LETTER TO EDWIN A. THOMPSON FROM WILLIAM F. DONNELLY

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2011
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Mr. Edwin A. Thompson
Director, Records Declassification Division
National Archives and Records Ssrvice
Room 18-W, National Archives Building
Eighth Street & Pennsylvania Aven., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20408
Your letter of June 16, 1987 requested the CIA to provide you with a
guideline that could be used to identify and protect CIA information during
the declassification review of U.S. Army records from Thailand (USMACTHAI)
created during the period of the Vietnam conflict. Enclosed is the CIA
guideline for this purpose. If we can be of further assistance to you in this
matter please do not hesitate to call on us.
William F. Donnelly
Deputy Direcoter for Administration
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Office of Information Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
About a month ago I met with you briefly to inform you that the National
Archives and Records Administration would shortly be accessioning the
records of the war in Southeast Asia. The Department of the Army has now
formally transferred title and custody of these records. They are
located at the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland.
The records of the combat and support units operating in Vietnam have been
reviewed and declassified with few exceptions by the Department of the Army
reviewers over the past six years. These records are being further processed
and described by NARA personnel with the intention of opening them to the
public over the course of the next few years.
The Army also did some preliminary arrangement of records of U.S. Army
elements in Thailand during the Vietnam conflict. A copy of the Army's
description of the records involved, nearly 100 cublic feet of material, is
enclosed. The Thailand records were not reviewed by the Department of the
Army for declassification. Declassification review of these records will be
the first assignment of the Records Declassification Division.
In order to conduct the necessary declassification review, it will be necessary
to have the best possible guidance on the remaining security sensitivities of
your agency which might be found in these records. You are invited to have
experts from your staff examine the records involved in order to prepare the
necessary declassification guidance.
Tom Hohmann, Supervisory Archivist in the General Archives Review Branch of
the Records Declassification Division, will arrange to have the records made
available to your expert for examination. He can be reached at 763-4623.
Please call Mr. Hohmann or me (523-3165) if there are any further questions.
Your prompt attention to the development of declassification guidance will
be greatly appreciated.
Director
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