PENTAGON: NO WAY TO END SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100070004-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 18, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
18 June 1985
Pentagon:
No way to
He noted that since the Walker
case broke a month ago, Defense
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has
ordered security procedures re-
viewedand directed that the number
of people with access to secret mate-
rial be reduced.
Although cutting down on the
numbers of clearances and docu?
ments will help, Snider said, a major
problem is that many of the recent
espionage cases involve U.S. citizens
who approached the Soviets, rather
than being recruited.
He said the Pentagon, with con?
gressional approval, is now testing a
program using lie detectors to check
people with classified access. A num-
ber of congressmen have called for
increased use of polygraphs as part
of the clearance program.
Snider said recent technological
improvemen s to . m a n
rams are attractive targets or t e
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end spying
By Tim Ahern
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon
warned Congress yesterday that "the
ultimate reality" is that there is no
way to halt spying, even though the
Defense Department is trying to cut
down on the amount of classified
material and the number of people
who can see it.
In the wake of the current Nav
s case, t e enta on is scruuniz?
in its securt rote ures, sat
Britt ni er. ector o t e e ease
De artment's counterintelligence o -
But even than es and "a rest ex?
pension o resources at every level of
the U.S. counterintelligence and se-
curttystructure" won't stop the prob?
lem, he told the House Government
Operations information and iu ticp
subcommittee.
"We must face the ultimate reality
that no matter what we do there will
be other espionage cases in the years
to come," Snider warned, "perhaps
not as many, perhaps not as serious,
hopefully not as drawn out as those
which have recently come to light,
but there will be other cases."
As the panel opened its hearing,
Arthur J. Walker, older brother of
the alleged mastermind of the al?
leged spy ring, John A. Walker Jr.,
was indicted in Norfolk, Va., on
seven counts of espionage.
:11so charged are John Walker; his
son, Michael, a Navy seaman, and a
friend, Jerry A. Whitworth of Davis,
Calif., a retired Navy radioman.
The panel's hearing was part of a
congressional effort in the wake of
the Walker case to review security
procedures.
Snider outlined the overall prob?
lem by saying that 4.3 million people
have security clearances of one type
or another, including 2.9 million
who work directly for the govern-
ment and 1.4 million who work for
14,000 military contracting firms.
An estimated 16 million documents
are created or handled every year,
Snider said.
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