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William Kelly Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 (edited) A transcript of the National Declassification Center's first open forum is now available at www.justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com I think you'll find it quite interesting. Joe Backes Thanks, Joe, JFK Documents are listed as Record Group 272 - under "Kennedy Assassination Commission," a high interest, easy to process group, but for some reason, one that I think will be more difficult than they have estimated. Here's the Plan, which sets a background for what's being said. BK http://jfkcountercou...ification-plan/ THE NATIONAL DECLASSIFICATION CENTER Releasing All We Can, Protecting What We Must 1 National Declassification Center Prioritization Plan I. Background On 29 December 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order 13526 (E.O. 13526), creating the National Declassification Center (NDC) under the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and a memo entitled "Implementation of the Executive Order, Classified National Security Information." The following day Archivist of the United States David Ferriero established the NDC to achieve the goals of ensuring that records are reviewed in a timely and efficiently, and making these records available to the public. Once established, the Acting NDC Director began developing a prioritization plan, in compliance with section 3.7(d) of E.O. 13526, for the declassification review and public release of classified records held by NARA. The plan incorporates the interests of NARA's customers, to include researchers, the general public, the media and Federal agencies, and the Public Interest Declassification Board's (PIDB)1 recommendation that records of high public interest receive declassification priority. The NDC Director will use the plan to prioritize declassification, and the adjudication of referrals in the Interagency Referral Center (IRC)2 and the Remote Archives Capture (RAC)3 programs. The plan was developed to ensure that declassification resources are applied in a thorough and consistent manner, while focusing on those records of the highest public interest. II. Prioritization Method To achieve the NDC goal of making declassified records available to the public, three factors affect how records will be prioritized: 1) High Public Interest The NDC will use a variety of sources, including public input through a variety of social media technologies, and information about records requested in the NARA research rooms, and by the public through the Freedom of Information Act, the Presidential Records Act and Mandatory Declassification Review provisions of E.O. 135264, to determine the level of public interest. 2) Likelihood of Declassification Factors include complexity of information, volume of tabs (exemptions, exclusions, referrals) and age of material. There are a number of lower level classified records which may lend themselves to quick turnaround, while other records contain classified information that must be protected under E.O. 13526 and will not result in significant public release. 3) Resources Required to Complete Declassification Some Record Groups (RGs) are have information that must be protected under the provisions established in E.O. 13526, and contain multiple referrals to other equity agencies. Addressing interagency referrals is labor intensive for the NDC and the agencies in the current process. Performing declassification is more difficult on records with multiple referrals and would slow down the process. Researcher interest would determine how these records fit into the prioritization plan. To apply these criteria to classified records and develop a balanced plan, the NDC developed a matrix that places classified records in one of four categories. The categories are illustrated on a four quadrant diagram (figure 1). Figure 1 High Public Interest 1 2 Easy Difficult 3 4 Low Public Interest The following definitions were applied to each axis: The horizontal axis represents the likelihood of declassification and the level of effort required to move records through the NDC to the open shelf. o Records determined to be "Easy" have few referrals and/or have a high probability of declassification. o Records determined to be "Difficult" contain multiple referrals and/or have most of the documents exempted under E.O. 13526. The vertical axis shows the level of public interest in the declassification of the records (as defined above). Using these definitions each category (quadrant on Figure 1) was then defined as: Category 1 (High Interest, Easy to process) 1% of the backlog Category 2 (High Interest, Difficult to process) 90% of the backlog of Federal records and 100% of Presidential materials referred through the RAC. Category 3 (Low Interest, Easy to process) 2% of the backlog Category 4 (Low Interest, Difficult to process) 7% of the backlog Initially the NDC will devote the majority of resources to the records in categories 1 and 2, with fewer resources devoted to categories 3 and 4. Using this matrix model, NDC placed the classified record groups (RG) and Presidential materials into one of the four categories. Each RG will be further subdivided to place each series or collection into one of the four categories (see Appendix A). The NDC will use this information to prioritize review of records in the RAC system and the IRC, and to develop work plans that will focus on the highest priority records for declassification review and release. In preparation for discussions with agency partners and the public, the NDC, in coordination with the Office of Presidential Libraries, developed the following draft prioritization plan: III. Prioritization Plan Within the NDC there will be two separate workflows: Quality Assurance review and release of the eligible material within the 408 million page backlog of Federal records cited in the President's Memo5; Declassification review and release of interagency referrals of eligible Federal records through the IRC, and Presidential records referred through the RAC. 5 In section 2 of the President's memo he states "Under the direction of the National Declassification Declassification Review and Interagency Referrals By analyzing the goals and deadlines for each of these processes the NDC has determined that - for Federal records - the primary focus must be eliminating the backlog. For Federal records, the processing of interagency Federal referrals will be a secondary focus. This approach will make the largest volume of declassified records available to the public in the shortest period of time. The NDC will concentrate the majority of the declassification review resources on Federal records that fall into categories one and two of the prioritization plan, with fewer resources utilized on categories three and four. A similar analysis of approaches to declassification of interagency referrals, led to the conclusion that the primary focus for these materials must be processing of interagency referrals. The priority for interagency referrals will be the high interest Presidential records in the RAC. Using input from reference archivists at Archives II and the Office of Presidential Libraries, the chart below outlines the top priorities for the backlog and interagency referrals. Backlog Priorities (Federal Records) Interagency Referral Priorities (Presidential and Federal Records) Category 1 Records Presidential Referrals through RAC Category 2 Records: High Interest RGs that account for 2/3 of records pulled for researchers at Archives II: Department of State o RG 59 General Records of the Department of State o RG 84 Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State RG 306 Records of the U.S. Information Agency RG 19 Records of the Bureau of Ships Army (Units in WWII, Korea and Vietnam) o RG 407 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917 o RG 472 Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia, 1950-1975 RG 226 Records of the Office of Strategic Services High level military records o RG 218 Records of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff o RG 319 Records of the Army Staff o RG 330 Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense o RG 338 Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations o RG 342 Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations Category 3 Records Category 4 Records Harry S Truman - Remaining Backlog of Referrals Dwight D. Eisenhower - Remaining Backlog of Referrals John F. Kennedy National Security Files Lyndon Baines Johnson National Security Files Richard Nixon o Erlichman and Haldeman Staff Member Office Files o President's Office File o Latin American Country Files Gerald R. Ford National Security Files Jimmy Carter o Brzezinski Materials o Jimmy Carter Presidential President's Files Staff Secretary's File o NSC Institutional Files, 1977-81 o Donated Historical Material Mondale, Walter F. Kissinger Collection Scanned at the Library of Congress - Materials related to China Federal Record Referrals Federal Records in the IRC The annual goals and resource allocations for processing and review of Federal and Presidential records in the NDC will be approved by the NDC Director in consultation with Office of Presidential Libraries, NDC management, agencies participating in the NDC, and the public. The NDC Director will provide each agency with a list of NDC priorities to guide their declassification work planning, the volume of Federal and Presidential records in their review queues under the NDC, and review deadlines for records under the NDC. Agencies will be expected to provide a sufficient number of reviewers to meet established NDC goals, or accept automatic declassification of their equities as outlined in E.O. 13526. This plan sets the priorities for the remainder of the current and next fiscal years. NDC priorities will be updated at three year intervals, or as needed based on changing priorities and workloads. IV. Public Input The NDC is committed to focusing our efforts on those records determined to be of high public interest. Draft prioritization plans will be created using NARA experts to identify which records are of high pubic interest. To ensure NDC prioritization plans meet the needs of the public, the NDC Director in conjunction with the Office of Presidential Libraries will solicit public input through a series of programs using social media tools and town hall meetings. Draft plans will be made available on the NDC website, and distributed to archival, historical (both Federal and non-Federal), and public interest groups through e-mail, and other social media tools. The NDC will utilize blogs and public forums to collect input on draft plans. The NDC Director will consolidate all input to create a final version of the plan, and establish milestones. The final plan, milestones and quarterly progress reports will be available to the public on the NDC website. The NDC will update prioritization plans as high priority records are declassified and priorities change. We will continue to use social media tools to encourage and collect public input for future updates. Through these efforts we will maintain a plan that strives to meet the expectations of the public and the President's vision for an interagency National Declassification Center. 1 The Public Interest Declassification Board is an advisory committee established by Congress in order to promote the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions and activities. 2 The Interagency Referral Center was developed in 2006 by NARA as part of the National Declassification Initiative (NDI). The IRC was a voluntary program that consolidated review and referral (information within a document that is potentially classified by another agency) of Federal records in NARA custody into one central location within the National Archives at College Park. The IRC is now mandatory and part of the NDC. 3 The Remote Archives Capture Program was established in 1996 as a joint effort between the Presidential Libraries and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to facilitate declassification review and referral of classified Presidential papers in remote locations. This program digitally scans remotely located Presidential classified records and makes all twenty-five year old classified materials available electronically for declassification review in a centralized location in the Washington, DC area. 4 Researchers may submit FOIA and MDR requests for records at NARA that are not yet available to the public. 5 In section 2 of the President's memo he states "Under the direction of the National Declassification Center (NDC), and utilizing recommendations of an ongoing Business Process Review in support of the NDC, referrals and quality assurance problems within a backlog of more than 400 million pages of accessioned Federal records previously subject to automatic declassification shall be addressed in a manner that will permit public access to all declassified records from this backlog no later than December 31, 2013." 6 Appendix A Breakdown of NARA Federal RGs into Categories Category 1 Record Groups (High Interest, Easy to Process) RG Title Entries Volume 24 Bureau of Navy Personnel (Deck Logs) 107 Secretary of War 153 JAG (Army) 160 U.S. Army Service Forces (WWII) 226 Office of Strategic Services 260 U.S. Occupation Headquarters, WWII 263 Central Intelligence Agency 272 Kennedy Assassination Commission Security Counsel 304 Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization 331 Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters WWII 332U.S. Theaters of War, WWII 336 Chief, Transportation 337 HQ, Army Ground Forces 359 Office of Science and Technology 472 U.S Forces in Southeast Asia 494 U.S. Army Forces in the Middle Pacific (WWII) 1 500 U.S. Army Major Operational and Tactical Formations (WWII and after) 1 1 2,286 cuft Category 2 Record Groups (High Interest, Difficult to Process) RG Title Entries Volume Bureau of Ships Chief of Naval Operations International Conferences, Commissions and Expositions State Department Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Ordnance Chief of Engineers Foreign Service Posts Quartermaster General Chief Signal Officer United States Marine Corps Chief of Ordnance Inspector General (Army) Chemical Warfare Service Naval Districts and Shore Establishments Pardon Attorney Joint Chiefs of Staff National Aeronautics and Space Admin. Securities and Exchange Commission Commerce Records Relating to International Commercial Operations (see RG 489) U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Naval Research U.S. Information Agency Naval Operating Forces Atomic Energy Commission Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of the Secretary of the Army U.S. Army Operational, Tactical and Support Organizations Office of the Secretary of the Air Force HQ U.S. Air Force (Air Staff) U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Naval Ship Systems Command (NAVSEA) Joint Commands Defense Intelligence Agency U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Bureau of Naval Weapons Records of the Adjutant General's Office General Records of the Department of the Navy Records of Organizations in Executive Office of the President (Federal Records) Energy Research and Development Agency Department of Energy Independent Counsels Watergate Special Prosecution Force U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) U.S. European Command (EUCOM) U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR) U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) 151,793 cuft Category 3 Record Groups (Low Interest, Easy to Process) RG Title Entries Volume Veterans Affairs District Courts Federal Housing Administration Hydrographic Office Bureau of Accounts (Treasury) Commerce Interior Treasurer of the U.S. U.S. Geological Survey National Archives and Records Administration Bureau of Mines General Records of the Department of the Navy Immigration and Naturalization Service Secret Service Public Health Service United States Attorneys Judge Advocate General (Navy) Office of Alien Property Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Bureau of Forei1gn and Domestic Commerce Foreign Agricultural Service National Institute of Standards and Technology National Guard Bureau Federal Communications Commission Department of Labor Panama Canal Civil Aeronautics Board Chief of Finance (Army) Office of Censorship Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards Office of Scientific Research and Development Federal Aviation Administration Collection of Foreign Records Seized Bureau of Labor Statistics National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development National Science Foundation Records of the FEMA International Military Agencies Records of the Defense Logistics Agency Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration Economic Development Administration Provost Marshal General Office of Emergency Preparedness Federal Highway Administration Records of the Environmental Protection Agency National Telecommunications and Information Administration Records of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. Financial Management Service Economic Stabilization Programs U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies International Trade Administration Peace Corps Department of Defense Inspector General Category 4 Record Groups (Low Interest, Difficult to Process) RG Title Entries Volume Office of Management and Budget Department of the Treasury Bureau of Yards and Docks Records of the Surgeon General (Army) Publications of the U.S. Government Naval Intelligence Command Federal Property Resources Service International Military Agencies Interservice Agencies Naval Electronic Systems Command (NAVELEX) Naval Ordinance Systems Command (NAVORD) Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Committees (State) Maritime Administration (MARAD) Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Nuclear Agency/ Defense Threat Reduction Agency Chief of Naval Material (NAVMAT) Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) General Accounting Office Defense Mapping Agency Bureau of Export Administration Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) U.S. Army Material Command Continental Army Command (CONARC) (modern) U.S. Army Forces in Alaska U.S. Army Forces in the Caribbean U.S. Army Military District of Washington (MDW) Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) General HQs, Far East Command, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, & United Nations Command (FECOM, SCAP, UNC) U.S. Army Forces Command (FORCECOM) 11,439 cuft Edited July 11, 2010 by William Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Backes Posted July 11, 2010 Author Share Posted July 11, 2010 A transcript of the National Declassification Center's first open forum is now available at www.justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com I think you'll find it quite interesting. Joe Backes The NDC's "prioritization plan," can be found here - http://www.archives.gov/declassification/prioritization-plan.pdf The whole point of the forum was to discuss this draft plan. You can add your comments about the plan on their blog here - http://blogs.archives.gov/ndc/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 (edited) A transcript of the National Declassification Center's first open forum is now available at www.justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com I think you'll find it quite interesting. Joe Backes The NDC's "prioritization plan," can be found here - http://www.archives....zation-plan.pdf The whole point of the forum was to discuss this draft plan. You can add your comments about the plan on their blog here - http://blogs.archive...ge=1#comment-18 Here's some JFK assassination related highlights from the transcript at Joe's blog. Thanks Joe. BK Dr. Michael Kurtz - Michael Kurtz has been at NARA since 1974, and is currently the Assistant Archivist for Record Services, Washington, D.C. He was the acting director of the NDC from its establishment and is chair of the interagency senior steering group that advises the NDC on policy issues... For the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, we are looking to review the national security files for their national security advisors and that would be the significant programs at each of those libraries... ...On the questions related to the John F. Kennedy assassination review records, just to note that we have 5 million pages that are in the RRB records [he mangled it, he meant of course the ARRB records.] the assassination review board records. Less then 1% of those records at this point are classified in full and they are scheduled to be released in 2017, unless an agency makes a direct appeal to the president. And it would be at the presidential level that any decision would be made on whether that small amount of material needs to be, continues to be classified. Questions also came in about the concern that agencies are holding back relevant records related to the JFK assassination and I want to say that any reports that we receive on those reports will be investigated and looked into. At this point we have not found agencies holding back assassination related records. There is some ongoing litigation involving the Central Intelligence Agency. We have been in communication with the agency, but no access to the records and no resolution of it as the litigation goes forward, which I think is a bit typical for litigation related issues.... Jim Lesar - Jim Lesar. I like, Steven Aftergood, I have questions about the prioritization plan, I would thank you very much for making it available for comment, but I have a couple of observations. The first of which is that it really does very little in the way of prioritization because of the 408 million pages said to be backlogged 90% are in the difficult, the high public interest but difficult to process category. So, that leaves you with the problem of further prioritizing that classification which is most of everything you've got. And it seems to me that while there is a basis for some of what you've suggested, that is that there should be the input of requesters and researchers should be considered in that I think you need to go beyond that into some sort of substantive evaluation of the importance of the subjects in terms of accountability to democratic institutions and to the political history of the United States. So, I would prefer, or suggest that at the apex of the high public interest documents are those in which Congress itself has spoken and demanded release, most notably in the case of the President Kennedy assassination records. And I'm a little disturbed at the suggestion which I have seemed to have picked up here is that those records would be withheld until 2017, while the Act, the JFK Act does provide for withholding until 2017 it does not mandate that date. There are other considerations that should advance it to the very top of the apex, including the fact that the 50th anniversary is upon us within three years. There will be an enormous public scrutiny of the assassination in light of that, and not to have all of the records out for that debate would be a very grave error, I think. There are, next to the category that I would place at the top where Congress had mandated disclosure on a subject I would say that the next level down would be those areas where congressional committees have considered a subject, have investigated a subject, The Church Committee, The Watergate [Commission], The King Assassination, Prisoners of Wars, those kinds of issues, Vietnam, those kinds of issues need to be in the second tier in considering a prioritization [plan.]. Thank you. David Ferriero - Do you want to respond to that? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Thank you very much. I think as we do our annual work plan, breakdown this high level, that's when your points about these, the political issues, the constitutional issues, the high public interest issues really can help inform us to decide at which particular point do we want to deal with this particular collection, and so forth. Again, keeping in mind that if we are successful as we have every expectation to be in eliminating the backlog the vast majority of that will be on the open shelves by or before Dec 2013. As we go forward a lot of what you are saying really forms, I think, a basis for how we do prioritization as we go beyond the backlog. Jim Lesar - I would just add a further thing, that this is an area where I think there is no area that has received more intense, and continuing and enduring inquiry from the public in terms of FOIA requests, and in terms of mandatory declassification review requests than the subject of the Kennedy assassination. It is an area where a large number of very talented people have over a long period of time, unique, I think, in American history, devoted themselves in trying to answer the unanswered questions. We are getting very old, we are dying off, we need the information now, not three years from now. George Lardner - My name is George Lardner, and I would like to get a little better understanding of those 408 million pages and what's in them. Let me take a homely example, seven years ago I asked the archives for a bunch of records under the Freedom of Information Act, I got a bunch. I thought I got them all. Last year I discovered that, no, no, 20 boxes have been overlooked. So, I have been pestering them and getting some boxes. But, I'm wondering, these boxes, these 20 had to undergo, what I was told was declassification review. I said why? They are not marked confidential or secret. They said well we have to review them for Social Security numbers things like that. Is my material in the 408 million or did it fall between the cracks. And do they just use the phrase declassification review for anything they have to process before they can give them to you? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Mr. Lardner, let me try to answer this quick because I do not know the particulars of your situation. George Lardner - Sure. Dr. Michael Kurtz - We are required, of course, to review records that have privacy concerns. George Lardner - Right. Dr. Michael Kurtz - And so, that actually is a very significant review issue for NARA, and it's not the same as declassification review. Declassification review is for national security information. But PII information is of great concern to any number of individuals and entities and so perhaps that's exactly what your information got caught up in. I'm not sure. George Lardner - But does that mean then that there are that many more, hundreds of thousands or millions of pages that are just privacy related that are in addition to the 408 million you've listed here that you would have to go through the tedious process of so called declassification? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Yes. I mean there is a significant amount to the collections in both the presidential libraries and federal records that have privacy issues. We have a special staff that is set up to deal with those review issues and try to expedite and getting them out to researchers as soon as possible. Historical records are in a little bit of a different category than say your current financial information that a bank or someone has to protect, there are different standards, not as strict, not as more contemporary information, nonetheless it requires review. George Lardner - Can I ask one follow up question then? Do you have enough money to get it done by 2013? (Sheryl Shenberger smiled and nodded no. Laughter) Do you have an extra special appropriation? Or what are you going to do? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Okay, well in the President's budget for FY '11 that's on the Hill being reviewed the President is requesting five million dollars for the NDC and to increase staff and to begin building the information technology infrastructure that we need. George Lardner - Is that enough? Sheryl Shenberger - Umm-mmm. (As in, "no.") George Lardner - No, I didn't think so. Beth Fidler - We have also requested an additional million dollars to support the remote archives capture project in 2011. Dr. Michael Kurtz - Thank you. David Ferriero - Well, let me just say this is a mandate that does have funding attached to it, which is extraordinary. John Judge - I'm John Judge I work with the Coalition on Political Assassinations, we were, our groups were part of what got the JFK Records Act passed. The executive order seems to have a presumption of release. I seem to remember that there was a similar executive order that was never implemented out of the Clinton era to have a release of files that were at that point 25 years or older, at least to have a full review for release. And the executive order seems from my reading, I'm not a lawyer, to allow some records to be put in the category of wouldn't be released after 25 years, and they can go to 50, some to 75, some to 75 years beyond that perhaps, I'm assuming that that's what this review that you're implementing deals with but I'm not sure if there are yet, in other words whether the agencies are getting an additional swipe to say well he wants it out after 25 years but we think we should keep it because of this standard or that standard, so that would be interesting for me to be cleared up. The reason the JFK Records Act worked so well and worked so much better than the Freedom of Information Act, which it actually was meant to help correct, is that it established, number one, an independent review board that did not involve an agency decision. It also had a set presumption of release. It had a very limited number of reasons that anyone could postpone the release of the document under the review, like a living agent who was going to be compromised, an existing source or operation method that was going to be compromised, or a privacy agreement, or an agreement with a foreign government, but that was it, and beyond that, like protecting somebody's identity for some reason, and that's why I think that the percentage that is still postponed is so small. So, it was much more limited in terms of what exemptions it would allow. It did allow redactions. and also allowed replacements where the text, or the gist of what was being redacted could be conveyed for the historical purpose. [The Assassination Records Review Board referred to this practice as "substitute language."] With this volume that is probably not doable for everything but you might prioritize some records especially in these public interest areas where you thought about that as a possibility. And it also had documents postponed to date certain in other words if the living agent died during the period before the multiple release then the record could be released. It set some dates in the Federal Register for release prior to 2017 and the presumption is that the archivist in there reviewing those annually or as they come up but I don't know whether that's being done, but they set some things for earlier release. And certainly Congress could reverse the date. Another thing that they did that was with most of the files they put what they call a RIF on the file, a record information form, that allowed a digital, and those were digitized, and that allowed a digital search of the topics and the names in the file without having to digitize the entire file and that has been useful for researchers and might be something you would consider. I helped to draft, and there's a new version of the bill, I did it in '05 and '06, a Martin Luther King Records Act about his life and assassination, and it was passed on the JFK Act. And it's in play now somewhat in congress. But, a lot of the House Select Committee files on Dr. King are still locked up and other records, and I don't know whether this 25 year rule touches records that have been segregated for a congressional investigation like this, in other words they may have been locked up under the House rule but because they are agency generated and over 25 years old they would fit the category that way, whether this review would touch them or whether the congressional segregation itself is going to hold the sway. Dr. Michael Kurtz - Let me try a couple, respond to a couple of the points that you made sir? First of all, this gives us an opportunity to say something that really none of the three of us have actually said, the process that is going on with the agencies with the 408 million pages is not a re-review of everything. The president not only in a kind of way set the prioritization plan but he also really served as a risk manager and said the two areas of information that we are to focus on, it relates to confidential sources and to keep weapons concepts, and weapons design for weapons of mass destruction. Now as we are doing sampling and quality assurance to try to deal with those two areas if we find some other information that should be classified alright we can tab it but it is not an opportunity for agencies to re-review and kind of apply their judgment yet again. These records have been reviewed once, or more times by the agencies. As far as legislative records, yes, they are in a different category from federal or presidential records and so they don't, legislative records do not fall under the purview of the executive order. Their governed release is governed by the rules of the House or the Senate and so our legislative archives unit works very closely, and NARA works very closely with congress and the committees of congress specifically to work on declassification and release but given the separation of powers these are different mandates and different requirements for between presidential, federal and legislative.... Dr. Michael Kurtz - I would also note that the Information Security Oversight Office which is an arm of NARA has the authority and carries it out to do audits of how agencies conduct and perform their declassification operations.... Eric Larson - And one more question, which agencies have equity in the Kennedy assassination records? David Ferriero - Yeah, [a better question would be] which don't. Dr. Michael Kurtz - I really don't know how to actually, specifically answer that question. I'd say that less than 1 % is still classified in full, which agencies those involve, I'm not sure. Sorry... Jefferson Morley - Hi, my name is Jefferson Morley. Thank you for having this forum, I think it really does a lot to encourage people's confidence that the government is truly interested in getting this out, so I wish you a lot of success. A couple of comments and suggestions, one, we've heard a lot about how do you set your priorities I think it would be very interesting to publish your data about how many record requests there are per agency, I think that would be useful. I think in regards to the Kennedy assassination in particular which is a subject area that crosses many agencies it would be possible to compare this topic versus this agency in terms of what should be a priority, I think that would be helpful. A second point was I noticed in your summary of where you are going, now I'm talking about specific record groups, the specific identification stopped at, I think, the Carter administration. And we didn't hear what record groups are of highest priority in the administrations since then, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and so on. And I think that Jim Lesar's suggestion made there that what has been of interest to congressional committees might go to the top, so for example you might have the Iran/Contra material becoming the most important as you go forward. But, in any case, to publish your own thinking about what record groups in the subsequent administrations you are going to focus on or are considering focusing on. And finally, specifically in the JFK area you mentioned litigation and I think that was a reference to a lawsuit I have going on I just want to say that that's very fine to say that the agency is not going to respond until the litigation is done, the fact is there is a memorandum of understanding about the enforcement of the JFK Records Act. It was signed by the CIA, signed by the records review board in 1998, it is a legally enforceable document right now and it should be enforced. And if you really want to get, win peoples, public confidence you're going to have to enforce the law in this case. It's not complicated. The law is there, the intent of congress is very clear, and it needs to be addressed. Thank you.... Lesar - Yes, Jim Lesar, again. In 1984 congress passed the Central Intelligence Agency Information Act which allowed for the designation of "operational files" which are exempt from review under the FOIA, exempt from search and review under the FOIA, will all designated operational files be transferred to the National Declassification Center? Dr. Michael Kurtz - The plan is according to the records schedule that we have with the Central Intelligence Agency, yes, we have records schedules with all agencies, is that the permanently valuable records which include operational files over a period of time would be transferred to the national archives, yes. Jim Lesar - All of them? Or will the CIA screen and eliminate some of them beforehand? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Well, all I can say is as far as the record schedule goes, any files series that is judged to be permanently valuable all of that material in that file series is to be kept intact and transferred to the national archives. Jim Lesar - And who makes the decision as to whether or not they are determined to be permanently valuable? Dr. Michael Kurtz - In general the way that works is it's really, it's a joint decision making process between the agency involved and the national archives to where we come to a consensus, a conclusion on which files series are permanently valuable. And so it's the same thing with the CIA as it is with any other agency. Jim Lesar - Okay. And those will published in the public register, federal register? Dr. Michael Kurtz - The schedules are published in the federal register for public comment Jim Lesar - One further question, are there any of the records that you say are one percent of the JFK Act collection is currently withheld. Are any of those, does that category consist solely of CIA records? Dr. Michael Kurtz - I would have to check into that. I do know it's got, that less than one percent really has a good bit of human sources and methods, that would be CIA related, whether there are other equities I'm not sure. Jim Lesar - Do you plan to review the JFK materials under the National Declassification Center or are you simply relying on the 2017 date? Dr. Michael Kurtz - No, we will process this as part of the NDC. Jim Lesar - In so doing will you apply the JFK review standards which were far more liberal than the FOIA and which may differ with other standards? Dr. Michael Kurtz - Well, NARA has taken on the responsibility of the assassination review board when it went out of existence. So, yes, we would be working with those standards. Jim Lesar - Thank you. Dr. Anna Nelson - I really came here today to represent the historians of American foreign relations because we are among the very biggest users of classified records as you might expect, along with some military historians. Much of what I was going to say would be repeating what has been said. So, we were working with the draft, you've talked a lot about going beyond the draft. So, those were questions that we had. There is one thing though that has not been mentioned today, and that is, so that is really going to be my main point, you know it's wonderful to open everything for comment, I can't congratulate you more about that, it gets a lot of people involved. The problem is that it takes a researcher who is actively researching to really lead you to certain areas that you may not think about as priorities. For example, one of the examples is the draft is that it totally leaves out the State Department lot files. Every historian looks at the State Department lot files. They are more important than almost anything else because whatever the screwy name of them they are in fact office files of assistant secretaries, their deputies, they are invaluable, but they were not listed. So, I think that what you need in addition, not to do without all the people, but in addition you need to have ad hoc groups for various kinds of records who would meet intermittently and answer some of the questions and actually have a hands on experience, there are a lot of people in the Washington area, other people you might tie [to] a meeting, to a conference, or something here, so you don't have to spend a whole of lot money which is always an issue, but I think that that would be a very important thing. However, I, as some of you know I was also a member of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Board. When I was on that board, which has been gone now for 12 years a fellow historian said to me, well you know what, you will never get away from it. And he was right. But, I would like to say that when we turned off the lights and closed the door in 1998 we knew that there would be records out there somewhere that we hadn't seen. It was just impossible to try to do them all. We were successful because we had a statute. And the statute allowed us to do all kinds of things, and because we had an administration that was willing to be a little more open. The person who is in charge of those records told me a few years ago that there was a bunch of CIA records which the CIA said let's just get rid of them, and they gave them to the archives, they were part of what was going to be held back, I don't know if anybody has used those or not, the rest of the records, to my understanding are all CIA records. There may be one of two from Defense or something but obviously there were an enormous number of CIA and FBI records, and there is an enormous number of records in the archives in the collection, you said 5 million pages, I would also like to add that yes, our guidelines were far more open, we really thought that when people died 10 years after their privacy was no longer an issue, so we made certain guidelines like that, we were very protective of people who needed it or whose families needed it but the guidelines were very, very broad and we could do that because we had a statute behind us. We also made the decision that if we redacted material, which we had to do, we would make sure that the paragraphs made sense, we would not redact material which just left the reader saying what in the world is this about? So, we made some, you put four or five historians on the board you have that kind of trouble, we tried to make good decisions and open a lot of records, you know what, having been told repeatedly by the CIA in our meetings that we were destroying American security, [if you] open those records you are destroying American security, we opened the records, we have yet to destroy American security. David Ferriero - Thank you all, this is a great start for the public to have some input into what is going on here. I encourage you to take a look at the NDC blog, the NDC website, to continue this discussion with us, and as I said this is the first of a series of open forums that we will be hosting. So, thank you all for joining us. Edited July 12, 2010 by William Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 (edited) This is a list of some documents which may or may not be still classified, although I am sure most of them still are. If you read the topic/subject lines, I would argue that not many persons here on the Forum, would say declassifying these files wouldn't provide for some very interesting reading. The OPLAN 32-64 (PHASE II) document is of particular interest. See Document # 23 1 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10110-10147 RECORDS SERIES : SECURITY CLASSIFIED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : MEXICO CITY TRIP # 2 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HSCA FROM : LOPEZ, EDWIN TO : BLAKEY, G. ROBERT TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 3 DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM SUBJECTS : CIA, ADMINISTRATION CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/16/1993 COMMENTS : Box 5. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1a AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10097-10223 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 009987 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HSCA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 07/13/1978 PAGES : 8 DOCUMENT TYPE : NOTES SUBJECTS : DAVIS III, THOMAS ELI; FBI, FILES CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/19/1993 COMMENTS : File from FBI 184-5. Box 184. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 AGENCY : DAVIS RECORD NUMBER : 178-10004-10204 RECORDS SERIES : GENERAL SUBJECT FILE AGENCY FILE NUMBER : SSC-TRUJILLO ASSASSINATION, CUBA, CHILE DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : CARTER, INR/DDC TO : HUGHES, INR/OD TITLE : ARA-AGENCY MEETING OF JUNE 3, 1964 DATE : 06/04/1964 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM SUBJECTS : ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES; CUBAN EXILES; DOS CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/10/1993 COMMENTS : Attached to 1781000410190. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40004-10388 RECORDS SERIES : 12: INV 4 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/09/1963 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : STANFORD, JOHN CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : FOLDER 3; BOX F09 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 179-10001-10086 RECORDS SERIES : WC DOCUMENTS REVIEWED BY FBI FOR HSCA AGENCY FILE NUMBER : SA 105-2909 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/06/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : STANFORD, JOHN CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/09/1993 COMMENTS : pp. 35 & 55CD # 172 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : DOJ RECORD NUMBER : 179-20002-10245 RECORDS SERIES : CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 18C DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOJ FROM : OLIVER, LEE TO : THURMAN, KAY TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 04/25/1967 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : ROUTING SLIP ENCLOSING 3 SUMMARIES OF FBI REPORTS CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ATTACHED TO SUMMARIES FOR ALLEN ELI WRIGHT, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, MANUEL GARCIA GONZALES BOX 57 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6 AGENCY : DOJ RECORD NUMBER : 179-20001-10048 RECORDS SERIES : CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, ENCLOSURES, SERIAL #2 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : IRS FROM : SHUR, GERALD TO : HUNDLEY, WILLIAM TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/02/1963 PAGES : 4 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : YARAS, DOLORES; YARAS, DAVID CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : EXTRACTED FROM THE MCCLELLAN COMMITTEE; BOX 63 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40005-10032 RECORDS SERIES : 09: RUBY, JACK 2-1-2 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOJ FROM : SHUR, GERALD TO : HUNDLEY, WILLIAM TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 11/27/1963 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : RUBY, JACK; RUBENSTEIN, JACK; RUBENSTEIN, LEON CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : 3 UNNUMBERED PAGES PLUS P. 4-5; BOX J01 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40007-10204 RECORDS SERIES : 10: BURKE, JAMES DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : HOOVER, J. EDGAR TO : RANKIN, J. LEE TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 02/20/1964 PAGES : 6 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : OSWALD, MARINA, RELATIONSHIP WITH JAMES MARTIN; MARTIN, JAMES, RELATIONSHIP WITH MARINA OSWALD CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ALSO IDENTIFIED AS K.P. MARINA OSWALD 7; P. 1-6; BOX F05 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40002-10289 RECORDS SERIES : 09: CARLIN, BRUCE RAY DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 04/16/1964 PAGES : 4 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : CARLIN, BRUCE, INFORMATION FROM SSA CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ATTACHMENT TO LETTER FROM FREDERICK H. SCHMIDT, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY, HEW; P. 1-4; BOX SOC1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40007-10308 RECORDS SERIES : 10: CARROLL, MARION DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 03/31/1964 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : CARROLL, MARION, INFORMATION FROM SSA CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ATTACHED TO LETTER FROM FREDERICK H. SCHMIDT, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY, HEW DATED 3/31/64; P. 1-5; BOX SOC1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40002-10193 RECORDS SERIES : 10: SCHMIDT, LARRIE DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/05/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : BURLEY, WILLIAM; SCHMIDT, LARRIE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ALSO IDENTIFIED AS 89-43; P. 702-703; BOX F08 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12 AGENCY : FBI RECORD NUMBER : 124-90107-10080 RECORDS SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-117222-91 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : U.S. COAST GUARD FROM : USCG TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN; [RESTRICTED] CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/03/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : APPROVAL OF USCG COMMENTS : CHART, REFERRED TO USCG ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10126-10185 RECORDS SERIES : SECURITY ADMINISTRATION FILES DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HSCA FROM : FALLIS, STEPHEN J. TO : [No To] TITLE : "BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS" DATE : 08/15/1977 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM SUBJECTS : HSCA, ADMINISTRATIONS CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/08/1993 COMMENTS : Investigation of Daly, Martin I. Box 1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10108-10274 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES. AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 013937 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : WC FROM : FBI TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/16/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT. SUBJECTS : PALMER, THOMAS, STEWART.; DONNELL, WILLIAM.; OSWALD, LEE; POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD-MURDER BY RUBY.; BY; AGVA.; RUBY, JACK; BACKGROUND, AFFILIATION, LABOR UNION ACTIVITIES. CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/28/1993 COMMENTS : Box 243. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15 AGENCY : FBI RECORD NUMBER : 124-90157-10140 RECORDS SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 105-205074-2 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM : [RESTRICTED] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 05/18/1970 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : LOUIS KUTNER; [RESTRICTED] CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 11/19/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : APPROVAL OF DIA COMMENTS : RPT, REFERRED TO DIA Note Louis Kutner years after the Kennedy Assassination, referred to the Kennedy's in probably the most malicious manner that has ever been recorded in mass media, which is, in itself stating quite a lot..Basically that the Kennedy's were the closest this country ever came to Communism and that it was a good thing they [JFK & Robert, Ted was still living at the time] were both dead. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16 AGENCY : DOJ RECORD NUMBER : 179-20001-10417 RECORDS SERIES : CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, ENCLOSURES, SERIAL #71, 2-20-67/3 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : PURVIS, FLOYD TO : SHANKLIN, GORDON TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 03/10/1967 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : BURNS, CHARLES; CONFORTO, JANET CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : PP. 2-6; DOCUMENT INCLUDES THE PURVIS LETTER AND A FBI INTERPETATION. BOX 64 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 179-30002-10038 RECORDS SERIES : DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW 1978 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : MEXICO CITY TO : SECRETARY OF STATE TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 11/23/1963 PAGES : 3 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : OSWALD, LEE CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : MARKED COPY CLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL ATTACHED TO MCAFEE TO DEUTRICH 11/20/78 BOX 5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10203 RECORDS SERIES : 08: NUMBERED COMMISSION DOCUMENTS DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : IRS FROM : CULEEN, JOSEPH TO : DIRECTOR, COLLECTIONS DIVISION TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 03/19/1964 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : CRAFARD, CURTIS; GOLDSTEIN, FRANK CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ATTACHMENT TO ROGOVIN TO RANKIN, 3/31/64; BOX I02 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10450 RECORDS SERIES : 10: GORMAN, WILLIAM DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 11/23/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : CRAWLEY, JOE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ALSO DL 89-43; P. 522-3; BOX F06 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10107 RECORDS SERIES : 10: MAREK, FRED DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/10/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : GORMAN, WILLIAM; CRAWLEY, DOYLE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ALSO DL 89-43; DOC DATE IS 11/23/63; P. 522-3; BOX F07 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10108-10274 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES. AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 013937 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : WC FROM : FBI TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/16/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT. SUBJECTS : PALMER, THOMAS, STEWART.; DONNELL, WILLIAM.; OSWALD, LEE; POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD-MURDER BY RUBY.; BY; AGVA.; RUBY, JACK; BACKGROUND, AFFILIATION, LABOR UNION ACTIVITIES. CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/28/1993 COMMENTS : Box 243. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22 AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 179-10002-10130 RECORDS SERIES : WC DOCUMENT REVIEWED BY FBI FOR HSCA DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/1964 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : LEE, VINCENT; TABER, ROBERT; STANTON-BUCH, CHARLES; FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/10/1993 COMMENTS : p. 4CD 1084A ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23 AGENCY : LBJ RECORD NUMBER : 177-10002-10075 RECORDS SERIES : NSF, COUNTRY FILE, VIETNAM, SOUTHEAST ASIA, VOLUME 2, BOX 53 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : OSD FROM : CINCPAC TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : OPLAN 32-64 (PHASE II) SUBJECTS : NEED SUBJECT ASSIGNED CLASSIFICATION : SECRET CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : DOC. #66 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10110-10054 RECORDS SERIES : SECURITY CLASSIFIED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 025-JFK DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : SAC, DALLAS TO : DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 11/22/1963 PAGES : 46 DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT SUBJECTS : SOUETRE, JEAN, ALIASES; ROUX, MICHEL CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/08/1993 COMMENTS : FBI File No. 1-105-128529 (Souetre)Box 1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10103-10186 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 013992 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : HAUER, HOMER TO : SAC, MIAMI TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 04/09/1959 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM SUBJECTS : BROWDER, EDWARD; PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/28/1993 COMMENTS : Tabbed 244-13. Box 244. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40004-10436 RECORDS SERIES : 10: CHASE NATIONAL BANK DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 02/28/1964 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : DEMOHRENSCHILDT, GEORGE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ALSO IDENTIFIED AS NY 100-10310; P. 25-26; BOX F05 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27 AGENCY : CIA RECORD NUMBER : 104-10107-10191 RECORDS SERIES : JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : COLLINS RADIO DATE : 01/01/1977 PAGES : 21 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : NBR CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/04/1998 COMMENTS : JFK38 : F24 : 1998.08.04.11:49:29:123081 : NOT BELIEVED RELEVANT (NBR) THERE ARE 4 DOCUMENTS; THEY WERE DECLARED "NBR" BY THE ARRB, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARRB MEMO DATED 8 OCTOBER 1997. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10091-10174 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 008791 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : USSS FROM : GOFF, ROBERT O. TO : BLAKEY, G. ROBERT TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 05/26/1978 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : LETTER SUBJECTS : HURT, JOHN; USSS, FILES CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/18/1993 COMMENTS : Box #:160. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29 AGENCY : CIA RECORD NUMBER : 104-10215-10125 RECORDS SERIES : JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : BLOCK, MORRIS. DATE : 01/01/0000 PAGES : 78 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : NBR CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/24/1998 COMMENTS : JFK64-50 : F10 : 1998.04.24.12:27:06:436082 : NOT BELIEVED RELEVANT (NBR) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30 AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 179-10002-10150 RECORDS SERIES : WC DOCUMENT REVIEWED BY FBI FOR HSCA DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : LHM, WASHINGTON, D.C. DATE : 05/21/1964 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : SMALL, CHARLES; SMOLIKOFF, CHARLES CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/10/1993 COMMENTS : CD #1006 31 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10110-10163 RECORDS SERIES : SECURITY CLASSIFIED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : HDQ-65-69127-4 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 01/08/1965 PAGES : 3 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : OSWALD, LEE, RUSSIAN PERIOD, ASSOCIATES AND RELATIVES; JELISAVCIC, MICHAEL CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/16/1993 COMMENTS : Box 2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 32 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10071-10110 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 007644 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HSCA FROM : PURDY, ANDY TO : [No To] TITLE : NOTES, MARCH 1, 1978, FBI FILE DATE : 03/01/1978 PAGES : 3 DOCUMENT TYPE : NOTES SUBJECTS : CHEEK, BERTHA; OSWALD, LEE, BACKGROUND; RUBY, JACK, BACKGROUND, ASSOCIATES AND RELATIVES; CUBA; LYNCH, JESS; WC, FINAL REPORT; JOHNSON, GLADIS CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/07/1993 COMMENTS : 147-4. Typed notes taken from FBI files. Box 147. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 33 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10104-10337 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES. AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 009378 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HSCA FROM : LOUISANA MET. CRIME COMMISSION. TO : [No To] TITLE : BRUNO-ANGELO-PHILADELPHIA. DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : SUMMARY. SUBJECTS : LOUISANA MET. CRIME COMMISSION, FILES.; BRUNO, ANGELO.; ORGANIZED CRIME. CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/18/1993 COMMENTS : Box 172. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 34 AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 179-30001-10094 RECORDS SERIES : DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : HEW FROM : COHEN, WILBUR TO : GROVER, WAYNE TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 08/16/1965 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : RELEASE OF HEW DOCUMENTS CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : ORIGINAL & CARBON. BOX 4 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 35 AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40008-10388 RECORDS SERIES : 08: NUMBERED COMMISSION DOCUMENTS VI-04(8) 2-3 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : MADRID TO : SECRETARY OF STATE TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 12/30/1963 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : TANGIER REPORT * CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : LIMITED OFFICIAL USE; ALSO IDENTIFIED AS 36-M; BOX DOS3 * 32 Documents @ NARA under simple search Tangier _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 36 AGENCY : ROCKCOM RECORD NUMBER : 178-10002-10371 RECORDS SERIES : OLSEN-ROETHE FILE AGENCY FILE NUMBER : O-R (III-C) (1)(2) DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [RESTRICTED] DATE : 04/03/1975 PAGES : 154 DOCUMENT TYPE : TESTIMONY SUBJECTS : STURGIS, FRANK; [RESTRICTED]; CIA; ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES; CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS; CUBAN EXILES; MIAMI; ASSASSINATIONS, FOREIGN LEADERS; HUNT, E. HOWARD; [RESTRICTED]; FIORINI, FRANK CLASSIFICATION : TOP SECRET RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/11/1993 COMMENTS : Actually the testimony of Frank Sturgis only. Other individual made only one remark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 37 AGENCY : CIA RECORD NUMBER : 104-10193-10076 RECORDS SERIES : JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : CIA OP FILES ON WILLIAM HARVEY. DATE : 01/01/0000 PAGES : 123 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : NBR CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/08/1998 COMMENTS : JFK64-28 : F23 : 1998.04.08.10:20:06:233108 : NOT BELIEVED RELEVANT (NBR) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 38 AGENCY : DOJ RECORD NUMBER : 179-20002-10202 RECORDS SERIES : CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 18B DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOJ FROM : OLIVER, LEE TO : YEAGLEY, J. WALTER TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 2 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : GLYNNE, WILLIAM; STANFORD, PHILIP; BUICK, ROBERT CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : DOJ ROUTING SLIP; ATTACHED TO DIRECTOR TO AG 4/5/67, REPORT RE BUICK 4/3/67; BOX 57 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 39 AGENCY : CIA RECORD NUMBER : 104-10194-10017 RECORDS SERIES : JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : CIA OP FILES ON GUY VITALE. DATE : 01/01/0000 PAGES : 70 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : NBR CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/08/1998 COMMENTS : JFK64-29 : F14 : 1998.04.08.12:47:43:326108 : NOT BELIEVED REVELANT (NBR) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 40 AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10011-10021 RECORDS SERIES : PAPERS OF C. DOUGLAS DILLON AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 7 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOD FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : BACKGROUND PAPER DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : USSS CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1C CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/18/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : UPON AGENCY REVIEW COMMENTS : PAPERS OF C. DOUGLAS DILLON:SUBJECTS:THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON THE WARREN REPORT(DILLON COMMITTEE):UNDATED:BOX 35 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 41 AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10092-10074 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 001172 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : KELLEY, CLARENCE M. TO : FOWLKES, FRANK TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 09/10/1976 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : LETTER SUBJECTS : TRAPNELL, GARRETT B.; FBI; FILES CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/30/1993 COMMENTS : FOIA request. Box 25. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 42 AGENCY : SSCIA RECORD NUMBER : 157-10014-10240 RECORDS SERIES : MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTEE AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 07-M-145 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSCIA FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FOLLOW-UP DATE : 00/00/1975 PAGES : 36 DOCUMENT TYPE : CORRESPONDENCE SUBJECTS : VIETNAM; CIA; PFEIFFER, E. W.; CAMBODIA CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 01/21/1999 COMMENTS : CCBOX 441 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edited August 28, 2010 by Robert Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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