JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10T01930R000500150011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 27, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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27 August 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: CIA Classification Control Officer
SUBJECT John F. Kennedy Library
1. The Director of the JFK Library has again
written asking whether it is possible to declassify
the CIA Material he has.
2. Attached is his latest letter as well as
a copy of my 20 May reply to his first letter as
you suggested on 14 May 1971.
3. May I have your current position on this
subject in light of the President's recent interest
in declassifying records and the Director's expressed
concern for protecting the ol 'records of the A enc
CIA Records Administration Officer
Attachments:
JFK Letter 17 Aug. 73
OGC Memo 20 July 71
DDS/SSS/RAB/
(27 Aug. 71)
Distribution:
Orig - addressee
1 - RAB Subject (J.K. Kennedy Collection)/
1 - OSS Corresp.
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
National Archives and Records Service 4
John F. Kennedy Library
380 Trapelo Road
Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
(Tel: [phone])
August 17, 1971
Records Administration Officer
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear
I am writing regarding your letter to me of May 20 (copy enclosed).
In accordance with your authorization, we are now making our Cuba
clippings and Foreign Broadcast Information Service press reports
available to interested researchers.
In the third paragraph of your letter, you instructed us to down-
grade to CONFIDENTIAL our SECRET list of classified CIA reports and
documents and to make it available to reputable scholars on a "need-
to-know" basis. I am afraid we will have to have additional instruc-
tions on this point. As long as the list remains CONFIDENTIAL, we
will only be able to show it to researchers having current CIA security
clearances.
Would it be possible to declassify the list at this time so that we
could show it to all interested researchers?
JOHN F. STEWART
Acting Director
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20 May 1971
Mr. John F. Stewart
Acting Director,
John F. Kennedy Library
380 Trapelb Road
Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
Dear Mr. Stewart:
Please forgive the delay in responding to your letter about CIA
material held by the John F. Kennedy Library. The nature of your
request necessitated coordination among many offices.
We believe that there are actually two sets of clippings in
your holdings. Both sets may be made available for academic research.
Those concerning Soviet and Chinese press reaction to Kennedy speeches
were collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service which can
be identified as the government agency from which the clippings were
received. Those concerning Cuba were collected elsewhere within the
Agency
None of the 46 classified documents is subject to automatic down-
grading, and a survey of the originating offices indicates that none
has been downgraded or declassified. However, if any scholar who
reviews the list of these documents wishes to use one of them in his
research we would be pleased to review the document for possible de-
classification. The list itself may be downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL,
citing this letter as authority, and shown to any reputable scholar
who seems to have a reasonable "need-to-know." The list should con-
tinue to be filed in your classified collection and not be made avail-
able for copying, however.
DDS/SSS/RAB/
(20 May 197
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