COORDINATION OF DOCUMENTS FROM DCI RECORD FILES,JOB NO 80B01676R, BOX 18 [HRP NO 91-1]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001800010002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 6, 1992
• Content Type: MF

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lie Historical Review Section, CRB/ISD
SUBJECT: Coordination of Documents from DCI Record
Files, Job No. 80B01676R, Box 18 [HRP No.91-1]
1. Attached for your coordination are six documents from
records selected by the History Staff for possible release to
the National Archives under the Historical Review Program. c)ui
staff reviewed these documents under the provisions of
Executive Order 12356 and initially recommended that the box be
denied in full. The History Staff urged us to reconsider
certain files that they considered of special historical value.
The attached documents, as well as others that have been sent
to the O/DCI, the DS&T, and/or the DI, are the result of our
second effort. There are three codeword items that we have
included in this package because of their limited sensitivity
and the fact that they have been handled out of channels by
both the O/DCI and the Records Center.
2. Please indicate your agreement or disagreement with
our determinations by checking the appropriate boxes and
signing the HRP cover sheet. Item No. 180019.2, SNIE 85-4-62,
was released sanitized--excessively in our opinion--in 1986.
Our green deletions indicate original redaction which we think
could be released, while the yellow deletions indicate original
redaction which we think should be retained. Items No. 180083
and No. 180084 are DI Research Staff papers on the 1962 Soviet
Missile Base venture in Cuba. We believe they could be
released as sanitized. Their historical value suggests that it
would be worth the effort even if you feel that additional
deletions are needed. Both of these papers will be reviewed
also by the DI.
3. This review was prepared by
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I'm enclosing this Washington Post clipping from 1-ist week
just to remind you of what's happening on this story out. in the
wider world. This story is one of the best possible ex.mp1E~s
of the stellar performance of CIA (and the IC) under
pressure--along with a few miscalls. Release of substantial
amounts from this single box of the DCI permanent records
wouldgo a long way toward explaining why the US needs a CIA.
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Cuban Missile Crisis Letters
To Be Revealed, Sources Say
Associated Press
The U.S. and Russian govern-
ments are preparing to release key
letters between President John F.
Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev sent in the aftermath of
the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, U.S.
and private sources said yesterday.
It was not clear whether the re-
lease would be simultaneous. "We're
in the final stretches," said a U.S.
official, commenting on the prepa-
rations for making the documents
public.
The official, asking not to be iden-
tified, said the Kennedy letters may
contain some clarifications of the
agreements Washington and Moscow
reached in late October 1962 when
the crisis was resolved.
a No other conflict during the post-
Worid War II era brought the super-
owers closer to nuclear war than
the crisis that grew out of the Soviet
.lecision to deploy nuclear-armed
weapons to Cuba, 90 miles off the
!coast of Florida. A week of unprec-
edented international tension ended
when Khrushchev agreed to disman-
tle Soviet missiles in Cuba in return
for a promise by Kennedy not to in-
vade Cuba. Kennedy also agreed to
call off a U.S. blockade of the island.
At issue are several Kennedy let-
ters to Khrushchev that were sent
between Nov. 3 and Dec. 14, 1962.
One official said some of the letters
have remained classified because
they contain references to Berlin, a
major point of U.S.-Soviet conflict
during the Cold War period.
Officials said the government's
decision to release the Kennedy let-
ters is linked to a long-planned con-
ference on the missile crisis that the .
Cuban government is holding in Ha-
vana starting next Thursday. U.S.,
Soviet and Cuban officials who par-
ticipated in the crisis are scheduled
to attend.
Philip Brenner of American Uni-
versity has been seeking release of
the Kennedy letters for some time,
and officials acknowledged that his
efforts influenced the administra-
tion's decision to make them public.
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