CLASSIFICATION GUIDANCE FOR PROGRAM DESIGNATORS AND CODEWORDS (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000200050014-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 18, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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~7I:,I~10RA.N~~IJ?~I I~OR: Chairman, 'TK ~Iodif:icatior~ Working: ;coup
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ecuri y onsu . ant tc C()"1IRFiy
SI)BJECT: Classification Guidance for Program
llesignators ~znd Codewords (LI)
atirl~~3RENCE: Your Memoraltdi_zin to TKrdlv'G P-4embers _.
dated 25 Ju1.y 198(3; Same Subject
(TCS-1459/8(1)
. i~I}r comment~:~ solicited by reference follow. (U)
2 , There is ra.o objection to the "Interim Cla~..sificati~on Chart
~;zr System (aodewords anal Program Designators'? circulated as a_n att~tch-
.~~o.rlt to refci?ence with the e~ccegtion oi: items S. ~, , 5. 2, 5. 3, and 5. 4
tarader t:arganizatiot~al and. Program Terms. TIEe "Interim Classification
(;Dart" should he amended to show that the c>rgani_zational terms,
TMd4~.ti_onal Reconnaissance Office (5.1.) and National Recanna:issance
I's?ogram (5. 3) arid. the grogram terms NRQ (5. 2) and NR~p (5.4) are un-
classi.f.ied and uncontrolled when standing alone. (S/TK)
.~. Not only Dave some one hundred thousand persons been
t~i:ficially informed over the course of thEb past "I.5 years of the meaning
cif t hose teams , but the terms have beers lased i.n the mass mecii a to a
decree inhere the general guhl:s?c cannot but assume that the~p are de
f..acta not. classified. 'Therefore, in applying the curx?ent policy guide-
~ irac for protecting certain riat_onal secuz?i.ty :information from :lis-
_..-..I.osure, narncl.y, Executive Order 1?[165 which is the only basis for 25X1
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classif}Ting inFormation, it i~~ difficult to argue that these te~?nts
E~ny longer merit compartmented control as "particularly sensitive
~_a~formation" Feld "among a reasonably sma:1l number of people`?, the
test establis~ied in Section ~-2 of the Executive Order. ~~oreover,
when t3ze Executive Order's te:>t for classification at the SECP~E7'
level is applied, it is diffict.zlt to accept. that the disclosure of
t}tese terms "reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to
the national security," let alone "identifiable damage", the test
applicable for the loner CONFIDENTIAL classification level. (it)
,~., Inasmuch as action is underway to norma.iiz.c the use of the
c~rganizational,~I?rogr=~m terms National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) ,
rind ivTational. Reconnaissance Program (NRP) by Ir~telligencc Community
element