FOIA APPEAL - GEORGE MCT. KAHIN (74-120)

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Information Review Committee
Assistant for Information
SUBJECT : FOIA Appeal - George McT. Kahin (74-120)
Acting for the O/DCI, the NIO/SSEAAF
no objection to the declassification and release of the W. W. Rostow
memo to McG. Bundy "Meeting Saturday Morning, January 28, in the
President's Office, on Vietnam," dated 1/30/61. Therefore, with
the concurrence of the DDO, the document may be declassified and
released to the requester in its entirety.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/DCI/NIO
SUBJECT : FOIA Appeal - George McT. Kahin (74-120)
REFERENCE : Attachments
The attachments pertain to an appeal by George McT. Kahin of
the sanitization and denial of information contained in one White House
document (document #2 on the attached list). The DDO has no objection
to release but recommends O/DCI review. Would you undertake to act for
the O/DCI in this case?
Administrative Officer, UG1
Atts: a/s
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As you can see. from the attached material on
the George McT Kahin appeal, the DDO has no
objection to the release after the O/DCI has
concurred. Would you please review and return
to me with your opinion. Thanks.
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17 December 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: -Chairman, Information Review Committee
ATTENTION:
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Assistant for Information
FOIA Appeal - -George McT. Kahin (74-120)
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B.
10 October 1974 IPS Reply
Appeal Letter dated. 12 November 1975
1. Summary of Recommendations: Pass document being
appealed in toto s obj ect- to 0 DCI concur-r.?ence.
2. Background: Subject is appealing the deletions
made by CIA in only one of twenty-one documents referred
for review; these documents were reviewed-in reference to
NAR.S Declassification Review NLK 74-3 on behalf of Subject.
The document in question was reviewed by the responsible
DDO component on 27 September 1.974 and at that time had no
objection to declassification"and./or release pending re-
view by the Office of the DCI. This document was passed
to Subject in sanitized form.
3. Recommendation:
reviewed an reference to
objection (see Tab B) to
lease of the information
However, since the O/DCI
information, I recommend
tamed (see Tab B).
This document has been re-
this appeal. We still have no
the declassification and/or re-
previously denied to Subject.
was the initial denier of the
that their concurrence be ob-
4. f 0CC has been advised
this matter ana concurs our recommendation.
DDO Appeals ricer
Attachments:
TAB A - References
TAB B - Appealed documents
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NCGRAV/ HALI.
ITHIiCA, NEW YORK 14550
November. 12, 1975
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Information Review Committee
c/o Assistant to the Dar"ectar-
insists that this be sanitized before it is released.
review case NLK-74-3, document No. 2. As I understand it, the CIA
I write-to request a review of your decision concerning my mandatory
I respectfully submit that inasmuch as,both the Departments of Defense
and State concluded that the entire document could be declassified
and that this judgment has now been fully concurred- in by--the National?
Security Council there is no plausible basis for denying, declassification
by CIA. Deletion of this portion of the memo from W.W._ Rostow,to-
.fcGeorge Bundy that CIA has stipulated will effectively eviscerate-the
purport of this memo. This-will mean an option laid before the President
and seriously considered by him is being denied fhose seeking tot
reconstruct one of the most critical -periods in the new KennedykAdminis-
tration's approach to the problem of Vietnam.
I do therefore respectfully request that your committee review this
decision.
Georgd McT. Kahin
Professor of Government and
International Relations
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der.. Pi-chard A. Jacobs
Den>tty Assistant Archivist -for
Presidential Libraries
Office of Presidential Lib.rarie ---
;atiotnal Archives and Records Service g _..
Seventh St. & Pennsylvania -Avenue, Ni.. 1W..
;Mashington, D. C. 204.?8
Dear ?,;r.
Jacobs:..-
The CIA has completed its-...mandatory. declassification
review of the documents submttcd in your request of
12 August. on behalf..-of 114r. Geo=rge J!cT. Kah-in of Cornell
ljf.i.versity. There is no objection -to _decla.ssifi catzon " _
and release, of the documents subject
per your. letter to':-concurrence
front the National Security -Council:, the -Department of - State, -
arc1 the Department of Defense. ? - -
Attachment A also :identifi.es those .documents which,
despite the need for continued, classification, can.be
released in sanitized form, provided that the- passages
bracketed in Attachment 13 are deleted., . and no-. objection
is posed by the other reviewing agencies.--
Sincerely,-
Robert -S. Young -
Archivist
Attachments: - a/s
ISAS:CPB:BDrell:sih
(9 October 1974)
Distribution:
Orig. - Addressee
1 - ISAS (Subject)
1 - ISG/DDO'
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CIA Posit:ton on MARS Request NLK "r-= -3 for 1`ardatory
Declassification Review on Behalf of George MCT. Kahin, Cornell University
I tom Date
CIA Doctr,-,ents:
1 3/25/61 A.W. Dullos mazno to JFi'K: "Operations
Against North Vi-otnam," S
d'hito Rouse Documents:
2 1/30/61 W.W. Rostow memo to MeG. Bandy:
"Meeting Saturd=ay Morning, January
28, in the Presidont's Office, on
VietnamTS
3 21 1/61 R.Z.T. Nos er memo to: T.J.W. Rosto-w:
"Fore stallinf a Crisis An South
Vietnam," S
/#- 311-'1161 C.V. Clifton mono to NcG. i3urdy
re schedule for now Ambassador in
Vietnam, C
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6 3/29/61
3 /x/12/61
& Dulles ro meeting with JFK, S
Unsigned agenda for Task Force
Meeting March 20, S
CIA Fosition
Continue classification per
i;.O. 11652, 5(D)(2-3)
Continue classification per
EO11652, 5(13)(1,3).
o objoction o
N sag L?E.i_ ati.on
nro-,iced ass-t ag:;s brac~cot ed ,
in a -t-tachaent B are delet1 d .
No objaction to decl .ssifi_cation.
No objection to declassification.
No objection to declassification.
W.W. Rostow memo to JFK re Vi-otnam, - No objection to declassification.
C
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."Rostow memo to JFK.: "Vietnam 'r
S
No objoction to doclassification.
Ras-tow memo to JrK re Vietnam, No objection to declassification.
S
9 Ro sto w memo to JFK: "D turbrow
on Alsop on Diem on Vietnam," S
1 4 /28/61 R.?? Nosier memo to `.r.'.'. Ro sto fir:
"Comments on Program of Action for
Vietnam," TS
1/27/61 r,cG. Irndy rnamo to McNamara, rusk,
No objection to declassification.
No objection to declassification.
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,j. 4/28/6l R.H. Johnson memo to W.W. Rostow:
"Frogram of Action for Viotnan," TS
12 5/ 3/61 R.W. KOIIlor memo to RC SLOW,
S
13 5/ 1x/61 R.W. lloilier merio to l'I.:% Rostow,
S
14 515161 Unsigned item: "U.S. Military
Forces in "ouch V:ietnem," TS
5/10/61
'.1.V . Rostow memo to JFK : "Viet-
nam NSC Paper," S
16
5/16/61
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13.11. Johnson memo to Ros-
tow: "Meeting of the Task Force
on Vietnam, on Thursday, May 11,
1.961," S
17
5/17/61
R.H. Johnson memo to 1T.'~'. Rostow:
::r-,ceting of the Vietnam Task Force
on Monday, May 15, 1961," S
18
5/19/61
R.11'. Johnson memo to Mc.G. Bundy:
"South Vietnam Agency Comments on
USC Action Memorandum No. 52," TS
19
5/24/61
R.H. Johnson memo to '?1.??.'. Rostow:
"The Possibility of a Coup in South
Vietnam," S
20
5/26/61
W.W. Rostow memo to JFK on Vietnam.
S
21
5/26/61
R.F. Johnson memo to '. '. Rostow:
"Economic Group for South Vietnam,"
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Continue classification per
ho, 5(B)(3)?
l 'o objection to sanitization
provided passages bracketed
in Attachment B are deleted.
No objection todeelassifica-
-tion.
No objection to declassifica--
tion..:
Eo, 5(B)(3)..
No objection to manitization
pxovj.cied ' pass.Fges bracketed
in Attachment B are deleted.
1,1o. objection to declass-ifica--
Continue classification or
l,0 5(B)(3).
No objection to ,anitization
provided rassages bracl.s.ted
in Attachment B are deleted.
No objections to decla-3sifica-
tion.
No objections to -dc.classifica--
tion.
No objections to declassifica-
tion.
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'0 objections to declassifica-
tion.
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MEMORANDUM FOR
DiO/PIC
. Annette D. S:-rider
Declassif!cation Request No. 71F-120
28 Jan. 1961
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Requester: George Mct. Kahin
Documents Concerned:
Memorandum, Rostotr to icGeorge Bundy,
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EA Division has reviewed subject request and has detcrinined:
b. No objection to declassification and/or release after clearances have
been obtained from the following: Office of the DCI -
a. No objection to declassification and/or, release.
Declassifi cation of any part of. the request is impossible at this iim.e.
Applicable exemptions under apply:,
A sanitized version may be released after the bracketed mate ial has
been excised. Applicable exemptions under- apply:
e. Additional comments, if applicable:
STAT
Downgrade to
when detached
Theodore G. Rackley
`C hief, East Asia Division
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No objection to declassifi.cationand/or release.
Sanitized version may be released provided that'certain.information is
excised.-- (If "Expendable Copy,'' bracket material to be deleted in red.
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