Meeting with Region III GSA Officials Regarding Polygraphing of GSA Guards and Char Force Maintenance Personnel

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04007A000700120007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 21, 1960
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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SUBJECT: Meeting with e:g A.,_W_W ,_qff xais Regarding
graphing of GSA Guards QUAr Force
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l~ Mr.
and I met with the Ua on III
GSA officials with respect to polygraphing the above-nax e4 atelory
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of GSA
personn
Mr. John Wadsworth Director, Public $uildan _=
Region III GSA
Mr. Henry Huntt
Mr. Allen O'Brien
Protection Branch,
SUUdiugs Management Division
Member, Protection Branch,
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2. Mr. -opened the meeting outlining the coverage to
be given on the polygraph, such as Communist Party membership,
sympathies, foreign intelligence connections and illegal admission of
personnel. He added that he would not be interested in anything that
did not have a security bearing on the employment of the individual.
3. Mr. Wadsworth, acting as spokesman for the Region III
people, stated that from an organizational viewpoint they would have
no objection to this polygr4p g; however, indicated that they were
concerned about personnel who would fall in one of the two following
categories:
a. Those who refused to take the test and
b. Those who did not "pass the test. "
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Mr.- and the writer hastened to explain that experience has
shown in several thousand tests that only a small percentage refuse
to take the testing and felt that this would not be a problem. Insofar
as category "b" is concerned, Mr. stated that derogatory
information would be passed on "Eyes Only" to the main Security
Office of GSA and that in such cases that action was required, insofar
as the individual is concerned., would be sufficiently serious as to
leave no doubt that the individual must be removed from his assignment
with CIA.
4. It should be noted that the concern of the GSA people
seemed to be that the downgrading of the guards, particularly from
GS-4 to GS-2 particularly when transferred from their CIA. assign-
ments, was a very difficult problem for them. Mr. Wadsworth con-
cluded stating that Mr. Huntt would be in touch with Mr. -
office an soon as possible with a final decision In the whole matter.
sure this would be the same situation in the partially completed CIA
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5. In addition to the above information, Mr. Wadsworth passed
on the following information regarding the employment of maintenance
people in a partially completed government building, such as the new
CIA building coxnesthe summer of 1961. He stated that his experience
in New States which is a partially completed building, was that the
Union insisted on maintenance being performed by their Union operatives
until the building had been taken over completely by the government and
unless their Union operatives perform said maintenance they would pull
all the Union people off the job which would close down the continued
construction of the new State building. Mr. Wadsworth stated he was
ne summer of 1961. This would obviously be a serious
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security situation and definite plans should be made with this in mind.
6.1 Mr. Wadsworth also stated that in discussions with Mr.
and the builders, he has been assured the north end of the
for occupancy by 15 July 1961 and that ''M" and
s are scheduled to be torn down for the bridge approaches
to R oane i land in the summer of 1961. Thus, obviously the planning
forikhe g?1~rs~ be stepped up to meet the needs.
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