DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW OF STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE U.S. SERIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-00181R000100030002-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 9, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY
9 June 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Information Services
FROM: Chief, Classification Review Division
SUBJECT: Declassification Review of State Department
Records for Foreign Relations of the ^ S. Series
1. During a recent conversation, Mr. Dwight Ambach of State requested
that we consider the feasibility of returning to our earlier practice of
reviewing only those portions of the FRUS manuscripts which the State
classification reviewers have identified as containing information of interest
to CIA. At present, we are reviewing the entire manuscript in CRD, but send
only the documents of interest to the DO and DI to their respective IROs for
coordination. FRUS manuscripts average about 2,000 pages of which 10 'percent
or less contain information of interest to CIA.(U)
2. The CIA is the only agency that requires a copy of the entire
manuscript for review. We believe that, in view of the relatively small
percentage of documents in a given volume that contain CIA information, a more
efficient use of CRD reviewer time can be achieved by reverting to our former
procedure. Equally important is relieving State's Classification and
Declassification Center of the burden of photocopying literally thousands of
pages of material that contain no CIA equities. Also, implicit in the current
procedure is the assumption that State reviewers cannot be depended upon to
identify all material of CIA interest, and therefore the reaffirmation of our
trust in them will remove this negative factor in our relationship.
3? We should point out that we depend on others
Presidential Libraries and NARA for example, to identifYerecords of intere
to CIA. Experience over that last few years has shown that the State
reviewers, as opposed to the Historian's Office, are quite attentive to
identifying any possible CIA equities that need protection, and are able to
spot anything that we would be interested in. Naturally, if we ever find an
instance where something slips by, we would bring it to State's attention.
Mr. Ambach stated that he would instruct his reviewers to be very conservative
and to earmark for the Agency's review any information which even remotely
appears to have interest to CIA. I am confident that, as in the past and as
is done in other areas where records contain information of interest to CIA,
that both we and State will profit from the return to our former practice.(U)
4. Your approval is requested. If granted, we will run this idea past
the Directorate IRO's if you believe that is necessary.(U)
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