National Archives releases first batch of 2017 JFK documents

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Kelly's Top Ten Newly Released Records

Bill Kelly's Top Ten Newly Released Records

JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release


The National Archives and Records Administration is releasing documents previously withheld in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The vast majority of the Collection (88%) has been open in full and released to the public since the late 1990s. The records at issue are documents previously identified as assassination records, but withheld in full or withheld in part.


This first batch of releases consists of 3,810 documents, including 441 formerly withheld-in-full documents and 3,369 documents formerly released with portions redacted. The documents originate from FBI and CIA series identified by the Assassination Records Review Board as assassination records. More releases will follow.

Except for the Collins Radio file, most of these records are among the first batch previously released with redactions.

NARA:
JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release | National Archives

Many thanks to the folks at Black Vault who downloaded the complete batch and reformatted it so they are more easily scanned and reviewed.

Black Vault:
The Withheld JFK Assassination Documents - The Black Vault

These are not in any particular order other than the order I reviewed them.

1) The Collins Radio - 104-10107-10191 - (Not from the previously released with redactions group).
DOCID-32358065.PDF - [ JFKCountercoup2: New Collins Radio Document Released ]

2) Martin and Mitchell - 104-10219-10088. 104-10219-10088.pdf - Report from inside Russia on NSA defectors William H. Martin and Beron F. Mitchell, confirming they went to Moscow via Mexico and Cuba, the same route Oswald wanted to take.

3) Drew Pearson's interview with Khrushchev - 104-10003-10064 DOCID-32105956.PDF. Khrushchev disbelieves the Warren Report and criticized American intelligence agencies. "Pearson repeated that the reaction of Chairman Khrushchev and his wife was one of flat disbelief and archetypical of the universal European belief that there was some kind of American conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Oswald....could not believe that the affair had happened as it apparently did and Mr. Pearson made no headway whatsoever in trying to change their belief that something was not on the level. Chairman Khruschev greeted Mr. and Mrs. Pearson's efforts with a tolerant smile..."

4) ROSELLI:CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS. 157-10014-10236. DOCID-32423624.PDF. Drew Pearson's protege Jack Anderson interviews John Rosselli immediately after he testified in secret Congressional hearing about his CIA Cuban activities, four plots to kill Castro and his case officer William Harvey. "The CIA has maintained throughout that the Oswald 201 file was a complete compilation of the material related to the assassination of President Kennedy. However, information relating to who Lee Harvey Oswald was, and what he was doing are not included in their files. The Oswald 201 file does not attempt to question Oswald's connection with both pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups or any of the AMLASH information. The most notable subject missing was information relating to CIA/U.S. Government attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro." Note: Anderson's story beings on page 27 and the Rosselli Chronology begins on page 38. Anderson: "So here is Rosselli's own account of a real-life 'Mission Impossible' - the attempt to kill Castro. It is a story of cash payments, poison pellets, high-powered rifles and powerboat dashes to Cuba."

5) Rock Com transcript of Fletcher Prouty interview. 178-10004-10418. DOCID-32105600.PDF.
Air Force Colonel Prouty recalls his role as Air Force Liason to CIA at the Pentagon. "The Agency and the government can say that an assassination is not our business. An assassination is when everything else fails.

6) Rock Com memo of interview with Ed Lansdale. 178-10004-10217. DOCID-32105801.PDF
TITLE: OUTLINE OF COVERT OPERATIONS. 31 October 1962. Report to Roswell Gilpatrick on the covert activities inside Cuba. "As for psychological operations, all CIA assets had been turned over to USIA for operational use." Two action teams in side Cuba.

7) Report on 1960 briefing of William Paley. 104-10265-10074. 104-10265-10074.pdf. 30 March 1960 Memo regarding contact with William Pawley in Miami. Items of operational importance. "Mr. Pawley was told that the time had arrived for careful coordination of all activities: that permission had been granted for an all-out operation..."

8) Sheraton Notebook. 104-10006-10026. DOCID-32106450.PDF. Report on notebook with Assassination related items found in a Sheraton Hotel room. "The text is redacted because it reveals the identity of an intelligence agent..." Investigation concerning notebook found in room 2422, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas, containing handwritten notes in English regarding Oswald and the assassination of JFK. (Note: I believe the notes were from a reporter)

9) CABLE - ALVARADO. 104-10015-10398. DOCID-32341750.PDF. Report Alvarado is fabricating his story of seeing Oswald taken money in the Cuban embassy. "The fact that Alvarado is a calm, nice and intelligent young man does not mean he is not a fabricator."

10) Profile of Guy P. Johnson. 104-10170-10468. 104-10170-10468.pdf. New Orleans attorney who represented Clay Shaw early in the proceedings. Former ONI Naval Distric Intelligence officer on Guam. "According to Edward SUGGS, (Jack MARTIN - not a reliable source) JOHNSON claimed to have a secret U.S. Senate document called the "Homme Report." This report allegedly proves that Robert KENNEDY 'had contract out on' Fidel CASTRO at the time President Kennedy was assassinated."

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11 - CIA Report on early November 1973 CTIA Conference proceedings. 104-10433-10165 The Committee To Investigate Assassinations (CTKA) was set up in DC by Bernard Festerwald and became Assassinations Archives and Research Center (AARC)

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22 - Accidental release of two CIA agents names in IG Report. 104-10331-10027 As John Newman has pointed out, simple slip ups like this have led to the identity of a number of Crypts.

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...404157.PDF


33 - Creation of CIA Segregated Section of Records Requested by Congressional Committees. 104-10331-10014 -

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...404144.PDF


44 - Interagency Source Register (ISR) 104-10330-10125 "The ISR is simply a device whereby agencies within the intelligence community which recruit or deal with sources of foreign intelligence outside the United States try to keep from bumping into each other in the pursuit of such information." This ISR should have DeMohrenschilt, June Cobb and Veciana on tap.

http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-July2017/JFK-July_2017_Release-
Formerly_released_in_part/DOCID-32404110.PDF -


55 - AMLASH-1 Cover Letter to be sent to Cavaliere' Hilton Jewelry Shop, Rome. 104-10183-10215 Note it is apparent from Col. Brandy that Hilton Hotels worked closely with CIA and more closely with ACSI Army Intelligence.

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...10183-1021


66 - 1962 Plans for Manuel Ray to form new organization 104-10179-10156 -

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...10156A.pdf


77 - Manuel Ray (Chief Engineer at Havana Hilton) and JURE (Odio affiliated with) have 1964 training camp in Puerto Rico, large boat and shipment of arms. 104-10179-10214 -

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...10214A.pdf


88 - LICOOKY1 (June Cobb) Strangely and Inexplicably reluctant advice of urgent need two hundred dollars to get pamphlet published. 104-10175-10343 Note: June Cobb translated the Spanish pamphlet "The Shark and the Sardines" by former Guatemalan president Juan Jose Arevalo, that Oswald read. She served as Castro's secretary when he first arrived in Havana and stayed at the Havana Hilton at the invitation of Colonel Frank M. "Brandy" Brandstetter, the Havana Hilton manager, who reported to US Army Intelligence ACSI.

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...-10343.pdf


99 - LICOOKY1 Cover Blow. 104-10174-10026- June Cobb "gets money from Uncle Sam, a doubleagent" -

http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...-10026.pdf


110-Ted Shackley JMWAVE progress report Feb. 1963 Re: AMDENIM/1 (Alberto Fernandez Hechevarria (aka Echevarria), Cuban exile whose boat Tejana was used in anti-Castro activities. Leader of the paramilitary wing of Unidad Revolucionario (UR) and source on CIA unsanctioned exile missions such as those conducted by Alpha 66.


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...-10127.pdf


Posted by Bill Kelly at 10:27 AM

Top Ten Recently Released Records - Part 3

TOP TEN RELEASED ASSASSINATION RECORDS -

Part 3



11 - Miscellaneous Records of the Church Committee Re: Assassinations. 157-10014-10099 Inventory of records related to assassinations reviewed by Church Committee including 57 Executive Session interviews. http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...423487.PDF


22 - International Rescue Committee (IRC) 104-10171-10151 The IRC Leo Cherne received three letters from Lee Harvey Oswald in USSR requesting assistance to return home. Though these records predate the assassination by a decade, and Oswald is not mentioned here, Cherne was a good friend of conservative columnist William Buckley. The IRC's primary mission of assisting refugees carried on Reinhold Gehlen's Project Wringer and the use of refugees escaping Nazi Germany and Communist countries for for intelligence information http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...-10151.pdf


33 - Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB) 104-10336-10018 - request for computer search on specific individuals and organizations including Andy Anderson, Leo Cherne, Ed Butler, Hunter Leake, Gordon Novel, Spas Raikin, John McVickar, INCA and Permindex.


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...404591.PDF


44 - ARRB Request for information on CIA dealings with Organized Crime and Cuba, 104-10336-10012. It includes excerpts from Sy Hersh's "Darkside of Camelot" that tries to falsely implicate RFK in the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro using an intermediary CIA officer Charles Ford. In an important 9 page summary of his operational work Charles D. Ford, Chief, Training Services Staff, explains what he really did for RFK. Note: Ford, originally from Atlantic City, NJ and Princeton, served in OSS and went on WWUU mission to China with J. Walton Moore, the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division chief in Dallas in 1963 who dealt extensively with DeMohrenschildt.


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...404585.PDF


55 - Brother of CIA Deputy Director (until Bay of Pigs) and Air Force General Charlds P. Cabell, Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell's work for CIA from 1956. 104-10215-10213.


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...-10213.pdf




66 - Document still being withheld from 13 December 1963. 104-10057-1000. Disposition FOIA "on this document was denied. The document consists solely of information received from a foreign liaison service….the substance involved in this document related to the transit of Lee Harvey OSWALD through a European country in 1962….This particular document also contained operations cryptonyms, information concerning the existence of an Agency station in a specific city aboard as well as…."


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...344818.PDF


77 - Outline, LHO, The CIA, and Mexioc City. Document Withdraw Notice. Still Withheld.
http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...271723.PDF


88 - CIA officer Cleveland Cram's Review of Counterintelligence Literature 1975-1992. 104-10431-10107. "1974 a watershed in literature about the CIA."


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...397298.PDF


99 - More Disinformation on Cuban involvement in assassination of JFK. 104-10429-10065.


http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...397007.PDF


110- Marina Oswald and Issac Don Levine. 104-10440-10072. Levine wrote a book on the Soviet assassination of Trotski in Mexico City, but only sees Oswald as a lone nut.



http://documents.theblackvault.com/docum...395634.PDF



Posted by Bill Kelly at 11:39 AM