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104-10331-10187 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/25/1997)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch79164 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10331-10187  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
(DRAFT)
CSI 1997-444
25 September 1997
MEMORANDUM FOR:                DO/LA
Fred Wickham, DO/IMS
FROM:            John F. Pereira
Chief, CSI/HRG
SUBJECT:         Priority Request from Chairman,
JFK Assassination Records Board
1. (S) The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of a
priority request from the Chairman of the JFK Assassination Records
Review Board (ARRB). The request concerns records related to Lee
Harvey Oswald that may be held by the Mexican Government.
2. (S) At his initiative, I met recently with the ARRB
Chairman, Judge John Tunheim. He said the reason for the meetin was
to ask that CIA assist the Board by making inquiries t         to
determine if the Mexican Government has certain records related to
Oswald's activities in Mexico in late 1963. Of particular interest
to the Board is whether the Mexicans have copies o  ta es from joint
K ~lt operations, including coverage of Oswald's telephone ca s
to thEi Soviet Embassy. He said that locating such records is the
highest priority of the Board. (The attached letter from the
ARRB's General Counsel explains the Board's interest.)
3. (S) Earlier this year, the Board sought unsuccessfully
to obtain information about Oswald from the Mexican Government
via the State Department. (See attached cable.) Mexico responded
by providing copies of the same material that had been made
available to the Warren Commission in 1964. The problem for the
Board was that, in making t  rart to mpwi n     it       t want
to reveal information  out.at
the Board knew of from CIA records . Being sensitive to  e
Agency's request to protect this information, Tunheim would like
the Agency to contact                directly on the Board's
behalf.
CL BY 018594:
CL REASON 1.5 (b,c,&d)
DECL BY X1
DRV FRM LIA 2-82

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