DRAFT NSDD 19 ON PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01013R000100040042-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 8, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

 THE' CHIEF 'OF"STAFF TO_.THE._PRESID
We should not underestimate.
used with,the announcement,':of anew policy
Request,~your% comments-on these drafts by .close of
Review on January 8__2988_
 -To thin-end, Z-direct that the policies below'be?estabTi; Had
 The government's lack of success in identifying. .the sources
.of information in those documents or the deliberations
.relating. thereto, will :be.subject:.. to..investigation,-:to
of, and elements within-agencies participating-in.the NSC, to:
include the Executive Office of-the President.- The Assistant.
policies shall..be effective - immediately.:
days. actions taken..-.to implement-..this directive.
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 As President,,I am acutely aware that the'American people
have a .,right to know,. via a free press, what their government
is doingso that they- can. render informed judgment of their
elected officials viathe ballot. box
Si I am also aware of my responsibility to lead this pation-"
effective foreign, policy.: for ;the United States. .This.pI~tternl
appearance of -suchinformation-rules out an -option, ', or.;eopardizes
a--:free press_is:encouraged-to-ccllect--and-print-whatever it believes';
o be-Ln he public- interest--The-government for its,p~'rt ha
he' responsibility to protect certain categories of inf1prmation,
,
the revelation of which harms the interests of this coTtry
The measures to be imp3emented'by this Directive should-not=be;
construed as criticismo? the.press. The press has beet doing .-
Lts ]ob collecting infornation better than the governj~cnt-has
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been doing its ]ob protecting national-security inform~tLon.
11 The limited measures discussed below are'' designed to re+tore