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Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW * 2nd Floor * Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088* Fax: (202) 724-0457
November 27, 1996
VIA FACSIMILE
The Honorable John M. Deutch
Director of Central Intelligence
The Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Re: The Central Intelligence Agency's Compliance with the JFK Assassination
Records Collection Act. 44 U.S.C. 9 2107
Dear Mr. Deutch:
Since 1994, the Assassination Records Review Board (Review Board) has been
working with a number of Federal agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency,
to locate and publicly release records related to the assassination of President Kennedy.
These actions have been taken pursuant to The President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection'Act of 1992,44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994) (JFK
Act). We have been working with Mr. John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group
and Mr. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, Historical Review Group of CIA and
have appreciated the cooperation we have received.
The purpose of this letter is to request your agency's cooperation in assisting the
Review Board in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American
people that the goals of the JFK Act have been accomplished to the greatest reasonable
extent. We want to assure the American people that the United States Government has
identified, located, and released all records relating to the assassination of President
Kennedy. Indeed, one of the paramount purposes of the JFK Act is to certify to the
public that the.United States Government is not withholding relevant materials related
to the assassination. See, e.g., Assassination Materials Disclosure Act, H. R. Rep. No. 102-
625, Part 1, 102d Cong. 2d Sess. (1992) (The Federal Governments failure to release
official materials has contributed to numerous conspiracy theories and fueled charges of
government complicity in the assassination .. . a salutary purpose is served in opening
these files [relating to the JFK assassination ] to allay the suspicion of government
cover-up.).
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/jfkarch47904&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)