DECENNIAL REVIEW OF CIA OPERATIONAL FILE EXEMPTIONS -- CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATI

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Mr. Mike Meermans Staff Director Permanent Select Committee

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Dear Mike:

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ISSUE: Decennial Review of CIA Operational Pile Exemptions

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Mr. David Buckley Minority Staff Director Permanent Select Committee

on Intelligence House of Representatives.

Dear David:

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Mr. Bill Duhnke Staff Director

Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate.

Dear Bill:

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Mr. Andy Johnson Minority Staff Director Select Committee on Intelligence Dnited States Senate.

Dear Andy:

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Sincerely,

Joe Wippl

Director of Congressional Affairs

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The Honorable CM. Young chairman

Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives.

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The Honorable Ted Stevens Chairman

Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations United States Senate.

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Joe Wippl

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The Honorable William H. Prist Majority Leader United States Senate.

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The Honorable Harry Reid Minority Leader United States Senate.

Dear Senator Reid:

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Director of Congressional Affairs

Sincerely,

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SUBJECT: Decennial Review of CIA Operational File Exemptions

Background: From the time it was signed into law on4 until the5 effective date of its amendment by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act4 (Public Lawthe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Information) authorized the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to exempt CIA operational files from the search, review, publication, and disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The CIA Information Act also required that not less than once every ten years, the DCI review the operational files exemptions then in force to determine whether such exemptions could be removed from any category of exempted files or portion of those files, and whether any new categories of files should be designated as exempt. The DCI completed the first such review in

Onased on the decennial review required by and conducted in accordance with the CIA Information Actnd taking into account the review criteria sat forth in the Act, the then-DCI designated the following categories of CIA operational files as exempt from the search, review, publication, and disclosure provisions of the FOIA:

Files within the Directorate of Operations

Personality Files

External Organizations Files

Operational Interest Files

Operational Activity Files

Policy and Management Files (Including Clandestine Service History Program Files)

Cover Arrangements Files

1 Effectivef ihe Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act4 amended the OA Informal!on Act. to provide thai the Director of OAith the coordination of the Director of National intelligenceay exempt CIA operational files from the FOIA search, review, publication, and disclosure provisions; and that not less lhan once every ten years,IA and the DNI shall review the exemptions In force, in order to make the determinations noted above.

SUBJECT: Decennial Review of CIA Operational Pile Exemptions

Files within the Directorate ofechnology

Signal Intelligence Activities Files

Operational and Technical Support Files

Intelligence Collections Systems Files

Imagery Analysis and Exploitation Files

Piles within the Security Center

Covert Security Approval/SECRET Files

Provisional Covert Security Approval/SECRET Files

Operational Approval Files

Provisional Operational Approval Files

Anonymous Personnel Actions Files

Approval To Polygraph for Operational Purposes Files

Diversified Cover Officer Files

Contract/External Files

Covert Security Approval/SECRET Piles

National Resources Division and Name Check/Operational Program Files

Industrial Special Security Approval/Covert, Industrial Security Approval/Covert, and Industrial Special Security Approval/Covert Reinvestigation Files

Internal/covert Files

Consultant External/Operations and Consultant Internal/Operations Piles

Mr. Mike Meermans, HPSCI

Mr. David Buckley, HPSCI

Mr. Bill Duhnke, SSCI

Mr- Andy Johnson, SSCI

Mr. CW. "Bill- Young, HAC/DBP

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Mr. Ted Stevens, SAC/DEF

Mr. William H. Frist, SEN. MAJ. LDR

Mr. Harry Reid, SEN. MIN. LDR

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