection Guide Review Board notified the FBI of what it con lines." The segregated collections …”
“… rs who are still active or who retired regated Collections" to include the following: under cover and are now living in potentially 9 (1) FBI records that were requested by the risky circumstances. The Review Board usu * HSCA in conjunction with its investigation ally released n …”
“… o Review Board allowed the CIA ample time to other U.S. government agencies; for example, locate evidence on each crypt. Finally, the the FBI was "ODENVY." The Review Board Review Board released a group of CIA crypts made a blanket decision to release all U.S. from Mexico City wi …”
“… ration.) The Review ponements of all CIA crypts- -even Board released CIA sluglines according to the "ODENVY"—the CIA's old crypt for the FBI same criteria it applied to crypts and that CIA had already released in other CIA digraphs. 52 sesto-ksksn%”
“and eventu n. Human sources in FBI foreign ally convinced the Review Board that the counterintelligence (assets). harm in releasing information about official cover outwei …”
“… release of specific information about alias documentation ii. Commentary. In its position paper, the would not be useful to assassination FBI defined "intelligence source" as "any 56”