CIA AND NSA TESTIMONY ON INDUSTRIAL SECURITY TO THE OVERSIGHT AND EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2014
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 20, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: CIA and NSA Testimony
Evaluation Subcommittee
on Industrial
of the House
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Security to the Oversight and
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1. The hearing took
place on 15 June
1988 in room 405 of the Capitol
building. Testimony was
given by Director
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Counterintelligence Center,
Mr. Henry P. Mahoney,
Deputy Director for
Administration, and , Director
of Civilian Security, National
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Security Agency. Members present were Mr.
Anthony C. Beilenson, Chairman,
Mr. Henry J. Hyde, Mr. Bud Shuster, Mr. Bob
McEwen, Mr. Bob Livin ston,
Mr. Bernard Dwyer. and
Ms. Barbara Kennelly.
Also present were
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, Director
Community Counterintelligence
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Countermeasures Office,
Deputy
Director of Physical and Technical
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Security, Office of Security
(OS) CIA, _ Chief OS/Clearance Group,
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Chief OS/Polygraph, 1 Special Assistant to
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the ADDO/CI, and Ray Mislock, Chief of the CI Staff, State, Bureau of
Diplomatic Security.
2. The subcommittee members were very concerned with classified
information leaks to unauthorized individuals, consequences of the Howard,
Pelton, and Walker cases, Agency cooperation with the FBI to prevent future
incidents such as these, leaks to the media by Agency personnel, and the use
and efficacy of polygraph testing. The following is a recollection of the
testimony, members questions and briefers replies.
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4. Chairman Beilenson asked the consequences of disapproving
contractor personnel for clearances. Mr. Mahoney said that the relationship
with the contracting firm is not affected, but the individuals not cleared are
simply not allowed to work on classified projects. Mr. Beilenson asked if the
clearance disapproval is passed on to other agencies and Chief of
the Office of Security's clearance group answered that the disapproval is not
passed on, but any other agency attempting to clear that individual through
the National Security Check would reveal that the individual had been
disapproved by the CIA and the reason for the disapproval.
5. Mr. Beilenson then turned to the growth of clearances and asked how
many had been eliminated, replied that they had been working the
problem for twenty months and had reduced the number of unnecessary clearances
by about 5,000. Mr. Beilenson said that was a pretty heavy reduction and
asked if, in general, the testifiers felt better about security now than they
did two or three years ago. Mr. Mahoney stated unequivocally yes. Turf
battles between Office of Security and Office of Medical Services have been
eliminated and a pyschologist is present during polygraphs. Mr. Mahoney felt
that applicant and staff screening had provided the biggest contribution to
enhancing Agency security.
6. At this point, Mr. Hyde asked how stringent the new security
procedures were. Mr. Mahoney said that new employees are re-polyed and
reinvestigated
Mr. Hyde then asked how much was lost when Howard passed information to the
Soviets. replied
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