PRESERVATION OF RECORDS RELATING TO ASSASSINATIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86-00895R000100100041-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: May 18, 1978
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
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SUBJECT: Preservation of Records Relating to Assassinations
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MAY 2 3 1973
18 MAY 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIES OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS
DIRECTOR, DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
The Chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
has requested the Department of Defense to remind its com-
ponents to take action to preserve all records which have
any possible relevance to the investigation of the assas-
sinations of President Kennedy and Reverend King.
The Department has assured the Select Committee Staff that
Department of Defense Records-Disposal Authority NCI-330-76-1,
dated May 3, 1976, specifically enjoins holders of Defense.
Investigative Program records to preserve all files deter-
mined to be of possible historical value, those of widespread
public or congressional interest, or those of other major
investigations by offering them to the National Archives
after either 15 or 25 years.
Because of the pending Select Committee investigation into
the several assassinations referred to above, please instruct
all Records Disposition personnel to be particularly alert
to prevent the destruction of any investigative or intelligence
files which have any possible relevance or color of relation-
ship to the two assassinations in question. Among the
categories of files which conceivably would relate to these
assassinations are investigative and intelligence files
dealing with Soviet-American and Cuban-American relations,
during the time frame 1959-1969.
This period of special alert to prevent destruction of files
which reasonably are believed to relate to these'assassina-
tions shall extend to December 31, 1978.
D. 0. Cooke
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
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