MEETING HELD BY AD/IC ON 9 MAR 53 REGARDING FDD'S DECLASSIFICATION POLICY AND PRACTICE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000300110025-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 10, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ..? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO w Deputy Assistant Director for Operations DATE: 10 Mar 53
FROM : P(C Staff
SUBJECT: Meeting Held by AD/IC on 9 Mar 53 Regarding FDB's Declassification
Policy and Practice
REF: Memorandum dated 26 Feb 53 from AD/O to AD/IC - Subject: Declassifica-
tion Policy and Practice of FDD
1. Representatives of interested offices expressed their satisfaction in
the current FDD policy and practice as outlined in reference, excepting the OSI
member who stated the following needs and opinions in connection with the
proposed OSI project for the National Service Foundation:
a. When the mechanism planned by OSI is established for NSF to get
all Soviet orbit publications available from the Library of
Congress and when NSF becomes repository for available translations
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their evaluating from complete translations done by scientists
through the US4 (or by the mechanical translator?). In view of
classified requirements being one reason for classification of
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NSF, says that OSI no longer would need to serve pin-
pointed requests for FDD "exploitation" as it does now to save
rDD the time it takes to do the preferable translations. (Because
of other IAC !?gencies' demands, this would not effect FDD selective
reporting besides changing the distribution lists for reports con-
taining collated or exploited scientific information. For 1953
OSI had estimated FDD translation will be required of 14,000
unclassified pages and 15,000 classified pages, this estimate based
on the 1952 record).
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b. At this point r. Bagnall reminded the meeting that 3DD renders
two types translation service, one from classified source materials
belonging to other Offices and the other done under contract from
unclassified materials (the latter product forwarded in unpublished
form, unclassified but for the Restricted cover sheet giving the
(CIA number for CTS by which copy can be ordered from OCD),
I fraid he was interested in the detachable cover sheet
device (paragraph 3 of reference) being applied to the second
category of translation service, i.e., the UT product. I know
no reason why 00 cannot condone this.
2. Both the ORR and the CIS representatives then said they, too, would
like to see greater use of the removable cover sheet on unclassified underlying
pages of translation. I of OIS said the small volume of declassified
FDD reports needed by his office for "trade goods" or for operations did not
warrant any blanket change in FDD practice.
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3. in sympathy with 00 efforts towards source
protection, spoke of earlier data assembled by FDD showing the Soviet restrictions
already put on orbit publications for export. Those present were reminded again
of the difference between FDD straight translations and FDD selective reporting,
and of the latter's need for classification.
4. It is expected. that AD/IC will request 42/0 to restate the declassifica-
tion policy described in referenced memorandum, if it is considered that more
11DD translations (as against information reports) can carry the statement that
the document becomes unclassified when the cover identifying CIA is removed.
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