CERTIFICATION OF THE NEED FOR EXTENSION OF CLASSIFICATION ON DOCUMENTS SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED AND PROCESSED DURING THE YEARS 1978 AND 1979

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CIA-RDP85B00236R000200030021-7
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S
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5
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December 16, 2016
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July 8, 2005
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21
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April 24, 1981
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MF
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SECRET Approved FVIRelease 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00WR000200030021{$IS 81-326 I,4LTvIORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM: Max Hugel Deputy Director for Administration SUBJECT: Certification of the Need for Extension of Classification on Documents Systematically Reviewed and Processed during the Years 1.978 and 1979 DD/A Regi~- 1. Executive Order 12065, which became effective 1 December 1978, requires that all classified documents determined to be permanent in nature be reviewed as they reach 20 years of age in order to determine whether the classification originally placed thereon should be continued, modified or removed. The order provides that classification may be extended in ten year increments (in some cases longer) if the head of the agency producing the document personally certifies that a document must remain classified in order to protect national security interests. 2. The Agency has developed a centralized classification review program in order to perform the review mentioned above and to recommend for your approval. and certification the extension of classification on those documents where it is found that classification should be extended. The review program is the responsibility of the Classification Review Division (CRD), Office of Information Services, DDA. CRD officers who review the documents and make recommendations with respect to classification are of the journeyman analyst grade with extensive Agency experience. They make their determinations in accordance with the classification guides adopted for each of the Directorates, as well as guidance received from the Information Security Oversight Office, the National Archives and Records Service, and guidelines developed within CRD. The major reasons for retaining classification are protection of: (a) intelligence sources, methods, and activities (names of agents and covert employees, tradecraft, organizational data, collection methods, analytical methodology, etc.); (b) foreign government information, including liaison relationships; (c) information that would endanger the conduct: of foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States; and (d) cryptology. 3. CRD has established an ADP system called Declassification and Review (DARE) in which all review reconunendations are recorded. This system Unclassified when Approved For Release 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00236R00020003QIaated from Attachment. qF NUT SECRET Approved F Release 2005/07/12: CIA-RDP85B00M$ R000200030021-7 is designed to be your record of those documents you certify as re iring extension of classification. During the years 1978 and 1979, ocuments 25X1 were reviewed and recorded in the DARE system. Of these, it is felt that l.V1VP11J.G1V111-\L level, to protect trie following: Sources and methods Foreign government information Foreign relations Cryptology Other The remaining 1,207 documents require protection at the CONFIDENTIAL level pending review coordination with other agencies. We are attaching for your perusal a random sampling of these documents taken from a variety of record groups. 4. For the classification to be extended on those documents reviewed by CRD as mentioned above and on which recommendations have been made for the extension of classification, the Executive Order requires that you certify the need for such extension. Your certification can be accomplished by signing the attached Memorandum for the Record. This procedure has been approved by the Office of General Counsel. 5. It is recommended that you certify the need for classification extension as discussed in this memorandum by signing the attached certificate. Max H ge Attachment: 1. Certification of Classification Extension 2. Sampling of Documents 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2/CIA-RDP85B00236R000200030021-7 2 SECRET Approved F2elease 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00BR000200030021-7 SUBJECT: Certification of the Need for Extension of Classification on Documents Systematically Reviewed and Processed during the Years 1978 and 1979 Distribution: Original - DCI (To be returned to DDA/OIS/CRD), w/atts. 1 - DCI, w/Att. #1 1 - DDCI, w/Att. #1 1 - ER, w/Att. #1 1 - OGC, w/Att. #1 1 DDA Subject, w/Att. #1 1 - DDA Chrono, w/Att. #1 1 - DIS, w/Att. #1 1 - DDIS, w/Att. #1 1. - CRD/OIS, w/Att. #1 DDA/OIS/CRD/I al (31 March 1981) Approved For Release 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00236R000200030021-7 SECRET me ohedor Approved Fb4elease 2005M7MigeC P85B00 R000200030021-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Certification of Classification Extensions Recorded in the DARE System I hereby certify that the classification extensions resulting from the systematic review provisions of Executive Orders 12065 and 11652 and recorded in the Declassification and Review (DARE) system during the years 1978 and 1979 are necessary for the protection of the national security interest of the United States of America. I am cognizant of the nature of the review process and reasons for continued classification, and I have personally reviewed a sampling of the documents involved. Approved For Release 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00236R000200030021-7 R., OUTING AND RECORD SHEET SUBJECT: (Optionot) Certification of the Need for Eixtens.on of C7assi.fi.cation oni''Docun nt ::>y:tematic -11.y Reviewed and Processed during the Years _1978 and 1979, ROM: Max Hugel Deputy Director for A 7 1) 24 Headquarters i) )~,/OIS/C U 3 2 2 limn : ;am 61 0 USED' REV Sus Approved For Release 2005/07/12 : CIA-RDP85B00236R000200030.021.-7.