LETTER TO CHARLES SAMPSON FROM J. KENNETH MCDONALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100080065-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: February 17, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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17 February 1984
Dr. Charles Sampson
Office of the Historian
Room 3100, State Annex 1
Department of State
2401 E Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Dr. Sampson:
As you know, I have arranged for the historians working on the Vietnam
War volumes of the Forei n Relations of the United States series to screen
the documents they order from presidential i raries a ter we receive them
here. Drs. Baehler, Keefer and Landa visited our offices in December and
January and screened groups of documents that they had selected at the John
F. Kennedy Library, to identify the specific documents they would like CIA to
review and release for this project.
After review, the originating components here have given me decisions on
the first three of ten separate groups of Kennedy Library documents that
these three historians screened. Of the 35 documents that these historians
selected for review, I am forwarding 18 classified documents that have been
released, and must report that the originating components have denied the
other 17 documents.
I shall enclose copies of the Kennedy Library manifests that include
these documents, divided into three groups as follows:
Group A:
JFK Manifest Nos. 2,
3, 4,
6
Group B:
JFK Manifest Nos. 1,
5, 7a
Group C:
JFK Manifest Nos. 7b, 8a, 9, and 17
You will note on these enclosed manifests that we have numbered each
document received from the Kennedy Library. Drs. Baehler, Landa and Keefer
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used these numbers (indicated below in the 'HS/JFK Documejnt #" column) in
screening these documents, and for their information the results of our
review are summarized below:
,Requester Rel./Denied HS/JFK Document #!
Baehler released 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 1;1, 12, 13, & 14
Landa released 98, 100, 1, 2, 3,1& 4
denied 95, 107, 6 96
Keefer released 66, 70, a 122
denied 134, 135, 138, 1 9, 140, 141,
162, 163, 164, 1 5, 169, 170,
171, a 175
We understand that we need not arrange for review oflany other documents
in these three groups, unless Drs. Baehler, Keefer or La da (or some other
historian working on this project) selects specific additional documents for
review.
As usual, the caveats noted in the enclosed "CIA Records Access Policy'
apply concerning CIA review before any material from CIA riginated documents
can be downgraded, declassified or published in any uncl ssified publication.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Ms. Suzanne K.~~Forbes,
Classification Review Archivist at the Kennedy Library, and to Dr. James E.
O'Neill, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries at the National
Archives and Records Service.
With all good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Is/
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief Historian
Enclosures
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when separa d from the
appended doc nts.
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