IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12356 ON SYSTEMATIC CLASSIFICATION REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00236R000100180010-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 8, 1982
• Content Type: PAPER

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8 April 1982
Impact of Executive Order 1.2356 on
Systematic Classification Review
Executive Order 12356 will realize negligible change in the quantity of
information released to the public through systematic classification review
when compared to E.O. 12065. With very minor exception, the information
reviewed under the latter was returned to the Agency's Records Center for
safekeeping and was not released to the public, even though it may have been
decla.ssi.fied. Nevertheless, our relationships with our foreign liaison
counterparts and their governments may be improved significantly by the
perception that we are tightening our control over the release of sensitive
information.
The impact of Executive Order 12356 is manifest primarily in the relief
it provides in the demand for resources, both personnel and fiscal. Approxi-
mately 1S positions, primarily at the CS-07 and CS-13 levels, can be released
for assignment to Agency tasks of higher priority. From the fiscal standpoint,
expenditures estimated in the neighborhood of $23 million. can be avoided. This
includes approximately $4 million which would have been expended to support the
15 released positions from 1 August 1982 to the December 1.988 transitional
deadline called. for by E.O. 12065. Had we been required to continue the program,
and done so at current manpower levels, we would still have realized only one-third
of the goal. Approximately $19 million would have beer, required additionally if
the decision were nia.de to add the staff to meet fully the requirement of the order
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to complete a review of all 20 year-old material byAthw- date. These cost:
avoidance estimates do not include the fiscal (and manpower) burden of continuing
the program beyond December 1988 in the systematic review and periodic re-review
of permanent records as promulgated by E.O. 1.2065.
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