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        Thoughts on Terms of Reference for Declassification Review
        It is suspected that many of the current reports were classified to protect the
        relationship between the program and its government sponsor. This suspicion is
        enhanced by the realization that during the period that DIA was identified on project
        reports as the sponsor, the large majority of the (SRI) reports were classified.
        Subsequently, under contract to SAIC, a contract cut-out was used and exactly the
        opposite occurred, i.e., the large majority of the reports were unclassified even though
        the topics, investigations, studies, experiments and basic technology were virtually
        identical. Hence, it is presumed that many of the early reports can be downgraded to
        unclassified with little if any change once DIA declassifies their sponsorship of the
        program.
        Classify as SECRET information regarding:
        - sources and/or methods of intelligence operations.
        - intelligence and/or military operational targets
        - intelligence and/or military operational tasking
             - names of any government personnel involved in performing against
        operational tasks
        - names and/or affiliations of any classified tasking organizations
        Any information regarding the categories below is UNCLASSIFIED and
        should be downgraded if currently classified:
        - code names for the project, e.g. Grill Flame, Star Gate, etc.
        - names of government sponsoring organizations
        - names of industrial organizations performing R&D under government contract
        - activities which deal with R&D including related laboratory and CONUS field
        experiments, development and testing of protocols, development and testing
        of training and training procedures except in those instances where
        knowledge of these items would infer information which would otherwise be
        classified or where, in the opinion of the reviewer, disclosure could cause
        grave damage to the United States.
             -discussion of interest, involvement and/or cooperation with organizations
        and/or personnel of other countries performing R&D in similar or related fields
        of technology except in those instances where knowledge of these items
        would infer information which would otherwise be classified or where, in the
        opinion of the reviewer, disclosure could cause grave damage to the United
        States.
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