NARA Response to Request for ONI Defector File

 NARA Response ONI Defector File

ALSO see: JFKcountercoup: The Railroading of LCDR Terri Pike  and  JFKcountercoup: ONI Records Revisited

Gene Morris <eugene.morris@nara.gov>	Thu, May 2, 2019, 10:11 AM

William Kelly:

This is in response to your April 17, 2019, request for information about the records of the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Specifically you are seeking information on the whereabouts of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Defector File reviewed  by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) and declared to Not Believed Relevant (NBR). We received your request on April 18, 2019.

The ONI Defector file was declared NBR as it did not mention Oswald and was exclusively about eastern bloc persons who defected to the west. The ARRB also decided to not include the file with the Assassination Records Collection because it was NBR and thus it was not included in the 2017/2018 release. The file is still here, it is just is not part of Collection.

The file is still restricted, so it would be necessary to file a FOIA request for the file. In your request please be sure to mention that you have already had the JFK Assassination Records Collection searched and the records are not pert of the Collection.

We regret that we could not be of more assistance to you. If you have any further questions, please feel free to respond by return e-mail or by calling (301) 837-1993.

Gene Morris

Archives II Textual Reference Branch (RDT2)

Room 2400\

On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 12:39:15 PM UTC-4, Bill Kelly wrote:

Ms. Crawford, You merely refer me to the released records? 

I have extensively reviewed the released records and cannot find the .08 cubic feet of documents labeled ONI Defector file, that Navy Commander Terri Price determined to be a JFK Assassination Record, that was declared Not Believed Relevant and should have been released with other NBR records. 

Please give me the RIF of this record or refer me to where I can find it.

I have been requesting this record for years now. 

 

Thank you for your time and attention to this.