PROJECT SLAMMER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00390R000400410011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 21, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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Director of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Officer
Office of Security
2 4 MAR 1988
ICS 0799-88
21 March 1988
Acting Director, Community Counterintelligence and Security
Countermeasures Office, Intelligence Community Staff
Project Slammer
1. Director of Project Slammer, visited the CCISCMO
offices recently and left with us the three memoranda attached. For purposes
of clarity in addressing them we have identified them as Tabs A, B, and C.
discussed each of these with us, giving us background and explanatory
information to sussort his rationale in each memo. Without any attempt to
recapture inimitable style of expression and persuasion, we offer our
brief comment and general concurrence for each of the memoranda.
2. Relative to Tab A, and his project team members have a concern
that a proliferation of interviews with the subjects they have targeted, and
especially non-professional interviews, could have a detrimental effect on the
efficacy of their project interviews. There is evidence that news media,
independent researchers, and others with objectives less professional than
those of Project Slammer have shown interest in interviewing the persons of
interest to Slammer studies. realizes that the subjects, even as
Federal prisoners, have certain rights, to include speaking to persons of
their choosing. What he'd like to do is exercise a subtle control over
interviews. At the least, it is recommended that the Department of Justice
and/or the Bureau of Prisons act as a focal point to control interviews with
the convicted sales. It remains to be seen just what control can legally be
exercised, recommends raising this with the DoJ representative to the
Personnel Securi y Committee for exploration. CCISCMO concurs in this.
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4. Tab C represents appeal to you as Chairman of the Personnel
Security Committee and sponsoring element of Project Slammer to attempt to
impress upon the respective agencies the need to permit their representatives
on the Slammer team to devote the time necessary to accomplish objectives. It
is understood that each of the team members have full-time assignments apart
from their adjunct participation in Slammer. There is not a competition for
participants' time, but it is occasionally necessary for team members to
devote a short period of time to concentrated Slammer activities, was
not really complaining, but he apparently feels the need to ask for
cooperation. The list of Slammer team members is attached to his memorandum.
CCISCMO concurs in the request expressed.
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has asked for an appointment to meet with you anc
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briefing on Slammer. is currently on a two-week TDY and will return to 25X1
duty in Washington on arch. He said he would make himself available at
your convenience thereafter. natural loquaciousness is fanned by his 25X1
enthusiasm for Project Slammer, and it is recommended that you may find it
desirable to establish a specified time frame for him to brief you. 25X1
also extends once again an invitation to yourself and to visit with 25X1
the Slammer team when they convene a ain here in Ames Building on 11 May.
CCISCMO recommends that you grant an appointment for the cited 25X1
briefing. Your agreement can be conveyed to this office and we will relay to
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SUBJECT: Project Slammer
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