YOUR REQUEST OF 24 AUGUST 1979 FOR DECLASSIFICATION OF A NUMBER OF NIS SECTIONS 23, WEATHER AND CLIMATE

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• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 25, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
'5 February 1980
Department of the Air Force
Headquarters 5 Weather Wing (tbAC)
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia 23665
ATTENTION: ON (Captain Horn, 5901)
SUBJECT: Your Request of 24 August 1979 for Declassification
of a Number of NIS Sections 23, Weather and Climate
Dear Captain Horn:
In partial reply to your subject request, we are attaching two
lists of Sections 23 that we have determined may be declassified.
These lists coincide with your own--those produced before 1959 and
those produced after. We will continue with the review of the others
and will inform you accordingly, hopefully by the end of this month.
Please accept our apologies for the long delay in getting even
this initial response to you. By way of explanation, the NIS sections,
being an interdepartmental product, pose a special problem for classi-
fication review. The Central Intelligence Agency was the editorial
and publication agency for the NIS program and, therefore, is the cus-
todian of the record copies. 'Jevertheless, most of the various sections
were produced by other agencies, who must be consulted on any change in
classification. For some time we have been trying to set up some kind
of interdepartmental mechanism for the systematic review of such joint
products. We hope for some accomplishment in this matter soon.
Our task has been made somewhat easier in the case of your request,
because it came from the producing agency itself along with your state-
ment that you considered those listed to be declassifiable. The response
to those sections not listed in the attached is delayed because we must
check the sensitivity of some portions, mostly concerned with sourcing.
We will reply on these as quickly as possible.
Very truly yours,
Chief, Classi nc:a ion Review Division
Information Services Staff
irectorate of Administration
Attachments: As stated
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