SPECIAL CLEARANCES FOR STAFF OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00560R000100070006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 6, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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6 September 1963
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MEMORANDUM FOR : Acting Deputy Director (Science and Technology)
SUBJECT : Special Clearances for Staff of the Inspector General
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1. In the course of making arrangements 5 August for
Office of the Inspector General, relative to his visit to -as
chief of an IG team currently working on the FE Division, said
that it was his understanding that very shortly the entire IG Staff would be
granted access to all of the special clearances now falling within the purview
of the AD/ OSA.
2. Since I had heard nothing of a move of this kind, I wish to hasten
into print to express my vigorous objection to any blanket inclusion of the IG
Staff into the mysteries of OSA along the lines suggested by
The proliferation of special clearances within this Agency is a subject which
causes me continual and unending concern, since there has been a continual
drift away from the concept of "need-to-know" in the assignment of these
clearances of late.
3. I attribute a fair amount of the current trend to the rather open
manner in which OSA's special activities are surfaced in such sessions as the
Director's Morning Meeting, which I understand has grown to much larger
proportions than originally envisioned, being now on the same order of magni-
tude as the Senior Staff Meeting. It is not an unusual experience for us to be
met in the hallway by various DD/I and DD/P officials, having no functional
responsibility for our efforts whatever, and asked about the current status of
the engine problem in OXCART, for example. The feeling seems to be that if
the individual is a member of CIA, this is security enough. Perhaps you have
heard of the current prospect suggested by remark. If you
have, and if you can head it off in any way, I think we would all be a good deal
happier and, incidentally, more secure.
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JAMS 4;"`CJNNINGEAM, JR.
Depu y Assistant Director
(Special Activities)
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