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[40]\ SLUGS: WNINTED, “JYVAPOROUS
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[43]*SUBJECT: BKGB “ACCESS - ‘SUPPORT ‘TO USG<ASSASS INATION>RECORD REVIEW
[44]BOARD
[46]yy REF: NONE.
[48]TEXT:
[49]a 1. ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE SEE BELOW; “TRACES: ‘ON Y SUBIS IN PARA. 7
[50]5; GUIDANCE ON ARRB-BKGB ACCESS REQUEST.
[51]2. ON MORNING 6 MAR 98 POLECON_OFFICER AND DCM MET wrrrCos) To
[52]ALERT HIM TO POSSIBLE NEED FOR‘ STATION, SUPPORT TO FACILITATE FUTURE
[53]MEETING(S) WITH BKGB BY EMBASSY “OR OTHER USG PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN
[54]x*FOLLOWUP INQUERIES ON BEHALF OF USG’S<ASSASSINATION>RECORD REVIEW
[55]BOARD (ARRB). ARRB IS CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED AND FUNDED BODY
[56]*LOOKING AT ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO<ASSASSINATION>OF PRESIDENT<JOHN>
[57]*F.<KENNEDY.> OF INTEREST IN MINSK ARE RECORDS HELD BY THE BKGB
[58]*RELATED TO<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>AND THE TIME HE SPENT HERE. ARRB
[59]APPARENTLY WANTS COPIES OF ALL THESE BKGB RECORDS TO MAKE THEM
[60]AVAILABLE FOR SCHOLARLY REVIEW AND RESEARCH PURPOSES.
[62]3. PRR POLECON OFFICER, THE ARRB CHAIRMAN (A RESPECTED RETIRED
[63]FEDERAL JUDGE.)__HAD REPORTEDLY MADE INQUERIES HERE IN OCTOBER 1996, AT
[64]WHICH TIME. STATION HAD, WITH HQS CONCURRENCE, FACILITATED BKGB
[65]MEETINGS (BUT (STATION: WAS APPARENTLY DIRECTED BY HQS TO AVOID ALL
[66]OTHER INVOLVEMENT). BKGB TOOK REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS
[67]UNDER REVIEW, BUT NO DOCUMENTS WERE EVER PROVIDED. WHEN PRESSED,
[68]BKGB SAID THEY WOULD ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, BUT THEIR "PRIVACY
[69]LAWS" WOULD NOT LET THEM RELEASE RECORDS WHICH RELATE TO LIVING
[70]BELARUSSIANS (PER POLECON, THIS SPEFICALLY INCLUDED OSWALD'S FORMER
[71]WIFE, MARINA). ARRB PRESENTED LENGTHY LIST OF DETAILED, LEGALISTIC,
[72]AND (WHAT POLECON OFFICER, HERSELF A LAWYER, DESCRIBED AS) ONEROUS
[73]QUERTES. BKGB NEVER RESPONDED.
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[80]4. EMBASSY UNDERSTOOD THAT LEGISLATIVE MANDATE FOR ARRB HAD
[81]EXPIRED IN FALL 1997, SO DID NOT FOLLOWUP FURTHER. HOWEVER, MANDATE
[82]WAS APPARENTLY EXTENDED TO FALL 1998, AND ARRB’S INTEREST IN BKGB
[83]INFORMATION HAS BEEN REACTIVATED. ARRB TEAM MAY WISH TO COME TO
[84]MINSK TO TRY AGAIN TO OBTAIN THESE RECORDS FROM BKGB, OR AT LEAST GET
[85]EMBASSY TO REVITALIZE EFFORTS TO DO SO.
[86]5. FOR THE RECORD (AND HOS TRACES), AT THE TIME OF THE ARRB’S
[87]: OCT 1996 MEETINGS WITH BKGB, ARRB MET PRINCIPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING
[88]al BKGB OFFICIALS:
[90]-- ALEKSANDR ((VERAS)), HEAD OF SECTION (NFI)
[91]: -- LEV ((PIMENAU)), HEAD OF SECTION (NFI)
[92]; -- ALEKSANDR ({(ABLAMEIKA)), PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT.
[94]AT SOME POINT DURING MEETINGS THEY WERE JOINED BY:
[96]~~ GENNADIY ((NARKEVICH)) (PHONETIC), A DEPUTY
[97]CHAIRMAN, BKGB. (THIS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY
[98]IDEN.)
[100]REQUEST HQS TRACES ON FOUR BKGB OFFICERS ABOVE.
[102]6. COMPLICATING ALL THIS IS FACT THAT AT SOME POINT, AUTHOR
[103]NORMAN MAILER (APPARENTLY WITH EMBASSY ACCESS ASSISTANCE) WAS GIVEN
[104]ACCESS TO. (SOME/ALL? OF) THE BKGB‘S OSWALD RECORDS, WHICH MAILER
[105]REFERS TO EXTENSIVELY IN HIS BOOK "“OSWALDS_TALE: AN AMERICAN
[106]MYSTERY," PUBLISHED—IN_1995 .. CAFTER THE FACT, PER_POLECON OFFICER,
[107]BKGB REALIZED THAT MAILER MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROFITS FROM THIS BOOK, »
[108]AND THAT THE BKGB. HAD “GOTTEN NOTHING.FOR “PROVIDING-.ACCESS~TO-THEIR |
[109]RECORDS, _THUS THEY REPORTEDLY FELT THEY _HAD BEEN CHEATED . ae
[111]7. BALL IS NOW IN STATE’S COURT, BUT THEY AND EMBASSY EXPECT
[113]THAT REQUEST WILL BE FORTHCOMING FROM ARRB IN NEAR FUTURE, AND THENCE |
[114]<to | STATION,» TO FACILITATE MEETINGS WITH BKGB ON THIS MATTER. TO. BE A*
[115](prt ? AHEAD OF * THE CURVE, REQUEST HOS GUIDANCE AND AUTHORIZATION _KS TNs
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