DRAFT OF INFORMAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORKING AGREEMENT FOR THE DOWNGRADING, RELEASING, AND PUBLISHING OF INFORMATION FROM CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS OR REPRODUCTIONS THEREOF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000200020094-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: May 19, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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19 bee 1943
To
From Assistant Director for Operations
Sublets Draft of Informal Interdepartmental Working Agreont for
Downgrading, Mewling, and Publishing of Information frost
Captured Oerman -amen:ante or keprodeetione thereof.
1. It is the opinion of thin Office that the words *the Central
Intelligence. Agency* should be inserted between the words eNational.
Military 7Antablishment* an the eeeratary of State* ecOh time this
phrase occurs in Paragraph 2 of intellect draft,
2. Although the Central Intelligence Aeency does not haie custody
of a large quantity- of Gerson documents, it, has asemeni responsibility
for the exploitation for intellieence purposes of the -extensive collec-
tions held hy the Departments -of the Army and Nave. It. has, therefore,
a definite interest in the downgrading, upgrading, or.maintenence of the
classification on certain German documents and translations thereof. If
a government agency wishes to declaeciey a document in its custody Atich
has intelligence value or *is oonsidered to contain information of inter.
est* to the Central intelligence Agency, thie agency *load be conceited
prior to declassification and release of the document for private research
or general publication.
3. Conour in proposed draft, sibject to the addition noted above,
seed concur strongly in the pritple that th agency having tody of
captured documents has primary responsibility for declaasificati
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44 Sugesert that the terms of reference ,)f this should
possible, extended to include captured Japaneee documents, since the Joint
Chiefs of Staff originally had eurisdiction over all documents captured by
U.S. militeey forces in the Wuropeen and Far 7astern theaters, and no clear
declassification directives have been issued with respect to For eastern
deomments. Hitheeto Cu has followed the general procedures /aid down by
the report of the Japanese Document Conference issued by the War Department
on 15 Januar,' 1945. This report specified, however, *that tha Joint Security
Control be charged eith responsibility for preparing security procedurey for
all agencies and services which deal with captured documents outside the
Jurisdiction of the theaters*, and no such procedures are known to have been
formelated hy the Joint Security Control, Altexation r,i" the proposed draft
of the sInterdepertmental Working Agreement* to include Japanese as well as
German documents would be of direct assistance to C/A, since this agency still
has custody of a large number of Japanese documents. Foreign Documents
Brunch 00, is responsible, therefore for the correct classification of
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