FBI Withdraws Appeal on JFK Records Release 
[[ received from Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko  twinpa@wf.net on 12-17-96 ]]
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12/17/96 TIMES RECORD NEWS P6A
FBI WITHDRAWS APPEAL ON JFK RECORDS RELEASE
WASHINGTON (AP) -
        The FBI has withdrawn appeals to President Clinton opposing the
release of previously classified information related to the investigation
into President Kennedy's assassination.
        In a letter to White House counsel Jack Quinn, Howard Shapiro, FBI
general counsel, said the appeals were withdrawn "after carefully
considering the matters raised" by the Assassination Records Review Board,
an independent body compiling a public record of the Nov. 22, 1963,
assassination.
        The FBI had argued that releasing the information, which is
contined in two sets of documents, would prejudice current foreign
counterintelligence operations and harm foreign relations.  But the board
had argued that pulic interest in the records outweighed secrecy concerns.
        The documents include a May 1960 report on the investigation of Lee
Harvey Oswald and his family while Oswald was residing in Russia, foreign
government reactions to the assassination and coverage of the assassination
by foreign correspondents.
     
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