[[ posted by Tony Marsh online Oct.'96    ]]
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[[ concerning the fact that Tom Samulok is gone from the ARRB ]]
 
Correct. Eileen Sullivan will now be the contact person. ARRB did vote
to renew itself and will retire October 1, 1997. We are trying to push
to have the presumption that any documents not reviewed by then are
assumed to be released when the board folds.
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[[ About COPA 96 ]]

I was VERY disappointed by most of COPA conference. Personally, I
enjoyed meeting a few people there and made more progress on some new
projects. But the whole focus of the group is diffusing. The keynote
speech had nothing to do with the main assassination. Several speakers
cancelled or just did not show up. Sessions started late and ran late.
Some panels were simply rehashes of what they said last year. The panel
about the Paines was largely irrelevant to the assassination. One tidbit
is the release of the photos from the Minox camera. Some of them seem to
show guerrila encampments. I am wondering if Oswald or Paine was spying
on the Cuban Exile training camps. I would like to see some identify the
locales in those photos. The hidden messages in the media panel was
fantasy land, not research. Some speakers were uninvited. Ken Rahn's
presentation seems to strongly suggest that the NAA data is useable and
indicates only two bullets, including CE 399. I doubt that I will attend
next year unless I have some important paper to deliver myself.
 
Anthony Marsh

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