CLASSIFICATION OF DCID 1/14

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500140073-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 73
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
FROM: Harry E. Fitzwater .
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Classification of DCID 1/14
1. 1 have looked into the matter, raised with you by the
Inspector General, of the classification of Director of Central.
Intelligence Directive (DCID) 1/14.
2. Because DCIDs are an Intelligence Community matter, the
Chairman, DCI Security Committee (SECOM), was asked to place the
Inspector General's concern before SECOM for consideration. At
the 17 February SECOM meeting, the members voted unanimously to
go on record in support of maintaining the unclassified status
of this Directive.
3. The SECOM made a conscious decision. not to classify
DCID 1/14 when it was adopted on 1 July 1968. This was well
before the initiative of the seventies to declassify everything
possible. On 24 September 1979, the HPSCI Subcommittee on Over-
sight released the text of DCID 1/14 to the press. The SECOM
members believe the initial decision not to classify DCID 1/14
was correct. Its public release and its unclassified status for
more than a decade further weigh against a change at this time.
Finally, SECOM considers it necessary to have an unclassified
policy to deal effectively with such matters as appeals of
denials of SCI access.
4. In view of this background, I believe it would be
unproductive to pursue this matter any further.
Harry E. Fitzwater
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Attached is .a memo-] from
the DDA to the Executive
'Director explaihin.g why.
)CID I/14 'is uriclassifi.ed.
This matter was raised by
-he, Inspector..Gen.eral.
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