REVIEW OF STANDARD AND OPTIONAL FORMS ON CLASSIFICATION AND DECLASSIFICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77-00389R000100070017-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 29, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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May 29, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: MEMBERS OF THE INTERAGENCY
CLASSIFICATION REVIEW COMMITTEE
FROM: Richard C. Tufaro
SUBJECT: Review of Standard and Optional Forms on
Classification and Declassification
As part of the technical.assistance being provided to the Interagency
Classification Review Committee by the National Archives & Record
$.ervice (NARS), a study has been underway for several months on
the benefits of prescribing Standard or Optional Forms in managing
classified information. The Standard Forms Program, is one of
the government-wide responsibilities of NARS. Accordingly, your
departmental liaison representatives were contacted by NARS and
asked to provide copies of all forms currently in use involving
control, access and storage of classified information and material.
Also requested were destruction certificates and forms used in
annual reviews for downgrading and declassification.,
Forms from thirteen departments and agencies were reviewed, although
some collections were incomplete. Several Standard Forms have been
recommended to us and there appears to be merit in providing Optional
Forms for many of the day-to-day operations. All forms included in the
final selection will appear in an ICRC handbook to be issued early in the
fall. We would like to have your comments and suggestions on these draft
forms, however, before they appear in final form.
The NARS officials have suggested scheduling a series of work sessions
to consider the forms according to the review schedule shown in
attachment No. 1. Departments should send no more than three renr a---
sentatives to the first meeting which is scheduled for 10 A. M. on
June 7. 1973 in Room 503 at the National Archives Building. It has
been suggested that each of the committee members be represented
by the regular liaison representatives shown in attachment No. 2
or their designated alternates. In addition,. it would be useful for
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you to consider including senior records management and security _
officers.
I plan to attend the first meeting, and have asked Harold J. Keonig,
Assistant Archivist, Office of Records Management, to be with us
also. After the objectives and schedule have been explained, we
expect that the review process and solicitation of departmental comments
can be handled by the liaison representatives. In view of the tight
schedule proposed, you may wish to provide alternates to take care
of vacations or other possible conflicts.
It would be appreciated if you could submit in waiting or by phone
(456-6690) no later than June 6 the names of those officials who
will he representing your department.
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