FEDERAL REGISTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000200060023-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 16
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 3, 1978
• Content Type: REGULATION

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THE PRESIDENT
NATIONAL SECURITY
INFORMATION
Executive Order 12065
and Order Designating
Certain Officials
Within th-3 Executive
Office of the President
To Classify
Information
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of
the United States of America, in order to balance the public's interest in
access to Government information with the need to protect certain national
security information from disclosure, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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1-101. Except as provided in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amend.
cd, this Order provides the only basis for classifying information. Information
may be classified in one of the `three designations listed below. If there i.,
reasonable doubt which designation is appropriate, or whether the information
should be classified at all, the less restrictive designation should be used, or
the information should not be classified.
1-102. "Tops Secret" shall be applied only to information, the unauthor-
ized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exc ptioaait#y
grave damage to the national security..
1-103. "Secret" shall be applied only to information, the unauthorized
disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause-serious damage to
the national security.
1-104. "Confidential" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized
disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause identifiable damage
to the national security.
1-2. Classsiication A uthority.
1-201. Top Secret Authority for original classification of information as
Top Secret'may be exercised only by the President, by such officials as the
President may designate by publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER, by the
agency heads listed below, and by officials to whom such authority is delegat-
ed in accordance with Section 1-204:
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Attorney General --
The Secretary of Energy
The Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission -
The Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
The Director of Central Intelligence
The Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Administrator of General Services (delegable only to the Director,
Federal Preparedness Agency and to the Director, Information Security Over-
sight Office)
1-202. Secret Authority for original classification of information as Secret
may be exercised only by such officials as the President may designate by
publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER, by the agency heads listed below, by
officials who have Top Secret classification authority, and by officials to whom
such authority is delegated in accordance with Section 1-204:
'T'he Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Transportation
The Administrator, Agency for International Development
The Director, International Communication Agency
1-203. ConJ:dentiat Authority for original classification -of information as
Confidential may be exercised only by such officials as the President may
designate by publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER, by the agency heads listed
below, by officials who have Top Secret or Secret classification authority, and
by officials to whom such authority is delegated in accordance with Section 1-
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FEDERAL REGISTER-VOL. 43, NO. Its-,MONDAY, JULY 3, 1978
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