STATE DEPARTMENT TIGHTENS SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504160040-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: June 26, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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26 June 1985
State Department
Tightens Secunhy
Shootings, Terrorism Spark Concerns
By Laurel E. Miller
and Sandra Evans
w+.r:wo" Pat sun writer,
The State Department will insti-
tute new security measures today
at its headquarters here, including
requiring all employes to pass
through metal detectors, and Sen-
ate leaders are discussing whether
to tighten security at the U.S. Cap-
itol.
New concerns have arisen about
security as a result of shootings at
the State Department last Friday as
well as increasing international ter-
rorism.
State Department spokeswoman
Donna Gigliotti said that, starting
today, all persons will be required
to wear identification tags or build-
ing passes at all times inside the
building at 22nd and C streets NW.
Further changes, particularly re-
garding the building's basement
garage entrance, are "still being
talked about," according to Gi-
gliotti.
Senate Majority Leader Robert J.
Dole (R-Kan.) yesterday received a
short report from the Senate Ser-
geant at Arms on the status of se-
curity at the Capitol, and he plans to
discuss with Senate Minority Lead-
er Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.)
whether more security measures
are needed, a spokeswoman said.
Security at the Capitol was tight-
ened significantly after a bomb ex-
ploded in November 1983 outside
the Senate chambers. Staff mem-
bers, reporters and lobbyists were
required to wear identification
cards, and traffic was restricted on
the Capitol plaza.
On Friday, 20-year-old Edward
Steven Doster entered the State
Department and fatally shot and
stabbed his mother, Carole Doster,
44, before killing himself in a sev-
enth-floor office that was down a
hall from where Secretary of State
George P. Shultz was working.
Within hours of the shooting, offi-
cials began requiring all persons
without permanent State Depart-
ment or U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development identification to
pass through metal detectors, ac-
cording to department spokeswom-
an Sondra McCarty. Police sources
said Doster used his permanent de-
pendent's pass to enter the building
without going through a metal de-
ctor or being searched.
McCarty said, "There have been
some complaints on the part of the
press" about the new procedures,
which require that reporters and
camera crews pass through metal
detectors. "Generally, however, I
think everyone has been pretty un-
derstanding."
"It's a nuisance, but it's probably
a good idea," said one worker in the
department's Bureau of Near East-
ern Affairs. Tyanna Pendleton, who
works in the Office of Monetary
Affairs, agreed that the new mea-
sures are in order "because it
frightened me what happened." An-
other woman, who asked not be
identified, said, "I'm only sorry it
didn't happen sooner so as to pre-
vent what happened Friday,,"
Security measures at federal of-
fice buildings in the Wasiington
area vary, according to Ted Leinin-
ger, a General Services Adminis-
tration official with responsibility
for regional buildings operations.
The Federal Protective Service,
which guards the buildings of most
federal agencies, is part of the GSA.
"It varies pretty widely from a
building like State that is closed,
requires passes, and has metal de-
tectors, to the General Services
building that has a guard at the
front entrance, . but there are two
other entrances that are totally un-
guarded," said Leininger.
"We try to keep the government
as accessible as possible and the
buildings as open as possible," Lei-
ninger added.
"It's an exception when we have
a pass system," said Leininger, who
noted that most buildings do not
have metal detectors.
Leininger said he doubted that
there would be a review of security
policies at agencies other than the
State Department as a result of Fri-
day's shootings.
Federal employes are somewhat
concerned about the protection of
their offices, according to Loretta
Ucelli, a spokeswoman for the
American Federation of Govern-
ment Employees, the largest union
representing such workers.
"A lot of people, because of re-
cent incidents, feel that there
should be more attention on safety
issues, protective issues," said
Ucelli.
"The administration has paid a lot
of attention to securing the White
House, but I think that that need to
protect should go across the board,"
Ucelli added.
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