ARRB Votes to Release CIA, FBI, and HSCA Records

   December 16-17, 1996 Board Meeting Totals
   The Assassination Records Review Board voted on December 16-17, 1996
   to release 494 CIA, FBI, and House Select Committee on Assassinations
   (HSCA) documents (including duplicates) related to the assassination
   of President John F. Kennedy.

   CIA Records
   The Review Board voted to release 164 CIA documents, 11 in full and
   153 in part. The Board voted to postpone two records in full. The
   documents acted upon by the Board include CIA Counterintelligence
   Chief James Angleton's testimony to the HSCA, cables from the Mexico
   City station regarding Oswald's visit in September and October 1963,
   and correspondence between the CIA and the Warren Commission,
   including a Counterintelligence Staff response to the Warren
   Commission's questions regarding Oswald's stay in the Soviet Union.
   The redacted portions of these documents include intelligence sources
   and methods, true names, and file number prefixes.