LETTER TO MR. FREDERICK HITZ FROM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001500040043-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: October 26, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE ~""--- -- ~_
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
Serial: M552/0236/73
2 6 OCT 978
Mr. Frederick Hitz
Legislative Counsel
7D Headquarters Building
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Hitz:
Enclosed is a copy of a letter from Mr. Donald L. Eirich,
Associate Director, Logistics and Communications Division,
General Accounting Office (GAO), requesting that Mr. Norman
Grant Austen of their Denver Regional Office be granted access
to Special Intelligence information. ST
Deputy Assistant Director, Plans and Reviews/Comptroller, NSA,
is in agreement with this request to augment the GAO audit staff
at the National Security Agency.
This request is forwarded for your approval in accordance
with procedures established by Director of Central Intelligence
Guidelines and Procedures for the Issuance of Compartmented
Clearances to the Legislative Branch, dated 21 July 1978.
Please contact hief, Records and
Processing, M552, for additional
information or to arrange for necessary processing relative
to this request.
Encl:
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UNITED STATES GENERAL. ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS
DIVISION
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Deputy Assistant irec or
Plans and Reviews
National Security Agency
Central Security Service
This is to reque " a " (S.I.) clearance for
Mr. Norman G. Austen, f our Denver
Regional Office.
Mr. Austen's clearance is requested as part of our staff augmentation
for our NSA audit site. Our planned expansion of audit activities at the
Agency and our other audits of Command, Control and Communications systems
require some field staff capable of assisting us on a day to day basis.
In this regard, Mr. Austen is totally familiar with the Command,
Control and Communications area and would be able to satisfy our need
with the appropriate clearance.
Recent work at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
demonstrates our need. For example, we completed a review of NORAD's
ADP system upgrade known as the 427M Improvement Program (assignment code
941153) which required frequent contact with resident intelligence
officers. As a result of our coordination, an unclassified report is
being issued this month.
Also, we are currently reviewing NORAD's sensor systems (assignment
code 941162) and have just received a Congressional request to review
the World Wide Military Command and Control System and NORAD's Intelli-
gence Data Handling System (assignment code 941168). However, in this
instance, we have been advised by the NORAD Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff for Intelligence and others that our future endeavors, to be meaning-
ful, will require a properly cleared person, on site, to see and analyze
pertinent data, since most of this information is at the S.I. level.
STA
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Mr. Austen is our Assistant Team Leader at NORAD and is involved
with all of the above mentioned work. He can best handle our day to day
requirements at NORAD and also provide assistance to the Logistics and
Communications Division, as needed, in other areas of the Western United
States. He would, in effect, be our western U.S. representative. His
work will be controlled by the GAO resident NSA audit manager. This will
be a long-term commitment for Mr. Austen.
If you require further information regarding this matter, please
contact me on 275-2601.
onald L. Eirich
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