DISTRIBUTION TO ACADEMIA OF SOME MATERIAL IN STUDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000900040016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 23, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: I
Editor, Studies in Intelligence,
SUBJECT: Distribution to Academia of Some Material
in Studies
1. Per your request and that of my other colleagues
on the Board, at the 23 September Management Committee
meeting I raised Mr. Thuermer's 30 August letter and the
subjects it surfaced. In doing so, I stressed the Board's
willingness to entertain reasonable proposals for giving
unclassified dissemination, particularly to colleges and
universities, of material previously published in Studies,
but simultaneously flagged the insuperable administrative
burden of attempting any systematic review and declassifi-
cation process, particularly one going back to this worthy
journal's first issue. The Management Committee's views
were very much in accord with our own, though its decisions
were (not atypically) something less than precise. Thh~e
Committee agreed that:
(a) A distinction should be drawn between
declassifying individual articles and advertising
the existence of the. journal in a way sure to
prompt requests for back issues (even all back
issues) under "Freedom of Information" legislation.
It was therefore felt that individual articles
should not be identified as having come from the
journal, though they could be issued in an unclas-
sified monograph series.
(b) No attempt to go back to the beginning
and review all articles for declassification
should be made. The DDA, however, would endeavor
to identify a recently retired staff officer of
suitable breadth, judgment and seniority who could
spend time on the review and declassification
prob lem.
(c) In the future, authors should be encouraged
to think about couching some articles (obviously
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not all) in language suitable for public release
after a reasonable passage of time -- say, two
years.
(d) In this whole exercise, those partici-
pating would keep carefully in mind the distinction
between declassifying a given article (an essentially
one-time judgmental process) and sanitizipg a sensi-
tive piece for overt publication (a much more
elaborate, time-consuming exercise). Specific
suggestions with respect to the former should be
looked at sympathetically; suggestions involving
the latter should be regarded with greater stringency
and skepticism.
2. The sense of the Management Committee meeting, in
sum, was that steps should be taken to put into the public
domain articles of potential general interest and substantive
merit which were published or first appeared in Studies.
Indeed, a systematic effort should be made (via, among other
things, the work of the retired senior officer retained on
contract for this purpose) to identify declassifiable
articles, especially ones of recent vintage, which would
be of general interest. No general effort should be made,
however, to identify potential candidates for sanitization
7inee that i~-oul d be an elaborate -process to which we simply
do not have the resources to devote. (The distinction
between declassification and sanitization as used here is
that the former requires bas-ically a yes/no decision --
alloi,~ing, of course, for minor editorial excision -- while
the latter involves line-by-line judgment and extensive
rewriting.) Also, it was agreed that the form of release
to the public domain -- e.g., via the Library of Congress --
should not be one that, of itself, further compromised
Studies or generated requests for additional issues or
specific articles.
Geo ge A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
cc: Mr. Hugh Cunningham
Mr. David Brandwein
Mr. Lawrence Houston
Mr. Richard Lehman
Mr. Maurice Ernst
Mr. Walter Pforzheimer
Mr. Sayre Stevens
Mr. Angus Thuermer
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