MINUTES -- PLANNING MEETNG STAR GATE DECLASSIFICATION

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The document is a summary of a planning meeting held in September 1995 to discuss the review and declassification of the Star Gate program and related documentation. The meeting attendees discussed various actions to be taken, including briefing the Agency Review Panel (ARP), including the declassification plan in the Management Plan to Congress, and exploring the possibility of having the National Archives implement the declassification. The attendees also discussed the need for additional personnel and funding to accomplish the declassification, as well as the possibility of using contract support. The document concludes with the mention of the two DIA staff previously assigned to the Star Gate program, but no decision was reached regarding their involvement.

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 Minutes - Planning Meeting
 Star Gate Declassification
 9 Set) ember 1995
 Attendees:
 The meeting was held to discuss how to accomplish the review and declassification
 of the Star Gate program and related documentation in accordance with
 Congressional direction.
 The principal results of the discussion were:
 - Brief the Agency Review Panel (ARP) on the Congressional direction and
 obtain their approval to proceed as planned (subsequently arranged with
 SG1 I                  51406 for 1330 hours on 9/28 in room 7D02).
 - Include in Management Plan to Congress the plan to expeditiously review
 and declassify the documentation (complete within 2-years) contingent
 upon the approval of Congress to use some of the billets and funds
 previously provided to accomplish this task.
 - Explore the possibility of having the National Archives implement the
 declassification of the documentation under funding and guidance
 S r 1 tided by CIA.
 greed that he would provide the leadership to accomplish the
 declassification if no other organization accepted the task but contingent
 upon the provision of the additional billets and funds noted above.
 SG1I
 offered the support of her group in responding to future FOIA
 requests.
 SG1I
 toted that the recent records management person assigned to
 ORD was not senior enough to lead this task and implied that ORD would
 need to assign someone from the ORD staff to be the lead person to
 impplement the declassification plan.
 SG 1I
 noted that the National Archives needs to be appraised of the
 document transfer from DIA to CIA
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 - the general consensus regarding the process for reviewing and declassifying
 the available documentation was that it should require a minimal number
 of CIA staff and depend heavily upon contract support.
 - in the context of the previous comment, the possibility of employing the
 two DIA staff that were previously in the Star Gate PMO was discussed but
 no decision was reached regarding the possibility.
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