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104-10431-10105 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/0000)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch79613 and id is 1 raw text is: 1104-10431-10105-  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
1 April 1977

MEMORANDUM
THROUGH

FOR: Executive Advisory Group
: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Administration

FROM             Charles A. Briggs, DDO Information Review Officer I
Harold G. Bean, DDA Assistant for Information
SUBJECT          Need for an Agency-Level Central Mechanism
for Policy- 1keview and Release of. Potentially
Controversial and Publicity Generating
Information                                   -
Issue: To a growing degree, newsmen, scholars and others,
including particularly the Center'for National Security  -
- .Studies, are better organized. than the Agency-to 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.
Discussion:                       -     --
.   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 of FUIA/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

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