COMMENTS ON PROPOSED MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER'S HANDBOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001200100008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 12, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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iEIVI )RAi 1)U! FOR: Director of Information Services
t iic F, Classification Review Division
SUBJECT : Continents on Proposed hlaanusc r i pt Reviewer's Handbook
REFERENCl : Memorandum from Chairman, PRB;
19 February 1981 (OTS 81-1.77)
1. From our viewpoint, this proposed handbook contains insufficiently
detailed guidance to help reviewers overcome the problems and difficulties met
when dealing with actual manuscripts. To provide ways and means for solving
the reviewer's probl'E*nis the handbook should. in the main:
a. Specify a standard format for presentation or review results to
the PRI3. Components now vary widely in their ways of doing this.
b. Not require components or reviewers to apply classification
stamps or portion markings to the manuscript copies returned to the
PRB for consolidation of review results. It should be sufficient
merely to indicate deletions on these copies and apply a preliminary,
protective classification to the cover sheet. Only the PRB gets all
reviewing components' inputs; thus only the PRB can consider them as
a whole and apply overa1l and portion classification markings accord-
ing to its final determinations.
c. Include a checklist of subject-matter frequently requiring
deletions. Although each manuscript is different, certain types of
information recur often enough to warrant their inclusion in such
a list. A similar listing of materiat not usually subject to dele-
tion despite apparent classifiability m'gTit also be included.
d. Provide for feedback to reviewing components of the PRB's
actual decisions concerning each manuscript returned to an author
with deletion requirements. The minutes of PRB meetings now received
are inadequate in many cases; they are not accompanied by any listing
of the specific deletions actually demanded.
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2. The following corrunents are keyed to specific handbook pages:
a. Page 3
(1) The secrecy agreement paragraph should be rewritten for
clarity. As written, there is confusion as to whether the
agreement or Pith is responsible for preventing disclosure.
b. Pa e 4
(1) The proposed handbook's Executive Order 1.206S citations
include only sections 1-112, 1-103, and 1-104 defining class i-
fication levels. Sections 1.-301 (classification categories),
1-302 ("identifiable damage" cri.terion, etc), and 6-1 definitions
should also be cited, along with the corresponding portions of
ISOO Directive No. I (Federal. Register, Vol. 43, No. 1.94 -
October 5, 1978).
(2) `there should also he another appendix citing: (a) Chapters
I I I and IV of 0 "Ac;erncy information Security Program
Handbook," .nad (b) the four classification guides now in use..
The :latter need not. be included in the reviewer's handbook,
since they should be available to the respective reviewing
Components.
c. l~a;e 7, 12, 13
(1) The handbook does not clearly :indicate whether the reviewer
is to determine and mark the overall classification level of the
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