Scope: This research tool indexes 37,141 records - a curated subset of the ~300,000 documents in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Releases indexed: 2017-2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025. 2,165 records have full-text OCR indexed - of those, 2,162 are sourced from the 2025 re-release (NARA has not yet published an XLSX manifest for 2025; each document’s prior-release history is shown on its page). Releases not yet indexed: 2026. Methodology
… om that examination, staff members selected a number of documents. Those documents have now been included within the Lee Harvey Oswald 201 file to be processed and released to NARA. 3. This concludes the Agency's action on this request. If you have any question …
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… INTEL RYBAT *SUBJECT: <ASSASSINATIONS>RECORDS REVIEW BOARD AND DEPT OF STATE REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN APPROACHING FSB/SVR) FOR OSWALD FILE REF: NONE TEXT: 1. ACTION REQUIRED: WOULD APPRECIATE STATION THOUGHTS ON *BELOW PROPOSAL TO APPROACH FSB/SVR) SEEKING …
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… R 941533 TO: PRIORITY TOKYO. FROM: LIMIT EA/J INFO DC/EA, DCEA/CI, D/PAS SLUGS: WNINTEL * SUBJECT: NEW STORY ON<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>AND CIA IN JAPAN REF: TOKYO 30260 96 5367593 TEXT: 1 . ACTION REQUIRED: SUGGEST COS HAVE EMBASSY PRESS OFFICER REFER THE U …
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SUGGESTED THAT MUCH, IF NOT ALL PAPERS ON OSWALD'S PERSONAL HISTORY HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFIED FOR USE BY MEDIA, *RESEARCHERS AND<ASSASSINATION>BUFFS AS PART OF OVERALL<KENNEDY> *A …
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… - AMBASSADOR SUBMITTED A DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI SANIKOV WHICH IS AN OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR THE FILES ON OSWALD. • STATION JUDGES BY THIS THAT FBI HAS CARRIED THE ACTION TO STATE WITH-THIS RESULT._STATION 3 COMMENT. THERE IS BELIEF HERE THAT …
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… y the CIA. The head of the Mexico Branch admitted that the information should have been reported and that, if it had been, the Oswald case would have been handled dif- ferently, at least as far as the dissemination of infor mation about him was concerned...._ …
CIA · From: SCHNEEBERGER, MICHAEL, SAG · To: MFR · OSW-SF : F7 : 1998.02.12.12:00:53:840092 : ROUTING SHEET IS PAGE ONE OF DOC; DUP OF 104-10132-10293; ARRB RELEASE · Release: Redact
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13-00000 2 V LEE HARVEY OSWALD DECLASSIFICATION EXERCISE Jim Peters 8 1/8 Wed 1 CD ® CD CD 30.2 e Men 100 (10 3 Nov 4 NOV 5 Nov 6 Nov 7 Nov 8 Nov 9 Nov 10 …
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CIA · JFK-RH09 : F165 : 1998.11.30.12:29:47:356129 : A DUPLICATE OF THIS DOCUMENT WAS RELEASED BY THE ARRB UNDER 104-10018-10040 (OSW3, V6). · Release: Redact
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… ization reasons for which CI and OS would have maintained such files. Response: It is believed that OS holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in contact with the American E …
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er Flame of Beriet K SRICI Memo 1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD ves at the Soviet Resay there on 20 September 1963 and spoke with thم Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIDY. This was learned whe …
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… HE USSR. THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN DOCUMENTS IN CIA POSSESSION PERTAINING TO DEFECTORS TO THE SOVIET UNION AROUND THE *TIME OF OSWALD AND THE<JFK ASSASSINATION. ■> EVEN THOUGH CIA OBTAINED THE DOCUMENT FROM A FOREIGN FRIENDLY SERVICE, IT WOULD THUS BE EXTREMELY …
… cy files and documents for and CIA "... surveillance ‘take’ from Cuban and Soviet facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald visit and in the immediate wake of the assassination." Among the items provided by the DO were five boxes containing audio tape …
… ly on his status. (3 ) Richard Gibson ( member of Fair Play for Cuba Committee during early 60‘s/considered a "key player in S Oswald's story/Agency asset beginning in 1965]: - agreed protect Gibson’s relationship with the Agency and designated Agency and FBI f …
… chart be prepared in lieu of the records in contention. -' The chart would include those components that were involved in the Oswald story and anti-Castro activities. These JMWAVE and DO organization charts have been the subject of several discussions and meet …
… NATION>RECORD *REVIEW BOARD (ARRB) WHO IS LOOKING INTO THE<ASSASSINATION>OF *PRESIDENT<JOHN>F.<KENNEDY, AND THE TIME<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>SPENT IN MINSK. HOWEVER, STATION SHOULD NOT PARTICIPATE IN MEETINGS OR ANY SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH WHA …
… ATED TO<ASSASSINATION>OF PRESIDENT<JOHN> *F.<KENNEDY.> OF INTEREST IN MINSK ARE RECORDS HELD BY THE BKGB *RELATED TO<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>AND THE TIME HE SPENT HERE. ARRB APPARENTLY WANTS COPIES OF ALL THESE BKGB RECORDS TO MAKE THEM AVAILABLE FOR SCHOLARLY REVIEW …
… anizations are mentioned in the Ramparts article. The relevant organization is the International Rescue Committee; the IRC aided Oswald on his return to the US. 6. Book Cables Dissemination Lists: The Board accepted the Agency's request that book cable dissemi …
… anizations are mentioned in the Ramparts article. The relevant organization is the International Rescue Committee; the IRC aided Oswald on his return to the US. 6. Book Cables Dissemination Lists: The Board accepted the Agency’s request that book cable dissemin …
… 6. On 3 March 1967 the Washington Star reported that Garrison had arrested SHAW and had made public charges that SHAW, FERRIE, OSWALD, and others had plotted the assassination in the apartment of FERRIE at 3300 Louisiana Parkway, New Orleans. SHAW has said that …
the next Mr. CHATS. No. State Dept. employ0 JC day. But if after all of that Oswald still Representative FORD. Or what happened? and if the office was open for business, then I think he would have ban to do it Nr …
… or ran located. For example, where are the OS records on the Castro assassination attempts? A 8. How many files did OS have on Oswald? Which OS components maintained files on U Oswald? Why did OS have any files on Oswald? 1*
… oken Russian, telephoned both the Soviet and Cuban Embasssies on 26 September and 6 October 1963. He identified himself as Lee Oswald and Harvey Oswald. SECRET
… priate access to ensure the validity of the respond. 2. Gunn divided records into three categories: a) Sequestered records and Oswald 201 -- not an issue in terms of identifying records.- . b)
the attention of 00. The Review Board staff did not locate any reference or record to Oswald’s departure from New Orleans via freighter that predates the assassination. The Review Board staff also could not locate any inf …
assassination. . 3. Agency Officers in Moscow: The ARRB staff is researching Oswald's contacts in Moscow. The records shows that he came into contact with other Americans besides Snyder (the Consular Officer). Gu …
… sequestered collection contained sixty-four record center-size boxes. In addition, the staff had -‘located sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that were collected for the Warren Commission. b. …
… : Mr. Scelso. Yes. !9 ! Mr. Goldsmith. Do you know why it was sent? 70 i1 • Mr. Scelso. At that time, we were not sure that Oswald, ■might not have been a Cuban agent, and the arrest of a j foreign consular person was quite a serious matter under 27 : i …
… g bases in the Minsk region for the period October 1959 to January 1963. - Helsinki and visas to try to capture information on Oswald's visa application. The Board also asked for information on hotels in Moscow and Minsk where Oswald may have stayed. Informati …