LETTER TO THE HONORABLE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FROM C. P. CABELL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700170120-6
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: September 8, 1953
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable
Me Attorney General
Departz e t of Justice
. aehf n; rtaf 25, D. Go
Mr. Attorney Generalt
,4r-,. Ja s c . ~erty, Press retry to the President
this Agency with a copy of a proposed Executive order coverin class
ficati an of security information and asked that atW suggestions
forwarded to the Attorney General*
The i'ollowinr Para raph is proposed as an addition to E -ect .on 2.
of pave 2.
e Head of any department or agency in paragraphs
(a) to (c) above my authorize officials of such apvncy to
impose an appropriate temporary classification on sensitive
items of defense or intelligence information which they
encounter in the course of their duties such temporary
classification to cover the period of tranmittal of the
information from the official to the Head, of the agemy.H
The foregoing addition 1s submitted to afford protection to
intelli enc a sources in situations which occ aeional l,y do occur,,
h ant
An official of the Export-Import Bank or the 8 k .
t=ariff Commission uncovers a sensitive item of financial
or economic intelligence in the course of negotiations, The
official might be abroad at the time and the means of trans-
rtittal should follow the appropriate char.l of commmication
of classified infor .tion from this official to the Mad of
the *"my*
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incerelys
SO/CVB:skh (1 Sept 53)
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C. P. Cabell
Lieutenant Generals Ui?A '
Acting firector
ORIGINATING C&'FICER:
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Director of Sec`
RELE'+AS3NG CIFFICER :
CONCUR : SF P 4 1953
eting Deputy D rector
(Administration)
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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MEMORANDUM FOR: TE ._. a DIRECTaR
The attached letter has been prepared in
response to the request of Mr. James C. ;Hagerty,
Press Secretary to the President, for suggestions
regarding a proposed Executive Order covering the
classification of security information.
Recommend signature
L. K. MITE
Acting Deputy Director
(Administration)
SEP 5 1
(-DATE)
FORM NO. 10-101 JAN 1952 (47)
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