{"data":{"id":"us/32-cfr-1909.2","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"32 CFR 1909.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part:\nAgency Release Panel or Panel or ARP means the CIA Agency Release Panel established pursuant to part 1900 of this chapter.\nCIA means the Unites States Central Intelligence Agency.\nControl means ownership or the authority of the CIA pursuant to Federal statute or legal privilege to regulate official or public access to records.\nCoordinator means the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator who serves as the CIA manager of the historical access process established pursuant to section 4.4 of the Order.\nDays means business days. Three (3) days may be added to any time limit imposed on a requester by this part if responding by U.S. domestic mail; ten (10) days may be added if responding by international mail;\nDirector of Security means the CIA official responsible for making determinations regarding all security and access approvals and overseeing execution of the necessary secrecy, nondisclosure, and/or prepublication review agreements as may be required.\nFormer Presidential or Vice Presidential appointee or designee means any person who has previously occupied a senior policy-making position in the Executive branch of the United States Government to which they were appointed or designated by the current or a former President or Vice President.\nHistorical researcher means any individual with professional training in the academic field of history (or related fields such as journalism) engaged in a historical research project that is intended for publication (or any similar activity such as academic course development) and that is reasonably intended to increase the understanding of the American public regarding the operations and activities of the United States Government. This term also means anyone selected by a former President or Vice President, or by a former Presidential or Vice Presidential appointee or designee, to assist them in historical research as a research associate.\nInformation means any knowledge that can be communicated or documentary material, regardless of its physical form that is owned by, produced by or for, or is under the control of the United States Government.\nInterested party means any official in the executive, congressional, or judicial branches of government, United States or foreign, or U.S. Government contractor who, in the sole discretion of the CIA, has a subject matter or physical interest in the documents or information at issue;\nOriginator means the CIA officer who originated the information at issue, or successor in office, or a CIA officer who has been delegated declassification authority for the information at issue in accordance with the provisions of the Order.\nOrder means Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 and published at 75 FR 707 (or successor Orders).\nSenior Agency Official means the official designated by the DCIA under section 5.4(d) of the Order to direct and administer the CIA's program under which information is classified, safeguarded, and declassified.","path":["Title 32—National Defense","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to National Defense","CHAPTER XIX—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY","PART 1909—ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED CIA INFORMATION BY HISTORICAL RESEARCHERS AND CERTAIN FORMER GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL PURSUANT TO SEC. 4.4 OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13526"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-32.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:30Z","sha256":"95780f5a3728c2e06be14a7599692e2a01a6fa9bf6df6bbbd5e7bc9bef153753","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/32-cfr-1909.1","next":"us/32-cfr-1909.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}