SECURITY BRIEFINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001700280011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 2, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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SUBJECT: Security Briefings
With the able assistance of I have now co; ipleti.ed 25X1
a survey of the security briefing given by personnel from your office
new employees of the Agency. This was undertaken because several relm: c
new employees have stated that these briefings were inadequate anc urs3< ~?.
factory.
It is our conclusion that this criticism is fundamentally corre ..
following observations are pertinent:
1. That the briefings are now given by three men,
None of them has succeeded in dr_ama.tiz:vng
properly the main objectives of the briefing.
he may give the name of a CIA personnel officer to store-.
from which he wants personal credit.
seemed to handle the problem better than the other two.
employee extremely security conscious and aware of the
necessity of learning security regulations.
3. On one subject concerning which this briefing could be
effective, namely, the position an Agency employee may
take in private life with respect to employment in the
Agency, the briefing Is inadequate and confusing. The
employee cannot reconcile advice to be secretive about
where he works among his social contacts with advice tip
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2. The material presented in the briefing does not suipport --,he
purposes which the briefing should achieve. It should
be recognized that, in a briefing of this sort, detailed
security information cannot be taught or learned and thy.-
the one purpose the briefing can serve is to make the nel.L
4. Another point of the type that can be made in such briefings,
namely, the Agency's permission must be had for taking
university courses, joining discussion groups, etc., is -iot
well made.
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The distracting demonstration of passing around a safe lost=
does not achieve any positive value. The actual tec-r7iq,ue
of closing a safe is not shown.
6. The effort to recite particular security regulations is not
appropriate in a meeting, of this kind and loses all force
after the first two or three regulations have been exrlaii4.-?d.
No briefing is given on the negative aspects of security,
pointing out, for example, that denials of knowledge are
often as illuminating as affirmative statements.
8. Much unnecessary information is given in the briefing,
including some information which the employees have no need
to know and which might be of value to someone seeking to
penetrate the Agency, as for example:
a. The number of safes we have and the number of bU ldinfr.-
we occupy in Washington.
b. The fact that all ti' safes start the combination to
the left and all others to the right.
c. The fact that security violations consisting of -open
safes are most frequent before week-ends, before holi-
days, and when people are hurrying; away at night.
9. The discussion of penalties for security violations makes
the whole matter sound relatively unimportant.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the entire briefing procedure be reviewed;
that one man be selected and trained to give this briefing; that more
visual aids be employed; and that the briefing be oriented exclusively
toward creating a security consciousness and not toward givirr- security
instructions.
Stuart Hedden
Inspector General
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