1 - The Black Vault

Executive High Priority Document Review: The Document Declassification
Division. (DDD), Office ofNuclear and National Security Information, has been
performing a classification re-review of the National Academy ofScienccs' report
Technical Issues Related to the Comprebensive Test Ban Treaty . . This report
reviews the three main tcchnical concenis Jaiscd dwing the Senate debate of
October 1999 on advice and consent to ratification oftbe Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty. These concerns are: the capacity to maintain confidence in the nuclear
stockpile, the capabilities of the international nuclear-test monitoring system. and
the potential effect of other countries adding to their nuclear weapons capabilities.
DDD is working closely with the Technical Guidance Division to complete new
tasking on this package.
Media Interest: No ,
DOE Contact: Evelyn J. Self, SO-223, (301) 903-8004
Byron Davis, SO-223, (301) 903-1679
Jim Greening, S0-223, (301) 903-5929
Higb Priority Reviews: The Document Declassification Division (ODD). Office
ofNuclear and National Sccurity Infonnation ~ completed seven additional
high-priority actions this past week. These included: two Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board reports and five classification reviews ofopen-source
documents. All seven high-priority actions were performed within deadlines.
Media Interest: No
DOE Contact: Evelyn J. Self, S0-223, (301) 903-8004
Byron Davis, S0-223, (301) 903-1679
Jim Greening, SO-223, (301) 903-5929
E..cutive Order Meeting at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): A member
of the Executive Order (E.O.) Reviews Program met with staffmembe.. from the
CIA declassification activity. The two major topics ofdiscussion included referral
ofdocuments to DOE from the Remote Archive Capture (RAC) program, and a
CIA Reference Card Index declassification project. The CIA bas approximately
9,300 pages ofreferrals from the Johnson, Kennedy, and Eisenhower Presidential
Libraries in the RAC program, which is located at the International Point office of
the CIA. DOE reviewers will review the documents on-site at International Point,
which means they wiJI not have access to the Classification Guidance System. This
wilJ make the declassification process more difficult and declassification decisions
necessarily more conservative.
CIA desires DOE approval on the handling ofpotential Atomic Energy
CommissionIDOE equities found in the CIA card index. CIA will send a letter to
the Office ofNuclear and National Security Information outlining their plan and
asking for DOE concurrence.
Media Interest: No
DOE Contact: Fletcher Whitworth, S0-223, (301) 903-3865
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