List of JFK Assassination Records Missing from

the Archives
LIST OF JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS MISSING FROM
THE ARCHIVES

If Peter Dale Scott's "Negative Template" theory is correct, what is

missing from the extant history is more significant than what is in
the documentary record.

As researcher Malcolm Blunt has said, "It's amazing we have

anything left. It's sickening, just sickening, and a disgrace, an
absolute disgrace. The ARRB should have pressured these people
into doing a proper search."

At the CAPA Press Conference at the National Press Club in

March former ARRB chairman Judge John Tunheim asked me to
send him a list of missing JFK assassination records that should be
in the JFK Collection at Archives II and open to the public. This is
my list, so far.

Send me along any serious additions that I may have missed. -

Billkelly3@gmail.com

1. Oswald CIA Office of Security File Volume 5, last seen by the

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which
recently garnered some publicity.

2. Files of the first chief council to HSCA Richard Sprague, who

took his files home with him when he was fired for conducting a
real investigation. The Assassinations Records Review Board
(ARRB), responsible for identifing and obtaining records, missed
them because they confused the attorney Richard Sprague with the
computer programer of the same name whose extensive files on
the assassination are part of the JFK Collection. Sprague's HSCA
files, paid for by taxpayers that rightfully belong at the Archives,
are currently in Sprague's Philadelphia law office.

3. Soviet KGB records of Oswald's time in Moscow and Minsk

that were obtained by Norman Mailer are now in the possession of
Mailer's former associate Lawrence Schiller, who refused to turn
them over to the ARRB.

4. Unedited AF1 Radio Transmission tapes from November 22,

1963. Two different edited versions of these tapes are available,
one on cassette tapes released by the LBJ Library and a reel to reel
version discovered among the personel effects of General Clifton.
The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) is
responsible for these tapes.

5. Church Committee interviews with Gerry Patrick Hemming,

Orest Pena, Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs
officials, and other Church Committee testimony are missing.
6. U.S. Customs records on Cubans requested by the HSCA were
so volumeous they couldn't be given to the HSCA, but now
consist of only a few records at the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).

7. The audio tape recording of Gaeton Fonzi's interview with

Mitch Werbell was erased and the transcript is missing, only
Fonzi's notes remain.

8. John Newman says that Eisenhower era reports on

assassinations of foreign leaders that he copied years ago are now
missing from the NARA, and he believes such records are being
delibertly stollen.

9. Bill Simpich notes that CIA Mexico City Station (MCS) cable
to Headquarters from September 26-30, 1963 are missing as well
as cables from CIA HQ to MCS, JMWAVE to HQ and HQ to
JMWAVE cable traffic on the same dates, and all cable traffic
between MCS and JMWAVE between September 26 and October
20 and November 22 to December 30, 1963 are missing.

10. The CIA's study of the July 20, 1944 attempt to kill Hitler to
be adapted for use against Castro, as mentioned by Desmond
FitzGerald in his September 23, 1963 briefing of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, is the subject of a FOIA lawsuit by the Assassination
Archives and Research Center (AARC).
11. Office of Naval Intelligence - ONI Defector File, as identified
as an assassination record by Navy Lt. Com. T. Pike, but never
turned over to the Archives.

12. ONI 119 investigation reports on Oswald's defection and the

assassination, as referred to by the Navy investigators who wrote
them and the officers who read them.

13. The assassination files of the Director of the ONI Rufus

Taylor, whose office had undercover agents working in Jack
Ruby's Carousel Club, installing and maintaing the sound system,
who reported, in the only surviving document, that Oswald was
seen in the club.

14. James Mastrovito - the Secret Service Agent responsible for

the SS records on the assassination acknowledged to the ARRB
that he "culled" - destroyed many records and flushed into a food
processor a vile of material labled "JFK brain - Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology," with no repercussions.

15. The Secret Service destroyed many records, including the

Advance Reports for the Tampa trip after the JFK Act was passed
by Congress, although copies of some of these records were found
among the personal effects of Agent Gerald Blaine, who wrote the
Tampa Advance report. Do other agents also have copies y of
official records among their personal effects? Is anyone looking?
16. The "Homme Report" from a Congressional subcommittee
reportedly contains information on Robert F. Kennedy's
knowledge and approval of CIA plans to kill Fidel Castro.

17. RFK's date book for 1963 is missing from the Kennedy
Library.

18. Four boxes of witness testimony turned over to NARA in April

1965 by US Attorney now missing.

19. OSI - Office of Special Investigation military intelligence

review of Oswald's State Department file is missing.

20. When former US Marine officer Oliver Revill joined the FBI
he reported on an investigation of Oswald and files on him at a US
Marine base in North Carolina, records not in the public record.

21. The Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel had

documents excluded from the Warren Commission, according to a
memo sent to ARRB and NARA archivist Steve Tilly, "more stuff
lost in the shuffle," says Malcolm Blunt.

22. The ARRB tried to obtain Oswald's New Orleans court records
but were told they were accidently destroyed when sent for
microfilming.
23. Army Intelligence files on Oswald were kept from the Warren
Commission and then "routinely" destroyed.

24. In 1976 when the CIA Counterintelligence (CI) staff were

reviewing JFK assassination files the Security Office did not hand
over their "secondary files" on Oswald, aka "research files," that
were not seen by HSCA or any other component of the CIA, as
Malcolm Blunt says "they are like a whole separate agency."

25. Larry Haapanen notes, White House Situation Room

Incoming-Outgoing Message Log for 11/22/63-11/30/63 (the
extant log for November 1963 ends abruptly on the morning of
11/2263).

26. Records of the Dallas-based 488th Military (Strategic)

Intelligence Detachment (Counter-Intelligence) unit histories and
rosters 1962-1963.

27. Records of FBI wiretapping of Oswald whle in police custody

as well as post assassination taps of Ruth Paine and Michael Paine
and Marina and Robert Oswald phones, as reported by Irving
police chief Paul Barger.

28. White House Communications Agency (WHCA) records for

11/22/63 i,ncluding tape of Secret Service motorcade security
radio channel that included Roy Kellerman talking as the third
shot was fired, and radios in LBJ's car, the AF1 cockpit and the
WHCA base station at the Dallas Sheraton hotel.

29. Missing Mexico City records include LILYRIC (Soviet

embassy photo records, Sept. '63); LIFEAT (wiretape records, for
all of 1963), daily resumen wiretap summaries for 1963, and
records withheld by ARRB at request of CIA and FBI that may be
released in the October 26, 2017 data dump.

30. Many relevant FBI 134 Informant records are missing or being
withheld.

31. FBI dispatch tape of Dallas calls for 11/22/63 is missing.

32. The Harper Fragment bone found at Dealey Plaza on 11/23/63

and believed to be a bone from JFK's head disapeared.

33. The photographer who took autopsy photos claims to have

taken photos not among those at the NARA today.

34. The National Photo Interpetation Center (NPIC) report on their

study of the Zapruder film and Art Lundal's briefing of CIA
Director John McCone is missing, though McCcone told RFK that
the CIA said there were two gunman.

35. The JMWAVE NPIC records and other NPIC assassination

records were, according to a NPIC secretary, boxed and at the
orders of Robert Kennedy sent to the Smithsonian Institute instead
of the NARA.

Bill Kelly at

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2 comments:

1.

spearmanSeptember 28, 2017 at 12:47 PM

Missing as mentioned in #13 in your list are the SS

trip records from the end of Sept/63 Conservation
Tour records. The only doc in those file boxes is a
single sheet saying "withdrawn for national security
purposes".
Reply

2.
bsimpichSeptember 28, 2017 at 3:02 PM

The ARRB's definition of an

"assassination record" was broad in
scope. 36 CFR 1400.1 defined the scope: "(An
assassination record) includes, but is not limited to,
all records, public and private, regardless of how
labeled or identified, that document, describe,
report on, analyze or interpret activities, persons, or
events reasonably related to the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy and investigations of or
inquiries into the assassination." Further guidance
can be found online at Appendix D of the ARRB
Final Report.

The Board's Final Report states that the agencies

were often far from timely in providing their
documents, and that they encountered significant
resistance in obtaining the documents.

A quick look in the files reveals that, at a minimum,

the ARRB was unable to obtain the full
assassination-related records for 1963 and other
relevant dates for Angleton's CI-SIG unit, the CIA
Office of Security, the signals/communications
intelligence section Staff D, the Miami CIA station,
the Mexico City CIA station, and similar documents
within NSA, Army Intelligence, ONI, Marine
Intelligence, and Customs. As an example, look at
the counter-intelligence and security forces at the
Miami station, which was composed of Cubans
ready to take over Cuba at a moment's notice in
the midst of a US invasion. Virtually all of the
AMOT records are missing, as well as the related
units AMCHEER and AMFAST. This inability was
and remains a political problem - a new ARRB is
going to be necessary as we go forward.