COMIREX'S DOWNGRADING AND SANITIZATION PROPOSALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000200090025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 6, 1980
• Content Type: MFR

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: COMIREX's Downgrading and Sanitization Proposals
1. I think that the exercise is a great bit of work.
2 I do not believe it should go from the COMIREX
to the DCI and then be sent to the Community as a finished
item. Rather, the C/COM11IREX should send it to the
SA/DCI/Compartmentation or to C/APEX Steering Group, with
a representative from COMIREX, to explain what it is and
how it answers the APEX needs. Some items we should have
assurances on:
a. Thresholds - Does the TEES proposal adhere
to APEX thresholds approved in principle by NEIB
or does it represent the COMIREX perception of
thresholds as they are published in their parameters
papers.
b. Consumer acceptability - was there
sufficient representation from the consumer popu-
lation participating in the COMIREX deliberations.
Remember, APEX is structured on a concept of
bipartisan cooperation between colliectors/pro-
cessors and consumers.
c. No strings or compartmentation control
tentacles on decompartmented or sanitized TK -
other than regular markings prescribed by DCID 1/7.
2. The reason I propose that the SA/DCI/Compartmentation
(in the long run) and as the C/Steering Group (for the
implementation period) be identified clearly now as the
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DCI's rep and agent to implement APEX is based on concern
that no one else can or should be allowed to make formal
pronouncements as to what stays in compartmentation and
what comes out and how this is done. If such control is
not taken now - the SA/DCI/Compartmentation will shortly
find himself in the same incontinent contest with the
SIGINI' Committee, COMIREX and NRO that the Security Committee
has about authorities over what will be compartmented and
how.
4. Suggest the SA/DCI/Compartmentation go to C/COMIREX
with a directive that all implementation steps in the APEX
process are to be sent to him and not the DCI. Further,
the SA/DCI/Compartmentation should make this clear a.t. an
early meeting of the APEX Steering Group.
STATINTL
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