CLASSIFICATION REVIEW PROCEDURE CLASSIFYING OR UPGRADING DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R000900010010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 7, 1979
• Content Type: REQ

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7 February 1979
Classification Review Procedure CRP 79-7
CLASSIFYING OR UPGRADING DOCUMENTS
1. Occasionally documents are found that need to be upgraded to a
higher classification or that are unmarked and require classification.
Caution must be exercised in classifying unmarked documents because of
restrictions spelled out in Executive Order 12065 that read as follows:
1-606. No document originated on or after the effec-
tive date of this Order may be classified after an
agency has received a request for the document under
the Freedom of Information Act or the Mandatory Review
provisions of this Order (Section 3-5), unless such
classification is consistent with this Order and is
authorized by the agency head or deputy agency head.
Documents originated before the effective date of
this Order and subject to such a request may not be
classified unless such classification is consistent
with this Order and is authorized by the senior
official designated to oversee the agency information
security program or by an official with Top Secret
classification authority. Classification authority
under this provision shall be exercised personally,
on a document-by-document basis.
1-607. Classification may not be restored to docu-
ments already declassified and released to the public
under this Order or prior Orders.
Because documents originated prior to 1 December 1978 and classified
after that date could be the subject of FOIA or mandatory review requests,
classification of unmarked documents will be accomplished by an officer
with Top Secret classification authority. A CRG officer with original
Top Secret classification authority will also make all upgrading deter-
minations. Reviewers will take all documents requiring classification or
upgrading to the appropriate branch chief. The latter will verify that
unmarked documents determined to require classification have not been
released to the public under Executive Order 12065 or prior Orders.
2. If the decision to classify the document stands, the reviewer
will complete the reviewer's stamp in the usual manner, using the year
only on the "Next Review Date" line. He will also stamp the document
with the original classification stamp, using l4 e branch chief's employee
number as authority.
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3. For example, a reviewer finds a list of names that has been
unmarked since the document was created 23 years ago. He decides that
the list may not be released and must be protected at the Confidential
level. He shows the document to his branch chief, who agrees with that
decision and verifies that the document has not been previously released.
In completing the original classification stamp the reviewer uses his
branch chief's employee number on the "Original C1 By" line, checks the
"Revw On" box, adding the full date (day, month, and year) 10 years hence,
writes "same" on the Ext Bynd 6 Yrs By" line, and cites the applicable
paragraph of 0 as the reason. The stamps will read as follows:
Document Ni. --------
No Change In Class. ^
LI Declassdled
Class. Channed to: TS S
Next Review Date: -___-___---
ORIQINAL CL Sy
0 DECL [EVW ON
EXT BYND 0 YRS a S , - a.
REASON
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Classification Review Procedure CRP 79-6
RESCINDS: CRP 78-39 of 23 October 1978
ASSIGNMENT OF ORIGINATING COMPONENT CODE
The procedure for assigning the originating component code number
will be as follows:
1. The code for the actual originating component will be used,
even if the component is no longer in existence. For instance, OCI
originated material will be assigned code 202; the successor component,
ORPA, will be reflected in the Office of Primary Interest, which is 20.
In the case of DDO divisions that have been realigned over the years
and countries moved from one to another, we will still use the code
for the division that originated the document as it existed at the time.
A reviewer aid is being compiled to assist in this.
2. If there is no code for the originating component, notify your
branch chief, who, as appropriate, will arrange for establishment of a
code number and notify all personnel. Newly assigned code numbers will
be circulated by memo pending a new printout of all applicable codes.
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Classification Review Group
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30 January 1979
Classification Review Procedure CRP 79-5
RESCINDS: RRP 78-8, 7 March 1978
TABBING OF DOCUMENTS THAT REQUIRE FURTHER ACTION
1. Because of the organization of many record groups and the
necessity to maintain substantive integrity of the file, it has not
proven feasible to segregate classified records and documents requiring
further review from unclassified material within each folder. Certain
types of documents, however, must be flagged for easy retrieval--those
originated (1) by a foreign government, (2) by another U.S. Government
agency, and (3) by CIA, but containing information that must be reviewed
by another U.S. Government agency.
2. Documents will, therefore, remain in their original place in
the folders. Reviewers will indicate the presence of document categories
noted above by a wrap-around tab such as those used by National Archives
and Records Service (NARS) and will write on the tab the name of the
foreign government or the agency(s) that must review the document.
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Classification Review Group
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Classification Review Procedure
RESCINDS: RRP 78-12 of 20 March 1978
CRP 78-36 of 10 October 1978
REVIEW OF OTHER AGENCIES' DOCUMENTS
CRP 79-4
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1. This notice establishes the procedure for dealing with documents
of other U.S. Government agencies found in CIA records.
2. Basically, CRG will not take final action on another agency's
documents, but any such documents encountered will be reviewed to deter-
mine if they contain information of concern to CIA. Such documents will
be treated as follows:
a. If the document contains information about, from
or of interest to CIA and if that information may be declassified, tab
the document in accordance with the procedure set forth in CRP 79-5 and
stamp it as follows:
THE C.I.A. HAS NO OBJECTION
TO THE DECLASSIFICATION OF
THIS DOCUMENT.
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b. If the document contains information about, from, or of
interest to CIA and that information may not be declassified, tab the
document and stamp it as follows:
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION
THAT THE CIA HAS DETERMINED MUST BE
CLASSIFIED AT THE LEVEL INDTCATED
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AUTHORITY:
REV N DATE'
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c. If the document contains information of no concern to CIA,
merely tab the document for ease in locating it.
3. None of the above acts constitutes final action on material
originated by another agency, but it does show that the material has
been reviewed for CIA interest. The tabbed document will remain in its
original place in the file. In all cases the document retains its
original classification until reviewed by the originating agency.
Reviewers will note the presence of such documents on the review com-
pletion slip attached to the outside of the box.
4. No data input forms will be prepared for documents created by
other agencies, but the number of non-Agency documents reviewed will
be noted in the appropriate column on the weekly statistical sheet.
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Classification Review Group
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