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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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ACTION EUR/NG (393) INFO CIC/CEG, CIC/ CEGEUR_ CIc/oG CIC/PRC _
EUDORECORD , EUR/ COPS , EUR/DCCI _ EUR/ LGL, EUR /NGUK , LIMITED _ MDSX , ODPD ,
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TOR : 3016202 JUL 98 LOND 19048
S E C R E T 3016212 JUL 98 STAFF
CITE LONDON 19048
TO IMEDIATE DIRECTOR _
FOR : LIMITED DISSEM EUR/NG INFO CIC /EUR _ EUR/ NGUK , EUR/ LGL _ EUR/ COPS
SLUGS WNINTEL RYBAT
SUBJECT : PROPOSED DECLASSIFICATION OF BSS DOCUMENT FOR RELEASE TO
<JFK-BOARD
REF DIRECTOR 908321 98 2225461
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1 ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE ADVISE: NEXT STEPS ON REVIEW / RELEASE
OF BSS DOCUUMENT PER PARA 3 IN LIGHT OF BSS' STRONG OBJECTIONS
2 REF DOCUMENT DESCRIBING 1963 INTERVIEW BY A BSS OFFICER OF
MRS LILLIAN SLOBODA WAS PASSED TO HlL/5 LIZ HOLEHOUSE MORNING 30.
JULY IN TWO SUBSEQUENT PHONE CONVERSATIONS , WHICH WERE FOLLOWED UP
WITH A TELEX , HOLEHOUSE ADVISED THAT BSS HAD REVIEWED THE 1963
DOCUMENT (CSCI-3/778 ,353) AND THE CASE _ AND BSS DOES NOT /NOT CONCUR
#WITH THE RELEASE OF A SANITIZED VERSION OF THIS DOCUMENT TO THE<JFK>
REVIEW BOARD TEXT OF BSS TELEX 766 OF 30 JULY OUTLINING BSS
OBJECTION TO RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENT IS AS FOLLOWS
" THE INFORMATION GIVEN TO THE SECURITY SERVICE BY MRS _ SLOBODA ,
AS RECORDED IN THE INTERVIEW REPORT WAS GIVEN TO US IN CONFIDENCE
AND PASSED TO THE U.S_ AUTHORITIES IN CONFIDENCE ALSO ON THE
GROUNDS OF ITS AGE AND THB PERSONAL NATURE OF ITS CONTENT WE WOULD
NOT PUBLICLY RELEASE SUCH A REPORT IN THE UK AND ASK THE U.S _
AUTHORITIES TO WITHHOLD IT FROM PUBLIC RELEASE IN THE USA _ m
3 PLEASE ADVISE FOR STATION AND BSS INFORMATION WHAT HAPPENS
NEXT WITH DECLASSIFICATION, 'RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENT HOLEHOUSE HAS
#ASKED WHETHER . IN FACT , WE CAN DENY RELEASE TO THE<JFK-REVIEW BOARD
GIVEN BSS OBJECTIONS WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER EXPLANATION
HQS CAN PROVIDE FOR BSS ON THE REVIEW BOARD' S INTEREST IN SOVIET
DEFECTORS BSS IS SOMEWHAT PUZZLED BY THE REQUEST TO RELEASE THIS
* PARTICULAR DOCUMENT SINCE THERE IS NO APPARENT CONNECTION TO. THE<JFK>
*ASSASSINATION>OTHER THAN THE TIME FRAME
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