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U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION POLICIES AND PRACTICES THE PENTAGON PAPERS (PART 2)

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

JUNE 28 AND 29, 1971

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WASHINGTON: 1971

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402 Price $2

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

JACK BROOKS, Texas

CHET HOLIFIELD, California, Chairman

L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina
ROBERT E. JONES, Alabama
EDWARD A. GARMATZ, Maryland
JOHN E. MOSS, California
DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida
HENRY S. REUSS, Wisconsin
JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut
TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts
WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania
CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey
WM. J. RANDALL, Missouri

BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York
JIM WRIGHT, Texas

FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island
JOHN C. CULVER, Iowa

FLOYD V. HICKS, Washington
GEORGE W. COLLINS, Illinois

DON FUQUA, Florida

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas
BELLA S. ABZUG, New York

FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey
OGDEN R. REID, New York
FRANK HORTON, New York
JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
JOHN W. WYDLER, New York
CLARENCE J. BROWN, Ohio
GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan
GILBERT GUDE, Maryland

PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR., California
JOHN H. BUCHANAN, JR., Alabama
SAM STEIGER, Arizona
GARRY BROWN, Michigan

BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR., California
J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia
WALTER E. POWELL, Ohio
CHARLES THONE, Nebraska

HERBERT ROBACK, Staff Director
CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Administrator
JAMES A. LANIGAN, General Counsel

MILES Q. ROMNEY, A880ciate General Counsel
J. P. CARLSON, Minority Counsel

WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Minority Professional Staff

FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBCOMMITTEE

WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania, Chairman

JOHN E. MOSS, California

TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts FRANK HORTON, New York

JIM WRIGHT, Texas

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas

CHET HOLIFIELD, California

OGDEN R. REID, New York

JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR., California

EX OFFICIO

FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey

WILLIAM G. PHILLIPS, Staff Director
NORMAN G. CORNISH, Deputy Staff Director
HAROLD F. WHITTINGTON, Staff Consultant
WILLIAM R. MALONI, Professional Staff Member
DALE E. MOSER, Supervisory Auditor, GAO
MARTHA M. DOTY, Clerk
MARY E. MILEK, Secretary

Part

Part

CONTENTS

Page

1-275 277-778

Hearings held on—

June 28June 29 Statement of

Cooke, David O., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Adminis-
tration), DOD; accompanied by George MacClain, Director,
Security Classification Management Division, OSD (Administra-
tion); Leonard Niederlehner, Deputy General Counsel, OSD; and
Joseph J. Liebling, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Security Policy),
OSD (Administration) -

Epstein, Julius, research associate, Hoover Institution on War, Revo-
lution, and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif
Kass, Benny L., attorney, and former counsel, Foreign Operations
and Government Information Subcommittee_.

McBee, Susanna, Washington editor, McCall's magazine, and first
vice president, Press Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.--
Rehnquist, William H., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal
Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice..

Wise, David, author and political writer.

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by

Cooke, David O., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration), DOD:

Additional material relative to the hearings.

277

353

390

285

308

277

358

328

752-778

Department of Defense Directive No. 5120.33, dated January 8,
1963, and Department of Defense Instruction No. 5120.34,
dated January 8, 1963----

669-677

DOD Directive No. 5200.10, dated July 26, 1962; DOD_Instruc-
tion No. 5210.47, dated December 31, 1964; and DOD Directive
No. 5200.1, dated July 10, 1968--
397-597
Department of Defense list of labels and designations, table____ 665
Forms used to provide security classification guidance to defense
contractors of classified contracts, together with some of the
instructions for their use..

Information regarding cost of security classification program.
Information regarding Director of CIA Directive No. 1/7.-
Information regarding top secret documents__

700-750

690

667

664

Letter, dated June 11, 1971, to Representative Paul N.
McCloskey, Jr., from Dennis J. Doolin, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, re reasons for denial of photographs or the list of
villages bombed in Laos...

News release from the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Public Affairs), dated March 5, 1969, entitled "Public Informa-
tion Principles"

Sundry DOD material: Memorandums relative to security
classification of R.D.T. & E. information, and news release
attachment regarding availability of information to general
public and technical community.

696

600

660-663

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census survey and
study conducted for the Department of Defense_-
Epstein, Julius, research associate, Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.:
House Resolution 399_

Sundry material relative to the hearings..

607

300

288-299

(III)

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-Continued

Moorhead, William S., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Pennsylvania, and chairman, Foreign Operations and Govern-
ment Information Subcommittee:

Article from the Wall Street Journal of June 25, 1971, by Richard
J. Levine, entitled "Top Secret: Archives Are Loaded With
Classified Papers That Don't Tell Much".
Letter, dated June 28, 1971, to Hon. Melvin R. Laird, Secretary
of Defense, from certain Members of Congress, re "History of
the Decisionmaking Process in Vietnam".
Letter, with enclosure, dated June 21, 1971, from Lloyd C.
Gardner, chairman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.,
re article by Lloyd C. Gardner entitled "Secrets and Security"
from the New York Times of June 19, 1971, and remarks at the
National Archives Conference on Access to Government
Records, June 15, 1971, entitled "Past Secrets and Present
Security"

Sundry letters relative to the hearings..

Page

347

327

321-326

353-356

350

Scheuer, Hon. James H., a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, statement---

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