ACTIONS OF INTEREST TO THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R000500060004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 26, 1963
• Content Type: MF

f`;/5 ~"_3 - :56 3 0
Approved For Release 2002/1 =.Pbu-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
26 November 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
1. This memorandum is for information and lists all current
actions of the Office of Security in which the O/DCI or O/DD/S either
has or should have a particular or special interest.
I. OS Actions Resulting from land
Correlated Developments:
A. Personnel Security Reviews within CIA.
After the revelation of a review of
the personnel security procedures of CIA was con-
ducted by the Office of Security. Following this,
the Inspector General effected a survey to determine
whether CIA regulations and procedures for main-
taining personnel security are (a) adequate; (b)
known, understood, and followed; and (c) effective.
Both the OS review and the IG survey of CIA per-
sonnel security are completed. The findings have
been studied and the Office of Security is proceeding
internally with plans to translate the findings, con-
clusions, and recommendations into actions. These
actions will include modification of regulatory and
official issuances on security to heighten emphasis
on supervisory responsibilities, to standardize
procedures for employees reporting their absences,
to improve communications with persons returning
from overseas assignments. In addition, security
indoctrination and reindoctrination programs will
be reviewed to assure adequate coverage of the
supervisory role in security.
Mill 11 E
25X1
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
- G r a~1
 Approved For Release 2002/1 1/` m DP84-007808000500060004-9
B. Personnel Security Reviews within Community.
Following the DCI held various dis-
cussions with senior officials of the community con-
cerning personnel security procedures; these will
undoubtedly continue. Among the noteworthy devel-
opments so far are these:
(1) All military and civilian employ-
ees of the Department of Defense assigned
to NPIC are now being security investigated
and processed in the same manner as CIA
personnel.
(2) The Director of Security has been
designated by the DCI to assist the Depart-
ment of Defense in its study of personnel
security being undertaken by the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Manpower).
As other actions and developments occur, they
will be reported.
C. Formal Agency Damage Assessment"
Case. Efforts to assess the damage to CIA inlorma-
tion, intelligence, and sources and methods resulting
from re being coordinated by the
Office of Security. On 13 November a meeting of
representatives of OCR, OCI, OSI, CI Staff, FDD,
00, and OTR was called by the Director of Security
to plan a formal Agency-wide damage assessment
program on the case. Each CIA component origi-
nating documents possibly seen I] has been
sent a list of such documents together with damage
assessment forms, and the review is now proceed-
ing on a uniform basis throughout the Agency. A
preliminary damage assessment was reported on
20 November. Separate reports from the compon-
ents will be received by the Office of Security.
They will be integrated and a final report prepared
for the DCI. Expected date of completion of study:
1 January 1964.
25X1
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
 Approved For Release 2002/11/ .:: DP84-0078OR000500060004-9
II. OS Actions Resulting
The Office of Security is coordinating an Agency-
wide review of the techniques and procedures used for the
handling and accountability of Top Secret and Code-Word
materials within CIA. A large number of questionnaires
have been prepared and circulated to Agency personnel
having document control responsibilities and to selected
users of the information involved. Several categories of
sensitive intelligence are involved, and separate ques-
tionnaires have been prepared for each category. When
returned, the questionnaires will be tabulated and analyzed.
In addition, actual inspections of procedures must be
accomplished before recommendations for changes are
made. Because of the scope and size of the study, a
deadline of no earlier than I April appears reasonable.
III. OS Actions Resulting from Programs of the Security
Committee, USIB:
A. Review of the Procedures and Standards
within the Intelligence Community for the Control
of Sanitization and Downgrading of Sensitive Intel-
ligence. The Security Committee has completed
its review of the procedures for the sanitization
and downgrading of COMINT and T-KH materials.
A final proposed report of the Committee to the
Board is now being coordinated with the SIGINT
Committee, the Committee on Overhead Recon-
naissance (COMOR), and the Guided Missile and
Astronautic Intelligence Committee (GMAIC) of
the United States Intelligence Board. Completion
of coordination action by 6 December has been
requested, and a report to the Board as of that
date is contemplated. A working group of the
COMOR Committee, including representatives
of the Security Committee, has been formed and
has initiated a detailed and comprehensive review
of the downgrading and sanitization procedures
as promulgated by COMOR. The completion of
this review is contemplated within 90 days and
will be the subject of a separate report to the Board.
Sr
T
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
 25X1 Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
 Approved For Release 2002/1 1 ff RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
IV. ?S Actions Resulting from Executive Director's
Action Memoranda, Intra-Agency or Inter-Agency Requests:
A. Index Project, Security Records
Division. Memorandum from the Deputy Direc-
tor for Support for Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, dated 18 November 1963, subject:
Index Project, Security Records Division,
Office of Security, recommended approval of
subject project. The purpose of this project
is to convert to machine language the 1, 700, 000
3 x 5 indices cards in the OS(SRD) index via the
punch-card route to magnetic tape. The program
would utilize project personnel without regard to
ceiling considerations during FY-64 and FY-65.
This project was approved by the Executive
Director for the Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence on 20 November 1963. Actions are
now in process to obtain space, recruit contract
personnel and determine availability of FY-64
funds for this project.
B. Security Reindoctrination Program.
Designed to alert all Agency employees to the
recent techniques and tactics of the opposition,
particularly the Soviet Intelligence Service, to
penetrate the Agency, the Security Reindoctrina-
tion Program #2 is now under construction. It
will stress the security responsibilities of the
supervisor. It is planned that the program will
be ready for preview by the DD/S and other
appropriate senior officials by the middle of
January 1964.
C,. Revision of Professional Recruitment
Brochure. Memorandum from the Deputy Direc-
tor for Support, dated 18 November 1963, subject:
Revision of Professional Recruitment Brochure,
requested comments and suggestions from the
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
 q a
Approved For Release 2002/11/1%' ' DP84-0078OR000500060004-9
Office of Security not later than 2 December
on the brochure. Comments are now being
obtained and action will be completed by close
of business 29 November 1963.
D. Bureau of Budget Briefing. Information
has been received from Mr. John Clarke, Chief,
Budget Division, that the Bureau of the Budget
will be interested in reviewing policy, personnel
and budget aspects of security systems within
CIA from "the standpoint of proliferation. "
Mr. Don Smith of the Bureau of the Budget is
said to be preparing a list of questions to be
answered by the Director of Security in briefing
Mr. Smith on this matter sometime during
December 1963. A committee in the Office of
Security has been organized to staff out
Mr. Smithts requirements as soon as they are
received.
E. Integration of Employee Information
Influencing Personnel.Actions. By 24 October
1963, the Personnel Security Division had com-
pleted its review of all security files in the
Agency and forwarded to the Office of Personnel
information relevant to the purpose of records
integration. The machinery has been established
to continue the flow of such in the future.
F. Study_of Industrial. Securit. While the
niajor responsibility for relationships with con-
tractors rests with the Office of Logistics, the
Office of Security will shortly conduct a compre-
hensive and long-range study of the security
aspects of all such relationships. All components
involved with contractors will be contacted for
assistance and information in an effort to improve
on industrial security programing which gets
central direction from the Office of Security
while operating in a necessarily decentralized
fashion.
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
 0 7-1 '
Approved For Release 2002/ 14/ '5 =',A-RDP84-00780R000500060004-9
V. OS Actions of Coordinating Nature with Other
Offices Having Action Responsibilities:
A. As a result of Action Memo No. 315,
dated 19 November 1963, subject: Review of
Agency Use of Cryptonyms, the CI Staff is
doing a study toward which this Office will
be asked to make a contribution.
a study of psychological testing
The
Office of Security has been asked to provide-
advice and will continue to do so.
C. This Office is working closely with
the DD/P (the action office) in preparation of
a response to a memorandum from Mr. McGeorge
Bundy, Special Assistant to the President, which
measures. The deadline or the reply by e
is 15 January 1964. At the request of the DD/P,
this Office has prepared a draft of a proposed
reply to Mr. Bundy for the DCIts signature
which is now being coordinated within the U. S.
Intelligence Community by the DD/P.
2. All actions noted above are being watched carefully to assure
proper coverage, speed of handling, and proper coordination.
25X1
25X1
Director of Security
it. J-j. annerm n
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-00780R000500060004-9
 25X1 Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9
Approved For Release 2002/11/15 : CIA-RDP84-0078OR000500060004-9