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* SUBJECT BKGB ACCESS SUPPORT TO USG<ASSASSINATION>RECORD REVIEW
BOARD
REF : NONE
TEXT :
1 ACTION REQUIRED : PLEASE SEE BELOW TRACES ON SUBJS IN PARA_
5 ; GUIDANCE ON ARRB- BKGB ACCESS REQUEST _
2 ON MORNING 6 MAR 98 POLECON_OFFICER AND DCM MET WITH COS} TO
ALERT HIM TO POSSIBLE NEED FOR STATION SUPPORT TO FACILITATE FUTURE
MEETING (S) WITH BKGB BY EMBASSY OR OTHER USG PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN
FOLLOWUP INQUERIES ON BEHALF OF USG S<ASSASSINATION>RECORD REVIEW
BOARD (ARRB) ARRB IS CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED AND FUNDED BODY
* LOOKING AT ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO<ASSASSINATION>OF PRESIDENT<JOHN>
*F < KENNEDY OF INTEREST IN MINSK ARE RECORDS HELD BY THE BKGB
*RELATED TO<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>AND THE TIME HE SPENT HERE ARRB
APPARENTLY WANTS COPIES OF ALL THESE BKGB RECORDS TO MAKE THEM
AVAILABLE FOR SCHOLARLY REVIEW AND RESEARCH PURPOSES
3 PER POLECON OFFICER THE ARRB CHAIRMAN (A RESPECTED RETIRED
FEDERAL JUDGE HAD REPORTEDLY MADE INQUERIES HERE IN OCTOBER 1996 , AT
WHICH TIME STATION HAD _ WITH HQS CONCURRENCE FACILITATED BKGB
MEETINGS (BUT LSTATION WAS APPARENTLY DIRECTED BY HQS TO AVOID ALL
OTHER INVOLVEMENT ) BKGB TOOK REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS
UNDER REVIEW _ BUT NO DOCUMENTS WERE EVER PROVIDED WHEN PRESSED ,
BKGB SAID THEY WOULD ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS BUT THEIR PRIVACY
LAWS" WOULD NOT LET THEM RELEASE RECORDS WHICH RELATE TO LIVING
BELARUSSIANS PER POLECON _ THIS SPEFICALLY INCLUDED OSWALD S FORMER
WIFE MARINA ) ARRB PRESENTED LENGTHY LIST OF DETAILED _ LEGALISTIC ,
AND (WHAT POLECON OFFICER HERSELF A LAWYER _ DESCRIBED AS) ONEROUS
QUERIES BKGB NEVER RESPONDED
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4 EMBASSY UNDERSTOOD THAT LEGISLATIVE MANDATE FOR ARRB HAD
EXPIRED IN FALL 1997 , SO DID NOT FOLLOWUP FURTHER HOWEVER _ MANDATE
WAS APPARENTLY EXTENDED TO FALL 1998 AND ARRB S INTEREST IN BKGB
INFORMATION HAS BEEN REACTIVATED ARRB TEAM MAY WISH TO COME TO
MINSK TO TRY AGAIN TO OBTAIN THESE RECORDS FROM BKGB OR AT LEAST GET
EMBASSY TO REVITALIZE EFFORTS TO DO SO
5 FOR THE RECORD (AND HQS TRACES) AT THE TIME OF THE ARRB ' S
OCT 1996 MEETINGS WITH BKGB ARRB MET PRINCIPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING
BKGB OFFICIALS
ALEKSANDR (VERAS) HEAD OF SECTION (NFI)
LEV (PIMENAU) ) HEAD OF SECTION (NFI)
ALEKSANDR (ABLAMEIKA) PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT
AT SOME POINT DURING MEETINGS THEY WERE JOINED BY :
GENNADIY (NARKEVICH) PHONETIC) A DEPUTY
CHAIRMAN _ BKGB (THIS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY
IDEN
REQUEST HQS TRACES ON FOUR BKGB OFFICERS ABOVE
COMPLICATING ALL THIS IS FACT THAT AT SOME POINT _ AUTHOR
NORMAN MAILER (APPARENTLY WITH EMBASSY ACCESS ASSISTANCE) WAS GIVEN
ACCESS TO (SOME ALL? OF) THE BKGB S OSWALD RECORDS WHICH MAILER
REFERS TO EXTENSIVELY IN HIS BOOK "OSWALD'S TALE AN AMERICAN
MYSTERY ,_"_PUBLISHED-IN_ 1995 AFTER THE FACT PER POLECON_ OFEICER
BKGB REALIZED THAT MAILER MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROFITS FROM THIS BOOK ,
ANDTHAT-THE BKGB_ HAD -GOTTEN NOTHING_ FOR PROVIDING_ACCESS-FO-THETR
RECORDS THUS THEY REPORTEDLY FELT THEY HAD BEEN CHEATED_
7 BALL IS NOW IN STATE S COURT _ BUT THEY AND EMBASSY EXPECT
THAT_REQUEST WILL BE FORTHCOMING FROM ARRB IN NEAR FUTURE ANDTHENCE
TO STATION_ TQ FACILITATE MEETINGS WITH BKGB ON THIS MATTER TO BE A
BIT AHEAD OF THE CURVE REQUEST HQS GUIDANCE AND AUTHORIZATION As
APPROPRIATE
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