INDUSTRIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003200160001-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 23, 1979
• Content Type: PAPER

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21, MAR 1979
In September 1977 1 sent you a letter expressing disappointment
in the security programs of several firms engaged in major contracting
activities funded or administered by the Central Intelligence Agency.
I asked then for your help in bringing about higher standards of
security throughout our joint industrial effort.
In the year and a half since then, I am happy to report, we have
seen steady improvement in our industrial security programs and
practices. As you are well aware, in the summer of 1977 I initiated
a program of unannounced security audits of contractor activities
associated with sensitive classified contracts. To date, a total of 70
such audits have been performed. The responses by corporate management
to recommendations coming from these audits have been encouraging.
This has led in turn to significant security enhancements in such fields
as document control, courier programming and the physical security of
the work areas.
I wish I could be as upbeat in reporting on security performance
within the Government. The number of unauthorized leaks of highly
classified information today is totally unacceptable. On a number of
occasions I have said in public speeches that the greatest impediment
to intelligence activities today is our inability to keep classified
information out of the newspaper, let alone free from espionage.
In addition to the continuing problem of unauthorized leaks, I am
sure you are well aware of the Kampiles case which took place within
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CIA Headquarters, and was a source of chagrin and distress to me.
While Kampiles was assigned to the Agency in its Operations Center
he stole a highly sensitive classified document and later sold it to
Soviet agents. Kampiles was subsequently convicted on several counts
involving espionage and is now in prison serving a 40-year sentence.
As a result of the Kampiles case and my general review of CIA
security practices, we have taken a number of steps to tighten
procedures: increasing the frequency of our repolygraph program;
instituting regular rather than spot inspections of briefcases and
packages being taken out of our buildings; reducing.the number of
classified couments on hand to the minimum required; reducing the number
of people having access to codeword material by means of a zero-based
review of all existing clearances; and generally enhancing attention
to security consciousness.
I mention both my pleasure at the improvements in industrial
security and my displeasure at the lapses in Government security to
you because we must continue to work together to keep your security
high and to improve ours. Two years ago I believed industrial
security was below standards because of improper complacency; in
recent months we have clearly faced the same phenomenon within the
Government. Only if we work together and both insist on high standards
of security consciousness can we prevent lapses in the future in either
area.
I thank you for your attention and help, and express my
appreciation for the recent security accomplishments in the industrial
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sector. I am using them as a spur to achieve similar results in the
Agency and the Intelligence Community. Finally, if you have any
thoughts on how to improve security in either arena, please share
them with me.
Yours sincerely,
STANSFIELD TURNER
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