Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO)

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Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO)
Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) Ms.
Linda Smith Director
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The Overview

• Mission/Goals/Organization
• AFDO Product/Deliverables
• Life Cycle Management/Processes
• Retrieval and review
• Quality Control
• Progress toward 31 December 06 deadline
• Public Interest Initiatives
• Building Blocks to the Future

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Mission Goals

• Ensure EO 12958, as amended, Classified
  National Security Information Section 3.3, is
  implemented
• Information Security Oversight Office
  (ISOO)Directive No. 1sets information security
  requirements
• Review Air Force originated information
  determined permanently valuable and 25 years old,
  or older (rolling review)
• Respond to mandatory reviews, Congressional
  searches, and Freedom of Information Act Request,
  as requested
• Pre 1982 permanently valuable records - Dec
  31 2006, or they will be automatically
  declassified
• Review referrals from other government agencies
  (OGAs)
• Determine appropriate decisions Pass/Fail
• Represent Secretary of the Air Force Senior
  Security Official on declassification working
  groups (External Referral Working Group,
  Automated working Group)
• DoD 5200.1R, Info Security Program, and Air
  Force Instruction 31-401 Air Force
  Declassification Plan

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AF Security Enterprise
Air Force Security Enterprise
A1- Manpower A2 Intelligence A3 Air, Space
and Information Ops A4 Logistics A5 Plans
A6 Communications A7 Installations Mission
Support A8 Strategic Plans and Programs A9
Analyses, Lessons Learned
Secretary AF (SAF)
Chief of Staff
Mr. Wynne
Gen Moseley
SAF/AA
A7S
Mr. Davidson
Security
AFDO
A7SI
L. Smith
Coordination
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The AFDO Process
Retrieve 25 yrs Permanent AF Record
No
Authority?
Yes
Excluded RD/FRD
Review Record
AF Exemption?
Yes
Remain Classified
_at_
Other Agency Equities
No other agency equities
No
Declassify Release
Refer
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Retrieve Requires Life Cycle Management
Processes
Declassification Authority
Original Classification Authority
NARA
RECORD
Federal Records Center (Storage)
RECORD
RECORDS Centers Transfer
RECORD
USER
AFDO
classified records
CLASSIFICATION
DECLASSIFICATION
SECURITY MANAGEMENT
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Retrieve Wheres the Record?
Records -- include all books, papers, maps,
photographs, machine-readable materials, or other
documentary materials, regardless of physical
form or characteristics, made or received by an
agency of the United States Government under
Federal law or in connection with the transaction
of public business and preserved or appropriate
for preservation by that agency or its legitimate
successor as evidence of the organization,
functions, policies, decisions, procedures,
operations, or other activities of the Government
or because of the informational value of the data
in them (44 U.S.C. 3301).
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Retrieving Review Tools

• INFORM Report Federal Record Centers
• Multiple Listing Registry National Archives
• Information Retrieval Indexing System IRIS at
  AF Historical Research Agency
• Document Declassification Support System (DDSS)
• National Archives Declassification, Review and
  Redaction System (ADRRES)

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Air Force Repositories
National Archives II Washington National Records
Center
Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell
AFB, Alabama
RG 342 Field Activities MAJCOM/Base Histories
RG 340 Secretariat RG 341 Air Staff
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Process ReviewTo Identify Exemptions

• 25X1 Intelligence sources and methods (SC MT)
• 25X2 Use of weapons of mass destruction
• 25X3 Impair cryptologic systems or activities
• 25X4 Impair the application of state-of-the-art
  technology
• 25X5 Actual U.S. military war plans that remain
  in effect
• 25X6 Foreign government information that
  demonstrably impairs relations with other
  countries
• 25X7 Protection of President/Vice-President etc
• 25X8 Emergency preparedness plans or reveal
  current vulnerabilities or systems,
  installations, infrastructures, or projects
  relating to national security
• 25X9 Violate a statute, treaty, or
  international agreement

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Quality Control Process

• Three tier review
• Real-time automated feedback loop to
  reviewer/supervisor if errors in decisions
• Hands-On document application and automated
  standardization program
• Full-time training officer (senior reviewer)
• Air Force partnerships with other government
  agencies for equity recognition training
• Full-time Training Officer interagency training
  and equity recognition
• Host annual Equity Recognition declassification
  conferences/seminars
• 2007 will co-host with NARA
• Host an interagency classified/unclassified
  Community of Practice (CoP) website
• Routine inspections ISOO/Department of Energy
  (DOE), Air Force Information Security Office and
  Air Force Eagle Look

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Progress Production 1995-2006 (millions of pages)
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Public Interest Initiatives

• Southeast Asia records declassification AF
  Historical Research Agency 10 mil pages
• Gulf War Records Illness Syndrome Reviews 2
  million pages
• Roswell Incident study 1994
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• SAC Histories
• Other
• AFDO historian Mr. Michael Binder

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Building Blocks to the Future

• Institutionalization The seamless integration
  of life cycle management and training Records
  Management Integrated Process Team underway
• Credibility The acceptance of training for the
  benefits and values it provides needs Commander
  emphasis
• Education and Awareness Instruction of
  declassification management program requirements
  and benefits, and their responsibilities. See
  www.afdo.hq.af.mil
• Training The providing of necessary training
  and skills development to staff at all levels
• Communications All of us security,
  warfighters, public affairs, historians and
  records managers are our outreach.
• Source Dept of Energy Records Management
  Program Aug 95

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Conclusion
Secure Protect
Release
Yes
Air Force Declassification Office Ms.
Linda Smith - Director
Yes