NSSD-2/82 COUNTERMEASURE ORGANIZATION STUDY - INTERAGENCY GROUP/COUNTERMEASURES TASKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000300060002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
SUBJECT: NSSO-2/82 Countermeasure Organizational Study -
Interagency Group/Countermeasures Tasking
1. The DCI, as Chairman, NSC/SIG-I, has directed that the IG/CM
conduct a study to determine what organizational and structural impediments
prevent the (?J.S. Government) from countering the non-HUMINT intelligence
threat to the United States. Tfje study is an outgrowth of NSSD/2, of February 1982;
the results will be reviewed by the SIG-I, and then forwarded to the NSC and
the President. of the IC Staff's Community Counterintelligence
Staff, has been appointed Study Director. He, in turn, is asking that you
identify a principal representative by 18 January 1983, who would act as the
Agency's focal point for the Study.
2. The Chairnan, IG/CM, has forwarded to us Terms of Reference and
an outline and sub-outline for the Study. The suggested study a piiroach is
interdisciplinary, but has a heavy concentration on security-related items.
It covers warning mechanisms against hostile technical collectors, technical
collection countermeasures of all types ranging from COMSEC through camoulage
and concealment to TEMPEST, OPSEC and TSCM; then ranges on through personnel,
information, physical and industrial security, provides U,? a summary of
existing countermeasures structures in the Government, and concludes with
possibilities for improvement,
3. T1`,5 propo:,ec study is wide-ranging in content, but concentrates
to a considerable extent on technical disciplines. It is suggested, therefore,
that a senior representative of the PTAS Directorate be identified as the
Agency's principal representative/focal point.
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4. There will be an initial meeting of the overall Study Group scheduled
for sometime later in January 1983. It would appear that considerable staffing
and involvement of Office of Security personnel resources might be required
to complete the Study. The Study could result in a major listing of vulner-
abilities of the Intelligence Community, and would be an exceptionally
sensitive document. It could also require a ;ocd deal of "dirty linen"
analysis and review. More will be known in that regard when the Study
Group members report on the results of their first meeting. Our representative
at that meeting should be in a position to commit the Office of Security
to specific courses of action. Hence, senior level participation is
recommended at that first gathering.
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