“… re will result in an identifiable harm to the national security, intelligence operations, or foreign relations of the United States. The Assassination Records Review Board is an independent agency within the executive branch. The five-member Review Board will be appointed by the President with the advice and …”
“Assassination Committees. The term “assassination record” was not more specifically de fined by the Committee because to do so before more is known about the universe of records would have been premature, and would have further injected the government between the records an”
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“13-00000 CIA AS NO OBJECTION TO DEOLABOFICATION AND/OR ■ 4 RELEASE OFF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT The Assassination Records Review Board was established by The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which was signed into law by President George Bush …”
“13-00000 2 The Assassination Records Review Board was established by the JFK Act, which was signed into law by President George Bush. The five members of the Board were appointed by Presi …”
“13-00000 Billing Code: 6118-01-P ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD FORMAL DETERMINATIONS, ADDITIONAL RELEASES AND CORRECTIONS AGENCY; Assassination Records Review Board ACTION: Notice SUMMARY: The A …”
“of the military services." The mandate of the Review Board is to make the record surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy as complete as possible. The Board has aggressively sought to uncover records on U.S. foreign policy that put the assassination into its histori”
“… luding but not limited to those that disclose cryptonyms, code names, or other identifiers that appear in assassination records) that the Assassination Records Review Board (Review Board) has a reasonable basis to believe may constitute an assassination record or would assist in the identification, evaluation …”
“secure, and make available all records related to the assassination of President Kennedy. The Board has until September 30, 1998 to fulfill its mandate. The Review Board Members The Review Board consists of the following members: 1. The Honorable John R. Tunheim, Chair; Un”
“… on records must be opened by 2017, with the exception of records certified for continued postponement by the President. Authority of the Assassination Records Review Board The Senate report of The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 stated that " the underlying principles g …”
“the Review Board to process all to be a necessary educational process for the records that were "made available" to the Board members. The Board members were a Warren Commission and the Congressional group of five citizens who were selected not Committees that investigated the”
“13-00000 - 106 STAT. 3452 PUBLIC LAW 102-526—OCT. 26, 1992 PUBLIC LAW 102-526—OCT. 26, 1992 106 STAT. 3451 (3) The Senate shall vote on each nominee to confirm or reject (j) Powers.—(1) The Review Board shall have the authority within 14 days in which the Senate is in sess”
“available to the American public. I believe that - - we assembled exactly the type of professional and diversified staff that Congress envisioned would be necessary to accomplish this difficult assignment n. Accomplishments to Date As I know you are aware, the Review Board ”
“… organized crime, which the HSCA had subpoenaed, but was unable to process. n86 Today these materials are one of the chief objects of the Assassination Records Review Board. •• • - - • - - -Footnotes- - ............ n86. See Hinckle & Turner, Deadly Secrets, supra note 44, at 271. ....... -End Footnotes- • …”
“previous official inquiries, the Review Board has the authority to direct any government office to produce additional information and records which it believes are related to the assassination. It has the authority to subpoena private persons and to enforce the subpoenas thro”
“travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates the exercise ofsuch oversightjurisdiction. for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of (m) SUPPORT SERVICES.—The Administrator of the General title 5, United States Code, while away from the ”
“… Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which included the creation of the Assassination Records Review Board. ft Contacting the Assassination Records Review Board The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 provides that the Review Board has the authority to "receive i …”
“necessary security clear ublish a schedule, for review of all assassination records in ance prior to being approved by the Review Board. 10 Federal Register; and (4) The Executive Director shall— (2) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment (A) serve as principal l”
“Review Board's performance application of any standards contained in section 6. under this Act. (d) PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY OVER REVIEW BOARD DETERMINA- (D) Any special problems, including requests and the level TION.— of cooperation of Government offices, with regard to the ab”
“13-00000 04/23/97 WED 15:53 FAX 202 724 0457 AKKB CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT Assassination Records Review Board Guidelines for Review of Postponements in the Segregated Collections Adopted: April 23, 1997 Background In order to ensure that the Re …”
“… ssination .' • The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 originally provided a 3-year timetable for the Assassination Records Review Board to complete its work. Unfortunately, there were lengthy delays in the appointment of Board members, and as a consequence the Review Board …”
“-Footnotes- • - - 094. 44 U.S.C. 2107(6). n95. Id. 2107(2) (a). - -End Footnotes- - Congress intended for the Board to oversee the opening to the public of a substantial amount of material - perhaps in the millions of pages. n96 Congress, therefore, clothed the Board wi”
“of our attention to date, we subjected every requested redaction to a rigorous test: did the evidence of the harm that would result from the release of the information outweigh the public interest in the information? In considering our review of the CIA and FBI "Sequestered C”
“request your agency’s cooperation in assisting the Review Board in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American people that the goals of the JFK Act have been accomplished to the greatest reasonable extent. We want to assure the American people that the”
“… luding but not limited to those that disclose cryptonyms, code names, or other identifiers that appear in assassination records) that the Assassination Records Review Board has a reasonable basis to believe may constitute an assassination record or would assist in the identification, evaluation or interpretat …”
“obtain access to assassination records that have been (A) by impeachment and conviction, or identified and organized by a Government office; (B) by the action of the President for iinefficiency, neglect (ii) direct a Government office to make available to the of duty, malfeasa”
“render decisions on a determination by a Government office to seek to postpone the disclosure of assassination records." ARCA § 7(i)(1). Specifically, the "Review Board shall consider and render decisions on ... whether an assassination record or particular information in a ”
“identity of a domestic or foreign intelligence or counterintelligence asset, collaborator, foreign liaison contact, or covert employee of a United States intelligence organization, where the identity of any of these currently requires protection. 4. Board access to "any rec”
“office to account in writing specifying the facts found and the grounds for the removal. ... for the destruction of any records relating to the assassination (B) The President shall publish in the Federal Register a report Federal of President John F. Kennedy; submitted under ”
“13-00000 ARKD @003 -2- has opened up previously classified records from numerous agencies and departments, including the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice, as well as the Military Services, Secret Service, Senate and House Committees, a”
“third of a century. The Review Board’s official positions on matters related to declassification will be set forth in its Final Report to Congress and the President later this year. I applaud the efforts of Senator Moynihan, Senator Helms, and this Committee to reduce govern”
“13-00000 B % sensitive. Such a practice is perhaps understandable, given the vicissitudes of national security, but openness and the general availability of information about the conduct of government is to be cherished in a democracy. 3. One of the duties of the ARRB wil”
“13-00000 Final Report of THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD to the public may be postponed subject to the attempt to arrive at consistent decisions, the limitations of this Act if [agencies provid …”
“render decisions on a determination by a Government office to seek to postpone the disclosure of assassination records." ARCA § 7(1)(1). Specifically, the "Review Board shall consider and render decisions on whether an assassination record or particular information in a reco”
“who are capable - (3) the .public disclosure of the assassination record could of exercising the independent and objective judgment necessary reasonably be expected to constitute an - unwarranted invasion to the fulfillment of their role in ensuring and facilitating of persona”
“recommendation (concurred in by CIA) that only "General Statement for Month" records for January 1960 and to January 1995 be processed as Assassination Records, and that the approximately 6,000 remaining pages of financial records be declared to have "no believed relevance (NBR”
“Records Reviewed by Board.—Pending the position of Executive Director. . outcome of the Review Board’s review activity, a Government office (2) The person appointed as Executive Director shall be a shall retain custody of its assassination records for, purposes of private citi”
“… g the ARCA — Notice of Assassination Record Designation. (a) A Notice of Assassination Record Designation shall be the mechanism for the Assassination Records Review Board to announce publicly its determination that a record or group of records meets the definition of assassination records. (b) Notice of all …”
“and which has not been officially dis (C) The President may request an organization described in closed, the disclosure of which would interfere with the subparagraph (A) to submit additional nominations. conduct of intelligence activities; or (5) Persons nominated to the Revi”
“record would manner subject to the standard procedures for granting such clear reveal a security or protective procedure currently utilized, ances. or reasonably expected to be utilized, by the Secret Service . (2) All nominees shall qualify for the necessary security clear ”
“involvement with previous inquiries into the Kennedy assassination. This Review Board, aided by an executive director and staff, would play the central role in the release of the assassination materials. The Board would be required to complete its work within two years of its”
“otherwise, records that are identified by the Assassination Records Review Board with respect to a particular operation or program shall include all records pertaining to that program by any other name, pseudonym, codeword, symbol, number or cryptonym.- 26”
“proposed Executive Director and Review Board, with the authority to review and if necessary subpoena all relevant records and then by establishing the criterion of full disclosure except in cases where "clear and convincing justification exists for postponing" the release of ”
“13-00000 Anna K. Nelson % b PRE-HEARING QUESTIONS ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD I. Nomination Process and Potential Conflicts 1. Were any conditions, expressed or implied, attached to your nomination to be a member …”
“segregable particular information (2) A person appointed to the staff of the Review Board shall in an assassination record.1 be a private citizen of integrity and impartiality who is not a (ii) A substitute record for that information which is present employee of any branch of”
“procedure. Archives and records The term additional records and societies, and other similar information includes organizations, Accordingly, the review Board hereby (a) .All documents used by te) individuals who possess such establishes a net chapter XIV in title 36 governmen”
“poned for disclosure and held in the protected Collection, the Review year after the date ofenactment of this Act, and subsequent reports Board shall notify the head of the originating body of its determina- every 12 months thereafter until termination of the Review Board. tion”
“records compiled by official investigations still had been not made public. Congress decided to set up a process for reviewing and releasing to the public the records surrounding the Kennedy assassination. The result was that on October 26, 1992, President Bush signed into la”
“… identifiers that appear.n. PART 1400 GUIDANCE FOR. assassination records) that the Implementing the JFK Act—Notice of INTERPRETATION AND Assassination Records Review Board Assassination Records Determination IMPLEMENTATION OF THE (Review Board) has a masonable basis to PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. believe may …”
“assassination records as well as all other documents--"seems overly broad and unclear. As presently worded, this section would appear to include any document, book, index, record system, etc. regardless of relevance to the assassination or investigations, including for examp”