EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS RE CORRESPONDENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001900200041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: February 6, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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6 February 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director.for Science & Technology
Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Editorial Suggestions re'Correspondence
1. 1 find that there is not enough care in sending written material out
of the building to minimize the damage if the paper got into the wrong hands.
I recognize that this cannot always be done, but whenever it is possible I-
would like to see enough thought given to minimize the security risk. I have
in mind situations like.this:
a.' With respect to special activities, recently I have found
reports written in terms of we "organized" this or that activity
when we "support" or "agree to support" would be more appropriate.
b. In writing letters to Congress about findings or oversight
matters, we should try to avoid naming individuals and countries
when a reference to the finding or the hearing on the finding would
convey the story without using individual and country names which
would be compromising if the paper got into the wrong hands.
2. I frequently find myself making minor editorial changes which make
it possible to adequately convey the message without disclosing to a third
person the individual and country involved or at least depriving an unauthorized
reader of certain knowledge and reducing him to guessing.
William J. "Casey
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