IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION DIRECTIVE 298 RE OPERATIONS SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00551R001000520057-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: August 12, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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ICS 0910-88/1
12 August 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Director, Intelligence Community Staff
FROM:
Brigadier General Richard S. Beyea, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
Director, Community Counterintelligence and Security
Countermeasures Office/Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: Implementation of National Security Decision Directive 298
re Operations Security (OPSEC)
1. This memorandum requests your signature on correspondence conveying
guidance to facilitate the implementation of National Security Decision
Directive (NSDD) 298, "National Operations Security Program."
2. The NSDD, approved by the President on 22 January 1988, assigns to the
Chairman, Senior Interagency Group-Intelligence (SIG-I) certain Operations
Security (OPSEC) responsibilities. Relevant among these are tasks to
formulate OPSEC policy, resolve interagency OPSEC differences, and provide
OPSEC advice to executive departments and agencies. The National OPSEC
Advisory Committee (NOAC), as a part of the SIG-I structure functioning under
the aegis of the Interagency Group for Countermeasures (Policy) (IG/CM[P]), is
your principal tool for accomplishing these tasks. A copy of the NSDD is
attached for your reference.
3. As an implied mission, the NOAC has begun to address how it might
monitor and facilitate, on behalf of the SIG-I, the implementation of
NSDD 298. It concluded that certain basic steps were required. Among these
were designation of specific points of contact (POCs) within agencies and
departments who were addressees of the NSDD; standardized education of these
POCs as to the objectives, principals, and techniques of the OPSEC process;
and the provision of assistance, as required, to those who should develop
formalized OPSEC programs. The correspondence you are requested to sign
begins this basic step process.
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SUBJECT: Implementation of National Security Decision Directive 298
re Operations Security (OPSEC)
4. The Chairman of the IG/CM(P), with the unanimous consensus of the IG
membership, strongly holds that your signature on the OPSEC implementation
memorandum to addressees of the NSDD is a most effective way to continue, in a
coordinated manner, the development of this important program. As Director of
the Community Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures Office, I also
concur. Initiation of these steps, with your backing, will provide improved
definition of who monitors implementation of the NSDD and by what means. Your
signature on the attached memorandum is therefore requested.
Attachment:
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Richard S. Bey'ea, Jr.
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SUBJECT: Implementation of National Security Decision Directive 298
re Operations Security (OPSEC)
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-SENIOR INTERAGENCY GROUP (INTELLIGENCE)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
ICS 0910-88
23 August 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Distribution
SUBJECT: Implementation of National Security Decision Directive 298,
"National Operations Security Program"
I. On 22 January 1988 the President approved National Security Decision
Directive (NSDD) 298 entitled "National Operations Security Program." This
NSDD, in part, requires each executive department and agency, assigned or
supporting national security missions, to establish a formal operations
security (OPSEC) program. Additionally, the NSDD more formally validated the
general tasks already assigned to the National Operations Security Advisory
Committee (NOAC). This committee has been established as an element of the
Senior Interagency Group for Intelligence (SIG-I) system and is, as a result,
also a part of the National Security Council structure. An inherent task of
the NOAC is to assist the SIG-I in fulfilling its OPSEC responsibilities. I
have, therefore, asked the NOAC to both facilitate and monitor the
implementation of NSDD 298.
2. To assist the NOAC in this regard, each addressee is requested to
designate an OPSEC point of contact (POC), who is familiar with the operations
of respective organizations. The POC will be asked to interact with other
department or agency representatives during the implementation process and to
help coordinate OPSEC support to real-world interagency operations and
activities. At a minimum, the POC should be cleared for access to SECRET
information.
3. The NOAC, in coordination with_the Interagency OPSEC Support Staff;
also established via the NSDD, will sponsor a one-day seminar in the early
fall to discuss the full scope of OPSEC. Your POC will be invited to attend.
4. To expedite matters, the name, address, and telephone number of your
POC should be telephoned to the Executive Secretary of the NOAC at (202)
351-2183 by 31 August 1988. Your cooperation in this effort will greatly
assist in the coordinated and effective development of this very important
national program.
William H. Webster
Chairman
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SUBJECT: Implementation of National Security Decision Directive 298,
"National Operations Security Program"
Distribution:
1 - The Vice President
1 - The Secretary of State
1 - The Secretary of the Treasury
1 - The Secretary of Defense
1 - The Attorney General
1 - The Secretary of Interior
1 - The Secretary of Agriculture
1 - The Secretary of Commerce
1 - The Secretary of Labor
1 - The Secretary of Transportation
1 - The Secretary of Energy
1 - The Director, Office of Management and Budget
I United States Representative to the United Nations
1 United States Trade Representative
1 Chief of Staff to the President
1 Assistant to the President for Policy Development
1 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
1 Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
1 Administrator, Agency for International Development
1 Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
1 Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
1 Administrator, General Services Administration
1 Director, United States Information Agency
1 Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1 Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1 Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency
1 Director, National Science Foundation
1 Director, National Security Agency
1 Director, Office of Personnel Management
1 Chairman, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
1 Chairman, President's Intelligence Oversight Board
1 Director, Information Security Oversight Office
1 Director, White House Military Office
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"National Operations Security Program"
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(12 August 1988)
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