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[19]Mr. John R. Tunheim
[21]Chair, Assassination Records
[22]Review Board
[24]600 E Street, NW
[26]Washington, DC 20530
[28]Re: JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992
[30],
[32]Dear Mr. Tunheim:
[34]This will respond to your 14 September 1998 letter regarding
[35]Central Intelligence Agency compliance with the “JFK Act.”
[37]I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA has fully met its
[38]obligations to locate, review, and release "assassination
[39]records" as defined in the JFK Act. The Agency’s 2 September
[40]1998 Declaration of Compliance-signed, as you note, by CIA's .
[41]Director of Information.Management, Edmund Cohen-—confirms my
[42]judgment. I have full confidence in the scope of the Agency's
[43]searches as described in Mr. Cohen’s recent declaration.
[45]As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is directly
[46]responsible for CIA's records systems and for ensuring the
[47]adequacy of CIA's search, review, and release of documents under
[48]the JFK Act. Mr. Cohen signed the Agency’s Declaration of
[49]Compliance because he was the most senior Agency official with
[50]direct personal knowledge that its statements were accurate and
[51]complete. There was no more appropriate signatory.
[53]In sum, I understand that the appropriate CIA staff cfficers
[54]have worked diligently to locate and disclose to the JFK Board
[55]‘all relevant records in the Agency’s possession and that they do
[56]not believe any other relevant records are being withheld from
[57]the Board. Mr. Cohen’s declaration confirms my understanding.
[58]I trust that this will meet your requirements.
[60]Sincerely,
[62]George J. Tenet
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[66]Central Intelligence Agency
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[69]Special Assistant/EXOIR y
[71]Mr. Cohen ~’ RELEASE IN FULL §
[72], , 2000 -
[74]Jim Oliver called and wanted me to
[75]pass on the following message:
[77]Talked Judge Tunheim and he is willing
[79]to release the two letters (Cohen 4 Tenet)
[80]‘and refrain from other derogatory
[82]comments if the Carey declaration
[84]is substantially like the ones Ed signed.
[86]Michelle
[88]He still would like you to give him
[89]t call on 31805.
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[94]Central Intelligence Agency
[96]CLA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
[97]“us RELEASE IN PULL
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[101]DECLARATION OF DAVID W. CAREY
[102]I, DAVID W. CAREY, hereby declare and say:
[104]1. I presently serve as the Executive Director of the
[105]-of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA or Agency). I Have
[106]held the position of Executive Director since July of 1997
[107]and have served with the CIA for over 29 years in a variety
[108]of operational, staff, and management positions. nm.
[110]i
[112]2. As the Executive Director I am responsible, on
[113]behalf of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the
[114]Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), for the
[115]overall daily management of the Central Intelligence Agency,
[116]for strategic planning and coordination, and for the
[117]development and execution of the Agency’s annual program.
[118]In order to carry out these responsibilities, I have been
[119]delegated all authorities vested in the DCI and DDCI except
[120]as prohibited by law or Agency regulation or policy.
[122]3. The purpose of this declaration is to provide an
[124]assurance that the Central Intelligence Agency: (1) has made
[126]* a diligent records search to locate and disclose to the JFK
[127]Assassination Records Review Board (the Board) all records
[128]in its possession relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the
[129]assassination of President Kennedy; and (2) is aware of no
[130]other assassination-related records in its possession being
[131]withheld from the Board. I make these and the following
[132]statements (including those in the attachments by reference)
[133]based upon my personal knowledge, information made available
[134]to me in my official capacity, the advice of CIA's Office of
[135]General Counsel, and the conclusions I reached in accordance
[136]therewith.
[138]4. With respect to ‘the overall issues of search and
[139]review, and as explained in the attachments or otherwise
[140]included by reference, the CIA’s Directorates of
[141]Intelligence (DI), Operations (“DO”), Science and Technology
[142](“DS&T"), and Administration (“DA”) and the DCI Area |
[144]“Information Review Officer have certified to me that their
[145]respective offices or directorates have properly and fully :
[146]responded to requests from the Board. Accordingly, I :
[147]believe that the Central Intelligence Agency has worked
[148]diligently with the Board to declassify, consistent with the
[149]President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
[150]Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107) and other statutes,
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[154]ew |
[156]assassination-related records in its possession, in order to
[157]make such records available to the public.
[159]5. There are six attachments to this declaration,
[160]which are incorporated by reference. Attachment I addresses
[161]the universe and scope of documents that have been the-’
[162]subject of CIA’s review. Attachment II describes the
[163]methodology and types of the searches conducted. Attachment
[164]III describes, in general, the records declassified and
[165]released (separate detailed indices will be provided when
[166]documents are released to the National Archives and Records
[167]Administration). Attachment IV addresses questions raised
[168]by the Board regarding perceived gaps in our records,
[169]including possible loss or destruction of records.
[170]Attachment V discusses specific requests from the Board and
[171]incorporates specific CIA responses by reference. .And
[172]Attachment VI addresses commitments which this Ageri€éy makes
[173]with regard to provision to the National Archives and ’ :
[174]Records Administration of assassination related documents,
[175]including any documents which may be newly discovered or
[177]‘created subsequent to the tenure of the Board.
[179]6. Based upon the foregoing and the attachments
[180](Attachments I through VI, which are incorporated by
[181]reference) I believe that the CIA is in full compliance with
[182]the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records
[183]Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107).
[187]I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING AND
[188]THE ATTACHMENTS (ATTACHMENTS I THROUGH VI, WHICH ARE
[189]INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE) ARE TRUE AND CORRECT.
[191]Executed this 23¢°7 day of September 1998.
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[195]DAVID W. CAREY
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[200]UNCLASSIFIED
[202]From the Desk of James R. Oliver
[203]Chief, Historical Review Program
[205]NOTE FOR: James R. Oliver@DA
[207]FROM: James R. Oliver
[208]OFFICE: OIM .
[209]DATE: 09/24/98 11:12:17 AM
[211]SUBJECT: EXDIR Declaration Signature, 23 September 1998
[213]Memorandum for the Record:
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[217]This is to confirm that | replaced the first page of the ExDir's signed JFK Declaration, dated 23
[218]September, with letterhead stationery to assure that the statement was comparable.to that signed
[219]by Mr. Cohen, as earlier requested by the Board Chairman. The wording of the declaration was
[220]unchanged; only the letterhead stationery was changed. | called Michelle in the EXDIR's Officer to
[221]confirm that the Executive Director would have no problem with such a change (simply replacing
[222]the first page). She called back, saying that she had asked Mr. Carey, and he had no problem with
[223]this change. :
[225]Mr. Harrelson of this office will be hand carrying the EXDIR's declaration to the Board today. At the
[226]same time, and in accordance with my agreement with Chairman Tunheim of yesterday, Mr.
[227]Harrelson will be retrieving the earlier declaration signed by Mr. Cohen, the DCI letter of 16
[228]September, both of which are being withdrawn. The Judge Tunheim also agreed yesterday that
[229]since the EXDIR had agreed to sign the declaration that there will no longer be a need for the critical
[230]language in their report on this issue.
[232]James R. Oliver
[234]cc: Edmund Cohen@DA
[235]; R. Bruce Burke@DCl .
[236]Sent on 24 September 1998 at 11:12:17 AM
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[247]Declaration of EDMUND COHEN
[248]I, Edmund Cohen, hereby declare and say:
[250]1. I presently serve as the Director of Information
[251]Management for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA or
[252]Agency). I have held this position since February 1994; I
[253]have also held the position of Director of the Office of
[254]Information Management since October 1997. I have served
[255]with the CIA for over 30 years in a variety of intelligence,
[256]legal, staff, and management positions.
[258]2. As Director of Information Management, I am
[259]responsible for providing oversight and direction to the
[260]Agency’s records and classification management activities,
[261]and information declassification and release programs. I am
[262]also responsible for the development and maintenance of
[263]automated tools to support these activities. I oversee
[264]classification and declassification policies, procedures,
[265]and practices. I manage the Agency Archives and Records
[266]Center, and serve as the CIA Archivist and the Agency.
[267]Information Review Officer. I coordinate the conduct of
[268]special searches within the Agency and the release of
[269]information uncovered in such searches. I am also the
[270]Agency‘s official liaison with the National Archives and
[271]Records Administration and its Office of the Federal
[272]Register, with the Information Security Oversight Office,
[273]and with any other entities on any matters within the
[274]responsibility or authority of the Director of Information
[275]Management.
[277]3. I make the following statements based upon my
[278]personal knowledge, information made available. to me in. my
[279]official capacity, the advice of CIA’s Office of General
[280]Counsel, and the conclusions’ I reached in accordance
[281]therewith.
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[285]Declaration of EDMUND COHEN
[287]4, The Central Intelligence Agency: (a) has made
[288]diligent records searches to locate and disclose to the JFK
[289]Assassination Records Review Board (the Board) all records
[290]in its ‘possession relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and the
[291]assassination of President Kennedy; and (b) is aware of no
[293]‘other assassination-related records in its possession being
[295]withheld from the Board.
[297]5. With respect to the overall issues of search and
[298]review, and as explained in the attachments or otherwise
[299]included by reference, the CIA’s Directorates of
[300]Intelligence (DI), Operations (DO), Science and Technology
[301](DS&T), and Administration (DA) and the DCI Area Information
[302]Review Officer have certified to me that their respective
[303]offices or directorates have properly and fully responded to
[304]requests from the Board. In addition to these
[305]certifications, I have had briefings on the principal .
[306]searches conducted and have had all of my questions answered
[307]to my satisfaction. Accordingly, I believe that the Central
[308]Intelligence Agency has worked diligently with the Board to
[309]locate and declassify, consistent with the President John F.
[310]Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, as
[311]amended, reprinted at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note, and other
[312]statutes, assassination-related records in its possession,
[313]in order to make such records available to the public.
[315]“6. There | are six attachments, numbered I thro sigh: VI,
[317]to ‘this declaration, which I incorporate herein by’ :
[318]reference. Attachment I addresses ‘the universe and scope of
[319]documents that have been the subject of CIA’s review.
[320]Attachment II describes the methodology and types of the
[321]searches conducted. Attachment III describes, in general,
[322]the records declassified and released. Separate detailed
[323]indices will be provided when documents are réleased to the
[324]National Archives and Records Administration. Attachment IV
[325]addresses questions raised by the Board regarding perceived
[326]gaps in CIA’s records, including possible loss or
[327]destruction of records. Attachment V discusses specific
[328]requests from the Board and incorporates specific CIA
[329]responses by reference. Attachment VI addresses commitments
[331]which this Agency makes with regard to provision to the
[332]“National Archives and Records Administration of
[334]assassination-related documents, including any documents
[335]which may be newly discovered or created subsequent to the
[336]tenure of the Board.
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[340]Declaration of EDMUND COHEN
[342]7. Based upon the foregoing and Attachments I through
[343]VI, I believe that the CIA is in full compliance with the
[344]President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
[346]Act of 1992.
[348]I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING,
[349]INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS I THROUGH VI, ARE TRUE AND CORRECT.
[351]Executed this = day of September 1998.
[353]Edmund Cohen
[356]Attachment L
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[362]Attachment I
[364]Universe and Scope of CIA Documents
[366]Addressed Related to the JFK Assassination
[368]Summary. This Attachment discusses CIA material
[369]examined in order to fulfill the requirements of the JFK
[370]Assassinations Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act). It
[371]addresses the types of CIA documents found in the records of
[372]earlier investigations, including that of the House Select
[373]Committee on Assassinations, and materials and files
[374]recovered in response to searches conducted in 1992 and
[375]thereafter. It discusses the process by which documents
[376]became “assassination-related records.’
[378]Discussion. The Central Intelligence Agency has
[379]provided large numbers of documents and materials over the
[380]years in support. of successive reviews and investigations
[381]related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
[382]We estimate that the equivalent of roughly 320,000 pages
[383]comprise the “CIA collection” of documents associated with
[384]prior assassination reviews, including duplicates. In
[385]addition, we estimate that in responses to the JFK Act, CIA
[386]has reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents from the
[387]National Archives, the Ford, Johnson, and Kennedy
[388]Presidential Libraries and miscellaneous papers from the
[389]National Security Council, the President's Foreign
[390]Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), the Rockefeller
[391]Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, and
[392]the Senate Select (Church) Committee to Study Governmental
[393]Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
[395]The documentation exists in many forms, from original
[396]contemporaneous material, such as field reporting from
[397]overseas or analytic reports, to material generated ~~ -
[398]specifically as an Agency response to investigation
[399]questions. The largest “CIA collection,” .as such, is
[400]associated with the records of the House Select Committee on
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[404]Assassinations (HSCA).* The HSCA brought together in one
[405]place in 1978 the principal documents retrieved over the
[406]course of years from earlier investigations, including the
[407]Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, and the
[408]Church Committee. 7
[410]The Warren Commission in 1963 and 1964 was the first
[411]major review of the JFK Assassination. Existing records
[412]suggest that CIA provided roughly 4,000 pages of
[413]documentation to the Warren Commission review, plus
[414]testimony by Richard Helms and John McCone. The Warren
[415]Commission pursued matters related primarily to events and
[416]actions directly associated with the assassination event,
[417]including materials from CIA’s Mexico City Station, which
[418]were considered relevant because of a visit to Mexico City
[419]by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the assassination.
[421]The Rockefeller Commission in 1975 and Church Committee
[422]investigation in 1975 and 1976 were focused on allegations
[423]of wrongdoing by the CIA. Nonetheless, as a part of these
[424]investigations they yielded information which, to many,
[425]appeared to relate in some way to the assassination, such as
[426]an operational capability or willingness to consider
[427]assassination as an intelligence method. :
[429]From 1976 through 1979 the House Select Committee on
[430]Assassinations (HSCA) pursued additional leads, generating
[431]still further documentation. The HSCA ultimately brought
[432]together within its broad scope of investigation many of the
[433]documents from the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller
[434]Commission and the Church Committee. This collection
[435]ultimately became the “HSCA sequestered collection,” which
[436]altogether contains an equivalent of over 300,000 pages, in
[437]paper, photographs, tapes, and microfilm media, including
[438]duplicates. Because the myriad conspiracy theories included
[439]possible Soviet, Cuban, Mafia or right-wing American
[440]involvement, the scope of the HSCA investigation included
[441]anything or anyone that might appear to support those
[442]theories, including historical institutional behavior
[443]patterns. Further, although this sequestered collection was
[444]considered to be CIA‘’s, it contains documents from other
[445]agencies, primarily the Federal Bureau of Investigation
[447](FBI) and over 30,000 pages of HSCA originated material.
[449]* The HSCA sequestered collection reflects the major corpus of CIA material or
[450]information reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (or to
[451]which they had access) during the 1976-1979 time frame. The pulling together
[452]of this collection was coordinated by the Committee and they defined what it was
[453]to include. This Collection has been physically held by CIA since 1979,
[454]although CIA was not authorized access until 1992, when permission was given by
[455]Congress to review the material in preparation for responding to the JFK Act.
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[459]The HSCA sequestered collection is contained in 64
[460]boxes of multimedia material, including paper, photographs,
[461]and microfilm which have been loosely organized into major
[462]categories of information. Boxes 1 through 34 are mostly
[463]material collected by the CIA’s Directorate of Operations,
[464]the FBI, and other Government agencies, including field
[465]reporting and handwritten notes. They also include
[466]newspaper articles, name traces performed in response to
[467]requests by the HSCA staff, and copies of other documents
[468]such as the CIA Inspector General’s 1967 report on CIA plots
[469]against Castro and Richard Helms’ executive session
[470]testimony before the HSCA.
[472]Boxes 35 through 63 of this collection are largely
[473]records of CIA’s Legislative Counsel, Inspector General,
[474]General Counsel, Office of Security, and Directorate of
[475]Science and Technology, as well as internal records of the
[476]HSCA staff. They consist of reports, memoranda,
[477]transcripts, cables, letters, newspaper clippings,
[478]photographs, and charts. Box 64 contains 72 reels of
[479]microfilm-the equivalent of roughly 72 more boxes of paper
[480]documents. This material includes the file which the
[481]Directorate of Operations maintained on Lee Harvey Oswald
[482](the 201 file) as well as similar files on additional
[483]individuals. Many of the microfilm documents duplicate
[484]other documents in the other boxes.
[486]While not a part of the sequestered collection, a
[487]separate “Oswald 201 File” has served as a CIA repository
[488]for JFK assassination-related material over the years and ‘to
[489]a large extent material in. this file is duplicative of
[490]material in the sequestered collection. Only a few
[491]documents were in the file at the time of the assassination.
[492]The bulk of the approximately 26,000 pages currently in this
[493]file consists of documents collected immediately after the
[494]assassination and during the Warren Commission
[495]investigation. Included are a large number of third agency
[496]documents, primarily from the FBI. Other major additions to
[497]the Oswald 201 file include relevant Mexico City Station
[498]files and material generated by various FOIA requests and
[499]investigations, such as that of New Orleans District
[500]Attorney, James Garrison.
[502]Assassination-related materials beyond the sequestered
[503]collection and the Oswald 201 file which have been located
[504]since 1992 generally fall into three categories. First,
[505]there are new documents which have been generated since
[506]1978, such as defector reports that mention rumors or
[507]perceptions of conspiracies or newspaper or other open
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[511]source materials related to an individual associated with
[512]the assassination. Second, in a number of cases targeted
[513]areas of inquiry or more precise definitions of areas of
[514]interest by the JFK Board have yielded more information and
[515]added documents to the collection. And third, improved
[516]search techniques have provided better access to those files
[517]which are searchable electronically. Nonetheless, the
[518]material located since 1992 is quite small when compared to
[519]the material in the sequestered collection and the overall
[520]set of material from CIA which has been designated as
[521]‘assassination records” by the JFK Board.
[523]In accordance with the law, the Board has the authority
[524]to designate records which it considers relevant to the
[525]assassination as “Assassination Records.” These documents
[526]are then subject to review for declassification or, as
[527]deemed appropriate by the Board, held for declassification
[528]in the year 2017. The Board has designated the entire
[529]sequestered collection as Assassination Records as well as
[530]selected material generated in the course of searches
[531]subsequent to 1992. The entire set of these documents is
[532]the equivalent of roughly 320,000 pages, including
[533]duplicates.
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[539]° ATTACHMENT IT.
[541]Search Methodology and Types of Searches Conducted
[545]Summary. This Attachment discusses the methodologies
[546]used in conducting the searches, including what we know of
[547]the searches which were conducted on behalf of the earlier
[548]assassination investigations. It includes, in referenced
[549]tabs, documentation of selected taskings. It discusses the
[550]Gistributed nature of CIA‘’s paper recordkeeping systems and
[551]electronic databases and the custom keyword searches that
[552]are used with electronic databases which CIA maintains.
[554]Discussion. The collection of CIA materials contained
[555]in the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) _
[556]“sequestered collection” has existed as a discrete body of
[557]records since 1978. This material resulted from highly
[558]labor intensive and systematic searches by individuals
[560]\ familiar with the Agency’s paper files and records systems
[562]; in use in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the sequestered
[563]collection comprises the great bulk of CIA-originated
[564]documents which can be associated with the JFK Assassination
[565]and related investigations.
[567]For most of its history, the Agency has had a system of
[568]records which has been shaped by the divergent requirements
[569]of the directorates in accordance with the wide variance of
[570]focus in their missions. These basic differences in the
[571]missions of the directorates, as well as the Compartmental—
[573]- lzation-of-information procedures (the “need-te-know”
[574]concept), have resulted in each directorate keeping its own
[575]set of records in accordance with directorate- specific
[576]guidelines. This applies equally to paper records as well
[577]as to electronic databases.
[579]Since the late 1970s, the Agency has been in the
[580]process of converting to electronic databases, which allow
[581]for electronic searches for documents using keyword and
[583]2? Even within a single database, information may--in accordance with information
[584]compartmentalization requirements based on the need-to-know principle--be stored
[585]in separate files by several offices or divisions, each with its distinct
[587]i recordkeeping criteria and access requirements. In order for a search to be
[589]7 thorough, a search for one term or a combination of terms must be conducted
[590]across all such files.
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[596]other indexing tools which provide much more expedited and
[597]efficient searches. Because the most significant portion of
[598]JFK assassination-related material was generated prior to
[599]this conversion to electronic databases, searches of the
[600]sequestered collection or other contemporaneous CIA records
[601]have had to rely primarily upon labor intensive hand
[602]searches.
[604]Since 1992 and the passage of the JFK Act, CIA has, in
[605]responding to the requests of the Board, had to devise
[606]search methodologies and techniques to address both the hard
[607]copy and electronic versions of our databases. With respect
[608]to the hard copy material, Agency efforts have concentrated
[609]on those component records most likely te yield
[610]assassination-related documents. Short of a complete manual
[611]review of all documents in the Agency, the techniques used
[612]for searching hard copy materials include expert reviews of
[613]file series and folder names, including associations with
[614]known related topics, retrieving boxes of files from the
[615]Agency’s Archives and Records Center, and manually reviewing
[616]those files identified as likely to contain the sought after
[617]materials.
[619]Electronic files searches can actually be more complex
[620]than manual searches, in major part because of the number of
[621]different electronic systems in use. The Directorate of
[622]Operations’ electronic databases, for instance, include most
[623]cables since 1978 and they can be searched using single or
[624]multiple search terms against the full text of these cables.
[626]The Directorate of Intelligence’s automated systems include
[628]original source material used for analytic assessments as
[629]well as the products themselves and can be searched through
[630]a variety of electronic techniques. The DCI Area
[631](considered, for this purpose a directorate) maintains the
[632]Executive Registry files which are not normally retrievable
[633]through full text search, but by index searches. The
[634]Directorate of Administration maintains a large and diverse
[635]system of databases and files on employees and contractors
[636]that includes data on security issues, medical records,
[637]training, etc. The Directorate of Science and Technology
[638]and its subordinate components maintain other electronic
[639]databases unique to individual missions. Each of these
[640]systems requires a unique set of access criteria and search
[641]commands and must be searched by information management
[642]experts of the respective directorates. °
[644]Where possible, automated systems were searched using
[645]key words such as JFK, Kennedy, assassination, executive
[646]action, Oswald, place names, and a large number of names,
[647]crypts, or pseudonyms identifying individuals known to have
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[651]~~. been associated with countries, key installations,
[652], i organizations, or operations that fell within the period
[653]deemed relevant to the history of the assassination.
[655]The following categories are examples of the guidelines
[656]for relevancy with which both manual and computerized
[657]searches were conducted. They include, but are not limited -
[658]to, individuals, organizations, places, projects, and
[659]subjects which are considered central to the Oswald/JFK
[660]assassination history and the ensuing investigations.
[662]A. JFK Assassination Investigations:
[664]e Warren Commission, 1963-64
[666]e James Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney, (1966-68
[668]e Rockefeller Commission, 1975 (JFK assassination & CIA
[669]anti-Cuban plots aspects only)
[671]® Church Committee (Senate), 1975-76 (JFK assassination &
[672]CIA anti-Cuban plots aspects only)
[674]e House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA),
[675]1976-79
[677]B. Key Subjects:
[679]} * Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, and JMWAVE
[680]Station, as they related to Oswald’s activities or
[681]to possible conspiracies.
[683]e KGB interest in Oswald.
[685]e CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 if they involve
[686]JFK figures or subjects; most US anti-Castro
[687]activities in 1963 are considered relevant.
[689]e Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders, and
[690]organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures
[691]or subjects.
[693]~ @ Castro assassination activities (plans and attempts)
[694]without limit on time frame.
[696]e Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK, or New Orleans
[697]during Oswald time frames.
[699]C. Key Figures: Material with the following terms was
[700]considered JFK assassination-relevant unless the
[701]context is clearly not related or the information is
[702]outside the appropriate time period:
[703]e AMLASH
[704]e AMMUG
[706]; \ e Maurice Bishop (any reference)
[708]~ oF e Silvia Duran
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[712]Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee
[713]Howard Hunt
[715]Priscilla MacMillan Johnson
[717]Valeriy Kostikov
[719]Mr. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt
[721]Yuri Nosenko
[723]Michael & Ruth Paine
[725]David A. Phillips
[727]Richard Snyder
[729]Win Scott
[731]Prior to enactment of the JFK Act, in early 1992, the
[732]Chief of the CIA History Staff, through various manual
[733]searches of shelf lists, located the “sequestered
[734]collection” of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
[735](sixty-four record center size boxes). After obtaining the
[736]permission of the Congress, his staff surveyed these and
[737]other related holdings on the assassination. In addition,
[738]the History Staff located sixteen boxes of Lee Harvey
[739]Oswald’s 201 file and a number of loose folders, mainly from
[740]Mexico City Station records that had been collected for the
[741]Warren Commission. :
[743]In October 1993, following enactment of the JFK Act but
[744]prior to the President’s appointment of the Board, CIA’s
[745]Historical Review Group (HRG) requested the directorates to
[746]conduct a name search on Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK
[747]assassination, and any related documents (Tab 1). This
[748]request resulted in a series of meetings and discussions
[749]with various Agency components and Information Release
[750]Officers. More than thirty-one additional boxes of
[751]materials were sent to HRG for review. Included in this
[752]material were nimeteen boxes of JFK working files of Mr.
[753]Russ Holmes, a CIA employee who for many years was the
[754]Agency's focal point officer with responsibility for
[755]responding to questions related to our assassinated-related
[756]records. Also included were two boxes on Nosenko, seven
[757]boxes of Latin America Division documents, and three boxes
[758]from the Bay of Pigs project. Out of these thirty-one
[759]additional boxes provided to the Board staff, approximately
[760]twenty-two boxes of material were designated by the Board as
[761]assassination records. The preponderant volume of these
[762]records is duplicative of documents in the sequestered
[763]collection.
[765]t
[766]In April 1995, after the Agency received the Board’s
[767]first formal request, and in anticipation of “what are
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[771]likely to be many requests from the Board for information...”
[772]the Agency Executive Director asked each directorate and the
[773]DCI Administrative Officer to appoint a focal point officer
[774]for the JFK Assassination review. (Tab 2)
[776]In the spring and summer of 1997, the Agency arranged
[777]for the Board staff to receive a series of briefings by
[778]representatives of each directorate on the files kept within
[779]the records systems of each directorate. These briefings
[780]covered aspects of the records systems, such as how the
[781]records are organized, maintained, searched and retrieved,
[782]as well as how they had been previously searched for
[783]assassination-related materials.
[785]The Board staff requested a number of additional
[786]searches, which have now been completed. These requests
[787]were both formal and informal and resulted in responses to
[788]the Board staff which included a wide range of additional
[789]material, some of which was judged relevant to the history
[790]of the assassination. This material includes the histories
[791]of various CIA operations and Agency components, files on
[792]specific individuals involved in either the Warren
[793]Commission or in HSCA investigations, and the results of CIA
[794]internal reviews of programs and operations. Although many
[795]requests from the Board and responses from the Agency were
[796]handled informally, the significant initial requests are
[797]listed in the table in Attachment V.
[799]Prompted in part by the surfacing of a small number of
[800]new relevant documents, the Board staff requested CIA in the
[801]summer of 1998 to: (a) perform an additional set of searches
[802]on certain specific topics; and (b) issue an Agency-wide
[803]notice reminding CIA employees of the requirements of the
[804]JFK Act. :
[806]Specially tailored tasking was sent to the three
[808]‘Directorate of Operations components deemed most likely to
[810]possess records relevant to the JFK assassination of the
[811]kind of concern to the Board (See Tab 3). Among other
[812]considerations, this special tasking included a list of new
[813]or revised search terms, a request for clarification on the
[814]Aisposition of the James Angleton files, and the requirement
[815]to focus on potential new information from the debriefing of
[816]defectors in which any reference to Oswald or to the Kennedy
[817]assassination occurs.
[819]DCI Tenet issued an Agency-wide Employees Bulletin on
[820]22 July 1998 directing all CIA personnel to “consider
[821]documents in their possession or with which they are
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[825]familiar that might have relevance to the Board’s review...”
[826](EB OIM 98-02—See Tab 4).
[828]Finally, and in a separate tasking, all directorates
[829]were asked to assure that searches undertaken were
[830]sufficient to enable a directorate representative to provide
[831]a certification of compliance with the JFK Act, and that the
[832]DCI’s Bulletin had been forwarded to all directorate
[833]employees. (See Tab 5). :
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[837]CSI-0331/93
[838]25 October 1993
[840]MEMORANDUM FOR: DO/IRO
[842]FROM:
[844]DI/IRO
[845]DA/TRO
[846]DS&T/IRO
[848]John F. Pereira
[849]Chief, Historical Review Group/csI
[851]SUBJECT: Request to Conduct Search for
[853]JFK Assassination Records
[855]1. In recent testimony before the HPSCI the Director
[857]indicated that a continuing search for JFK assassination-
[858]related documents was in progress. In order to assure that
[859]there are no oversights in this regard, we are requesting
[861]the following, by directorate:
[863]4
[865]DO & DI: A name search on Lee Harvey Oswald for the
[866]period 1980 through 1993; a subject search on JFK
[867]assassination (Kennedy assassination, etc.), same
[868]period; all appropriate components be asked to forward
[869]to us any documents related to the assassination that
[870]were not provided earlier.
[872]DA & DS&T: All appropriate components be asked to
[873]forward to us any documents related to the
[874]assassination that were not provided earlier; a file
[875]search when an obvious need is recognized.
[877]2. Information responsive to this request should be
[879]forwarded to the Historical Review Group, 404 Ames Building.
[880]Questions may be directed to Frank Most, 30146. © .
[882]John F. Pereira
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[888]‘ADHENESTRATIVEs-o_INPERNAT USE ONLY — ;
[889]“ : poses 95- 069/)
[891]ER 95-8097
[892]6 April 1995
[894]MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
[895]Deputy Director for Intelligence
[896]Deputy Director for Operations
[897]Deputy Director for Science and Technology
[898]Administrative Officer, DCI
[900]FROM: Executive Director
[902]SUBJECT: Appointment of Directorate Focal Points
[903]; for JFK Assassination Board Requests
[905]; 1. .I would like each of you to appoint a focal point
[906]officer for your Directorate who would be responsible for
[908]. responding to requests for information from the (President .
[909]Kennedy) Assassination Records Review Board. (AIUO)
[911]2. The Agency has received the first (attached) of what +
[912]are likely to be many requests from the Board for information
[913]related to the assassination of President Kennedy and to the
[914]investigations into the assassination. Up to now, the Board
[915]has focused on the “sequestered” records CIA had collected
[916]for the House Assassination Committee's investigation and
[917]documents that had been part of the Oswald 201 file. It is
[918]expected that the new requests will require records searches
[919]to be done for additional information. ¢xfvey
[921]t .
[923]- . 3. \ohe Historical Review Group (HRG) of the Center for
[924]the Study of Intelligence (CSI), which has been the Agency's
[925]principal liaison with the JFK Board, will continue in that*
[926]role. HRG will receive requests from the Board, and then
[927]forward them to the Directorate focal points for action.
[928]Responses from the Directorates will be coordinated by HRG,
[929]which will make the responses available to the Board. ¢*£0¢0}
[931]4. Please provide the name of your focal point officer to
[932]John Pereira, Chief, HRG [(x30373-secure)| by 13 April. Grito) .
[934]Leo Hazlewood
[936]Attachment
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[943]JUL WS Se SI HI re
[945]OIM 98-0081
[946]30 July 1998
[948]MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counterintelligence Center, DO
[949]Chief. Latin America Division, DO
[950]Chief, CE Division, DO
[952]FROM: Lee Strickland
[953]Chief, Information Review Group
[954]Office of Information Management .
[956]SUBJECT: (U) New Search of CI Files for JFK -
[958]REFERENCE: (A200) Bulletin OIM.EB No. 02-98,
[960]dated 22 July 1998
[962]-
[964]1. (U) The JFK Board has made a number of recent
[965]specific directed requests to assure that the Agency has
[966]complied fully with the requirements of the JFK Act. Among
[967]these wags a request for issuance of the Reference Employee
[968]Bulletin, in which the DCI directed that employees leave “no
[969]stone unturned” in assuring that relevant documents are
[970]provided to the Commission.
[972]2. -(U) In part because relevant new documents have
[973]surfaced within the past few months, the Board has also
[974]requested specific focus on renewed searches of the Agency’s
[975]“counterintelligence files.” The new documents have
[976]surfaced due to a variety of reasons, including references
[977]to assassination related personalities in recent defector
[978]reports, records made available because of the break up of
[979]the-Soviet Union, and advances in search capabilities due to
[980]digitization of older paper files.
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[986]JUL ow
[988]is) wWsa- sor) nin
[989]sperter
[991]SUBJECT: (U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Assassination
[992]Records
[994]3. {ef In discussions with the Board staff we have
[995]attempted to focus any new tasking on those areas in which
[996]they have expressed their greatest concern. It is
[997]imperative, however, that. we satisfy the Board on these-
[998]issues or the Agency will be subject to a determination by
[999]the Board that we are not in compliance with the JFK Act.
[1000]Because of the impending statutory termination of the Board
[1001]and their need to issue their report, there is some urgency
[1002]associated with the conduct and completion of these
[1003]searches. The searches must be completed by 6 August, 1998.
[1005]4. (87 - Databases to be Searched. The addressees to
[1006]this memorandum are requested to perform new searches—-using
[1007]the search terms in paragraph 5--on ANY of your files which
[1008]May contain information relating in any way to the JFK
[1009]assassination, including, in particular, all records systems
[1010]or files containing information on:
[1012]e James J. Angleton and his files
[1014]¢ Debriefings of. defectors in which ANY reference to Oswald
[1015]or the JFK assassination occurs (Example {” TSJDECANTER} |
[1017]5. (U) Search Terms and Time Periods. | These new
[1018]searches should focus on documents that might be retrievable
[1019]with the following search terms over the referenced periods:
[1021]“e The period 1959-1965 using the search terms Executive
[1023]Action, Exaction, Ex Action.
[1025]® Post-1978 information combining the term “assassination”
[1026]with President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, JFK,
[1027]presidential threats, threats to U.S. President, attempt
[1028](or attempted). or the crypt GPIDEAL.
[1030]© Post-1978 information related to the following terms:
[1031]Warren Commission, House Select Committee on
[1032]Assassinations, HSCA, Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina
[1033]Oswald, Jack Ruby, or GPFLOOR, .
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[1041]SUBJECT: (U) New Search of CI Files for JFK Assassination
[1042]- Recordga
[1044]6. 85 Information is also sought on:
[1046]e The identity and current location of personnel (either
[1047]the current assignment of employees or any knowledge of
[1048]current location of retirees) who participated in
[1050]- debriefings ox_the preparation of reports on debriefings
[1051]of [TODECANTER.
[1053]e The destruction of James J. Angleton’s files.
[1055]Such information should -be brought immediately to the
[1056]attention of the Historical Review Program, OIM (Barry _
[1058]Harrelson,|31825, Secure}.
[1060]Lee 9. Strickland
[1064]SECRET
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[1070]ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY _
[1072]BULLETIN
[1074]EMPLOYEE &
[1076]OIM OIM EB No. 02-98
[1077]22 July 1998
[1079]FINAL DOCUMENT SEARCH TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH "PRESIDENT JOHN
[1080]F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992" (JFK ACT)
[1082]FROM: George J. Tenet
[1083]Director of Central Intelligence
[1085]1. (VU) As you know, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (Board) is completing
[1086]its task of overseeing the search and declassification of all Federal government records relating to
[1087]the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by 30 September 1998. The Board and we want
[1088]to do everything possible to place before the American people the full story as reflected in
[1089]government and other records.
[1091]2. _ (U) The Agency has been working on this effort since 1992 and has searched all of the
[1092]obvious databases. We want to make certain that we have left no stone unturned. and that no
[1093]employee has any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—
[1094]including any records created [or received] after 1992. The reference to 1992 is largely intended
[1095]to encompass documents which may have come into our hands since the collapse of the Soviet
[1096]Union and Warsaw Pact.
[1098]3. (AIUO) In accordance with the provisions of the JFK Act, I hereby direct all CLA
[1099]personnel to consider documents in their possession or with which they are familiar that-might
[1101]. have relevance to the Board’s review and that might not have been found in the course of
[1103]electronic or manual searches over the past six years. Representatives of the Historical Review
[1104]Program believe that if such documents do exist they would, most likely, be found in files that
[1105]would not be generally related to the assassination or that would not be “logical” areas for
[1106]systematic searches. These include working paper files of smaller databases related to countries
[1107]not normally associated with the assassination. Relevant documents can be in the form of papers,
[1108]photographs, recordings, tapes, or other media, and can include documents “related to the
[1109]assassination,” such as later investigations, key topics/events within the Oswald/JFK Story, or
[1110]material related to key figures—such as Nosenko.
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[1114]4. (AIUO) CIA personnel who believe they have information regarding documents relevant
[1115]to the JFK review that may not have been found in previous searches should contact their
[1116]component or directorate IRO or the JFK Project Coordinator. Directorate IROs and the
[1117]Agency’s JFK Project Coordinator are as follows:
[1119]Secure Phone
[1121]DO /IRO William McNair 44448
[1123]DI/IRO Barbara Blufer 54644
[1125]DS&T /IRO Teresa Wilcox 50104
[1127]DA /TRO Becky Rant 31204
[1129]DCI Area /IRO Mary Lou Cummings 39058
[1130]JFK Project
[1132]Coordinator Barry Harrelson 31825
[1136]Director of Central Intelligence
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[1144]OIM 98-0088
[1145]12 August 1998
[1147]MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
[1148]Deputy Director for Intelligence
[1149]Deputy Director for Operations
[1150]Deputy Director for Science and Technology
[1151]Administrative Officer, DCI Area
[1153]FROM: Edmund Cohen “
[1154]Director of Information Management
[1156]SUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in
[1157]Support of JFK Act .
[1159]REFERENCE: Memo, “CIA compliance with the JFK
[1160]Assassinations Records Collection Act
[1161]of 1992,” dtd 15 Jul 98, fr the
[1162]Assassination Records Review Board.
[1164]1. The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of
[1165]a requirement to provide to the JFK Assassination Records
[1166]Review Board a “Final Declaration of Compliance” with the
[1167]JFK Act. The declaration must include: a description of
[1168]component searches undertaken in response to Board taskings
[1169]since 1993; information on any possible destruction of
[1170]assassination records;. and a representation that a diligent
[1171]search for assassination records was undertaken. We are in
[1172]need of assistance of your staff in preparing the
[1173]description of these items for inclusion in the compliance
[1174]response. .-
[1176]2. The referenced memorandum describes the Board's
[1177]requirements for the “Final Declaration” in greater
[1178]detail. Jim Oliver, Chief, Historical Review Program
[1179]and Barry Harrelson, the Agency’s JFK Review Focal Point,
[1180]are meeting with the Directorate Information Review Officer
[1181]and, as appropriate, other members of your staff to review
[1182]the information needed to support the certifications which
[1183]the Agency will need to make.
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[1187]SUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support
[1188]Of JFK Act ;
[1190]3. In order to meet the 1 September 1998 deadline
[1191]prescribed by the Board, we request that the information
[1192]described in Paragraph 1 be sent-to Mr. Harrelson by close
[1194]of business, 21 August eve
[1198]Attachment IZ
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[1202]Attachment III
[1204]Records Declassified and Released. .
[1206]Summary. This Attachment discusses the process used by
[1207]CIA to declassify JFK assassination-related documents,
[1208]including interaction with the Board and subsequent re-
[1209]reviews of materials, as well as the personnel resources
[1210]engaged in this effort. It discusses the volumes of records
[1211]reviewed, the volumes of records declassified, and the
[1212]manner in which the material has or will be aade available
[1213]to the public.
[1215]Discussion. In response to the enactment of the JFK
[1216]Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and in
[1217]anticipation of the appointment of the Review Board, CIA,
[1218]during 1992 and 1993, reviewed for declassification material
[1219]which had been sequestered following the investigation of
[1220]the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978.
[1221]As a result of this effort, CIA released as declassified to
[1222]the National Archives in August 1993 some 127,000 pages of
[1223]material from this collection. Since that time, additional
[1224]releases have been made; approximately 74,000 pages from the
[1225]microfilm part of the collection were declassified and
[1226]released in August 1994 and 30,000 pages of HSCA originated
[1227]material were declassified and released in 1995. We
[1228]estimate that, since 1992, CIA has devoted over 100 work
[1229]years to its effort to respond to the JFK Act (including
[1231]‘experienced annuitants working as independent contractors).
[1233]The development of the declassification review
[1234]methodology was, from the beginning in 1992, an iterative
[1235]process that took into account both the requirements of the
[1236]JFK Act to release to the public information relevant to an
[1237]understanding of the assassination and the DCI‘s statutory
[1238]mandate to protect intelligence sources and methods under
[1239]the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949.
[1241]In the years since 1992, considerable effort has been
[1242]expended to balancing these two objectives. Interaction
[1243]with the Board‘s staff was a significant factor in reaching
[1244]this proper balance. The net result is that practices over
[1245]this period evolved to the extent that types of material
[1246]that had been redacted at the beginning of the process were,
[1247]by the end, no longer considered necessary to withhold.
[1248]This has, of course, required a further re-review of the
[1249]material released during the earlier period to assure that
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[1253]consistent standards were being used for the entire
[1254]collection.
[1256]Each document in the collection was read by an
[1258]Historical Review Program (HRP) Reviewer -- in every case a
[1259]retired officer with at least two decades of Agency
[1260]experience -- who examined every word in the document with
[1262]an eye toward releasing documents unless such release could
[1263]be expected to cause damage to:
[1265]e Human intelligence assets or their families;
[1267]¢ Intelligence methodology clearly requiring continued
[1268]protection;
[1270]e Intelligence operations or activities warranting
[1271]continued protection, including relationships with
[1272]foreign governments.
[1274]The reviewed documents were then passed to teams of
[1275]officers from the components that generated the documents
[1276](in most cases the Directorate of Operations), who were
[1277]responsible for determining current sensitivity. The senior
[1278]HRP reviewers validated the component groups’ actions prior
[1279]to forwarding the materials to the Board.
[1281]Names of CIA employees who served all or most of their
[1282]careers under cover posed particular problems and, while
[1283]many names have been redacted, with Board concurrence for
[1284]release at a later date, the current sensitivity, or lack
[1285]thereof, of retired individuals’ employment by CIA had to be
[1286]checked in each case. Names of key players in the post-
[1287]assassination scenario, as stipulated by the Board, were
[1288]released as true names or with temporary and traceable
[1289]substitute names. Identification by the Board of those who
[1290]were considered key players was a complicated and time-
[1291]consuming task. Significant review and analysis went.into
[1293]- the decision to release true names of many Cubans connected
[1295]with the Bay of Pigs.
[1297]Material from the Rockefeller Commission and Church
[1298]Committee investigations, presidential libraries and PFIAB
[1299]files which addressed the entire scope of CIA activities
[1300]raised issues with respect to relevance to the JFK
[1301]assassination. For example, Project MONGOOSE, a clandestine
[1302]portion of the publicly acknowledged U.S. anti-Castro
[1303]policy, was released.
[1305]Another major issue was consistency in reviewing
[1306]duplicate copies of documents. In one case 47 copies of a
[1307]cable were found by different reviewers in separate files
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[1313]over the six years of our review process. The National
[1314]Archives ground rules called for release of every copy for
[1315]inclusion in the NARA collection; therefore, each of these
[1316]47 copies is included as part of the total collection. As
[1317]duplicate copies were found, comparison with. the 1993.
[1318]released version revealed not only inconsistencies but
[1319]textual phrasing which,’ in a mosaic of related documents,
[1320]made likely the identification of a protected individual or
[1321]action. As a result, much re-review of the files was
[1322]required and did occur. -
[1324]Another time-consumer was the question of the
[1325]identification of overseas station locations, traditionally
[1326]not revealed--both to protect Agency individuals, activities
[1327]and sources and to avoid foreign relations difficulties with
[1328]foreign governments. In these cases, a window of time for
[1329]acknowledgment of such facilities was negotiated, directly
[1331]relevant to such actions as Oswald’s travels and post-
[1333]assassination requests for foreign government assistance in
[1334]the U.S. investigation.
[1336]Except for redaction of names of CIA employees, true
[1337]names of clandestine agents (otherwise identified with
[1338]traceable cryptonyms), and currently~sensitive cooperation
[1339]with specific foreign intelligence services, the final
[1340]collection in the National Archives will contain very
[1341]limited redactions and, in our opinion, none that would
[1342]affect an historian’s understanding of the Agency’s
[1343]information on, and relevance to, the event.
[1345]Attachment IL
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[1349]ATTACHMENT IV.
[1351]Perceived Gaps in CIA Records
[1353]Summary. This Attachment addresses the Board‘s
[1354]requested explanation for the apparent absence of files
[1355]which are known to have existed (or for which there is some
[1356]evidence that they existed at one time) but cannot now be
[1357]located. Specifically, the Board asked for such information
[1358]on-the following: Oswald files; certain files of James
[1359]Angleton; DCI McCone files; William Pawley; and Win Scott.
[1360]This Attachment also addresses the Board’s request that the
[1361]Agency’s Declaration “...identify any other records relating
[1362]to Oswald or the assassination that CIA knows to have been
[1363]destroyed or removed from CIA files.”
[1365]Discussion.
[1366]Files on Lee Harvey Oswald
[1368](a) The Office of Security (OS) maintained a pre-
[1369]assassination subject file on Oswald. This file contained
[1370]newspaper articles and reports from other government
[1371]agencies. As would be expected, the number of volumes of
[1372]the subject file grew following the assassination. The pre-
[1373]assassination material remained in volume one and subsequent
[1374]material was filed in volumes numbered II through VI.
[1375]However, during a February 1997 search, no volume V was
[1376]found. A second thorough search of the OS file system
[1377]failed to produce any record of Volume V. A careful page-
[1378]by-page review of the contents of the existing volumes
[1379]revealed there is no time gap in the material. Therefore,
[1380]it is believed the label on Volume VI is simply incorrect;
[1381]it should have been labeled Volume V.
[1383]The OS Oswald subject file was reviewed by the HSCA in
[1384]1978; however, it was not stored with the rest of the
[1385]sequestered material. There is no documentation on why this
[1386]file was not incorporated into the sequestered collection
[1387]held by the DO; eight boxes of non-Oswald OS files were in
[1388]the collection. The Oswald Security File has been reviewed,
[1389]declassified, and released to NARA.
[1391](b) There has been considerable interest over the years in
[1392]locating any electronic surveillance tapes that would have
[1393]been made during the period that Oswald visited Mexico (26
[1394]September - 2 October 1963). A thorough search has been
[1395]conducted of the DO’s record system as well as the index to
[1396]retired records in an attempt to locate any tapes and/or
[1397]find documentation to resolve their disposition. We have
[1398]Giscussed this issue with operational experts and their
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[1402]professional opinion is that most likely such tapes were
[1403]never returned to Headquarters for retention. It was normal
[1404]practice to recycle audio tapes after they had been listened
[1405]to by transcribers and their transcripts made.
[1407]Messages between field stations and headquarters used
[1408]operational jargon and shortened sentence structures that
[1409]can sometimes allow for misinterpretations. Thus, possible
[1410]confusion was created when references to what was being sent
[1411]to headquarters referred to “tapes” but really intend
[1412]“information” from tapes.
[1414]In our search efforts we did locate approximately 185
[1415]audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban and Soviet embassies _
[1416]in Mexico City that were recorded during the immediate time
[1417]following the assassination (22 November 1963 to January
[1418]1964). The fact that these tapes were retained and returned
[1419]to Headquarters could account for the fact that some people
[1420]recall that some tapes existed which were sent to
[1421]Headquarters.
[1423]Based upon the search efforts that were undertaken and
[1424]the opinions of operational experts consulted, CIA has
[1425]concluded that the tapes in question do not exist and were
[1426]almost certainly recycled in the normal course of business
[1427]before their potential value was identified.
[1429]James J. Angleton (Chief, CounterIntelligence Staff, 1954-
[1430]1974)
[1432]As noted in a 24 August 1998 memo to the Board, the
[1433]files of Mr. Angleton were incorporated within the files of
[1434]the CI Staff and the Directorate of Operations. Three
[1435]memoranda, dated 23 November 1976, 5 August 1977, and 29
[1436]November 1979, detail the review and incorporation into
[1437]the DO Central Records System of the Angleton files as well
[1438]as all the files found in CI Staff following Mr. Angleton’s
[1439]departure. As a result of this review and incorporation of ©
[1440]files, there is no identifiable collection of Angleton
[1441]files. The three memoranda mentioned above have been
[1442]included in the Agency’s JFK collection for processing and
[1443]release to NARA.
[1445]John McCone (Director of Central Intelligence, 1961-1965)
[1447]Within the McCone papers are several file folders with
[1448]notations that indicate documents are missing. However,
[1449]each folder has an index of the documents that were
[1450]originally within it. Of all the missing documents only two
[1451]refer to the Kennedy assassination. One document is
[1452]described as “Date of Meeting - 26 Nov; Participamts - DCI &
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[1456]Bundy; Subjects Covered - Msg concerning Pres. Kennedy’s
[1457]assassination.” The second document is described as “Date
[1458]of Meeting - 19 May ‘64; Participants - DCI, J.J. McCloy;
[1459]Dinner at Residence - Re: Oswald. [The latter is annotated:
[1460]“Destroyed 1-28-72."]
[1462]Both documents were noted as missing when the files
[1463]were reviewed by the CIA History Staff in November 1986.
[1465]William Pawley (Industrialist; friend of DCI Dulles and
[1466]supporter of Anti-Castro activities)
[1468]The JFK collection contains a 201 file on Mr. Pawley
[1469]that ends in 1962. The Directorate of Operations determined
[1470]that material through 1965 that should have been in the 201
[1471]file was filed in an operational file. Most of the material
[1472]was already within the JFK collection. The Board staff
[1473]reviewed all the documents within the operational file and
[1474]selected additional documents for inclusion in the JFK
[1475]collection. This material will be processed for release to
[1476]NARA. 7
[1478]Win Scott (Chief of Station, Mexico City, 1956-1969)
[1480]The Agency’s Retired Record Table (RRT) shows Mr.
[1481]Scott’s Mexico City files were retired as Job 78-00594R on
[1482]11 August 1972. These records were retired to the Agency’s
[1483]Archives and Records Center under Item Number 40-76 in the
[1484]DO Records Control Schedule in effect at that time. Files
[1485]under Item Number 40-76 were described as:
[1487]“Temporary. Destroy upon completion of a specific job
[1488]or as they serve their purpose. Return folders and
[1490]documents on loan and destroy remaining papers.’
[1492]The RRT shows Job 78-00594R was destroyed on 12 January.
[1494]°1987, based upon reference to Item Number 40-76 of the’
[1496]Records Control Schedule.
[1498]The RRT page showing the disposition of Mr. Scott’‘s
[1499]files and the page of the Records Control Schedule which
[1500]describes Item Number 40-76 have been incorporated in the
[1501]Agency's JFK collection and will be processed for release to
[1502]NARA.
[1504]Certain Station Files
[1506]Within the Board's guidance for CIA‘s compliance
[1507]declaration, the Board asked that the Agency specifically
[1508]address the existence, non-existence or destruction of files
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[1512]from two stations in its Final Compliance Statement. The
[1513]two stations in question are Mexico City for the period
[1514]1963-1964, and Moscow for the period 1959-1962.
[1516]It has been long-standing practice and policy that
[1517]Materials that the DO keeps in the field are for immédiate
[1518]operational needs, and that record materials are to be
[1519]returned to Headquarters for safekeeping. Limited storage
[1520]Space overseas as well as the risk of physical loss in the
[1521]event of civil unrest or the need for evacuation are
[1522]contributing factors to this policy. Once at Headquarters,
[1523]these materials are normally organized by topic or subject
[1524]rather than by station because this is the way that work is
[1525]performed. Particularly with paper records and the passage
[1526]of significant time, it is extremely difficult if not
[1527]impossible to reconstruct with any confidence, a full set of
[1528]documents for any particular station.
[1530]We do know that files from Mexico City Station are /
[1531]listed in the documents found in the sequestered collection
[1532]and the Oswald 201 file materials. This divergence from
[1533]normal practice with respect to these files can be explained
[1534]by the obvious high interest of the Warren Commission in the
[1535]events in Mexico City surrounding the time of the assassin-
[1536]ation (as shown by the fact that they are contained in the
[1537]Warren Commission materials). It would not have been normal
[1538]practice at the time for the Agency to keep these records in
[1539]this form. Thus, other than the materials in the sequest-
[1540]ered collection and the Oswald 201 file, we have been unable
[1541]to identify collections of records which would represent
[1542]files for the two stations for the periods requested.
[1544]HTLINGUAL
[1546]The Church and Pike Committees both expressed concern
[1547]about HTLINGUAL, a mail opening project which held
[1548]information on American citizens. As a result of these
[1549]investigations, CIA was directed by court order to destroy
[1550]all HTLINGUAL material. It is reasonable to believe that an
[1551]HTLINGUAL file existed on Lee Harvey Oswald; however, along
[1552]with all other files designated as HTLINGUAL files, it would
[1553]have been destroyed in accordance with the court order.
[1554]Within the JFK sequestered collection, there are HTLINGUAL
[1555]materials on Oswald -- materials which were apparently
[1556]copied from the HTLINGUAL files before they were destroyed
[1557]in accordance with the court order. It is not possible,
[1558]however, to say that everything on Oswald that was held in
[1559]the HTLINGUAL file wound up in the JFK collection. (See Tab
[1560]2 of Attachment V for more details.)
[1562]14-0000
[1564]Records Relating to Oswald or the Assassination known _to
[1565]have been destroyed or removed. .
[1567]In November 1997, the Information Management Officer of
[1568]the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) advised that he
[1569]had discovered a record which indicated a file that referred
[1570]to the Kennedy assassination had been destroyed on “5/1/95".
[1571]A search for information on this document revealed that the
[1572]document had been created in 1977 and was described as
[1573]“allegations regarding the Lee Harvey Oswald file.” It was
[1574]included with other documents grouped under the description:
[1576]“Individual Case Files - Consists of documents
[1577]accumulated in investigating complaints, suggestions,
[1578]or problems of individuals which are brought to the
[1579]attention of the IG. Filed numerically by case number.
[1580]Potential cases filed alphabetically.”
[1582]It has been confirmed that copies of the documents were
[1583]made available to the HSCA and are in the sequestered
[1584]collection. The OIG has reconstructed the file and will
[1585]maintain it as a permanent record. Documentation is -
[1586]provided at Tab 1.
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[1592]06 January 1998
[1594]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD —
[1596]TO: Barry Harrelson
[1597]OIM/HRG
[1598]FROM: Jerry Owens (C) -
[1599]OIG/IMO
[1600]SUBJECT: (AIUO) Inadvertent Destruction of Records
[1601]REF: (U) Telecon dated 06 January 1998
[1603]1. (U) Per your request, attached is a memorandum
[1604]written to the Office of the Inspector Generals (OIG),
[1605]Deputy and Associate Deputy IG for Investigations. The
[1606]attached memorandum was also reviewed by OIG/Counsel. [It
[1607]explains in some detail the events we discussed in
[1608]referenced telephone conversation.
[1610]2. (AIUO) It is understood by me, the undersigned,
[1611]that no further action from the Inspector Generals office is
[1612]required, and that this matter may be considered closed.
[1614]The Office of Information Management/Historical Review Group
[1615](OIM/HRG) will notify the Assassination Review Board (ARB)
[1616]and file a copy cf this memorandum in HRG files to refer to
[1617]when writing the compliance letter to the ARB.
[1619]. 3. (AIUO) It is also understood that original
[1620]documents are not required when material is requested for or
[1621]being added to the sequestered collection, and that copies
[1622]of the material which were inadvertently destroyed were
[1623]previously provided to the HSAC and ARB (or special task
[1624]force) before their destruction in 1995.
[1626]4. (AIUO) With the assistance of HRG, the OIG/IMO has
[1627]been able to reconstruct the file and will maintain it asa
[1628]permanent record, also adding a copy of the attached to that
[1629]file. ;
[1631]CL BY 0680987
[1633]CL REASON: 1.5(c)
[1634]DECL ON: X-1
[1636]DRV fm COV 1-82
[1638]TOON EE SEN LA OL
[1640]li
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[1644]SUBJECT: (AIUO) Inadvertent Destruction of Records
[1646]5.  (AIUO) Your assistance in this matter is greatly
[1647]appreciated. If you have any further questions regarding
[1648]this matter, please call me on secure X77081. Thank you.
[1650]Jerry N. Owens (C)
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[1660]Did DOJ decide -to prosecut
[1661]Record Center
[1664]AttachmertX.
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[1668]Attachment V
[1670]Specific Requests From the Board -
[1672]Summary. The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act
[1673]of 1992 mandates a number of specific actions on behalf of
[1674]all government departments and agencies. One of these is
[1675]to:
[1677]“,...make available to the Review Board any
[1678]additional information and records that
[1679]the Review Board has reason to believe it
[1680]requires for conducting a review under
[1681]this Act.” (Sec. 5(c)2 H.)
[1683]In the exercise of this authority under the Act, the Board
[1684]made fifty-three specific requests for additional records
[1685]and information in the form of sixteen (16) requests
[1686]designated as “formal” and thirty-seven (37) Gesignated as
[1687]“informal.” On each request, the CIA worked closely with
[1688]the Board and Board staff to provide the information and/or
[1689]documents requested and a written response which records
[1690]such actions.
[1692]Discussion. As a part of this’Final Declaration, the
[1693]CIA‘ has attached at Tab 1 a list of the fifty-three requests
[1694]by number and a short description of the subject of each.
[1695]At the Board‘s request this attachment includes at Tab 2 the
[1696]specific response to the request numbered CIA-16 (Oswald
[1697]Pre-Assassination File)
[1699]Beyond the fifty-three requests, the Board raised two
[1700]additional matters which tend to fall within the category of
[1701]special requests:
[1703]1) A request that the Agency review and declassify the
[1704]Board’s interviews of former CIA officer and Mexico City
[1705]station employee, Anne Goodpasture; the Agency’s response to
[1706]that request is complete.
[1708]2) A request for Board staff access to sealed
[1709]Rockefeller Commission records held by the Library of
[1710]Congress; these records were given to the Library by
[1711]Rockefeller via a deed of gift which requires a letter from
[1712]the DCI before access can be granted. This letter will be
[1713]completed by 9 September 1998.
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[1717]14-0000
[1721]Attachment V. Tab 1
[1723]JFK Assassinations Records Review Board Requests
[1724]for Additional Information and Records
[1725]As of 1 September 1998 -
[1727]RESPONSIBLE
[1728]COMPONENT
[1730]ye!
[1731][s}
[1733]FORMAL
[1734]REQUESTS DESCRIPTION
[1736]CIA - 1 Information on the All directorates,
[1737]organization of CIA the Office of the | COMPLETE
[1739]Director and HRP
[1741]HRP, DO COMPLETE
[1743]COMPLETE
[1745]CIA 2 through 5 were
[1746]background questions on the
[1747]JFK collection; these types
[1748]of questions were handled
[1749]informally; no written
[1750]responses prepared
[1752]CIA - 3
[1753]cIA - 4 . COMPLETE
[1754]CIA - 5 COMPLETE
[1756]H
[1759]Review of 60 CIA histories HRP, DO, DS&T CONTINUING
[1760]1 History
[1761]pending access
[1763]approval.
[1765]CIA - 8 ‘Intelligence Community DCI/IRO COMPLETE
[1766]Staff Records
[1768]CIA - 9 Intelligence Community Documents
[1769]Publications on Cuba or available; being
[1770]USSR, Nov. 20-30, 1963 reviewed by
[1771]Board Staff
[1773]CIA - 10 Interagency Source Register COMPLETE;
[1774]CIA - 11 Sylvia Duran Materials HRP, DO
[1776]DI
[1777]' COMPLETE
[1778]CIA - 12 Files on five persons DO, DA “COMPLETE
[1779]allegedly connected with
[1780]JMWAVE
[1781]CIA - 13 Mexico City Back-channel COMPLETE
[1782]Communications
[1783]CIA - 14 Mexico City Station annual COMPLETE
[1784]Reports
[1785]CIA - 15 Win Scott files from Russ HRP, DO COMPLETE
[1786]Holmes files
[1787]CIA - 16 Oswald Pre-Assassination COMPLETE
[1788]Files
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[1793]CIA-IR-03 Full Computer Search for
[1794]. HTLINGUAL files
[1796]INFORMAL STATUS/
[1797]REQUESTS REMAINING
[1798]ISSUES
[1800]RESPONSIBLE
[1801]DESCRIPTION COMPONENT
[1803]CIA-IR-01 Personnel Assigned to Post
[1804]from 1959 to 1964
[1805]CIA-IR-02 Location of Certain Cable
[1807]COMPLETE
[1809]COMPLETE
[1811]Documents/files
[1812]available; being
[1813]reviewed by
[1814]Board Staff.
[1816]DO Briefing on
[1817]this matter. To
[1818]be resolved by
[1819]15 September.
[1821]COMPLETE;
[1822]Classified
[1823]Response
[1824]Provided.
[1826]QKENCHANT - Information on
[1827]purpose and connection with
[1828]certain individuals
[1830]has requested a
[1831]CIA-IR-06
[1833]CIA-IR-04 | Disposition of Angleton Files pO COMPLETE
[1834]CIA-IR-05 Possible foreign source for HRP, DO Board chairman
[1835]records on Oswald
[1837]Claude Barnes Capehart COMPLETE
[1838]Unredacted copy of the HRP, DCI/IRO COMPLETE
[1839]“Family Jewels” memorandum
[1841]CIA-IR-09 | George Bush computer search COMPLETE
[1843]CIA-IR~10 Determination if CIA IG DCI/IRO COMPLETE
[1844]maintains an index of reports
[1845]and determine if one was done :
[1846]on handling of Oswald maters.
[1847]CIA-IR-11 | Warren Commission critics DO, DA COMPLETE
[1848](Does CIA maintain files or
[1849]records on specified critics --
[1850]-other than press clippings?)
[1851]CIA-IR~-12 Contacts with journalists or COMPLETE
[1852]publishing houses
[1853]CIA-IR-13 Office/person dealing with Documents
[1854]organized crime & Cuba available; being
[1855]reviewed by
[1856]Board Staff.
[1857]CIA-IR-14 Breckinridge files (focal ODCI/ OCA COMPLETE
[1859]point for HSCA
[1862]CIA-IR-08
[1864]investigations)
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[1868]RESPONSIBLE STATUS
[1869]DESCRIPTION COMPONENT REMAINING
[1870]ISSUES
[1872]CIA-IR-15 Mexico City Station COMPLETE. The
[1873]electronic surveillance and tapes from 22-23
[1874]surveillance tapes Nov. ‘63 have
[1876]been processed
[1877]and are avail-
[1878]able to NARA.
[1879]Processing the
[1880]remaining 168
[1881]tapes will be
[1882]done by
[1883]September ‘99.
[1885]CIA-IR-16 | U-2 Files Shelflist COMPLETE
[1887]CIA-IR-17 DS&T records on Castro DS&T COMPLETE
[1888]assassination plots
[1890]CIA-IR-18 Information on one DO Office COMPLETE
[1892]CIA-IR-19 Computer search on specific HRP, DO, DA COMPLETE
[1893]o individuals and organizations
[1894]CIA-IR-20 | “Monster Plot” COMPLETE
[1896]“CIA-IR-21 DRE monthly opérational COMPLETE ,
[1897]y reports ;
[1898]CIA-IR-22 “A” file on Clay Shaw and Jim COMPLETE
[1899]Garrison
[1900]CIA-IR-23 Watch Committee files DCI/IRO COMPLETE
[1901]CIA-IR-24 Defector file D, COMPLETE
[1902]D.
[1904]CIA-IR-25 Zapruder film DS&T, DA COMPLETE
[1905]CIA-IR-26 Jordan James Pfuntner COMPLETE
[1908]individuals
[1910]CIA-IR-32 AMWORLD—Information on | DO COMPLETE.
[1911]purpose and relation to Cuban Classified
[1912]exile group Response
[1914]DA
[1916]AL
[1917]DO,
[1918]A
[1921]14-0000
[1923]RESPONSIBLE STATUS/
[1924]DESCRIPTION COMPONENT REMAINING
[1925]ISSUES
[1927]CIA-IR-33 | FBIS-USR-92-112 | COMPLETE
[1929]CIA-IR~34 Files of CIA DO, ODCI DCI Area
[1930]officials/offices complete; DO
[1931]files being
[1932]reviewed by
[1933]Board staff.
[1935]COMPLETE
[1937]CIA-IR-35 | Oswald related information
[1938]provided by Source identified
[1939]in RIF No 104-10151-10206
[1941]COMPLETE .
[1943]CIA-IR~37 William Pawley
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[1948]14-00000
[1950]eet “
[1952]24 December 1997
[1954]Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn
[1956]Executive Director
[1957]Assassination Records Review Board
[1958]600 E. Street, N.W. (2nd Floor)
[1959]Washington, D.C. 20530
[1961]Dear Dr. Gunn:
[1963]Re: Request for Additional Information and Records
[1964]No. CIA-16 (Oswald Pre-Assassination Files) and
[1965]No. CIA-IR-24 (Defector File)
[1967]This is a partial response to the ARRB‘s referent
[1968]request for pre-assassination files this Agency may have had
[1969]on Lee Harvey Oswald. It is believed the following comments
[1970]and two enclosed documents fully respond to the Office of
[1971]Security questions. The DO response is pending.
[1973]1. At Tab A is a 22 December 1997 memorandum
[1974]containing information from the Agency's Office of Personnel
[1975]Security which provides details about the files it had on
[1976]Oswald prior to the assassination plus when and why they
[1977]were created. These include the Office of Security file on
[1978]Oswald, a general file on Americans who had defected to
[1979]another country and information about HTLINGUAL files.
[1981]2. Also enclosed at Tab B is a 27 October 1977
[1982]memorandum from the Office of Personal Security which
[1983]explains the numbering of that Office's file on Oswald. In
[1984]particular, it explains why the “missing” volume V may never
[1985]have existed...
[1987]3. An ARRB staff member has reviewed the Oswald
[1988]Security file and the file on American defectors. ~
[1990]4. The Oswald Office of Personnel Security file and
[1991]those pages of the defector file deemed relevant by the ARRB
[1993]-staff member have been forwarded to HRG for review and will
[1995]be processed according to current release guidelines.
[1997]If you have any questions about this response, please
[1998]advise. ‘
[1999]. Sincerely,
[2001]J. Barry Harrelsbn
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[2005]eee 7
[2007]22 December 1997
[2009]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[2011]1. Pursuant to ARRB “Resquet No. CIA-16,the Office of
[2012]Personnel Security conducted research for and existing pre-
[2013]assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The following
[2014]responses are provided to those questions which pertain to
[2015]the Office of Personnel Security (OPS). These responses are
[2016]the best reasonable answers based on available information.
[2017]Please note OPS was known as the Office of Security prior to
[2018]1 October 1994.
[2020]Question 1: Please identify, as specifically as
[2021]possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time
[2022]of the assassination of President Kennedy.
[2024]Response: At the time of the assassination, the Office
[2025]of Security (0S) held two files which contained information
[2026]on Lee Harvey Oswald. One file entitled “Defectors File”
[2027](#0341008), contained a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, and
[2028]the second file was Office of Security subject file on Lee
[2029]Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was reflected in
[2030]the automated security database known as the Management Data
[2031]Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were
[2032]originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the
[2033]above numbers circa 1964. A hand search was also conducted
[2034]of microfiche records which were superseded by the automated
[2035]system. This hand search produced the same results as the
[2036]automated search of MDP/PS.
[2038]2. Within the ARRB request is specific mention of an
[2039]HTLINGUAL file. MDP/PS reflects OS maintained four official
[2040]files under this project--#0077826 (an administrative file), ©
[2041]#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0119144. All of
[2042]the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along
[2043]with numerous soft files. Since this material has been
[2044]destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files
[2045]contained any information on Lee Harvey Oswald. The search
[2046]of Oswald‘s name did not produce an index reference to any
[2047]of these files. Attached is all of the available
[2048]information regarding the destruction of the HTLINGUAL
[2049]files. This information was retrieved from the Information
[2050]Management Branch/Records Control Section and from a review
[2051]of general office administrative files.
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[2055]Question 2: For other than the 201-289248 file on
[2056]Oswald, please explain when each Oswald file was opened, the
[2057]purpose for the. opening of the file, and the documents that
[2058]were in the file at the time of the assassination.
[2060]Response: As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have been
[2061]destroyed. ‘Since OS files are usually set up in
[2062]chronological sequence, a search of files with numbers in
[2063]close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL was
[2064]undertaken. This search revealed the approximate opening
[2065]dates for the four official HTLINGUAL files as:
[2067]#0077826 Opened approximately July 1952
[2068]#0090079 Opened approximately February 1953
[2069]#0093466 Opened approximately July 1953
[2070]#0119144 Opened approximately May 1955
[2072]3. HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project
[2073]involving the opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to
[2074]and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South
[2075]America. In the Office of Security this project was known
[2076]as SRPOINTER with subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER,
[2077]INDIAN, BANJO, and SETTER. The Office of Security actually
[2078]conducted the opening and monitoring of mail with the
[2079]acquired information being referred to the Directorate of
[2080]Operations.
[2082]4. The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa
[2083]1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens
[2084]defecting to other countries and information regarding
[2085]foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.
[2086]This file contained information was from press clippings,
[2087]Directorate of Operations reporting, the Federal Bureau of
[2088]Investigation, the Department of State, and the various armed
[2089]services. The pre-assassination documents located in this
[2090]file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:
[2092]a. Washington Star press clipping of 26 November 1959
[2093]entitled “U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at
[2094]15”
[2096]b. Department of State memorandum dated 25 Gctober
[2097]1960 with attached list of American “defectors”
[2098]Erom May 1959 to October 1960
[2100]c. Memorandum for Chief/Security Research Staff dated
[2101]31 October 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:
[2102]American Defectors
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[2106]d. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated
[2107]1 November 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:
[2108]American Defectors
[2112]e. Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August
[2114]1961
[2116]£. Defector outline prepared in October 1961 listing
[2117]known defectors to the USSR; Red China, Cuba, and
[2118]United Arab Republic.
[2120]5. The index reference to the Defectors File
[2121]identifies a list dated 13 September 1966 which was known as
[2122]the Defector Machine Listing. This listing was a computer
[2123]printout of defectors and provided limited biographic data
[2124]on each name. This listing was maintained separately from
[2125]the actual Defectors File; notations within the Defectors
[2126]File show the Defector Machine Listing as permanently
[2128]charged to the Security Analysis Group of the Office of
[2130]Security. Efforts to locate this listing or determine its
[2131]disposition have been unsuccessful.
[2133]6. Information regarding the purpose of the Defectors
[2134]File was gleaned from a quick review of selected holdings.
[2136]An employee of this Office was, recalls the Defector Machine
[2138]Listing as being approximately one and one-half inches thick
[2139]and in two parts. One part consisted of an alphabetical
[2140]index of defector names with assigned numbers. The second
[2141]part listed the assigned numbers in numerical order and
[2142]contained the limited biographic data on each name.
[2144]7. The subject file pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald
[2145](#0351164) was established circa 1960. It appears this file
[2146]was created as a separate repository for the numerous press
[2147]clippings and reports received from other government
[2148]agencies on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR
[2149]and his activities following his return to the’ United
[2150]States. The first volume of this file appears to have been
[2151]preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents
[2152]contained in this file are as follows: -
[2154]a. Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow
[2155]dated 31 October 1959_
[2156]b. The Washington Post press clipping dated
[2158]1 November 1959 entitled “Ex-Marine Asks Soviet
[2159]Citizenship”
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[2163]Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow
[2164]dated 2 November 1959
[2166]Department of State telegram #1448 from Tokyo
[2167]dated 9 November 1959
[2169]Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow
[2170]dated 9 November 1959
[2172]The Washington Post press clipping dated 16
[2173]November 1959 entitled “Rebuffed‘’
[2175]Evening Star press clipping dated 26 November
[2176]1959 entitled “U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to
[2177]Marx at 15"
[2179]Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division
[2180]forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960
[2182]Department of State Instruction A-273 dated
[2183]13 April 1961
[2185]Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated
[2186]May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter
[2188]7
[2190]Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated
[2191]3 July 1961 from Dallas, Texas
[2193]Note to CI/SI dated 28 September 1961
[2195]Form 745 “Indices Search Request” dated
[2196]12 October 1961
[2198]Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow
[2200]_dated 12 October 1961 with enclosure
[2202]Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization
[2203]Service ‘name check form to Central Intelligence
[2204]Agency dated 5 December 1961 .
[2206]Navy Department message to Moscow dated
[2207]3 March 1962
[2211]Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal
[2212]Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 1962 with
[2213]enclosure
[2215]The Washington Post press clipping dated
[2216]9 June 1962 entitled “Third American in 2 Months
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[2220]Leaves Soviet ‘Home’”
[2222]s. Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal
[2223]of report from Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August
[2224]1962.
[2226]8. In addition to those documents listed above, the
[2227]following documents were located in a subsequent. volume of
[2228]the Oswald file and also appear to predate the assassination
[2229]of President Kennedy.
[2231]t. Undated summary of file information on Lee
[2232]Harvey Oswald
[2234]u. Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated
[2235]20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)
[2237]v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated
[2238]17 August 1963 (no mention. of Oswald)
[2240]w. Incoming cable #36017 from Mexico City dated
[2241]9 October 1963
[2243]x. Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated
[2244]10 October 1963
[2246]y- Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated
[2247]24 October 1963 (no mention of Oswald).
[2249]Question 4: To the extent that Counterintelligence
[2250]and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination
[2251]files on Oswald, please explain why those offices
[2252]maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.
[2253]In answering this question, please make appropriate
[2254]references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSHB)
[2255]and to any other materials (including organizational
[2256]charts) that, would help explain the jurisdictional and
[2257]organization reasons for which CI and OS would have
[2258]maintained such files.
[2260]Response: It is believed that OS holdings on ,Lee
[2261]Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during
[2262]which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in
[2263]contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the
[2264]Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.
[2266]Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the
[2267]Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution
[2268]of these reports. In the beginning this material was
[2269]probably retained in the Defectors File. As the number of
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[2273]documents increased, a separate file was created to be the
[2274]repository of information on the alleged American defector.
[2275]There is a notation in the Defectors File that a separate
[2276]file exists on Oswald. ‘
[2278]9. Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of
[2279]Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.
[2280]Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-
[2281]assassination time frame. Of the documents listed above, a
[2282]majority of them contain a notation or the initials of
[2283]Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the
[2284]officer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing
[2285]of this information.
[2287]10. The Security Research Staff (SRS) was the
[2288]component responsible for collecting, developing, and
[2289]evaluating information of a counterintelligence nature to
[2290]detect and/or prevent penetration of the Agency‘s
[2291]organization, employees, and activities by foreign or
[2292]domestic organizations or individuals. SRS conducted
[2293]research in connection with employee loyalty cases and
[2294]maintained records identifying personalities, environments,
[2295]and personal traits of individuals who had been of
[2296]counterintelligence interest over the years. SRS maintained
[2297]liaison with various government agencies in connection with
[2298]counterintelligence activities and coordinated the
[2299]counterintelligence effort throughout OS. Using
[2300]organizational charts of this time period, SRS reported
[2301]directly to the office of the Director of Security.
[2303]11. A representataive of the Office of Personnel
[2304]Security /Management Staff was queried regarding the mission
[2305]and functions of SRS during the pre-assassination time
[2306]period. He made inquiries relating to the above request,
[2307]and the OPS/Information Management Officer retrieved retired |.
[2308]policy records for review. The information on the mission
[2309]and function of SRS was retrieved from the archived Office
[2310]of Security administrative and historical files as well asa
[2311]review of the security file on Marguerite D. Stevens. .
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[2315]“esr
[2317]27 October 1997
[2319]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[2321]FROM: Janet A. Ecklund
[2322]Chief, Information Management Branch
[2323]Office of Personnel Security
[2325]SUBJECT: OSWALD, LEE HARVEY
[2326]AIN: 0351164
[2328]1. The Office of Personnel Security was tasked on 31
[2329]January 1997 by the Historical Review Group/Center for the Study
[2330]of Intelligence (HRG/CSI), via the Directorate of
[2331]Administration/Information Review Office, with researching pre-
[2332]assassination files on Lee Harvey Oswald. The tasking was.
[2333]generated by the John F. Kennedy Board’s desire to review and
[2334]declassify relevant material. The results of this review were
[2335]forwarded to the HRG/CSI on 27 February 1997.
[2337]2. During the Information Management Branch‘s
[2338](IMB)research in response to the above tasking it was noted that
[2339]Volume V of the Oswald files was not on the shelf where Volumes
[2340]I-IV and VI-VII were located. A search of the entire area where
[2341]the volumes had been maintained failed to locate Volume V. The
[2342]IMB Files Section was subsequently charged with conducting an
[2343]all out search for the missing volume. The search failed to find
[2344]Volume V. .
[2346]3. In July 1997, the Oswald files were reviewed page by
[2347]page prior to being turned over to HRG/CSI and another attempt
[2348]was made to locate Volume V or to locate persons who might know
[2349]what happened to it. Volume V was not located nor were any
[2350]persons located who were knowledgeable of its status-~.
[2352]4. During the complete review of the Oswald files no
[2353]time gap was apparent and no one was located who could recall
[2354]ever seeing Volume V. This would suggest that either Volume V
[2355]had been consolidated into other volumes or that Volume V never
[2356]existed, but that a numbering error resulted in what should have
[2357]been Volume V being labeled as Volume VI. The use of Roman
[2358]Numerals on the cover of the volumes might have caused this
[2359]error to occur.
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[2363]Nee
[2365]DO Response to Board Request CIA - 16
[2366]Oswald Pre-Assassination Files
[2368]The Directorate of Operations reviewed the DO
[2369]records to determine if there were any additional files
[2370]containing pre-assassination records relating to
[2371]Oswald. Research identified a document in the Oswald
[2372]201 which appeared to be a file inventory. The
[2373]document identified CI Staff as the file custodian.
[2375]CIC has confirmed that all CI Staff holdings were
[2376]incorporated into the 201.
[2378]Prior to establishing a 201, any documents received
[2379]would have been placed in an operational interest file.
[2380]We found no reference to the existence of an
[2381]operational file. If such a file had existed, however,
[2382]it might not have been registered in the central index.
[2383]It was standard procedures that upon opening a 201, the
[2384]documents from an interest file would be transferred to
[2385]the 201.
[2387]Given that Oswald was a subject of the HTLINGUAL
[2388]operation, it is reasonable to believe that there was a
[2389]file on him. We destroyed all of the HTLINGUAL files
[2390]under court order, and no record was.made of what files
[2391]existed. We did not review all of the DO record system
[2392]to destroy all copies of material which may have been
[2393]derived from HTLINGUAL material. We know, for
[2394]instance, that there are HTLINGUAL itens related to
[2395]Oswald in the HSCA sequestered collection
[2397]In sum, the 201 on Oswald contains all the
[2398]information we are aware of that we had prior to the
[2399]assassination.
[2401]Attachment VL
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[2405]Attachment VI
[2407]Disposition of CIA/HSCA Sequestered Collection and
[2409]other Assassination Records.
[2413]Summary. This attachment discusses proposed agreements
[2414]and understandings between the CIA, the Review Board and
[2415]National Archives and Records Administration regarding the
[2416]disposition of JFK Assassination-related records held by CIA
[2417]which are not already at the National Archives, and the
[2418]terms under which those records to be declassified will be
[2419]dealt with.
[2421]Discussion.
[2422]1. “Processing of CIA Assassination Records by September
[2424]1998”. Per agreement with the Review Board, the
[2425]declassification review of all records, unless specifically
[2426]designated for post-September 1998 processing by the Review
[2427]Board, in the following categories will be completed and the
[2428]releasable version of the records ready for transfer to the
[2429]National Archives by September 30, 1998:
[2431]® Non-duplicate documents from the CIA-HSCA sequestered
[2432]collection, the Russ Holmes files and the LA Division
[2433]working files;
[2435]* Documents designated as assassination. records as a result
[2436]of Review Board specific requests for additional
[2437]information and records (CIA 1-16, CIA-IR 1-37);
[2439]e All documents from Lee Harvey Oswald‘s “A” file and post-
[2440]1978 201 file; Oswald’s 201 file and security file and
[2441]Marina Oswald‘'s-201 (microfilm version) have already been
[2442]transferred to NARA;
[2444]e Any non-duplicate documents discovered in the recent
[2445]searches undertaken to ensure full compliance with the
[2446]JFK Act; any new documents on Oswald will be added to the
[2447]post-1978 part of his 201 file.
[2449]2. “Processing of Duplicate Documents and Commitments for
[2451]the Future Treatment of Assassination Records”.
[2453]e CIA/HSCA sequestered collection duplicates to be
[2454]completed and transferred to NARA by September 1999.
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[2458]e Russ Holmes Working Files to be completed anda
[2459]declassified version transferred to NARA by December
[2460]1998.
[2462]° Mexico City tapes (186) to be completed and transferred
[2464]to NARA by September 1999. [CIA-IR-15]
[2465]e Post-September 1998 Discovery of Assassination Records.
[2467]Diligent searches have been made and we are aware of no
[2468]assassination records being withheld from the Board.
[2469]However, given the Agency’s decentralized records systems,
[2470]it is possible that assassination-related documents will be
[2471]discovered in the future. A guide has been prepared for
[2472]those officers whose work requires them to review Agency
[2473]documents and material (Executive Order Review, FOIA, etc.)
[2474]that may be subject to the JFK Act. Any assassination
[2475]records that are discovered will be processed according to
[2476]JFK release standards and forwarded to NARA. A copy of the
[2477]guide is attached. (TAB 1)
[2479]e Referrals not complete by 30 September 1998. The CIA
[2480]Proposes that it complete its review and return to
[2481]originating agency by April 1999 all unreviewed third
[2482]agency referral documents which were received prior to 30
[2483]September 1998. To date the following referral have been
[2484]identified for possible post-September 1998 review:
[2486]a. Army's Investigative Records Repository (from Review
[2487]Board) :
[2489]File on Alfredo Mirabal Diaz -- 151 pages
[2491]b. SSCI -- Church Committee Records -- TBD pages
[2492](to be identified by Review Board staff)
[2494]c. JFK Presidential Library:
[2495]Records from Robert Kennedy files -- 1484 pages
[2497]These documents have not been formally designated as
[2498]Assassination Records. The CIA proposes that these be
[2499]handled in a manner similar to the John F. Kennedy
[2500]National Security Files on Cuba that were reviewed in
[2501]1996 by a joint CIA-State-DOD-Review Board task force.
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[2505]3. ‘Cust fe) IA inati ecords to be Released in
[2506]2017.”
[2508]The CIA proposes that the classified versions of Lee
[2509]Harvey Oswald’s Security File and “A” File along with Marina
[2510]Oswald’s original 201 be transferred to the protected
[2511](secure) portion of the JFK Collection At NARA by 30
[2512]September 1998. The CIA will need to retain custody of the
[2513]classified version of the original Oswald 201 and the CIA-
[2514]HSCA sequestered collection to complete the review of
[2515]duplicate documents by September 1999.
[2517]In September 1999, the classified versions of the
[2518]Oswald 201 (original and microfilm from the sequestered
[2519]collection) will be transferred to NARA. Due to the
[2520]sensitive nature of the information in the remaining
[2521]sequestered collection, particularly the NBR material, CIA
[2522]proposes that the Agency and National Archives work out a
[2523]joint custody arrangement that would allow these record to
[2524]remain in CIA physical custody until 2017.
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[2530]-SHERET™ ; Executive Order
[2532]8 October 1997
[2533]JFK Records Review Project
[2535](U) The following is intended as a guide for those
[2536]people whose work requires them to review Agency documents
[2537]and materials that may be subject to the President John F.
[2538]Kennedy Assassination Records ‘Collection Act of 1992.
[2540]Some of the records within the. Agency's JFK collection are
[2541]assassination specific, others are ancillary. They deal
[2542]with individuals and events not directly linked with Oswald
[2543]or the assassination; but they are thought to have had a
[2544]relationship to the assassination,or investigation into the
[2545]assassination. —_
[2547]I. The Agency's JFK Collection.
[2549](U) The Agency's JFK records collection is made up
[2550]primarily of records pulled together for the Warren
[2551]Commission and House Select Committee on Assassinations
[2552](HSCA). There were eighty-one (81) Records Center-sized
[2553]boxes in the original collection. Of these, the first
[2554]seventeen (17) made up the Oswald 201 file. The next sixty-
[2555]four (64) are referred to as the “JFK files” or sequestered
[2556]collection and break down as follows: thirty-four (34) boxes
[2557]of DO materials; nine (9) boxes of Office of Security files;
[2558]fifteen (15) boxes of OLC materials; two (2) boxes each of
[2559]OGC and IG materials; and one (1) box of DDS&T documents.
[2560]HSCA originated material, including notes by HSCA staff
[2561]members, are found throughout the collection. Box 64
[2562]contains seventy two (72) reels of microfilm.
[2564]” (U) The microfilm contains copies of complete files to
[2565]which the HSCA had access during its investigation. In
[2566]addition to the Oswald 201 file (12 reels), the microfilm .
[2567]includes: 201 files on Cubans, Americans, -and Soviets linked
[2568]to Oswald, the JFK assassination or the various .
[2569]investigations (approximately 26 reels)and the Cuban
[2570]Revolutionary Council and other exile group activities
[2571](approximately 13 reels); the personnel files of CIA staff
[2572]employees (approximately 5 reels); and operational files on
[2573]organizations, projects, and other subjects of interest to
[2574]the HSCA investigation (approximately 16 reels).
[2576]CL BY: 61163
[2577]CL REASON; (c)
[2578]XL
[2580]FRM: LOC 3-82
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[2584](U)) We continue to identify other collections of documents
[2585]that properly belong within the JFK collection. These
[2586]include: The Oswald Security File; Agency working files
[2587]generated by JFK assassination investigations and requests;
[2588]and CIA documents found by other agencies and Presidential
[2589]Libraries and referred to CIA for review under the JFK Act.
[2591]II. The Time Frame of JFK Assassination Records.
[2593](U) In general, the time frame of JFK records commences
[2594]when Oswald arrived at the US air base (the U-2) at Atsugi,
[2595]Japan, in December 1957 and continues through the end of the
[2596]Garrison investigation in 1968. Note, however, for
[2597]information which is clearly related to the story of the JFK
[2598]assassination or its investigations, there is no time frame
[2599]limitation. Any document or request that deals with the
[2600]assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, or the various conspiracy
[2601]theories should be referred to the HRG/JFK review project.
[2603]III. Key Topics, Etc.
[2605](U) Certain individuals, organizations, places,
[2606]projects, and subjects are central to the Oswald/JFK story
[2607]and the ensuing investigations, which causes a number of
[2608]documents with no mention of Oswald or the assassination to
[2609]fall within the purview of the JFK Act. Clearly, it is not
[2610]possible:to list every category of document which may have
[2611]been reviewed and released under the JFK Assassination
[2612]Records Act. The following categories contain examples of
[2613]information that are considered to be within the JFK
[2614]review.
[2616](U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations:
[2618]~- Warren Commission, 1963-64
[2619]-- James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68
[2620]-- Rockefeller Commission,* 1975; N.
[2621]-- Church Committee (Senate),* 1975-76
[2623]. -- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA),
[2625]1976-79
[2627]* JFK Assassination, anti-Castro plots and CIA anti-
[2628]’ Cuban operations only.
[2630]B. Key subjects
[2632](S)  -- Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, JMWAVE Station,
[2633]and CIA stations in those cities through which
[2634]Oswald passed on his way to and from the Soviet
[2635]Union, as they related to Oswald's activities or to
[2636]possible conspiracies.
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[2640]~SECREE
[2642](AIUO)-- CIA anti-Cuban operations 1960-64 (Mongoose, etc.)
[2643]if they involve JFK figures (see comment on
[2644]Meagher's “index” below); most US anti-Castro
[2645]activities in 1963 are considered relevant.
[2647](U) -- Cuban exile anti-Castro activities, leaders and
[2648]organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures.
[2649]-- Castro assassination activities (plans and
[2650]attempts); no limit on time frame.
[2651]-- Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK, or New Orleans
[2652]during Oswald time frames (see attached chronology).
[2654](AIUO)C. Key fiqures
[2655](the following individuals are considered JFK
[2657]assassination-related, unless the context is clearly
[2658]unrelated or outside the appropriate time period)
[2660]-- AMMUG, Cuban defector;
[2662]-~- Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any reference) ;
[2664]-~- Silvia Duran, employee in Cuban Embassy, Mexico
[2665]City;
[2667]-~- Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee;
[2669]~- Howard Hunt, CIA employee;
[2671]-- Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist;
[2673]-- Valeriy Kostikov, KGB officer in Mexico city;
[2675]-- Mr. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents)
[2677]-- Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides;
[2679]-- Michael. and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds;
[2681]-- David Phillips, CIA employee;
[2683]-- Richard Snyder, State Department Officer.
[2685]-- Winston Scott, COS Mexico City
[2687]For a more comprehensive list of subjects and individuals
[2688]related to the JFK assassination, reviewers should consult
[2690]Sylvia Meagher's Master Index to the JFK Assassination
[2691]Investigations, The Scarecrow Press, 1980.
[2693](U) Action Officer: Barry Harrelson (31825)
[2695]Attachment: Oswald Chronology
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[2699](U) Attachment:
[2700]Oswald Chronology, 1956-1963
[2702]--Joins Marines 10/26/56
[2704]--Arrives Atsugi (U2 Base) Japan 09/12/57
[2706]--Returns to US , 11/02/58
[2708]-~Hardship discharge 09/11/59
[2710]--Departs New Orleans for Moscow 09/20/59
[2711]via LeHavre, London, Helsinki
[2713]--Arrives Moscow 10/16/59
[2715]--Resides in Minsk 01/07/60 - 05/22/62
[2716]--Departs Moscow via train 06/02/62
[2718]--Departs Rotterdam via ship 06/04/62
[2720]-~-Arrives New York 06/13/62
[2722]--Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas 06/14/62 - 04/63
[2723]--New Orleans 04/63 - 09/63
[2724]--Mexico City 09/25/63 - 10/03/63
[2725]--Dallas 10/3/63 - 11/24/63
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[2729]ADMIMUSTRATIVE INTERNAL GE-OMLY
[2731]23 September 1998
[2732]MEMORANDUM FOR: Robert M. McNamara@DCl
[2734]Robert D. Caudle@DCI
[2735]Stephen W. DeVine@DClI
[2737]FROM: . Edmund Cohen
[2739]OFFICE: OIM
[2740]SUBJECT: Re: blurb from JFK Board
[2741]REFERENCE:
[2743]Original Text of Edmund Cohen
[2744]Original Text of Edmund Cohen
[2746]TO: James R. Oliver@DA
[2748]TO: James R. Oliver@DA
[2749]FROM: Edmund Cohen
[2750]OFFICE: ' OIM
[2752]DATE: 09/23/98 08:04:16 PM
[2754]SUBJECT: aye: blurb from JFK Board
[2756]Alter reading the note below, | spoke with the GC, who working with Bob Caudle, was seeking to have
[2757]included in the Board statement the fact that the DCI had sent a letter endorsing my declaration. 1!
[2758]suggested to the GC that even with this addition, the JFK Board comment would be most unfortunate.
[2759]The whole six year effort was designed to put to rest all of the conspiracy theories and this comment
[2760]would undercut the effort. In addition, it likely would result in significant additional questions, additional
[2761]work for OIM, OCA, OGC and PAS, and put the Agency in a bad light. | suggested that | should ask the
[2762]EXDIR to sign the declaration. The GC interposed no objection. | then spoke with the EXDIR who agreed
[2763]to sign a declaration if this would satisfy the situation. | informed the GC thal the EXDIR was willing to
[2764]Sign and the GC asked me to inform Bob Caudle, which 1 did. After you spoke with Judge Tunheim and
[2765]got his agreement to: 1) retumn the Cohen declaration and the DCI letter and substitute the EXDIR
[2766]declaration, and 2) eliminate the "blurb," | had the EXDIR sign the declaration.
[2768]! subsequently briefed the DDA, ADDA, and ADDAAS. of the above.
[2770]Original Text of Robert D. Caudle
[2771]Original Text of Robert D. Caudle
[2773]This is what they are going to include in their report, according to fax | just received from Ron Haron:
[2775]“The Board has considered release of all CIA assassination records to be critical fo successful
[2776]implementation of the JFK Act. Accordingly, the Board’ requested each of CIA's directorates to certify,
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[2780]no . ADMIALS-FRAFYE-TN TERNAL USE ONLY
[2782]under penalty of perjury, that they had conducted thorough searches and identified all relevant records.
[2783]The CIA refused. The Board then, as an alternative, asked the highest officials of the Agency - - the
[2784]Executive Director and General Counsel - - to certify that CIA had met its obligations under the JFK Act
[2785]and that no records on Oswald or assassination were withheid. The CIA refused. Instead, the CIA
[2786]designated its Director of Information Management to sign CIA's Declaration of Compliance. In the
[2787]Board's view, CIA's highest officials should have been willing to certify, under oath, that the Agency has
[2788]complied with all the requirements of the JFK Act. The CIA's failure to do so raises serious concerns for
[2789]the Board that the CIA has in fact fully complied with the JFK Act."
[2791]cc: Lanie P. D’Alessandro@DA, R. Bruce Burke@DCI, Lee S. Strickland@DA, Walter |.
[2792]Hazlett@DA, J. Barry Harrelson@DCl
[2793]Sent on 23 September 1998 at 08:04:16 PM
[2795]ce:
[2796]Sent on 23 September 1998 at 08:09:39 PM
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[2800]!, Barbara Blufer, declare and state based on my personal knowledge and the Information made
[2801]available to me In my official capacity that
[2803]1. r am the Information Raview Officer for (IRO) for tha Diractorate of Intelligence (DI) of
[2804]the Centra Intelligence Agency (Agency). | was appointed to this position on 6 October 1887 and
[2805]have held various administrative and professional positions within the Agancy elnce (1980). | am
[2806]responsible for the review of records maintained by offices In the-DI! that may contain JFK
[2807]Astagaination records and may be responsive to Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB)
[2808]reques
[2810]2. Since assuming my present. position, | have had limited contact with the ARRB, With
[2811]respect to matters prior to 6 October 1987, this statement has been prepared with Inputs from my
[2813]predecessor, Richard J, Flynn, wio occupled my current position during the Di's principal contact
[2814]with the Board, .
[2816]-  $. Mr. Flynn hes reported that, to ensure that the ARRB staff understiod the DI records
[2817]aystem and search capabilities, the DUIRO and the DI tnformation Managameant Officer, Ms.
[2818]Diana Hastirigs, briefed the staff on 13 May 1997. Other DI participants at the meeting were
[2820]‘Joyce Jump,’ Marls Menafes,‘and flea Harmen, These officers were at that time assigned to tha
[2821]DI Office of Information:Rasources. Ms. Hastings focused on the current DI records keeping
[2822]system, and, as best-we could, the system-that existed In the 1980s. Di partklpants stressed
[2823]that the Di'racords keeping system hes evolved over time and that the DI-Is . continuouslyetriving
[2825]to achieve greater.conslatency in our procedures. DI partlcipants candidly informed tie‘ARRB
[2827]staff that norie of theni.atthe meeting had firet hand-Knowledge of Dl records keepling-In | the -
[2829]1960s,:and b) the system ‘In place at-that tima was entirely paper-based and therefora could not
[2831]re considered as accurate es the present system. Members of the ARRB sald they understood
[2832]sm tation. - .
[2834]ae 4. MecFivan f further reported that based on his recollection... Mr, evans als aware
[2835]limited umber, sate Tecorda séarches'the DI conducted.tn direct response to‘ ARRA AR RE WSAISES “On
[2836]11 Jiine'49975D1 personnel, met with membars of the ARRB. MrzFiynn had: farvangedahis?.
[2837]meeting “eater: to give-ARRB staffers, Michelle Combs and Bob Skwrlot; an even'moré-detalled
[2838]briefing ‘of DI's document search capabilities. The topics they asked the DI to search are noted In
[2839]an attached memorandum to Barry Harrelson dated 17 June 1997... The result of further
[2841]- searchas (CIA -8) are summarized a 19 June 1997 memorandum a member of the DIIRO's staff
[2843]prepared for Mr, Barry Harreleon, CIA's point of contact on tha JFK aseaselnation Issue. This
[2844]memorandum [6 aleo atlached, :
[2846]. S. On 24 August, Mr. Harrelson contacted me for a further search of Di records, asking
[2847]specifically that the I follow up on a previously search by extending the fimeframe covered In
[2848]that original search. According to Mr. Harrelson, the ARRB requested a search for all documents
[2849]concéming Mexico, Cuba, or the USSR for the period from 20 November 1963 to 6 December
[2850]1963, On the basls of this request,-a search was conducted 32 documents not belonging to the
[2851]DI were located. The materials were turned over to Mr, Harrelson.”
[2853]6. All employees of the Directorate of intelligence have been furnished with a copy of
[2855]" DCI Tenet's 22 July 1998 directive to all employees requiring them to search records in their
[2857]possession for Information related to the JFK assassination that might not have besn found In the
[2858]course of the searches conducted over the past 6 years.
[2860]7. I declare under penalty of parjury that foragolng Is true and correct.
[2862]14-00000
[2864]Executed this 28th day of August 1998,
[2866]Barbara Blufer
[2867]{RO for the Directorate of Inteflige
[2869]14-0000
[2871]Yes auth) —
[2872]ey . cr’ bf” ootober 24, 1975
[2873]Bat
[2877]MEMORANDUM FOR: All Divisions, Staffs, and Groups
[2879]SUBJECT . : President Kennedy Assassination File
[2880]Search.
[2882]1. We are requested to search our files for any
[2883]classi fied material relating to the assassination of
[2884]agent 5 Kennedy, y~information on.Lee Harvey
[2885]ogval, Jack Ruby, (tury Ivanovic Nosenko, and the Warran
[2886]C SSion. Report y-documents, etc. on the three indi-
[2887]viduals regardless of whether the information is related
[2888]to the assassination or not.
[2890]2. The search must be completed as soon as possible.
[2891]A report (even if only a progress report) must be made to
[2892]John Michaels, Room 7F36, ext. 7654, no later than 1300,
[2893]Tuesday, 28 October.
[2895]DOUGZAS P. MULHOLLAND
[2896]tt7¥ng Director
[2897]rent Intelligence
[2899]for 2 4 YZ
[2901]14-0000
[2903]e eo . ie IIe 8 Fer
[2905]File Searach on President Kennedy's Assassination - OCI Front Office
[2907]1. Office of D/OCI has a file labeled: 'Material regarding
[2908]President Kennedy's Assassination." It contains:
[2910]; a. Memo entitled: Rumours About Lee Harvey Oswald,
[2911]which discusses the rumor-mongering in the world public
[2912]regarding the presumed assassin, Memo is Secret and dated
[2913]23 March 1964,
[2915]b. Listing of government leaders expectdd to attend
[2916]Kennedy funeral
[2918]. c. Memo entitled: Fidel Castro's Speech, which
[2919]contained an "objective analysis" of implications of Kennedy's
[2920]assassination. Memo is Confidential and dated 25 Nov. 1963
[2922]d. FBIS study, never. disseminated, entitled:
[2923]The Past Soviet Propaganda Assessment of President Johnson.
[2924]Studit is Confidential and dated 25 November 1963
[2926]. e. FIBS Daily Report - World Reaction Series - on
[2927]foreign radio and press reaction of death of Kennedy and
[2928]accession of Johnson. Official Use Only and dated 26 November
[2929]1963
[2931]£. Memo entitled: Castro's speech of 27 November
[2932]on the President's Assassination. Speech says Oswald the
[2933]innocent dupe of a complex plot. Memo is confidential and
[2934]dated 29 November 1963.
[2936]g. Uncaassified copy of Wash. Post article on
[2937]Castro reaction to Kennedy death - November 29, 1963
[2939]h. Three copies of Memo entitled: World Reaction
[2940]to the Assaséination of President Kennedy. Deals with idea
[2941]of possible coverup in killing of Oswald - to seal his lips
[2942]and protect the extreme right, whose tool he was. Memos
[2943]+ TOP SECRET DINAR and datedy2s November 1963
[2945]OMe 15 2OT
[2947]Z ode
[2948]4 oo Deke :
[2949]AT] C Sor 757
[2952]14-0000
[2954]b TI F_ MARY L I
[2956]I, MARY LOU CUMMINGS, hereby declare and say as follows:
[2958]1. I am the Information Review Officer (“IRO”) for the
[2960]offices of the Director of Central Intelligence (CIA). I .,
[2961]was appointed to this position on 5 January 1998, and have
[2962]held various administrative .and professional positions
[2964]within the Agency since 1981. I am responsible for the :
[2965]review of records maintained by offices in the DCI area -
[2966](Offices of the Director and Deputy Director (DCI&DDCL) ,
[2967]Community Management Staff(CMS), National Intelligence ~~.
[2968]Council(NIC), Office of the Comptroller (COMPT) ; Officenpt, a
[2969]the General. Counsel (OGC), Office of Congressional
[2970]Affairs (OCA) , Office of the Inspector General (GIG), Office S
[2971]of Public Affairs(OPA), Arms Control Intelligence
[2972]Staff£(ACIS), and Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) )
[2973]that may contain JFK Assassination records and may be
[2974]responsive to ARRB requests. .
[2976]2. By memo date 6 April 1995, the Executive Director (CIA)
[2977]requested that focal points for each Directorate be ‘
[2978]appointed to be responsible for responding to requests for
[2979]information from the Assassination Records. Review-Board. .
[2980](ARRB) : Until that time the Historical Review Group (HRG)
[2981]of the Center for the Studies of Intelligence (CSI) had been
[2982]the principal liaison with the JFK Board. As of that date,
[2983]DCI area/IRO was appointed to be the DCI area focal point.
[2984]HRG would continue to receive requests from the Board
[2985]forwarding them to the Directorate focal point for action.
[2986]Responses from the Directorate were coordinated by HRG,
[2987]which then made the responses available to the Board.
[2989]3. In an effort to understand the DCI area records systems
[2990]and to ensure the conduct of thorough searches and responses, the
[2991]ARRB staff requested a meeting with the DCI area/IRO and key DCI
[2992]records management officers. Detailed questions were presented in
[2993]advance to CIA personnel who then provided complete responses to
[2994]the ARRB staff during the summer of 1997. At that time HRG
[2995]instructed my predecessor to wait for formal taskings from ARRB
[2996]before proceeding with additional searches.
[2998]See Attachment i
[3000]4. Based on personal knowledge and information reflected in
[3001]the records of the DCI area/IRO, I am aware that the
[3002]following searches and reviews were conducted in response to
[3003]Board requests for DCI area records.
[3005]14-0000
[3007]@ L
[3009]CIA - 1 ORGANIZATIONAL MATERIAL
[3011]The DCI area/IRO made available to the Board the following
[3012]records:
[3013]Organization of the Office of the Director, 1963;
[3015]Mission Statements for 1959,1962,1965, and 1966;
[3016]Relevant Office of Director Notices;
[3018]OGC and OIG Mission Statements for 1964,1966,1969,1975,..
[3019]and 1976;
[3021]OLC Mission Statements for 1975 and 1976; ,
[3023]Names of Personnel Responsible for Liaison with _the
[3025]Warren and Rockefeller Commissions, Pike and Churth
[3027]Committees and the HSCA. . 3
[3028]; See Attachment 2
[3030]CIA - 7 HISTORIES |
[3032]Sixty-one histories were provided to the Board by CSI/HRG.
[3033]The ARRB staff is continuing to review the histories to
[3034]determine their relevancy to the JFK assassination.
[3036]; See Attachment 3
[3038]CIA - 8 Intelligence Community Staff Records
[3040]Following the Board’s request of 1 March 1996, the records
[3041]systems of CMS were searched for JFK assassination related
[3042]information with negative results. The Board then asked to
[3043]examine CMS shelf listings for the relevant time period. A
[3044]redacted copy of the shelf list was delivered to HRG in
[3045]April 1998. On 12 August the Board identified 14 CMS records
[3046]that they believe may be relevant. On 21 August, ARRB Staff
[3047]examined the responsive folders. .
[3049]See Attachment 4
[3051]CIA-IR-08 Unredacted Copy of “Family Jewels” Memoranda
[3053]The Board has identified pages of the Memoranda to be included in
[3054]the JFK Collection. The Board agreed to the necessary redactions
[3055]and the request was completed.
[3057]See Attachment 5
[3059]CIA-IR-09 George Bush Computer Search
[3060]The DCI area provided a response of “no record found” of any
[3062]contact with Bush in the 1960-1967 time frame.
[3063]See Attachment 6
[3065]14-0000
[3069]CIA~IR-10 IG Reports
[3071]On 3 August 1998, the DCI area/IRO informed HRG that OIG does not
[3072]maintain an index or inventory of IG cases. All reports and
[3073]material prepared by the IG on the JFK assassination were ‘turned
[3074]over to the Office of External Affairs (OEXA). There is no
[3075]indication that a report on the handling of Oswald was ever
[3076]prepared.
[3078]See Attachment 7.
[3080]CIA-IR-14 Breckinridge Files
[3082]The OIG located six documents that may be relevant to the’JFK
[3083]assassination. They have provided a list to HRG. OGC located
[3084]five documents that they made available to the Board,
[3086]See Attachment 8 ~~ -
[3088]CIA-IR=-23 Watch Committee Files
[3090]Following a thorough search and review of CMS files, 12 documents
[3091]were turned over to the Board. ;
[3092]See Attachment 9
[3094]CIA-IR-28 McCone Files
[3096]The ARRB staff provided a list of McCone records that they wished
[3097]to review: The DCI area/IRO, in turn, gave the ARRB staff :
[3098]complete access to the McCone files in March 1998. The records
[3099]selected by the Board's staff are being processed for release.
[3100]On 30 April 1998, the DCI area/IRO was notified that the request
[3101]was complete. The DCI area was then notified on 3 August the
[3102]there were missing McCone files that remained of interest to the
[3103]Board. As soon as we receive a list of the missing files, we
[3104]will begin an in-depth review of Executive Registry records in an
[3105]effort to locate the missing file
[3107]See Attachment 10
[3109]CIA-IR-31 Dulles Calendars
[3111]The ARRB staff has completed their review of the Dulles calendars
[3112]and has requested that some pages be processed for release.
[3113]See Attachment 11
[3115]CIA-IR-34 File of CIA Officials and/or Offices
[3117]S
[3118]On 5 March 1998, the Board requested records concerning DDCIs
[3119]Charles Cabell and Marshall Carter and former General Counsel
[3120]Lawrence Houston. The DCI area/IRO recalled seven boxes of
[3121]relevant material from Records Center. The boxes were review by
[3122]ARRB staff during July 1998 and several records were selected for
[3124]14-0000
[3126]b
[3127]« e .
[3128]further processing. OGC is currently reviewing files for
[3129]pertinent Houston records.
[3130]; See Attachment 12
[3132]5. In addition to the formal requests, the DCI area/IRO :
[3133]completed the declassification review of three NIEs, documents
[3134]from the Ford and Kennedy libraries, and an IG Report.
[3136]See Attachment 13
[3138]6. As this declaration demonstrates, the DCI area/IRO including
[3139]predecessors, to the best of his/her ability has caused thorough
[3140]searches of the DCI area systems of records for records related
[3141]to the JFK assassination not included in the CIA-HSCA Sequestered
[3142]Collection and will place any newly discovered or created
[3143]assassination records into the JFK collection. -
[3144]cr” . +
[3145]7. I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FOREGOING ‘AND THE
[3146]ATTACHMENTS (ATTACHMENTS 1 THROUGH 13, WHICH ARE INCORPORATED BY
[3148]REFERENCE)ARE TRU. CORRECT.
[3149]Executed in , Virginia on this ay day of
[3151]1998.
[3154]14-0000
[3156]DECLARATION OF BECKY’L. RAN1
[3158]1, Becky L. Rant. declare and say as follows:
[3160]t. [am the Information Review Officer (I[RO) for the Directorate of Administration (DA) of the
[3161]Central Intelligence Agency (Agency) . _[ was appointed to this position on 3 February 1997. and have held
[3162]various administrative and professional positions within the Agency since 1965. I am responsible for the
[3163]review of records maintained by offices in the DA, Office of the Deputy Director of Administration
[3164](ODDA), Center for CIA Security (CCS-formerly the Office of Security ((OS)), Office of Human Resource
[3165]Management (HRM), Office of Medical Services (OMS), Office of Finance and Logistics (OFL), Office of
[3166]Communications (OC), Office of Training and Education (OTE), Office of Facilities and Security Services
[3167](OFSS), Agency Technology Services (ATS), Center for Security Evaluation (CSE), that may contain JFK
[3168]Assassination records and may be responsive to Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) requests.
[3170]2. To ensure that the ARRB staff understood the DA records systems and search capabilities, the
[3171]DAAIRO and DA Information Management Officer (DA/IMO) briefed the staff on 17 March 1997. The
[3172]briefing focused on the DA records systems that existed in the 1960s and the current records systems.
[3173]Questions that were provided by the staff prior to the briefing were discussed and an individual from the
[3174]Office of Communications (OC) attended to answer questions related to cable processing in the 1960s. In
[3175]addition to OC participation, the Offices of Finance & Logistics (OFL), Human Resource Management
[3176](HRM), and Security (OS) provided written responses to the list of questions submitted by the staff. It was
[3177]agreed that the additional questions raised by the staff during the briefing would be tasked to the directorate
[3178]formally by the Agency JFK Focal Poin/Historical Review Program (HRP). An outline of the records
[3179]briefing and a copy of the advance questions and the answers provided appear as Attachment 1.
[3181]3. Based on personal knowledge and on information reflected in the records of the DA/IRO, Iam
[3182]aware.of the following searches that were conducted in response to specific AARB requests for DA records:
[3184]CIA 1 - Information on Organization of CIA
[3186]The DA provided from the records of the Regulatory Services Group/ODDA copies of Agency
[3187]regulations and notices pertaining to the organizational structure of the Agency during the time periods
[3188]specified by the ARRB staff. DA/IRO gave approval for the cleared staff members to review the material.
[3189]Subsequently the DA/IRO approved release of the following items:
[3191]31 mission statements and organization charts for the DDA (DDS) and Office of Security (full
[3192]telease)
[3194]2 organization charts and mission statement of the Office of Communications (OC) (sanitized)
[3196]16 Agency mission, function and organization charts (full release with concurrence of the other
[3197]directorates) (Attachment 2)
[3199]- CIA-7-Histories
[3201]The DA JFK Focal Point reviewed the index of histories produced by the CIA History Program —
[3202]for release to the ARRB and approved access with certain restrictions. There is no record in the DA/IRO's
[3203]office that the staff requested access to the DA histories on the list. (Attachment 3)
[3205]FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY WHEN REMOVED
[3206]FROM SECRET ATTACHMENT
[3208]14-0000
[3210]stay
[3212]CIA-12-JMWAVE—S Files
[3214]The DA conducted file searches in OS and HRM for records on Theodore Shackley, Ronald Cross,
[3215]Bart Henry, Doug Gupton, David Morales. We were subsequently advised by HRP that the David Morales
[3216]OS file was part of the collection so the OS searched for records on the first four names only. OS
[3217]identified files on Shackley, Cross and Gupton which were reviewed by the ARRB staff. HRM identified
[3218]files on Morales and Shackley which were provided to HRP. Neither office surfaced records on Bart
[3219]Henry. (Attachment 4)
[3221]CIA-16-Oswald Pre-assassination Files
[3223]The Office of Security identified a multi-volume file and provided answers to questions posed by
[3224]the ARRB staff. (Attachment 5). The OS file was reviewed and in April 1998 was released to the
[3225]National Archives. NOTE: The attached 17 February 1997 OS memorandum describes records holding
[3226]related to HTLINGUAL and states that the files were destroyed in April 1994.
[3228]CIA-IR-03 HTLINGUAL File
[3230]See CIA-16 above and Attachment 5
[3232]CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart
[3234]Capehart’s Office of Security file is in the sequestered collection. The DA JFK Focal Point
[3235]provided input on the question of protecting Capehart’s relationship with global marine. (Attachment 6).
[3236]In coordination with the DS&T, HRP responded to the ARRB staff.
[3238]CIA-09 George Bush Computer Search
[3240]The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management reviewed the files of George Herbert
[3241]Walker Bush and found no documentation indicating that Mr. Bush had an affiliation with CIA during the
[3242]1963 time period. Attachment 7
[3244]CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission Critics
[3246]The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management and Information Management were tasked
[3247]with records searches on Edward Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg and Sylvia
[3248]Meagher. No records were found on Lane and Thompson. Weisburg and Epstein security files were made
[3249]available for ARRB staff review. An OS impersonal file was identified but had been destroyed in 1994.
[3250]HRM found only an OSS service card on Weisberg which has been supplied to HRP. OIM identified a file
[3251]on Epstein. Several FOIA and PA files also were identified. Attachment 8. Contains the DA response and
[3252]the final HRP response letter coordinated with the DAARO.
[3254]CIA-IR-13 - Office/Person Dealing with Organized Crime & Cuba
[3255]The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management and Finance & Logistics provided
[3257]responses to this request. The Official Personnel File of Charles Ford was given to HRP, OS provided a
[3258]description of the OS file contents and OFL provided travel and financial records. Attachment 9
[3260]—ICRET
[3262]14-00000
[3264]SEBCRET—
[3266]CIA-IR-19 Computer Search on Specific Individuals and Organizations
[3268]The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Medical Services, Training & Education
[3269]conducted searches on the following individuals with described results:
[3271]Cherne, OPF provided to HRP; OS file made available for staff review
[3273]Leake, OPF provided to HRP, OS and OMS files made available for staff review
[3274]Garbler, OPF provided to HRP, OS, OTE, OMS files made available for staff review
[3275]Verna Deane Brown, OPF provided to HRP
[3277]John A. McVickar, OPF provided to HRP
[3279]Byron Morton, No records
[3281]Marie Cheatham, No Records
[3283]The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management conducted searches on the following
[3284]individuals with results noted:
[3286]Spas T. Raikin, OS File described in attachment, No HRM record
[3288]Marilyn Murret, Index card only, No HRM record
[3290]Andrew Anderson, OS File(may or may no be correct file) made available, No HRM Record
[3291]Howard Geubler, No OS or HRM records
[3293]Gordon Novel, OS found cross reference to GARRISON file, No HRM Record
[3295]Edward S. Butler, OS found cross reference to GARRISON file, NO HRM Record
[3297]The Office of Security found no records on INCA (Information Council of the Americas) or
[3298]Permindex. Attachment 10
[3300]CIA-IR-21 DRE Monthly Operational Reports
[3301]HRP requested and was provided the Official Personnel File of George Joannides
[3302]CIA-24 Defector File
[3304]The Office of Security provided a description of “Defector Files” maintained by OS in'a17
[3305]February 1997 memo (See attachment 5) ‘
[3307]CIA-IR-25 Zapruder File
[3309]The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Finance & Logistics searched for records
[3310]on William Green of Kodak Labs. All reported negative results. HRM confirmed that Homer McMahon
[3311]was an NPIC employee and provided bio information. Attachment 11
[3313]CIA-IR-26 Jordan James Pfuntner
[3315]The Office of Security conducted a search and reported that the OS file had been destroyed in
[3316]1980-81. Attachment 12 -
[3318]CIA-IR-27 Security Files on 5 Individuals
[3319]The Office of Security conducted a records search for files on the following individuals:
[3321]Richard C. Nagell
[3322]Gordon D. Novel
[3323]Jack L. Ruby
[3324]Walter J. Sheridan
[3325]Harold Weisberg
[3327]14-0000
[3329]The Nagell, Novel and Ruby files were designated assassination records and copies were provided
[3330]to HRP. The Sheridan and Weisberg files were made available and were reviewed by the ARRB Staff.
[3331](Attachment 13)
[3333]CIA-IR-29 Oswald LeWinter
[3335]The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management, Facilities Security & Services conducted
[3336]searches for information on Oswald Winter. HRM and OFSS reported negative results. OS found
[3338]-information in an impersonation/crank file. The DA/IRO coordinated with the DO on a statement that was
[3340]provided to the ARRB staff. Attachment 14
[3341]CIA-IR-36 Handling of Cables in 1963
[3343]The DAAIRO provided coordination approval on a memorandum prepared by HRP describing
[3344]cable handling procedures Attachment 15
[3346]List of 38 Names of Interest to the ARRB-Provided by HRP 8/5/98
[3348]The Offices of Security and Human Resource Management searched records for information on 38
[3349]individuals listed in the attachment. The OS and HRM responses are attached. Attachment 16
[3351]4. As this declaration demonstrates, I and my predecessors to the best of our ability have caused
[3352]thorough searches of all relevant DA records systems for records responsive to the JEK ARRB requests for
[3353]information. In addition, the offices of the Directorate of Administration have certified to me that all
[3354]employees have been furnished with a copy of DCI Tenet’s 22 July 1998 directive to all employees
[3355]requiring them to search records in their possession for information related to the JFK Assassination that
[3356]might not have been found in the course of the searches conducted over the past 6 years.
[3358]5. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
[3360]Executed this 21 day of August 1998.
[3362]Becky L./Rant
[3363]nformation Review Officer
[3364]Directorate of Administration
[3366]14-0000
[3369]Administrative-tat tise-omly
[3371]Directorate of Administratio
[3373]Briefing for the
[3374]JFK Assassination Records Review
[3375]Board Staff
[3376]on
[3377]Records Management in the DA
[3379]17 March 1997
[3380]Carol M. Johnson ; Becky Rant .
[3381]DA Information Management Officer DA Information Review Officer
[3382]2B17 IP Bidg. 2B17 IP Bldg.
[3384]703-613-1205 | Secure 31205 ; 703-613-1204 Secure 31204 ©
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[3392]Directorate of Administratio
[3394]TOPICS
[3396]¢ CIA Information Services Strategic Plan
[3398]- Information Management Program Segments
[3400]° Information Management Goals
[3402]° Organization of Records Management-In the Agency
[3403]. DA Information Management Officer (IMO)
[3405]° DA Information Review Officer (IRO)
[3407]¢ Deputy Director for Support (DDS) - 1965
[3409]¢ Deputy Director for Administration (DDA) - 1997
[3411]° DA Records
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[3415]Directorate of Administratio
[3417]CIA Information Services Strategic
[3418]Plan
[3420]@ “Information and Records Management, including
[3421]Classification Management, is a fundamental and
[3422]essential business requirement for the Agency.”
[3424]@ “The CIA’s Information Services shall. .ensure
[3426]that each official record is appropriate, accurate,
[3427]secure and retrievable throughout its life cycle
[3428]regardless of physical form or media.”
[3430]ae ,
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[3434]Directorate of Administratio
[3436]Information Management Program
[3437]Segments
[3439]@ Records Management |
[3440]® Classification Management
[3441]@ Information Disclosure |
[3442]@ Information Automation
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[3447]Directorate of Administratio
[3449]Information Management Goals
[3451]An effective and efficient information management
[3452]ensures that records are available:
[3454]to meet day-to-day business needs
[3455]to ensure the continuity and consistency of records
[3456]to provide corporate memory and history
[3458]to protect the rights and interests of the organization, the
[3459]employees and the public
[3461]@ to meet legal requirements
[3463]t
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[3467]Organization of Records
[3468]Meena eee Management in the Agency
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[3472]a
[3474]Recruitment
[3477]Policy Research
[3480]Agency Information &
[3481]Records Management
[3482]Panel
[3483]= member
[3485]Archive &
[3486]Preservation*
[3488]OIT
[3490]system
[3491]Development*
[3493]pane” Leaver ] me ee er
[3495]es = | =
[3497]NaeVintelaNtORalrrmn ant
[3500]Directorate of Adnministratio
[3502]DA Information Management
[3503]Officer (DA/IMO)
[3505]. The DA/IMO is the Deputy Director for Administration’s
[3506]representative for issues relating to records and
[3507]classification management.
[3509]* The DA/IMO is responsible for protecting equities
[3510]consistent with existing statues, EO guidance and
[3511]internal rules and regulations governing the creation,
[3512]maintenance and use, and disposition of information.
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[3517]Directorate of Administratio
[3519]DA Information Review Officer
[3520](DA/IRO)
[3522]* The DA/IRO is the Deputy Director for Administration’s
[3523]representative for reviewing all DA relevant information for
[3524]release to the public under FOIA, PA, EO, and other
[3525]information release programs.
[3527]* The DA/IRO is responsible for protecting equities
[3528]consistent with existing statutes, EO guidance and internal
[3529]rules and regulations governing the review and release of
[3530]classified information, specifically, in response to:
[3532]+ FOIA/PA/EO Requests
[3534]+ Congressional Inquiries
[3536]* DOJ Inquiries/Litigations
[3538]+ . IG Investigations
[3540]+ Special Searches & Other Release Programs —
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[3548]Directorate of Administratio
[3550]Deputy Director for Support
[3551]: (DDS) - 1965
[3553]@ Office of the DDS (ODDS)
[3555]@ Office of Security (OS)
[3557]@ Office of Personnel (OP)
[3559]@ Office of Medical Services (OMS)
[3560]@ Office of Logistics (OL)
[3562]° Office of Finance (OF)
[3564]e Office of Communications (OC)
[3565]® Office of Training (OTR)
[3567]i
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[3571]Wirectorate of Administratio
[3575]Office of Medical Services (OMS)
[3576]Office of Communications (OC)
[3578]Office of Information Technology (OIT)
[3579]Office of Training & Education (OTE)
[3580]Center for Security Evaluation (CSE)
[3582]Deputy Director for
[3583]Administration (DDA) - 1997
[3585]Office of the DDA (ODDA)
[3587]Office of Personnel Security (OPS)
[3589]Office of Facilities & Security Services (OFSS)
[3590]Office of Finance & Logistics (OFL)
[3592]Human Resources Management (HRM)
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[3596]- -  Adnlnietratisontatoumabtnre Ort
[3597]Di rectorate of Administratio
[3599]DA Records
[3601]¢ Information Management Officers
[3603]« Core functions
[3607]* Records Life Cycle
[3608]* Creation
[3609]* Maintenance & Use
[3610]* Disposition
[3612]* File organization
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[3617]Di rectorate of Administratio
[3619]DA Records
[3621]* Records Control Schedules
[3622]* Temporary
[3623]¢ Permanent
[3624]* Records Storage
[3625]+ Short term
[3626]¢ Long term
[3627]* Accountability
[3628]¢ Personal
[3629]¢ Organization
[3631]¢ Search & Retrieval
[3633]|
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[3638]Directorate of Administratio
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[3642]sctmainistratiae iseo-Gre
[3644]DA Records
[3646]° Access
[3647]* Safeguarding
[3649]¢ Preservation
[3651]+ Electronic
[3653]OGC Retention List
[3654]Automation
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[3662]DRAFT
[3664]Types of Questions for DA Records Brenng
[3665]March 17, 1997
[3667]Budget and Finance |
[3669]1. In Cold Warrior, (p. 52) Mangold refers to a Cl secret slush fund which was tightly
[3670]controlled by Angleton and never audited bythe usual procedures, According to
[3671]Mangold, it was this fund which allowéd Angleton to run his own operations without
[3672]supervision. Did the fund exist? Was this fund ever audited?. Are thére any, records of
[3673]Cl operational expenses for the period 1959-63? _.
[3675]2, Mangold also refers (p. 53) to an unnamed CI/B&F officer who says he worked for
[3676]Angleton from 1958-1964 wd never dealt with him directly on a single matter. Is there
[3677]a list of B&F officers assigned to the CI Staff from 1959-63. Do their records still exist?
[3679]3. We have seen Directorate of Operations monthly operational reports which contain
[3680]information on the allocation/distribution of operational funds. Are there-other DO or
[3681]DA records which reflect how a certain project utilized its funding? Can this type of
[3682]information from the early 1960's still be retrieved? ,
[3684]4. What records are kept on disbursements to sources in the field? If, hypothetically,
[3685]LHO had received money from the Agency, what records would exist? ~-
[3687]Personnel
[3689]1. What records ere maintained on contract personnel?
[3691]Security ~
[3693]1. For the period between 1955-65, what was the universe of files that OS had on
[3694]individuals or groups?
[3696]2. How are Office of Security records indexed?
[3698]3. What was the function of the Office of Security /Security Research Staff (OS/SRS)?
[3699]Why were defector records kept in this component?
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[3712]4, In the OS/SRS:mémo of Oct. 31, 1960; written by Marguerite D. Stevens, the file
[3714]_ numbérs of sévéral defectors are listed: “Robert Edward Webster, EB-18854; Lee
[3715]Harvey ( Oswald, MS-11165; Libero Ricclardelli, MS-8295; Viadimir Sloboda, MS-10565;" .
[3716]andJoseph’ Dutkaniéz, MS-10724, ” What do the “MS” and “EE” file prefixes. peveee _
[3717]How 4 are. these designations assigned?
[3719]5. Does Os process security clearances for non-employees (e.g. sources) to receive
[3720]access $6 clasaified info ormation? What Kinds of files are created by this process? How
[3721]long are these files taintainéd. For éxample, Clay Shaw was given a security clearance
[3722]and had access to, cladgeified information based on his “responsibilities” as a source for
[3723]the. Doiiiestic Contaitts Division (DED).
[3725]6. Whére aré récords that would déscribe liaison (etc.) cooperation or operations
[3726]‘between: OS anid CT iocatéa? How are these records organized?
[3728]7. Where aré records regarding operations that OS participated in or ran located. For Te
[3729]example, where aré thé ©S records on the Castro assassination attempts? | van
[3731]8. How many files did OS have on Oswald? Which OS components maintained files on
[3732]Oswald? Why did OS have any files on Oswald?
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[3741]Buddqet_ and Finance
[3743]Question 1 - In Cold Warrior Mangold refers to a CIA secret
[3744]slush fund which was tightly controlled by Angleton and not
[3745]audited by usual procedures. Did the fund exist? Was the fund
[3746]audited? Are there any records of CI operational,expenses for
[3747]the period 1959-63?
[3749]According to C/Financial Service Division (FSD/OFL) who
[3750]contacted a former finance officer who was a secretary in CI in
[3751]1957-60, to the best of their recolbection CI did not have their
[3752]own finance officer. C/FSD also talked to another officer during
[3753]that era who did not recall that CI was one of the early offices
[3754]to do their own certification of expenses. It was his feeling
[3755]that there very well may have been a CI fund that was not
[3756]handled in the usuél way however it is very unlikely to
[3757]impossible that any fund was not audited/certified in some
[3758]fashion (1.¢. reviewed and certified decentrally and only
[3759]reported on the books in some aggregate amount). He commented
[3760]that he has never in discussion with finance officers heard of an
[3761]account managed by staif officers that wasn’t certified by
[3763]someone in finance.
[3765]Question 2 - Mangold also refers to unnamed CI/B&F officer
[3766]who says he worked for Angleton from 1958-64 and never dealt with
[3767]him directly on a single matter. Is there a list of BEF
[3768]officers assigned to the CI staff from 1959-63? Do their records
[3769]still exist?
[3771]OFL - The Career Management Officer stated that we would |
[3772]need the name of the B&F officer in order to identify if he/she
[3773]was assigned to the CI/Stafi. CMO also stated that he does have
[3774]some old records during that time period pertaining to
[3775]assignments but the list he has is alphabetical by name. The
[3776]current procedure is that the soft file maintained in OFL
[3777]contains the assignment of each officer in the biographical
[3778]profile. ~
[3780]HRM - Has microfilm staffing complements for the 1959-63
[3781]timeframe. These staffing complements were created on a
[3782]quarterly basis and are broken down by the office (location)
[3783]level. With the correct directorate/office name we can visually
[3784]search these microfilm records, find the correct office and
[3785]produce hardcopy reports listing the employees on the rolls for a
[3786]given quarter. The hardcopy report could be reviewed to break
[3787]down the office listing by occupation and create a list of names
[3788]associated with the occupation (i.e. B&F officers assigned to CI
[3789]from 1959-63. The employee name could then be used to located
[3790]current or archived HRM files. CAUTION: 1) If an individual came
[3792]14.90000
[3794]and left an office during the same quarter they might not appear
[3795]on the staffing complement, 2; If an individual was TDY to an
[3796]effice they would not appear on the staffing complement of that
[3797]office. 3) If an individual was being paid by their home office
[3798]they would not appear on the staffing complement of the outside
[3799]office they were supporting.
[3801]Question 3 - We have seen DO monthly operational reports
[3802]which contain information on the allocation/distribution of
[3803]operational funds. Are there other DO or DA records which
[3804]reflect how a certain project utilized its funding? Can this
[3805]type of information from the early 1960s still be retrieved?
[3807]The DO operational fund records would contain expenditures
[3808]against a certain project or operation. However, according to
[3809]C/FSD the system that preceded the General Accounting System
[3810](GAS) was RCA 501 (not sure what this contained) but in all
[3811]probability has been destroyed, would have this type of
[3812]information also. More information may have been recorded in 201
[3813]files similar to today’s automated systems.
[3815]Question 4 - What records are kept on disbursements in the
[3816]field? If hypothetically LHO had received money from the Agency
[3817]what records would exist?
[3819]According to the OFL Records Contrcl Schedule station
[3820]accounting containing indigenous personnel are kept for 56 vears,
[3821]station accounting not containing indigenous personnel are kept
[3822]20 year
[3824]a
[3826]Personnel
[3828]Question 1 - What records are maintained on contract
[3829]personnel?
[3831]Responsibility for records maintained on independent
[3832]contract personnel was transferred to OFL o/a 1 October 1996.
[3833]Staff contract personnel files continue to be maintained by HRM.
[3835]Office Contract Personnel Files contain many of the same
[3836]items found in the staff Official Personnel File (OPF)--
[3837]application info, actions (Staff contracts only ) clearance info,
[3838]secrecy agreement, etc., and also contract info (agreements,
[3839]amendments, terminations, etc.) A separate payroll file was also
[3840]maintained.
[3842]Ic's - fee for task
[3843]Staff Contracts ~ hired for job--not to exceed 5 years.
[3845]Contract files can be opened/maintained/retired in true
[3846]name, pseudo, alias or crypt depending upon the sensitivity of
[3847]the contract.
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[3853]Question 1 - For the period between 1955-65, what was the
[3854]universe of files that OS had on individuals or groups?
[3856]ed information which describes the categories..of.
[3857].during.this.time frame. but it. is.impossible to, 2...
[3860]General - Usually unsciicited correspondence of crank
[3862]A
[3864]Research Stati - possibly material of
[3865]igence interest.
[3867]Laie
[3869]DCD contacts - persons who travel abroad and/or have
[3870]ific information.
[3872]ractor Employees - industrial contractors with
[3873]ral and/or SCI accesses
[3875]ceéllaneous ~- Includes publications, organizations,
[3876]ence services, etc.
[3878]Qu
[3880]Alien - Foreign nationals who were of interest
[3882]New Building - Persons involved with construction of
[3883]original Headquarters Building
[3885]Regular - Fiies which included staff employees, contractors;
[3886]GSA/GSI, etc.
[3888]Question 2 - How are Office of Security records indexed?
[3890]Prior to 1964 all index records were maintained on 3x5 inch
[3891]index cards. When the information was known, these cards
[3892]included names (primary, alias, telecodes), file numbers,
[3893]kin/relatives, location/residence, DPOB, citizenship, occupation,
[3894]polygraph number, reference source data, information codes,
[3895]remarks, SSN, sex, employer, and file retirement data. To locate
[3896]@ file record, the subject of interest was searched in this card
[3897]system.
[3899]During mid-1964 these index cards with the exception 6f
[3900]impersonal entities, were under conversion to a keypunch system.
[3901]The impersonals (companies, publications, intelligence services,
[3902]Organizations, etc.) were maintained on cards until much later,
[3903]possibly mid-1970s. Aside form the subject name indices, the
[3904]Office of Security also indexed information of interest within a
[3905]file record. This information could include associates,
[3906]companies, publications, other government agency reports
[3907]‘information, etc.
[3909]TODAY'S INDEXING PARAMETERS ARE VERY LIMITED.
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[3915]Question 3 - What was the function of the Office of
[3916]Security/Security Research Staff (OS/SRS)? Why were defector
[3917]records kept in this component?
[3919].Tne-Security- Research StaffiiSPS) .was.the. component. _..,,,
[3920]nsible «for collecting... developing,.and evaluating __.
[3921]nor: of & counterintelligence nature to detect and/or
[3922]enétration of the Agency's organization, employees, and
[3923]s by foreign or Gomestic organizations or individuals.
[3924]SRS conducted research in connection with employee loyalty cases
[3925]and maintained records identifying personalities, environments,
[3926]and personal traits of individuals who had been of
[3927]counterintelligence interest over the years. SRS maintained
[3928]jiaison with various government agencies in connection with
[3929]counterintelligence activities and coordinated the counter
[3930]intelligence effort throughout OS. SRS reported directly to the
[3931]Director of Security. :
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[3952]Question 4 - In the OS/SRS memo of Oct 31, 1960 written by
[3953]Marguerite D. Stevens, the file numbers of several defectors are
[3954]listed. What do the MS and EE file prefixed designate? How are
[3955]these designations assigned.
[3957]As noted in question 1, records were categorized according
[3958]to the type and the older file numbers reflected the file
[3959]category. ‘“M" designated a miscellaneous record; “S“ designated
[3960]a Security Research Staff record. Therefore “MS” most likely
[3961]referred to a miscellaneous record of interest to the Security
[3962]Research Staff. “E" or “EE” designations covered subjects of —
[3963]interest to the Domestic Contacts Division for
[3964]information/intelligence purposes. -It appears that at least some
[3965]of these alpha designations were converted. to numerical values
[3966]circa 1964.
[3968]Question 5 - Does OS process security clearances for non-
[3969]employees (e.g. sources) to receive access to classified
[3970]information? What kind of files are created by this process?
[3972]How long are these files maintained.
[3974]Security clearances per se are not processed for non-
[3975]employees (sources/contacts). The Office of Security conducts
[3976]appropriate national agency checks to try to determine the
[3977]reliability of those individuals who are of interest for contact
[3978]purposes because of their foreign travels, specific scientific
[3979]information, etc. In a few instances an ad hoc
[3980]clearance/validation may be requested in the event some
[3981]Classified information would be revealed in the course of
[3982]acquiring intelligence from these sources. The validation period
[3983]is normally five years, and any files created are maintained in
[3984]the individual‘s name for a period of ten vears after the .
[3985]validation period has expired. The DO would most likely have
[3986]further information on a particular source.
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[3990]Quéstion 6 - Where are records that would describe liaison
[3991](etc) cooperation or operations between OS and CI located? How
[3992]are these records organized?
[3994]the short turnaycunad time imposed om vesponding to this
[3995]mo information could be readily located to provide an
[3996]It is believed that if information “of
[3997]cated in archived policy’ cz
[3998]Security and/or Security
[3999]ew cof this information wouid
[4000]i Officers who m@yv possess
[4001]of this type cf record were queried and it was
[4002]that info responsive tc this question may possibly be
[4004]in DO records.
[4006]Question 7 - Where are records “regarding operations that OS
[4007]participated in or ran located? For example, where are the OS
[4008]records on the Castro assassination attempts?
[4010]Records on operations and/or projects in which the Office of
[4011]Security was involved in the past have most likely: been
[4012]destroyed, unless they are maintained because of congressional
[4013]Girectives or the records control schedules. The Office of
[4014]Personnel Security has the capability of retrieving a listing of
[4015]any current records with the prefix or “project” or “operation”.
[4016]If the title does not include these words, retrieveal would be
[4017]more difficult unless an exact name cr acronym is known for a
[4018]particular operation or project.
[4020]Question 8 - How many files did OS have on Oswald? Which Qs
[4021]components maintained files on Oswald? Why did OS have any files
[4022]on Oswald?
[4024]OPS answered in CIA-16. Copy attached.
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[4031]so
[4032]ut
[4034]Thank you for agreeing to participate in briefing the JFK
[4036]; Assassination oecoras Review Board (ARRB) to be held on Monday,
[4037]17 March, at 2:00 p.m., in 2C06 IP Blidg. I regret the short
[4038]notice. hs we discussed, the ARRB has asked for information
[4040]relating tothe creation,’ transmission, and dissemination of —
[4041]cables and your. name’ instantly came to mind.-~: Their ‘specific
[4042]auestions are:
[4044]i- Can you describe the cable process in place in the Agency
[4045]during the
[4046]1960-1964 time period?
[4048]See a ee ARRON IIE oo >
[4051]Prior to 1962 messages were delivered to the DPD
[4053]Py
[4057](Development Products Division) at 1717 H Street or to the
[4058]Communications Center at “L” Street. In addition there
[4059]also was a Q building that. received special traffic.
[4060]After 1962 messages came into the CIA Headquarters and
[4061]were processed in different areas depending on the
[4063]types of traffic.
[4065]Imagery traffic would be sent to to a specific floor
[4066]for the imagery personnel. Intercept and Special Programs
[4067]would either be passed to a Special Sections Area of the
[4069]Communications Center or to the Cable Secretariat.
[4071]2- How did cables come in?
[4072]Messages came in from the field via the Brandy Station State
[4074]Channels or military channels.
[4076]3- How were they decrypted?
[4077]Messages were deciphered using a OTT (One Time Tape)
[4079]or a OTP (One Time Pad) process.
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[4083]4- What happened from the time a cabie was sent froma field
[4084]site until it arrived
[4085]on a desk at Headguarters?
[4087]Messages sent from a field site would be passed to a
[4089]fee ay wos Lae Lat
[4091]‘communicator, encrypted and transmitted via ©: 4 © ce: tee
[4092]High Frequency Radio. The message received from Brandy
[4093]and relayed to headquarters and then it was decrypted.
[4094]The analyst of the Cable Secretariat would then read the
[4095]message and match what they read against customer
[4096]requirements. They then would have a typist type the
[4097]dissemination on the message. The message then would be
[4098]picked up from the message center by the various staffs
[4099]and or divisions.
[4101]S- How were cables disseminated?
[4102]See item four.
[4104]Please let me or Becky Rant, DA/IRO, know if you have any
[4105]other questions or concerns prior to the briefing.
[4107]Cc: Becky L. Rant
[4108]Andrea E. Boyce ; °
[4109]Sent on 13 March 1997 at 03:17:34 PM
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[4125]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. 2
[4127]Jane
[4128]Chie
[4129]Offi
[4131]REFERENCE: CSE
[4133]SeoPtT
[4136]27 February 1997
[4138]intelligence
[4140]Branch
[4144]it
[4146]ed ii January 1997
[4148]possible,
[4150]each £i
[4151]cf the assassina
[4153]ons2 is the specitic questions Listed
[4154]ez tc the Historical Review Group, the
[4155]re provided to those three questions
[4156]ice ci Personnel Security (O7S) These
[4157]< reasonable answers based on available
[4158]note OPS was Known as the Office of
[4160]2 se: (TU) Ae @SSasSinaztion, the
[4161]Cfiice cf Security (0S) which contained
[4162]information on Lee Harve le entitled Defectors
[4163]File (#0342006) conctaine bee Harvey Oswald,
[4165]Regraded Confidential
[4166]When Separated From
[4167]Secret Attachment
[4169]Q
[4171]L
[4172](o)
[4175]BY: 0605636
[4176]1.5(c)
[4178]Xl
[4180]COV 1-82
[4182]Reason:
[4183]DECL ON:
[4184]DRV FROM:
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[4188]“SECREF
[4190]and the Office of Security aleo had a subject file on Lee
[4191]Harvey Oswald (#0251164). This formation was reflected in
[4192]the automated security database known as the Management Data
[4193]Program/Personnel Security (MDP/?S). These files were
[4194]riginally miscellaneous files wnich were converted to the
[4195]Deve numbers circa 2964. kh hand search was aiso conducted
[4196]microfiche records wnich were supersedec by =the automated
[4197]r
[4199]th
[4201]s hand search B Procuces the same results as the
[4203]n
[4204]i
[4205]ct
[4206]10)
[4207]3
[4208]i]
[4209]ct
[4210](D
[4211]a
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[4216](2)
[4217]om
[4218]Mo
[4220](U) Tf t specific mention is made of an
[4221]fi fa)
[4223]ETLINGUAL reflects OS maintained four official
[4224]files under cz--#0Q77826 (an administrative file),
[4225]So0S5007S, # general file), and #0119244 ob’
[4226]the ETLINGUZZL files were destroyed on 6 April 1954 alone
[4228]with numerous soit fil
[4230]es. Since this material has been
[4231]Gestroved, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files
[4232]contained any information on Lee Haxvey Oswals. A search ct
[4233]Gswaic’s name did not srocuce an index reference ito anv ci
[4234]these files.
[4235]Imicrmmation M
[4236]irom a review
[4237]gestion 2: (U) Other than for the 2(01-299246 fire
[4239]on Oswaid, please exclain when each Oswald file was
[4241]openec, ihe purpose for the opening of the file, anc
[4243]the documents thet were in the file ac the time of the
[4245]been destroye
[4246]chronclogical
[4248]tv to those recorded for ETL
[4249]undertaken. This search revealed the approximate opening
[4250]dates for the four official HTLINGUAL files
[4255]~)
[4257]to
[4259]Opened approximately July 1952
[4260]Opened approximately Febr
[4262]Opened approximately July 19
[4263]Opened approximate ly May 195
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[4290]14-0000
[4292]—SSeee Tr
[4293]pares oe
[4295](U) HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project
[4296]that involved opening incoming and outgoing mail destined to
[4297]and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South
[4298]America. In OS this project was known as SRPOINTER with
[4299]subprojects identified as WESTPOINTER, INDIAN, BANJO, and
[4300]SETTER. OS conducted the actual opening and monitoring cf
[4301]mail with the acquired information referred to the
[4302]Directorate of Operations.
[4304](U) The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa
[4305]1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens
[4306]defecting to other countries and information regarding
[4307]foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.
[4308]This compilation of information was received from press
[4309]clippings, Directorate of Operations. reporting, the Federal
[4310]Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, and the
[4311]various armed services. The pre-assassination documents
[4312]Jocated in this file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:
[4314]a. WwW incton Star press clipping of 26 Novembex 12
[4315]entitled “U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx 4
[4317]9
[4321]b Department of State memorandum dated 25 October
[4322]1960 with attached list of American “defectors”
[4323]from May 1959 to October 1960
[4325]c. Memorandum for Chiei/Security Research Staff dated
[4326]31 October 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:
[4327]American Detectors
[4328](
[4329]G. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated
[4330]1 November 21960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:
[4331]American Defectors
[4333]e. Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August
[4334]1961 ;
[4336].£... Defector. outline-prepared in- October 1961 listing
[4338]known defectors to the USSR, Red China, Cuba, and
[4339]United Arab Republic. ;
[4343]14-0000
[4345](U) The index reference tc the Defectors File
[4346]identifies a list dated 212 September 2966 which was known as
[4347]the Defector Machine Listing. This listing was @ computer
[4349]rintout cf defectors which reflected limited biographic
[4352]I? Q
[4354]c Tris Listing was maincalaec separately
[4355]om the actual Detectors File; notations within che
[4356]Defecters File show the Defector Machine Listing as
[4358]xmanenztly charged
[4360]Ww)
[4362]Dcoromimat
[4364]saris one
[4365]defector ma
[4367]Limicted tniommaci
[4368]foe
[4369](ly
[4370]Division is
[4371]ci the Securi
[4372]OPS. Gail
[4373]neldines re
[4375]fforts to locate thi
[4376]have been unsuccess=
[4378]urity Analysis Group of OS.
[4379]etermine the disposition
[4381]ct
[4382]is)
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[4386]web
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[4390]ct
[4392]tw W
[4394]300
[4398](3)
[4400]n
[4402]a
[4404]rding the purpose of the Detectors
[4405]ick review ci selected nelidings.
[4406]at one time was assigned to the
[4407]ad recalls the Defector Machine
[4408]ction, this machine listine was
[4409]nalZ inches thick and was in twe
[4410]oz mabetical index ci
[4411]The second
[4412]L.crde x an
[4413]Branch ci Investisazions
[4414]ment encompassing most
[4415]s still conduct :
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[4420]<x
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[4423]Gilber=, CIC ti fricer
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[4468]mu
[4470]t fo
[4471]if
[4474](C) CzC assumed many cf the functions previousiv
[4476]conducted by the Security Ane
[4477]queried recarding the ocessib
[4479]vsis Group. Mr. Filis was
[4480]ity the Defector Machine
[4482]& 2o Cic during the
[4483]ilis advised the Defector
[4484]be located in CiC holdings; anc
[4485]ate cf Operations
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[4490]14-0000
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[4571]Department
[4572]dated 9 Novembe
[4574]th
[4576]mo Wactin ; 283
[4583]om other government
[4584]Harvey Oswald to the USSR
[4586]return to the United
[4588]le appears to have been
[4589]le, and the documents
[4591]ecram #1448 Srom Tokyo
[4593]ate telecram £1358 Exrom Moscow
[4595]press clipring Gated 16
[4596]“Rebuited”
[4598]Turned to
[4600]d by Soviet Russia Division
[4601]Security in March 1960
[4603]Struction A-273 dated
[4605]atch from Moscow dated
[4606]of Oswald letter
[4608]14-0000
[4610]k Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated
[4611]: 2 July 1961 irom Dallas, Texas
[4612]i 2 Note to CI/SI Gated 26 ember i962
[4613]™. Form 745 “indices Search Request” dated
[4614]12 October 15962
[4615]i
[4616]H
[4618]n. Department of State aan #217 irom Moscow
[4619]Gated 12 October i$€i with enclosure
[4621]| ©. Form G-1i35a Immisration and taturalization
[4622]{ Sexvice name check form to Central Intelligence
[4623]: Agency Gated 5 December 1961
[4625]p. Navy Department message to Moscow cated
[4626]3 Marcn 1962
[4627], ¢. Depariment of the Navy memorandum to the Federal
[4628]Bureau cl Investication dated 26 April i8€2 with
[4629]enclosure
[4631]v. The Weshineton Pos: press clipping 4
[4632]9 June 1962 entitiecé “Third American in 2 Months
[4633]Leaves Soviet ‘Home’ ”
[4635]S. Federal Bureau of Investigation transmitta
[4636]ef re port irom Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August
[4637]1962. .
[4639](9) In addition to th
[4640]following documents were lo
[4641]re)
[4643]3
[4645]ed in a subsequent volume of
[4647]ose documents listed ebove, the
[4648]cat
[4649]pear to predate the assassination
[4651]the Oswald file and also a
[4652]oz President Kennedy.
[4654]t. Undated summary of file information on Lee
[4655]Harvey Oswald
[4657]u. Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated
[4658]20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)
[4660]v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated
[4661]17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)
[4663]6
[4665]WEED —
[4667]14-0000
[4669]incoming cable #47041 from Mexico Ci
[4670]24 Octoper 1963 (no mention of
[4672]w Incomince cable #36027 from Mexico City dated
[4674]4
[4675]y%. Outagcing cable #74B20 ts Mexico City Gated
[4677]10 October i%6%
[4678]| Y- ty dated
[4679]|
[4681]i
[4683]Question 4; (U) To the extent thet Counterintel ligence
[4684]e of Security maintained pre-assassination
[4686]files on Oswald, please explain why those citfices
[4688]maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.
[4690]in answering this question, please make appropriate
[4692]references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSE)
[4694]t als (including organizational
[4697]would help explain the jurisdictional and
[4698]for wnich CI and, OS would have
[4700]t - and the Offic
[4702]Response: (U Tc is believ
[4704]c to Russia Guring --
[4705]which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in
[4706]contact with the Amexican Embassy in Moscow, and the
[4708]Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.
[4709]Most likely because cf counterintelligence concerns, the
[4710]Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution
[4712]e
[4713]ports. In the beginning this material was *
[4715]se x
[4717]tobabiy retained in the Defectors File. As the number of
[4718]documents on this person increased, a separate file was
[4719]created to be the repository of information on the alleged
[4720]American defector. There is a notation in the Defectors
[4721]File that a separate file exists on Oswald.
[4723](U) Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of
[4724]Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.
[4725]Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staft during the pre-
[4726]assassination time frame. Of the documents listed above, a
[4727]Majority of them contain a notation or the initials of
[4728]Marguerite D. Stevens,.leading one to believe she was the
[4729]oificer responsible for the collection, analysis, and filing
[4730]ef this information.
[4732]14.99000
[4734](U) The Security research Staff (SRS) was che
[4735]componen: responsible for collecting, developing, anc
[4736]evaluating information cf @ counterintéliigence mature to
[4738]a
[4740]ection with employes lovaity cas
[4741]maintained records identifying personaiizies, environments,
[4742]and personal traits of individuals whe nad been of
[4743]counterintelligence interes= éver the years S2S maintained
[4744]iiaison with various government agencies in connection with
[4745]counterintelligence activities and cocrcinated the
[4746]counrerintelligence efferz throughout CS. Using
[4747]organizational charts of this time perioc, SRS reported
[4748]Cirectly to tne cifice of the Director ci Security.
[4750]IormmaLlon
[4753]bad one a
[4754]receras icr review The ormaition on
[4755]Fumction of SRS was retrievec irom ine
[4756]Sanuet-y aAmintier<stivys ant Ble n~i-s}
[4757]SeCurloY GCMLULSUTaCiVve anc MLscorice.
[4758]review of the security e on Marquerite
[4759]y
[4761]cod TT = : Sawer st = = wasn *
[4762]3. (GY For vour infoxmmation, &@ saze-bv-
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[4842]13 June 1995
[4843]MEMORANDUM FOR: Jack Wright @ DA k ( ry ak a
[4844]FROM: Eldon! Hatch (?
[4845]Information Review Officer, ODDA
[4846]SUBJECT: Review of Organizational Structure for the year 1958-68 and 1975-79
[4847]REFERENCE: ARRB Additional Information Request CIA-1
[4849]1. The attached documents relating to subject have been reviewed for release to the
[4850]. Assassination Records Review Board and are to be handled in accordance with the level of classification
[4851]security indicated on the documents. The documents have not been reviewed for release to other than
[4852]properly cleared personnel.
[4854]2. If you have any questions. please cail me on 30683.
[4856]Eldon |. Hatch .
[4859]Handcarried to Jack Wright
[4860]CC:
[4862]ADMINISTRATIVE Int TERINAL USE ONLY
[4865]14-0000
[4868]14-0000
[4870]26 FEB 1996
[4872]MEMORANDUM FOR: Barry Harrelson
[4873]Historical Review Group
[4875]FROM: — Lee S. Strickland
[4876]DA Focal Point for JFK Board Requests
[4877]SUBJECT: ARRB Request for Access to Indices to CIA
[4878]Histories
[4879]REFERENCE: A. JFK Board Request No. CIA-7,
[4881]dtd 9 Nov 1995, Item # 6
[4883]B. CSI-0307/05, dtd 20 Feb 1996, same subject
[4885]1. Per your request, I have reviewed the list provided to
[4886]me of all histories produced under the CIA History Program for
[4887]release to the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB) .-
[4888]Regarding equities that concern the Office of the DA, I reviewed
[4889]pages 38 through 48 and pages 51-54 and have no problem granting
[4890]access to the list except for those noted on page 40, 42, 46,
[4891]and 48. If this list is to be provided unclassified, then the
[4892]station names as marked would need to be redacted. If this list
[4894]is to be provided classified, the DA pages may be passed without
[4895]sanitization. ;
[4897]2. Is the ARRB allowed to request access to any Agency
[4898]document if unrelated to the JFK Assassination? We could be
[4899]setting a precedent if we grant the ARRB access to see this
[4900]entire list. Potentially, the ARRB*could request access to any
[4901]number of Agency documents totally unrelated to the JFK
[4902]Assassination (i.e. 201 files).
[4904]3. If you have questions, I may be reached on extension
[4905]30554 secure.
[4907](7)
[4909]14-0000
[4912]14-0000
[4914]Pal
[4916]JE ‘ New MaatalStandard
[4917]oo
[4919]Ci BY: ooonc00
[4921]Cl REASON Secon 1.5 ¢
[4922]Beet am X1
[4924]onv Fant COV 1-82
[4926]27 February 1998
[4928]MEMORANDUM FoR: Bonnie K. Hunter-Y- @ 0c!
[4930]FROM: ‘Frieda P. Omasta
[4932]OFFICE: ADA/IRO
[4934]SUBJECT: CIA-12 (Shackley et al)
[4936]REFERENCE: Shackley, Cross, Henry, Gupton (CIA.4A-12) GAMIRO No. 12
[4937]Bonnie:
[4939]This is with respect to your 26 February 1998 note wherein you asked that we check HRM for personnel files on Ron Cross, Bart
[4940]Henry and William Morris Kent. In an effort ta bring the status of this particular tasking (CIA-IR-12) up-to-date, | provide the following:
[4942]My records show that on 18 July 1997 Barry requested that we conduct file searches on Ted Shackley, Ron Cross, Bart Henry and
[4943]Doug Gupton. We were advised by Barry, and as outlined in a 22 May 1996 letter from ARRB to John Pereira, that Cross, Henry and
[4944]Gupton are pseudonyms used by CIA personnel who testified ta the HSCA.
[4946]On 23 December 1997, | advised Barry that OPS had located files on Ted Shackley, Ron Cross and Doug Gupton and that the files were
[4947]in OPS for review. They were unable to locate a record on Bart Henry. Itis my understanding that you have not reviewed these files ta
[4948]date but are in the Process of making arrangements to do So. Sue-Ann Pierson conducted the Search back in July and fam certain that —
[4949]she will be glad to you in this matter (40000).
[4951]And lastly, | have no record af ever having received a request to Search on William Morris Kent. Accordingly, | will request OPS and
[4952]HRM to da so.
[4954]Please let me know if | have misinterpreted the status of this request. Thank you. Frieda
[4956]Original Text of Freda P. Omasta
[4957]Original Taxt at Frieda P. Omasta
[4959]New Mama\Standard
[4961]14-0000
[4964]14.90000
[4966]on “  srerer
[4968]Y
[4970]27 February 1997
[4972]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[4973]Historical Review Group
[4975]Center for the Study of Intelligence
[4977]FROM: Janet A. Ecklund
[4978]Chief, iné
[4979]Oziice of Personnel Security
[4981].
[4983]SUBJECT: Request No. CIA-16 from JFK Board
[4985]~ RE
[4987]Hy
[4989]Gi
[4990]2
[4991]Q
[4992]by
[4994]CSI 97-062 dated 31,January 1997 .
[4996]1. (U) The Office of Personnel Security has researched
[4997]this request from the Assassination Records Review Board
[4998]relating to the existence cf pre-assassination files on Lee
[4999]Harvey Oswald.
[5001]2. (U) In response to the specific questions listed
[5003]in Mr. Marwell's letter to the Historical Review Group,
[5004]following responses are provided to those three questions
[5005]pertaining to the Office of Personnel Security (OPS).
[5006]responses are the best reasonable answers based on ‘available
[5007]information. Please note OPS was known as the Office of
[5009]Security prior to 1 October 1994.
[5011]Question 1: (U) Please identify, as specifically as
[5012]possible, each file held by CIA on Oswald at the time
[5014]of the assassination of President Kennedy.
[5016]Response: (U) t the time of the assassination,
[5017]Office of Security (OS) held two files which contained
[5019]var os 1 a+. infermatien.on Lee..Harvey Oswald. ..A, file entitled. Defectors
[5020]Waste ae ese « «Phkbe .(#0341008) contained a reference. .to.Lee. Harvey..Oswald,
[5021]Regraded Confidential CL BY: 0605636
[5022]When Separated From CL Reason:
[5024]Secret Attachment. DECL ON: X21
[5026]DRV FROM: COV 1-82
[5028]ormation Management Branch
[5030]14-0000
[5032]SECRET
[5034]and the Office of Security also had a subject file on Lee
[5035]Harvey Oswald (#0351164). This information was reflected in
[5036]the automated security database known as the Management Data
[5037]Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). These files were
[5038]originally miscellaneous files which were converted to the
[5039]above numbers circa 1964. A hand search was aiso conducted
[5040]of microfiche records which were superseded by the automated
[5041]system. This hand search produced the same results as the
[5042]automated search of MDP/PS.
[5044](U0) In your request specific mention is made of an
[5045]HTLINGUAL file. MDP/PS reflects OS maintained four official
[5046]files under this project --#0077826 (an administrative file),
[5047]#0090079, #0093466 (a general file), and #0129144. All cz
[5048]the HTLINGUAL files were destroyed on 8 April 1994 along
[5049]with numerous soft files. Since this material has been
[5050]destroyed, OPS cannot definitively state whether these files
[5051]contained any information on Lee Harvey Oswald. A search of
[5052]Oswald's name did not produce an index reference to any of
[5053]these files.
[5055](JU) Attached is all cf the available information
[5056]regarding the destruction cf the HTLINGUAL files. This
[5058]information was retrieved from Lydia Hoffman of the
[5059]Information Management Branch/Records Contrel Section and
[5060]from a review of general office administrative files.
[5062]Question 2: (U) Other than for the 201-289248 file
[5063]on Oswald, please expiain when each Oswald file was
[5064]opened, the puzpcse for the opening of the file, and
[5065]the documents that were in the file at the time of the
[5066]assassination.
[5068]Response: (U) As noted above, all HTLINGUAL files have
[5069]been destroyed. Since OS files are usually set up in
[5070]chronological .sequence, a search of files with numbers in
[5071]close proximity to those recorded for HTLINGUAL was ~
[5072]undertaken. This search revealed the approximate opening
[5074]Gates for the four official HTLINGUAL files as:
[5076]#0077826 Opened approximately July 1952
[5077]#0090079 Opened approximately February 1953
[5078]#0093466 Opened approximately July 1953
[5079]#0119144 Opened approximately May 1955
[5081]5
[5082]a
[5084]SECRET
[5086]14-0000
[5088]en
[5092](U) HTLINGUAL was a Directorate of Operations project
[5093]that involved opening incoming and outgoing mail destined
[5094]and from the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and South
[5095]America. In OS this project was known as SRPOINTER with
[5096]subprojects idenrified as WESTPOINTER, INDIAN, BANJO, and
[5097]SETTER. OS conducted the actual opening and monitoring of
[5098]mail with the acquired information referred to the
[5099]Directorate of Operations.
[5101](U) The Defectors File (#0341008) was established circa
[5102]1950 for the purpose of recording information on US citizens
[5103]defecting to other countries arid information regarding
[5104]foreign nationals considering defection to the United States.
[5105]This compilation of information was received from press
[5106]clippings, Directorate of Operations. reporting, the Federal
[5107]Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, and the
[5108]various armed services. The pre-assassination documents
[5109]located in this file relative to Lee Harvey Oswald are:
[5111]a. Washinczon Star press clipping of 26 November 1959
[5113]entitled “U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to Marx at
[5115]b. Department of State memorandum dated 25 October
[5116]1960 with attached list of American “defectors”
[5117]From May 1259 to October 1960
[5119]c. Memorandum for ChieZ/Security Research Staff dated
[5120]31 October 1950 from M. D. Stevens, subject: *
[5121]American Deflectors
[5123]Ga. Memorandum for Deputy Director of Security dated
[5124]1 November 1960 from M. D. Stevens, subject:
[5125]American Detectors '
[5127]e. Handwritten chart of defectors dated 26 August
[5128]1961
[5130].£. Defector. outline: prepared in- October 1961 listing
[5131]known defectors to the USSR, Red China, Cuba, and
[5132]United Arab Republic.
[5134]14-0000
[5136]SESReL
[5138](G) The index reference to the Defectors File
[5139]identifies a list dated 12 September 1566 which was known as
[5140]the Defector Machine Listing. This listing was a computer
[5141]printout cf defectors which reflected limited biographic
[5142]Gaté on each name This Listing was ma&éintained separately
[5143]irom the actual Defectors Fil hin the
[5144]Fil
[5146]3)
[5147]xmanenztly charged
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[5230]Listing may have been transferred to CIC during the
[5231]xealionment of duties Mr. Filis advised the Defector
[5232]Machine Listing could not be located in Cic holdines; and he
[5233]: ia ra per
[5235]pa not ORO
[5237]les with Directo
[5239]Ging the listing.
[5241]14-0000
[5245](U) The subject file pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald
[5246](#0251164) was established circa 1960. It appears this file
[5247]was created as a separate repository for the numerous press
[5248]clippings and reports received from other government
[5249]agencies on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR
[5250]and his activities following his return to the United
[5251]States. The first volume of this file appears to have been
[5252]preserved as the pre-assassination file, and the documents
[5253]contained in this file are as follows:
[5258]a. Department of State telegram #1304 from Moscow
[5259]Gated 31 October 1955
[5261]. 2
[5263]b. ct P press clipping dated
[5264]1 November 1959 entitied “Ex-Marine Asks Soviet
[5265]Citizenship”
[5267]c. Department of State Dispatch #234 from Moscow .
[5268]dated 2 November i959
[5270]a. Department of State telegram #1448 from Tokyo
[5271]dated 9 November 1958 —
[5273]e. Department of State telegram #1358 from Moscow
[5274], dated 9 November 1959
[5276]£. The Washincten Post press clipping dated 16
[5278]-
[5280]November 1°59 entitled “Rebuffed’
[5282]g. Evening x press clipping dated 26 November
[5283]1959 entitled “U.S. Defector to Reds Turned to
[5284]Marx at 15” ;
[5286]h. Report Summary prepared by Soviet Russia Division
[5287]forwarded to Office of Security in March 1960
[5289]i. Department. of State. Instruction..A-273 dated
[5290]13 April 1961
[5292]}. Department of State Dispatch from Moscow dated
[5293]May 1961 with enclosure of Oswald letter
[5295]5
[5299]14-0000
[5301]— SRE T
[5303]%. Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated
[5304]2 July 15€2 from Dallas, Texas
[5306]ea
[5308]Note to Ci/SI dated 28 September 1961
[5310]m. Form 745 “indices Search Request” dated
[5311]12 October 1961
[5313]n. Department of State Dispatch #317 from Moscow
[5314]Gated 12 October 196i with enclosure
[5316]©. Form G-135a Immigration and Naturalization
[5317]Service name check form to Central Intelligence
[5318]Agency dated 5 December 1961
[5320]Navy Department, message to Moscow dated
[5321]3 March 1962
[5323]ue)
[5325]1Q
[5327]Department of the Navy memorandum to the Federal
[5328]Bureau of Investigation dated 26 April 1962 with
[5329]enclosure
[5331]The Washincton Post press clipping dated
[5332]9 June 1962 entitled “Third American in 2 Months . .—.
[5333]Leaves Soviet ‘Home’” .
[5335]NY
[5337]S. Federal Bureau of Investigation transmittal
[5338]of report from Dallas, Texas, dated 30 August
[5339]1962.
[5341](U) In addition to those documents listed above, the
[5342]Eollowing documents were located in a subsequent volume of
[5343]the Oswald file and also appear to predate the assassination
[5344]of President Kennedy.
[5346]t. Undated summary of file information on Lee
[5347]Harvey Oswald
[5349]u. Incoming cable #83856 from Mexico City dated
[5350]20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald)
[5352]v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated
[5353]17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald)
[5355]6
[5357]cole
[5359]14-0000
[5363]w. Incoming ca
[5365]ble #236017 from Mexico City dated
[5366]9 October 1963
[5368]x. Outgoing cab
[5369]10 October i
[5371]#74830 to Mexico City dated
[5373]y. Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated
[5374]24 October 2963 (no mention of Oswald).
[5376]Question 4: (U) To the extent that Counterintelligence
[5377]and the Office of Security maintained pre-assassination
[5378]files on Oswald, please explain why those offices
[5379]maintained files on Oswald prior to the assassination.
[5380]In answering this question, please make appropriate
[5381]references to the Clandestine Services Handbook (CSES)
[5382]and to any other materials (including organizationai
[5383]charts) that would help explain the jurisdictional and
[5384]organization reasons for which CI and OS would have
[5385]maintained such files.
[5387]Response: (U) it is believed that OS holdings on. Lee
[5388]Harvey Oswald began in 1959 with his travel to Russia during
[5389]which he renounced his US citizenship. Oswald was in
[5390]contact with the American Embassy in Moscow, and the
[5391]Department of State prepared reports on these contacts.
[5393]Most likely because of counterintelligence concerns, the
[5394]Central Intelligence Agency was included in the distribution
[5395]of these reports. In the beginning this material was
[5396]probably retained in the Defectors File. As the number of
[5397]documents on this person increased, a separate file was
[5398]created to be the repository of information on the alleged a
[5399]American defector. There is a notation in the Defectors
[5401]‘File that a separate file exists on Oswald.
[5403](U) Both the Defectors File (#0341008) and the file of
[5404]Lee Harvey Oswald (#0351164) were handled by Marguerite D.
[5405]Stevens of the OS/Security Research Staff during the pre-
[5406]assassination time frame. Of the documents listed above, a
[5407]Majority of them contain a notation or the initials of
[5408]Marguerite D. Stevens, leading one to believe she was the
[5409]officer responsible. for the collection, analysis, and filing
[5410]of this information.
[5412]14-0000
[5414](U) The Security Research Staff
[5415]component: responsible for collecting
[5417]evaluating infcrmation cf a counterinte+i:
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[5460]6
[5462]u
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[5465]& personal traits of
[5467]counterintelligence inter
[5469]liaison with various government agencies in connection with
[5470]counterintelligence activities ané cocrcinated the
[5471]counterintelligeance effort. througnour O§ Using
[5472]organizational charts of this time perioc, SRS reported
[5473]Girectivy to tne citice of the Director cl Security
[5478]Manaceament Cliiicer Zonca reirievec
[5479]— awa SAR, me eees m cd me AS _
[5480]t~eccras icr review Tne intcrmmation on
[5482]For your information, a sace-py-page review of
[5483]ned in the Detectors Friis (12 volumes)
[5484]Oswald's file (7 volumes} has no n
[5486]tcrachment
[5488]14-0000
[5490]Festa tt
[5493]14-0000
[5495]ea Ct 5.) ig
[5497]27 February 1998
[5499]MEMORANDUM FOR: T. Jeremy Gunn”
[5500]. . Executive Diréctor
[5501]Assassination Records Review Board
[5503]FROM: J. Barry Harrelson
[5504]Senior Reviewer
[5506]SUBJECT: ARRB Request No. CIA-IR-7 For Information
[5507]On Claude B. Capehart
[5508]1. The following is responsive to subject request.
[5509]2. The Agency has made a thorough search of its
[5510]records for information on Claude B. Capehart and can
[5512]state:
[5514]a. Mr. Capehart was never an employee of the
[5515]Agency;
[5517]b. Mr. Capehart was however, an employee of a
[5518]company with which the Agency had contracts;
[5520]c. The Agency has files on Mr. Capehart because of
[5521]its contractual relationship with his emplover.
[5523]d. All such files have been made available to and
[5524]were reviewed by ARRB staff members.
[5526]3. If you require anything further in this regard,
[5528]‘please advise.
[5529]a mo \
[5530]J. Barry Harrelson
[5532]a
[5534]14-0000
[5536]aN
[5539]14-0000
[5541]x
[5543]: i. : = s NAL NLY
[5545]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Haxrelson
[5546]CSI - Rise Project Officer
[5548]S—. 22
[5549]FROM: . Prieda ong ee Deel
[5550]Associate Information Review Officer, ODA
[5552]SUBJECT: CZA-IR-09 - Geergé Bush/ARRS Request
[5554]1. This is with raference
[5555]memorancum (attachec) and our t
[5556]§ February wherein you requescte
[5557]Administration (DA) review “any
[5558]George Hercert alker Bush to 4
[5559]affiliacion with CIA during the
[5561]2.
[5562]Human Res<
[5563]been una:
[5564]H.W. Bush
[5565]pericd.
[5569]3.
[5571]Attachmen
[5573]cenit ewe a anLtee oO a A Ma RAL sm iene eA oft a tne w+
[5575]het anemone pete eee nes Hee
[5577]14-0000
[5580]14-0000
[5582]ll February 19993
[5584]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harreisen
[5585]JFK Project Officer
[5587]FROM:. RK LLL Burieetea
[5589]er¥eda Cmast
[5590]Associate Iinfermmeticon Reviaw Clificar, IPA
[5592]SUBGECT: CTA-IR-1i - ARRS Request fer Search on
[5593]Warren Commission Critics (DA/IRC Ne. 21}
[5594]1. This is with reference to your 2 February 1938
[5595]memorandum (Tab A) and our subsequent fsiachcne conversation
[5596]on 6 February wherein you recuastec that the Directorate ci
[5598]Administration (DA) search for files ox racoras cn Warren
[5599]Commission cri wd dg. Eostein, Cosian Themeson, Mark
[5600]Lane, Haroic or Svivia her.
[5602]2. Based ucon the li
[5603]provided cn Subjects, the
[5604]{OPS), che Office of Human c eq one
[5605]efiice of the Publication 3 ot uch
[5606]searches. No records were tec hemeson cr
[5607]Mark Lane. As you know, OPS iccate olc
[5608]Weisberg as a result of its search CrA-2R-27
[5609](DA/ERO No. 24). At your recuesc, 1392 (Tab
[5610]3) we requested that OPS make arzran this file
[5611]reviewed py the ARRS to determine wi axe
[5612]Assassination Records. Accordingly céress one
[5613]Weisberg file in this CIA-IR-ii res
[5615]Edward J. Epstein - AIN 0 442 742 (found in 22S;
[5616]File found in FES
[5617]Harold Weisbe - combuter orintcur fatziacnec,
[5618]found in ARM
[5620]Syivia Meagher - CFS advi
[5621]impersonal foider regarding Sucitec
[5622]Macazine ariticia which were descrs the
[5623]Records Comirol Schedule cn 2 Jana
[5626]14-0000
[5628]4
[5630]m Please let me know whan you wanc me to request the
[5631]eg on Edward Epstein from OPS and 2RS. Meanwhile, this
[5632]meciuces DA action on CIA-IR-i1. If you have anv
[5635]questions, oplaase feai free te call me cn 31201.
[5637]Attachments: As Statad
[5640]14-00000
[5642]a UNCLASSIFIED
[5644]_
[5648]bole KO From the Desk of Becky L. Rant
[5649]= a / DA/Information Review Office
[5651]NOTE FOR: J. Barry Harrelson @ OCI
[5652]Gary M..Breneman-Y-@DCi
[5654]FROM: Becky L. Rant
[5655]OFFICE: DA/IRO
[5656]DATE: 08/14/98 09:10:11 AM
[5658]SUBJECT: Response to CIA-IR-11
[5659]Barry & Gary:
[5661]| have reviewed the draft response to CiA-IR-11 dated 13 August 1998 and following are my
[5662]comments and requested changes:
[5664]Paragraphs 1 and 2 - OK
[5666]_ Para 2a: EPSTEIN, Edward J. --The DO found no files identifiable with subject; a file was found
[5667]on an individual with the same name but: with research, it was determined that the individual was not the
[5668]Edward J. Epstein who is the subject of this request. DA searches found a Center for CIA Security,
[5669]formerly the Office of Personne! Security, file and a Publications Review Board file on subject, as well as
[5670]three “hits" to records destroyed pursuant to normal records destruction schedules. The destroyed
[5671]records involved three Freedom of Information requests that mention Epstein's name in the subject line.
[5672]None of the requests were for information on Epstein.
[5674]Para 2b: LANE, Mark
[5675]4th line - Please change Public Affairs to Privacy Act request
[5677]Para 2c: MEAGHER, Syivia — A reference to the fact subject made a Privacy Act request was
[5678]found. in addition, the Center for CIA Security found that it had, at one time, a folder on subject and a
[5679]1968 Ramparts Magazine article. Both subject's Privacy Act request file and the impersonal folder have
[5680]been destroyed pursuant to normal record control schedules.
[5682]Para 2d: defer to DO
[5684]Para 2e: WEISBERG, Harold
[5689]11th line - Please change Office of Security to Center for CIA Security.
[5691]in so far as DA equities are concerned, | concur with draft letter once the above changes have
[5692]been incorporated. -
[5694]Becky
[5696]cc: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[5697]Sent on 14 August 1998 at 09:10:11 AM
[5701]UNCLASSIFIED
[5703]14-0000
[5708]14-00000
[5710]From the Desk of W. Curtis Chaloner
[5711]OPS/CD/IMB (40552) THIS IS A VOICE ACTIVATED COMPUTER. UPPERCASE !S FOR
[5712]EFFICIENCY & IS NOT MEANT AS A BREACH OF CYBERSPACE ETIQUETTE.
[5714]NOTE FOR: Becky L. Rant
[5715]Frieda P. Omasta
[5716]Janet A. Ecklund
[5718]FROM: W. Curtis Chatoner
[5720]OFFICE: OPSICO/IMB
[5722]DATE: 06/09/97 04:22:02 PM
[5724]SUBJECT: RECOAD SEARCH, CHARLES 0. FORD. AIN 0038497
[5726]DEAR BECKY, | CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF SUBJECT'S SECURITY FILE TO INCLUDE MICROFICHE & HARDCOPY. BELOW ARE MR.
[5727]FORD'S ACTIVITIES FROM 1959 THROUGH 1964, PER YOUR REQUEST.
[5729]MICROFICKE-CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER |
[5731]16 JAN 59-CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE
[5733]AUGUST 1959-YACATION IN CANADA FOR 2 DAYS
[5735]15 MAR 61-ESTABLISHMENT OF PO BOX LETTER AGDRESS FOR SUBJECT
[5737]30 MAR G2-MFR, SUBJECT WAS PROVIDED AN ALIAS (FISCALINI} FOR TASK FORCE “ W" TO TRAVEL TQ NEW YORK ON 31 MAR 62
[5738]TO CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN THAT CITY. ATTORNEY GENERAL, ROBERT KENNEDY OFFERED HIS SERVICES TO HELP SOME OF a
[5739]THE CUBAN PRISONERS SCHEDULED FOR TRIAL INCUBA. SUBJECT RECEIVED VERBAL APPROVAL FOR HIS ALIAS.
[5741]OS JUN 62-SUBJECT WAS UNAWARE OF REINVESTIGATION & WAS NOTIFIED BY SECURITY.
[5743]28 JUN G2-ANOTHER NAME WAS ADDED TO SUBJECT-S LETTER ADORESS
[5745]03 DEC G2-SUBJECT WAS BRIEFED TO A SENSITIVE OPERATION CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THE Ci STAFF & ODOS/0S
[5747]20 FEB 63-REQUEST FOR CIA IDENTIFICATION CARO IN ALIAS
[5749]06 MAR 63-MFR REGARDING AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
[5751]10 MAY 63-REVOCATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE
[5753]02 JUL 63-REASSIGNMENT PROCESSING FORM, APPROVED FOR DOMESTIC ASSIGNMENT
[5755]08 JUN 63-SUBJECT GRANTED A “OQ” CLEARANCE
[5757]31 JUL G3-MFR REGARDING AN INDIVIDUAL WHO BROKE INTO SUBJECT'S HOUSE & ATTEMPTED TO ASSAULT HIS 14 YEAR OLD
[5758]DAUGHTER. THE ASSAILANT WAS ARRESTED, NO HARM TO DAUGHTER
[5760]HARDCOPY-CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
[5762]E ONLY
[5764]14-0000
[5766]02 & 10 MAY 62-MEMOS REGARDING BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION FROM U.S. ARMY
[5768]27 JUN 62-CIA BRING-UP. TO-DATE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TWX. FAVORABLE
[5770]22 MAY 63.0" CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT INFORMATION & 1962 FAVORABLE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
[5771]26 FEB 64 & 25 MAR 63-POLYGRAPH SCHEDULING MEMOS
[5773]BECKY, IF WE CAN BE OF FURTHER ASSISTANCE, PLEASE LET US KNOW. THANKS, CURT.
[5776]Sent on 9 June 1997 at 94:22:02 PM
[5778]FOR OCELGETSE ONLY
[5780]14-0000
[5782]New ee\Personalized
[5784]Cu BY: 462125
[5786]Cu, REASON: Section 15
[5787]O&=. ON:
[5789]Of FAM:
[5791]From the Cesk of Becky L. Rant
[5792]DA/IRO
[5794]NOTE FOR: Barry Harrolson
[5796]FROM: Becky L. Rant
[5797]OFFICE: DAVIRO
[5798]DATE: 09/17/97 10:57:20 AM
[5800]SUBJECT: Travel Records
[5802]Barry: | am forwarding to you today sepies of the microfilmed accounting ledgers re Charles
[5803]Ford's travel. The OFL IMO worked with ACF and the copies are somewhat better than those you saw
[5804]previously. This reflects the search after our’ isit to OFL to define search terms. | am also forwarding .
[5805]for your information the paperwork that apprevsd the destruction of financial accountings after 6 years 3
[5807]months. Please cail if you have any quesiicrs. Becky
[5811]New Note'Personalized
[5813]a ee cece -
[5815]Ptr aero nee ARENAS TOMER RE IRL URNIk +
[5817]caren ter eentnntte ne me pte oe
[5819]14-0000
[5821]TONFBENTIAL
[5823]TO: Becky L. Rant
[5825]FROM: Jeanne Kardaras
[5827]OFFICE: HRM/MSINFO COORDINATOR
[5828]DATE: 03/26/97 63:14:55 PM
[5830]SUBJECT: yRe: CSI access to OPFs in Helms Research
[5832]Becky - thanks for your note. {'ll be sure you and Frieda are kept advised of all file requests that come to me.
[5834]Ihave received the file on Charles D. Ford from Record Center that Barry H. (JFK)
[5836]CL BY: 0863879
[5838]CL REASOIE Secten 1S C
[5839]secu an XT
[5843]requested and | am forwarding the file thru you for your info -{ would appreciate it if Pat could handcarry the file to John Pereira as
[5845]Barry instructed since he {Barry} is off all week.
[5846]Have a wonderful Easter - | will be off on Thurs and Fri (my flex). Take care.
[5847]Jeanne
[5849]ce: Frieda P. Omasta
[5850]Sent on 26 March 1997 at 03:14:55 PM
[5852]oe ee oe
[5855]14-0000
[5857]Adin etre we “rn To
[5858]6 August 1998
[5860]MEMORANDUM FOR: Historical Review Program
[5861]ATTN: JFK Project Office
[5862]SS (a BF
[5863]FROM: Frieda asta
[5864]Associate Information Review Officer, DDA
[5866]SUBJECT: CIA [R-19 (DA/IRO No. 32)
[5868]1. This is in response to your 5 August 1998 memorandum (adached) wherein vou requesied that
[5869]the Directorate of Administration (DA) conduct searches on the following names idenufied in
[5870]CIA-IR-19 of the 27 July 1998 ARRB memorandum (attached). Specifically. upon the DA‘s
[5871]review of the 27 July memorandum. we advised vour office that we had no record of ever
[5872]having been tasked to conduct searches on these aames.
[5874]Andrew “Andy” Anderson
[5876]Howard Guedier
[5878]Gordon Duane Nove!
[5880]Edward Scanne! Sutier {1. Direzior. information Council of che Amencas (INCA:
[5882]ta
[5884]The Center for CLA Seguriv CCS) conducted 2 search :memorandum auached) in the
[5885]Personne! Security Management Data ProgramyPesssane! Securny MOP/PS) database and.
[5886]based upon the information provided. was aoe ¢ .centify that the names of Gordon Duane
[5887]NOVEL and Edward Scannel SUTLER are cross-ceferenced in Volume I] of the following
[5888]security fie:
[5890]“GARRISON CASE” AINO 601 fF
[5894]. Vols [-1
[5896]No records were located in CCS on Howard Gueoler or Andrew (Andy) Anderson.
[5900]Please let us know if vou aeed the volume refered to above. Meanwhile, unless vou advise us
[5901]to the contrary. this conciudes DA action on CLA iR-19
[5903]+, [F you have any questions, please feel tree to cai! me on 31201.
[5905]Auachments
[5907]14.90000
[5909]Ls
[5911]CONFIDENTIAL ~
[5913]_ 28 duly, 1997.
[5915]~ oa re re
[5917]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[5918]DCI/CSI/HRG
[5920]FROM: SMM LEED ae
[5922]Associate Information Review Officer, DDA
[5923]SUBJECT: —~ . Priority Request.from JFK Board
[5925]1. This is in response to your 3 February 1997
[5926]memorandum (copy attached) wherein you requested, on behalf
[5927]ofthe ARRB Staff, a comprehensive file search on the
[5928]individuals listed below. Specifically, the request is for
[5929]access to records of possible pertinence to the GFK
[5931]assassination. .
[5932]A. Leo Cherne wt
[5933]B. Hunter Leake
[5934]C. Paul Garbler
[5936]Byron 3B. Morton, Jr. . as
[5937]Marie Cheatham :
[5938]Verna Deane Brown
[5939]John A: MMcVickar
[5941]Q yw
[5943]. - In response to your 3 February memorandum, the
[5944]Office of Human Resource Management (HRM), the Office of
[5945]Medical Services (OMS), the Office of Personnel Security
[5946](OPS), and the Office of Training (OTE) conducted thorough
[5947]searches and attached are copies of their response
[5948]memoranda. ;
[5950]3. In discussions with Jéanne of HRM, it is my
[5951]understanding that you still have the files that HRM located
[5952]on Cherne, Leake, Garbler, Brown and McVickar. HRM was
[5953]unable to locate records on Morton and Cheatham.
[5955]4. As noted in OMS' 10 February memorandum, OMS
[5956]located medical charts on Leake, Garbler and George Brown
[5957]which you can review if you make arrangements with OMS as
[5958]noted in OMS' memorandum. Also note that if a file exists
[5959]on Verna Brown, it will be included with her husband's
[5961]Chart. OMS was unable to locate’ records on Cherne, Morton,
[5962]Cheatham or McVickar. .
[5964]1
[5966]“CONFIDENTIAL -
[5968]4
[5969]oat
[5970]8
[5972]14-0000
[5974]CONF TIENELAL
[5976]5. As noted in OPS' memcrandum, OP
[5978]; S was orliy able
[5979]locate files on Cherne, tLeake and Garbler However, aft
[5980]careful review, they determined chat there is no informa
[5981]contained in the files that links the indi i 2 or
[5982]pertains to JFK or to the GFK assassinati h also
[5983]found reference in Verna Dean Brown huspa i that
[5985]was employed by the Department of State.
[5987]6. OTE was only able to locate
[5988]Garbler. However, the record Goes no
[5989]assassination.
[5991]a
[5992].
[5993]Cc
[5995]7. This concludes DA action on th
[5997]have questions, please feel free to call mé on 32261.
[5999]Attachments: As Stated
[6001]UNCLASSIFIED UPON KEMOVAL
[6002]OF ATTACHMENTS
[6004]14-00000
[6006]- NOTE FOR: J. Barry Harrelson @ Ocl.
[6008]From the Desk of Jeanne Kardaras
[6009]Human Resource. Management!Information Coordinator
[6011]FROM: Jeanne Kardaras te }-
[6012]OATE: 12/23/96 12:25:48 PM ‘ /f K
[6013]SUBJECT: Priority Requests from JFK Board dated 1? December 1996 , Ik “
[6017]thave completed my search of all Human Resource Management records and have not found any information on the following two
[6018]individuals fisted in your request: \
[6020]a. Spas T. Raikin - SSN: 085-30-7690, DOB: Oct 26, 1922
[6021]b. Marilyn Dorothy Murret - DOB: July 14, 1928
[6023]The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated to retrieve all responsive records.
[6024]Please advise if | can be of further assistance.
[6026]Jeanne
[6027]cl by: 0663879, ci reason: 1.5(c}, decl on: X1, drv trom: cov 1-82.
[6028]ce: Gary L. Moore
[6030]Frieda P. Omasta
[6032]Lee S. Strickland
[6033]Mary V. Amota-Y- @ DCI
[6035]14-0000
[6037]CONFIBENFEAL
[6039]20 December 1996
[6041]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[6042]CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer
[6044]FROM: Janet A. Ecklund
[6045]Chief, Information Management Branch.
[6046]Office of Personnel Security
[6048]SUBJECT: Priority Requests from JFK Board
[6050]REFERENCE : Request dated 17 December 1996
[6052]1, (C)
[6054]Office of Pe
[6055]the Manageme
[6056]is the automated database of security records used by the Office
[6057]of Personnel Security. The searches undertaken were reasonably
[6058]calculated to uncover all responsive records.
[6060]In response to referenced request for “additiona
[6061]s on Sca@s T. Raikin and Marilyn Dorothy Murret, the
[6062]onnel Security conducted appropriate searches of
[6064]he
[6065]rs
[6066]ent Data Program/Personnel Security (MDP/PS). MDP/>?S
[6068]2. (C}) The Office cl Per le on Seas
[6069]T. Raikin (#0124669). This fii 2 1857 :
[6070]Foreign Documents Division/ooO xr Spas T.
[6071]Raikin for unclassified contrac < U.S.
[6072]voint Publications search Ser an
[6073]unwitting basis. Cfii ct @ was no
[6074]information which reclude use On 31
[6075]January 1967 the Office c* Security again granted approval for
[6076]Mr. Raikin to be used as an unwitting independent contractor with
[6077]the U.S. Joint Publications Research Service.
[6079]3. (C) The Office cf Personnel Security does not maintain
[6081]a security file on Marilyn ! Doretay Murret, but there is an index
[6082]record to an media article dated i971 from Computers and
[6083]Autometion. This article contains the statement that Marylyn
[6084]Murrett is Lee Harvey Oswald’s cousin and that evidence indicates
[6085]she was involved in espionage activities in Russia and Asia.
[6087]4, {U) This revi
[6088]OPS/CD/IMB, secure 40552
[6090]ew was prepared by Katie Nakai,
[6091]~ .
[6093]CL BY: 0605636
[6094]CL REASON: 1.5(c)
[6095]DECL ON: Xl
[6096]DRV FROM: SEC 5-82
[6097]CONFIDENTIAE,
[6100]14-0000
[6102]»( Ho / Fa t
[6103]Vl {~ ve \ Y New Memo\Standard
[6106]12 August 1998
[6107]MEMORANDUM FOR: Gary Breneman
[6108]FROM: : Frieda P.-Omasta
[6110]SUBJECT: Re: PRIORITY - CIA IR-19 (DA/IRO 32c) JFK/ARRB
[6111]REFERENCE: INCA & Permindex .
[6113]Gary,
[6115]AG | mentioned in my note of afew minutes ago, noted below is CCS" s$ search response re INCA &
[6116]Permindex. My records show that all DA action is now complete regarding CIA IR-19 DA/IRO 32a, 32b
[6117]and 32c). As you were advised in my memoranda dated 6 and 7 August 1998, the Garrison (Volume li
[6118]refers to Gorder Duane NOVEL and Edward Scannel BUTLER) and the Andrew Clarence Anderson files
[6119]are available for your review in CCS. Please contact Curt if you wish to see those files. Frieda
[6120]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaioner
[6121]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6123]TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[6125]TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[6126]FROM: W. Curtis Chaloner
[6127]OFFICE: CCS/PS/CD/AMB
[6128]DATE: 08/12/98 12:46:19 PM
[6130]SUBJECT: 2\Re: PRIORITY - CIA IR-19 (DANRO 32c) JFK/ARRB
[6132]Frieda, per our telephone conversation CCS has no record for the organizations listed below. Thanks,
[6133]Curt.
[6135]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6136]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6138]Curt:
[6140]Thank you very much for your status report w/respect to your search on the 38 names and your search re
[6141]INCA and Permindex.
[6143]Pursuant to a call that | received moments ago from Gary Breneman, would it be 2 possible for you to
[6144]advise as to whether you have located any information on INCA and/or Permindex. Gary is frantically
[6145]trying to close out [R-19 and your response will assist him greatly. Thanks in advance for addressing
[6146]these two items separately. Frieda
[6147]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6148]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6150]TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[6152]New Memo\Standard
[6154]14.90000
[6156]New Memo\Standard
[6158]11 August 1998
[6160]MEMOR x D : J. Barry Harrelson, Gary Breneman
[6162]FROM: Frieda P. Omasta
[6164]OFFICE: ADAMIRO
[6166]SUBJECT: Re: PRIORITY - Name Traces for JFK/ARRB - Andrew (Andy) Anderson
[6167]REFERENCE: CIA IR-19/DA/IRO 32b
[6171]Below is the HRM response w/respect to its search for files on Anderson, Guebler, Novel and Butler.
[6173]CCS is still working on CIA IR-19/DA/IRO 32c w/respect to its search for records'on INCA and
[6174]Permindex.
[6176]Frieda
[6178]. Original Text of Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-
[6180]Original Text of Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-
[6182]TO: Frieda P. Omasta @DA
[6184]TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[6186]FROM: Daniel J. Mulqueen-Y-
[6187]OFFICE: | HRM.
[6188]DATE: 08/07/98 01:25:05 PM
[6190]SUBJECT: Re: PRIORITY - Name TRaces for JFK/ARRB - Andrew (Andy) Anderson
[6192]Frieda,
[6194]| have completed searches for Andrew Anderson as Anderson for maximum hits, on Howard
[6195]Guebler under Guebler, on Gordon Novel under Novel and Edward Butler under Butler, all last names for
[6196]maximum possible hits. My searchs on these four individuals produced no hits, no records, and no
[6197]indexed data on one and all.
[6199]{ note the presumption "Evidently, he (Anderson) was a former employee" because he had a AIN
[6200]number of 0 800211. An AIN number is an Agency Identification Number, not necessarily suggesting an
[6201]“employee" relationship. An “EIN” is an Employee Identification Number, but what categories of
[6202]employment fall under it, I'm not prepared to say. ;
[6204]Dan
[6205]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6206]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6208]Dan, -
[6209]Barry Harrelson, the JFK Project Officer, is requesting that you search once again under the name of
[6210]Andrew (Andy) Anderson in light of the fact that CCS has located a file on one Andrew Clarence Anderson
[6211](AIN 0 800211). Evidently, he was a former employee. | regret that we did not have this information prior
[6212]fo tasking you the first time.
[6214]New Memo\Standard
[6216]14-0000
[6220]14-0000
[6222]. 6 May 1997
[6223]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson @ OCI
[6224]FROM: Becky L. Rant .
[6225]OFFICE: DA/IRO
[6226]SUBJECT: ARRB Special Request - Zapruder Film
[6227]REFERENCE:
[6231]Barry: HRM's response follows to your request for the address of “Holmer McMann". This sounds like the individual you
[6232]described-spelling different. As stated, McMahon resigned in 1970 and the Agency has no current address or record of whether or not
[6233]he is still alive. If you want us to pull the file to determine his address while he was an employee, let me now. That info, of course, is 28
[6234]years old. Becky
[6236]TO: Becky L. Rant
[6238]FROM: Jeanne Kardaras
[6240]OFFICE: HRMIMS/INFO COORDINATOR
[6241]DATE: © . 05/05/97 04:41:06 PM
[6243]SUBJECT: 25 Re: ARRB Request
[6244]Becky -
[6246](have located information on a former employee named Homer Albert McMahon, DOB: 6 Jan-1928, who {first} EOD'd 22 Sept 1952 and
[6247]resigned on 20 March 1953 (GS-03) - his title was photographer. He reEOO‘d on 30 Oct 1960 and resigned on 11 Sept 1970 - (GS-11)-
[6248]his tide was photographer and he was assigned to NPIC. HRM would have no address listing for this individual. Mr. McMahon's
[6249]retired official personnel file is at Record Center.
[6251]“+
[6253]Please advise if { may be of further assistance.
[6255]Jeanne
[6257]CC: Frieda P. Omasta
[6258]Sent on May 1997 at 04:41:06 PM
[6260]Cc: Frieda P. Omasta
[6261]Teresa Wilcox @ OST
[6263]INTERNAL USE ONLY
[6265]ae en a TL
[6267]14-0000
[6269]UNCLASSIFIED
[6271]c
[6273]NOTE FOR: Barry Harrelson @ OCI
[6274]FROM: Thomas C. Benza
[6275]OFFICE: *OFL
[6277]DATE: 12124197 08:37:39 AM
[6279]SUBJECT: ; Search Results - Bill Green and Claude Barnes Capehart
[6281]‘Office of Finance’and Logistics has search its files for any information on Mr. William Green at Eastman Kodak. There were no
[6282]responsive records. We also ran a check on Mr. Claude Barnes Capehart also with negative results.
[6284]Any question please call me on extension 58032..
[6286]ce: Frieda P. Omasta, Becky L. Rant
[6287]Sent on 24 December 1997 at 08:37:39 AM
[6289]UNCLASSIFIED
[6291]14-0000
[6293]TO: Frieda P. Omasta
[6295]FROM: Jeanne Kardaras
[6296]OFFICE: HRM/MSIINFO.COORDINATOR
[6297]‘DATE: 07/23/87 12:55:29 PM
[6299]SUBJECT: 22}Re: ARRB Request - Green & Capehart
[6301]Frieda -
[6303]Based on information provided, | have found no information on the following individual:
[6305]Bill (William) Green at the Eastman Kadak lab
[6307]The search undertaken was reasonably calculated to uncover all responsive records. Please advise if | may be of further assistance.
[6309].
[6311]Jeanne
[6313]cc: Becky L. Rant, J. Barry Harrelson @ OCI, Thomas C. Benza, W. Curtis Chaloner
[6314]Sent on 23 July 1997 at 12:55:29 PM .
[6316]ADMINISTRATIVE . INTERNAL USE ONLY
[6319]14-0000
[6321]24 July 1997
[6323]MEMOFANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[6324]DCI/CSI/HRG
[6326]Via: Becky Rant
[6327]DDA/TRO
[6329]FROM : Janet A. Ecklund
[6330]Chief, Information Management Branch
[6331]Office of Personnel Security
[6333]SUBJECT: Assassination Records Revi
[6335]iew Soard Name
[6336]Trace Request+on William Green
[6338]REFERENCE: Lotus Note dated 23 July i967
[6340]“In response to the referenced
[6342]1: request, the Office
[6343]of Personnel Security's Management Data Program/Fersonnel
[6344]Security (MDP/?S) database was searched as requested.
[6346]2. T
[6347]to retrieve
[6348]infcrmation
[6350]3. This memorancum is orevided for vour informazticn
[6351]and apvcropriate di n Piease ci runes
[6352]inguiries rega o W mer at
[6353]49552 (secure)
[6355]W. Curtis Chaloner
[6356]for
[6357]Janet AL Ecklund
[6361]14-0000
[6363]FUR OPPCTALHSE-OMLY
[6365]TO: J. Barry Harrelson@ OCI
[6366]FROM: W. Curtis Chaloner
[6367]OFFICE: CCS/PS/CD/AMB
[6368]DATE: 08/13/98 12:54:16 PM
[6370]SUBJECT: 2)Re: JEK/ARRS Request (PRIORITY) CIA-IR-26 (DAMRO 34)
[6372]Barry, the Center for CIA Security had a file fora PFUNTER, Jordan J., DPOB (?) 07 May 1902, Akron,
[6373]Ohio. This file was destroyed circa 1980-1981 following the Records Control Schedule. “Thanks, Curt.
[6374]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6375]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[6377]Curt,
[6378]On behalf of ARR8, please conduct a search for records on Jordan James Pfunter. Please respond
[6379]directly to J. Barry Harrelson with a copy to Becky and me. Thank you. Frieda
[6381]ce: : John K. Reilly@ DA, Becky L. Rant@ DA, Frieda P. Omasta@ DA, Gary M.
[6383]Sent on 13 August 1998 at 12:54:16 PM
[6387]14-0000
[6389]of | ONMSTRHE-AENUAL USE ONLY }
[6391]LA]
[6393]From the Desk of Frieda P. Omasta
[6395]NOTE FOR: W. Curtis Chaloner @ OA
[6397]FROM: Frieda P. Omasta
[6399]OFFICE: ADAMRO
[6401]DATE: _ 02/06/98 05:26:24 AM
[6403]SUBJECT: PRIORITY - CIA-IR-27 - ARRB Request for Security Files on 5 Individuals (DANRO No. 14) ;
[6404]Curt:
[6406]In response to CIA-IR-27, on 26 September 1997 OPS advised Barry Harrelson (JFK Project Officer) that security records are available
[6407]for review by his office on the following individuals:
[6409]NAGELL, Richard C.
[6410]NOVEL, Gordon 0.
[6411]RUBY, Jack L.
[6412]SHERIDAN, Walter J.
[6413]WEISBERG, Harold
[6415]Barry has just advised that the files on Nagell, Novel and Ruby have been identified as Assassination Records. Accordingly, they have
[6416]requested that OPS transfer these files to DCI/CSWHRG (J. Barry Harrelson} for inclusion in these records, Barry has. further advised that
[6417]a copy of the documents from each file would be acceptable if OPS prefers.
[6419]This is with respect to the files on Walter J. SHERIDAN and Harold WEISBERG. Barry has asked that arrangements be made for these
[6420]files to be reviewed by the ARRB to determine which documents in each of these files are Assassination Records. {n light of a short
[6421]deadline, it is requested that the arrangements be made early in February. Once documents have been selected, Barry will need copies of
[6422]those documents as well.
[6424]Please keep Becky and me posted with respect to these requests. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Frieda
[6426]cc: Becky L. Rant @ DA
[6427]J. Barry Harrelson @ OCI
[6428]Katie Nakai
[6429]Sent on 6 February 1998 at 05:26:24 AM .
[6431]ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USEOMLY
[6433]14.90000
[6435](—— cceee oe ot
[6437]26 September 1997
[6439]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[6440]DCI/CSI/HRG
[6442]VIA: Becky Rant
[6443]DDA/IRO
[6445]FROM: Janet A. Ecklund
[6447]Chietr, Information Management Branch
[6448]Office of Personnel Security
[6450]SUBJECT: Records Search Request for the
[6451]Assassination Records Review Board
[6453]REFERENCE: Lotus Note dated 26 September 1997
[6455]In response to the referenced request, the Office
[6456]nel Security's Management Data Program/Personnel
[6457](MDP/PS) database was searched.
[6459]The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated
[6460]retrieve all responsive documents. Based upon the
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[6472]ho
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[6474]cr
[6475]MS
[6477]imtormation vcrovided, the following security records were
[6478]located These security recerds are available for review by
[6479]your office after prior written notification.
[6481]NAGELL, Richara Cc AIN 0 264 170
[6483]NOVEL, Gordon D. AIN 0 526 113
[6485]RUBY, Jack L. AIN 0 261 219
[6487]SKERIDAN, Walter J. RAIN 9 101 572
[6489]WEISBERG, Harold \IN 0 018 231
[6491]3. This memorandum is provided for your information
[6493]and appropriate disposition. lease direct any further
[6494]inquiries regarding this matter to W. Curtis Chaloner at
[6495]40552 (secure).
[6498]for
[6499]A. Eckiund
[6501]EOP OFFICT Sa
[6503]14-0000
[6506]14-0000
[6508]| 7 L New Mamo\Standard
[6510]26 November 1997
[6512]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[6514]FROM: Frieda P. Qmasta
[6516]OFFICE: , ADAIIRO
[6518]SUBJECT: Assassination Records Review Board Request
[6519]REFERENCE: Lewinter aka Lewirter
[6521]Barry:
[6523]With Curt's response referred to below, this concludes DA action an this request. HRM and OFSS were negative. As you know, OFSS
[6524]led OPS to the files as summarized by Curt. Frieda
[6525]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6526]Original Text of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6528]Fram the Desk of
[6529]From the Desk of W. Curtis Chaloner
[6530]Information Review (40552)
[6531]NOTE FOR: J. Barry Harrelson @ OCI
[6532]FROM: W. Curtis Chaloner
[6533]OFFICE: OPS/CONMBANFORMA TION REVIEW
[6534]DATE: 11/26/97 12:24:59 PM
[6535]SUBJECT: Assassination Records Review Board Request
[6536]Barry, attached is the official OPS response. Thanks, Curt. .
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[6539]Cl: Janet A. Ecklund
[6541]Becky L. Rant
[6542]Freda P. Omasta
[6543]Sent on 26 November 1997 at 12:24:59 PM
[6545]CC: Becky L. Rant
[6547]POR OF EEA EE ONLY
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[6556]Memorandum For The Record
[6557]Subject: LeWinter, Oswald
[6558]Oswald LeWinter came to the attention of ¢&:
[6560]Security in December 1991. CIA/Public Aira:
[6561]LeWinter apparently approached the Sritish
[6563]Corporation (BBC) claiming to be a former ¢
[6564]LeWinter volunteered to provide informatieon
[6565]operations cverseas. Eis offer was in cont
[6567]six part televisicn series being produced =
[6569]upon the beek "The Agency" by cenn Ranelagh.
[6570]LeWinter is a known fabricator and h
[6572]aliases; Oscar LeWinter, Ibrahinin RB
[6574]LeWinter is indexed to the OS cranx
[6576]LeWinter is also known as a fabricator to the Ic
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[6941]LeWinter acvarentiy approached the Sritish Broadcasting
[6942]corporation (3BC} claiming to be a former Cin officer. LewWinter
[6943]volunteered te provide information abcut Agency ooerations
[6944]overseas. His offer was in conjunction with a six-part tet
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[6970]10 March 1998
[6971]MEMORANDUM FOR: . Jeremy Giinn, Esq.)
[6972]—— Executive Director, ARRB
[6973]FROM: J. Barry Harrelscn
[6974]Senior Reviewer, ER?
[6975]SUBJECT: ARRB Request No. CIA-IR-36, For Information
[6977]On Processing of Incoming Cables
[6981]1. The following and the attachment are responsive to
[6982]subject request. The attachment is an extract of the
[6983]pertinent text from a memorandum provided by the Directorate
[6984]of Operations.
[6986]2. If you have any questions concerning this response
[6987]please advise.
[6989]J. Barry Harrelson
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[7028]1. Per the Review Board stali‘s request the following ,
[7029]is a brief explanation of how the Directorate of Operations
[7030](DO) processed cables:in the- 1963/1964 time-frame. -As we |
[7031]“are ‘unable. to.locate: any” ‘@efinitive records on the subject
[7033]~ avidin ali “probability nene ever existed, the information
[7035]provided is based solely on the memory of DO officers
[7036]familiar with procedures in place at the time.
[7038]2. Each area division in the DO maintained and staffed
[7039]its own registry. Although each registry was configured to
[7040]meet each division’s unique requirements, there were common
[7041]functions performed by all the registries to include:
[7042]collecting, sorting,’ and Gelivering of incoming cables;
[7043]maintenance of incoming and cutgcing cable “chronos’
[7044]collecting and delivering of incoming and outgoing pouch
[7045]material; and the issuance and maintenance of “pseudo and
[7046]alias” card files.
[7048]3. To the svecific question regarding processing of
[7049]cables, on a daily basis, usually six day per week, each
[7050]registry collected its incoming cable traffic from a centra
[7051]processing point, then called the Cable Secretariate, withi
[7053]3 Communicate The incoming cables were th
[7054]sorted by registry personnel accozcing to pre-defined
[7056]guidelines. These guidelines were unique to each division so
[7058]anda were frequently altered to meet changing operational
[7059]requirements. Sorted cables were then Gelivered to specific
[7060]operational/area desks. .A “chrono” covy of each was
[7061]maintained, on a temporary basis, usually for 90 days and
[7062]then destroyed.
[7064]. 4, Outgoing cablés were created and coordinated by
[7065]appropriate operational/area desks and usually released by
[7066]the chieZ of the division or a designated releasing officer.
[7067]“Released” cables were then hand delivered or sent by
[7068]pneumatic tube system ( a system long ago dismantled from
[7069]the original Headquarters building) to Cable Secretariate
[7070]for processing into the Agency's communication network.
[7071]“Chrono” copies of outgoing cables were forwarded to the
[7072]registry for a 90 day hold and then destroyed.
[7074]5. It is important to note that the cable scenario
[7075]outlined here is general in nature and that throughout their
[7076]existence registries and their procecures were frequently
[7077]altered until the registry system as described above was
[7078]eliminated in the mid-1980‘s.
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[7155]Alvarado, Gilberto | 5/ ¢/ 7
[7157]Arcacha-Smith, Sergio
[7159]Azcue Lopez, Esuebio
[7161]Cabell, Earle |
[7162]Calderon, Luisa
[7163]Cheme, Leo |
[7164]Cobb, June Viola
[7166]Conein, Lucien E, |
[7167]de Mobrenschildt, George :
[7168]Diosdado, Cesar
[7170]Duran, Silvia Tirado de
[7172]Ferrie, David W.
[7174]Garrision, James
[7176]Garro de Paz, Elena
[7178]Gudierrez Menoyo, Eloy
[7180]Hall, Loren Eugene
[7182]Heming, Gerald Patrick
[7184]Johnson, Priscilla Mary Post
[7185]Kantor, Marvin
[7187]Kostikov, Valeriy Vladimirovich
[7188]Martin, Jack
[7189]Masferrer y Rojas, Rolando
[7190]McMillan, Priscilla Johnson
[7191]Mc Vickar, John Anthony
[7192]Nagell, Richard Case
[7193]Odio, Sylvia
[7194]Pawley, William D.
[7195]Procaza, Maria Teresa
[7196]Raikin, Spas
[7197]Ray, Manuel
[7199]Ruby, Jack ~
[7200]Salvat Roque, Juan Manuel
[7202]Shaw, Clay .-
[7204]inyder, Richard B.
[7206]iturgis, Frank Anthony (aks Fioriri)
[7208]‘eciana, Antonio Carlos Blanch
[7210]Vebster, Robert Edward
[7212]Vexbell, Mitchell Livingston I
[7214]14-0000
[7216]TO: Frieda P. Omasta@DA
[7217]FROM: W. Curtis Chaloner
[7218]OFFICE: CCS/PS/CD/IMB
[7219]DATE: 08/1 4/98 09:07:44 AM
[7221]SUBJECT: .jRe: ARAB - 38 names DA/IRO 33
[7223]Frieda, thank you for the kind words, however, | do not deserve them as | was not completely thorough.
[7224]The oversight was not intentional. Please see attached. Thanks, Curt.
[7226]OGCRECO.DOC
[7227]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[7228]Original Text of Frieda P. Omasta
[7230]Curt,
[7232]Thanks so very much for your most thorough and prompt response this request. However, would you
[7233]please let us know what, if any, records you may have found on four other names that are identified on the
[7234]original list? Thanks Frieda :
[7236]Elena Garro de Paz
[7238]Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo
[7240]Jack Ruby
[7242]Clay Shaw
[7244]ce: John K. Reilly@OA, Becky L. Rant@ DA, J. Barry Harrelson@DCl, Gary M.
[7247]Sent on 14 August 1998 at 09:07:44 AM
[7249]FOR—OFFICEAS-USE—ONLY
[7251]14 August 1998
[7253]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Barry Harrelson
[7254]JFK Project Officer
[7256]FROM : John K. Reillv
[7257]Chief, Information Management Branch
[7258]Center for CIA Security
[7260]SUBJECT : Records Search Request
[7261]HSCA Names from ARRB
[7263]REFERENCE: _ADA/IRO MFR cated 13 August 1998
[7265]1. In resvonse to the refsranced request, Personnel
[7266]Security’s Management Data Program/Personnel Security
[7267](MDP/PS) database and the predecessor to MDP, the Security
[7268]Automated Name Check Activity (SANCA) were searched.
[7270]2. The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated
[7271]to retrieve all responsive documencs Based upon the
[7272]information provided, the Center for CIA Security has
[7273]located Securicy Recorcs whic: or m mot b
[7275]Le, ific tere a no oyour
[7276]se record : x “YOuL
[7278]Jack an neec =o
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[7281]4. The Center for CIA Se
[7282]GARRO DE PAZ, Elena or GUTIERZE
[7284]5 This memor vovided for your inZormacion
[7285]and approoriate disso ion Please direct any furthe
[7286]x co W. Curti
[7288]la sit .
[7289]inguixies regarding this matter is Chaloner az
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[7294]W. Curtis Chaloner
[7297]14-0000
[7299]—FOR-OFEICTAL—USE_ONLY _
[7301]13 August 1998
[7303]MEMORANDUM FOR: J. .Barry Harrelson
[7304]JFK Project Officer
[7306]FROM: John K. Reilly
[7307]Chief, Information Management Branch
[7308]Center for CIA Security
[7310]SUBJECT: Records Search Request
[7311]HSCA Names from ARRB
[7312]REFERENCE: ADA/IRO MFR dated 07 August 1998
[7313]1. In response to the referenced request, Personnel
[7315]Security’s Management Data Program/Personnel Security
[7316](MDP/PS) database and the predecessor to MDP, the Security
[7317]Automated Name Check Activity (SANCA) were searched.
[7319]2. The searches undertaken were reasonably calculated
[7320]to retrieve all responsive documents. Based upon the
[7321]information provided, the Center for CIA Security has
[7322]located Security Records which may or may not be
[7323]identifiabie, specific to and/or referenced to, with your
[7324]request (attachment A). These records are available for
[7325]review by your office after prior written notification.
[7327]3. Attachment B reflects Security Records which may
[7328]or may not be identifiable, specific, and/or referenced to
[7329]your request which were destroyed under the Records Control
[7330]Schedule.
[7332]4, Attachment C reflects those individuals whom the
[7333]Center for CIA Security has no record.
[7335]5. This memorandum is provided for your information
[7336]and appropriate disposition. * Please direct any further
[7337]inquiries regarding this matter to W. Curtis Chaloner at
[7339]' 40552 (secure).
[7341]N. Curtis Chaioner
[7342]for
[7343]Jonn K. Reilly
[7345]t,
[7347]ATTACEMEMNT A
[7348]The following Security Records are in the possession of
[7349]Information Management Branch or enroute and are available
[7350]for your office’s review here at CCS/IMB. The Center for
[7351]CIA Security defers to the Assassinations Records Review
[7355]= oc ~ a re
[7357]14-00000
[7359]FOR OF
[7361]Board regarding documents which could be considered
[7362]relevant.
[7364]Post 1978
[7366]Memoranda
[7367]CHERNE, Leo AIN 0 053 082 UNKNOWN
[7368]CONEIN, Lucien E. AIN 0 005 025 YES
[7369]DEMOHRENSCHILDT, George AIN 0 000 775 NO
[7370]DIOSDADO, Cesar AIN 0 432 469 NO
[7372]DURAN, Silvia Tirado de AIN 0 351 164 = Oswald File
[7373]CCS record reflects listing as Duran, Silvia.
[7375]FERRIE, David W. AIN 7 191 869 = Garrison File
[7376]Ferrie is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 546 933 (Whelan,
[7377]John Edward) which was destroyed, according to the Records
[7378]Control Schedule, on 30 April 1997.
[7380]FIORINI, Frank AIN 0 353 459 Sturgis File
[7382]i]
[7384]HALL, Loren Eugene AIN 0 348 627 YES
[7386]; AIN 7 191 869 = Garrison File
[7387]CCS record reflects listing and Security File (hardcopy) as
[7388]Loran not Loren.
[7390]JOHNSON, Priscilla Mary Post YES
[7391]AIN 0 071 589
[7392]CCS record reflects listing under McMillan, Priscilla J..
[7394]KANTOR, Marvin AIN 0 539 326 YES
[7395]CCS record reflects listing also as Kantor, Melvin.
[7397]KOSTIKOV, Valeriy V. AIN 0 261 091 NO
[7398]MCMILLAN, Priscilla Johnson YES
[7399]AIN 0 071 589
[7401]CCS record reflects McMillan also cross-referenced to
[7402]Alliluyeva, Svetlana. The Security File (hardcopy) refleccs
[7404]ATTACHMENT A CONTINUED
[7405]Stalina, Svetlana I.. The McMillan Security File (hardcovy)
[7406]reflects. Macmillan. nok. McMillan.
[7408]MARTIN, Jack. CCS records reflect the chree following
[7409]individuals who may or may not De identifiable with your
[7411]request.
[7413]MARTIN, Jack M. AIM iL 254 357 MES
[7416]14.90000
[7418]FOR : ONLY
[7420]MARTIN, Jack S. AIN 0 651 268 YES
[7421]MARTIN, Lawrence J. AIN 0 634 475 YES
[7422]MASFERRER Y ROJAS, Rolando NO
[7424]AIN 0 036 859
[7425]CCS record reflects listing as Masferrer, Rolando Rojas.
[7426]Masferrer is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 780 397
[7427](Montreuil, Raymond A.). NO
[7429]MCVICKAR, John Anthony AIN 0 269 351 YES
[7430]ccS record reflects listing as McVickar, John A.
[7432]NAGELL, Richard Case AIN 0 264 170 YES
[7433]ODIO, Sylvia AIN 0 351 164 = Oswald File
[7434]AIN 0 351 164-6 =-Oswald File
[7435]PAWLEY, William D. AIN 0 078 435 NO
[7436]RAIKIN, Spas AIN 0 134 669 YES
[7437]SNYDER, Richard E: AIN 0 038 984 YES
[7438]STURGIS, Frank Anthon AIN 0 353 459 YES
[7439]WEBSTER, Robert Edward AIN 1 258 236 YES
[7441]CCS record reflects listing as Webster, Robert.
[7442]Webster is also cross-referenced to AIN 0 387 123
[7443](Whittaker, Frederick). YES
[7445]WERBELL, Mitchell Livingston III YES
[7446]AIN 0 027 686
[7447]cCS record reflects listing as Werbell, Mitchell L.
[7451]ATTACHMENT B
[7452]The following Security Records were destroyed in accordance
[7453]with the Records Control Schedule.
[7455]DESTRUCTION DATE
[7457]ARCACHA-SMITH, Sergiq  .AIN 0 523 9438 , 1994
[7459] AZCUE. LOPEZ, Esuebio AIN 6 352 338 25 October 1994
[7460]CABELL, Earle AIN 0 933 554 circa 1930-1921
[7461]COBB, June AIN 9 216 264 1994
[7463]14-0000
[7465]wee me
[7467]BORTOTPICIAE USE ONLY
[7469]GARRISON, James AIN 0 535 449 1994
[7470]HSCA list reflects Garrision, James. CCS has no record.
[7472]HEMMING, Gerald Patrick AIN 0 592 464 circa 1980-1981
[7473]HSCA list reflects Heming or Henning, CCS has no record of
[7474]either.
[7476]HEMMING, Gerald Patrick AIN 0 429 229 04 August 1995
[7477]HSCA list reflects Heming or Henning, CCS has no record of
[7478]either.
[7480]MASFERRER Y ROJAS, Rolando
[7482]AIN 0 352 772 25 October 1994
[7483]CCS record reflects listing as Masferrer Rojas, Rolando
[7484]Arcadio.
[7486]PAWLEY, William D. ' AIN 0 350 653 - 24 October 1994
[7487]ccs record reflects listing as Pawley, William.
[7489]PAWLEY, William D. AIN 0 346 416 -20 October 1994
[7490]ccS record reflects listing as Pawley, William.
[7492]PAWLEY, William D. AIN 0 122 104 circa 1980-1981
[7493]PAWLEY, William D. AIN 0 357 552 circa 1980-1981
[7495]PROENZA, Maria Teresa AIN 0 342 000-A circa 1980-1981
[7496]CCS record reflects listing as. Proenza, Teresa.
[7498]PROENZA, Maria Teresa AIN 0 317 003 1994
[7499]CCS record reflects listing as Proenza, Teresa..
[7500]ATTACHMENT B CONTINUED
[7501]SALVAT ROQUE, Juan Manuel
[7502]AIN 0 219 999 circa 1980-1981
[7503]CCS record reflects listing es Salvat, Juan Manuel.
[7505]SNYDER, Richard E. AIN 0 389 179 - 03 June 1995
[7507]STURGIS, Frank Anthony AIN © 343 309 circa 1980-1981
[7508]CCS record reflects listing as Sturgis, Frank. .
[7510]STURGIS, Frank Anthony . AIN G.349 691 (1994
[7511]CCS record reflects listing as Sturgis, Frank.
[7513]VECIANA, Antonio Carios Bianch
[7514]AIM 9 255 167
[7516]1994
[7518]WERBELL, Mitche
[7521]14-0000
[7523]NOY
[7525]AIN 0 256 167 1994
[7526]CCS record reflects listing as Werbell, Mitchell Livingston.
[7528]ATTACHMENT C
[7529]The Center for CIA Security has no record of the following
[7530]individuals.
[7532]_ ALVARADO, Gilberto
[7534]CALDERON, Luisa
[7536]RAY, Manuel
[7539]14-00000
[7541]Declaration of Teresa F. Wilcox
[7543]I, Teresa F. Wilcox, hereby declare and say as follows:
[7545]1. (AIUO) I am the Information Review Officer (IRO) for the
[7546]Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T). I was appointed to
[7547]this position in February 1996, and have held various professional
[7548]positions within the Central Intelligence Agency since 1985. I am
[7549]responsible for the review of records maintained by offices in the
[7550]DS&T, to include the Offices of the Deputy Director for Science and
[7551]Technology and the Associate Deputy Director for Science and
[7552]Technology; the Office of Technical Service (OTS); the Office of
[7553]Technical Collection (OTC); the Clandestine Information Technology
[7554]Office (CITO); the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS);
[7555]the Office of Development and Engineering (OD&E); the Office of
[7556]Advanced Analytic Tools (AAT); the Office of Advanced Projects
[7557](OAP); and the Office of Research and Development (ORD). In
[7558]addition, I am responsible for searching and reviewing certain
[7559]records of the former National Photographic Interpretation Center
[7560](NPIC).
[7562]2. (AIUO) I am aware that the DS&T has searched appropriate
[7563]records systems for information responsive to all requests the DS&T
[7564]has received. I have obtained this knowledge through my personal
[7565]experience, as well my conversations with, and my review of the
[7566]records of, the former DS&T IRO Anthony R. Frasketi, and the DS&T
[7567]Information Management Officer, Marsha A. Hubbs.
[7569]3. (AIUO) The following is a description of DS&T searches
[7570]and review of documents undertaken in _response to Board taskings
[7571]the DS&T has received.
[7573]CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart. The DS&T made
[7574]deletions to security records located by the Directorate of .
[7575]Administration. The DS&T Searched ODDS&T records for
[7576]Capehart’s medical file. The DS&T forwarded the medical file
[7577]to the Board for its review.
[7579]CIA-IR-08 Family Jewels Memorandum. The DS&T reviewed a
[7580]package of documents forwarded by Barry Harrelson. The DS&T
[7581]advised the Board it had no objection to ARRB access.
[7583]CIA-IR-15 Electronic ‘take’ from Mexico City Station.
[7584]This memorandum addresses the portion of the action, “In
[7585]addition, the Board is still awaiting a response on the
[7586]present location of Staff D records. Regardless of the
[7587]outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board
[7588]continues to seek a full accounting for all surveillance
[7589]conducted during the relevant time periods.”
[7591]14-0000
[7593]In conducting a search for the above information, the
[7594]DS&T located in OTS records a file with the folder title,
[7595]“Mexico City, Mexico.” We forwarded the entire contents of
[7596]that folder for the period 24 May 1961 to 10 June 1965, with
[7597]one exception. Three Operational Monthly Reports were
[7598]forwarded to the Board. The dates covered were 1-30 September
[7599]1963; 1-31 October 1963; and 1-30 November 1963. The
[7600]attachment to Dispatch HMMA 20307 dated 4 December 1962 was
[7601]not included. It was a poor-quality audio tape in Spanish,
[7602]between two individuals talking about office procedures. No
[7603]substantive information was exchanged during this
[7604]conversation.
[7606]The DS&T also conducted a search of OTC records. This
[7607]office would have inherited the Division D records of the
[7608]Directorate of Operations (DO). We reviewed old DO Records
[7609]Retirement Requests; there are no shelflists (folder-
[7610]inventory) associated with these Records Retirement Requests
[7611]since the Division D records were recorded initially in the DO
[7612]system. We forwarded for the Board’s review the six Records
[7613]Retirement Request whose job numbers reflected the years 1959
[7614]to 1962. We advised the Board that Records Center records
[7615]indicated the records’ disposition as follows:
[7617]1. 59-S-477: Destroyed September 1977.
[7619]2. 60-S-182R: Destroyed May 1980."
[7621]3. 60-S-402: Transferred to FI/D(DDO), December 1977.
[7623]4. 61-S-157R: Four boxes transferred to FI/D (DDO), March
[7624]1972; three boxes destroyed, May 1980.
[7626]5. 62-S-885: Destroyed (no date given).
[7628]6. 62S000986R: Transferred to the Office of SIGINT Operations
[7629](DS&T) .
[7631]These were the only Records Retirement Requests in the
[7632]possession of OTC that are in the time frame relevant to the
[7633]JFK assassination. As their descriptions indicate, they do
[7634]not appear relevant to the request.
[7636]The DS&T also conducted a search of CITO records. This
[7637]DS&T office inherited some files from OTC when CITO was
[7638]established. We searched its records in the event some
[7639]Division D records were held by CITO. These searches
[7640]identified no responsive records.
[7642]Searches of OTS, OTC, and CITO records used the following
[7643]keywords:
[7646]Russian
[7647]USSR
[7648]Cuba*
[7649]audio*
[7650]electron*
[7651]embassy
[7652]Mexico*
[7654]14-00000
[7656]CIA-IR-16 U-2 Files. The DS&T provided the Board a copy
[7657]of the U-2 shelflist. We also searched for records filed
[7658]under Richard Bissell’s name. We received no follow-on
[7659]request from the Board.
[7661]CIA-IR-16 FBIS-USR-92-112. The DS&T provided to the
[7662]Board a translation of articles about a KGB file on Oswald.
[7664]CIA-IR-17 DS&T Records on Castro Assassination Plots.
[7665]Records of the ODDS&T, OTC, and OTS were searched for the
[7666]following keywords: Castro, Oswalt, Oswald, assas*, and
[7667]KDBADGER. In addition, we searched OTS records on the
[7668]following: Project ZRRIFLE, Mollusca, Cubela, Black Leaf,
[7669]ballpoint pen, hypodermic syringe, Artime, silencer, gambling,
[7670]aerosol, cigar, depilatory, wiretapping, Phyllis McGuire, skin
[7671]diving suit, sea shell, and project AMLASH. As a result of
[7672]these searches, we provided to the Board a document titled,
[7673]“Handwriting Analysis - AMLASH-1,” dated 7 April 1965.
[7675]CIA-IR-25 Zapruder Film. A search was conducted on
[7676]records of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (records of
[7677]the former National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)
[7678]and Office of Imagery Analysis) using the terms Zapruder, JFK,
[7679]Commission, and 1963. Hits on year 1963 did not reveal any
[7680]pertinent information. We located no record of a “William
[7681]Green” at NPIC in November 1963. We located no log books or
[7682]indexes regarding the processing or handling of any
[7683]assassination films. We also reviewed an audiotaped
[7684]interview with a former NPIC employee, and made minimal
[7685]deletions to the tape.
[7687]CIA-IR-33 Search of FBIS records for any files on Oswald,
[7688]and request for information on how FBIS-USR92-112 was filed.
[7689]No past or present files were found. An explanation on how
[7690]FBIS-USR-92-112 was filed was provided.
[7692]Review of three Ford Library Documents (178-10003-10453,
[7693]178-10004-10087, 178-10002-10394. Made deletions and deferred
[7694]to the DO on 178-10002-10394. Made deletions to Summary
[7695]Report on CIA Investigation of MKNAOMI.
[7697]Review of two terms. The DS&T advised that the terms
[7698]should not be released because of ongoing CIA activity at the
[7699]location.
[7701]Review of Alias Documentation issue (104-10220-10179, -
[7702]10181, and -10188). Requested that Board postpone release of
[7703]specific information. A search of OTS records indicated OTS
[7704]had no records on particular documents in the 1960s and 1970s.
[7706]Review of a slug in current use. Requested that the
[7707]Board postpone its release because the slug is in current use.
[7709]14-00000
[7711]Review of Organizational Charts of all Agency
[7712]directorates for the years 1958-1968 (CIA-1). Requested
[7713]deletions.
[7715]Review of the proposed release of an Agency facility.
[7716]Provided information about DS&T activities at risk if this
[7717]facility were acknowledged.
[7719]Review of records regarding the release of the name of
[7720]Jose Marie Mankel. Provided information about the potential
[7721]chilling effect on current operations.
[7723]Review of documents concerning a certain entity in the
[7724]CIA Sequestered Collection which are Not Believed Relevant
[7725](NBR) to the JFK assassination. Four documents had been
[7726]previously released (one was released in full, and three were
[7727]sanitized); eight documents had been denied in full. The
[7728]Board determined that four documents were NBR.
[7730]Review of the Board’s request to review an index
[7731]resulting from the CIA’s History Staff's review of 61
[7732]histories for any connection to the JFK assassination. The
[7733]DS&T concurred in the Board’s review of the index.
[7735]4. (U) Based on this information, I have concluded that the
[7737]DS&T has diligently searched and reviewed all requests for
[7738]information from the Board that the DS&T has received.
[7740]5. (U) I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing
[7742]is true and correct.
[7744]Executed in Langley, Virginia on this 21" day of August 1998.
[7746]Der. UN les x
[7748]Teresa F. Wilcox
[7750]14-0000
[7754]JFK Declaration of FREDRICK C. WICKHAM, JR.
[7756]I, Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr. declare and say as follows:
[7758]1. (U) I am the JFK Focal point Officer (“FPO”) for
[7759]the Directorate of Operations (“DO”) of the United States
[7760]Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). I have held technical
[7762]positions associated with the design and implementation of
[7763]computer systems, information management positions including
[7764]the DO IMO, and currently manage the DO information review
[7765]and release programs. I have been with the CIA since 1967
[7766]and have been associated with the JFK records review
[7767]activity since 1992 and the JFK FPO since 1995.
[7769]2. (U) I have obtained the information contained in
[7770]this declaration based upon my personal knowledge and
[7771]experience, as well as conversations with the DO Information
[7772]Review Officer, the DO Information Management Officer and
[7773]individuals taking action on the specific requests.
[7775]3. (U) DO records were predominately paper with a
[7776]hard copy card index in the 1960’s and an electronic index
[7777]in the 1970’s. The indices were based upon names that meet
[7778]specific collection requirements or projects that were
[7779]undertaken in the performance of our mission. Searches that
[7780]exceeded the capability of the indices required manual paper
[7781]file searches. I am aware that the DO searched the central
[7782]record system, which includes retired records, and hand
[7784]‘searched the convenience files and specialized files located
[7786]within various offices. Specialized collections are often
[7787]extremely sensitive and therefore only reside within the
[7788]components. During our newer searches we have not found any
[7789]significant documents in the DO files dated 1978 or prior
[7790]that appear to have been missed by the searches through
[7791]1978. We did locate one set of tapes which we know was made
[7793]‘available to the Warren Commission but was not included in
[7795]the HSCA sequestered collection. . We also found one file
[7796]that was only partially included in the HSCA sequestered
[7797]collection.
[7799]CL BY 0524343
[7800]REASON 1.5C
[7801]DECL Xl,
[7802]DRV MIS 5-82
[7804]14-00000
[7806]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[7808]4. (S) Many of the searches performed today are not
[7809]significantly different than the ones done during the period
[7810]of the various commissions and committees. The searches
[7811]performed since 1995 still use the index to the central
[7812]record system the Same as in 1978 but we have a couple of
[7813]new databases that were not available in 1978. We now
[7814]capture all cable traffic electronically and are able to
[7815]perform text searches of that repository. That repository
[7816]post-dates the HSCA so it is not useful in locating older
[7817]records. Additionally, we have converted a small amount of
[7818]very sensitive paper files into computer searchable form.
[7819]While these specific collections are part of the DO’s record
[7820]system, they were not electronically searchable nor were
[7821]they included within the indices to the DO’s central records
[7822]system. We have searched all of these records systems for
[7823]information responsive to requests the DO has received.’
[7825]Some of the specific requests could not be satisfied by the
[7826]electronic searches and we resorted to manual paper searches
[7827]in an effort to locate the information.
[7829]5. (U) The DO provided several briefings to the
[7830]Assassination Records Review Board and their staff, starting
[7831]in 1995, to describe the records created by the DO and the
[7832]record system that manages that information. We also
[7833]described what is meant by the need to continue protection
[7834]of sources and methods, and the impacts the revelation of ©
[7835]information would have on the lives of individuals and
[7836]current operations. The presenters included the Agency’s
[7837]General Counsel, Deputy Director for Operations, Chief of
[7838]the Information Management Staff, and several other DO
[7839]managers associated with the conduct of operations and
[7840]protection of sources and methods. We also provided |
[7841]detailed descriptions of current operations. We provided
[7842]information about specific individuals whose lives or
[7843]livelihood would be threatened as examples of harm that
[7844]would occur if certain information was released.
[7845]Additionally, we presented a description of the operational
[7846]environment that existed and the intensity under which
[7847]searches were performed in the wake of the assassination.
[7849]6. (U) The CIA issued an Agency-wide employee
[7850]bulletin for a new search for JFK Assassination records (OIM
[7851]98-0081, dated 30 July 1998). As requested by the ARRB, the
[7852]DO distributed the employee bulletin via Lotus Notes on 17
[7854]2
[7855]—SEERET
[7857]14.90000
[7859]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[7861]August and placed it on the morning message that people
[7862]receive when they first log onto the system.
[7864]7. (U) We have received numerous specific requests for
[7865]additional information. Based on personal knowledge and on
[7866]information reflected in our records, I am aware of the
[7867]following efforts that were conducted in responding to
[7868]specific ARRB requests for DO records. I have abbreviated
[7869]the questions to save space:
[7871]CIA-1 - Information on the organization of CIA
[7873](U) The March 1995 ARRB request called for the
[7874]availability of “comprehensive organizational charts
[7875](or the best available substitutes) .” The request
[7876]‘contained about three pages of various requirements,
[7877]including:
[7879]A. organizational charts of the Directorate of Plans
[7881](DDP); “CIA Stations . . . in Mexico City (1960-68
[7882]only), Miami, other stations that we will discuss
[7883]orally;” any other offices . . . any pro-Castro groups,
[7885]- . Or anti-Castro groups;
[7887]B. names and affiliations of all CIA personnel
[7888]responsible for liaison with the Warren Commission, the
[7890]House Select Committee on Assassinations, .. .;
[7891]C. all manuals, handbooks, .. . guides explaining: .
[7892]organizational structure, .. . filing systems, . .
[7894]for drafting memoranda;
[7896]D. copies of the instructions, guidelines, and other
[7897]materials used by your reviewers;
[7899](U) Over a thousand pages of material were
[7900]provided in responding to this request.
[7902](U) In May 1997 the ARRB further requested that 35
[7903]pages from CSN 5-50, 2 pages of the JMWAVE chart, and
[7905]14-00000
[7907]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[7909]13 pages from Regulation No. 1-130 and HR #1 be
[7910]reviewed for release.
[7912](U) Although the AARB staff had access to all of
[7913]the requested material, in January 1998 the Agency
[7914]answered that the various CSN 5-50 pages contained
[7915]basic information regarding the mission and functions
[7916]of the Office of Operations (now the Directorate of
[7917]Operations (DO)) and could not be released. However, in
[7918]April 1998, we agreed to provide structure charts for
[7919]the DDP in 1961 and 1963, with Division and Staff
[7920]titles and a JMWAVE Chart.
[7922]CIA-2 ~— Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information
[7924](U) The ARRB request was dated May 1995 and was
[7925]six pages of file code numbers, crypts, names, dispatch
[7926]designators, and cable location designators and
[7927]requested identification thereof. A variety of methods
[7928]of responses was utilized, (some dated June and July
[7929]1995 and some undated) to answer, including a paired
[7930]listing (returned to CIA) microfilm file summary
[7931]sheets, and descriptive sheets.
[7933]CIA-3 - Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information
[7935](U) This ARRB request was dated June 1995 and was
[7936]three more pages of queries similar to CIA-2. A
[7937]variety of methods of responses was utilized, (some
[7938]dated June 1995 and some undated) to answer, including
[7939]a paired listing marked (returned to CIA), microfilm
[7940]file summary sheets, and handwritten notes.
[7942]CIA-4 -- Confirmation of/Queries About Some Information
[7944](U) This four-page ARRB request dated June 1995
[7945]was for “descriptions of each crypt, a brief
[7946]identification of each individual . .. , and
[7947]indications of whether these crypts, operations, and
[7949]14-0000
[7953]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[7955]individuals are presently active or inactive.” This
[7956]request was answered orally and by informal notes.
[7958]CIA-5 -- Queries About Some Information
[7960](U) This ARRB request was dated July 1995 and was
[7961]for identification of some twelve crypts, names, file
[7962]codes, or acronyms. This was answered by a paired
[7963]listing dated July 1995 (Returned to CIA).
[7965]CIA-6 -- Request for Systematic Review of Traffic
[7967](U) This request was dated September 1995 and was
[7968]for “the CIA to assemble all of the cable traffic and
[7970]dispatches for .. . September 26, 1963 through October
[7971]20, 1963 and November 22, 1963 through December 30,
[7972]1963 between” . . . Mexico City and Headquarters and
[7974]Mexico City and JMWAVE.
[7976](C) The DO provided a classified response in
[7977]January 1998. All cable traffic and dispatches for the
[7978]period September 26, 1963 through October 20, 1963 and
[7979]November 22, 1963 through December 30, 1963 between:
[7981](a) the Mexico city Station and Headquarters, and (B)
[7982]the Mexico City Station and JMWAVE are not available as
[7983]a chronological collection. The Office of
[7984]Communications (OC) only held cables long enough to
[7985]ensure that they were successfully transmitted to the
[7986]recipient. Because processes and resources to perform
[7987]cleanup activity varies, cables were sometimes held for
[7988]longer periods but not with the intention of becoming a
[7989]long-term reference collection. The offices of record
[7990]for the origination of cable traffic and dispatches did
[7991]not create files in this manner. The desks maintained
[7992]a temporary paper cable chrono. These were not usually
[7993]retained for more than 90 days. There is no electronic
[7994]repository for cables and dispatches from the stations.
[7995]Cables were printed out and went into specific files
[7996]dealing with subjects or operations. Accordingly, it
[7997]is not possible to recreate as a collection all of the
[7998]requested cables and dispatches.
[8000]5
[8001]~SECRELT__
[8003]14-0000
[8005]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8007]CIA - 7 - Review of CIA Histories
[8009](S) ARRB staffers Jeremy Gunn and Michelle Combs
[8010]have reviewed all of the requested histories except one
[8011]still under pre-review by the component because of
[8012]sensitive information -- we expect this to be resolved
[8013]in the near future. They were granted access to
[8014]identify any relevance to the assassination of
[8015]President Kennedy. They selected a number of pages to
[8016]be included within the materials to be declassified and
[8017]released to the National Archives. The histories
[8018]reviewed were as follows:
[8020]RECOrd of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro
[8021]Government of Cuba, written by Colonel J. Hawkins,
[8022]USMC, on 5 May 1961, and controlled by WH division.
[8024]* Domestic Operations Base, written by Perry E.
[8025]Crookham, in May 1967, and controlled by SO
[8026]Division. We are also aware that relevant parts of
[8027]pp. 29-31 have been released in the Bay of Pigs
[8028]declassification project.
[8030]« The TS history entitled Foreign Intelligence
[8031]Staff£/Division D 1948-1965, written by Fred Griffin,
[8032]Frank B. Rowlett, and Vyrl E. Leichliter, in April
[8033]1974, and cohtrolled by CIA History Staff.
[8035]The Stockholm Station, Volume I, II, and III, 1942-
[8036]1967, written by William D. O'Ryan, in November
[8037]1967, and controlled by EUR Division.
[8039]e® The Oslo Station, 1943-January 1968. This history
[8040]was written by William D. O'Ryan and Elizabeth Hart,
[8041]in 1967-1968, and controlled by EUR Division.
[8043]Covert Action Project Funds, FY 1964 and FY 1965
[8044](With Historical Perspective December 1947 - January
[8045]1964), written by CA Staff, in January 1964, and
[8047]controlled by CA/PEG.
[8049]14-0000
[8053]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8055]7 @ The Helsinki Station, February 1951-February 1964,
[8056]Volumes I, II, and III, written by Melvin W. Jokinen
[8057]and Hank Jarvinen in 1967, and controlled by EUR.
[8059]Domestic and Areawidé Operations (WH/6) August 1963
[8060]~ 30 June 1967, written by Maurice Currie, in June
[8061]1968, and controlled by WH Division.
[8063]Soviet Russia Division -- Reports and Requirements
[8064]1945 - 1966, Volumes I, II, and III, written by Mrs.
[8065]Elizabeth Sanford Peyton and Anthony Arnold, in June
[8066]1973, and controlled by SB.
[8068]Madrid Station -- Spain, Volume’I and II, 1942-
[8069]1966, written by David Wright and Gardner
[8070]MacPherson, in April 1967, and controlled by EUR
[8072]Division.
[8074]The Ottawa Station, 1953- 1968, written by William
[8075]D. O'Ryan, in April 1968, and controlled by EUR -
[8077]Division.
[8079]CIA Participation in Police Assistance Programs for
[8080]Developing Countries, 1955 - October 1965, written
[8081]by Robert Bowling, Geraldine L. Jelsch, and Lyle T.
[8082]-*  SHannon, in October 1965, and controlled by CI
[8084]Staff.
[8086]e History of Lisbon Station, April 1942 - October
[8087]1965, written by Robert Ruth and John C. Bishop, in
[8088]October 1965, and controlled by EUR Division.
[8090]e The Maritime Branch (MB) at Headquarters, April
[8091]1951 - 1966, written by S. H. Chapman, in June
[8092]1968, and controlled by SO Division.
[8094]History of The Hague Station 1942 - 1966, written
[8095]by Marion Linde and William D. O'Ryan in 1967, and
[8096]controlled by EUR Division.
[8098]The Alaska Station (Plans for Operations Aimed at
[8099]Soviet Siberia From Alaska) 1949 - 1964, written by
[8102]14-0000
[8104]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8106]George N. Belic and John Bogart in January 1971, and
[8107]controlled by SB.
[8109]¢ Western Europe Operations Directed at Cuba 1962 —-
[8110]1964, written by WE Division Officers in July 1967,
[8111]and controlled by EUR Division.
[8113]e Major Policy Authorizations for the Conduct of
[8114]covert Paramilitary Activities by CIA, 1948 - 1966,
[8115]written by Alfred T. Cox in August 1968, and
[8116]controlled by SO Division.
[8118]e Iceland - The History of the Reykjavik Station,
[8119]1950 - 1966, written by Rolfe A. Haatvedt in
[8120]February 1967 and published in February 1968, and
[8121]controlled by EUR Division.
[8123]e History of Station Port of Spain, August 1949 -
[8124]November 1967, written by Stannard K. Short in March
[8125]1969 and published in May 1969, and controlled by WH
[8126]Division. . -
[8128]e Monrovia Station -~- Liberia, December 1958 — August
[8129]1969, written by C. Frank Stone II, Lester C. Houck,
[8130]and Louis B. Spaeth in October 1969 and published in
[8131]January 1970, and controlled by AF Division.
[8133]e The Algiers Station, 1947 - 1965, written by M. S
[8134]Caver in December 1972, and controlled by AF.
[8136]e History of the Copenhagen Station, 1943 - 1968,
[8137]written by William D. O'Ryan in early 1969 and
[8138]published in October 1969, and controlled by EUR
[8139]Division.
[8141]e The History of Tunis Station, March 1956 - October
[8142]1968, written by Louis B. Spaeth in October 1968 and
[8143]published in December 1969, and controlled by AF
[8144]Division.
[8146]14-0000
[8148]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8150]History of the Cyprus Station, 1950 - 1968, written
[8151]by Dean L. Dodge in June 1968 and published in July
[8152]1969, and controlled by NE Division.
[8154]History of the Brussels Station, 1942 - 1968,
[8155]Volumes I and II, written by William D. O'Ryan in
[8156]Autumn 1968 and published in May 1969, and
[8157]controlled by EUR Division.
[8159]History of the Rangoon Station, 1947 - July 1968,
[8160]Volume II, written by Carleson C. Ames in September
[8161]1968 and published in January 1969, and controlled
[8162]by FE Division.
[8164]The Africa Division, 1959 - 1967, written by W. H.
[8165]Dunbar in December 1971 and published in June 1972,
[8166]and controlled by AF.
[8168]Operations in Angola, 1942 - 1967, written by
[8169]Lester C. Houck in May 1970, and controlled by AF.
[8171]The Conakry Station, February 1959 - June 1968,
[8172]written by M. S. Caver in September 1971, and
[8173]controlled by AF.
[8175]Operations in Mozambique, 1942 - 1969, written by
[8176]Lester C. Houck in September 1971, and controlled by
[8177]AF.
[8179]The Bangkok Station, 1945 - 1965, Volume III,
[8180]written by Gerard Campagna in May 1971, and
[8181]controlled by FE.
[8183]The Phnom Penh Station, 1953 - 1965, Volume II,
[8184]written by Allen W. Ginder. in February 1974, and
[8185]controlled by CIA History Staff and DDO.
[8187]History of the Bukavu Base, September 1963 - June
[8188]1967, written by Lester C. Houck and Roscoe N.
[8189]Sandlin, Jr. in August 1969, and controlled by
[8190]Africa Division.
[8192]14.90000
[8194]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8196]° Lagos Station, 1950 - 1967, written by William H.
[8197]Dunbar in March 1971, and controlled by DDP.
[8199]e The Khartoum Station, November 1955 —- July 1969,
[8200]written by Lawrence R. Devlin in November 1972, and
[8201]controlled by DDP.
[8203]® The Melbourne Station and Canberra Base, 1954 -
[8204]1966, written by Ruth Hyde in June 1970, and
[8205]controlled by DDP.
[8207]_® Covert Action Operations Soviet Russia Division,
[8208]1950-1968, written by Donald M. Jameson in December
[8209]1972, and controlled by CE.
[8211]e History of Guatemala Station, December 1960-March
[8212]1965, written in March 1965 by Patl L. Loeb and
[8213]controlled by -WH.
[8215]° History, Japan ~ FI/D Operations, 1950-1955, written
[8216]in June 1970 by Vyrl E. Leichliter and controlled by
[8217]the successor component to FI/D.
[8219]e The Tllegal Border-Crossing Program, 1946-1959,
[8220]written by Anthony Arnold, George N. Belic, Boris
[8221]Ilyin and John Basarab in July 1971 and controlled
[8222]-by CE. .
[8224]e Air Support of Cuban Operations 1960-1962, written
[8225]by Andrew Russo in January 1973, and controlled by
[8226]History Staff.
[8228]® Counterintelligence Operations Soviet Russia
[8229]Division, 1946 - 1965, Volumes I and II, written by
[8230]Frederick Walters in August 1972, and controlled by
[8231]SB.
[8233]e Memorandum for the Record on HS-Misc 13 (file of CA
[8235]material) dated 11 April 1978, written by Eulalie
[8236]Hammond.
[8238]10
[8240]14-0000
[8242]SUBJECT:
[8244]JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8246]The Cuban Invasion -- Maritime Aspects, 1961,
[8247]written by Savilion H. Chapman in November 1966, and
[8248]controlled by Special Operations Division.
[8250]The Covert Actions Project Funds FY 1964 and FY 1965
[8251](With Historical Perspective), December 1947 -
[8252]January 1964. This TOP SECRET history was written by
[8253]CA Staff in January 1964, and controlled by CA/PEG.
[8255]Funding Covert Operations, 1960 - 1964. This TOP
[8256]SECRET history was written by CA and Cover Staff
[8257]Officers in September 1964, and is controlled by
[8258]CA/PEG.
[8260]Foreign Intelligence Staff/Division D, 1948-1965
[8261]This TOP SECRET history was written by Fred Griffin,
[8262]Frank B. Rowlett, and Vyrl E. Leichliter in April
[8263]1974, and is controlled by CIA History Staff.
[8265]History of the Vietnamese Generals' Coup of 1-2
[8266]November 1963, Saigon Station Log and Analysis. This
[8267]history's access is controlled by FE/VNC or its
[8268]successor.
[8270]The following were very sensitive and we discussed the
[8271]collections with ARRB staffers. An agreement was
[8272]reached to provide access to specific sections that may
[8273]contain relevant information:
[8275]Covert Action Project Funds: pages preceding Tab 1,
[8276]and pages 1 through 6 under Tab 1.
[8278]Foreign Intelligence Staff/Division D: Sections III
[8279](1952-1965) (pages 39 through 50) and IV (Division D
[8280]Contributions to US National Policy) (pages 51
[8282]‘through 57).
[8284]CIA-10 -- Interagency Source Register
[8286](U) This request was dated June 1996. The DO
[8288]provided a classified response to the ARRB together
[8290]11
[8291]SECRET
[8293]14-0000
[8295]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8297]with a copy of DOI 50-46, “The Interagency Source
[8298]Register,” and advised that an unclassified response
[8299]was not possible.
[8301]CIA-11 -- Sylvia Duran Materials
[8303](U) This request was dated May 1996 and was “in
[8304]particular .. . [for] a ‘ten-page statement’ she may
[8305]have given to the Mexican police.” IMS/ESG “searched
[8306]its main index system, its ‘names’ data base, and hard
[8307]copy files.” The Agency response, dated October 1997,
[8308]indicated to the ARRB that “no such ‘statement’ has
[8309]ever been found and we cannot confirm that it ever
[8310]existed.”
[8312]CIA-12 -- Files on five persons allegedly connected
[8313]with JMWAVE
[8315](U) This ARRB request was dated May 1996 for “all
[8316]201 files, personnel files, Office of Security files,
[8317]P-files, or any other files related to .. David Sanchez
[8318]Morales .. Ted Shackley .. Ron Cross .. Bart Henry and
[8319]Doug Gupton.
[8321]- (U) The DO maintains no files on former employees,
[8322]such as Morales, Shackley, or Gupton (P).
[8324](U) In a response dated August 1998, the DO
[8325]responded to DA/OIM/HRP/JFK that we were unable to
[8326]identify Ron Cross and Bart Henry as true names,
[8327]registered aliases, or pseudonyms and, therefore, could
[8328]not provide any files.
[8330]CIA - 13 - Mexico City Back-channel Communications
[8332](U) The DO provided a classified response
[8333]explaining that these types of communications are
[8334]usually administrative matters, e.g., they contain
[8335]sensitive personnel information and they are not placed
[8336]in operational files or saved, collectively, in other
[8338]12
[8339]SECRET
[8341]14.90000
[8343]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8345]databases. Unfortunately, there is no way of
[8346]retrieving these cables through a reasonable search
[8347]using any generic or specific term, since cables were
[8348]not captured by any organized filing process.
[8350]CIA - 14 - Mexico City Station Annual Reports
[8352](U) The DO was asked for specific annual reports from
[8353]Mexico City.
[8355](S) We informed the ARRB that we were successful in
[8356]locating an official DO file which contained station
[8357]"annual reports" for the years 1957 through 1973. The
[8358]file included two dispatches which forwarded the RMDs
[8359]from Mexico Station for the years 1960 and 1961.
[8360]However, the RMDs, which were sent as separate
[8361]attachments (sent in a different pouch from the
[8362]covering dispatch memorandum) were not present in the
[8363]file. (NOTE: Attachments which contained true names
[8364]of CIA officers or assets or information that would
[8365]identify operational sources with CIA were customarily
[8366]sent in separate transmissions as a security measure if
[8367]a pouch(es) were compromised). We also note that in
[8368]a speed letter, dated 1978, written by DDO/LA/STB to
[8369]OLC, that the RMDs for Mexico City Station, for the
[8370]years, 1962, 1963, or 1964 could not be located.
[8372](S) Based upon further review, we are providing an
[8373]updated response to the ARRB as follow: The only
[8374]report that was annually required of a station was that
[8375]relating to its ability to meet its mission directives,
[8376]now called "operational directives". These annual
[8377]reports called the Station's "Relative Mission
[8378]Directives" (RMD) were used to compose an overall
[8379]annual division or staff submission to the Deputy
[8380]Director for Operations, as an evaluative tool. The
[8381]RMDs, themselves are a summary of station activities
[8382]reported to Headquarters in other correspondence during
[8383]the course of the year, were used to compile a division
[8384]level evaluation--in a sense, an annual report card-~-on
[8385]how it was doing against operational requirements. The
[8386]station reporting was extracted into the larger
[8388]13
[8390]spcaer
[8392]14-0000
[8394]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8396]division summary, much as it is today. The RMDs from
[8397]year-to-year could and often did change with the
[8398]operational requirements the Agency was expected to
[8399]fulfill. As such, the RMDs for each station had value
[8400]only as data to the larger examination of how the
[8401]Agency performed its intelligence mission in a given
[8402]year and what trends or changes this review would
[8403]suggest for the ensuing year.
[8405](U) Station reporting of the type described above
[8406]would be treated as transitory information and as such
[8407]meet the definition of a temporary record. It is
[8408]entirely possible and quite probable that these
[8409]facilitative reports were systematically destroyed.
[8411]The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
[8412]authorized the Agency to destroy facilitative reports
[8413]in 1954 (NARA Reference: II-NNA-1057); the destruction
[8414]of intelligence. collection requirement files in 1962
[8415](NARA Reference: NN-163-1), and operational management
[8416]objective files at the subcomponent level (which would
[8417]include reports from, Stations and base) in 1977 (NARA
[8418]Reference: NC1-263-77-10). The 1977 authorization
[8419]remains in force today.
[8421]CIA - 15 - Win Scott files from Russ Holmes files
[8423]; (U) The Retired Record Table RRT shows
[8424]Mr. Scott’s Mexico City files were retired as Job 78-
[8425]00594R on 11 August 1972. These records were retired
[8426]to the Agency’s Archives and Records Center under Item
[8427]Number 40-76 in the Records Control Schedule in effect
[8428]at the time. Files under Item Number 40-76 were
[8429]described as:
[8431]“Temporary. Destroy on completion of specific job
[8432]or as they serve their purpose. Return folders and
[8433]documents on loan and destroy remaining papers.”
[8435]The RRT shows Job 78-00594R was destroyed on 12
[8436]January 1987.
[8438]The RRT page showing the disposition of Mr.
[8439]Scott’s files and the page of the Records Control
[8440]Schedule which describes Item Number 40-76 have been
[8442]14
[8444]14-0000
[8446]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8448]incorporated in the Agency’s JFK collection and will be
[8449]processed for release to NARA.
[8451]CIA - 16 - Oswald Pre-Assassination Files
[8453](S) The Directorate of Operations reviewed the DO
[8454]records to determine if there were any additional files
[8455]containing pre-assassination records relating to
[8456]Oswald. Research identified a document in the Oswald
[8457]201 which appeared to be a file inventory. The
[8458]document identified CI Staff as the file custodian.
[8460]CIC has confirmed that all CI Staff holdings were
[8461]incorporated into the 201.
[8463](S) Prior to establishing a 201, any documents
[8464]received would have been placed in an operational
[8465]interest file. We found no reference to the existence
[8466]of an operational interest file. If such a file had
[8467]existed, however, it might not have been registered in
[8468]the central index. It was standard procedure that
[8469]upon opening a 201, the documents from an operational
[8470]interest file would be transferred to the 201.
[8472](S} Given that Oswald was a subject of the
[8473]HTLINGUAL operation, it is reasonable to believe that
[8474]there was a file on him. We destroyed all of the
[8475]HTLINGUAL files under court order, and no record was
[8476]made of what files existed. We did not review all of
[8477]the DO record system to destroy all copies of material
[8478]which may have been derived from HTLINGUAL material.
[8479]We know, for instance, that there are HTLINGUAL items
[8480]related to Oswald in the HSCA sequestered collection.
[8482](S) In sum, the 201 on Oswald contains all the
[8483]information we are aware of that we had prior to the
[8484]assassination. ;
[8486]CIA-~IR-01 - Personnel Assigned to Post from 1959-1964
[8488](S) The request for a listing of personnel
[8489]assigned to Moscow 1959-1964 was discussed with Board
[8491]15
[8492]SECRET.
[8494]14-0000
[8496]~SEGREL_
[8498]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8500]Staff. Instead of a listing, the files on individuals
[8501]who were asSigned to Moscow and a history of the Moscow
[8502]Station were made available. In addition, the staff
[8503]interviewed a former COS Moscow. The Board staff is
[8504]satisfied with the response and will prepare its own
[8505]documentation.
[8507]CIA-IR-03 - Full Computer Search for List of HTLINGUAL
[8508]Files
[8510](C) First, as an outcome of the Pike and Church
[8511]Committees investigations, all HTLINGUAL files which
[8512]were identifiable, as such, were destroyed under court
[8513]order. Copies of materials from these files that may
[8514]have been made prior to the destruction order and put
[8515]into other files have, however, surfaced as files are
[8516]reviewed. This includes material in the HSCA
[8517]sequestered collection.
[8519](C) The DO ran a search on the term “HTLINGUAL. ”
[8520]Some records were identified as destroyed. Some were
[8521]not so marked but are not locatable under the job
[8522]number identified; however, given that there is no
[8523]requirement to record destroyed records under the
[8524]Federal statutes for disposition programs and given
[8525]limited resources for noting files destroyed, this is
[8526]not uncommon. The HTLINGUAL search further identified
[8527]files because they had been the subject of Freedom of
[8528]Information Act queries; however, these were not
[8529]HTLINGUAL files per se, but files which contained the
[8530]FOIA requester queries for HTLINGUAL information.
[8532](U) ARRB staff member Michelle Combs has reviewed
[8533]the HTLINGUAL file run and has selected some folders
[8534]for review. OIM has identified that they have only
[8535]redacted records for the large FOIA case that is
[8536]listed. IMS/ESG/HCS is retrieving its records for
[8537]unredacted copies of the records and will make them
[8538]available.
[8540]CIA-IR-04 - Disposition of Angleton Files
[8542]16
[8544]~SECREL
[8546]14-0000
[8548]“SECRET_
[8549]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8551](U) The DO provided the following unclassified
[8552]response about the Angleton Files: The files that
[8553]Kalaris mentioned in Mangold’s book were incorporated
[8554]with the files of the CI staff. Per memorandum dated
[8555]1976-1979, the CI files were reviewed and incorporated
[8556]into the DO record system. Items that were duplicates
[8557]or not worthy of retention were destroyed. The memos
[8558]describe the file collection and the process that was
[8559]followed. Because the files that were once known as
[8560]Angleton’s have been dispersed within the DO records,
[8561]they are no longer identifiable as a collection.
[8565](U) IMS/ESG/HCS initially provided a classified
[8566]response to DA/OIM/JFK for this request in February
[8567]1998. In a follow-up response for declassification of
[8568]the response, IMS/ESG/HCS worked with the providing
[8569]office and then approved DA/OIM/JFK’s unclassified
[8570]response.
[8572]CIA-IR-07 - Claude Barnes Capehart
[8574](U) The DO provided a classified response, which
[8575]stated that we found no record when conducting a name
[8576]trace for records on Capehart. Subsequently, we were
[8577]advised by the CIA’s Project Manager, Mr. J. Barry
[8578]Harrelson, that this request was primarily being
[8579]researched by the Directorate for Science & Technology.
[8581]CIA-IR-09 -- George Bush
[8583](S) The ARRB requested information about George
[8584]Bush because of a reference to “George Bush of the
[8585]Central Intelligence Agency” in a certain FBI document
[8586]dated November 1963.
[8588]17
[8590]14-0000
[8592]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8594](S) IMS/FAB provided a main index search response
[8595]to IMS/ESG/HCS. A 201 (that dated back only to 1977)
[8596]and a DCD file were located.
[8598](U) DA/OIM/JEK responded to the ARRB in February
[8599]1998 that the “search determined the Agency has no
[8600]record of any association with George Herbert Walker
[8601]Bush during the 1963 time period.”
[8603]CIA-IR-11 - Warren Commission critics (Does CIA
[8604]maintain files or records on specified critics - other
[8605]than press clippings?)
[8607](U) The DO provided an unclassified response for
[8608]“any files or records on Warren Commission critics
[8609]Edward J. Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane, Harold
[8610]Weisberg, or Sylvia Meagher below. In addition to
[8611]these records, our research did surface a reference to
[8612]a file titled “Garrison Investigation of Kennedy
[8613]Assassination” which was opened in 1969 and closed in
[8614]1996. At the direction of the ARRB staff, no material
[8615]in response to FOIA requests or news clippings in
[8616]Public Affairs was included.
[8618]A. Edward J. EPSTEIN - The DO has no identifiable
[8619]information on subject. Our search did surface the
[8620]name Edward Epstein; however, by using additional
[8621]biographic data known about subject, we were able to
[8622]dismiss this name as a false “hit.”
[8624]B. Josiah THOMPSON - Subject was of operational
[8625]interest to the DO circa 1962; therefore, a 201 file
[8626]does exist on this individual. ARRB staff member Combs
[8627]reviewed this file in August 1998.
[8629]C. Mark LANE - Our search produced references to two
[8630]documents: (1) An Agency dispatch from Germany dated
[8631]23 January 1970, and (2) An OGC letter dated 29 March
[8632]1977. Both of these documents are available for
[8633]review. The OGC letter concerns a 1976 FOIA request --
[8634]Mark Lane was one of the individuals requesting the
[8635]FOIA action -- which involves two dispatches dated 1967
[8637]18
[8638]SECRET-
[8640]14-0000
[8642]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8644]and 1968. Because these two documents are the subject
[8645]of a FOIA request, they are not included in this
[8646]response.
[8648]D. Harold Weisberg - There is a 201 file on subject
[8649]which contains very limited information. This file can
[8650]be made available for review by an ARRB staff member.
[8651]The DO retired records system, CARD, has a reference to
[8652]an Agency dispatch (EGBA-87605, 1969) which indicates
[8653]subject was in correspondence with Julius Mader. This
[8654]document was in the files when it was reviewed by staff
[8655]member Combs in August 1998.
[8657]E. Sylvia Meagher - We found no DO information.
[8659]CIA -— IR~-12 - Contacts with journalists or publishing
[8660]houses
[8662](U) The DO provided both an unclassified and
[8663]classified response about contacts with journalists or
[8664]publishing houses, regarding whether CIA might have
[8665]attempted to influence any journalists or publishers
[8666]regarding public discussion of the assassination.
[8667]Searches with generic terms such as “journalists,”
[8668]“publishers,” “publishing houses,” and “media” would
[8669]not produce meaningful responses. This question
[8670]required the research of crypts mentioned in various
[8671]documents in the JFK “assassination records.” These
[8672]crypts referred to projects managed under the overall
[8673]guidance of a staff in the DO and in all instances were
[8674]projects concerning press and propaganda programs
[8675]designed to promote anti-communism and to counter
[8676]Soviet press and propaganda initiatives worldwide.
[8677]Specifically, the various projects were developed for
[8678]the following reasons (Corresponding cryptonyms to
[8679]these projects were provided in a classified document,
[8680]and are not included below):
[8682]A. to counter: Soviet activities in international
[8684]intellectual organizations, in order to unite and
[8685]promote anti-Communist intellectuals.
[8687]19
[8689]14-0000
[8691]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8693]B. to be involved in book publishing matters and the
[8694]international distribution of anti-Communist books.
[8696]C. to purchase and distribute books.
[8698]D. to cover the international mailing of American
[8699]books translated into Spanish and French languages.
[8701]E. to purchase and mail books to selected addressees
[8702]in Latin America and Africa.
[8704]F. to cover a worldwide news and feature story
[8705]service.
[8707]G. as a’ Press and Propaganda Developmental and Target
[8708]of Opportunity project involving Latin America.
[8710]CIA-IR-13 -- Organized Crime
[8712](S) As part of DA/OIM/JFK’s research, IMS/ESG/HCS
[8713]was requested to do a trace on “Charles Ford.” The
[8714]trace resulted in no hits.
[8716](S) Later, to answer CIA-IR-03 on HTLINGUAL
[8717]material, a computer run was made. The list contained
[8718]a citation to testimony to Congress by Charles Ford in
[8719]September of 1975. A copy of Ford’s testimony to a
[8720]Senate Committee regarding a Mafia connection to
[8721]assassination plots against Castro was provided to
[8722]DA/OIM/JFK in February 1998.
[8724](U) At the request of HRP JFK, several project
[8725]Crypts were searched and results provided in connection
[8726]with this request.
[8728]CIA - IR-15 - Mexico City Station electronic
[8729]surveillance and surveillance tapes
[8731](S) The Directorate of Operations has checked
[8732]Headquarters records for files referenced in HMMW 12454
[8734]20 .
[8735]“SECRET
[8737]14-0000
[8739]“SECRET
[8741]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8743]and for files on the crypts cited in this document and
[8744]searched for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches
[8745]cited in this document. As previously explained, the
[8746]crypts in HMMW 12454 have been researched. The dispatch
[8747]was apparently written in haste and in truncated
[8748]language without correct knowledge of the operational
[8749]crypts for the specific operations in Mexico City. The
[8750]crypts in the dispatch are the more generic crypts for
[8751]teltap operations, not for the then-current operations
[8752]in Mexico City, which are in question.
[8754](U) There has been considerable interest over the .
[8755]years in locating any electronic surveillance tapes
[8756]that would have been made during the period that Oswald
[8757]visited Mexico (26 September - 2 October 1963). A
[8758]thorough search has been conducted of the DO’s record
[8759]system as well as the index to retired records in an
[8760]attempt to locate any tapes and/or find documentation ~
[8761]to resolve their disposition. We have discussed this
[8762]issue with operational experts and their professional
[8763]opinion is that most likely tapes such as these were
[8764]never returned to Headquarters for retention. It was
[8765]normal practice to recycle audio tapes after they had
[8766]been listened to by transcribers and their transcripts
[8767]made.
[8769](U) Messages between field stations and
[8770]headquarters used operational jargon and shortened
[8771]sentence structures that can sometimes allow for
[8772]misinterpretations. Thus, possible confusion was
[8773]created when references to what was being sent to
[8774]headquarters referred to “tapes” but really intend
[8775]“information” from tapes.
[8777](U) In our search efforts we did locate
[8778]approximately 185 audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban
[8779]and Soviet embassies in Mexico City that were recorded
[8780]during the immediate time following the assassination
[8781](22 November 1963 to January 1964). The fact that
[8782]these tapes were retained and returned to Headquarters
[8783]could account for the fact that some people recall that
[8784]some tapes existed which were sent to Headquarters.
[8786]21
[8788]14-0000
[8790]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8792](U) Based upon the search efforts that were
[8793]undertaken and the opinions of operational experts
[8794]consulted, CIA has concluded that the tapes in question
[8795]do not exist and were almost certainly recycled in the
[8796]normal course of business before their potential value
[8798]_was identified.
[8800]CIA-IR-18 - Information on one DO Office
[8802](S) The DO provided an unclassified response on
[8803]the “Defector Staff” listed in CSN 5-50 revised in
[8804]October 1959 and the “CIA Defector Coordinator,
[8805]DDP/CDC,” revised in October 1963. The “Deféctor and
[8806]Contract Personnel Branch” had the symbol SR/OS/D.
[8808]Only Soviet Bloc (formerly Warsaw Pact countries)
[8809]defector cases were handled by this branch. Staffs and
[8810]branches identified, among other duties, were
[8811]responsible for identifying, debriefing, and resettling
[8812]foreign defectors of intelligence interest.
[8814]CIA - IR-19 - Computer search on specific individuals
[8815]and organizations
[8817](U) The DO provided an unclassified response to
[8818]the ARRB Staffs’ request to review Agency files on some
[8819]38 names who were the subjects of the HSCA. All files
[8820]and traces were reviewed by the ARRB staffers on 19 and
[8821]20 August.
[8823]A. Leo Cherne, (Leopold Chernetsky), a US citizen, was
[8824]born in 1912, has Office of Security file #53082, has
[8825]201 file #07662 (two volumes), has an A~file #048058,
[8826]and subject does have a pseudo.
[8828]B. Hunter Leake has an A-file (#105075) DCD file
[8829]number, pseudo not found.
[8831]C. John McVickar. Trace results only.
[8833]D. Andy Anderson. No identifiable traces running
[8834]variations of “Andy.”
[8836]22
[8838]14.90000
[8840]_SECRET™
[8842]SUBJECT: JEK Declaration of Fredrick C.. Wickham, Jr.
[8844]BE. Byron B. Morton Jr. -- Trace resulted one document.
[8845]F. Marie Cheatham. -- Trace resulted in one document.
[8847]G. Paul A. Garbler. Our records reveal that Garbler
[8848]had three pseudos assigned to him. Also, Garbler had
[8849]four aliases on record.
[8851]H. Verna Deane Brown. The trace resulted in one
[8852]document .
[8854]I. George Stanley Brown. Results of trace search was an
[8855]A-File.
[8857]J. Howard Guebler. There was one trace result, who may
[8858]or may not be iden to Subject which is an index card.
[8860]K. Gordon Duane Novel. Trace resulted in three index
[8861]cards. He is the subject of 201-0834822 and has an A
[8862]file (#A185210); however, the A file has been
[8863]incorporated into his 201 file. No record of a pseudo
[8864]on this name.
[8866]L. Ed Butler -- Trace resulted in an A file (#121440)
[8867]on Edward Scannell Butler, III, the Director of INCA.
[8869]M. INCA (Information Council of the Americas).
[8870]AllStar trace search on "INCA" provided the following
[8871]index card(s) information that may or may not be iden
[8872]to the "Information Council of the Americas, Inc."
[8874]N. Permindex. One trace result was found.
[8876]CIA-IR-20 -- Monster Plot NBR
[8878](U) This is a large number of files from the
[8879]microfilm part of the collection that Michelle Combs
[8880]reviewed and then crafted a “SECRET” classified memo
[8881]identifying the reels and folders of the files that
[8882]were then declared “Not Believed Relevant.”
[8884]23
[8886]14-0000
[8888]“SESRET
[8890]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8892]CIA-IR-21 -- DRE Monthly operational reports
[8894](U) This request involved “Howard” and some
[8895]extensive research for the name as a true name, pseudo,
[8896]or alias for anyone out of JMWAVE and/or connected to
[8897]the DRE operation.
[8899](U) We also did extensive research for DRE monthly
[8900]reports. In the JFK collection, there was a gap in the
[8901]reporting between December 1962 and April 1964.
[8903](U) This also covered the question of George
[8904]Joannides’ Performance Appraisal Reports and their
[8905]inclusion in the collection with some redactions.
[8907]CIA-IR-22 - “A” file on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison
[8908](U) The DO provided this unclassified response:
[8910]“It was the DO’s understanding that there were
[8911]illegible markings on pages of the copy of the “A”
[8912]file on Clay Shaw. Legible copies were promised
[8913]and have recently been delivered.
[8915]The DO has recently provided a copy of the “A”
[8916]file on Jim Garrison.”
[8918]CIA-IR-26 -- Jordan James Pfunter |
[8920](U) IMS/ESG/HCS did a records search on subject
[8921]name. The information is contained in a 201 file and
[8922]an A file. This information was provided to the ARRB by
[8923]DA/OIM/JFK in February 1998, and they were advised that
[8924]other information was available from a Third Agency.
[8926]CIA-~IR-29 -- Oswald LeWinter
[8927](U) The ARRB provided the name to be traced.
[8929]Apparently he is/was claiming to be an Agency employee
[8930]and the Acting Assistant Director of Counter Espionage.
[8932]24
[8934]“SECRET
[8936]14.90000
[8938]~SESRED
[8940]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8942](S) A name trace was run. The resultant
[8943]information was included in an IMS/ESG/HCS
[8944]“clarification memo” for the ARRB. The text, which was
[8945]classified “Secret,” reads as follows:
[8947]“Oswald LeWinter is a naturalized US citizen and
[8948]aman of at least four other names -- George
[8949]Mearah, Oscar LeWinter, Razin LeWinter, and
[8950]Ibrahimin Razin. Although he appeared in the
[8951]East German Who’s Who in CIA, the CIA has never
[8952]had any official affiliation with LeWinter.
[8953]LeWinter was the subject of an Agency “burn
[8954]notice” in 1990; a burn notice alerts the
[8955]intelligence community. In this case, the alert
[8956]advised that LeWinter was an intelligence
[8957]swindler, peddler, and fabricator. (C)
[8959]CIA has a report of an episode involving an
[8960]intelligence fabricator and convicted drug
[8961]dealer Oswald LeWinter, AKA George Mearah, born
[8962]2 April 1931, in Vienna, Austria. In July 1990,
[8963]a CIA representative overseas reported that
[8964]LeWinter, using the name of George Mearah,
[8965]contacted him and offered to put high-level GDR
[8966]officials wishing to defect in touch with our
[8967]representative and in turn the CIA. This
[8968]contact would be in exchange for help and a
[8969]presidential pardon that would wipe the slate
[8970]clean and leave LeWinter (Mearah) without a
[8971]record as a convicted felon. LeWinter (Mearah)
[8972]claimed this was important [because] he was
[8973]married (for the third time) and starting a new
[8974]life; he was reportedly considering quietly
[8975]acquiring Israeli citizenship. This contact was
[8976]not followed up because of the “burn notice.”
[8978]CIA-IR-30 -- Cherepanov Papers
[8980](U) This undated and undocumented request from the
[8981]ARRB was derived from a passage in the book Molehunter
[8982](pp. 121-123) regarding the Cherepanov papers. ~
[8984]25
[8985]“SEGREI_
[8987]14.90000
[8989]SECRET
[8991]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[8993]IMS/ESG/HCS located a workbook copy in English and
[8994]provided access to ARRB staffer Michelle Combs. She
[8995]was further offered access to the original Russian
[8996]copies. Combs then wrote a memorandum dated April 1997
[8997]that identified the collection as papers that ,
[8999]\ “primarily examine the habits, potential vulnerabil-
[9000]ities, and KGB approaches made to various members of
[9001]the American Embassy staff.” Combs went on to say that
[9002]“no information of believed relevance to the assassin-
[9003]ation of President John F. Kennedy was found in these
[9004]papers. No pages were designated as assassination
[9005]records.”
[9009](C) The confidential draft of the IMS/ESG/HCS
[9010]response was shown to ARRB staffer Combs in February
[9011]1998. That text follows:
[9013]“(C) **CTA-IR-32 AMWORLD. The Review Board
[9014]seeks information regarding the purpose of
[9015]AMWORLD and its connection with the Cuban exile
[9016]groups. After a thorough search of the DO
[9017]records system, to include telephonic
[9018]communications with various DO Latin American
[9019]Division officers, we formulated the following
[9020]as a definition of the purpose of the AMWORLD
[9021]operation. The AMWORLD operation was a covert
[9022]Agency effort to provide support to several
[9023]Cuban exile groups. This was an “autonomous”
[9024]operation designed to bring the exile groups
[9025]under the direct control of Manuel Artime
[9026]Buesa. AMWORLD’s mission was to cause a popular
[9027]uprising in Cuba through the use of propaganda
[9028]and paramilitary forces to ultimately overthrow
[9029]Fidel Castro.
[9031](C) The Agency provided direct and indirect
[9032]financial aid and technical advisory support to
[9033]these groups but did not participate directly
[9034]in the day-to-day operations. ARTIME was
[9035]responsible for recruitment of AMWORLD
[9037]26
[9040]14-0000
[9042]SECRET
[9044]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[9046]personnel; he obtained sites for training and
[9047]deployment, and he had primary responsible for
[9048]day-to-day operations. AMWORLD was based in
[9049]three locations. The AMWORLD propaganda
[9050]efforts were based in Costa Rico. The
[9051]paramilitary efforts were run out of the
[9052]Nicaragua base. The third base was located in
[9053]Miami to service AMWORLD requirements including
[9054]the collection of operational leads, servicing
[9055]of dead drops and assisting in the vetting of
[9056]AMWORLD personnel.”
[9058](C) Combs asked two follow up questions: Was part
[9059]of the program to put in place a government in exile?
[9060]Was there ever a government in exile? IMS/ESG/HCS put
[9061]these questions to LA and DO/IRO. The DO/IRO has .
[9062]provided the following additional write up, classified
[9063]confidential: ,
[9065]““(C) Based on file reviews and recollections
[9066]from officers involved in the Cuban program,
[9067]‘there was never a Cuban Government in Exile.
[9068]During the planning for the Bay of Pigs
[9069]operation it was envisioned that after the
[9070]invasion site had been secured, Miro Cardona and
[9072]: the Cuban Revolutionary Council would be flown
[9073]to the area to establish a new Cuban Government.
[9074]The invasion site.was never secured.
[9076](C) The AMWORLD Project, begun well after the
[9077]failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and after
[9078]the release of Manuel Artime Buesa and other Bay
[9079]of Pigs veterans from Cuban prisons, was
[9080]designed to support and unite several Cuban’
[9081]exile groups under the control of Artime in an
[9082]effort to enhance the cohesion of the exiles and
[9083]augment Artime's capability to launch propaganda
[9084]and paramilitary attacks against the Cuban
[9085]mainland. The overall mission of AMWORLD was to
[9086]foment a popular uprising in Cuba which could
[9088]‘ lead to the ultimate overthrow of Fidel Castro.
[9089]There is no evidence that AMWORLD's mission even
[9090]remotely came close to fruition and no evidence
[9091]that a projected government in exile was ever
[9092]considered as a viable option.''
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[9096]~SEGREL_
[9098]14-0000
[9100]~SEGREL_
[9102]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[9104]CIA-IR-34 -- Files of CIA officials/offices
[9106](U) IMS/ESG/HCS ran a computer search for ‘OPI 40”
[9107]files. This computer run was then made available to
[9108]ARRB staff member Michelle Combs for review. Her
[9109]review encompasses some 42 boxes from a variety of
[9110]retired DDP files. The identified folders were gathered
[9111]in an aggregate of seven boxes (including one that is
[9112]exclusively microfilm and microfiche of so-called
[9113]Registry logs).
[9115](U) The ARRB staff member’s review is about half
[9116]completed. She has so far selected some 44 records
[9117]totaling 123 pages to be included in the JFK
[9118]collection. When the ARRB staff member’s review is
[9119]completed, the selected records will be copied and
[9120]subjected first to a duplicate check by DA/OIM/JFK
[9121]reviewers, then reviewed by those reviewers, then
[9122]reviewed by HCS reviewers.
[9124](U) We have been unable to locate any “operational
[9125]diaries” by William Harvey.
[9127]CIA-IR-35 - Oswald related Information
[9129]- (S) The surfacing of a report in the continuing
[9130]Oswald 201 file attributed to IJDECANTER prompted the
[9131]ARRB to request a review of that defector’s 201 file.
[9132]Certain such reporting records will be included in the
[9133]JFK collection as records in Oswald’s 201. A Board
[9134]request for an updated search of records for Oswald
[9135]related material generated some 128 hits, which were
[9136]reviewed by Ms. Michelle Combs of the ARRB staff.
[9138]Three records, selected by Ms. Combs and sanitized with
[9139]her concurrence, were selected for inclusion in the JFK
[9140]assassination records collection.
[9142]CIR-IR-36 - Handling of Cables in 1963
[9144]28
[9146]“SECRET
[9148]14-0000
[9150]“SEGREL_
[9152]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[9154](U) The DO provided an unclassified response to
[9155]the ARRB staff’s request for a brief explanation of how
[9156]the Directorate of Operations processed cables in the
[9157]1963/1964 timeframe. We are unable to locate any
[9158]Agency-wide definitive records on the subject for this
[9159]time frame, and the information provided below is based
[9160]solely on the memory of DO officers familiar with
[9161]procedures in place at the time and in the specific
[9162]offices in which they served.
[9164](U) Each area division in the DO maintained and
[9165]staffed its own registry. Although each registry was
[9166]configured to meet each division’s unique requirements,
[9167]there were common functions performed by all the
[9168]registries to include: collecting, sorting, and
[9169]delivering of incoming cables; maintenance of incoming
[9170]and outgoing cable “chronos;” collecting and delivering
[9171]of incoming and outgoing pouch material; and the
[9172]issuance and maintenance of “pseudo and alias” card
[9173]files.
[9175](U) On a daily basis, usually six days per week,
[9176]each registry collected its incoming cable traffic from
[9177]a central processing point, then called the Cable
[9178]Secretariat, within the Office of Communications. The
[9179]incoming cables were then sorted by registry personnel
[9180]according to predefined guidelines. These guidelines
[9181]were unique to each division and were frequently
[9182]altered to meet changing operational requirements.
[9183]Sorted cables were then delivered to specific
[9184]operational/area desks. A “chrono” copy of each
[9185]incoming cable was maintained, on a temporary basis,
[9186]usually for 90 days, and the receiving office placed a
[9187]copy into an operational file based upon subject or
[9188]activity.
[9190](U) Outgoing cables were created and coordinated
[9191]by appropriate operational/area desks and usually
[9192]released by the chief of the division or a designated
[9193]releasing officer. “Released” cables were then hand
[9194]delivered or sent by pneumatic tube system (a system
[9195]long ago dismantled from the original Headquarters
[9196]building) to Cable Secretariat for processing into the
[9197]Agency’ Ss communication network. “Chrono” copies of
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[9200]“SEGREL_
[9202]14-0000
[9204]‘ a
[9205]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[9207]outgoing cables were forwarded to the registry for a 90
[9208]day hold and the sending office placed a copy in the
[9209]appropriate operational file.
[9211](U) There was a centralized processing section for
[9212]the directorate that received copies of the cables to
[9213]review them and update the central index cards.
[9215]CIA-IR-37 - William Pawley
[9217](U) The DO provided an unclassified response to
[9218]the ARRB’s request to review all files on William
[9219]Pawley and any files on his possible connection with
[9220]Cuban exile groups in the 1962-1963 time frame. The
[9221]Agency’s 201 file on Pawley consists of three volumes,
[9222]the same as in the JFK sequestered collection, and
[9223]November 1962 is the date of the last record indexed to
[9224]his 201. However, the Agency holds. operational files
[9225]for the period 1963 to 1965 which related to Pawley.
[9226]Those files were made available for review by the ARRB
[9227]staff and they selected a number of documents for
[9228]inclusion in the materials being processed for release
[9229]to NARA. ;
[9231]Unnumbered Request -- Worldwide Query
[9233](U) In March 1998 the ARRB asked “whether a
[9234]worldwide query was sent out the day after the
[9235]assassination for all case officers to query their
[9236]sources for any information on the assassination and
[9237]Oswald. Are or would all the answers be in the
[9240](S) The following information has been identified:
[9242]A. A “book message,” that is a message to all stations
[9243]and bases, DIR 84608, dated 22 November 1963 (date/time
[9244]group 2220542) was sent. This message advised all
[9245]stations and bases about the assassination of President
[9246]John F. Kennedy. The message advised all to be “on
[9247]alert.” This cable is found in Oswald’s 201 file, Box
[9248]1, Volume 3.
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[9252]| “SEGRET.
[9254]14.90000
[9256]“SECRET
[9258]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration of Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
[9260]B. A “book cable,” DIR 85133, dated 26 Nov. 1963
[9261](date/time group 262319Z) was sent. This message was
[9262]sent “routine” but with ten addressees on a “prior-ity
[9263]basis.” The ten “priority” addressees were: Paris,
[9265]’ Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Brussels, The
[9266]Hague, London, and Ottawa. This cable advised all
[9268]- stations and bases of the identity of the alleged
[9269]assassin by name of Lee Harvey Oswald. This cable can
[9270]be found in Oswald’s 201 file, Box 1, Volume 4.°
[9272]C. Neither of these two cables indicates that a
[9273]“routing” coding was to be used to ensure that all
[9275]responses, if any, would be classified to Oswald’s 201
[9276]file.
[9278]8. (U) I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE
[9279]FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.
[9281]Executed in Langley, Virginia on this 2"? day of September
[9283]1998.
[9284]Hitt te iON
[9285]Preactck Cc. Ais Jr
[9286]JFK FPO, Directorate of Operations
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[9290]14-0000
[9292]“SECRET |
[9294]SUBJECT: JFK Declaration for the Directorate of Operations
[9296]DISTRIBUTION:
[9298]Original -
[9300]A
[9302]JFK Official File
[9304]D/OIM/DA
[9306]C/JFK Declassification Project/HRP/OIM/DA
[9307]C/IMS/ESG
[9309]IMS/ESG/HCS
[9311]ESG/ Chrono
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