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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000300090020-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: July 11, 1947
• Content Type: FORM

SECRII (When Fliled In)
{ONS CTIONS I. TOPICS PERSUNALtIlca
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IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENT (author, form, addreaa.a, lltla 6 length)
Four memos dealing with the policy of Dissemination of
Information.
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17 Jan 1947
through
11 July 1949
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These memos show the development of policy from the dissemination'
of "all"information to a "need to know" concept. Draft operating.
procedures are attached to two of these memos...
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"?P il)tTh 1'0-: A^si:atvn? W .rector for Collection"'nnci Dis .^:n 3t:Len.
A;.sistrnt Director for `. p ecial Op^rr:ti;;i~:..
1. The q: .-tton of dic:aerain_.tion of raw infor;:,ati._n oh:>trin by
thy' Office of SpocIF1 Operation,- hnn born a snbjcct of thor'f;"i:h
A i a r(: aui t of tt;io atuc':y iL tap,),qr;a that all it^_.ru of rerr irlt't~
obtained by the Office of She ci_+.1 Oporetions fall into t-,o hn is cr:.tc-
c ories as follows:
a. :xtro,+iely sensitive information or inforrd.tion ,,:I!ich
hn s biers obtained --S a result of rcquesto entered through
c:curity channels.
b. All other rar information obtained by the Office of
S pecir,.l Operations not definitely fallintr into the .-,ater ory abo 'o.
2. In line" with the over-ell mi: lion of CIG, it coca., nccc,, a_y
and desirable that those report,-, v;hich ccnn under the jrrovisions of
xrr rarrrnph la above should bo dis.;rninatod by the Office, of Social
Operations. Tho;ro iter.-s of raw inform-:--.tion, hoxver, c:hich do not
fell within the category ~of. la .bovo should def.:initcly be di aiorN:Lnated
by the Office of Collection and Di s;iomin!,.tion.
To implement the latter stF+trr E nt~ it deoi rnble that
the following : ter i be tr,ken to .satisfy our ohlig ations from an inter-
dopartmcntal vicrfpoint.
a. That the Office of Special: Operations ,rovidu the office
of Collection and Dissemination with two copies of all raw infor, ation
ronorts not considered oensitive or which have not been collect-.d rs a
result of special requests entered throwP,h spociL,.i s_:c~ari ty c2 r~r~r,e1 .
b. That the riastor ditto from which the two conies rentfoned
ffice of CoLlc-:ction
in a above have been obtained be also furnished the Office'
and Dissemination for the reproduction of additional copse, "~cd
for the filling of intordepartrn; nta.i. needs.
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C. That only the nr:cc-.5sary number of copies be rerrrofb 6cd
by the Office of Collection and Dieseminat:torr to fill interdepnnrt ' ntal
needs. The maoter ditto becoming the .f'ile.._for, e.ny later or err,.rgercy
needs of reproduction.
d.. That measures be taken .to ensure that all de_ artment
receivin those reports are aware of their nature as raw and unovaluu.ted
17 J-nuary 1947
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4. Your further comet nta or rocommunriations in connection with
this matter are requf rttnc1. Xu tli