LETTER TO DAVID DURENBERGER FRO WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G00186R001001300011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 3, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
The Honorable David Durenberger
Chairman
Select Committe on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
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.
This program is moving forward vigorously to declassify historically
significant CIA records for transfer to the National Archives.
We prepared our report in consultation with those officials and
historians specified by the CIA Information Act; their report is appended to
mine. Our meetings with them in March and their report have 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 the Judiciar of the Senate, and
the Chairmen of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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