“of those files. At this time, we do not propose that you make any major changes that would delay the formal submission of the initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board.1 1 We note that the initial draft statement generally describes the records identified in response ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“members of the Review Board that the CIA would devote whatever resources are necessary to complete the task. In order to ensure that this work is completed, the Review Board has developed a timetable for review of remaining CIA records. The CIA's Historical Review Group sugg”
“13-00000 DRAFT b Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202} 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 Ew CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO j - DECL ASSIFICATION AND/OR October 17, 1997 RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION 1 IN THIS DOCUMENT Mr. John”
“13-00000 1^002 09/16/98 WED 12:59 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB TION to 1 Assassination Records Review Board W 1 amism 600 E Street NW. 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 Co (202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457 W 1O CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF CI”
“13-00000 ARRB 008 09/16/98 WED 13:03 FAX 202 724 0457 % DRAFT -5- 8. With respect to the review of other agency documents referred to CIA, the review of any new assassination records, or the periodic review of postponed assassination records, the CIA shall, in good faith”
“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”
“"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 ”
“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”
“13-00000 SECRET The Board accepted the Agency's and ARRB staff's recommendations on 204 additional documents. Reconsideration and Appeals: If the Agency wishes to ask the Board to reconsider a decision or plans to appeal to the President, the ARRB staff has requested th”
“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”
“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 ”
“This effort will continue for some time. Conclusion 15. (AIU0) At the present time, 32 persons are involved in the JFK records review and we anticipate that this level of effort will increase to 37 by May and to 40 thereafter as we near the statutory end of the Board (30 S”
“13-00000 ■ Mr. John Pereira October 17, 1997 Page 3 Third, the Board will presumptively vote to open in full all records that have not been reviewed in conformity with the schedule. We can assure you that we have no desire whatsoever to take steps two and three. However”
“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”
“Officer, Historical Review Group of CIA and have appreciated the cooperation we have received. The purpose of this letter is to request your agency's cooperation in assisting the Review Board in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American people that”
“1993. Since that date, however, we have identified at least three examples of records clearly relevant to the assassination that have.been identified through the efforts of the Review Board staff and that were subsequently located by CIA. These records were not identified thro”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: Courtesy Visit of JFK Assassination Records Review Board, 16 October 1996 We have succeeded thus far in working out cooperative arrange ments for resolving differences of opinion as to what information can be released to the public and what shou”
“destroyed or removed from CIA files. 4. The CIA Should Identify, and Incorporate by Reference, Each of Its Written Responses to Review Board Requests for Additional Information____ CIA has been cooperative in providing written responses to formal and informal requests submi”
“13-00000____ Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq. July 15, 1998 Page 12 individual for certain important components of CIA execute an affidavit on behalf of that component certifying, under penalty of perjury, that a diligent search for assassination records was undertaken. Acco”
“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”
“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”
“thus far. We very much hope to be able to report, at the completion of our work, that the Agency has fully complied with the letter and spirit of the JFK Act and that the Review Board is confident that all CIA assassination records have been fully processed and transferred to ”
“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”
“time the Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for the Studies of Intelligence (CSI) had been the principal liaison with the JFK Board. As of that date, DCI area/IRO was appointed to be the DCI area focal point. HRG would continue to receive requests from the Board for”
“13-00000 @1 003 09/16/98 WED 13:00 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB J Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq Gary M. Stern, Esq. September 16, 1998 Page 2 enclosed draft MOU so that we can resolve any outstanding issues and ultimately reach an agreement on an MOU before September 30, 1998”
“13-00000 2U4of AKKN @001 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20S30 (202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457 CECLAS NO OBJECTION TO RELEASEDTIONAMYOR August 10, 1998 . AS sANTZED S DOCUMENT VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL Robert M. ”
“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”
“Board had requested. The Review Board specifically considered your proposal that the certifying official be a records validation officer appointed by the CIA’s Executive Director. The Review Board requests, however, that the CIA’s certification be made at the highest levels of”
“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”
“13-00000 fi6 Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530 (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 CiA HAS NO C CTO DECLASAIFIC/ RELEASE- . ARMALON IN iHic November 27,1996 VIA FACSIMILE The Honorable John M. Deutch Director o”
“13-00000 TIOM O € O Assassination Records Review Board g.• 600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor * Washington, DC 20530 o (202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457 Ew 8° CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR February 11, 1998 RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED VIA F”
“13-00000 PAGE 22 Federal News Service, JUNE 4, 1997 historian in residence at the American University and is seated in the row directly behind me. Dr. David Marwell, the executive director of the review board, is also here, as are a number of staff members who are very pro”
“exceptions, records contain hundreds of thousands of and where exceptions applied, the Board crypts. Given the need to finish its work, the required CIA to provide crypt-specific evi Review Board decided that, for all crypts dence of the need to protect. except the "LI," "AM,”
“amended, reprinted at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note,. and other statutes, assassination-related records in its possession, in order to make such records available to the public. 36. There, are six attachments, numbered I through VI, to this declaration, which I incorporate herein by refer”
“10 A6666______ , '104-10330-10100. 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ER 97-4602----------- TIOM % th %B 7O Assassinat”
“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”
“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 ”
“tional Archives, the following actions (from the offices noted) will be needed: a. Request permissio n from Congress. Congressional Affairs) b. (Office of Transfer responsibility for court-ordered FOIA declassification review from CIA to the National Archives. (Office of the Gene”
“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”
“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”
“public, and I have instructed tions, I understand that security and personnel files were requested on the Historical Review Group to take this attitude to heart. Agency employees. These files contain 6. .----------- aevalui fitness reports, ,(performance number of To understan”
“previously been disclosed. In our opposing memoranda, we showed that Director J. Edgar Hoover, in open testimony to Congress, had effectively disclosed the existence of the electronic surveillance. Those records are now open. Illustration 4. See Exhibit B. The Review Board wa”
“13-00000 Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq. July 15, 1998 Page 6 to resolve definitively how those record groups will be handled. 5. Completion of CIA Responses to Review Board Requests We have identified certain Review Board requests for additional information (both formal”
“certain actions, after September 1998, to continue release of duplicate records and to release postponed records in 2017. We request that CIA, in the Final Declaration, memorialize its commitment to undertake these tasks and describe what will be done (as contemplated in IT A.”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: Pending ARRB (JFK Board) Issues ISSUE 1 -— Unacknowledged Covert Actions 2. (S) Within records surfaced by the Ford Library is a document — a Helms Memorandum for the Record on a PFIAB meeting — which contains references to CIA covert financTal s”