LETTER TO LEE H. HAMILTON FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B00858R000500640025-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 23, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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2 9 MAY 1985
The Honorable Lee H. Hamilton
Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I take pleasure in submitting, as requested in Section 3 of the CIA
Information Act, a report on the feasibility of conducting systematic review
for declassification and release of Central Intelligence Agency information
of historical value.
This kind of review is indeed feasible, and to carry it out we have
established the new Historical Review Program that our report describes.
Under this program we have begun the process of declassifying historically
significant CIA records for transfer to the National Archives.
This report has been prepared in consultation with those officials and
historians specified by the CIA Information Act; their findings are appended
to mine. The involvement of these scholars has been extraordinarily helpful,
and we have incorporated all of their recommendations into our Historical
Review Program.
I especially endorse our consultants' recommendation that we reassemble
them, or a comparable panel in two or three years, to assess the program's
progress and to make such further recommendations as are necessary. This
program has my strong support and we are determined to make it succeed.
As the CIA Information Act directs, I am also sending my report and this
letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Government Operations of the House
of Representatives, and to the Chairmen of the Committee on the Judiciary and
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
Sincerely,
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William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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