WORLD WAR II DECLASSIFICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77-00389R000100070027-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 29, 1973
• Content Type: MF

01 Approved Forlease 2002/06/05 : CIA-RDP77-00389010007
INTERAGENCY CLASSIFICATION REVIEW COMMITTEE
March 29, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF
DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: WORLD WAR II DECLASSIFICATION
As you may know, the Nixon Administration has supported a program to
review for declassification by 1975 all papers from the World War II
period. Last year the National Archives and Records Service received
appropriations for 100 people to work on this project.
While the progress to date has been good, the National Archives has
only filled approximately half of the authorized positions, partly as a
result of the government-wide freeze and partly because of the delays
experienced in obtaining Top Secret clearances for its personnel.
We have been advised by the National Archives that the hiring process
and the security procedures for safeguarding its records would be
facilitated if Department Heads would authorize downgrading from Top
Secret to Secret of departmental classified records now in the Archives
or transferred there at a future date. This would shorten the period
required for clearing employees on the declassification project and
would ease handling of the records.
I would appreciate it if you could arrange to have this matter reviewed
and if records can be downgraded to the Secret level, to so advise
Dr. James B. Rhoads, the Archivist of the United States, so that he
may take appropriate action.
John S. iD. Eisenhower
Chairman
Interagency Classification Review
Committee
Approved For Release 2002/06/05 : CIA-RDP77-00389R000100070027-0