17. DESTRUCTION OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00901A000200030031-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: January 7, 1954
• Content Type: BULL

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U. S. ATOMIC N,' I
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SERIAL NO - 37
I CumaT a- +OURITY
January 7, 1954
''. D ST CTIQ OF GL&3SIFLED Ix34 `;
a. Destx .oti.on r 122 SecrOt T?c-a n ,8
-whom. Normally a Top secret document shall
be testroyed by the authenticating official those
symbol appears thereon, or his successor, or by,
higher authority.
copy of a Top Secret document shall
A record
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be retained by the allthentioatizn official. Only if
downgraded may consideration be given to the destruc--
tion of the record copy in accordance with approved
ords disposition practices.
(2) .Alternative Procedure. If desired, a custodian
may destroy a Top Secret document in his possession,
after obtaining authority in writing from the
authenticating official whose symbol appears on
the document, his successor, or higher authority.
N:s If a Top Secret document bears the notation
thereon, "destroy Copy Within _ Days." destruction at
thetime indid",ted is mandatory u,ess an extension
of time is secured in writing from the authenticating,
official, his alternate, successor or higher authority.
No further consent prior to destruction is required to
be obtained from t.,h.e authenticating official, or his
successor or from higher authority.
(3)
Method of i?estructi.ons Tor) Secret documents shell
be shredded and completely burned and the residue
pulverized by t;h83 custodian (or his designated
representative) in the presence of a representative
..pproved by .she responsible AEC security office
As an alternative Top Secret documents may be
destroyed by macer-ating or pulping by the custodian
(or his designated representative) in the presence
of a representative approved by the responsible
AI'C security office.
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(4)
ci i a Q 2L Dess+t ri tior : A certificate of desmstruc-
op Secret locus Bent > to be destroyed, in the
pended hereto, Mall be prepared in tripl'e' t ,
earth the following inform tiont
(a) identitic do n rurnb r of the doccumentsss, and
(b Number of piges of which the Tap Meet document
destroyed eo :.fists.
If they Top Secret documents to be destroyed are not
numbered, the certificate of destniction shall not
foes
A brief description (subject or title) of each
Top secret document destroyed,
(b) Ate, of the deaumoute, and
(a) fiber of pages of 5=,?hieh thc- document consists.
The certificate of destruction shall be signed
by the person destroyir the document and the
peer:eon witn s sing the destruction.
Disposition of col;i.c s of the certificate of deetructi.:on
shall be made as foil. aws t
copy of the certificate shall be retained in
e of the custodian at the tiV of destr e-
"ghee second copy of the certificate shall
forwarded to the central Document Control Office,
a:iviSiean of "ecurtty, M. W., Washington, D. ( .
(a) The this copy of the oertific=ato shall be
forwarded to the authentic-.ting official oho; e
symbol a _ - :ears on the document, if other than thy, a
custodian at the time of destruction.
Verification that the Top Secret docume
the number of pages included in the do
tattan is actually destroyed, shall be mn ee during the
roe of the dostructio x thereof. The certificate
d?st suction zhall be signed only -sfter such verifica-
tion.
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nts CIa s&fied 15ec~
or Confidential
s)e truction, ' scum nt:3s cla,iaified T;ecret or
'ncoi~s,itl sll b he Restroyed bshredding and burn-
ir or b1 macorating or ?ulpi:~ --: by properly authorized
individuaki. If no such system of destruction by
shall be made by the custodian in the pree,rlce of a
disiAteressted witness.
wolved, destruction )f Secret or Confidential documents
. authorized individuals has b:-en eestablished by
Se :n cral f*.ana';oor or responsible Manager of Operation,!
(2) NAO%rd 3es - tion. A record of destruction sshal
a.ixsed in the office of the last custodian of all
t documents and Confidential documents rehich are
Disks. Cylinders which have slasssified .:I.nfr-
shaved and this -il i be con-
ruction.
and co mbt:r, date of destruction and the nacre of the
tion; subject or title and classification of
rated. The record shall contain the following
the -docwaent, date of : oc qs ent, report number, series
o destroyed the document.
'Work shoots, c=Lrbon paper, ster ographere5 notes, is erfc.ct
copies, atenciles, cylinders which cannot be shaved, ar
other sound recordings, which are cla. ossified, or wairatat
a e la. sification, should be safeguarded in the manner
arrant.
be-d for documents of the same classification until
destroyed. They shall be destroyed in the manner proso ?ibod
for documents of the classification which they bear or
e cases, with the exception that a cc
of destruction is not required to be maintained
destruction ; s required for any such material cla
Top Secret which has b.3en authenticated.
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;ainin; cls.ssifie(information shall he either
c epe d n , torn, on the composition thereof,
:'+',sv for 2 b t i)o n ~s. The original (*tit
e
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; dr li.csate tye11ow) copies of ceipt for Top Secret
period of
docrr ente, Form A : ~-21L'7, may, e destroyed after a
carx year Cr cd., to of xi utcY w .i ch appears there r~,
er3.sl ''c csi ?t. 0"es of 'Classified Material
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; or stay receipt si ni1aar in content..
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dostr,;r:d at, any time after the lapse of five Years from
the date ap."rearing oii sue'i receipt, on which the doeuncnts
listed the-eon were-~:?~rsrnittad.
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