DATA SECURITY CHIEF CITES SIX LEAKS IN THREE YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100030109-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: April 29, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON PCST
29 APRIL 1983
Aiost From Military.~gencies
Data Security Chief Cites
=Six Leal~s in Three Yeas
`ported 'to tie -.agency -in~-?charge~ ?of
that have taken place -since ?he be-
came IS00 director in May; 1980,
during the .Carter .administration.
But hesaid later that the last one he
was told about took place "probably
in the middle of .1982?' _
? "Most of-them came from.military
8genci~s;" `he .said.' "Some*eniied pup
-, Despite Pl~sidept~eagari's claims
that *here l~av~e been too many un-
.a~tthorized'~leaks of classified infor-
mation in~his ~$daiinistration, only
about "half. ~ dozen". ;~l~ave. been _ re-:
By ~(3eorge~,ar3ner Jr.
.. waaemswnPo.-.smrrwnia
years, `x.--': ; : + ~dn t ::: - . ~ ~_
~* ..T r~ ..:~ CGn
That estimate `was - supphed by ~~ S' tract, Reagan told .newspa-
Steven Garfinkel, the ~'u?ector ~f the ~ , ~ -publishers in New York ~ ~tl-is
? :government's Information Security week xhat leaks of national .~aec:rets _
Oveesight Office {IS00); under have endangered foreign relations.
such matters during.. the?past three Ding reported in the press. Some
a sai
as
even top White House
polygraph, or lie-detector, examine- P
..study of ?~leaks was undertaken #?o -' aides will?be.required to abide by the
' bons if asked during an investigation., ~.ahow theaieed for Reagan's directive.'--'new directive.: In--sd8ition to poly-
.to #:tackJdown a leak. That order ap- : Willard indicated that the .interagen- , grapht~ests~in-leak investigations, the
-plies ,to hundreds jot' "thousands of., , -"cY "panel he .headed started gout ~ on order ..provides 'for prepublication
~-~federal workers; Edwards`said.: ~ ~ the assumption that it was along- - censorship of the writings of those
Garfukel said he doubted that-his standing problem that needed to be with access to especially sensitive in-
-. .. ~ Study that served as the bas,s.for~~s - "REP ~N IDR'ARDS
' ~o House subcoiamittees. -~ ~ `~ ~ _ .-. ~suiprised at a~m~-ber. of diac3osures
-_ ..:All "owing and ~villfuP.leaks~-of - ~''ti ieaks~?.directave =aount~ended that _ - _ ... _ -..; - . : _ ,
classified information are supposed unauthorized disclosure, of ?dassrfied "Wehave never suggested that?it's
- to be teport~ed to Garfinkel's office, " information lias become "increasing- a problem ~ that has increased greatly
which is ices nsible for ~overseein ly common and was now .;a routine in severity.in recent years," Willard
the security o all executive branch dai)y occurrence in -the United testified. "dt's always been a pmb-
. agenaes that originate or handle Statks'" lain"
classified material It is not a new phenomenon, but House civil service subcommittee
.its severity has increased :greatly Chairman :Patricia~ -Schi+oeder; (D-
ReP?~'~,Don ' ldwait3s:;`4D-Ca1if.), ~ aver the past decade," --'the report ?Colo.~ said she- feared t_ he ?directive
.chairman -of the House subcommit- mid ~ - -- would result in selective enforcement
;. tee on civil rights, expressed surprise The official in charge .of the re- against administration .critics .while
at the figure in light of Reagan's di- port, Deputy Assistant Attorney . "friendly". leakers ?would ,go unpun-
T+ective last month requiring all gov- ._ -General Richard K. Willard, was the fished and uncensored." -
ensment employes with access to first witness at yesterday's hearing. Willard said that was not the goal.
:classified information to submit to He .acknowledged that nos 'al H h
~
d
questioning yesterday~at"~~ession of Srmilarly, an . interdepartmental
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