1. NSA/CSS Declassification Program Presentation to the Public Interest Declassification Board Mr. Louis Giles Associate Director, Policy and Records

2. Missions and Responsibilities • Development and promulgation of policy • Senior Classification/Declassification Authority • Initial Denial Authority for FOIA/PA and declassification access requests • NSA/CSS Federal Records Officer • Senior Privacy Official

3. Organization

4. Declassification Services • Review of records subject to automatic declassification • Mandatory Declassification Reviews • State Dept. Foreign Relations of the United States Series reviews • Discretionary projects • Pre-publication review of unclassified NSA/CSS information intended for public dissemination

5. Classification Policy • 22 Original Classification Authorities • All decisions coordinated with Office of Policy and Records to ensure corporate approach, consistency and coordination with other government agencies • Unique position with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom

6. Declassification Reasons • Executive Order 12958, as amended • Operational necessity • Historical relevancy • Legal mandates • Executive Branch direction • Discretionary projects

7. Files Series Exemptions • Cryptanalysis • SIGINT Product & Cryptologic Technical Records • Traffic Analysis • Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) • Foreign Relationships/Partnerships • Nuclear Command and Control • Space and Weapons Control • Cryptologic Key Management • Counterintelligence • Tempest

8. E.O. 12958, as amended, 25 Year Review • 46 million pages subject to automatic declassification – review completed • 4.5 million pages file series exempt • Pass/Fail as of March 2001

9. Review Process • Reviews conducted at NSA HQs • Pass/Fail • Document level review • Review for declassification only; not reviewed for public release • Quality Control – two level review by government and contractor personnel • Documents and decisions stored in Automated Document Management System

10. Interagency Cooperation • Support to Declassification Initiatives • External Referral Working Group • Automation Working Group • Classification Management Working Group • NARA’s Interagency Referral Center • Presidential Libraries Records Remote Archive Capture Program • Document Declassification Support System (DDSS) • Equity Recognition Training • Conferences and agency-to-agency

11. Challenges • Release to the public • Funding • Referral processing (quantity, location and process is still unknown) • Lack of community-wide referral standards • Special media processing

12. Accomplishments • Completion of 25-year review • Gulf of Tonkin Incident • U.S.S. Liberty Incident • Nazi/Japanese War Crimes • Vietnam POW/MIA Records • Rockefeller Library Papers • Venona • Cuban Missile Crisis • JFK Assassination Records