VISIT TO HISTORICAL OFFICE, STATE DEPARTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001300070038-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: July 27, 1977
• Content Type: MFR

Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO01300070038-0
7/27/77
i?'MORAN_DU'M FOR THE RECORD
FROM : Senior Review Officer/RRB
SUBJECT : Visit to Historical. Office, State Department.
On 26 June, the C/RRB and I met with Dr. Frederick Aandahl, Assistant
Chief of the State Department?s Historical Office, to discuss the State
Department decimal file problem. The meeting was arranged through the
good offices of the C/CCS/DDO. Also in attendance at the meeting was
Dr. Arthur Kogan, who was responsible for liaison with MARS,
staff member. and a third
C/RRB outlined the problem present_d by the index cards and distri--
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The State Department officers were quite suprised to learn about the
problem with the index and recognized the gravity of the matter. None
had any positive ideas for resolving the.question. They promised that
they would give due deliberation to the question but did not appear alarmed. They said that indexes still in State Department custody woulcll}
be examined to see if similar problems existed but declared that nothing
could be done concernir.c the indexes retired to NARS :,Teich were out of
their control and open to the public.
They believed that some sensiti.ne
decimal series could b iderltif ied (such as lOl, State-CIA rela+ ions)
but that not all sensitive cards could be located. Screening of the index
was discussed but it w?; as admitted that the task would require an
nor=..:ou>
a-count of time and personnel w,- ?
. 1LCt1 no one had. Dr. Aandahl dis:::=iSSCd
the idea of closing the index, since the popularity of the decie_l file
with researchers was large enough to ca11;t an outcry
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Dr. Kogan co--n.:ented that the Nntionnl Archives stag` w ,
r oulr identify
and with ~lol_d CIA rn~t?-or.ial located In tic' File but concc.d_d that such
material was not a f ways rC"1dl7.ly 1dont 1.i led when th i fac
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