REVIEW OF CLASSIFICATION/DECLASSIFICATION DECISIONS ON DOCUMENTS CONGRESSMAN ROSENTHAL HAS REQUESTED FOR PUBLIC USE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100160054-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 25, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence
ROM- Director of Central Intelligence
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? SUBJECT: Review of Classification/Declassification
Decisions onDocuments iCongressman Rosenthal
Has Requested for
Representative Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Chairman of
House Government Operations Subcommittee on Commece, Cm
and Monetary Affairs, informe me documents inapreparing .
tended to use seventeen class
a Subcommittee public advise but that no
? of classified information
an interagency declassification review SoAf the documents fdrtthe
Subcommittee. CIA, State,
Treasury, documents, which contain ~~edeciassifiedAdocuments1whichl
forwarded the sanitized a
resulted from that process to Chairman Rosenthal last week.
2. Chairman Rosenthal' has expressed the belief that
information in these documents rToaassureathat1we havehnot
should have been declassified. been.
ret?eased_for- the
review at a senior 1e:ve-1- of"-th-- Clss.i#%tc~ct orrslvf-ac~.
decisions which were made with
Rosenthal believes improperly
the documents which Chairman
remain classified. ?-
4.'i l l i am J. Casey
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ediately an ad hoc group of
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3. You' should establish
Senior Intelligence Service members from the appropriate
components in your Directorates to revi i ew .the por ions of
the documents the Chairman has q The senr
Directorate of Intelligence member will chair the group.
I expect the group to complete, its work by 15 February.
4. Should the group find it necessary to. communicatet r c with the Subcommittee iarr+neits ls ofaliaison~~ehroughpth= 1-egpsl=~`'ge
its task., the usual cl
Liaison Division of the Office of External Affairs will be
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