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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MEMORANDUM FOR: Andrew H. Card, Jr. Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff The White House VIA: Director, Office of Homeland Security SUBJECT: Central Intelligence Agency's Response to 19 March 2002 Memorandum Entitled "Action to Safeguard Information Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Sensitive Documents Related to Homeland Security" Reference: Your Memo for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, dtd 19 Mar 02, Same Subject 1. On behalf of the Director of Central Intelligence, I shared the subject White House memorandum and accompanying guidance from the Information Security Oversight Office and the Department of Justice with all CIA Deputy Directors, Mission Support Office Directors, and Staff and Center Directors. I sent a covering memorandum with the White House package and requested that the guidance be widely and appropriately circulated to all components involved in review, release and declassification activities; I asked each component to review current procedures and to report the status of the review and any actions taken as a result of the new guidance to safeguard radiological, chemical, biological, and nuclear (WMD) information, as well as other sensitive information related to Homeland Security. 2. Accordingly, all offices have examined their current processes and holdings of documents, and they have UNCLASSIFIED When Separated from Attachment UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO
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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.