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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000700020014-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 21, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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21 March 1980
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Director of Training
Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence
Publication of 1
1. Mr. Anthony Cave Brown has requested, under FOIA,
' a two volume work by t STAT
of the Office of Training originally classified Secret (Tab D).:
Brown has recently inquired about the current status of his
request and we think he will persist in doing so until the.
documents are declassified. This appears to us at this
point to be the most likely outcome. Brown has already
published three unclassified volumes (including the history
of the OSS)-. is now writing a biography of General Donovan;
dnd has obtained, under FOIA, a copy of STAT
2. We believe that Brown intends to publish
history as his fourth unclassified volume. In our judgment
this would not be the most salubrious way for this work to-
-reach the public, especially if it were construed as something
Brown had pried out of a reluctant CIA that was trying tq
'keep this information hidden. We think that the best thing
to do would be to publish this history in an unclassified.'
version under CSI auspices simultaneously with its release
to Brown. There is a precedent for this as the Center has
recently published two other unclassified studies. The.-
history would continue to carry the caveat that it was'the
product of the author alone and not the official position of
the DCI or the CIA.
3. An earlier request from the Director of Training to
declassify and publish this history was disapproved by the,
Publications Review Board and the Assistant for Information..
The relevant documents are in Tab A.
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SUBJECT: Publication of
4. Whatever one thinks of the validity of the arguments
against publishing at that time, which unfortunately were
never properly rebutted, (see Tab B and C for some contrary
opinions), Brown's current interest in an unclassified
version puts us in a new ball game. In short, we think we
should publish the history ourselves and givel the
credit for this detailed and comprehensive account of the
origin of CIA and especially of the CIA section of the
National Security Act of 1947.
Attachments:
A. Memo for C/PRB:
B. Memo for DCI
C. Memo for DTR
Volume 1 and 2
(2 copies)
Deputy Director for Administration Date
D.
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