P.S. ON THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500350006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 20, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

M"i'1SOTA L;fY
20 Apr11.1966
Approved For Release 2004/02/10 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000500350006
I ovcratVs is already outdated. Last Irish:, the day
the World wax written, the State Dept, de-classified the
registol%
V1sW'S IMPORTS apparently aroused sufIScient oh-
,icction Iiid the original reasmt :For the classification-
the fear that Centrai Intelligence Agency peraonuel could",;
be identified through the register-was judged not
strong enough. Particularly effective was the outcry
raised by Rep. John E. Moss (D., Calif.), who called the
attempted seurccy "incredibly stupid" and threatened
to call a public bearing unless the classification were
removed.
Tile,icar of open iuvestlgation and the watohdo' rune-
Lion of the Congress have thus saved from the labyrinth
of classified material a valuable reference work, used
'
in'libr;n'ies and uowspapci offices across the Country.
'file c,llnWl:;iui oarrc,, d n flax column Monday rc_
gnrdin}; the .`~L.Lc U, ,L'S in)pusii oa ()(.,I security clan.:i-
.fication on the biogr:ilihicnl register of cliff;:: I,ersmnnel
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