HSCA REQUEST OF 8 JUNE 1978 (OLC #78-2095)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200130074-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: January 1, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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FROM F.W.M. Janney
Director of Personnel
SUBJECT . HSCA Request of 8 June 1978 (OLC #78-2095)
The following responses. were compiled by the Office of Personnel
and the DDO and are keyed to questions by the HSCA concerning the
Official Personnel File and the 201 File of Mr. Richard E. Snyder.
la. The Office of Personnel File was flagged at the request
of DDO/CI to be sure that any inquiries on Mr. Snyder
would be referred to the Office of the Director of Personnel
for further check with DDO/CI.
lb. There is no additional information on file in the Office
of the Director of Personnel on Mr. Snyder. All previous
information was incorporated into Mr. Snyder's Official
Personnel File on 24 June 1974. Since none of the docu-
ments bear a marking to indicate they were in a "separate"
file, there is no way of knowing which documents were
incorporated into the Office of Personnel File in 1974.
2. It is assumed that the annotator considered the notation
on the control card sufficient.
3a. The notation on the Routing and Pecord Sheet was made
by DC/CI in October 1970. This Routing and Record Sheet
was attached to a 5 October 1970 memorandum for Chief,
CI Support in which a comment made by Richard Helms in
1964 is quoted in paragraph 2. In 1964 Mr. Helms was
DDP, but in 1970 when the notation was made on the Routing
and Record Sheet he was DCI. It is possible that DC/CI
was referring to Mr. Helms in his 1970 capacity when he
made the notation.
3b. The Office of Personnel does not know what "matter of cover"
DC/CI was referring to in his notation on the Routing; and
Record Sheet as there is nothing in Mr. Snyder's Official
Personnel File to indicate his cover status while employed.
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4. The Office of Personnel does not know what Project 9D-1-
SGHOUSE was. However, it is apparent from a review of
Mr. Snyder's personnel actions that he was never assigned
to that project.
5a. Mr. Snyder was paid from unvouchered funds for the entire
period of his employment, 8 November 1949 to 26 September
1950.
5b. According to the Office of Finance, the only compensation
payment received by Mr. Snyder after his resignation from
the Agency on 26 September 1950 was made on 21 November 1950.
This was pay due for 56 regular hours of work for the period
ending 30 September 1950 and for 49 hours of terminal leave.
5c. There is no record in Mr. Snyder's Official Personnel File
that he ever worked, directly or indirectly, in any capacity
for the CIA after his resignation on 26 September 1950.
6a. Unknown. However, it is possible that the term referred to
a Standard Form (SF-8), Notice to Federal Employees About
Unemployment Compensation. This form is given to each
employee who resigns from the Agency.
6b. Unknown.
7. In 1975 a file review was performed in the DDO of all 201's
on U.S. citizens; whereby the 201 would be destroyed unless
one of the A codes applied. This review was usually done
by Records Officers. Since this 201 was opened by the CI
Staff (and Snyder was never used operationally by the DDO)
the AS code was the category deemed appropriate.
8. The 201 file opening sheet has a machine code number for
the office who opens the 201 (the action desk). In this
case it is CI/RA. Each office has "country" codes, which
would be used for operational use, and "non-country" codes,
which are used for more administrative purposes (policy,
management, admin, info, etc.) The number 737 (number 18
on the opening form) is a "non-country" code which means
this file is a "non-country" file of interest to CI/RA.
The 201 file was opened in March 1964 on the basis of an
SE officer's Memorandum for the Record which was given a
document number XAAZ 16997.
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9. On 19 September-1956 the request for documents was submitted
to RI/FILES. Three of the documents requested were retired
to RI/Archives. On 20 September 1956 the requestor asked
RI/Archives to retrieve the documents from the Records
Center. The notation (in red) dated 22 September by RI/
Archives indicated that the document had to be cleared for
access and review by the restricting desk (CI/OA). All
CI/OA files are either retained in CI/OA or retired to the
Records Center and restricted by CI/OA.
10a. The phrase "retained in CI/OA" again refers to the CI/OA
file which is retained in CI/OA.
10b. The notation is to tell the requestor where to go to see the
file.
lOc. Re the term "destroyen(?)":
Tt would probably mean that the index cards were being
destroyed because they did not meet the criteria for
DDP indexing. It has been the responsibility of DDP
officers to continually improve our records. One of these
duties has been to review results of all traces to see if
the indexing meets the criteria for indexing, correct
:errors, etc. All three of these items so marked were in
Personnel files and are not the type material carded in
DDP (DD0) indices.
hla. Extensive research has not revealed why SE Division would
have run a name trace on Snyder in September 1963. There
are no internal cards on Snyder and no leads as to why he
would have come to their attention at that time.
llb. The results of this name trace are in the file attached
to the name trace form and are the subject of HSCA's
question 10.
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