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Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor * Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088 * Fax: (202) 724-0457
January 28, 1997
Mr. John Pereira
Director
Historical Review Group
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Re: Request for Additional Information and Records No. CIA-16
(Oswald Pre-Assassination Files)
Dear John:
Under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992,44
U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994), the Review Board has the authority to direct-a -
Government office to ... investigate the facts surrounding, additional information [and]
records... . Section 7(J)(1)(C)(ii). Pursuant to this authority, the Review Board is
seeking to resolve in a complete and comprehensive manner certain questions related to
files on Lee Harvey Oswald that CIA may have held prior to the assassination of
President Kennedy. Accordingly, we request that CIA provide complete and
comprehensive answers to the questions identified below.
On May 12,1992, Director Robert M. Gates testified to the Senate Committee on
Governmental Affairs regarding CIA's records on Oswald prior to the assassination.
Mr. Gates testified that [p]rior to President Kennedy's assassination, CIA held only a
smallfile on Lee Harvey Oswald that consisted of 34 documents amounting to 124
pages ..... (The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1972: Hearing Before the
Committee on Governmental Affairs, 100th Cong., 2d Sess. 52 (1992) (emphasis added)
(copy enclosed). It is the Review Board's current understanding, however, that at the
time of the assassination, CIA held at least three separate files (including soft files) on
Lee Harvey Oswald: a 201 file (201-289248), an HTLINGUAL file, and an Office of
BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair * Henry F Graff - Kermit L. Hall * William L Joyce * Anna K Nelson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: David G. Marwell](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch19318&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)