SECOM'S CURRENT POSTURE AND FUTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00623R000300050010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 16, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
SECOM-D-021
16 January 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Intelligence Community Staff
VIA: Deputy Director, Intelligence Community Staff
FROM:
SUBJECT: SECOM's Current Posture and Future
In response to your oral tasking at the 7 January 1985 staff meeting,
SECOM's current posture and directions for the future are outlined below.
The Present
SECOM coordinates Community policy in every security discipline except
communications security (NSA jurisdiction). As a committee, SECOM
brings together the directors of security and senior security policy
officers of the Community for mutual exchanges of knowledge and 25X1
experience and to formulate security policy advice for the DCI.
SECOM subelements deal with a broad range of security disciplines -
computer, compartmented material handling, personnel, physical, R&D,
security education, technical surveillance countermeasures, leak
investigations, armor & protective systems.
- Under SECOM auspices the Communit receives technical services of
common concern -
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- One-week SECOM seminars promote better and more uniform Community
applications of personnel and physical security procedures and of
security education.
- SECOM continues to seek ways to combat the leak problem. The
Unauthorized Disclosures Analysis Center supervised by a senior FBI
agent and a leak reporting system are being developed in the
Community.
- SECOM publishes studies and reports on topics such as a protective
briefing on terrorism and espionage, the utility of the polygraph,
reports on harassments and provocations against Americans overseas,
the nature and sensitivity of SCI, and a comprehensive, five-year
study of unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence.
The Future
- SECOM needs to continue efforts to combat unauthorized disclosures.
- SECOM will continue to support the DCI with security briefing
materials to sensitize senior officials of the Executive Branch and
Congressional oversight members and staffers.
- SECOM needs to continue efforts to enhance technical security
programs, particularly technical surveillance countermeasures and
computer security.
- SECOM will support R&D programs on new initiatives in personnel,
physical and technical security. 25X1
Prepared by: SECOM~
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee
1 - DD/ICS
1 - Registry
1 - SECOM Chrono
I - SECOM Subject
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