CERTIFICATION OF THE NEED FOR EXTENSION OF CLASSIFICATION ON DOCUMENTS SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED AND PROCESSED DURING THE YEARS 1978 AND 1979

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R000700010010-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 24, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Max Hugel
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Certification of the Need for Extension of
Classification on Documents Systematically
Reviewed and Processed during the Years
1978 and 1979
1. Executive Order 12065, which became effective 1 December 1978,
requires that all classified documents determined to be permanent in nature
be reviewed as they reach 20 years of age in order to determine whether the
classification originally placed thereon should be continued, modified or
removed. The order provides that classification may be extended in ten year
increments (in some cases longer) if the head of the agency producing the
document personally certifies that a document must remain classified in order
to protect national security interests.
2. The Agency has developed a centralized classification review program
in order to perform the review mentioned above and to recommend for your
approval and certification the extension of classification on those documents
where it is found that classification should be extended. The review program
is the responsibility of the Classification Review Division (CRD), Office of
Information Services, DDA. CRD officers who review the documents and make
recommendations with respect to classification are of the journeyman analyst
grade with extensive Agency experience. They make their determinations in
accordance with the classification guides adopted for each of the Directorates,
as well as guidance received from the Information Security Oversight Office,
the National Archives and Records Service, and guidelines developed within
CRD. The major reasons for retaining classification are protection of:
(a) intelligence sources, methods, and activities (names of agents and covert
employees, tradecraft, organizational data, collection methods, analytical
methodology, etc.),; (b) foreign government information, including liaison
relationships; (c) information that would endanger the conduct of foreign
relations or foreign activities of the United States; and (d) cryptology.
3. CRD has established an ADP system called Declassification and
Review (DARE) in which all review recommendations are recorded. This system
Unclassified when
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is designed to be your record of those documents you certify as requiring
extension of classification. During the years 1978 and 1979, 205,863 documents
were reviewed and recorded in the DARE system. Of these, it is felt that
188,534 documents require extension of classification, generally at the
CONFIDENTIAL level, to protect the following:
Sources and methods
Foreign government information
Foreign relations
Cryptology
Other
The remaining 1,207 documents require protection at the CONFIDENTIAL level
pending review coordination with other agencies. We are attaching for your
perusal a random sampling of these documents taken from a variety of record
groups.
4. For the classification to be extended on those documents reviewed
by CRD as mentioned above and on which recommendations have been made for the
extension of classification, the Executive Order requires that you certify
the need for such extension. Your certification can be accomplished by signing-
the attached Memorandum for the Record. This procedure has been approved by
the Office of General Counsel.
5. It is recommended that you certify the need for classification
extension as discussed in this memorandum by signing the attached certificate.
/5/ Mix Huge!
Max Hugel
Attachment :
1. Certification of Classification Extension
2. Sampling of Documents
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SUBJECT: Certification of the Need for Extension of
Classification on Documents Systematically
Reviewed and Processed during the Years
1978 and 1979
Distribution:
Original - DCI (To be returned to DDA/OIS/CRD), w/atts.
1 - DCI, w/Att. #1
1 - DDCI, w/Att. #1
1 - ER, w/Att. #1
1 - OGC, w/Att. #1
1 - DDA Subject, w/Att. #1
- DDA Chrono, w/Att. #1
w%Af-t. #1
1 - CRD/OIS, w/Att. #1
DDA/OIS/CRD (31 March 1981)
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The Director
Central intelligence Agency
2 9 APR 1981
SUBJECT: Certification of Classification Extensions
Recorded in the DARE System
I hereby certify that the classification extensions resulting
from the systematic review provisions of Executive Orders 12065 and
11652 and recorded in the Declassification and Review (DARE) system
during the years 1978 and 1979 are necessary for the protection of
the national security interest of the United States of America. I
am cognizant of the nature of the review process and reasons for
continued classification, and I have personally reviewed a sampling
of the documents involved.
William J. Casey
William J. Casey
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