“13-00000 .04/16/97 WED 16:11 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB @003 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 2 As we have written in our formal requests and as we have said to you orally, you should interpret our requests in the broadest reasonable sense. However, to the extent th”
“requests from the Board to the Agency for additional information, document searches and explanatory papers. HRP designated this ARRB activity, "Special Requests." During its existence the ARRB sent to the Agency fifty-three special requests, CIA 1-16 and CIA-IR 1-37. 2. Cate”
“13-00000 Although each request had unique characteristics, all began as a request by the Board or an ARRB staff member on behalf of the board for information. The requests fell generally into five broad categories as follows: a. Requests for access to basic information whic”
“sixty histories for which further review was sought. To date, the ARRB staff has reviewed the seven histories that CIA has made available and has made suggestions with respect to further processing of those seven histories. CIA should make the remaining sixty-plus histories av”
“attest, under oath, that it has made all reasonable and diligent searches and that its answers are true and correct to the extent of the best, reasonably available information. In this regard, is important to note that when the Review Board requests, for example, a 201 file, i”
“13-00000 _ _ / , . MAY 30 ‘95 11:45AM P.2 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 May 30, 1995 Mr. John Pereira Director Historical Review Group Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Washington”
“14-00000 A J 2 6 Fee 1996 3 MEMORANDUM FOR: Barry Harrelson Historical Review Group FROM: Lee S. Strickland . DA Focal Point for JFK Board Requests SUBJECT: ARRB Request for Access to Indices to CIA His tories REFERENCE: A. JFK Board Request No. CIA-7, dtd 9 Nov 1995”
“13-00000 ■ 04/16/97 WED 16:11 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB £002 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 ■ Fax: (202) 724-0457 April 16, 1997 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson Historical Review Group Center for the Study of Int”
“August 1993. The total number of pages released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was €. approximately 123,000. An additional release of >• approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA material from the sequestered collection was made in 1995..* d. Box 64 of the sequestered collec”
“13-00000 9 WED 15:53 FAX 202 724 0457 _____ ARRB CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO @001 DECLASS Fi, L RELEASE OFCATION AND/OR 9 % IN* THIS S INFORMATION’ UUV UMENT COVER SHEET To: J. Barry Harrelson Fax#: 703-613-3063 Subject: Segregated Collections Date: April 23, 1997 P”
“CIA Records and Information. The Review Board has initiated a number of requests to the CIA for additional information and records. The Review Board expects that these requests will be promptly and fully satisfied during the upcoming year. 4”
“14-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 24 February 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: Richard Flynn/@ DI (Teresa Wilco#@ DST Kathryn Dyer FROM: J. Barry Harrelson CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer SUBJECT: Records Briefing for ARRB Staff REFERENCE: ARRB letter to DCI, dtd. 27 No”
“13-00000 09/16/97 TUE 12:36 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB -3- - target dates: . Completion of final review of 63 boxes by January 31,1998. -time line: 9/30/97 box 40 (priority 1) 10/31/97 box 48 (priority 1) 11/30/97 box 56 (priority 1) 12/31/97 box 63 (priority 1) 1/31/98 ”
“of the ARRB Staff's CIA team are fully cleared (TS/SCI). 4. HRG reviewer Jim Hanrahan ((31809?) is the focal point for this request. Many of the documents described in CIA-9 were part of eight Executive Order Mandatory Review requests (see attachments) from 1994 and 1995. Ji”
“[Note: Two of the outstanding requests (CIA 16 and CIA-IR- 04) are long-overdue priorities that the ARRB staff requested by completed by 7 August. Laura may raise this issue. Several of the “Continuing” requests are close to completion.] Preparation of Records for NARA (Bo”
“13-00000 SECRET CL BY: 611637 CL REASON:Section 1.5 C ■ DECL ON: X1 DRV FRM: COV 2-87 15 January 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ DCI Fred Wickham @ DO Lee Strickland @ 0A FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer OFFICE: CSI/HRG SUBJECT: ARRB 22 January”
“be declared NBR (Not Believed Relevant) and their release postponed until 2017. The Agency position is that the privacy of each individual clearly outweighs the public interest, most of the information in these files has no relevance to the assassination story, and any related ”
“of postponed records from the CIA- HSCA Sequestered Collection and the Holmes Collection would be transferred in September 1999 after duplicates have been processed. To the extent CIA believes that certain other records, particularly those designated as NBR, must remain in C”
“necessary. The issues that we can now identify as being of the highest priority are identified in the text below by double asterisks (**)1 and we request that they be answered within the next month. We request that the remaining requests be answered by April 1, 1998. The rem”
“Barry Harrelson, that this request was primarily being researched by the Directorate for Science & Technology. CIA-IR-09 George Bush (S) The ARRB requested information about George Bush because of a reference to "George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" in a certai”
“1997. The briefing focused on the DA records systems that existed in the 1960s and the current records systems. Questions that were provided by the staff prior to the briefing were discussed and an individual from the Office of Communications (OC) attended to answer questions ”
“13-00000 fi6 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 CiA HAS NO C CTO DECLASAIFIC/ RELEASE- . ARMALON IN iHic November 27,1996 VIA FACSIMILE The Honorable John M. Deutch Director o”
“13-00000 TION 5.6 7 Assassination Records Review Board th 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202} 724-0088 • Fax: (202} 724-0457 w October 7, 1996 HAND DELIVERY Mr. Barry Harrelson Historical Review Group Center for the Study of Intelligence Centr”
“either, the Warren Commission or HSCA investigations; and the product of CIA internal-, reviews of ‘ programs and operations. Those parts of these materials which are determined by the ARRB staff to have relevancy to the assassination story will be reviewed by HRP andi relea”
“13-00000 04/16/97 WED 16:11 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB 0004 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 3 historical understanding of the assassination by providing some background on CIA records. CIA should now review the DO and DS&T organizational material and re-examine s”
“***& vp-vs - ■- .. * "1 C. "Working Files" (including "Russ Holmes" papers, etc.) -status: No Record Identification Forms have been prepared. ARRB staff has conducted a general survey. - target dates: .. Work to commence by CIA on October 1,1997. CIA should prepare Record”
“13-00000 04/23/97 WED 15:53 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB @002 CA 8 0 OBJECTION TO tit LASCATION AND/OR RELER A OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT Assassination Records Review Board Guidelines for Review of Postponements in the Segregated Collections Adopted: April 23, 1997 • ”
“Additional information/special requests - - official and informal. The responses should include tasking and response memos plus search strategy and files searched if ’ In cases of “no records” additional appropriate. documentation may be required. [Note : I have already re”
“13-00000 04/16/97 WED 16:12 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB 006 b Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 5 review.5 Michelle Combs reviewed the materials and identified some that should probably become available to the public. The DI has been tasked to locate the additional ”
“t 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 provi de . NW 65990 Docld:32”
“13-00000 SECRET (AIUO) 7. ARRB Request, CIA-IR-34, Files of CIA Officials and/or Officers. This is a major request. The board has ask for “the office files of the individual occupying the following positions during the period 1959-1964. " : X The Office of Deputy Director”
“cords to NARA for years. In accordance with statutory guidelines, NARA must ensure the confidentiali ty of investigatory sources and the proper protection of personal privacy and national security information, including intelligence sources and methods. NARA would continue the co”
“13-00000 U04/23/97 WED 15:53 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB ---- - ---- — ------ £001 I.. CO V E R HAY TAX SHEET To: J. Barry Harrelson Fax#: 703-613-3063 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO Subject: Segregated Collections / DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR Date: April 23, 1997 RELEASE OF THIS D”
“13-00000 09/16/97 TUE 12:35 FAX 202724-0457 @003 -2- .consequences for CIA and we expect to refine this timetable both to minimize the z'. resource impact and to allow us and the CIA to proceed most efficiently with the I review. We also, take very seriously our commitmen”
“privacy of each individual clearly outweighs the public interest, most of the information in these files has no relevance to the assassination story, and any related information exist elsewhere in the collection. At ARRB staff request HRP is preparing five OP files for review b”
“responsibility is to ensure public disclosure of all government records related to the assassination of President Kennedy. (FOUO) Topics the Board May Discuss: The Board probably will discuss their concern about whether they will be able to complete their work by the congre”
“13-00000 04/23/97 WED 15:54 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB 0004 -3- CIA Sources The Review Board established guidelines, during its December 1996 meeting, for handling CIA source issues and applied those guidelines at the January 1997 meeting. These guidelines directed the protec”
“13-00000 / SECRET g. - CL BY: 611637 CL REASON: Section 1.5 C DECL OREX1 DEV FRM COV 2-87 21 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ DCI Fredrick C. Wickhan @ DO Lee Strickland @ DA ( Linda Cipriani @ DCI FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer OFFICE”
“notices pertaining to the organizational structure of the Agency during the time periods specified by the ARRB staff. DA/IRO gave approval for the cleared staff members to review the material. Subsequently the DA/IRO approved release of the following items: 31 mission statemen”
“Archives as they are completed, rather than waiting until work on the entirety has been concluded. We have been asked about documents in our possession generated by other agencies. In fact,’much of the material held by CIA originated with other agencies or departments. For e”
“are CIA-originated cables, dispatches, memoranda, reports, and correspondence. i. There are questions of privacy that we believe the Board may want to consider in- determining what information is to be released to the public. Some of the records contain, for example, medica”
“14-00000 consistent standards were being used for the entire collection. Each document in the collection was read by an Historical Review Program (HRP) Reviewer — in every case a retired officer with at least two decades of Agency experience — who examined every word in t”
“13-00000 2705796 Assassination Records Review Board Work copy S . 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 October 27, 1996 CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 75 * T'. 4gin YAY Vs TY Y ' RELEASE IN Mr. Barry Harrelson Historical Rev”
“TESTIMONY BEFORE JFK BOARD, 6 AUGUST 1996 INTRODUCTION Introduce CIA participants We are pleased to provide information to the Assassination Records Review Board that might assist the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Re”
“"enforcement" of these (or other) targets. Although we surely hope that both the ARRB staff and CIA will be able to meet the targets, and although we certainly plan to make all reasonable accommodations for problems that no doubt will arise, we nevertheless anticipate that it ”
“13-00000 I 08/05/97 TUE 17:24 FAZ 202 724 0457 ARRB @001 1 1 I ■TlOW ey Po Assassination Records Review Board ft <w ge 0 600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20S30 (202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457 MEMORANDUM CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR”
“10 A6666_____ , 104-10331-10209 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET work cop 7 Cl BY: 611837 CL REASON: Section 1.6 C DEC otX1 on rat COV 2-87 21 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira § DCI Fredrick C. Wickham”
“13-00000 SECRET Status and Issues: The DO JFK Team is currently reviewing this proposal. If they agree with, the Agency and ARRB will spell out the guidelines which will be submitted to the Board at the 13 April meeting accompaniedbyastaff - recommendation to accept. If t”
“13-00000 TIOM O € O Assassination Records Review Board g.• 600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor * Washington, DC 20530 o (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 Ew 8° CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR February 11, 1998 RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED VIA F”
“Board raised two additional matters which tend to fall within the category of special requests: 1) A request that the Agency review and declassify the Board's interviews of former CIA officer and Mexico City station employee, Anne Goodpasture; the Agency's response to that reque”