TALENT COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200080003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 30, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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30 August 1937
OR.AND FORt ~~(/V 4 ct sec
SUBJECT
TALENT Conununi
CE$ A, TC3481645?, 9 r:st 1957,
Director of Operations CIA TCO
TC6.1841-47, 19 August 1957,
Project Director to TCO
1, The matters discussed in the referenced papers bear on three
which have been brought to ray attention, Comments and oon-
elusion. on the** questions are set forth immediately beneath each.
2, a, QUESTION 1, In view of the authority granted to the
Project rector to use special communications privileges for
AC ATONE operations, is it proper to include TALENT
no?
CommevnIt You have already authorized the CIA TCO
and TSQ and officials in }ITA TQMAT to release messages
ng to TALENT matters, including -business, which
have thus far been ,host .xclusivly between Washington,
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c. Concinaion: This action of yours was proper inasmuch
as the volume of material was *xpscted to be small, the 25X1 A
channel already misted between those points, and, finally (and
:), the management of TALENT business has been
a direct concern of the Project Director,
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SON 1, TALENT continue to exist as a
ATONE, perhaps serving other sensitive
raioree, will It not require a separate
system? If eventually, why not now?
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3. b. Comment: As you know,, agreements have already been
ached with regard to the incorporation of products
into the TALENT system and also theasaee of 25X1A2g
It and when it is ootasb heed,
Though this is the only ease to data of the inclusion of non- tUATONZ
material in the TALENT systems you will recall that it has long
been your belief that the TALENT system would be most siferct*ve
s3curity system if it included materiaal$ from a number of
sensitive projects so that the users of the paroducts would not be
tell precisely from which project or source
TACT system will be
d **am that we ought to acs cipste the continuance
s TALENT system after the, end of AQUATONE to control
protect the product of the Ai UATONE Project after it is
other sensitive products. If this Judgment were accepted, than
the "stn weesseid be whether now is the time to m Won
for spatial TALENT coa municastions distinct from 25X1 A2g
to The establishment separate TALENT corn
chaennels involves the following *ctionot
I) The approvssal of the Direete-v*s a ice for the ee
itefbment of a separate channel in order to Insure restricted
and controlled dissemination,
2) The ceo,dir n of the Comm ,c$tions See.
Division to strange for communicattonse hasandUng in the special
ignal center and the restricted and controlled dissemination
from that risanst venter.
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e very small amount of traffic
gh -channels and bearing on TALENT
s not believed necessary to make this transition
personnel cleared for highly sensitive parojecte such ae ACV"
They are also today eloarured for TALENTo
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n arising from the existence of the slugs
elihood of TALENT,-CO MINT traffic, and there have only been
and By virtue ? f the reasoning above, the will not be
used except in regard to operational s -essoges bowing upon TALENT.CQIlNT
which mutt go from Headquarters to operational bases, The slug
, Where it appears that message. must be transmitted
, iowever, at such time as the TALENT flow becomes
should be given to establishing this new TALENT cvmmun
considerably Larger, by virtue of business beaarin on AQUAT
or by virtue of the flow of materials from consider
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arrangement which will ps
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necessary have a s
per handling of TALENT-
bb C ti It It now clear that by virtue of recent decisions
bearing on the dissemina n of the DMR and the CUR, only the
otter having heretofore gone to there is even less
previously one or two cases where TALENT "C INT messages
involving the two security systems, it is recommended that the
sender be required to separate the substance of hit mogoagow so
that each part may flow through its own system with any necessary
**sages transmitted in the other. In the event where
stblse we have the assistance the CQMINT Security
re of t"! to try to achieve a sasnitisan of the Cs'INT
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element in order that the message =a be transmitted through
the TALENT fat the present time channoto
channel be established.
C, Conclusion: That no TALENT-COMINT communications
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Cements on Slugs Used are TALENT Matters, There has been
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eed as a sable address in expediting the transmittal of messages from
when active) to HTAUTOMAT and thaw* a4ssrocia ted,,, such as DD/
myself as well as Operatiasn., on matters relating to their
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problems, This address is used not only on messages coming into Head-
quarters but also on messages which are coordinated in the community from
Headquarters to the U AFE Commander a When we desire to talk
to a CIA representative at an on m ro ch he may discuss with
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rsgoing represents the views of repress
Hesdauarters
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mtcsttons. HTAUTO AT, I, the TSO mod
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'CO CIS ' th* foregoing views are in accordsncs with your out would
you P10". Indicate YOW concurrence, No further action is required
except to Worm re handling of TALENT-COMINT in
dance with the commsuts and conclusions in paragraph 4
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