PORTION MARKING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY CIA CONTRACTORS (REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP94B01041R000300080001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 6, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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ME ORANDLPH FOR: Chief, Information Services Staff
ATTENTION: CIA Security Classification Officer
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Acting Director of Security
SUBJECT: Portion Marking of Classified Information
s (Request for a Change
?hange
1. During the Industrial Security Conference in
September 1979, a security officer from a. large industrial
contractor asked the Director of Central Intelligence why
the CIA required portion markings at the end of a paragraph
instead of at the beginning, as most other Government agencies
do. The DCI advised that he would have the Director of
Security look into the matter and respond. (U)
2. After exploring this matter, it has been determined
that the Information Security Oversight Office Directive
Number 1, which provides implementing instructions for
Executive Order 12065, offers an option in portion marking;
either precedin or following the portion being marked. The
Department of Defense and most other Government agencies
chose to portion mark preceding the classified portion of a
document, while the CIA directed that portion
marking is to be accomplished following that portion of the
text to which it applies. (C)
3. The Office of Security sees a two-fold problem
regarding portion marking by CIA industrial contractors, one
involving cover and the other involving a major inconvenience
for the contractor. Because CIA is one of the few Government
agencies in the Intelligence Community which portion mark
following the text, there is a proclivity to label classified
documents thus marked as CIA. This creates an obvious cover
problems in classified documents going to and From covert CIA
industrial contractors. The current procedure also puts
a burden on the contractor's clerical staff, who have to
remember to mark the CIA's documents differently from
those of other Government a~,encies. (C)
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4. To remedy the situation, it is proposed that the
following sentence be added to Chapter 4, paragraph 12d(l),
line 6, page 17 immediately following the
sentence which en s ... to which it applies.":
"Industrial contractors involved in Agency-related
contractual activities may place the appropriate
symbol immediately preceding the portion of
text to which it applies." (U)
5. The addition of the above sentence will give the
Office of Security the authority to direct CIA industrial
contractors, as appropriate, to portion mark preceding the
portion of the text involved and, at the same time, leave
the portion marking procedures for internal Agency documents
undisturbed. In the interest of expediency, in order to
allow a timely response to the industrial contractors as
promised, it is requested that the above change be accomplished 25X1A
in "pen and ink" fashion and formall corrected during the
next scheduled revision (C) 25X1A
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