“… R, H. CLARK, C/P&RG TO: O/SA/DO/O TITLE: MEMORANDUM ON HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS REQUEST DATE: 01/24/1978 PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS: CIA RECORDS HSCA REQUEST CCS RECORDS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER CLASSIFICATION: SECRET RESTRICTIONS: 1A 1B CURRENT STATUS: RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC DATE OF LA …”
“… Nov 76 Sprague_ Questions & Comments_ re Transcript s./Photos/ Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD. 23 Nov 76 _ DCI_ (Bush) Letter to Downing re CIA Records Moratorium- 26-Nov—7-6 Dos-t—a-rticle: "CIA With held Details-on 0s.wal.d Call". 1 Dec 76 Meeting with Sprague. 1 December.______________ …”
“… AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO : TITLE: REVIEW OF MEXICO CITY STATION FILES AT THE RECORD'S DATE: 05/02/1977 CENTER. PAGES : 6 SUBJECTS: CIA RECORDS JFK ASSASSINATION MEXICO STATION DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER CLASSIFICATION : SECRET 1B RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC R …”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) Comment: CIA records refer only to one Alexander ROGOV who in 1960 was a senior official at the main Inturist office in the Hotel National in Moscow. Nataliy …”
“… er turned over to the British Commonwealth Department which "planted him in the British Trade Mission or something like that". Comment: CIA records contain no reference identifiable with IVANOV. Marina RYTOVA RYTOVA, KGB cryptonym "KRYMOVA", was turned over to NOSENKO by another Se …”
“… es. Later he was in Yugoslavia for four or - five years, and was probably Deputy Chief of the KGB Legal Residency in Belgrade. Comment: CIA records contain references to an Aleksandr - Nikolayevich CHEREPANOV, a Soviet diplomat and suspected intelligence officer in Belgrade in 1953. …”
“… CONVECTION BITH ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. NICE THE ٤١٢ SUCH CONVECTION IS asom oGENTLY. The sole connection we know about has been with CIA Records do not reflect any prior association with the Cuban IA, nor has subject ever been charged with such an association. 2. LIST OTHER INDIVIDUA …”
“… r exaggerating this link. The most promising source of hard evidence on this matter would be a close study of the pre-assassination FBI and CIA records. From a document not given to the Warren Commission but released to me under the Freedom of Information Act, it can be firmly established t …”
“… be deterained if Hunt had any, knowledge of Oswald's activities, whether or not he met him. This requires an examination of contemporaneous CIA records relating to Oswald, and an understanding of the flow of communications within the CIA station. A number of the internal CIA Communications …”
“ink. The most promising source of hard evidence on this matter would be a close study of the pre -as sassination FBI and CIA records. From a document not given to the Warren Commission but released to me under the Freedom of Information Act, it can be firmly established t …”
“… be deterained if Hunt had any, knowledge of Oswald's activities, whether or not he met him. This requires an examination of contemporaneous CIA records rela ting to Oswald, and an understanding of the flow of communications within the CIA station. A number of the intern al CIA Communication …”
“… a ggerating this l ink. The m os t promising source of hard evidence on this matter would be a close study of the pre-assassination FBI and CIA records. From a document not given to the Warren Commission but released to me under the Freedom of Information Act, it can be firmly established t …”
“… e detera ined if Hunt had any, knowledge of Oswald's activities, whether or not he met him. This requires an examination of contemporaneous CIA records relating to Oswald, and an understanding of the flow of communications within the CIA station. A number of the internal CIA Communications …”
“… a, he had a special assignment to check on P.F. SHAKHOV, a senior advisor to the Soviet Delegation.* SHAKHOV had been noted in contact ♦CIA records show that SHAKHOV has served in and visited the United States on numerous occasions since 1942, when he was ■ assigned at the Soviet Cons …”
“… about him. KROTKOV, an admitted agent of the KGB Second Chief Directorate, is believed by MI-5 and CIA to remain under KGB control. ** CIA records show that KOROLEV was employed at the Soviet Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair in 1958 as a photo- correspondent for the Soviet publi …”
“… formation about RICHARDS. In addition, some Soviet drivers reported on RICHARDS, but nothing useful was obtained from them. According to CIA records, RICHARDS served in Moscow from July 1954 to July 1956. There was a microphone in the office which he shared first with MICKELSON and lat …”
“… he was for all members of the Air At- tache’s office at that time. NOSENKO knew of no other interest or activity concerning VAN LAETHEM. CIA records show that VAN LAETHEM was not an Assistant Air Attache but an Assistant Army Attache, serving in Moscow from March 1951 to March 1953.* A …”
“… and several other cases in which Americans were suspected of being homosexuals on the basis of the evaluation of these two. Additionally, CIA records 4 ■ indicate that at least six Americans, not reported on by NOSENKO, have had contacts with one or both of these agents In Moscow. Of t …”
“… in the American Department, Second Chief Directorate. in about 1956, according to GOLITSYN, KOVSHUK was handling KG3 agent Henry SHAPIRO, CIA records show that in addition, KOVSHUK was involved in the Moscow and Wash ington phases of the "ANDREY" case (he was identified by Dayle SMITH …”
“… al rank, previous foreign assign ments, military service, or status as Foreign Service Reserve, Staff or Officer (FSR, FSS, FSO), ** * CIA records indicate that ABIDIAN studied in Paris in 1949-50 and then secured employment with the Department of State as a clerk/typist. He remained …”
“… ******** SN,St*.ow-crxsllOWS-*P ARSR-a 230. (continuation of footnote from preceding page) code clerk John GARLAND (Part V.E.3.c.i.). CIA records -f 3 show that ABIDIAN mailed the first of his clandestine letters on 1 April 1961 and his second, the one to "ARKHANGELSKIY", on 2 Jul …”
“… ing unusual or sus picious having been noted. Therefore he thought that this incident would not be particularly interesting to the CIA. CIA records show that ABIDIAN visited the Pushkin Street dead drop site only once, once. on 30 December 1961, a year later than NOSENKO says, in res …”
“correctly identified by NOSENKO as a CIA officer. CIA records show that, as a staff officer, MAHONEY served in Frankfurt during 1955 and 1956 and was connected with a joint CIA/MI-6 project which han …”
“… connected with support of the PENKOVSKIY operation; he was withdrawn from Moscow in September 1961, less than a year after his arrival. CIA records indicate that GABBLER was detailed to CIA by the Navy in April 1952 and served CIA under Naval cover in Berlin from January 1953 until Ju …”
“… to the Tourist Department, and later the British Department was planning to use her in either the British or Canad ian Embassies.. •’ CIA records show that LEVINA was employed at the Embassy as a librarian from January 1958 through January 1962, when she was released. Paul”
“… erwards; during all of this period, NOSENKO had said, he was in the U.S. Embassy Section of the First Depart ment. NOSENKO was told that CIA records show that ABIDIAN made only one visit to this dead drop site, on 30 December 1961, six days before the approach to JOHNSON. He answered o …”
“… when the latter travelled to the Soviet Union, one in September - and one towards the end of 1963. b. Information from Other Sources: Pry CIA records reflect that Alexander SVENCHANSKIYwas born I on 6 March 1909 in Theodosia, Russia.. He immigrated to the United States- in. 1923 and becam …”
“… d. As indicated below, BARGHOORN returned from Alma-Ata to Moscow on 25 October 1963 and was arrested on 31 October 1963, six days later. CIA records show that on , 30 October, the day before the arrest, KHRUSHCHEV greeted , Laotian Premier SOUVANNA Phouma on his arrival in Moscow and la …”
“… ersonnel whom the letter writer had named. Among these names was (fnu) NOSENKO, and GOLITSYN indicated he had previously reported on him; CIA records, however, show that GOLITSYN had reported only on one Aleksandr Fedoseyevich NOSENKO•- who had’ been a KGB officer in Japan when RASTVORO …”
“… in reference to his claimed positions in the U.S. Embassy Section during 1960-1961: * NOSENKO Collateral U.S. Embassy Security Officer CIA records on the PEKOVSKIY John V. ABIDIAN, for whom NOSENKO case, in which the Pushkin was the responsible KGB officer, Street dead drop was used, …”
“… ted nothing unusual during this period and that he was sure ABIDIAN had not eluded the sur- veilla ce at any time during it. According to CIA records, three days before ABIDIAN went to Pushkin Street in response to indications that the dead drop had beer, loaded.”
“… is date was settled upon after he acknowledged that his approach to the American tourist W.E. JOHNSON must have occurred on 5 January, as CIA records show. O R * L J .I C .”
“… transactions in the USSR, and that in addition to his travel agency, SVENCHANSKIY ran a Russian-language book store in Chicago. FBI and CIA records show that SVENCHANSKIY has been employed by a series of registered Soviet Government organizations in the United States since the early 1 …”
“… R : _‘e frot GOSENEO econd Chief I6 was shs !: m. f €a as :e rsonsl whom the .nu) NOFENKO, and dieted. -* 2 St: 3. !. : col *, *I had; CIA records, , : to. •: :ndc. pr* d: ly one Aleksanor • i.h 535* -., who ■ 1 . 1: A:_.Japan when 1: . * alde te Eurtier (:. c..t S. !1. 3, * setife …”
“… PENKOVSKIY was at a reception in Moscow, he was observed making contact with an American in a lavatory. Gtor/Pdid not date this event, but CIA records show that it was on 27 August 1962. "JhAil, added that the KGB "invented" the incident at Pushkin Street on 2 Nov ember 1962, the month af …”
“… e President. SUMMARY: Additional formal determinations from the Assassination Records Review Board concerning the public disclosure of CIA records on September 9 and September 14, 1998. Date: 28 September 1998 Received in ER: 28 September 1998 Action Officer: Tracie Matecka x37932 …”
“… to pre-review and process its records consistent with completion of this task, the Review Board will vote to release-in-full all relevant CIA records and mandate that custody be transferred to the National Archives in a timely way. We sincerely hope that it will not be necessary for the …”
“… uments: 1. What is the size of the JFK declassification problem ? How much work remains to be done ? - An additional 40-50,000 pages of CIA records remain to be reviewed by 30 September 1998. - A large volume of documents are being referred to CIA by other agencies for review, inclu …”
“circumstances: A. The ARRB has recently exercised its statutory authority and designated additional CIA records to be within the JFK collection (to date approximately twenty cubic feet or 40,000 pages) . Additional records may be identified as / th …”
“… 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 g …”
“… recedent, since CIA has 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, t …”
“… nearly half of the 34 boxes of DO-collecte d material consists of third-agency material. The collection's remaining 29 boxes contain mostly CIA records, as do es the box of microfilm, except for Oswal d's 201 file. There is also some documentation of foreign liaison, ma inly wit h the Mexic …”
“… recedent, since CIA has previously retired over 4000 cubic feet of Office of Strategic Services operational records to NARA, as well as all CIA records so far declassified und”
“f Strategic Services operational records to NARA, as well as all CIA records so far declassified und er the Agency's Historical Review Program. Although CIA has not previously transferred classified records to NARA, …”
“… tive Director General Counsel FROM: Brian Latell Director, Center for the Study of • Intelligence SUBJECT: JFK Review Board Actions on CIA Records 1 REFERENCE: Letter to DCI fr Executive Director, ARRB dtd 21 June, 1995, Same Subject 1. Action Requested. That you disapprove the DO …”
“13-00000 SECRET € D SUBJECT: JFK Review Board Actions on CIA Records 4. The DO Position: The Acting Deputy Director for • Operations reluctantly acquiesces to the release in full of the 16 documents with …”
“13-00000 SECRET v D SUBJECT : JFK Review Board Actions on CIA Records DCI/CSI/BLatell:aw/30214 (27 June 95) Distribution: Original - Addressee (w/atts) 1 - DDCI (w/atts) 1 - ExDir (w/atts) 1 - Executive …”
“… ct Officer OFFICE: CSI/HRG SUBJECT: ARRB meeting 17 November ■ Results REFERENCE: 1. Reconsideration of the release of Warrenton as CIA Records Center: The Board accepted the Agency's request for reconsideration; postponed until 2017. 2. CIA use of State Cover: The Board did n …”
“… ct Officer OFFICE: CSI/HRG SUBJECT: ARRB meeting 17 November - Results REFERENCE: 1. Reconsideration of the release of Warrenton as CIA Records Center: The Board accepted the Agency's request for reconsideration; postponed until 2017. 2. CIA use of State Cover: )' The Board di …”
“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 Review Board now issu …”