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104-10330-10070 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/13/1996)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch47906 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10330-10070 SECRET Central Intelligence Agency wzagoUC20SOS 13 December 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director Assassination Records Review Board SUBJECT: (U) Identity of Human Sources (We request that this memorandum be returned to CIA once the Review Board has completed its deliberations on the issues discussed below.) 1. (U) Issue. The purpose of this memorandum is to relate CIA's concerns to the Review Board regarding the release of the true names of human sources of intelligence which appear in the JFK Collection and to present a proposal on how this problem could be addressed. I. Factual Background 2. (U) In general, CIA sources are foreign nationals, recruited and living in a foreign country, who provide information to the U.S. Government under a promise of confidentiality. Their act of passing information to the U.S. is generally against the national interest of their own country and would be considered espionage, which is a capital offense in most countries. Just as in this country when a spy is caught, should a CIA source be discovered, it would be headline news, even 30 years after the fact. The Review Board will recall that when former National Security Agency employee Robert Lipka was arrested approximately a year ago for espionage he allegedly committed 30 years earlier, this received a lot of attention in the United States. Lipka is currently awaiting trial in the U.S. for his alleged espionage activities. 3. (U) This month, the Review Board will be considering approximately 50-60 true names of human sources for release. These particular sources range from encrypted CL BY: 01 50 4 CL REASON: 1.5(c) DECL ON: X1 DRV FM: HUM 4-82 SECRET

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