USE OF CONTRACT EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00623R000100080024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: August 3, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
SECCM-D-267
3 August 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Walter Elder
Executive Secretary, NFIB
FROM:
Chairman
SUBJECT: Use of Contract Employees
REFERENCE: Your Memo IC/82/5542, Dated 29 July 1982
1. This responds to reference, regarding service by contract employees
on DCI committees. Comments are limited to employees of Sandia, Los Alamos
and Lawrence Livermore Labs, Since these employees work for organizations
owned by the US (overnment and only on US Government matters, there appears
to be no potential conflict of interest between their employers' economic
well-being and their security obligations to protect classified information.
This was recognized in DCID 1/7, which notes Community agreement not to treat
government-owned, contractor-operated facilities, such as these labs, as
contractors for purposes of prohibiting/limiting/controlling dissemination of
SCI material to industry. These laboratories appear to have a respectable
record of maintaining the security of classified information handled by them.
2. From the standpoint of committee administration, it does not seem
that employees of these laboratories would be measurably less (or more)
objective than government personnel in weighing issues, providing advice, and
recommending solutions to problems. They would probably approach issues with
no more bureaucratic bias than representatives of government agencies. They
are subject to the same personnel security standards as government employees,
particularly with reference to SCI. There would seem to be no more reason for
concern about these employees than for individuals who move from industry to
government and back again.
3. The foregoing would not apply to commercial firms whose prosperity
depends on selling products or services. Nor would they apply to "think tanks"
which may have vested interests in pushing their own policy options.
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4. I do not see this issue as likely to affect the Security Committee.
Employees of these labs are involved in technical disciplines which do not.
fall within SECOM's charter.
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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
WASHINGTON, DC 20505
IC/82/5542
29 July 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Committee Chairmen
FROM: Walter Elder
Executive Secretary
SUBJECT: Use of Contract Employees
REFERENCE: Memorandum from EA/DDCI to D/ICS, 23 July 1982
1. Please provide your comments to me by close of business,
3 August 1982 so that the D/ICS may make his recommendation to the DDCI
by 6 August 1982.
2. If the criteria do not apply to your committee, please say so
in writing.
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23 July 1982
NOTE FOR: Director, Intelligence Community Staff
FROM : EA/DDCI
SUBJECT : Use of Certain Contract Employees on DCI Committees
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1. The DDCI is uneasy about the attached request for having
contract employees of Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs
serve on DCI Committees. He wonders if such service would not hamper
their objectivity when we seek their "independent" judgments"as con-
tractors. Other concerns include influencing the competition between
the private sector and these labs for government contracts and maintaining
sufficient control over these contract employees' use of sensitive
information.
2. Would you please recommend a policy on this issue, noting
pros and cons, for the DDCI, by the end of next week.
Attachment:
ER 82-3594
CONFIDENTIAL
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