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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85494 and id is 1 raw text is: 1104-10431-10105- 2023 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 x;'1/.7,20 ~

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