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1997-06-17

National Archives Catalog

Assassination Records Review Board file "Exner, Roselli, Giancana, Logs" (National Archives), file page 1: fax of 17 June 1997

A 240-page file unit in the records of the Assassination Records Review Board. Its first page is a 1997 fax to the Board's T. Jeremy Gunn asking about the FBI's withholding of "see" references on Judith Exner "prior to her deposition." The other pages have not been read.

Date
1997-06-17
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
655788330
Rights
A file of the Assassination Records Review Board, a federal body, held by the National Archives in Record Group 541. A United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog lists use as unrestricted and access as restricted in part under the JFK Act.

A file unit in the Assassination Records Review Board’s records (Record Group 541), in the files of Brian E. Rosen, titled “Exner, Roselli, Giancana, Logs.” The catalog lists 240 digitized pages. Only page 1 has been read for content; pages 2, 4 and 6 were seen and are blank apart from a declassification stamp.

Page 1 is a fax cover sheet dated 17 June 1997 from an attorney to T. Jeremy Gunn of the Review Board, headed “RE: Hoover O&C Document with Note re JFK.” It forwards a Hoover document dated 4/1/60 “which has the content entirely blacked out but a handwritten note on Sen. JFK,” and a sheet showing “the vast amount of withholding on the FBI’s release of “see” references on Judith Exner,” and asks: “Is there something we can do about this prior to her deposition?”

The page shows that the Board’s files include material about Exner and that she was to be deposed. It states no other fact about her. No image is stored, because the page is a private attorney’s cover sheet; the file is cited here as a whole. This archive does not connect this file to the unnamed “close friend of President Kennedy” in the Church Committee report; no record opened here makes that connection.

itemChurch Committee report, pp. 129-130: "a close friend of President Kennedy"The Church Committee's 1975 interim report says a close friend of President Kennedy, who had frequent contact with him from late 1960 to mid-1962, was also a close friend of John Rosselli and Sam Giancana, and that Hoover sent memoranda about it in February 1962. The report does not name the friend.itemChurch Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, S. Rep. No. 94-465 (1975)Interim report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, November 20, 1975. It identifies the man called "Sam Gold" in the CIA's Castro operation as Sam Giancana and records his murder on June 20, 1975.