Security Clearance of Congressional Employees

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04007A000700140016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 7, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
MAR 1961
SUBJECT Security Clearance of Congressional
Employees
1.. This memorandum Contains a recommendation for action
by the Director of Central Intelligence. Such
is contained in paragraph 5.
2. A number of requests have been received from the
Office of the General Counsel for security clearances on
members of the staff of individual Congressmen and staffs
of various Congressional Committees and Sub-Committees.
Security clearances on these persons are considered necessary
because of the disclosure to them of Secret and Top Secret
information.
3. In view of the delicate nature of the problem which
involves Executive-Legislative Branch relationships, we have
refrained from proposing a formal security clearance program
and have attempted to use Department of Defense clearances
on these persons whenever possible. We now have, however,
a number of such cases on which security clearances are
needed but on which the Department of Defense has no clear-
ance in process.
4. The Department of Defense handles the matter of
clearance of these persons on the matter-of-fact basis that
if access to classified Defense information is required, the
individual must first have a Defense clearance. Through
Defense Legislative Liaison, Defense security questionnaires
are obtained from these people and turned over to the Secu-
rity Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
5. It is recommended that the following procedure and
policy be adopted regarding clearances of employees of Con-
gressmen and Congressional Committees and Sub-Committees:
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a. Whenever possible, CIA security clearances will
be granted on the basis of existing or prior.
Defense clearances or information already in
CIA files;
b. When no information is- available on which a
CIA security clearance can be granted, the CIA
Legislative Liaison will arrange for DD Form 398
(copy attached),to be .obtained from the employee
involved for forwarding to the Department of
Defense. When going to Department of Defense
cannot be justified or would otherwise be out
of order, the Legislative Liaison Will obtain
the form and refer it to the Director of Secu-
rity of CIA.
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