REQUEST FOR DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW OF HEARINGS OF SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS ON A BRIEFING BY CIA DIRECTOR JOHN A. MCCONE, 26 JAN 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000400190019-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: January 14, 1985
• Content Type: MF

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14 January 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Liaison Division
Office of Legislative Liaison
Chief, Classification Review Division
Office of Information Services
Request for Declassification Review of
Hearings of Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Proceedings on a Briefing by
CIA Director John A. McCone, 26 Jan 1965
1. The document from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which you
asked us to review on 19 December 1984 is attached. Only the Agency
Byeman Control Officer, with the concurrence of the Agency's offices of
primary concern and the Department of Defense, has the authority to remove
this document from Byeman controls, and until that has been done it cannot
be reviewed, downgraded, or released.
2. Even if the Byeman controls are removed, it would require very
extensive deletions which could very well leave the document unsuitable
for publication. Pages 5 thru 47 describe a technical collection system
and some of its products in detail and would have to be removed in toto.
Pages 69 thru 81 contain information clandestinely collected; information
about Agency covert programs; and, on pages 77 thru 81, nuclear
information which would have to be cleared by the successor agencies to
the former AEC. Much of this information would have to be removed in
toto. The remaining pages, 48 thru 68, contain information on Soviet
military expenditures that would require extensive sanitization.
3. We have coordinated our review with the Directorate of Science &
Technology and they concur in our findings.
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