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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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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" confirmed that procedures are in place to protect WMD and other sensitive information that might be misused to harm the security of the United States or its citizens. As a result of the White House memorandum and accompanying guidance, several specific enhancements to our current procedures have been put into place. The attachment highlights CIA's actions to safeguard sensitive information and further ensure information placed in public venues is carefully scrutinized prior to making the information available to the public. 3. CIA appreciates the new guidance and the opportunity it affords to reexamine our procedures. The changes noted in the attachment reflect the fact that our review and release procedures are evolving and adaptive rather than static; we are constantly updating our practices to improve quality. The White House guidance has been integrated into our procedures using this approach. If you have any questions, please contact me at or have a member of your staff contact Alan C. Wade Chief Information Officer 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.