“13-00000 5 Weisberg obtained important records on these scientific tests, including records that the FBI had first said did not exist, then claimed were missing or destroyed. Other records were never located or were meaningless. From the date of the first request, the lega”
“CIA Records and Information. The Review Board has initiated a number of requests to the CIA for additional information and records. The Review Board expects that these requests will be promptly and fully satisfied during the upcoming year. 4”
“of protecting Capehart’s relationship with global marine. (Attachment 6). In coordination with the DS&T, HRP responded to the ARRB staff. CIA-09 George Bush Computer Search The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management reviewed the files of George Herbert Walker Bus”
“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”
“13-00000 . 04/16/97 WED 16:14 FAX 202 724 0457 ARM 010 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 9 "George Bush" in question. CIA is now checking whether the search query included George Herbert Walker Bush prior to 1970. CIA should determine whether George Herbert Walk”
“are CIA-originated cables, dispatches, memoranda, reports, and correspondence. i. There are questions of privacy that we believe the Board may want to consider in- determining what information is to be released to the public. Some of the records contain, for example, medica”
“lift the sequestration, to coordinate with other agencies, and to begin the process of declassification. If necessary, in the absence of legislation, we will ask the House of Representatives for a resolution permitting CIA to release the results of the declassification effort”
“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”
“that it is fully prepared to do so ifnecessary to complete its work by its September 30, 1998, termination date. . I urge you to take all appropriate steps to ensure that the CIA promptly fulfills its obligations under the law by expeditiously reviewing and transferring the re”
“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”
“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”
“9 Page 1 NO JOINT STAFF OBJECTION. TO DECLASSIFICATION REQUIRES CONCURRENCE OF CIA DATE: MAR 2016 50 NW 66000 Docld:32112909 Page 2. CONFIDENTIAL OK List of documents concerning discussions of assassinations of foreign leaders that were submitted to the Commission on CIA Activiti”
“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”
“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 ”
“13-00000 Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq. July 15, 1998 Page 4 Designated records from security files of Jack Ruby, Walter Sheridan, Harold Weisberg, Richard Case Nagel, and Gordon Novel [CIA-IR-27]. Excerpts from the calendar of former CIA Director Allen Dulles [CIA-IR-31]”
“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”
“13-00000 ' ' It's a small fraction of what we have, but I want to do it right away as an earnest of our intention to move on, to declassify these documents and to get them before the public as quickly as possible. I’ve also made publicly available this week the agency's ne”
“ION TO DECLASSIFICATION REQUIRES CONCURRENCE OF CIA DATE: MAR 2016 51 NW 66000 Docld:32112910 Page 2 List of documents concerning discussions of assassinations of foreign leaders that were submitted to the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States:”
“13-00000 8 FBI supervisor named Long had kept a tickler on the King assassination . A tickler is a file containing extra copies of documents kept at hand so it can be immediately retrieved. The FBI first denied that such a tickler file had been kept. Then it claimed that i”
“13-00000 7 security or because disclosure allegedly would identify intelligence sources and methods. The district court upheld all of the CIA’s exemption claims save one. This one was an 11-page memorandum which the CIA swore must be withheld in its entirety under Exempti”
“they contain potentially embarrassing information for the Agency (as did the IG report on the Castro plots), there doesn't appear to be grounds for denying under the JFK Act.”
“13-00000 - the fact that many of the documents belong to agencies other than CIA. However, we've already taken steps to lift the sequestration, to coordinate with other agencies, and to begin the process of declassification. • As I indicated earlier-in the week, if necessa”
“Accordingly, please authorize the Library's Manuscript Division to permit our inspection and let us know when this authorization has been granted. B. CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance CIA's Final Declaration of Compliance will constitute its public statement, under pen”
“[Note: Two of the outstanding requests (CIA 16 and CIA-IR- 04) are long-overdue priorities that the ARRB staff requested by completed by 7 August. Laura may raise this issue. Several of the “Continuing” requests are close to completion.] Preparation of Records for NARA (Bo”
“Assassination Materials Review Board or its staff. Third, I am concerned that the joint resolution does not provide the Agency with the opportunity to object to the release of CIA information contained in documents originated by 8”
“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 58 59 But, again, whatever the future course of this legislation, CIA is proceeding even assassination contained over 499,000 pages of documents, with a now to review for declassification the relevant documents under its control. Further, we will cooperate fully wit”
“13-00000 MEMORANDUM CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSSICARON AND/OR RELEASE OF Ci.*. INFORMATION September 12, 1998 IN THIS DOCUMENT To: Laura Denk Executive Director cc: Bob Skwirot Michelle Com CIA Team Leader From: Michelle Combs Associate Director for Research a”
“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”
“interest or are of peripheral interest to the assassination, it will be presumed that employee names will be released if their identities are important to the assassination story unless the CIA is able to provide specific information of a potential harm of release. (CIA acknow”
“disclosure of documents. Appeals procedures also require that the Agency advise the White House Counsel within seven days of notification of Board actions, if we wish to appeal. The Agency was notified on 21 June 1995 (see reference). OGC will unofficially notify White House ”
“13-00000 .04/16/97 WED 16:11 FAX 202 724 0457 ARRB @003 Mr. J. Barry Harrelson April 16, 1997 Page 2 As we have written in our formal requests and as we have said to you orally, you should interpret our requests in the broadest reasonable sense. However, to the extent th”
“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 04/23/07 WED 15:54 FAX zoz 724 0457 AKKB s."---- ------------- ,——-------- •------- --------- -3 - CIA Sources The Review Board established guidelines, during its December 1996 meeting, for handling CIA source issues and applied those guidelines at the January 1”
“time will be primarily to secure the release of documents from the CIA and the FBI. Those are the two main agencies left from which they still have a considerable number of documents to be released. Mr. Chairman, in closing I think that it's important that we complete this wor”
“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”
“Archives as they are completed, rather than waiting until work on the entirety has been concluded. We have been asked about documents in our possession generated by other agencies. In fact,’much of the material held by CIA originated with other agencies or departments. For e”
“good working relationship with the people within that agency who are doing their work. The FBI appealed a significant number of our decisions, but now all of those appeals have been withdrawn. And we've got a working relationship with the FBI that I think has been constructive”
“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”
“cannot be released to the public for a variety of reasons, including 0 privacy concerns or the exposure of intelligence sources and methods. Let me take a moment to give examples of this type of material. During the investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinatio”
“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”
“13-00000 . . ,APR 15’97 05:02PM USGOVERNMENT P.9/14 SECRET Subject: CIA Employees - from such release. The CIA will conduct the appropriate , searches to determine whether release would pose national security concerns for the US Government or personal safety concerns for ”
“August 1993. The total number of pages released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was €. approximately 123,000. An additional release of >• approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA material from the sequestered collection was made in 1995..* d. Box 64 of the sequestered collec”
“privacy of each individual clearly outweighs the public interest, most of the information in these files has no relevance to the assassination story, and any related information exist elsewhere in the collection. At ARRB staff request HRP is preparing five OP files for review b”
“each post "position papers" summarized the FBI's gen ponement type. eral policy preferences for continued classifi cation of certain categories of information. b. Commentary. Although the agencies Third, the Review Board staff researched argued that the clear and convincin”
“Board [CIA-IR-28]. 5 "CIA-1" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified by the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to a formal, written request (numbered 1) from the Review Board. 6 "CIA-IR-08" reflects that these assassi”
“13-00000 SECRET (AIUO) 7. ARRB Request, CIA-IR-34, Files of CIA Officials and/or Officers. This is a major request. The board has ask for “the office files of the individual occupying the following positions during the period 1959-1964. " : X The Office of Deputy Director”
“13-00000 The Honorable George Tenet September 14, 1998 Page 2 to this most simple of requests. For me personally and for other members of the Board, this raises significant concerns- as to whether CIA's highest officials actually have confidence in the reliability of the ”
“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”
“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 ”