“14-00000 % 5. With specific reference to the requirement of 1400.2 (a), the Agency should be concerned about its records within the DO which tie crypts to true names of projects and alias' and pseudos to the true names of individuals. Because we regularly called the DO of”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: Pending ARRB (JFK Board) Issues ISSUE 1 -— Unacknowledged Covert Actions 2. (S) Within records surfaced by the Ford Library is a document — a Helms Memorandum for the Record on a PFIAB meeting — which contains references to CIA covert financTal s”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT : Pending ARRB (JFK Board) Issues ISSUE 1 Unacknowledged Covert Actions 2. (S) Within records surfaced by the Ford Library is a document -- a Helms Memorandum for the Record on a PFIAB meeting -- which contains references to CIA covert financial ”
“opposes the 2010 change in the date, I will need a memo from the DO explaining why. We could offer a compromise-accept the 2010 date provided the Agency has the same right in 2010 as 2017 to review and appeal the release of the records. I have ask OGC for a legal opinion. Pleas”
“13-00000 Drebdocidre CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RELEASE IN FULL 2000 11 February 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM: Gary M. Breneman, IC SUBJECT: Comparison of ARRB and DO Memoranda re Treatment of CIA Officer Names in JFK Collection 1. This memorandum is in response t”
“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 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”
“information that is only incidental to the assassination, such as a passing reference to a name. There is a potential risk that sensitive, non-relevant sources and methods would be compromised. We suggest that the Board consider adding wording to this section that accommodates t”
“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”
“13-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE-INTERNAL USE ONLY SUBJECT : Analysis of ARRB and DO Memoranda re Treatment of CIA Officer Names in JFK Collection (Prepared by Gary Breneman, 11 Feb 97) 1. ARRB Memorandum. The Gunn memorandum sets out the criteria required to meet the burden und”
“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 ”
“With respect to the Review Board's request that CIA submit a / Final Declaration of Compliance under penalty of perjury, we are in the process of identifying the appropriate CIA official to sign such a Declaration. Both HRP and my office will work closely with you to ensure t”
“compromise-accept the 2010 date provided the Agency has the same right in 2010 as 2017 to review and appeal the release of the records. I have ask OGC for a legal opinion. Please note that this decision affects only those documents designated "NBR" by ARRB. The documents declar”
“13-00000 SECRET WORKING PAPER wakfil 5 March, 1997 Memorandum For: Chief/HRG From: Barry Harrelson Subject: Name Issue / Status of Review Reference: Meetings with ARRB staff (Marwell & Gunn) 4 March 1997 Name Issue I met with Gunn and Marwell (separate meetings) to d”
“19 AGAAA____ , 104-10331-10076 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET D % CSI-0042/95 27 June 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence VIA: Executive Director Gene”
“13-00000 SECRET J FL 10 95 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Historical Review Group FROM: Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr. DO, Focal Point for ARRB SUBJECT : Position on Release of Cryptonyms, Country Designators, Action Indicators and Employee True Names % During the period since th”
“***& 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”
“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”
“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”
“10 A6666______ , '104-10331-10338 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 1 Secret 26 February 1997 Memorandum For: John Pereira Chief, Historical Review Group From: Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer / Subject: (U) CIA Emp”
“13-00000 APR 15 ‘97 05:01PM USGOVERNMENT P.8/14 SECRET Subject: CIA Employees substitution for the true name be used. If the Review Board is concerned about tracking particular employees throughout the records, a particular identifying substitution can be used for a parti”
“13-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE-INTERNAL USE ONLY 6 iv. The release of the officer's name would cause significant harm to the national security or the foreign relations of the U.S. (a criteria which is broad enough to drive the proverbial Mack truck through). 2. In Part II, t”
“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”
“19 AAAY---- 104-10330-10083 12025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 - APR 15 ‘97 04:55PM USGOVERNMENT P.2/14 SECRET Central Intelligence Agency Washington. C 20505 15 April 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: David G. Marwell Executive Dir”
“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”
“19 AAAGA_____ , 104-10331-10154 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 Secret 0 5 March 1997 Memorandum For: Fred Wickham, DO Focal Point for JFK Linda. Cipriani, OGC Focal Point for JFK From : Barry Harrelson JFK Project Offi”
“13-00000 . APR 15 ‘97 04:55PM USGOVERNMENT • • /P.2/14 4 SECRET Central Intelligence Agency Washington C.2050S 15 April 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: David G. Marwell; Executive Director Assassination Records Review Board SUBJECT: CIA Employees (We request that this memoran”
“the agreed NARA deadline for the remaining files. 17. (S) The inadvertent releases of former employees names resulted in a few individual complaints but no known foreign government or liaison service complaints. Four foreign governments opposed release of their information, ”
“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”
“"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 ”
“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 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 ”
“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”
“14-00000 sensitive activities even when the documents contain information that is only incidental to the assassination, such as a passing reference to a name. There is a potential risk that sensitive, non-relevant sources and methods would be compromised. We suggest that t”
“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 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”
“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”
“thereof, of retired individuals' employment by CIA had to be checked in each case. Names of key players in the post assassination scenario, as stipulated by the Board, were released as true names or with temporary and traceable substitute names. Identification by the Board o”
“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”
“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 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”
“important to understand July22, 1992 1-62.99 under standards similar to the Board's deci ing information related to sions for CIA officers. Where the Review the assassination, the Board believed names held a high level of Review Board required the CIA to provide public inte”
“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 / 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 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”
“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 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”
“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 • (a SECRET - WORKING PAPER Pending Issues As part of the change in process, Marwell wants the Board to focus on outstanding substantive issues as opposed to micro managing the review. We discussed the following: 1) Nosenko. ARRB staff needs to review the non-”