REVIEW AND RELEASE OF CIA DOCUMENTS TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE HISTORIANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100060031-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: November 8, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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$ ~lovember 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR:
xecu ive ficer, NIC
op ecre ontro Officer
FROM J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff
SUBJECT Review and Release of CIA Documents to Department of
State Historians
1. Dr. Charles Sampson and his team of official historians from the
Department of State, have asked permission to use the following
CIA-originated documents from the Kennedy Library in preparing a Vietnam
War volume for the official documentary series, Foreign Relations of the
United States:
Document #NS/JFK/471, 15 Jul 65, (S)
Document #HS/JFK/473, 16 Jul 65, (TS)
I would be grateful if you would review these documents and decide whether
they can be released (at their present classifications, unless you wish to
sanitize or downgrade them) to the Department of State for Dr. Sampson's
use.
2. Dr. Sampson's team of historians and the Department of State have
agreed to the attached "CIA Records Access Poiicy," which requires further
CIA review before any of the classified material you may now release to
them can be declassified, downgraded, or published.
3. I would be grateful if you would return these documents with your
determination to the DCI History Staff, Room 316 Ames.
/S/
J. Kenneth McDonald
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