LETTER TO HOWARD P. LOWELL FROM EDMUND COHEN RE CLASSIFIED ANNEXES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005284222
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Case Number: F-2008-01459
• Publication Date: February 23, 2005

UNCLASSIFIED//3et
Central Intelligence Agency
APPROVED FOR RELEASE[]
DATE: 25-Oct-2011
Mr. Howard P. Lowell
Director, Modern Records Programs
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740--6001
(U) In your letter of 23 November 2004, you asked
that we examine our record holdings to determine the
disposition of "classified annexes to the Intelligence
Authorization Acts for FYs 1947 through 1970."
(U) In response to your request, our records managers
completed extensive research into the development of
annexes and related budget documents and for verification
of their findings also completed an exhaustive hand search
of budget data of the Office of the Comptroller, the Office
of Congressional Affairs and predecessor organizations, for
fiscal years 1947 through 1970.
(U/fir We determined that the "classified annexes"
are documents produced in Congress that specifically define
how funding appropriated for the Central. intelligence
Agency budget shall be spent. The Intelligence
Authorization Act that precipitated these documents was
first enacted in 1979 and these external documents were not
produced until the early 1980's. Hence, the documents are
not extant for the fiscal years 1947 through 1970 and no
evidence exists that would require a report under 36 CFR
1228.104..
(U/1.P01T6) It is our understanding that prior to 1979
CIA budget figures were disclosed to CIA from closely held
informal Congressional documentation maintained by Congress
and not formally disseminated to the Agency.
Unfortunately, this Congressional documentation was
anachronistically referred to in the Stockman declaration
as "classified annexes" to "intelligence authorization
acts."
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 (U) If you have further questions please contact
Mr. Christopher Olsen, Chief, Records and Classification
Management, Information Management Services, or me, by
telephone at 703-613-1716 or 703-613-1252, respectively.
"Sincerely,
Edmund Colieu .......
Chief, Information Management Services
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