MFR EXPLAINING 5 ATTACHED SENATE DOCUMENTS, LAST 3 RE CIA TESTIMONY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00236R000400090015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 21, 1983
• Content Type: MFR

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21 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Classification Review Division
Office of Information Services, DDA
STAT
The attached five documents which the Agency received from
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are actually two separate
cases, so to escape some of the confusion which I felt when I
first read them, let me explain them separately. All five pages
are Senate documents, only the last three concern CIA Testimony,
they allow us to suggest sanitization as a courtesy (and to keep
us from clamming up in future testimony).
The first two pages concern testimony by two State Department
executives, Chester Bowles and Christian Herter, on 17 May and
6 January 1961. When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee desired
now to publish this heretofore classified testimony, the State
Department suggested the deletions indicated by the red brackets.
They also said, however, that the deletions on page n the 25X1
galley)- could be ignored if CIA agreed, and the dele ions on page
could be reduced to the inner bracket 25X1
if CIA approved. I feel the DDO should make the choice 2bxl
oug the DDS$T certainly might have an interest in 25X1
The last three pages concern testimony to the committee by
the CIA DDP on the Cuban situation, 2 May 1961. In 1979, the
Committee asked CIA to sanitize this testimony. Our response was
signed by Fred Hitz (then Leg. Liaison Officer) 9 April 1979, and
our deletions of that time are indicated by the dark streaked areas
(yellow on the originals) on the three pages. The Committee Staff
actually scissored all our deletions out of their testimony folders,
and sent this unclassified remainder to the National Archives "for
the use of scholars." While at the Archives, the sanitized pages
were microfilmed by University Publications of Frederick, Maryland
and are available to the general public.
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On 27 January 1983, Chairman Percy of the Committee wrote the
DCI that they wished to include these pages in their Historical
Series, and did we have any objections. The DDO did!--wanted the
three questionable paragraphs on the three pages deleted entirely,
in effect re-classifying those parts of the paragraphs not deleted
in 1979. The Committee has replied that they feel additional
classification is questionable here--bad precedent, and would draw
attention to the new deletions, therefore, they would like further
justification for the reclassification.
STAT
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