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R 380-14CHAPTER 7DECLASSIFICATION AND DOWNGRADING7-1. DESCRIPTION. Declassification and regrading is the process of changing the classificationof USCENTCOM information. USCENTCOM processes Automatic, Systematic and Mandatoryreviews of classified material. Automatic reviews are classified records that are more than 25years old and have been determined to have permanent historical value under title 44, UnitedStates Code; Systematic reviews are of permanently historical value excepted from automaticdeclassification under section 3.3 of EO 13526 and that the Archivist of the US has deemed ofpermanent historical value. Mandatory review is performed in response to a reasonable requestfor a review describing the document or material containing the information with sufficientspecificity to enable the agency to locate it with a reasonable amount of effort.7-2. POLICY. Information meeting the classification requirements of this guide shall remainclassified as long as required for national security. EO 13526, provides uniform instructions fordeclassifying and downgrading national security information, including information relating todefense against transnational terrorism. These instructions are provided for each specific topic ofinformation and they are not intended to be transcribed verbatim. They should be used todetermine a specific date or event for declassification or downgrading. Specific declassificationauthority is not required to remark documents downgraded or declassified in accordance withinstructions provided in this guide.7-3. (U) DECLASSIFICATION/EXEMPTION. The "DECLASSIFY ON" column specifies thedate or event for declassification or the 25-year automatic declassification exemption category asdescribed in E.O. 13526, Section 1.6 and 2.1; ISOO Implementing Directive (32 CFR Parts 2001and 2003); the CAPCO Implementation Manual; and DOD 5200.1-R. When deciding how tocomplete the “DECLASSIFY ON” line, an original classification authority will have thefollowing choices:a. (U) A date of no more than 25 years from the original classification decision or theinformation's origin. The following format must be used: YYYYMMDD.b. (U) An event. Events must be reasonably definite and foreseeable.c. (U) “50X1-HUM” marking used when the information clearly and demonstrably couldreveal a confidential human source or a human intelligence source.d. (U) “50X2-WMD” marking used when the information clearly and demonstrably couldreveal key design concepts of weapons of mass destruction.e. (U) Per ISOO Notice 2012-02: This marking is no longer authorized. “25X1, EO 12951”(Note: Per DNI Memo E/S 00400, dated 26 May 2010, value replaces the “DCI Only” and “DNIOnly” markings).7-1