“13-00000 lun 14:00 FAA ZUZ 724 0457 ARRB 0002 vol. 4/80 fiL T. Jeremy Gunn Executive Director and General Counsel Assassination Records Review Board Prepared Statement for Senate Governmental Affairs Committee AI Hearing on S. 712 AE -C .‘V:J MANC/OH March 25, 1998 ”
“13-00000 subsequent court challenges to the Board's action, and the FOIA cases. 8. If you have any questions concerning the application of the Act to your review of the assassination records, please call RabHEay me on secure extension 76105. 5”
“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”
“extent possible. As you are aware, it is important that there be a proper review of all the records so that still sensitive information that might warrant continued protection can be identified to the Board. For the past several years a team of experienced reviewers has been”
“records be done. This will allow us to recommend to the Board what information warrants continued protection. We appreciate the great responsibility that Congress and the President have given to the Board to inform the American people about the assassination. We share the B”
“13-00000. DRAFT 1 proceeds. However, the Committee does not intend to vest unfettered discretion in the Review Board to request any and all records of agencies without regard to their relationship to the assassination. The Committee expects that the Board will request on”
“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”
“13-00000 2705796 Assassination Records Review Board Work copy S . 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 October 27, 1996 CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 75 * T'. 4gin YAY Vs TY Y ' RELEASE IN Mr. Barry Harrelson Historical Rev”
“13-00000 ■ 8.5 - H-E ‘5e‘0o:S The Honorable Robe.: M. rates Page 2 Would you be opposed to a provision requesting agencies, whenever possible, to self-certify materials which may released without agency objection? What recommendations can you make with regard to the ne”
“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 P.4 MAR 18 ‘97 06:53PM SECRET Please also remember that, when we request accesses to these materials, we are not designating them "assassination records" and we are not, at this time, requesting that copies of documents be given to the Review Board. We appreciate ”
“14-00000 3. Section 1400.5 Requirement that assassination records be released in their entirety The introductory paragraph specifies that “no portions of any assassination record shall be withheld—solely on grounds of non-relevance.” This appears to open the door for acces”
“Washington, DC. interpreting and implementing the ADDRESSES: Interested parties may ARCA, all departments, agencies, (c) In listing records or groups of submit written comments (in duplicate, . offices, divisions, foreign offices, records in the COAK, the Board must if possi”
“10 A6666_____ , 104-10328-10038 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT 23 Sep 98 ROUTING SLIP ACTION INFO ACTION INFO 1 DCI 11 OPA 2 DDCI 12 DDA 3 DDCI/CM 13 DDI 4 ADCI/MS 14 DDO X 5 EXDIR/CIA 1”
“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”
“14-00000 C ONF I DE NTI A L 06 January 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD TO: Barry Harrelson OIM/HRG FROM: Jerry Owens (C) OIG/IMO SUBJECT : (AIUO) Inadvertent Destruction of Records REF: (U) Telecon dated 06 January 1998 1. (U) Per your request, attached is a memoran”
“by Wickham, have been performing the initial review. Pereira pointed out that we are not only reviewing the assassination records, but those records bearing on the House Assassinations Committee’s investigation of the assassination. Pereira identified the five academic historia”
“13-00000 1 1, ,b ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD Chairman; 1 % John R. Tunheim ve Board Members: Henry Franklin Graff Kermit Hall William Joyce Anna Kasten Nelson Executive Director: David Marwell Po”
“13-00000 , APR 22 ■ Je 10.42 P.3 ‘APR 22 ‘92 08^47 2. CIA or other agencies that originate documents should conduct initial review of material to determine whether it can be released. Material- withheld from public release could then be made available to Review Board. 3”
“13-00000 ; 106 STAT. 3454 PUBLIC LAW 102-526--OCT. 26, 1992 PUBLIC LAW 102-526-OCT. 26, 1992 106 STAT. 3453 the rate payable for level V of the Executive Schedule Under, section accounting of expenditures during Its existence, and shall complete , 5316 of that title. I all ”
“13-00000 U04/23/97 WED 15:53 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB ---- - ---- — ------ £001 I.. CO V E R HAY TAX SHEET To: J. Barry Harrelson Fax#: 703-613-3063 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO Subject: Segregated Collections / DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR Date: April 23, 1997 RELEASE OF THIS D”
“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”
“classification I am com— determinatic ed Review Board that has nolparticulg expertise in makings" classification determinations and is unfamiliar with the assassination material is bound to result in delays in releasing the material. It will also result in a duplication of ”
“13-00000 Dora CIHRG IS yon TThina ary oral comments DRAFT Vicki Pepper in the a to call. Dave SUGGESTED AREAS TO BE ADDRESSED IN REPORT LANGUAGE (IF NOT ADDRESSED IN THE TEXT OF THE RESOLUTION) 6/5/92 1. Initial Review of assassination materials. Tt should be made clear ”
“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”
“archives, effect of reorganization of C1A since 1960s on filing systems, etc. 4. The CIA’s view as to how the term "assassination records" should be • defined; ADDRESS FOR REVIEW BOARD CHAIR 102 State Capitol • St Paul, MN 55155 612-296-2351 -TDD 612-297-7206 ■ Fax 612-2”
“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”
“2. % assassination-related records in its possession, in order to make such records available to the public. 5 . There are six attachments to this declaration, which are incorporated by reference. Attachment I addresses the universe and scope of documents that have been the sub”
“0000 -93 1118 11.51 FAl 202 724 0431 WhKH l00-4 Federal Register / Vol. CO, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 28, 1995 / Rules and Regulations 33347 led to the assassination of President including those provided in the written information individuals and - Konnody comments to the p”
“13-00000 PAGE 17 Federal News Service, JUNE 4, 1997 The legislation that created the Assassination Review Board broke new ground by establishing the principle that there should be a presumption of public access to government information. That legislation was necessary beca”
“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 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 -3- initiative to classify records beyond that time when they fall into specific = - categories that, in order to protect the national interest or privacy interests, must continue to be restricted. 3. The crtiteria to be used to determine what constitutes an assa”
“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 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”
“completed its work within that . and 2-year period. (B) whether an assassination record or particular informa Reports, tion in a-record qualifies for postponement of disclosure under (2) Upon its termination, the Review Board shall submit reports this Act. to the President a”
“13-00000 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 21 November 1997 CSI 97-536 Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn Executive Director Assassination Records Review Board CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 600 E Street, NW RELEASE AS SANITIZED Washington, DC 20530 20”
“the Subcommittee, on behalf of the members of the Assassination Records Review Board, I thank you for allowing us this opportunity to discuss our work and our future. We urge you to favorably report H.R. 1553. I would be happy to answer any questions that the members of the Su”
“the interest of the CIA, the National Archives, the Review Board, and ultimately the public to put in writing our collective understanding of the additional Work that CIA must undertake and the reasonable time frames within which it should be completed. It is our intent to red”
“Review Board's current approach of releasing information received through liaison channels, while protecting direct acknowledgment of the source of the information. In practice, however, the staff would be more flexible in protecting text that implies, although may not unambig”
“assassination documents, we will use a presumption in favor of - releasing as many documents as possible. In fact, I nrecently 07 —a -.7 that252 approved new CIA declassification guidelines for our Historical C 0 Ken EST. PM Swiaidl.div) Review Program which Ease a pr”
“13-00000 originating agencies and completed within a reasonable period of time. As Ihave indicated, the CIA has already begun this process. Documents that an agency determines cannot be released to the public would then be reviewed by members of the Review Board, who could ”
“Review Board (the Board) all records in its possession relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy; and (2) is aware of no other assassination-related records in its possession being withheld from the Board. I make these and the following stateme”
“Board, however it is appointed, is constituted, it would appoint an executive director, and the first step in the process would be to make available to the Executive Director all Government assassination materials. Where the Executive Director suspects that the agencies have ”
“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”
“14-00000 9 Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 22 February 1995 Executive Secretariat Information Review Officer John F. Pereira Historical REview Group Attn: Barry Harrelson Barry, Do not agree with "no portions of any assassination records shall be”
“is prohibited by section 403g from disclosure notwithstanding any other law The same issue arises with respect to section 1400.7(d) of the reg that proposes to Include in the definition of record any records for a person by another name or personal identifier. This would appe”
“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”
“14-00000 4/ % ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD 600 E STREET N.W. CIA HAS NO OSJE STION TO WASHINGTON, DC 20004 DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR 202-724-0088 - Fax 202-724-0457 RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT____ September 26, 1994 via facsimile: 703/243-8343 Jo”
“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”