INFORMATION FOR DCI BRIEFING BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00623R000300050048-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 4, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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February 4, 1981
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Secueity Committee
1~fEA10RA~DU'~9 FOR: Chief, Policy and Plans Group
Executive Secretary
STAT
SUBJECT: Information for DCI Briefing Book
Attached in general format is input about the Community
Security Group. Information about SSC/CIB is coming from
STAT
STAT
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Assigned to the Director of Security and attached to
the Office of Security is a small group of six professionals
and t~vo clericals which serves as the staff of the DCI Security
Committee. There is an FBI Agent and an Air Force Colonel
assigned along with CIA Officers to support the Security
Committee.
The SECO}t is composed of senior security representatives
of the departments and agencies of the NFIB. The principle goal
is to assist the DCI in carrying out his charge in I?xecutive
Order 12036 to ensure common security standards and practices
in the Intelligence Community. The SECOb1 has substantive
experts on various subcommittees and working groups addressing
computer security, technical surveillance countermeasures,
compartmentation, physical security, and personnel security.
Among the current activities are efforts to enhance the
security of our new Embassy Complex being built in I~}oscow, an
attempt to establish physical security standards for protection
of compartmented intelligence, on a worldwide basis, the crea-
tion of a course for the Community's people ivho review and
adjudicate background investigations of applicants for Intel- STAT
ligence work, participation in the recent effort to improve
procedures for protection of SCI (tlie APEX effort), updating
guidance and DCI policy proclamations on computer security,
updating the Community's agreements on mar}:ing and handling
of intelligence publications and upgrading the CIA's service
of common concern in trainin technical enetration counter-
measures officers.
Further, the SECOAI is engaged in establishing
security education programs, films, and instructional aids to
all members of the Community. The SECO:~I also maintains and
employs representatives from all departments to investigate
unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence. Probably
most importantly, the Security Committee serves as a forum of
professional officers for the rapid and meaningful exchange
of information, technic}ues, threats, and procedures that may
impinge on the ability of the Community to deliver intelligence
to policy makers in a secure fashion.
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Tl~e Intelligence Community's endorsement of the missions
and functions of the Security Committee and its staff is
evident in the fact that there were nominations from four
departments for a recent opening on the staff.
The Security Committee offers the DCI a focal point in
the Intelligence Community for receipt and discharge of his
instructions, policies and procedures, and as a channel
through tiahich the DCI may be informed of significant prob-
lems tiaith security in any part of the Intelligence Community.
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