“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”
“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”
“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 JFK Project 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. C”
“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 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”
“MARSMALL, “WARS” SANFORD, ROUTH CAROLINA M TURMER, TEZAR JOHN & SUNUMU, NEW HWVPSHAE WASHINGTON, DC 20516-6143 THOMAS G.ALLEN,MANE PETE SESSIONS, TEXAS HAROLD E, PORD, in. TENNESSEE SAKE PAPPAS, NEW JERSEY VincE SNOWBARGEA, RANSAS Muonre (202) 225-07 BOB BARR, GEORGIA . SAnc”
“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”
“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 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”
“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 ”
“April meeting, have a senior official (Ed?) appear before the Board to a) underscore the importance of this issue to Agency and Intelligence Community; b) ask why these covert actions are important to the JFK assassination? They obviously have interest to historians but seem ”
“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 .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”
“Assassination Materials Review Board or its staff. Third, I am concerned that the joint resolution does not provide the Agency with the opportunity to object to the release of CIA information contained in documents originated by 8”
“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-”
“ADMINISTRATION. (CB HAS HAD SOME DEALINGS WITH THE ARRB, BEGINNING WITH THEIR REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO THE RESTRICTED (MOSG@7 STATION HISTORY FROM THE 1960'S. THE ARRB'S PREMISE IS TO DECLASSIFY AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE, EVEN *DOCUMENTS ONLY MOST TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO T”
“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 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 SECRET 23 August 1996 Note For: Fred Wickham, DO ‘Eleanor Neiman, DO Mike Luce, DO/Mexico Valerie Patterson, DO/EA Christine Hegeman, DO/EA Linda Cipriani, OGC From: J. Barry Harrelson, CSI/HRG Subject: Meeting with ARRB Staff 1. Thursday afternoon I met with”
“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 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”
“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”
“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”
“Assessment Document: The Board accepted the ARRB staff's recommendation (concurred in by CIA) that the paragraphs on the one relevant organization be processed as a assassination record, and that the remainder of the CIA Ramparts Memorandum be declared NBR. The memorandum dis”
“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”
“"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 ”
“[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 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”
“top management including a willingness to raise the issue with the acting/new DCI and possibly the White House is critical to success. I see OGC (Linda) being tasked with preparing a memo for the Board similar to the one prepared on sources. (AIOU) The Board has meetings sc”
“Agency to see that such a step is unnecessary. But we are prepared to make such decisions to the extent they are required to fulfill our own responsibilities. Although it is our perception that CIA may wish to devote additional human resources to this project, we of course lea”
“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”
“disclosure of documents. Appeals procedures also require that the Agency advise the White House Counsel within seven days of notification of Board actions, if we wish to appeal. The Agency was notified on 21 June 1995 (see reference). OGC will unofficially notify White House ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 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”
“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”
“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”
“community concerns. I will defer to the Depart battle, though in battle we are, but as a call to bear the burden of ment of Justice on any additional problems posed by the joint reso- a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, pa lution. tient in tribu”
“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”
“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 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 ”
“obligation I could not make classified information available to the Board pintil it took the necessary steps to safeguard that information. Third, I am concerned that the joint resolution does not provide the Agency with the opportunity to object to the release of CIA infor”
“State Department or elsewhere. Our staff is still going through the material com statutory responsibility to protect intelligence sources and piled at the request of the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Second, I am concerned that the joint resolution contain”
“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”
“good working relationship with the people within that agency who are doing their work. The FBI appealed a significant number of our decisions, but now all of those appeals have been withdrawn. And we've got a working relationship with the FBI that I think has been constructive”
“13-00000 . 04/16/97 WED 16:14 FAX 202 724 0457 ARM 010 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 9 "George Bush" in question. CIA is now checking whether the search query included George Herbert Walker Bush prior to 1970. CIA should determine whether George Herbert Walk”