USIA REQUEST TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TSCC'S SUBCOMMITTEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00062A001300030032-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 19, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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TSCC-D-145
19 November 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT : USIA Request to Participate in the TSCC's
Subcommittees
1. Mr. Paul J. McNichol, Assistant Director (Security) of
USIA, has requested that they be represented on both of the TSCC's
subcommittees in view of USIA's "sensitivity..... from the view
point of the national defense protection, " their desire to prevent
technical penetration of their premises. and the fact that $50, 000
has just been allocated for equipment for domestic technical security
activity.
2. 1 will be meeting Thursday morning with Mr. McNichol and
Mr. G. Marvin Gentile. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security,
Department of State, to discuss this request. Mr. Gentile tells
me that his shop provides protection to all USIA's overseas
premises, that the equipment they will be buying with the $50, 000
will be used domestically and is already being selected with the
assistance of the State Department's technicians, that he feels
the request was made for stature purposes only and that he does
not believe that USIA would gain much through participation in
the TSCC subcommittees.
3. The TSCC and its two subcommittees have now reached a
critical size and it is my strong feeling that USIA's request should be
denied for the same reasons NASA and the Department of Transportation
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to them are on the agenda.-/
including an invitation to attend meetings when matters of interest
were turned down. TSCC is, after all, a committee of USIB and
its main function is to promote the free exchange within the
intelligence community of sensitive information on U.S. and
foreign government activities. Adding representatives from
outside the community would inevitably inhibit this interchange and
restrict the range of topics brought to the table for discussion.
4. USIA has a legitimate interest in security, as do many other
agencies, and the way to help them is to do so on a working level,
not at a USIB committee. I propose to offer full cooperation to USIA
ey wou a urge to
continue liaison with the Office of Security in both State and CIA.
Any benefits flowing from the TSCC would be made available to them.
Example: they were invited to and attended the recent TSCC exhibition
of audio countermeasures equipment being developed by the community.
5. Rather than bother you, I had intended to work this out at a
low level at the meeting on Thursday. Unless you wish me to do
otherwise I had intended to offer Mr. McNichol the full cooperation
of the community while tactfully indicating that the TSCC was an
arm of USIB and therefore membership on it was restricted to
agencies represented on the Board.
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Chairman
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