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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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Assassination Records Review Board
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(202) 724-0088 Fax: (2021 724-0457
October 28, 1997
Mr: David W. Carey
Executive Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Re: Completing _theReview of EK Assassination Records
Dear Nr. Carey:
Iwould like to congratulate you on new
appointment at the Agency and wish you
the very best of success in the difficult challenges that lie ahead
As you probably are aware, the Assassination Records Review Board has been
mandated by Congress and the President t0 oversee the declassification and transfer to
the National Archives of all records related to the assassination of President Kennedy:
the past three years we have received excellent cooperation from CIA in regard
to the processing of the relevant Agency records From our perspective, this is due in
significant patt to the work of John Pereira, Chief of the Historical Review Group, and
J Barry Harrelson, who has shouldered the extremely complicated, burdensome; and
frequently thankless task of overseeing the project Both of them have proved to be
superb representatives of the Agency: We also very much appreciated receiving a
strong message of support from your predecessor, Nora Slatkin, who advised Us in a
meeting on October 16,1996, ofher full support for the project and her willingness to
commit the necessary Agency resources t0 complete the project
Because the Review Board is nOw in the final twelve months of its statutory tenure, I
thought it would be appropriate t0 advise you of our for the upcoming year: It is
our Wish to be able to state in our Final Report to the President and to Congress that
CIA has made all reasonable attempts to locate; review, and declassify all available
records on the Kennedy assassination We would like the Review Board to be able to
assure the American people that the Agency has been fully cooperative in this
enormous and difficult task, and that the Agency no longer retains any "i 'secret" files on
the assassination: In addition, we are obligated to Congress informed, on a
monthly basis, of the status of our work and any difficulties that would interfere with
our
ability to achieve our objective:
Although many important strides have been made to further our goals, we nevertheless
perceive that the pace of review and declassification of Agency records will need to be
BoARO Members: John R. Tunheim, Chair Henry F Graff Kermit L: Hall William L. Joyce Anna K Nelson?z
Executive DIRector: David G: Marwell
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accelerated in order for us t0 succeed:' We must in mind that the includes
reviewing processing; and transferring to the custody of the National Archives all
identified assassination records by September 1, 1998. (We do not perceive that
duplicate copies of such records need be transferred by September 1) Many time-
consuming difficulties inherent in this project have been overcome, and we perceive
that the pace of review is accelerating: Nevertheless, we wanted t0 signal to yOu our
concern that, unless the pace of review increases further, we may not be on target to
satisfy what I hope to be our common objective
It is our firm intention to complete our task within the congressionally mandated time
limit: If CIA is unable to pre-review and process its records consistent with completion
of this task, the Review Board will vote to release-in-full all relevant CIA records and
mandate that custody be transferred to the National Archives in a timely way: We
sincerely hope that it will not be necessary for the Board t0 make wholesale decisions on
unreviewed records and we will be pleased to work with the Agency to see that such a
step is unnecessary. But we are prepared t0 make such decisions to the extent they are
required to fulfill our Own responsibilities Although it is our perception that CIA may
wish to devote additional human resources t0 this project; We Of course leave such
decisions to the sound judgment of knowledgeable CIA officials.
We therefore strongly urge the Agency to take all appropriate steps to complete its
review of records in an orderly and systematic manner: To the extentthat the Agency is
able to satisfy appropriate deadlines, there will be no need for us to resort to any
unfortunate but potentially necessary measures to complete our own obligations to
Congress, the President, and the American people
Ifyou would find it helpful, the Review Board members and I woud be pleased to
discuss these issues with you or others at the Agency:
Sincerely ,
T. Jerery Guhn
Executive Directol
CC: Assassination Records Review Board
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20S05
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
21 November 1997
CSI 97-536
Dr _ T_ Jeremy Gunn
Executive Director
Assassination Records
CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Review Board
600 E Street_ NW
RELEASE AS SANITIZED
Washington , D 20530 2000
Dear Dr Gunn:
Thank you for your letter of 28 October in which you
outline the Assassination Records Review Board' s goals for
the coming year _ I appreciate the complimentary remarks you
made about the excellent cooperation" that CIA has been
providing to the Board.
You raised 2 concern that the Agency may not be able to
increase sufficiently the pace of the review process to meet
the 1 September 1998 deadline for completing the transfer of
records to the National Archives You also expressed the
view that if any records are not reviewed by the deadline
the Board will vote to release them in full and mandate that
custody be transferred to the National Archives _
You can be assured that we are committed to taking all
necessary steps to meet our statutory obligation to review
all Of the Agency' s assassination-related materials_ It is
important that a proper review of all relevant records be
done _ This will allow uS to recommend to the Board what
information warrants continued protection_
We appreciate the great responsibility that Congress
and the President kave given to the Board to inform the
American people about the assassination. We 'share the
Board' s goal of declassifying and releasing the relevant
records to the fullest extent possible-
Please convey my regards to Chairman Tunheim and the
other Board members _ ana assure them of our continued
cooperation_
Sincerely,
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David W_ Carey DCt
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FROM: John F. Pereira
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DATE: 11/06/97 11.38.33 AM
SUBJECT: CSI Resource Request regarding JFK
In Brian Latell's absence, I am providing the following response to the Exdirs questions regarding the
request for additional resources for review of JFK documents:
1. What is the size of the JFK declassification problem ? How much work remains to be done ?
An additional 40-50,000 pages of CIA records remain to be reviewed by 30 September
1998:
large volume of documents are being referred to CIA by other agencies for review,
including the FBI, State, and Presidential Libraries The documents are either CIA-originated
or contain CIA intormation: No figures are available, but we estimate at least 40,000 pages:
The JFK Board has also asked CIA to re-review approximately 130,000 pages of material that
we released earlier to the National Archives: The reason is t0 deterine whether
infommation deleted earlier can now be released.
2 How many people do you have working on the JFK project now ?
Following are dedicated to the JFK project:
One staff officer (Project leader Barry Harrelson)
13 independent contractors (work 3/4 days per week)
The DO unit detailed to CSI to coordinate the review of JFK records recently added two
contractors and may add more.
3. What difference would X more make ?
The additional resources requested would allow us to increase the pace of the review of
CIA documents and third agency referrals: Unless the pace is increased, it is highly unlikely
that the Board's requirement t0 complete the review and declassification of all JFK-related
records by 30 September 1998 could be met:
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TO: Rebecca V. Strode
FROM: Cynthia R_Bower
OFFICE: COMPT
DATE: 11/06/97 12.09.41 PM
SUBJECT: Re: CSI Resource Request regarding JFK
Some background information for you:
(S) First; although Congress authorized and appropriated $5.5 million for classification_management, itis
unlikely_that_CSLwillreceive_the_full_S5_5 million Why2 Congress Tevied a tax on DoD procurement that
will have a significant impact on CIA's program because of the fact that our entire budget is incorporated in
DoD's budget as Other Procurement _Air Force As a-result of that tax,CIA has to take about a $49 million
reduction across all_programs (per_SAC_direction) This_will impact on all activities including new adds:
Each activity can expect to lose about 1% Of its resources }We will identify specifically how to take this cut
at Friday's offsite.
(C)In addition, CIA has a large FY98 unfunded bill (about $143million)- On Friday, we will determine_how
to reduce andlor_pay that bill: One of the proposals on the table for paying_that bill is to use_some of the
Congressional add money obviously, we would have to work thiskwith the Hill;} but the bottom Iine is that
some of the declass money may be redirected to other priorities:
(C)Finally, we may decide to use some of the adds to prepay some FY99 shortfalls; We are already
aware of a shortfall in FY99 of about $180 million:
(U) So, the bottom line is that no one should count on getting the full amount of their add until we have
finalized our decisions on FY98 and FY99 unfundeds.
(C) All that said, if CSI does receive some or all of the money added by Congress, they do have the
flexibility to allocate that money to other priorities However, they should attempt to meet the spirit of the
language in the Authorization Act. Specifically, the language reads, "The Senate bill added $5.5 million to
enhance declassification efforts, with a particular emphasis on those documents relating to
Guatemala and Honduras. The House amendment added $8 million for classification management: the
conferees agree to provide $5.5 million for declassification and classification management and request
that the Director of CSI report to the Congressional Intelligence Committees on progress in declassifying
documents of historical significance, the volume of documents involved, the mechanism for review, the
anticipated date of completion of this effort, and how the process can be improved:=
(U) Hope this helps: CRB
CC: Mary K_ Sturtevant
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31 October 1997
Requoet for Additionel Bunda tor: tho JEK Addaddination
Recordg Review Project, through 31 Beptember 1998 .
Rezerance : Ltr to Executive Drector foru J. Jeremy Gunn,
Executlve Director Asea88ination Recorde Review Boara
(ARRB) copy attached.
Backargund_
1 The ARRB will go out Of buaineeb on 31 geptember
1990 _ Before that date, it hab a Btatutory obligatLon to
compiete ite revlew Of all records held by che 0.8 _
dovernment whlch relate to the ab8a88ination 0f Preeident
deterulne thoge whlab are relevant to the Kegzedkhadeceratoe,thoa
engure that the game are trangferred
to the NatLonal Archiveb . Ag the board begins it8 Einal
year, it ha8 become IncreaaLngly concerned about the pace Of
the revlew and tranefer proceae_ Referent letter ia the
lategt Of a
number of exchanged dealing with that concern _
2 CSI/HRO hag Carefully reviewed itB current position
wIth respect to Ita; ablity to meet the deadlInea Impoged
and baa Concluded that it cannot fully do 80 without
additional regourceg , at least through 30 September. 1998 _
Thla conclueton 10 baded In large measure on three changed
circumatanceo :
A The ARRB hag recently exercLeed Ita gtatutory
authority and dealgnated adaltlonal CIA recorde to be wlthin
the JFK Collectlon (to date approxlmately twenty cublc feet
Or 40,000 Pageb) Additional recorda may be LdentLfled a8
the ARRB ataff contInueg Ite revlew Of Agency Ellee_
B Over the pagt three months we have received an
increage in the number Of Aggagainatlon Recorda" 'referred
from third agencLee whLch include both Agency: documentb held
by another agency or third agenoy documente wblch muat be
reviewea becauee they contatn CIA information; and
The ARRB Iteelf hae egtabliehed a deadline which wab
not antlcipated. All agenciee had understood that the
review procebe and ARRB action would have to be completed by
30 September_ buc it waa
widely aggumed that Einal
proceebing and trangfer Of the documente to the National
Archives could occur after that date_ However, the Board na8
now mandated that all relevant recorda which are not
duplicatee muat be, transferred to custody of the National
Archlveg before it goes out Of businege .
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ead-tlonal Regources_Requeeted:
3 < Tbe following estimate Lo babed On Our
undergtanding
Of the ARRB reguiramenta at thib time.
A Revlaw Of records: equlvalent OE 2 man-yeare (3
contractore 39
average daily contractor cost
5270) $
B Preparatlon Of documenta for National Archiveb :
equlvalent Of 1.5 man-year8 (2 contractorb 43
average daily contractor cobt S180) $
Indoxing: approxlnately one-man Year Of overtIme:
(825 hourly rate) ,
D_ Reproductlon: approximately one-man year Of
overtlie (825 pourly rate) _
Eatlmted cobt]FY98 : S300, 000
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Raquaet Eor Fundd tor Dacladalfidation of Rorean Douante
1 Bacgrqa: In December 1995, the Director of_
Central Intell gence draftea a Pollcy Drective calllng for
the implementation of a community-Wde oyetematic
declassification program under thbe leaderohip of Ebe Center
for the Study Of Incelligence (CSI) The Couunity
Hibtorical Roview Advisory Committee (CHRAC) chalred bY the
Director 0f CSI, was formad last year to
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diractive &nd to select and priorltlze topice Eor
hletorical declageiflcation ravlew by the Intelligence
Cauuunity. At the October meetlng 0f the CHRAC, tha agency
reprebentativas @pproved the revLew of materlalu ralated to
the Korean War a8 tbe flrat toplc for hetorlcal
declagaificetion to be done collectively by tha Intelligence
Comunity-
3_ The_Korean_Prolect_ Fundg are requested for the
Agency to fully participate In thie project. With fundlng,
CSI in cooperation Wlth the Agency' 8 automatic decia8a fication_progran
(OIM/IRGIADD) will revlew for'
poseibla decla8efElcatlon _intelllgenca records ralated to
the Korean Mar perlod (1 January 1950 chrough 27 July 1953) _
The raview would ba done concurrently with the rebt of tba
Intelligence Community. Tbe' Jolne effort will be
coordinated by CSI.
3 _ Ihe_Rroledt €Cost - PrelInlnary rebearch done by
CTA' 8 Hletory etafe inalcates there are approxlmately 10o
boxeb_ about 150,000 pages; of materlal that wilL bava to be
revlewed Erom archival material belonging to several Agency
dlrectorates _ The following coate would be Incurred Guring
gud a revlew:
Document PreparatLon (select pertlnent documente for
copying ana orgenize them for revlewers) One contractor
for 50 day8 (S13, 000)
Go3vino Expensee One copler, at 75 pages per hour for
bourg (S50, 000)
Document Review (contractor document review to make
declaguification deterninations with guldance supplied by
staff supervieor) One contractor dolng 2 reviews of
each document at & rate of 200 pageg per (s390,000)
Concractor 1a approxlmataly 6270 per
Copiere are approxlmately $25 per hour_
Net Caktr:
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Document Maggaging (ioput 0f btaff supervigor_ tine for
outside coordination,
and Dreparation o.VZioai Copied for
NARA) Approximately 1/3 Of a bteff off-cer- '8 tlme for
and 2 contractore for a total of 384 daye {6is5,ooof
TOTAL COST s588,000'
Tho total Le 4 congervative eatimate that could eecalace depending
upon the complaxity of the project and the need for outaLde
ooordnatLon Cost? not Includea Ln thle total ar0 Daper , Cobt of
equlpment malntenance: ADP_Bupport, documenc coordination expenses of
oeher dlreccorateb_ Bhare of Cobe OE CSI 0upport perbonnel and Cobt Of
putting fInlehed decla88ifled documente Into MORI _