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13- 00000. Jeet: SG Osh 7 DES: Oe “15 ee 2S : cee i ow Penh 65 ‘age ww « _ Peed - aches? 14°59 S60t. FIL TRAILING ur an _ SUPOTSTa sou Plas Db 1 NAL OF UNCTL December 4, 1995 Honorable Anthony sake ASSiStant to The Scesident for National Sacurity Affairs The White House _ Washington, D.c. 20500 , - =e Gear Mr. Lake: ote i No ether erhic is as well-established and as essential to the success of the intelligence community as tke protection of intelligence sources and methods and the Satequarding of confidences. The effectiveness of the U.S. Govermment’s xntelligence and counterintelligence programs oc signaiicantly attributable to the historical commitmenc by the agencies + which conduct these activities ta these principles Disclocuse of thea identities of sources has had and may be expected to have a profound effecc upon the : ability of the untelligence agencies Co obtain the confidential assistance of persons whose cooperation is dependent upon assurance of centinuing contidentialaty. Similarly, the disclosure ef informatiron about intelligence sources and methods has caused and will predictably result in the development of.countermeasures which will atfect the. ability of the United States to provide the President with cimely and high-qualicy tatelligence and detect. and address hoctile intelligence activicies directed ‘Sgaiase ‘the United States. . oe Tne’ agencies represented by the National Counter intelligence Policy Board unanimously share, and hereby . CxXpress, their concern that these fundamental principles could be compromised by an inappropriate commitment to disclosure by the Assassination Records Review Board (the Board) in its administration of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act’.of 1992 (the Act) . DRAET LETTER WO ANTHONY LAKE, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCTL és
13-00000 2 & Sa SS oe G1s ca a. eo ee, “gs ge cpa. Laat et os ‘’ “ “ at, CRETHQ2- 1959 o4ieg TRCN a TRAINING Unt T . To be a Be pad * - ANTHONY. ry SE INCTI, tionorable Anthony Laks To date, the response by tre intelligence agencies... to Board requests for the release of documents has been s unprecedented. The Federal Bureau of Inveetigation (FBI), for axamole, has‘ released over 613,000 decuments cto the National” Archives and Records Administration and has tequested that «=: disclosure be postponed with respect Co portions of only ¢.37 percent of those documents. The FBI has sought postponement with respect to limited portions of that modest number of * records based upon cxpressed concern by fore: governments which contributed or originated tne information and reluctance to reveal the identities of intelligence assets or intetiagence sources and methods. a The Act permits the postponement of disclosure upon presentation of clear and eonvineing evidence that the threat te the military defense, intelligence operations, or roeresgn relations of the United States posed by pubisc disclosure outweighs the public interest in disclosure and that such disclosure would reveal: (A) an intelligence agent whose identicy currently requires protection: or (8) an intelligence source or mathod which is currently utilized, ox reasonably expected ta ve utilized, by the United States Government ana which has not been officially disclosed, the disclosures of which would antertere with the conduct ef intelligence activities. (See Act, Sections 6(2) (A.3)) The Act further permits the postponement of @isclosure upon a Showing, by clear and convincing evidence, thac public disclosure would compromise the existence of an oi understanding of confidentiality currently requiring protection between a government agent and a cooperating individual or a foreign government, and public disclosure would be so hazraful that it outweighs the public interest. (See Act, Section 6{4))} DRA R ONY_LAKE, NATIONAL SECORETY COUNCTT, ® * 4