THE DECLASSIFICATION OF NSAM 111

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700080035-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: July 24, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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Approved 'r Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP80RO'r")t0R000700080035-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
24 July 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Thomas K. Latimer
Chairman, NSC Staff Committee
on Declassification
SUBJECT : The Declassification of NSAM III
1. In response to the request made in your memorandum of 20
July 1972, we have taken a careful look at National Security Action
Memorandum 111 dated November 22, 1961. So far as the Agency is
concerned, we see no grounds for objecting to its declassification since
no sources, methods or on-going operations would appear to be adversely
affected if this document is passed into the public domain.
2. As a matter of fact, for all practical purposes, the substance
of NS.AM Ill is already in the public domain. There are at least three
direct references to it in the version or text of United States-Vietnam
Relations 1945-1967 ("The Pentagon Papers") prepared by the Department
of Defense and published by the United States Government Printing Office
in 1971. These references may be found on pages 21 and 133 of Book 2
and on pages 400-405 of Book 11. The latter citation is the reproduced
text of a LIMDIS State Department telegram to Ambassador Nolting trans-
mitted on 15 November 1961, which gives in essence the language and
argument subsequently issued formally in Washington as NSAM 111.
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Geo .ge A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Approved F=or Releas
cc. Mr. Colby
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