LETTER TO WILLIAM F. DONNELLY FROM BENEDICT K. ZOBRIST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 20, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

Mr. William F. Donnelly, Chairman
Information Review Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Donnelly:
Thank you for sending us a carbon copy of your letter to
Professor Bradley F. Smith, Department of History, Cabrillo
College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, California 95003. However,
we did not get copies of the sanitized documents which you
sent to Professor Smith. Our case NLT 86-21 submitted for Max
Holland, Suite 308, 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington,
D.C. 20002 on February 18, 1986, reflects the CIA denial in
full as reflected by the letter from Lee S. Strickland of the
CIA to the Truman Library, dated April 15, 1986 which was
appealed by Professor Smith. We need the copies of these
sanitized documents with the CIA deletions marked out so we
can effect a change in our files releasing the declassified
portions of these documents and making them available to
researchers including Mr. Holland, the original requestor.
Copies of the appropriate letters are enclosed.
BENEDICT K. ZOBRIST
Director
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May 28, 1986
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Department of History
Cabrillo College
550 Soquel Drive
Aptos, California 95003
Dear Professor Smith:
We have been notified by the CIA of their decision to refuse
declassification of the following document which was submitted
for another researcher: an undated memorandum relating to
British intelligence to the President from the Secretaries of
State, War and the Navy (ca. September 1945).
If you wish to appeal the decision of the CIA not to
declassify this document, you may address your appeal to:
Central Intelligence Agency Information Review Committee, c/o
Assistant to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington, D.C. 20505 and send it to us so we can resubmit a
copy of this document along with your appeal. (The CIA
control number for this declassification project is SC 63-
2584/86 and our declassification project number is NLT 86-21.)
Sincerely,
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Director
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Harry S. Truman Library
National Archives and Records Administration
Independence, MO 64050
Attention: Benedict K. Zobrist, Director
Dear Mr. Zobrist:
15 APR 1986
This is in regard to Your letter of 18 February you referred to this agency two documents 1986 in
Executive Order 12356 re as a result of the which
enclosed, quest of Max Holland, Your NLT-86-21,
We have reviewed the documents, an undated War Department
and a CIA memorandum dated 28 March 1949, a their nd determined
that both must be withheld in on 1.3(a)(4) of the entirety on the basis of
Lee S. Strickland
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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 Mr. John Wright
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Room 1107, Ames Building
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Wright:
Under the provisions of Executive Order 12356, Mr. Max Holland, Suite
308, 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002 has requested
the mandatory classification review of the enclosed documents from the
manuscript holdings of the Harry S. Truman Library. We are enclosing
copies of his request and the documents under our declassification
project NLT 86-21.
The agencies of primary subjec? matter interest in the review of the
documents are the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of
State, and the National Security Council. A representative of the CIA
examined the enclosed documents at the Library and requested that we
permit the CIA office in Washington to examine the documents prior to
declassification. We would appreciate it if you would conduct a
preliminary review of these documents and send your recommendations
and the documents to the National Security Council for final review.
The NSC, in turn, will review the documents and officially notify the
Truman Library of its determination regarding the documents. These
documents contain Code Word information. You may wish to consult with
the Department of Defense regarding their possible declassification.
If, after reviewing the documents, you determine that it must be
denied in full and that further review by the Department of State and
the NSC is unnecessary, please notify the Truman Library concerning
your decision.
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