Documents / FOIA release
This document package is a March 19, 2002 White House memorandum from Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr., released by the Central Intelligence Agency. It tells agencies to protect records on weapons of mass destruction and other sensitive homeland security information. Attached is guidance from the Information Security Oversight Office and the Justice Department on classifying such records and handling them under FOIA. The package also contains the CIA response from Chief Information Officer Alan C. Wade, which describes enhancements to its review and release procedures.
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(U) Enhancements to Ensure Protection of WMD and Other Sensitive Information Related to Homeland Security 2. (U//FONO) Each CIA Directorate, the Mission Support Offices, and the DCI's staff have scrutinized review processes and re-publicized their procedures to ensure that all offices consult with Information Review Officers prior to releasing information to the public in any venue. 3. (U//FOUO) The Agency's classification guide is currently under review; new classification guidance will be included for sensitive Homeland Security information. The WMD classification guidance will be reviewed and expanded, if necessary, to encompass the full range of nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical information. 4. (U//FOUQ) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records containing WMD and sensitive homeland security information will continue to be processed in accordance with the Act's provisions and applicable regulations. The new guidance will be used as each request is processed.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.