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104-10331-10137 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/18/1998)

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                                                  18 February 1998

            MEMORANDUM FOR:     A
                               Acting CFhiet
                             Clearance Division, OPS

            FROM:            J. Barry Harrelson
                             Senior Reviewer

            SUBJECT:         Requested Mission Statement re
                             HRP/ARRB


                 1.  This is in response to your request asking that HRP
            provide you with a mission statement concerning HRP and
            its relationship to the Assassination Records Review Board.
            It flows from the fact that the ARRB staff has declared  the
            OPS files of Nagell, Novel and Ruby to assassination
            records and our subsequent request that the files or copies
            thereof be forwarded to HRP.  Also, certain portions of  the
            files of Walter Sheridan and Harold.Weisberg have or will be
            declared assassination records.

                 2.  The Historical Review Project  (formerly the
            Historical Review Group, CSI, DCI) has among its several
            projects the responsibility to deal with the presidentially
            appointed Assassination Records Review Board and  its legal
            mandate to find and transfer to the National Archives all
            U.S. Government records relating to the Assassination of
            President Kennedy.  The authority of the ARRB is  fairly
            broad and includes:  the authority to designate
            files/documents  assassination records, to determine if a
            particular record or certain information within  it must be
            released to the Archives or postponed until 2007, and,  the
            power to issue subpoenas in the pursuit of its assigned
            activities.

                 3.  In the instant case, the Board staff has designated
            the Nagell, Novel and Ruby security files assassination
            records.  Copies of them must now be processed by HRP
            according to its current guidelines for release/protection
            of information and the  files released to the Archives. With
            respect to the files on Sheridan and Weisberg,  further
            review by the Board is necessary to designate which,  if any,
            portions of them are assassination records.

                 4.  I hope that  the above fulfills your requirement in
            this matter and I look  forward to receipt of the files.




                                             J. Barry Harrels

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