LETTER TO MR. BEVERLY D. CAUSEY, JR. FROM E. H. KNOCHE

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• Publication Date: June 16, 1977
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Central Intelligence Agency
16 June 1977
Mr. Beverly D. Causey, Jr.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York 14456
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Dear Pete,
Thank you for your very thoughtful letter of May 26. I
was glad to hear that declassified CIA documents contributed
in some way to the success of your course, and particularly
that they enhanced your students' understanding of the Agency's
product.
In response to your questiory; I''can report that we are
undertaking the large and complex task of declassifying old
CIA documents. As you probably know, we are required by Executive
Order to automatically declassify material that is thirty years
old, unless there remains a substantial national security concern
or a source would be endangered. Because this year marks the
Agency's thirtieth anniversary, we began establishing the
necessary machinery to comply with the Executive Order last
January.
We will systematically review file systems in five-year
blocks. The documents declassified will be available to the
public through the National Archives. Declassified OSS materials,
which have been under review during the last three years, are
also available at the National Archives.
You are probably aware that Agency documents that have
been declassified on a more ad hoc basis are available through
the Carrollton Press, 1911 Fort Myer Drive, #905, Arlington,
Virginia, 22209. In case you are not aware, our current
unclassified publications are available on a subscription basis
from the Library of Congress. If you or your college library
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Expediting (DOCEX) Project, Exchange and Gift Division, Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540. Reproductions of specific
Agency publications can be purchased on an individual basis from
the Photoduplication Service at the Library of Congress.
As you can see, our materials are becoming much more widely
available. I think that is a healthy trend. I hope that you
will be able to add interest to your courses by exploiting these
resources.
Faithfully yours,
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SUBJECT: Reply to letter from Mr. Beverly D. Causey, Jr. dated
26 May 1977, signed by Mr. E. Henry Knoche, regarding
declassification of thirty year old CIA documents
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You are probably aware that Agency documents that
have been declassified on a more ad hoc s are ev# available
through the C llton Press, 1911 Fort Myer
Arlington, viia, 22209.
Our unclassified publications are available on a sub-
scription basis f the Library of Co press. If you or
your college libr would like more information, you can
write to the Document iting (DOLE) Project, Exchange
and Gift Division, Lib of Congress, Washington, D. C.,
20540. Reproductions of cific Agency publications can
be purchased on an individpe basis from the Photoduplication
Service at the Library of gress.
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May 26, 1977
Mr. E. Henry Knoche
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Here is a communication which you-may wish to pass on
STATto some one I I or throw in the
waste basket. It concerns declassification of documents.
During the academic year just completed, a member of our
Political Science department and I gave a course on foreign policy
decision making and the use of intelligence. I have attached a
summary statement about the course. (In addition to the subjects
mentioned in the summary, the course dealt with the Cuban missile
crisis.)
We found that certain declassified CIA documents were
available in microfiche through a publishing service. These were:
SR 8. The China Situation Report of 1947-48.
A special evaluation prepared in ORE on the Berlin
situation at the beginning of 1948.
NIE 2/1 on.Korea, dated Nov. 24, 1950.
NIE 100-4-55 on the Taiwan Straits problem.
One issue of the Daily Korean Bulletin (1951).
Two NIEs on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
To me this seemed a rather random and limited assortment.
The availability of estimates was quite spotty, and there was almost
no current intelligence.
There were, of course, other materials -- State department
documents through 1949, memoirs of President Truman and President
Eisenhower, books by Allen Dulles and Lyman Kirkpatrick, and others.
I have wondered if there is in progress any systematic
declassification of CIA documents which are now of more historic
than current interest and, if so, what access an outsider might have
to such materials?
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There was considerable student interest in the course,
and it gave the students some appreciation of the productive activity
of the CIA -- quite different from their usual impressions of the
Agency. We may well want to repeat the course, perhaps with different
topics which would again deal with matters 15 years or more in the
past.
Yours sincerely,
Beverley D. Causey, Jr.
Professor of History
BDC:lp
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 ie,tceslnureate Cotloquitia 429-430 Winter/Spring
11tstory/Political Science Causey/Beckman
Foreign Policy Decisions and Intelligence
This colloquium will focus on six selected foreign policy problems and
crises periods in international relations, drawn mainly from the period
World bar 11 to the 1970's. The historical background and evolution
of these cases will be con i ed, with special attention to the
availability end Imaterial. Models of decisiin making and
hypotheses regarding the role of intelligence will be, introduced to tie
together the various cases.
Attention will be given to the adequacy and importance of information
not intelligence in foreign policy decision making, with use of illustrations
from United States intelligence activities, including the estimation of
other's capabilities and intentions, the analysis of current information,
and the proi:le::s of intelligence coordination and use by decision-makers.
The six cases to be considered are Hitler's reoccupation of the
Rhineland, kneric:n involvement in the Chinese civil war, the Berlin
blockade, the North Korean attack on South Korea the Form Straits
crisis of 1955
The first terra will involve regular meetings, discussions and lectures;
in the spring term students will select a foreign policy event and
investigate the decisions leading to that event and the role intelligence
played in the decisions. Thus the normal sequence for colloquia will be
reversed. -
Spring Term: independent research projects with 3 meetings to discuss
methods, analysis, and findings. During the last week of the term
certain students shall be invited to make informal presentations of
their findings.
The research paper will center on a foreign policy event and will
discuss the evolution of the problem, use source materials In the
analysis, and compare the event with the events discussed in the winter
portion of tile course and/or with various models or theories posed to
account for the process of decision making and the role of intelligence.
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