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From: Chris Courtwright <ChrisC@lr01.wpo.state.ks.us>
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: JFK RECORDS ACT
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:44:01 -0800
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[[ from Backes ]]:

"Please post this everywhere you can.

Okay, to quote from an April 21, 1995 letter to me from Mr. Steve
Tilley,
"Please be aware that the NSCA is the office symbol of the Center for
Legislative Archives, the National Archives organizational unit that is
responsible for maintaining the records of the United States Congress,
including Congressional Committees.  This office performed the initial
review of the records of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
(HSCA) prior to the official opening of the collection.  In accordance
with the provisions of an agreement reached with the House
Administration Committee, the Committee with the oversight of the HSCA
records, the staff of the NSCA was delegated the authority to withhold
and coordinate the review of any documents that met any of the criteria
for postponement as stated in Section 6 of the JFK Act."

So a large part of the work the ARRB is doing is reviewing the work of
the NSCA.  Fortunately, they are releasing most of these documents which
in my opinion, were rather arbitrarily seen to be worthy of postponement
by the NSCA.  Exactly who these people were and how they decided that so
many documents fall within the criteria of Section 6 of the JFK Act we
of course are not allowed to know.

I would argue, and urge you to do the same, that there are a great many
documents that are restricted in one form or another by the NSCA that
the ARRB haven't gotten around to reviewing and therefore that is a
major reason for an extension of the ARRB.  Please write to your
Congressmen and Congresswomen and request and extension of time for the
ARRB.  I would ask for at least 5 years.

Please see the sample letter Debra Conway wrote in the ARRB Action Alert
accessible from the JFK Lancer web page at
http://server.snii.com/~jfklancr@exo.com
Debra also has a hot link to a database that will tell you the name and
address of your Congressional representatives.
Joe Backes"

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