Declassification of CIA Reports

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100020030-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: April 18, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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Major General Edward F. Vitsoll,
The Adjutant General, Department of the Army
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Declassification of CIA Reports
AGAR 312. Vsecur ity c49-319
dated 24 march 1949 Secret )
have considered your request to declassify os
CIA reports listed in reference, and find it impossible to
coepi. Our policy for determining the initial classification
sad subsequent reclassification, as well as our
effecting any change In classification mW
follows:
lower than "restricted."
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ixtelli a report of CIA shall be classified
k. I 3,n=aaio .
den Lion of the initial classification of
a report will be made with due regard for the:
1) Classification of source material;
2 Protection of source;
3 Use of source material out of context;
4 Instructions received by the segteestor for wh
the report was prepared
{ 5) Ultimate distribution of the report; and
b Commute received thereon from the inteii
s ganizationx of the Departments of allte,
fir, and the Air Force.
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(1) Published CIA reports will not be reviewed an a
matter of routine for the solo purpose of Am"-
.00 grading than. In most cases a report become
obsolescent with the lapse of times, and no use-
ful purpose be served by the downgrading
(which is dog to ' intelligences available
to maw readers)
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(2) n receipt of azr t to downgrade
of its reports, CIA - rwiew the report
with a view to det+s rain whether or not
the initial classification should be cha ed.
the vies of State, fir, Navy', and AiryFo ce
en the Roposed will then be asoortatxsd.
CIA will a the final d nation.
2. To dater, CIA I= nw rieaed the ten
the following action;
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