RETENTION OF CLASSIFICATION OF UNEVALUATED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00236R000200010002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR; Director of Central Intelligence
VIA; Deputy Director for Operations
Office of General Counsel
FROM; John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Retention of Classification of
Unevaluated Intelligence Reports
1. Action Requested: Approval of declassification policy described
herein and signature of letter to the Archivist.
2. Background:
a. The National Archives and Records Service (NARS) on 22
April 1977 determined that unevaluated intelligence reports disseminated
by the Operations Directorate to the Intelligence Community are permanent
dissemination
records. The rationale is that these reports constitute a record of the /
of foreign intelli n collected
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large numbers of these reports wed accessioned to NARS as permanent
records by other U.S. Government agencies.
b. All permanent records are subject to systematic review for
declassification as required in E.O. 11652 and E.O. 12065. Documents,
30 or 20 years of age respectively, must either be declassified or the
agency head must certify that continued classification is required for
national security reasons.
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c. The classification review of unevaluated intelligence
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reports produced by GIG aRd-~;4AJ-9-59 fe-r 4the period 1946-50 has raised
serious questions regarding the declassification and release of am
unevaluated reports. Although the substance of individual reports often
does not merit continued classification, items in the report format,
owed / l-a,ion /ltl~et911oAps#
such as" Place Acquired provide evidence of CIA operationsai.q_a esn
tho v~is 'a~ IfycoctTiu released to tht-7abtft. Also,
Source descriptions, even though general, pinpoint sectors within a
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country, = which agents area reporting to CIAA Such revelations of CIA
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operations,
would not be viewed kindly by the country concerned. A further risk is
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