CIA 'SPOOK' TALK LIVENS UP THE TRIAL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: August 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Wdnrsdoy August 28, 1986 Honolulu StarBulhtin A.3
CIA 'Spook' Talk
Livens Up the Trial
By Charles Memminger was misidentified in the media
Star-Bulletin Writer as a station. -HF Trial watchers often .have to the waO: Honoolulur Field Office
the CIA e
figure out the meaning of legal DCD office
in Hawaii in "secret term w th iwhat is happening in keep u documents recently declassified.
With several CIA-related wit- -Intelligence: Economic, politi-
nesses taking the stand in the cal and sociological information
Ronald Rewald trial, court collected by the CIA.
watchers also have had to learn -FI: Foreign intelligence.
the meaning of a number of CIA What some travelers to foreign
terms and acronyms. countries provide to the CIA. Ac.
For those uninitiated to CIA cording to CIA cables, Rewald
jargon, here are some of the was being considered a potential
terms and abbreviations - and source of "F1" because he plan-
their meanings - that have ned to travel extensively in the
emerged in the past two weeks Far East.
at Rewald's fraud trial: -FPI: Foreign Positive intelli
-Light-cover facility, notional gence. "Old-fashioned" version.
cover or commercial cover. Make- of Fl, according to Welch.
believe companies that exist on -Backstopping. Providing light
a piece of paper used to provide cover for covert agents.
cover for CIA agents overseas. -Cleared contact: A person as-
Rewald ran a tight-cover facility sociated with the agency who
for agents in the Far East. First has been cleared to receive cer.
it was named H&H Enterprises tain classified information.
and then Canadian Far East -Exit interview: A CIA offi-
Trade Corp. cer's last meeting before retire-
-Safehouse: A location that ment, where his or her security.
can't be traced to an agency clearance is revoked.
and, in some cases, to a country, -Exit oath: A retiring CIA offi-
which agents use.. Eugene cer's promise never to discuss'
Welch, former CIA office chief classified material.
here, had once helped to estab- -Nuts: The large marjorit of
lish safehouses in a foreign people who call DCD offices
country, he testified. after finding the CIA listed in
-DCD: Domestic. Collection the phone book. Welch said one
Division, formerly called the of his secretary's duties was to
Domestic Contact Division. An "screen the nuts" who called in.
overt office with published -"Need to know": Also known
phone number available to citi- as "compartmentalization," a se-
zens who want to share intelli- curity method within the CIA
gence about their foreign which keeps employees from
travels. Rewald first made con- learning anything more than
tact with the CIA in Hawaii they need to accomplish whatev-
through its DCD office. er task they are assigned to.
-Walk-in: Someone, Rewald, who instigates contact as -Security knows, the oclassifica-
with a CIA DCD and offers as- tions are restricted, confidential,
sistance - opposed to the other secret and top secret. He testified
way around. he does not know how many
-Station: An overseas CIA of- levels above top secret the classi- -
fice. After the Rewald story fications reach because he did
broke, the DCD office here often not "need to know." -
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