OLC 80-0471/1 TRANSMITTING LETTER FROM SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN REQUESTING DECLASSIFICATION OF 'SECRET' SFRC TRANSCRIPT (COPY ENCLOSED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00236R000200140033-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 15, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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CIA-RDP85B0008 13-2
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Directorate of Operations, IMS
SUBJECT: OLC 80-0471/1 Transmitting Letter from
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
Requesting Declassification of "SECRET" SFRC
Transcript (Copy Enclosed)
1. Forwarded herewith for your consideration is subject item. The tran-
script for which declassification is requested concerns CIA's now-terminated
sponsorship of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberation complex. As the prefatory
editor's note indicates, the CIA connection as such was disclosed long ago.
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accordingly has no problem, in principle, with the requested declassi-
fication. Nevertheless, since a former operation of the DDO's CA Staff is
involved, you may wish to determine whether anything in the transcript could
still "reasonably be expected to cause at least identifiable damage to the
national security" if disclosed at this late date.
2. Please send your response directly to OLC, attention
with copies for
and (info only) fo`
Enclosure: OLC 80-0471/1 as noted,
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