AGENCY PRECEDURE FOR HANDLING MANDATORY REVIEW REQUESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001200100007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: MF

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is also responsible tIdetermirn whether or.not coordination with another
element of the Agency is called for and) when it is)to mark the necessary
information on the Document Review Cover Sheet. The reviewing component then
returns the package to IPD. If further coordination with another wjrment has
been indicated, IPD wi.1l forward the package to that element.
14. When the classification =review and any necessary coordination has
been completed and the package returned to IPD, it is given to an IPJ) case
officer who prepares the final response to the requestor. A copy of the
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response is also sent to the Presidential Library J /Such was involved.
Copies of the response are not sent to other U.S. Governxnt agencies when
they are involved.
5. if CRI) is given the basic classification review responsibility for
mandatory review requests, IPD would continue to process incoming requests
as noted above but would send all of them directly to CRD for review rather
than to the various directorates. CRI) reviewers w: be responsible Wmak
the initial classification review and ` coordinate with other,.-Agency
components as necessary'. This could be done as it now is, by sending the
material back to IPD for forwarding to the coordinating component, or CRD,
which already has contacts established in the foror directorates on classifica-
tion matters, could coordinate directly with other components and have them
either send the package directly back to IPD or back to CRD for return to IPD.
CRD :reviewers would also be responsible for filling out the Document Review
Cover Sheet as would the reviewers in the directorates where coordination is
necessary. In any case, after the classification review is completed, the
package would be returned to IPB where the final act of preparing the response
to the requentor would be made.
6. For an idea of the volume of work involved, the Agency has received
a total of l,9b9 mandatory review requests since 1972. We received 166 in
1980, 181 in 1979, 428 in 1978, and 568 in 1977 Since 1972, 1977 was the
peak year and they have been dropping each years since. Of course, if changes
are made in the FOIA Act it could result in people picking up the slack in the
mandatory review area.
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