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104-10431-10105 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch48623 and id is 1 raw text is: 104 0O431-115* 1 5. 1 April 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Advisory Group THROUGH Deputy Director for Operations Deputy Director for Administration FROM Charles A. Briggs, DDO Information Review Officer Harold G. Bean, DDA Assistant for Information SUBJECT Need for an Agency-Level Central Mechanism 'for Policyreview and Release of Potentially Controversial and Publicity Generating Information Issue: To a growing degree, newsmen, scholars and others5 Tincuding.particularly the Center for National Security - *-.Studies,. are better organized. than the Agencymo collate and analyze information released from a multiplicity of Agency release -points. A central policy overview is required to assess .the total Agency impact of information release, and.to insure consistency and continuity in our approach to release of information. Discuss ion: 1. External pressures for intelligence information'. release have increased dramatically, and have resulted in a flow external to the Intelligence Community unparalleled in the first 27 or-28 years of the Agency's existence. The Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts, mandatory declassifi- cation requests under E.O. 11652, Congressional and Department of Justice investigations, individual and class action civil suits--these, and more,,have been the vehicles. 2. Within the Agency, there. are at least 15 identifi- able points of release of information to the outside. Coordination with -involved components usually does occur but generally not in accord with a common -standard, except in the case ofTGIA/PA and E.O. 11652 requests. And then, standards for-sanitizing differ, depending on whether the. information is sought in response to civil or criminal litigation, FOIA initial requests or whatever. -Standards for handling names of personnel and organizations differ within the Agency. A new handbook soon will introduce standards in the FOIA/PA world; nevertheless, cover will EPS- 77- .

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