SECURITY CHECK LISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88T00988R000100150002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MEMO

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(a) ask a late-staying colleague to lock up such materials for you
or
(b) leave them in the Watch Office.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: All NIC Personnel
FROM : Harold P. Ford
Acting Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : Security Check Lists
Some recent security problems (and near-misses) in the NIC's unvaulted
illustrate the fact that earlier security practices
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in that area need to be reintroduced. No system is perfect, but procedures
such as the following have proved the most effective and equitable. As of
today, they are to be maintained in force.
1. Each individual) Ishall daily and regularly sign the
opening/closing sheet on his/her safe.
2. AS Shown in the attachments, each individual NIO office
(NIO/AF, NIO/EUR, etc.) is to maintain a security check sheet
A/NIOs, and secretary for each given NIO fiefdom being responsible
for their immediate office or space.
omits office(s) which is to be used and marked daily, the NIOs,
3. Also as shown in the attachments, all) are to be double-
checked. There will be two rosters of such checkers, one F--]
0 (NIOs EA, NARC, EUR, and USSR), the other 0(PO/NIC,
NIC/ECON, NIO/AF, NIO/NESA, NARC secretary, NIO/LA, VC/NIC, and
C/NIC). All officers (NIOs, A/NIOs) and secretaries will pull this
occasional but necessary duty, the only exceptions being VC/NIC and
C/NIC. As indicated on the attached sample check sheet, if these
checkers find officers staying late, the latter will be obliged to
initial that fact on the check sheet forms -- and their according
responsibility for their NIO area. At the end of each week, the double-
checkers will give his/her completed checklist to the NIC Admin Office.
4. For all NIC officers, please exercise care not to leave out any
mater als (in your own area or someone else's) which you think
should be considered unclassified even though they are marked
classified. Bend over backwards to be conservative in such
practice. And, to escape being nailed for a violation (by some 0/S
official who might interpret the materials otherwise), you can always
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5. For those NIC officers in vaulted areas, remember that you'll be
hung by the thumbs if, as last person out at night, you forget to
lock up the store.
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Harold P. Ford
Distribution: All NIC Personnel
Attachments:
As stated
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