LETTER TO CHARLES SAMPSON FROM J. KENNETH MCDONALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090065-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: July 3, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDPO1-00569R000100090065-2
W
Dr. Charles Sampson
Office of the Historian
Room 3100, State Annex 1
Department of State
2401 E Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
Central Intelligence Agency
W
3 July 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 component here has given me a decision on
one more of the ten groups of Kennedy Library documents that these three
historians screened. (We reported on the first five groups in our letters to
you of 17 February and 2 March 1984, and four more groups are still under
review.) Of the 148 documents that Dr. Keefer selected for review from this
group at hand, I can forward 144 documents for release, since the originating
component has denied the other 4 documents.
I shall enclose copies of the Kennedy Library manifests that include
these documents from the following group:
Group J: JFK Manifest Nos. 31-38
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
appended documents.
SECRET
t141a1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDPO1-00569R000100090065-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090065-2
screening these documents, and for their information the results of our
review are summarized below:
Requester Rel./Denied HS/JFK D
ocument #
Keefer denied 554, 56
5, 606, 610
released 517-553
, 555-564, 566-605, 607-609,
611-622
, 630-632, 635, 637-639,
641-647
, 650-660
We understand that we need not arrange for review of any other documents
in this group, 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 McDonal d
Chief Historian
SECRET
STAT
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090065-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDPO1-00569R000100090065-2
W Central Intelligence Agency W
Washington, D. C.20505
20 March 1984
Dr. James E. O'Neill
Assistant Archivist for
Presidential Libraries
National Archives and
Records Service
Washington, D.C. 20408
Dear Dr. O'Neill:
For your information, I shall attach a copy of my
letter (with enclosure) to Ms. Suzanne K. Forbes,
Classification Review Archivist, John F. Kennedy Library,
concerning the disposition of documents requested by Dr.
Charles Sampson, Department of State.
Yours sincerely,
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief Historian
Enclosure
STAT
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090065-2
 4 1 iSanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDPO1-00569R000100090065-2
W
Ms. Suzanne K. Forbes
Classification Review Archivist
John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point, Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Dear Ms. Forbes:
4P
3 July 1984
This is to let you know the results of this Agency's
review of the classified documents that Department of State
historians selected from your records as part of their research
for a Vietnam War Volume in the Foreign Relations of the United
States series. I shall enclose a copy of our letter to Dr.
ampson, noting those CIA-originated documents that have been
released (at their existing classification), and those that
have been denied, for use in this project.
We appreciate your help.
J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief Historian
Enclosure
Central Intelligence Agency
STAT
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090065-2