INVITATION TO ATTEND AN ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING ON THE AGENCY'S 30-YEAR DECLASSIFICATION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001200190016-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 23, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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ORANDU FOR: Deputy Director for I_ telligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for S.aience Technology
General Counsel
l spector General
Comptroller
AR.ministrative Officer, Ct
John F. Blake
Y puty Director for _A4 m
I-vitation to Attend an Organizational
Meeting on the Agency's 30-Yar Declas-
sification Program
a. Executive Order 11652
b. 'National Security Council Directive
of Hoy 17, 1972
1. As many of you are aware, the DCI has given the
DDA the responsibility for establishing an Agency-wide
ogram for the review of 30-year old classified material
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according to the criteria established in I ecutive Order 11652
and the National Security Council Directive of M-y 17, 197".
The DDA, in turn, has designated the Irformation Systems
Analysis Staff (ISAS) to be his instrument for initiating
and coordinating this review program both within and outsi
of the Agency.
Since being given this assignment, TSAS has tak:
the following steps to lay the groundwork for the program:
a. Hired a declassification expert, Dr.
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provide guidance and expertise in a ormation
of the Agency's Program.
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Appointed an M Careerist T=est.
Q to serve as the focal point Iand administrator
of the review program.
. c. Programmed for the hiring of IS part-time
personnel to be trained as reviewing officers.
d. Established liaison contacts with the
National Archives and Records Service (MARS).
C. Determined through previous correspondence
with the other Directorates that the best and most
favored approach is a decentralized program with
ISAS serving as a focal point for guidance and
problem solving. (Nate. The decentralized approach
recognizes the varied problems the different compo-
nents will face during their review program while
centralized guidance will insure that the Agency
is consistent in its use of review criteria Agency
procedures. The point of consistency is imperative
in the event the Agency is taken to court to justify
any material not declassified.)
The next logical stop in establishing an Agency-wide
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11 of the addressees to send a representative or renresesnta-
program is to meet with the various components to address
individual and common problems and get to know opposite
numbers. With this in mind, ISAS extends an Invitation to
tives to an organizational meeting to be held at 1000 hours
on 18 January 1977 in Room 3-E-62 Headquarters. ISAS will
discuss its present plans and objectives and would like each
representative to comment on his or her situation with regards
to the review program. In addition, F_ I
who has been associated with the declass _:icat on review of
records from the 0SS era, will give a short talk on the
highlights of that program.
4. It is requested that those individuals pla .-,
attend t his meeting please contac
///John F. Blake
John F. Blake
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