CIA-RDP96-00789R002600040017-2

Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002600040017-2
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Memo, PAG-TA, 2 Aug 94, Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for
Cognitive Sciences Laboratory Volume 1 of 2 (U)
Ist Endorsement, S-64,114/PAG-TA 5 Aug 94
PSP
TO:
PAG-TA
1. PSP has reviewed the enclosed documents and provides the following comments:
a. The documents were received with some information blacked out. We are
unable to determine the significance or sensitivity of this missing information.
We do note that it is sometimes possible to read through portions of the black
strikeovers. Accordingly, the original pages bearing strikeovers should not be
released as unclassified. Rather, machine copies of these pages should be made
for release purposes.
b. The expertise and subject knowledge of PSP personnel are not adequate
to overrule previous determinations made by SAIC or PAG-TA. PSP defers to the
prior reviewers.
c.
We noted two instances that bear a second look by PAG-TA.
(1) Yellow sticker tab 1: handwritten phonetics were bracketed for
deletion, but typed phonetics were not. We have bracketed the typed phonetics
as we believe this was an oversight.
(2) Yellow sticker tab 2: On this and the next few pages, a name
is deleted in the "Interviewer" line, but left in the "Comments" line. We are
not sure why the different treatment was given to the two data. We are not
suggesting it is wrong, merely noting the apparent anomaly.
2. As contractor products for the US Government, these documents are subject to
Freedom of Information Act requests. Their release in part as unclassified
documents may trigger such requests by allowing the documents to become more
widely known. PAG-TA needs to be prepared to field FOIA requests and defend any
information withheld in terms of the exemptions permitted by the FOIA.
If
necessary, PSP can assist PAG-TA with any actual FOIA requests.
3. PSP point of contact is
SG1A
SG1J
4 Enclosures
n/c
Chief, Public Liaison
Staff
SG1J
Regraded UNCLASSIFIED when
separated from classified
enclosures
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