“"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 ”
“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 ■ 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”
“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”
“14-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 24 February 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: Lee Strickland @ DA DA Focal Point for JFK Board FROM: J. Barry Harrelson CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer SUBJECT: Records Briefing for ARRB Staff REFERENCE: 1. Meeting with you, 21 February, ”
“Service. The ARRB members were appointed by President Clinton in 1993 as required by statute. Their principal responsibility is to ensure public disclosure of government records related to the assassination of President Kennedy. The statute grants the Board full access to al”
“13-00000 1^002 09/16/98 WED 12:59 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB TION to 1 Assassination Records Review Board W 1 amism 600 E Street NW. 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 Co (202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457 W 1O CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF CI”
“and has determined that Mr. Pereira will continue to act as the CIA official responsible for ensuring full compliance with the JFK Act and will remain the Agency's focal point with the Review Board. You have also requested that CIA provide an Initial Statement of Compliance.”
“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”
“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 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 * The Agency recognizes that there are employees who are part of the JFK story (many of their names have already been released). We propose that the ARRB staff and HRG work together to establish a list of individuals who are important to the story. These n”
“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”
“Division, Joint Staff) at the request of the ARRB staff. With one exception, ARRB staff feels that all records flagged by Mr. McBride's working group are relevant to the historical understanding or context of the assassination of President Kennedy. A description of the record”
“of those files. At this time, we do not propose that you make any major changes that would delay the formal submission of the initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board.1 1 We note that the initial draft statement generally describes the records identified in response ”
“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 tlON o Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 ' Fax: (202) 724-0457 September 14, 1998 VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL The Honorable George Tenet Director Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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 @1 003 09/16/98 WED 13:00 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB J Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq Gary M. Stern, Esq. September 16, 1998 Page 2 enclosed draft MOU so that we can resolve any outstanding issues and ultimately reach an agreement on an MOU before September 30, 1998”
“13-00000 ARRB 008 09/16/98 WED 13:03 FAX 202 724 0457 % DRAFT -5- 8. With respect to the review of other agency documents referred to CIA, the review of any new assassination records, or the periodic review of postponed assassination records, the CIA shall, in good faith”
“13-00000 2U4of AKKN @001 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20S30 (202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457 CECLAS NO OBJECTION TO RELEASEDTIONAMYOR August 10, 1998 . AS sANTZED S DOCUMENT VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL Robert M. ”
“13-00000--- Assassination Records Review Board G 600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724—0457 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO October 30, 1997 DECLASSIFICATION ANDVOR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED VIA FACSIMILE J. Barry Harr”
“13-00000 SECRET CL BY: 611637 CL REASOE Section 1.5 C DECI 0m X1 DRV FRU: LOC 5-82 5 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira @ DCI Fred Wickham @ DO Lee Strickland @ DA Kathryn Dyer @ DCI Linda Cipriani @ DCI ' FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer O”
“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”
“coordination with the JFK Assassination Records Review Board on behalf of the Agency, an ongoing process since FY 1994. HRP provided a central Agency focus for a process which: Coordinated with Board Staff on relevancy and classification on roughly 250,000 pages (many duplica”
“10 A6666_____ , 104-10331-10202 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET CL BY: 611637 a REASON: Section 1.5 c DECL OR X1 DRV FRM: LOC 5-82 5 November 1997 MEMORANDUM FOR: John Pereira 3 DCI Fred Wickham @ DO Lee Stric”
“received bipartisan support in Congress. During consideration of H.R. 1553, I stated my firm intention for this to be the final extension of authorization for the Review Board. Accordingly, I believe that it is ofutmost importance that all federal agencies holding assassinatio”
“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”
“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 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”
“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____ Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq. July 15, 1998 Page 12 individual for certain important components of CIA execute an affidavit on behalf of that component certifying, under penalty of perjury, that a diligent search for assassination records was undertaken. Acco”
“13-00000. DEC 09 '96 03:17PM 2 IA P.3/4 David G. Marwell Harrelson directly. As usual, they will provide you with the specific information you need as quickly as possible to continue to record CIA's compliance with the JFK Act. As to your request for a complete descripti”
“14-00000 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE OWt-Y e under penalty of perjury, that they had conducted thorough searches and identified all relevant records. The CIA refused. The Board then, as an alternative, asked the highest officials of the Agency - - the Executive Director an”
“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”
“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”
“time the Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for the Studies of Intelligence (CSI) had been the principal liaison with the JFK Board. As of that date, DCI area/IRO was appointed to be the DCI area focal point. HRG would continue to receive requests from the Board for”
“13-00000 defer to the Department of Justice on any additional problems posed by the joint resolution. First, vesting in an outside body the determination as to whether CIA materials related to the assassination can be released to the public is inconsistent with the Directo”
“13-00000 Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq. July 15, 1998 Page 6 to resolve definitively how those record groups will be handled. 5. Completion of CIA Responses to Review Board Requests We have identified certain Review Board requests for additional information (both formal”
“13-00000 DRAFT nU 0060Ji October 16, 1997 HAND-DELIVERED J. Barry Harrelson Senior Review Officer Historical Review Group Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 02505 Re: Submission of CIA's Initial Statement of Complianc”
“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-”
“internal reviews of programs and operations. Although many requests from the Board and responses from the Agency were handled informally, the significant initial requests are listed in the table in Attachment V. Prompted in part by the surfacing of a small number of new rel”
“13-00000 Do 0 /P EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT ROUTING SLIP ACTION INFO ACTION INFO 1 DCI X 11 OPA 2 DDCI X 12 DDA 3 DDCI/CM 13 DDI 4 ADCI/MS 14 DDO X 5 EXDIR/CIA X 15 DDS&T 6 CHMN/NIC 16 D/OIM X 7 IG 17 HRP X 8 GC X 18 9 COMPT 19 10■ OCA X 20 SUSPENSE DATE: 21 Septemb”
“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- DEC 09 ‘96 03:17FM P.2/4 •• CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 General Counsel 9 December 1996 David G. Marwell Executive Director Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street N.W., 2nd Floor Washington D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Marwell: The”