ITEM FOR REVIEW IN AN INVESTIGATION OF SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001700280010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 3, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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Security Information
3 April 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
FROM: Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT: Items for Review in an Investigation of Security
1. Policy -- There have been newspaper and magazine articles about
CIA, and the public has done some advertising of the organizations ex-
istence, particularly its ucloak and dagger" aspects. To counteract.
this, the CIA has publicly emphasized its duties as coordinator of
intelligence rather than the special activities entrusted to it. Has
there been a policy decision of the extent to which the role of the G
as centralize Coordinator of Intelligence should be publicly advfr-
tised? Has consideration been given to disadvantages of disclosing
anything against advantages of using overt activities to cover secret
operations? If this policy determination has been made, do the indi-
viduals in CIA understand their role in it? In other words, is every-
body on the outside getting the same story from everybody on the
inside?
Security Briefings -- Are these as good as they can be?
3. Written Matter -- Are copies of classified papers prepared
and passed around only to the extent necessary?
Passes -- Is there a good phygi cal ec c ck da?
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5. Telephone -- Security regulations say nothing wih a higer
classification than Restricted should be discussed over the phone. I
suspect this is not generally followed. If it shouldn't be followed,
the regulation should be changed. If it should be, it is the easiest
thing in the world to check on, by an audit of conversations at the
switchboard. Once word gets around that conversations are being 3uditeca,
people will then discuss only what they are supposed to. Also -? when,
people in the Agency realize they are being checked on, security-rise,
there should be a generally beneficial effect on the personal sec>arity
assumed by each individual. (Care must be taken not to carry this to
the extent of creating a Gestapo.)
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