PROPOSED FOR HANDLING THE TALENT/CHALICE SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200100077-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: May 8, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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CHAL.0076
Copy/Oaf 10
8 May 1958
ci Assistant to the Director
for Planning and Development
Proposal for Handling the TALENT/CHALICE
Security
I. The following proposal takes into account your discussion with
the representatives of the military services on the afternoon of 23 April
1958. We propose this as a basis for an internal discussion with you.
Were this proposal acceptable to you, we would then propose that it be
tried on for size with the service representatives before final approval.
2. It is proposed that:
a. Data hitherto considered operational, namely, altitude,
track from point of entry, time, and range las roughly deducible
from track), as weU as data concerning photographic and elec-
tronic collection systems essential to analysis, be considered
as adequately protected by the existing TALENT Security Control
System on a MUST KNOW basis.
b. Other information such as the identification of the vehicle
in connection with the CHALICE program and the TALENT system,
the vehicle characteristics bases, prernission planning information,
cover explanation, etc. require CHALICE certification.
c. The need for information in paragraph b above by R&D
or operetional personnel in the military services be met by direct
request of the relevant CHALICE Control Officer to the Project
Security Officer. Those involved in intelligence who require
CHALICE clearance as in paragraph b above (principally Ad Hoc
Requirements Ccnnrnittee members except in the case of AFCIN
and their advisers, an estimated total of thirty to thirty-five) -
would be certified by the Project Security Officer upon TOCCUrt -
rn endation of the TALENT Control Officer. In the case of the
Mr Force, aU requests for CHALICE certification including
ArcaN will go through Colonel Geary to the Project Security
Officer.
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The foregoing proposal is based upon the recognition that
certain postoperational information is essential to the exploitation of
material collected by CHALICE, that the security standards and MUST
KNOW requirement of the TALENT system are in keeping with the
sensitivity of the information and are adequately reliable as security
measures, and that highly sensitive preoperational data or Project
considerations are essentially elements not required for exploitation
and, therefore, not to be made available to officials certified only for
TALENT.
Recommen
agraph
Recommendation set forth in
paragraph 41.
APPROVED:
RICHARD M, BISSE
SA/PD
That you approve the proposal set f
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