Reading Room Document

Legality of Proposed Prepublication Review Requirement in SCI Access Agreement

This memo reiterated the OLC's concerns about language in a proposed prepublication review agreement, requiring review of materials related to "intelligence activities." However, the OLC informed the deputy assistant attorney general of Federal Programs that it would withdraw its objections given what it understood about the bureaucratic difficulties around redrafting, based on the understanding that each agency responsible for providing access to sensitive compartmented information would define the term more narrowly.

August 24, 1983