POLICY STATEMENT ON DISCLOSURE AND REPRODUCTION OF INTELLIGENCE ORGINATED IN ANOTHER USIB AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000300120020-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 8, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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8 October 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, DDI Management Staff
ATTENTION : DDI Security Officer
SUBJECT : Policy Statement on Disclosure and Reproduction of
Intelligence Originated in Another USIB Agency
1. This memorandum requests, again, that the proper authority
affirm in writing that CRS is not subject to so much of paragraph 4b of
DCID 1/7, 5 October 1975, as reads:
Classified foreign intelligence documents, even though they bear no
control markings, will not be released in their original form to
third agencies... without permission of the originator.
2. This statement or a statement like it has appeared in previous
versions of DCID 1/7. However, on 25 August 1959, USIB-D-39.4/1 eased
policy to permit an agency to do retrospective search and supply of
documents for a third agency. Other easements of DCID 1/7 were also
provided in the 1959 paper to facilitate document processing of a second
or third agency's materials. The 1959 agreements have been presumed to
remain in force since then and, indeed, the briefings to various parts
of the DDI by the CIA member of the USIB Security Committee were marked
by statements that such easements were to continue in effect because the
purpose of the 1975 revision of DCID 1/7 was primarily to ease the
third-agency rule.
3. Under the presumed continuation of the 1959 agreements, CRS
regularly conducts retrospective searches of positive foreign intelligence
reports in support of work being done by various members of USIB. CRS
has extensive holdings of material in library document files, biographic
files and installation files. It is quite common for CRS, in response
to specific requests, to provide NSA documents to State, State documents
to DoD elements, DoD documents to NSA and everybody's document to such
military commands as SAC. Dissemination controls, of course, are respected
in this process. This is a useful function; the alternative is for SAC,
or whoever, to query each member of USIB for material relative to a
specific topic on a retrospective search. But, not all members of USIB
can do such retrospective searches. The words in the newly revised
DCID 1/7, however, seem to require an end to the service by CRS to the
Community unless the 1959 easements are continued.
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SUBJECT: Policy Statement on Disclosure and Reproduction of
Intelligence Originated in Another USIB Agency
4. In response to my query concerning the continuing validity of
the 1959 easements, B. A. Lowe, Secretary to USIB, forwarded to me a
1 October 1975 memorandum prepared by D. E. Moore, Chairman, Security
Committee. This memorandum talks around the point. It does not say
that the 1959 easements remain valid. Instead, ignoring the language
quoted in paragraph 1 above (paragraph 4b of the revised DCID), Moore
refers to paragraph 3d and the footnote thereto which concerns the
implication of "WARNING NOTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS
INVOLVED."
5. I shall accept the 1 October 1975 Moore memorandum as certifi-
cation that the 1959 easements permit CRS to continue to retrospective
search and document recovery for members of the Community but only until
1 January 1976. In the interim, I request such action as is necessary
to reaffirm the continued validity of the 1959 easements without which I
believe that CRS should cease to provide library and retrieval services
involving third agency materials. Such action would be somewhat silly,
but the times suggest that I should abide by all of the rules.
25X1
H. C. EISENBEISS
Director, Central Reference Service
Attachments:
A - DCID 1/7, 5 Oct 75
B - C/Security Committee memo to ExSec, USIB, 1 Oct 75
C - USIB-D-39.4/1, 25 Aug 75, CONFIDENTIAL
Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
1 - DDI Security Officer
1 - O/DDI
1 - C/ISG/CRS
1 - C/DSG/CRS
2 - OD/CRS
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