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