[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 10789-10790]
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[FR Doc No: 95-5050]
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 39 / Tuesday, February 28, 1995 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                Executive Order 12951 of February 22, 1995
Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-Based
                National
                Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems
                By the authority vested in me as President by the
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                America and in order to release certain scientifically
                or environmentally useful imagery acquired by space-
                based national intelligence reconnaissance systems,
                consistent with the national security, it is hereby
                ordered as follows:
                Section 1. Public Release of Historical Intelligence
                Imagery. Imagery acquired by the space-based national
                intelligence reconnaissance systems known as the
                Corona, Argon, and Lanyard missions shall, within 18
                months of the date of this order, be declassified and
                transferred to the National Archives and Records
                Administration with a copy sent to the United States
                Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior
                consistent with procedures approved by the Director of
                Central Intelligence and the Archivist of the United
                States. Upon transfer, such imagery shall be deemed
                declassified and shall be made available to the public.
                Sec. 2. Review for Future Public Release of
                Intelligence Imagery. (a) All information that meets
                the criteria in section 2(b) of this order shall be
                kept secret in the interests of national defense and
                foreign policy until deemed otherwise by the Director
                of Central Intelligence. In consultation with the
                Secretaries of State and Defense, the Director of
                Central Intelligence shall establish a comprehensive
                program for the periodic review of imagery from systems
                other than the Corona, Argon, and Lanyard missions,
                with the objective of making available to the public as
                much imagery as possible consistent with the interests
                of national defense and foreign policy. For imagery
                from obsolete broad-area film-return systems other than
                Corona, Argon, and Lanyard missions, this review shall
                be completed within 5 years of the date of this order.
                Review of imagery from any other system that the
                Director of Central Intelligence deems to be obsolete
                shall be accomplished according to a timetable
                established by the Director of Central Intelligence.
                The Director of Central Intelligence shall report
                annually to the President on the implementation of this
                order.
                    (b) The criteria referred to in section 2(a) of
                this order consist of the following: imagery acquired
                by a space-based national intelligence reconnaissance
                system other than the Corona, Argon, and Lanyard
                missions.
                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) This order prescribes a
                comprehensive and exclusive system for the public
                release of imagery acquired by space-based national
                intelligence reconnaissance systems. This order is the
                exclusive Executive order governing the public release
                of imagery for purposes of section 552(b)(1) of the
                Freedom of Information Act.
                    (b) Nothing contained in this order shall create
                any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                enforceable by any party against the United States, its
                agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
                employees, or any other person. [[Page 10790]]
                Sec. 4. Definition. As used herein, ``imagery'' means
                the product acquired by space-based national
                intelligence reconnaissance systems that provides a
                likeness or representation of any natural or man-made
                feature or related objective or activities and
                satellite positional data acquired at the same time the
                likeness or representation was acquired.
                    (Presidential Sig.)>
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    February 22, 1995.
[FR Doc. 95-5050
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