General Counsel of the Navy Memo 2/25/97

MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS...

Subj: DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY COMPLIANCE WITH THE JFK ASSASSINATIONS RECORDS COLLECTION ACT, 44 U.S.C. & 2107...

Encl: (1) Guidelines for Reviewing Records (2) List of Archived Records to be Reviewed
(3) Sample Certification Statement

The Assassinations Records Review Board has requested a complete and specific accounting of the Department of the Navy (DON) efforts to locate and release assassination related records....If any assassination related records are known to have been destroyed, a specific explanation of the circumstances surrounding the destruction of such records must be provided...

...An indexed list of items identified in this search should be forwarded to the Administrative Office of the Navy General Counsel, Pentagon room 5D830. Please provide a written reply no later than April 30, 1997 including the name and phone number of the individual responsible for conducting the search. Negative responses are required.

Any questions concerning this search should be directed to LT Chris Tynes, USN...
Steven S. Honigman

Subj: ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD GUIDELINES FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE JFK ASSASSINATIONS RECORDS COLLECTION ACT

1. Guidelines for reviewing records. The Assassination Records Review Board has issued these guideline for certifying the Department of the Navy's compliance with the JFK Records Collection Act for their final report to Congress.

a. All Kennedy assassination records maintained by the DON are to be identified and processed for inclusion in the JFK Records Collection at the National Archives....

e. Any related records which have been destroyed must be fully explained. Including a specific explanation of the circumstances surrounding the destruction of such records.

2. Scope of the materials concerned. Relevant documents are those related to the assassination of President Kennedy...

c. Documents concerning Oswald's undesirable discharge from the service in 1960.

d. Any correspondence regarding Oswald's discharge appeals to the Secretary of the Navy in 1961, 1962 and 1963.

e. Any investigative effort regarding the assassination conducted by the Navy and Marine Corps.

f. Any correspondence to or relating to the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) or the Church Committee.

g. Any documents that relate to, the allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald was connected in any way with a military intelligence entity or any other United States intelligence entity.

h. Information on Operation Mongoose or any other plan or action to destabilize Cuba in the 1960-64 time frame period...

k. Communications between the Navy and the State Department, CIA,....

3. Range of the records to be reviewed. Records to be searched include those transferred to a Federal Records Center pursuant to SECNAVINST 5212.5c for retention. The Assassination Records...

Review Board has requested review of the following specific record categories for related documents or information:

a Records of the Commandant of the Marine Corps for the period 1957 to 1964, including the chronological, subject, work, or "soft" files.

b. All communications to and from the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, on the day and week after the assassination.

c. Cuban or Fidel Castro intelligence material from 1962-1964 that may relate to the assassination or discuss potential Cuban complicity in the assassination....

i. Records of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), and any related offices, for the period 1957064, including records of the Director for the Office of Naval Intelligence (OP-921E), the District Intelligence Office for the Ninth Naval District (Chicago, Illinois), and the District Intelligence Office for the.....