JUNE 1973 MEETING OF THE ICRC

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2002
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• Publication Date: June 13, 1973
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13 June 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: June 1973 Meeting of the ICRC
1. The Interagency Classification Review Committee met
today at 10:00 a.m. in the second floor conference room of the
White House. Mr. Rhoads, the Acting Chairman, presided.
Members in attendance included Mr. Brower of State, Mr. Houston
of CIA, Mr. Marshall of AEG, and Mr. O'Neill of Archives.
Mr. Ulman attended for Justice in the absence of Mr. Dixon.
Dr. Cooke and Mr. Leibling attended for Defense and I understand
Dr. Cooke is now the permanent Defense member. The new member
representing NSC is General Scowcroft but he was represented
today by Colonel Kennedy who was accompanied by Mr. Oswald Day.
Mr. Dixon Neekum (phonetic spelling), introduced as an Assistant
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, also attended.
Chairman Rhoads welcomed the new members. He also indicated
that during the period when he serves as Acting Chairman, he
wants to have a representative of OMB sit in.
2. The minutes of the May meeting, with certain changes
proposed by Mr. Brower, were accepted.
3. Item 2 of the agenda involves the question of automatic
declassification of material placed in Group 3 under E. O. 10501.
Mr. Ulman advised that in the opinion of the Department of Justice,
material in Group 3 under the old Order does not automatically
declassify. A discussion ensued from which ultimately it was agreed
that each department, of course, is at liberty to provide, by regulation
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or otherwise, for automatic declassification or downgrading of
documents or categories of documents in Group 3. An ICRC
paper to that affect will be circulated. Additionally, the Ad Hoc
Committee appointed by Chairman Rhoads by his 30 May memorandum
is asked to consider whether E.O. 11652 should be amended to
provide for automatic downgrading of Group 3 documents.
4. Item 3 of the agenda (ICRC procedures) involves the
question of ICRC jurisdiction in the area of intelligence sources
and methods. Mr. Ulman reported receipt of the CIA letter asking
Justice's acceptance of our proposed request to ICRC that the
Committee not entertain appeals from departmental rejections
which involve intelligence sources and methods. He noted that
the Attorney General is to appear before the Muskie-Kennedy
Committee on 26 June on the subject of government information.
His testimony will cover, among other things, classification
matters and the Department wants to confer with him concerning
the CIA request prior to that time. Mr. Rhoads received Mr. Ulman's
assurance that the Department of Justice should be able to respond
to the CIA request sufficiently early to permit the Committee to
take final action on the procedures paper at its next meeting.
Mr. O'Neill also pointed out that in view of the fact that the only
appeal from departmental decisions involving 30-year-old documents
is to ICRC (that is, there is no appeal to a departmental committee)
acceptance of the CIA proposal would mean there would be no
appeal at all in the case of a 30-year old document involving intelligence
sources and methods. He will propose changes in language in the
proposed ICRC procedures paper. Mr. Rhoads stated. that he wants
to approve the procedures at the July meeting.
5. Mr. Tufaro reported on Item 4 of the agenda. He
praised the work of the Archivist's personnel who participated in
the work group. He also passed out a paper dated 19 June which,
among other things, named the personnel of the various agencies
who have participated and are to participate in the future. He invited
all concerned to satisfy themselves that the right people are involved.
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6. With respect to Item. 5 of the agenda, Mr. Rhoads
indicated his thought is to produce a series of memoranda to
departments which, in effect, would recite' ICRC decisions and
actions. After some discussion, it was agreed that this might
be desirable and it was further agreed that the memoranda
appropriately could be addressed by the Chairman to the department
heads. Colonel Kennedy noted the requirement under the order
that NSC supervise the implementation of the E. O. and suggested
that in some instances it might be appropriate for the memoranda
to department heads issue from the NSC and take the form of
instructions to department heads.
7. Several items not on the agenda were discussed. All
agencies are asked to supply the name of its representative
for the Ad Hoc group created by Chairman Rhoads in his memorandum
of 30 May. Several agencies have named their representatives.
Colonel Kennedy named Mr. Day as the NSC representative and
Mr. Houston named for CIA. Mr. Rhoads handed
out a rewrite of the brochure reflecting comments from various
departments. All concerned are to forward comments by early
next week.
8. The working group on foreign derived information is to
meet again on Friday, 22 June. A paper prepared by NARS was
handed out; it will be considered at the Friday meeting.
9, Mr. Rhoads announced that Mr. Tufaro is resigning
to return to the practice of law in New York by the end of the month.
He paid glowing tributes to Mr. Tufaro's work and various members
associated themselves with the Chairman's comments. Mr. Tufaro
expressed his pleasure and appreciation for his work in the White
House and with the Committee. He also stated his view that the work
of the Committee and the program set up by the Executive Order are
just beginning and that reform is yet to be accomplished.
STATI NTL
Associate General Counsel
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