“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”
“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 …”
“13-00000 , APR 04 '97 10:05AM P.17/44 PAGE 17 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *14 n80. See id. at 10. n81. See Hinckle & Turner, Deadly Secrets, supra note 44, at 271 (concluding that the HSCA suffered from lack of funding and that too much time had passed between the assassination an”
“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”
“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”
“i 19 the date of enactment unless, in the case of executive branch records, the President demonstrates that public disclosure will result in an identifiable harm to the national security, intelligence operations, or foreign relations of the United States. The Assassination”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“13-00000 Final ReportOF THE ASSASSINATION Records Review Board Section B includes a discussion of the "Rule 3. Federal Agency Record Groups and of Reason" that the Review Board ultimately the Standards Applied to Them. adopted with regard to receiving evidence from the agen”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“(including 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 as”
“13-00000 TION , I Assassination Records Review Board in. C < A1 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202} 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 Ew AG NO CRIECTION TO' . ON AND/OR AbE 0 CIA-INFORMATION HIS DOCUMENT THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD "All”
“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”
“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 ”
“DRAFT any inter- or intra-agency collection or segregation of documents and other materials); (3) Other records or groups of records listed in the Notice of Assassination Record Designation, as described in §1400.8 of this chapter. §1400.2 Scope of additional records and info”
“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”
“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”
“agency of its approach on a particular but shed at least some light on issues that the type of postponement, the agency learned to congressional committees that investigated present only those facts that the Review the assassination explored as potentially rele Board would ne”
“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 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 or”
“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”
“postpone the release of records. Once the Board completes its review of an agency's recommendation for postponement, all records, including those that have a postponed release date, will be transferred to NARA. The Act requires that all assassination records must be opened by ”
“assassination 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 purpo”
“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 ”
“be affected by the Review Board's unanimously voted to adopt the text of work, particularly those that either the discussion draft as its final assassination record " 44 U S.C interpretive regulations. The approved 2107.7(i)(2)(A). Congress intended that created or now hold assa”
“10 A6666______ , '104-10337-10014 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 1 1 i00J KE SE IN FULL 2000 24 November, 1998 Memo for the Record € Subject: JFK Records Review - Lessons Learned The CIA's JFK Collection is made up p”
“staff will distinguish between records whose relevance to the assassination is clear and those not believed to be relevant (or "NBR"). Applying these new standards will permit the ARRB staff to identify and review the most significant remaining records in order of priority. ”
“release of the Warren Commission Report. n205 As Exhibit Nine makes clear, the CIA used its substantial resources to just that end. n206 - - - - - -Footnotes- n202. The Board adopted a broad definition of an "assassination record" with just such issues in mind. See 36 C.F.”
“104-10061-10115), the Board agrees that this canbe processed by December 31, 1998. f. Any other non-duplicate assassination-related records created or discovered by the CIA after September 30, 1998. 3. The CIA will review its equities in records that have been referred to i”
“13-00000 assassination records is properly identified, reviewed, and made public in the JFK Collection at the National Archives. The fruits of our labor from the first three years would be realized in our last year, one in which we would be reviewing some of the most diffic”
“Act. These determinations are listed below. The assassination records are identified by the record identification number assigned in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection database maintained by the National Archives. 1”
“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”
“passed the JFK Act, Congress means "the compelling interest in the prompt intended for the JFK Collection to include the public disclosure of assassination records for record groups that it identified in section historical and governmental purposes and 3(2), but it also intend”
“published at tu Nearly all of the commentators President Kennedy FR 7506-7508 (Feb. 8. 1955), comply The Review Board received written expressed support for what they with that mandate. comments on the proposed interpretive characterized as the proposed The Review Board's goal ”
“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”
“13-00000 @004 09/16/98 WED 13:00 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB , DRAFT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING, CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS OF THE CIA UNDER THE JFK ACT WHEREAS the operations of the Assassination Records Review Board ("Review Board") cease on September 30, 1998 in acco”
“13-00000 — - • *VAs L 24 final Report of the ASSASSINATION RECORDS® Review Board closure-oriented than President Reagan's 2. Key Distinctions Between Standards order. The current Executive Order applies to of Release Under the FOIA, the Execu all Executive branch records a”
“-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”
“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”
“ARRB staff have set the stage for accomplishing this task. V. Release of Private and Local Records In addition to the release of records in the Federal Government's vast files, and consistent with the Board's mandate to make the historical record of the assassination as co”
“13-00000., 7 section 6, in which case release of the material shall be postponed, and this decision shall not be subject to judicial review." There is no limitation on the duration of postponement by the President. Suggest that the maximum period of time be that portion o”
“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 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 President Clinton, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in on April 11, 1994. The law gi”
“and was preferable to undertaking a new congressional investigation. The 1992 law requires the Review Board to presume that documents relating to the assassination should be made public unless there is clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. I believe that the release of”
“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 ”
“content of CIA's Final Declaration. A. Completion of CIA's Work Under the JFK Act 1. Processing of CIA Assassination Records by September 1998 We confirmed with CIA that it intends to place into the JFK Assassination Records Collection ("JFK Collection") at the National Ar”
“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”