“13-00000 For example, one cable was files and processed 58 times in the collection. " b. The ARRB required that all sanitized documents be 6 reviewed by the Board and that each postponement (deletion) be acted on individually. Even after the Board changed procedures and ac”
“is released] If outside of the JFK timeframes (generally 1960-1964), the presumption is protect. If within a JFK timeframe, presumption is to release; additional evidence will be required to protect. Action: The HRP and DO JFK teams will re-review the documents applying th”
“10 A6666____ , 104-10331-10152 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 • SECRET OIM 98-000nn 13 April 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Executive Director VIA: Director of Information Management FROM: Lee S. Strickland Chief, Informa”
“13-00000 both the Agency and Board staff on issues which were marginal to the story and to processing decisions by the Board. For example: a . Under the JFK Act every piece of paper in the collection was considered a “unique” assassination record. The result is a staggerin”
“circumstances: A. The ARRB has recently exercised its statutory authority and designated additional CIA records to be within the JFK collection (to date approximately twenty cubic feet or 40,000 pages) . Additional records may be identified as / the ARRB staff continues its ”
“13-00000 could not hire or detail experienced federal employees, but rather had to hire new employees who had to undergo background investigations and be cleared at the Top Secret leveL Locating and renovating space that was suitable for the " storage of classified materials”
“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”
“shall ensure requirements of section 6) shall be withheld, redacted,' postponed the physical integrity and original provenance of all records. The for public disclosure, or reclassified. • : Collection shall consist of record copies of all Government records (b) CUSTODY OF ASSA”
“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 Assassination Records Review Board (Review Board) met in closed meet”
“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”
“21 33 nil 11.02 TAA 202 164 040: ARAD 0000 33348 ' Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 28, 1995 / Rules and Regulations that the context and integrity of the the JFK Assassination Records with the intent and purposes of the JFK records be preserved. Only in”
“13-00000 veruo,o• -1.10 Lroli 40b ibi. LLL-N Jvb00l 4 however, Kennedy's murder will probably become, like Lin coln’s, more an interest of buffs than of the public at large. • • The chances of clearing away all doubts are lessened by • the fact that every bit of relevan”
“confirm that the U.S. government has identified, located, and released all records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. The agencies' statements of compliance will be included in the Review Board's final report to the Congress. The one-year extension will ensur”
“13-00000 Alias Documentation, p. D SECRET % OIM 98-00044 13 April 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Executive Director VIA: Director of Information Management FROM: Lee S. Strickland Chief, Information Review Group/OIM SUBJECT: Pending ARRB (JFK Board) Issues 1 1. (AIUO”
“reading of modified to allow agencies to withhold Accordingly, the Review Board declined die Review Board’s responsibilities from the JFK Assassination Records to include records or record groups al urged by such comments. Section . Collection material that is not related to t”
“within the sole direction of the Review Assassination Record Determination" in in the JFK Assassination Records. Board. subparagraph (b)(3) The final Collection and addressing the important Comment: The discussion of originals interpretive regulations also incorporate issue of ”
“conjunction with any investigation or analysis of or inquiry into the assassination of President Kennedy....” 36 CFR 1400.1(b)(2) “An assassination record shall be released in its entirety except for portions specifically postponed pursuant to the grounds for postponement o”
“)000 Federal Register / Vol. 60. No. 26 / Wednesday, February 8. 1995 / Proposed Rules 7507 € disclosure of the fullest possible CHAPTER XIV—ASSASSINATION assassination records as well as all other *. historical record on this tragedy and on RECORDS REVIEW BOARD documents, i”
“DRAFT Review Board's discretion, may also be placed in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. (f) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to prevent or preclude copies of any assassination records, and particularly assassination records in audiovisual or machine reada”
“13-00000 7 green to the murder of President Kennedy. The injunction would apply to all congressional committees and all execu- ‘ tive agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Ser vice, and the National Archives. The bill could direct these record-holders to make ”
“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”
“)0000 12.21-95 Till 11.53 FAM 202 724 0457 AKKB 006 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 28,.1995 / Rules and Regulations' 33349. a - which access to such materials shall be CHAPTER XIV—ASSASSINATION (including but not limited to those that ; allowed. RECO”
“13-00000 NOV 07 ‘97 10:31AM P.2 31 October 1997 Request for Additional Funds for the JFK Assassination Records Review Project, through 31 September 1998. Reference: Ltr. to Executive Director form J. Jeremy Gunn, Executive Director, Assassination Records Review Board (A”
“DRAFT (d) sound and video recordings; (e) machine readable information in any form; and (f) artifacts. §1400.5 Requirement that assassination records be released in their entirety. An assassination record shall be disclosed in its entirety except for portions specifically po”
“13-00000 gjUUJ AKK» C5/09/97 FKI 12:16 FAA zuz 124 V45 • Page 2 collection totaled approximately 3.1 million pages and was used extensively by researchers from all over the United States. The Review Board was in the news last month when it voted to make public the Abraham ”
“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”
“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 provide] Board asked the staff to present the records clear and convincing eviden”
“)000 0007 THU 11.54 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB 12 21 95 33350 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 28. 1995 / Rules and Regulations records from sources identified in Review Board may determine that a true Copies of any assassination records paragraphs (a) th”
“extent that such records are not available on the CIA-HSCA microfilm rolls transmitted to NARA. 31 000th 0 e. By October 30, 1998, the CIA will transmit to the "Protected Collection" the entire Oswald 201 file that was printed from the CIA-HSCA sequestered collection micro”
“here of this section lu clarify the Review No substantive change has been made artifacts for purposes of implementing Board's intent to use the NARD to § 1400.4 as it appeared in the ■ the JFK Act should be construed to mechanism simply to document the proposed interpretive re”
“cumulative erosive effect on our cover and our ability to conduct operations. He noted that the Boards tends to focus on individual specific cases without recognizing the broader cumulative impact of their discrete decisions. (S) . 2. Cipriani described the appeals process s”
“DRAFT the JFK Assassination Records Collection, the provision to the public of photographs, drawings, or similar materials depicting the artifacts shall be sufficient to comply with the ARCA's requirement that copies of assassination records be provided to the public upon requ”
“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 Geo”
“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”
“Kennedy. If we go out of our way to avoid records that might shed light on activities linked to such an alleged conspiracy, we make little progress toward assuring the public that it has the full story. If we err on the side of -14-”
“13-00000 developed by the body that created the record and information originated by a- xecutive a'gency. Instead of letting either of these two "orig ing bodies" have veto power over the release of an entire document, we should work out language that give an agency or comm”
“14-00000 7508 - Federal Register / Vol. 60. No. 26 / Wednesday, February 8. 1995 / Proposed Rules (0) Artifacts. meetings that possess or created records Dated: February 3. 1995. relating to the assassination of President David G. Marwell, £ 1400.5 Requirement that assassin”
“records back into the files. We had some significant problems early in the process, just really because agencies didn't understand what this was all about and didn't understand what the law really provided for. So it took some time. It's taken some time, for example, with the ”
“be contrary to that effort and will promote a consistent entities to which such requests are NARA’s accustomed practice and the broad interpretation and addressed to implement the JFK Act usage uf the terin "records" in oilier implementation of the JFK Act. effectively and eff”
“13-00000 page from the Classified Information Procedures Act, the law that covers the handling of secret information in criminal trials. Under that law, federal judges have discretion to permit introduction in evidence of summaries or substitutes in place of classified info”
“13-00000 The Honorable John M. Deutch November 27, 1996 Page 2 The Review Board has recently considered how it, along with the relevant federal agencies, can best demonstrate to the American public that a thorough, good faith, and diligent effort has been made to locate a”
“13-00000 The Honorable John M. Deutch November 27, 1996 Page 2 The Review Board has recently considered how it, along with the relevant federal agencies, can best demonstrate to the American public that a thorough, good faith, and diligent effort has been made to locate a”
“1998 but absolutely no later than September 1999. 4. Custody of CIA Assassination Records to be Released in 2017 We have discussed with CIA its concerns regarding physical custody of certain records whose release has been postponed, under the JFK Act, until 2017. CIA has in”
“Congress in an effort to release the government’s still-secret files related to the assassination of President Kennedy. In accordance with the declassification standards articulated in Section 6 of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44”
“assassination"). In adopting and. identify, evaluate, or interpret response to the o comments. The . eventually applying a "reasonably' assassination records, including Review Board has concluded that, in related" standard, the Review Board assassination records that may not vi”
“The strong support Records Collection, would not advance language that commenting members of the public the purposes of the JFK Act Comment The scope of gave to this position reinforces this Comment Section 1400 1 should "assassination records" under § 1400 1 conclusion. The R”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: The JFK Declassification Experience learned to live with (See Appendix A for the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) "Standards For Review" and "Key Distinctions Between Those Under FOIA, Executive Order 12356 and the JFK Act," with example”
“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”
“13-00000 Our review of records in the early months was slowed by the complexities of the issues raised in the records. The unprecedented new standards of the JFK Act, which go far beyond those established under the Freedom of Information Act, required a time-*- consuming ear”
“records as well as all other documents--"seems unclear. Is it the intention to include any document, book, index, record system, etc. regardless of relevance to the assassination or investigations, including for example, legal opinions ? We assume that the purpose is to enab”