LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM FRANK G. BURKE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 27, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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JUN 2 5 1985
Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
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The President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy transferred its records to the National Archives in
November 1964 to be "permanently preserved under the rules and
regulations of the National Archives and applicable Federal law"
(Report of the Commission, p. XV). The records included some
documents which are withheld from disclosure by specific
statutes, security classified records, investigatory files
compiled for law enforcement purposes, and medical and personnel
records. It was apparent that the records of-the Commission
would have to be reviewed on a document-by-document basis in
order to identify the relatively few documents of this nature
that could not immediately be made available for research.
Reviews of the records have been conducted in accordance with
"Guidelines for Review of Materials Submitted to the President's
Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," which were
prepared by the Department of Justice in consultation with the
agencies which furnished records to the Commission (copy
enclosed). Under these guidelines (page 2) it is the
responsibility of the Archivist of the United States to arrange
for successive reviews of the records of the Commission that are
withheld from research. As it is now ten years since the review
of the records of the Commission in 1975, it is time for the
documents that are withheld from research to be reviewed again as
indicated in the last paragraph of the guidelines. The National
Archives will be pleased to show the documents withheld from
research at the request of your Agency to any members of your
staff who may be selected to review them.
These records, of course, should be reviewed under the terms of
the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) as amended, and one
or more of the specific exemptions listed in 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)
National Ard~ir~es and Recorris Adm?ristrrrtio~r
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should be cited as the basis for withholding any documents that
you request the National Archives to withhold from research.
Security classified documents should also be reviewed under the
terms of Executive Order 12356 and one of the specific bases for
classification of documents listed in the order (Section 1. 3), as
well as the level of classification desired, should be cited as
the basis for continued classification of any documents you do
not feel should be declassified.
The following staff members of the National Archives may be
called for any additional information that may be needed:
Mr. Clarence F. Lyons, Jr., Chief, Judicial, Fiscal, and Social
Branch, or Mr. Marion M. Johnson, on 523-3089.
Sincerely,
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FRANK G. BURKE
Acting Archivist
of the United States
[phone]
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is underscc~rc~~l.
GUIDELINES FOR R[:VIEW CF i>f ~rn~ ~ i den
of i_nformrit:i_un and impecl~ ~~r j~ol~arciii~~ fci~iirc~
i.nvesLigationti by precluding or lir~i tiny; the use
of the same or similar sources hereafter;
(~) Would be a socirce of embarrassment to innocent
persons, wlio sire the subject, source, or apparent
source of *he material in ~1!est-iar., hecau:e ; r
contains Bossily and rumor ter. details of a personal
nature having no significant connection with the
assassination of the President.
Whenever one of thc~ ,-hove reasons far nondisclosure may
apply, your department should, in determining whether or
not to authorize di~c?1c~cure, weigh thai reason against- the
overriding policy c-f t hc~ 1?;xecutiv~ Branch favoring rhN
fullest possible disclosure.
Unless sooner released to the public, classif-ie~l and
unclassific+d materi ~, 1 r~hich i; not i:ow mace availahl~ to
the public sh,111, ,~s .~ minimum, be reviewed by the .a ;c~ncy
concel-11Zd live yeat?~ .lulu ten ye.cr~ i]1 Ler ~11C llllt1:11
examination has been completed, and in addition must hC`
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revietoed ~.~henever n~~cev~ary to li~,?_}~rc~m}~t and pr~~~c~r nr.o-
cessing of a Frceclom of Inf~rmatic>>1 recuest. Tl~e criteria
applied in the initi-at examination, outlined above, should
be applied to determine whether changed circumst~~tnces will
permit further ,disclosure. Similar revie~os should tae ~inder-
taken at ten-year intervals until all materials are opened for
legitimate researc}; ~~~~??ro~es , Thy Rr~hi~~i-s t- of --h~ ~ >>r?i r~~d
States ~.~ill arrange for such review at the appropriate
time. Whenever possible provision should be made for the
automatic declassification of classified material which
cannot be declassified at this time,
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