DCI STUDY MEMORANDUM #1; REVIEW OF PROCEDURES OF CLASSIFICATION FOR SECURITY PURPOSES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: March 9, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Director, National Security Agency
Director, National Reconnaissance Office
Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Deputy to the Special Assistant for
National Security, Treasury Department
Assistant Director, Intelligence Division,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
National Security, ERDA
Director of Naval Intelligence
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
Department of the Air Force
SUBJECT . DCI Study Memorandum #1; Review of
Procedures of Classification for
Security Purposes
1. Please undertake a study to see what changes to our
current policies and regulations regarding classification for
security purposes may be desirable. This study should cover,
but should not be limited to,*the following considerations:
a. Other ways to separate the dissemination
of information received from highly sensitive collec-
tion systems from indicators as-to what the system of
collection was and its capabilities.
b. Should there be a positive effort to review
periodically the corpus of intelligence on subjects
of keen national interest to determine how much of -
that corpus is or could be downgraded to unclassified
and made available to the public.
c. An analysis of existing codeword compartmen-
tation that will specifically indicate whether the
individuals cleared for various codeword materials
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are at the appropriate levels of government and whether
individuals with a need to know within a specific
category have been given all of the clearances
necessary to have a complete picture within that
category.
2. It is requested that the Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community and the Director of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State, conduct such a study and that
it be completed by 10 April 1977.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Director of Central Intelligence
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