CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION ACT CIA INFORMATION ACT Public Law 98–477 98 Stat. 2209 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION ACT 477 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 Central Intelligence Agency Information Act 1436 98 1984-10-15 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION ACT [(Public Law 98–477; 98 Stat. 2209; approved October 15, 1984)]
AN ACTTo amend the National Security Act of 1947 to regulate public disclosure of information held by the Central Intelligence Agency, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act may be cited as the “Central Intelligence Agency Information Act”. [50 U.S.C. 3001 note]
Sec. 2. [Subsections (a) and (b) added title VII to the National Security Act of 1947.] (c) Subsection (q) of section 552a of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(1)” after “(q)”; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: “(2) No agency shall rely on any exemption in this section to withhold from an individual any record which is otherwise accessible to such individual under the provisions of section 552 of this title.” .
Sec. 3. (a) The Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the Archivist of the United States, the Librarian of Congress, and appropriate representatives of the historical discipline selected by the Archivist, shall prepare and submit by June 1, 1985, a report on the feasibility of conducting systematic review for declassification and release of Central Intelligence Agency information of historical value. (b)(1) The Director shall, once each six months, prepare and submit an unclassified report which includes— (A) a description of the specific measures established by the Director to improve the processing of requests under section 552 of title 5, United States Code; (B) the current budgetary and personnel allocations for such processing; (C) the number of such requests (i) received and processed during the preceding six months, and (ii) pending at the time of submission of such report; and (D) an estimate of the current average response time for completing the processing of such requests. (2) The first report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted by a date which is six months after the date of enactment of this Act. The requirements of such paragraph shall cease to apply after the submission of the fourth such report. (c) Each of the reports required by subsections (a) and (b) shall be submitted to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Government Operations1 of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.1

The Committee on Government Operations was renamed to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight by H. Res. 6 in the 104th Congress, and renamed the Committee on Government Reform by H. Res. 5 in the 106th Congress.
Sec. 4. [50 U.S.C. 3141 nt] The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) of section 2 shall be effective upon enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to any requests for records, whether or not such request was made prior to such enactment, and shall apply to all civil actions not commenced prior to February 7, 1984.