REVIEW AND RELEASE OF CIA DOCUMENTS TO DR. CHARLES SAMPSON, DEPARTMENT OF STATE HISTORIAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090051-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: July 27, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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W TOP SECRET V
27 July 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR:
in-rormation iew Officer, DDI
Top Secret Control Officer, DDI
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff
SUBJECT : Review and Release of CIA Documents to Dr. Charles
Sampson, Department of State Historian
1. Dr. Charles Sampson, an official historian with the Department of
State, has asked that he be permitted to use the following CIA-originated
documents from the Kennedy Library in preparing a Vietnam War volume in
the official documentary series Foreign Relations of the United States:
TOP SECRET document #HS/JFK 461, 30 Sep 63
SECRET document #HS/JFK 75, 26 Aug 63
SECRET document #HS/JFK 77, 24 Aug 63
TOP SECRET document #HS/JFK 81, 11 Sep 63
CONFIDENTIAL document #HS/JFK 625, 3 Jun 63
I would be grateful if you would review these documents and decide whether
they can be released (at their present classification, unless you wish to
sanitize or downgrade them) to the Department of State for Dr. Sampson's
use.
2. Dr. Sampson and the Department of State have agreed to the
attached "CIA Records Access Policy," which requires further CIA review
before any of the classified material you may now release to them can be
declassified, downgraded, or published.
3. I would be grateful if you would return this document with your
determination to the DCI History Staff, Room 316 Ames.
/-5/
J. Kenneth McDonald
Attachment
This memo is UNCLASSIFIED
when separated from attached
documents.
TOP SECRET
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