FORTHCOMING REVIEW OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 10450

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001900040013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 9, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
SECOM-D-276
9 August 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
FROM:
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SUBJECT: Forthcoming Review of Executive Order 10450
1. Action Requested: That you sign a letter to the Attorney General
requesting participation of Security Committee members or designees in the
upcoming review of Executive Order 10450.
2. Back round: One of the items addressed in the "Willard Report" of
March 198 was t e federal personnel security program, governed by Executive
Order 10450, promulgated in 1953. The report notes that the order had not
been revised to take into account subsequent court decisions and changes in
government organization; states that the federal personnel security program
is largely defunct; and notes that program improvements would reduce US Govern-
ment vulnerability to clandestine infiltration of sensitive positions.
3. Staff Position: Several attempts have been made in the past to
update and rewrite Executive Order 10450 in order to accomplish goals
mentioned above. These attempts have been abortive and no meaningful result
has been achieved. Under your authority, DCID 1/14 protects sources and
methods relating to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) by setting
uniform personnel security investigative, adjudicative, and appeal procedures
for SCI access. This Directive, however, does not pertain to access by US
Government personnel to non-SCI classified intelligence information at the
Confidential, Secret and Top Secret levels. Executive Order 10450 pertains .
to access to US classified material, including intelligence information.
4. Much classified intelligence information is disseminated at standard
levels of classification, outside the SCI control systems.. It is imperative
that the Intelligence Community's security specialists contribute to any
revision of the Executive Order which is the basis for the federal personnel
security program. Therefore, the Security Committee urges that Intelligence
Community security experts have an opportunity to participate in the effort
to revise Executive Order 10450.
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5. Recommendation: That you sign the attached letter to Attorney
General Smith requesting that Intelligence Community components be invited
to take part in rewriting Executive Crder 10450,
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