[2]\104-10326-10002 ' | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
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[6]SECRET .:
[8]MHFNO: 98-2225461 SENSIND: RYBAT 7 PAGE: = 1
[9]a SECRET PRE pp
[10]STAFF
[11]CONF: EUR/NG INFO: CIC/CEG, CIC/CEGEUR, CIC/OG, CIC/PRC,
[13]EUDORECORD, EUR/COPS, EUR/DCCI, EUR/LGL, , EUR/NGUK, LIMITED, MDSX, ODPD, '
[14]RYBAT, FILE, CIC/EUR (2/P)
[16]98 2225461 ASO
[17]DIRECTOR 908321
[19]SECRET a
[20]STAFF - 2721542 DIRECTOR. 908321
[22]TO: » ‘IMMEDIATE LONDON.
[24]FROM: LIMITED DISSEM BUR/ NG INFO CIC/EUR, EUR/NGUK, BUR/IGL,
[25]_EUR/COPS
[27]SLUGS: WNINTEL RYBAT
[29]‘SUBJECT: PROPOSED DECLASSIFICATION OF BSS DOCUMENT FOR RELEASE TO
[30]*<JFK>BOARD
[32]“REF: NONE
[33]TEXT:
[35]1. ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE PASS PARAS 3-4 MESSAGE TO BSS
[36]AND ADVISE WHETHER THERE ARE SERIOUS OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF BSS
[37]DOCUMENT (BEING FAXED SEPARATELY) .
[39]. 2. HQS IS FAXING (OR E-MAILING, IF POSSIBLE) DOCUMENTS FOR
[40]STATION AND BSS REVIEW.
[41]* 3. THE DO<JFK>REVIEW TEAM ADVISED EUR/NG THAT A 1963 BRITISH
[42]SECURITY SERVICE DOCUMENT, WHICH HAD’BEEN ATTACHED TO A CIA.
[43]‘DOCUMENT, IS SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED AT THE END OF THIS WEEK (31
[44]*JULY) TO THE<JFK ASSASSINATION>REVIEW BOARD. THIS DOCUMENT
[45](CSCI-3/778,353). DESCRIBES A MARCH 1963 INTERVIEW BY BSS IN
[46]‘HALIFAX OF LILLIAN SLOBODA, WIFE OF VLADIMIR 0. SLOBODA, WHO WAS A
[47]DEFECTOR TO THE USSR. THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN DOCUMENTS IN CIA
[48]_ POSSESSION PERTAINING TO DEFECTORS TO THE SOVIET UNION AROUND THE
[49]*TIME OF OSWALD AND THE<JFK.ASSASSINATION..> EVEN THOUGH CIA .
[50]OBTAINED THE DOCUMENT FROM A FOREIGN FRIENDLY SERVICE, IT WOULD
[51]THUS BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO DENY RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENT IN
[52]FULL. —
[54]-4. WITHIN THAT CONTEXT, “EUR/NG REVIEWED THE DOCUMENT AND
[55]PROPOSES REDACTION OF ALL REFERENCES TO BSS, CIA AND FBI. (LEGATT
[56]LONDON RECEIVED A COPY OF THE INTERVIEW RESULTS IN 1963). THE
[57]PASSAGES WE WANT TO REDACT ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE FAXED COPIES
[58]WITH BRACKETS. WE CERTAINLY WILL FORWARD TO THE DO REVIEW TEAM
[60]‘ANY ADDITIONAL DELETIONS REQUESTED BY STATION AND/OR BSS. ABSENT
[62]THESE FEW PASSAGES ABOUT US/UK INTELLIGENCE, THE DOCUMENT DOES NOT
[64]APPEAR TO AFFECT CURRENT CIA EQUITIES; ON ITS FACE, IT ALSO DOES
[66]NOT APPEAR DAMAGING TO UK INTERESTS. ALTHOUGH WE ARE EXTREMELY
[68]CONCERNED ABOUT THE DECLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION GIVEN TO US BY
[69]SECRET
[71]; SECRET -
[72]MHFNO: 98-2225461 | SENSIND: RYBAT PAGE:
[74]FOREIGN SERVICES, RELEASE OF A SANITIZED VERSION OF THIS ‘DOCUMENT
[75]’ WOULD NOT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR LIAISON RELATIONSHIP .OR
[76]COMPROMISE SENSITIVE SOURCES/METHODS .
[77]5. IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, WOULD APPRECIATE A. RESPONSE BY HOS»
[78]COB THURSDAY, 30 JULY, SO WE HAVE FRIDAY FOR DISCUSSIONS IF BSS
[79]HAS SERIOUS OBJECTIONS TO RELEASING THIS DOCUMENT IN EVEN A
[80]SANITIZED FORMAT.
[81]6.. FILE: NONE. cL BY: 2051283, CL ‘REASON: 1.5(C), DECL
[82]_ ON: X11, DRV FROM: HUM 4-82. .
[83]CABLETYPE: GECO STAFF 4.0.1.>
[84]RELNO: DORELS0101020330
[85]. ORIG: ‘EUR/NG(XEASTLI,39474) ; REL: EUR/NG (SHAFFER) .
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