LETTER TO CHARLES SAMPSON FROM J. KENNETH MCDONALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100080054-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: March 2, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Charles Sampson
Office of the Historian
Room 3100, State Annex 1
Department of State
2401 E Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
2 March 1984
Dear Dr. Sampson:
As you know, I have arranged for the historians working on the Vietnam
War volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States series to screen
the documents they order from presidential libraries after we receive them
here. Drs. Baehler, Keefer and Landa visited our offices in December and
January and screened ten separate groups of documents that they had selected
at the John F. Kennedy Library, to identify the specific documents they would
like CIA to review and release for this project.
After review, the originating components here have given me decisions on
two more of the ten groups of Kennedy Library documents that these three
historians screened. (We reported on the first three groups in our letter to
you of 17 February 1984, and five more groups are still under review.) Of
the 27 documents that these historians selected for review from these two
groups at hand, I can forward only one classified document for release, since
the originating components have denied the other 26 documents.
I shall enclose copies of the Kennedy Library manifests that include
these documents, divided into two groups as follows:
Group F: JFK Manifest Nos. 22-26
Group H: JFK Manifest Nos. 29, 34
You will note on these enclosed manifests that we have numbered each
document received from the Kennedy Library. Drs. Baehler, Landa and Keefer
used these numbers (indicated below in the "HS/JFK Document #" column) in
This letter is UNCLASSIFIED
when separated from the
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screening these documents, and for their information the results of our
review are summarized below:
Requester
Rel./Denied
HS/JFK Document #
Baehler
denied
315-332,
334,
335
Landa
released
378
denied
379, 478,
498
Keefer
denied
344, 356,
361
We understand that we need not arrange for review of any other documents
in these three groups, unless Drs. Baehler, Keefer or Landa (or some other
historian working on this project) selects specific additional documents for
review.
As usual, the caveats noted in the enclosed "CIA Records Access Policy"
apply concerning CIA review before any material from CIA-originated documents
can be downgraded, declassified or published in any unclassified publication.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Ms. Suzanne K. Forbes,
Classification Review Archivist at the Kennedy Library, and to Dr. James E.
O'Neill, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries at the National
Archives and Records Service.
With all good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief Historian
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