“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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 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”
“[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 ■ 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”
“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”
“13-00000 Assassination Records Review Board ■ 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 November 9,1995. CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIMDATIOK AND/OR HAND DELIVERED RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT Mr. John Pe”
“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”
“that it is fully prepared to do so ifnecessary to complete its work by its September 30, 1998, termination date. . I urge you to take all appropriate steps to ensure that the CIA promptly fulfills its obligations under the law by expeditiously reviewing and transferring the re”
“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”
“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”
“13-00000 re C/A IR-01 TION 18 DEC97 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 * Fax: (202) 724-0457 December 18, 1997 .14 Cni T de " ACTORTC OLLR. Lolo 0 IN (IT 1 Mr. John Pereira Chief 2000 Historical Review”
“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 ”
“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 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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“13-00000 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW ■ 2nd Floor ■ Washington, DC 20530 June 14,1995 Mr. John Pereira Chief, Historical Review Group CIA 1820 North Fort Myers Drive Arlington, VA 22209 Slc.' Dear Mr. Pereira: I have attached a list of ARRB em”
“13-00000 DEC SECRET Central Intelligence Agency Washington D C.20505 28 January 1997 Mr. David G. Marwell Executive Director Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear David: This is to acknowledge your letter of 3 January 1997 ”
“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 ”
“13-00000 ub ju 93 FKI US. 31 TAl 202 124 0437 AKKD Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW ■ 2nd Floor ■ Washington, DC 20530 June 30, 1995 Mr. John Pereira Chief, Historical Review Group CIA I 1820 North Fort Myers Drive Arlington, VA 22209 £1 re Dear Mr”
“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”
“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”
“13-00000 SECRET Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC| financial records. ARRB staff plans to recommend to the Board that monthly summaries be considered ARs and the remaining material be designated NBR. Samples of these documents have been provided to DA, DO, and DCI/IRO. If y”
“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 ION ia O €‘st Assassination Records Review Board W • H • 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 Ew „or September 23, 1998 The Honorable George Tenet Director of Central Intelligence The Central Intelligence Ag”
“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”
“***& 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”
“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 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”
“statement that the Joint Staff was standing by to expeditiously process these records for declassification in collaboration with other agencies when the ARRB was ready. ARRB staff has only recently completed its initial review of these records, which constitute selectively fla”
“13-00000 SECRET Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) financial records. ARRB staff plans to recommend to the Board that monthly summaries be considered ARs and the remaining material be designated NBR. Samples of these documents have been provided to DA, DO, and DCI/IRO. If y”
“discussed at our meeting, the Review Board staff understands that the history has been located and the Review Board staff awaits its being made available. CIA-8 (Intelligence community staff) CIA will provide a report to the Review Board staff within two weeks. CIA-9 (Pub”
“files that remained of interest to the Board. As soon as we receive a list of the missing files, we will begin an in-depth review of Executive Registry records in an effort to locate the missing file See Attachment 10 CIA-IR-31 Dulles Calendars The ARRB staff has completed ”
“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”
“13-00000 ION Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088- Fax: (202) 724-0457 9 CA HAS No OBJECTION TO June 9, 1997 DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT° Stewart F. Aly Mr. Edmund”
“13-00000 Ronald Haron, Esq. potentially relevant to the subject matter of the search. An RVO also has authority to execute affidavits or to testify under oath with respect to all the record searches done by every Directorate or component of the CIA. For your information, t”
“"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 ”
“4-00000 ,I 1,00 % —v- (- U4.) / VKKI 0001 facsimile TRANSMITTAL ~,-5 to: John Pereira, CIA Historical Review Program fax #: (703) 243-8343 re: ARRB proposed interpretive regulations date: February 9, 1995 pages: 4, including cover sheet. Dear John: Following this c”
“13-00000 101/30/98 FK1 11:00 FAA 202 ART Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202} 724-0088 • Fax: (202} 724-0457 January 30, 1998 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION AN IHIS DOCU”
“13-00000 %. SECRET / organization be processed as a assassination record, and that the remainder of the CIA Ramparts Memorandum be declared NBR. The memorandum discusses the truth or fallacy of the allegations in Ramparts the Agency used non-governmental organizations for s”
“searches, the Review Board continues to seek a full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods. CIA-IR-16 U-2 files. DS&T will provide a folder title print out of U-2 materials for Review Board examination, check for records filed under Richa”
“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”
“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”