MEETING WITH COMMUNITY PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND SECURITY OFFICERS ON 2 AUGUST 1983 TO DISCUSS LEAKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R002304490085-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: July 25, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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PAO 83-0004/6
25 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Director, Office of Security
Lavon B. Strong
Director, Public Affairs Office
SUBJECT: Meeting with Community Public Affairs and Security
Officers on 2 August 1983 to Discuss Leaks
REFERENCES: a. 21 July 1983 Letter to Weinberger, Clark, Shultz
Adelman re Cooperation to Prevent Unauthorized
Disclosures
b. 21 July 1983 Memorandum to Fourteen Community
Public Affairs Officers, Same Subject
1. Action Requested: Authorize Public Affairs and the Office of
Security to invite Community public affairs and security officers to
meet with you on 2 August to discuss leaks.
2. Background: You have now sent letters (at left) to Community
principals (Weinberger, Clark, Shultz, and Adelman) and to fourteen
Community public affairs officers stating your concerns about leaks
and describing your proposal to enlist their cooperation in notifying
CIA of potentially damaging news stories that come to their
attention. Your letters also indicated your intention to invite the
public affairs officers to Headquarters to convey your personal
concerns and your proposals for closer cooperation. We propose that
meeting be held Tuesday, 2 August at 1030 a.m. in G-A-13 here at
Headquarters. Your calendar is free at that time. We anticipate some
60-75 guests and plan a program of about one and one-half hours.
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SUBJECT: Meeting with Community Public Affairs and Security Officers
on 2 August 1983 to Discuss Leaks
We ask that you open the meeting with a greeting and an
explanation of why the guests have been invited. We will provide you
general talking points later, but your comments primarily should
emphasize the seriousness of the problem, the need for Community
cooperation, the need to rebuild discipline within the Community, and
an explanation of your plan to better anticipate and deal with
damaging leaks before they are made public. These initial comments
should run about ten to fifteen minutes and be followed by a brief
question and answer session in which you would seek comments and
advice. (This will complete your official participation, but of
course we will appreciate your staying as long as your schedule will
permit.) The Director of Security would then take the floor to
explain that the Agency has your official presentation on tape which
can be made available to any of those present to use before
appropriate groups within their own agencies, and that as part of that
presentation, Agency officials are prepared to attend those sessions
to further discuss the problem. We would then show your taped
presentation and the Director of Security would lead an open
discussion. At the end, the office of Security would describe other
educational materials that could be made available to the attendees.
3. Recommendation: Authorize Public Affairs and the Office of
Security to proceed with the plan described above. Also, authorize
the use of the autopen for the invitation to the public affairs
officers. A proposed draft is attached.
Lavon B. Strong
Attachment: A/S
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SUBJECT: Meeting with Community Public Affairs and Security officers
on 2 August 1983 to Discuss Leaks
!S/ William J. Casey
V 6 -,JUL 1993
Director of Central Intelligence
Director of Central Intelligence
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