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104-10331-10210 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/13/1992)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch48042 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10331-10210 Ccn . C inta in pice Agency C CI COLLECTIO CIAPELEASE 9 FL 2000 i~ Mr. Bernard H. Martin Assistant Director for Legislative Reference Office of Management and Budget Washington, D.C. 20503 Dear Mr. Martin: This is in response to your request for the views of the Central Intelligence Agency on Senate Joint Resolution 282, the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992, and the corresponding House Joint Resolution 454 (the resolutions). The Central Intelligence Agency fully supports the fundamental premise underlying this legislation--that efforts should be made to declassify and make available to the public as expeditiously as possible government documents relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. In fact, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) has recently established and staffed a new unit within CIA responsible for review and declassification of documents of historical interest, including the JFK-related files, as part of the Agency's program of increased openness. However, several provisions of the resolutions raise serious concerns, as outlined below, and CIA cannot support them as currently drafted. Our comments will focus upon specific CIA concerns; many general issues raised by the resolutions are better addressed by the White House or the Department of Justice. Initially, the resolutions are focussed on records rather than the information contained in them. We are concerned that the Agency would not have the opportunity to object to release of CIA information contained in documents originated by Congress or the Warren Commission. Under the resolutions, documents originated by these entities can be released by the Executive Director of the Assassination Materials Review Board without any review by the President or other Executive Branch agencies. Similarly, there is no mechanism that would allow

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