REVIEW AND RELEASE OF CIA DOCUMENTS TO DR. CHARLES SAMPSON, DEPARTMENT OF STATE HISTORIAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090038-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: August 20, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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20 August 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THROUGH:
FROM
SUBJECT
Information Review Officer, DDO
Top Secret Control ficer, DDO
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff
Review and Release of CIA Documents to Dr. Charles
Sampson, Department of State Historian
1. Dr. Charles Sampson, an official historian with the Department of
State, has asked that he be permitted to use the following CIA-originated
documents from the Kennedy Library in preparing a Vietnam War volume in
the official documentary series Foreign Relations of the United States:
SECRET document #HS/JFK 77, 1 Sep 63
TOP SECRET document #HS/JFK/461, 30 Sep 63
I would be grateful if you would review these documents and decide whether
they can be released (at their present classification, unless you wish to
sanitize or downgrade them) to the Department of State for Dr. Sampson's
use. The Information Review Officer/DDI has reviewed these documents and
suggested that the indicated portions be referred to the DDO for review.
2. Dr. Sampson and the Department of State have agreed to the
attached "CIA Records Access Policy," 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.
J. Kenneth McDonald
Attachment
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This memo is UNCLASSIFIED
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