LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM SALLY J. LAWRENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001903760003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 22, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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Agency
Washington, D.C. 20547
September 22, 1983
Dear Mr. Casey:
Following a telephone conversation of September 19 with
Chief, Media Relations, Public Affairs Office, of the Central
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Agency, this is to request opinion whether the motion picture listed below may
properly be certified by the Agency as of internatinal educational character
in accordance with the criteria of judgement published in. Title 22 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (copy enclosed), and as a requirement of United States
participation in the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation
of. Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Character (3rd General Session of UNESCO; Beirut, Lebanon, 1948):
MISSION: MIND OONIROL
Such certification is intended to facilitate distribution abroad, and secures
for the audiovisual material concerned in approximately 55 foreign countries
(including Canada) freedom from import duties and other tariff restrictions.
Certification is not required for export.
It would be appreciated if you would review the enclosed material and advise
whether the Agency may properly certify it in accordance with the marked
criteria in the enclosed copy of Title 22, especially with reference to the
following :
Whether the ':.aterial is representative, authentic aid accurate.
Whether the material is intended to persuade to a point of view (is it
propaganda?)
Whether, if shown to foreign audiences lacking adequate American points of
reference, the material may lend itself to being misinterpreted or
misunderstood.
The Honorable
William J. Casey
Director, Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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Your opinion on the above will be very much appreciated.
Please ret.urn the enclosed print. and the completed "Officers Report. on Visual
and Auditory Materials Reviewed for Attestation" to my attention following
your review.
If you have further questions about the Agency certification program, or in
connection with your review of this specific program, please call me
(376-7203).
Sincerely yours,
Sally J44, ence
Acting Attestation Officer
the United States
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