GUIDES FOR PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS FURNISHED THE SELECT COMMITTEE

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GUIDES FOR PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
AND DOCUMENTS FURNISHED THE SELECT CnMMTTTFF:.q
1. Personnel Security Clearances
(a) Background Investigation
It would be desirable for the Select Committees to stipulate
that no staff personnel is to be given access to any classified material,
testimony or information received or generated by the committees
without prior receipt of a security clearance based on a full field
investigation.
(b) Secrecy Agreement
It would be desirable for the Select Committees to require a
signed secrecy agreement of employees or individuals assigned to
the committees' staffs. The agreement should include provisions:
1) That acceptance of committee secrecy regulations
is a condition precedent of employment or assignment;
2) Recognizing US Government property rights to
classified information;
3) Requiring prior written consent before divulgence
of classified information;
4) For recognition that breach of the secrecy rules
and obligations contained in the agreement could subject
the signer to administrative and/or legal action under
appropriate statutes;
5) That there is no time limit on the terms of the
agreement.
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2. Physical and Document Security
The Select Committees should adopt rules to insure that the
secrecy of any sensitive information received or generated by it be
preserved. These rules should be made known to the individuals
and agencies who will be called upon to present testimony or
materials. Among these should be rules on physical security and
document security.
(a) Physical Security
It would be desirable if the Select Committees adopt the following
rules related to physical security:
1) All classified material will be stored in safes for
safekeeping in the registry of the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy or similar facility and handled in accordance with
the regulations of this registry for classified material.
2) Twenty-four-hour guard protection, supplemented
by anti-intrusion alarms, should be required on the storage
area.
3) Areas selected for use in closed session should
be guarded against entry by unauthorized persons.
4) The committees should arrange for the conduct of
audio countermeasures to preclude the possibility of
unauthorized use of transmitters and/or recording devices.
It should be noted that a foreign clandestine transmitter was
located in the Rayburn House Office Building on 12 February
1973.
5) At the end of each session of the Select Committees,
the hearing room should be examined by a cleared staff
officer who will secure any misplaced classified material
or waste.
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6) Areas should be designated in which classified
material can be reviewed. These areas should be secure
against access by unauthorized personnel. Material should
not be removed from these areas for the sake of convenience
except when necessary for the work of the committees and
should not be transported overnight to the office or residence
of personnel of the committees.
(b) Document Securi
1) Committees should select and identify a single
location and specific personnel authorized to sign acknow-
ledgement of receipt of classified materials provided to
the committees.
2) A system of document control should be established
to permit control of classified documents to provide for
accountability.
3) Duplication of documents should be controlled so
as to require a record of the document reproduced, the
number of copies reproduced and the custodian or receiving
personnel. Reproduced classified documents should be
subject to the same controls as the original.
4) Appropriate arrangements should be made for
the destruction of classified waste.
5) Transcripts. The committees should give
consideration to the necessity of providing appropriate
security in the transcription of testimony by committee
transcribers. The committees may desire to charge each
agency presenting testimony with this responsibility. In
some, if not all cases, this might include escort of
materials to the place of transcription,, the securing of
carbons, waste and notes and the return of the transcribed
testimony to the committee for safekeeping in accordance
with committee rules.
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6) Early agreement should be reached on the
disposition of classified materials such as storage
under seal in the National Archives. The question of
access should be determined by the President of the
Senate or the Speaker of the House.
3. Compartmented Information
There is some extremely sensitive information in the intelligence
community which is disseminated only to those who have a very strict
"need to know" in order to build, perfect, operate or handle the
material produced by extremely sensitive foreign intelligence collection
programs. The sensitivity of these programs rests upon the vulner-
ability to countermeasures which a foreign government could easily
institute if details of the means of collection became known. Thus,
even individuals cleared for Top Secret information do not have access
to compartmented information unless they are required to have such
knowledge in the performance of their duties. This information is
handled in Compartmented Control Systems. It would be desirable
if the Chairmen would adopt the Compartmented Control Systems on
these extremely sensitive collection efforts and clear only those
staff personnel with an absolute "need to know" about such systems,
and that documents related to such systems be handled in a compart-
mented fashion by the Select Committee. The responsible departments
and agencies would be glad to advise and assist in any arrangements
the Chairmen would desire in this compartmented area.
4. Security Officer
It would be desirable if the committees appointed a security
officer with the responsibility of discharging the security rules adopted
by the committee and of serving as a point of contact with the depart-
ments and agencies of interest to the committee. It would also be
desirable if the committee rules required each agency of interest to
identify a single point of contact to facilitate provisions of security
support required by the committee.
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SECRECY AGREEMENT
I, , in accepting employment
or assignment with the Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, recognize the
special trust and confidence placed in me to protect classified infor-
mation from unauthorized disclosure.
I hereby agree to accept the specific obligations set forth
below as a condition precedent of my employment or assignment with
the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect
to Intelligence Activities, established by the Senate of the United
States, Resolution 21, agreed to on January 27, 1975, hereinafter
referred to as the Select Committee.
It is my understanding that in the course of my employment
or assignment with the Select Committee I will be given access to
information from departments and agencies of the Government which
is classified in accordance with the standards set forth in Executive
Order 11652 of March 8, 1972, as amended. All classified information
so acquired by me in the course of my employment remains the
property of the United States of America and I further agree to
surrender upon demand. by the Chairman of the Select Committee
or his designee(s) or upon my separation from the Select Committee,
any classified material which has come into my possession as a
result of my employment or assignment with the Select Committee.
I hereby agree that the burden is on me to determine if
information is classified and that I will never divulge, publish or
reveal by word, writing, conduct or otherwise any classified
information which has come to my knowledge as a result of my
employment or assignment with the Select Committee without prior
written consent of the Chairman or the President of the Senate or
their duly authorized representative.
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I hereby agree that any information learned during my
employment or assignment with the Select Committee which is related
to intelligence and prepared for publication by me will be submitted to
the Chairman or the President of the Senate or their duly authorized
representative prior to discussing with or showing to any publisher,
editor or literary agent for the purpose of determining whether said
material contains any classified information as defined in Executive
Order 11652. 1 agree that the Chairman of the Select Committee,
President of the Senate or their duly authorized representative has
the authority to make the final determination as to whether information
is classified and thus should be deleted from the material submitted.
I have been informed of the provisions of 18 U. S. C. 793, 794,
798 and 952; and 50 U. S. C. 783 (b); and 42 U. S. C. 2274; and Executive
Order 11652, all of which relate to the protection of classified infor-
mation, and understand their meaning.
Further, I agree to abide by such rules and procedures as the
Select Committee shall institute for the protection of classified material.
I understand that any breach of any part of the obligations in this agree-
ment could subject me to legal and/or administrative action.
I further agree that all the conditions and obligations imposed
on me with respect to the protection of classified information by this
agreement and applicable security regulations apply during my employ-
ment or assignment and continue after that relationship has terminated.
I take the obligations set forth above freely and without any
mental reservations or purpose of evasion.
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