DECLASSIFICATION REQUEST RELATED TO SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE STAFF STUDY ON NEGOTIATIONS
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CREST [1]
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75B00380R000200060078-3
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
October 7, 2002
Sequence Number:
78
Case Number:
Publication Date:
June 5, 1973
Content Type:
MF
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Approved For Release 2002/10/18: 'CIA-RDP75B00380R000200060078-3
CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Walter L. Cutler
Special Assistant to Ambassador Sullivan
SUBJECT Declassification Request Related to
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Staff Study on Negotiations
1. Per your 1 June request, we have looked at the copies you
sent of pages 26-28 of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
staff's draft study on negotiations and at pages 106-112 of the Mayflower
section in Volume VI.C.1 of the "Pentagon. Papers," on which the SFRC
study is in part based.
2. As a matter of principle, we do not believe memoranda from
the DCI or the Board of National Estimates should be alluded to or (even
less) directly quoted in unclassified documents. Given the nature and
background of this particular concrete case and the extent of previous
disclosure of this material, however, in this instance a stand on principle
would not succeed and would look silly. We certainly endorse and support
your asking the SFRC staff to delete from the text and footnotes of its re-
port all specific citations of material in the still-classified volumes of the
Pentagon Papers, including quotation marks indicating that the language
within them is a verbatim extract. Under the real world circumstances
with. which we have to deal, achieving even this much would be helpful
and trying to do more would be futile.
25X1A
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
25X1A
copies to:
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