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UNCLASSIFIED
6251
SENSITIVE
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET WITH
TOP SECRET ATTACHMENT
January 19, 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
I am attaching a copy of Presidential Directive/NSC-59 for your information and appropriate but close-hold use. A small part of the pre-planned options section has been deleted because it contains sensitive information █████████████ not normally held outside the Department of Defense and the White House. This small deletion in no way alters the sense and content of the remainder of the directive.
SECRET WITH
TOP SECRET ATTACHMENT
Review on January 19, 1987
Partially Declassified/Released on 3-6-98
under provisions of E.O. 12958
by R. Soubers, National Security Council
