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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

MEMORANDUM FOR:

D.

Via

Addona,

ADDO/PICG 1

ubject

Classification of EX 3600

ARe your request for "a couple sentences of factual

data as to why this

is document is classified" here they ares

1. -Exipost facto, since I was not associated

with Operation

MHCHAOS during its existence,

I can only

offer the following reasonable surmise, As we now know,

duringaits

tenure MichAos wastone of the most sensitive

operations

conducted under poP aegis, repeatedly sanctioned

wE ting) by the DCI.

The activity was deemed so sensi-

tive that it was controlled by/through extremely restricted

nandling:

Channels:

think it follows logically, at least

in my y

new, thatany

document.

t produced by: MHCHAOS, whether

a formal or informal one;

would have been Classified at

least SECRET:

42. Does the

information in this document warrant

classification today.

aT think it does, and I believe the

curren

classification of CONFIDENTIAL isaproper • Reading

a Date

101:

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Pgs. 2 through 12 carefully, it is readily apparents that

some of the information on some of these pages was seeming!

acquired. from/through sensitive sources/methods Also bet

these pages contain frequent mention of FBI information

: Con

cerning many of the Peace Movement groups/organizations

cited; FBI reports received by MHCHAOs were invariably

classified, for the most part CONFIDENTIAL. PS

-3. What should be the proper FOIA exemption for EX

3600; in my view, (6)(3)3

Politerner H

7 Apr, 774

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