NEW SECRETS SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000200010019-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 6, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/03122 :CIA-RDP99-004988000
0`i PAGiJ~,.
THE 4lASHI~lGTO~I POST
6 December 1980
New? Secrets System,~= Not only
will CLA. Director Stansfield Tuner
be dumped when President-elect
Ronald Reagan takes the helm, but so
will the chief spooks' brand-new clas_ -:
sificatiori systeia. _
Some months ago, Turner-called iris
'a management consulting team to es-;
amina.the~agency's classification sys-
tem and , to ~ devise one that .would
more severely limit the distribution of
sensitive information. :~ ' ~*- -
The consultants came yip with ~vhat~
they called the'~`rlpes System,'.i which;
was really just a new twist on some!
thing called the `.`withhold system:'1
.The lacier was instituted by former
Secretary of State Henry A...Kissinger
as a way of keeping secrets from con=
gre~men, policy planners and some=
times the president himself. ~.~:;~;=,''...,,-
~- But Rsagan's. intelligence advisers
don't- like :Apes: They .say :the new .
president will favor the old pouch sys=~_
tem. In~ short, secret pagers witl ba
carried. by couriers, some oEwhom will .
standguard over the documents while.
they are bei.-~~ read .and then ta,e_
`them back .-