CLASSIFICATION STAMP FOR NON-CIA DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77-00512R000100030069-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: October 3, 1975
• Content Type: MF

OGC Has Reviewed
OGC 75-36.0
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3 October 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Classification Stamp for Non-CIA Documents
In accordance with our telephone conversations, I am attaching
STATINTL a note from o me about a special stamp for non-CIA-
originated documents-which contain classified information furnished
by the Agency to the originator. I think such a system would be
extremely helpful if we ever get into court in an FOI situation in
demonstrating that we took contemporaneous action to afford the
information the proper protection under E. O. 11652. I would sug-
gest that all letters received from the two Select Committees be
reviewed against this criteria and that this principle be incorporated
in regulations for all incoming material.
Attachment
cc: SC/DCI
C/Review Staff
Gerneral Counsel
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SUBJECT: Classification Stamp for Non-CIA Documents
1. The notation below might be an adequate stamp to be used on
documents originating with a congressional committee and addressed
to this Agency. (It might also be appropriate for use with respect to
documents originating elsewhere.) This stamp would be in addition to
the classification stamp and the stamp which identifies the classifier
and also concerns the application of the General Declassification
Schedule.
This document, which originated outside the executive
branch, incorporates information within the responsibility
of CIA, the disclosure of which would damage national
security. Accordingly, this document was classified by
an authorized CIA classifier upon its receipt by the CIA.
2. The NSC Directive provides that documents are to be marked
with the appropriate security classification and the appropriate notation
concerning the General Declassification Schedule at "the time of
origination. " Without an amendment to the Order or Directive, the
marking above might be useful, nevertheless, as indicating the
executive branch's determination that the information warrants
protection. It could be argued that the document "originates, "
within the above concept in the Directive, upon its initial receipt by
an executive branch agency.
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