CIA RESPONSE ON KH-7 HISTORICAL IMAGERY DECLASSIFICATION

Created: 10/16/1998

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MEMORANDUM POR: Stephen Roberts

Chairman, Senior Steering Conmittee Historical Imagery Declassification Review

Response onistorical Iaagery

beciaae1fication

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Declassification Review (HIDR) Senior Steering Committea meeting, you asked CIA to com upinal position on the issue of blanket declassification ofistorical laageiy aa part of tha broaderndistorical Imagery Declassification Review process. CIA concurs with Intelligence Conmunity (IC) proposal to recommend to the DCI that ha approve blanket declassification ofistorical Imagery, tta note the following for the record.

area divisions of the CIA Directorate of Operations maintain their objections to the proposed blanket

. declassification of eitherristorical imagery.

concurring with tbe Community's recommendation to declassify all ofmagery, we emphasize that such case-speoifla acquiescence in no way ouggenta future CIA concurrence, or intent to concur, with blanket declassification proposals for any other historical satellite collection system.

. Senior Steering coitalttso Historical Imagery Declassification Review

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