SECURITY POLICY MATTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000100050011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 13, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

Approved For ReIse 2005/08/22: CIA-RDP82M00591 R QOWO8ROo'b1e,. 1978
FROM: I I DCI Security Committee
SUBJECT: Security Policy Matters
1. At the conclusion of discussions this date on inputs
to the DCI annual report, 0/SA/DCI/PA STAT
asked for my views on whether sources and methods should
be dealt with separately from classification for purposes of
secrecy agreements and release of information. I told him
I did. not think it wise to separate the two. I said that I
thought that it would be very risky to contest withholding
of, or controls over, information claimed to pertain to
sources and methods if we were not prepared to assert that
disclosure of that information would do identifiable damage
to the national security and hence that the information
required classification. I said I believed such an assertion
could result in the courts throwing out sources and methods
as a supplemental, statutorily based exemption under the
Freedom of Information Act.
2. said he thought that was a reasonable
interpretation. e said that he was working with Mr.
f UGC on the development of the proposed new
secrecy a rbement and that this issue had come up in that
context. said he was also working with the
Publications Review Board (PRB) regarding the application of
the secrecy agreement to proposed writings. He said he
planned to discuss this issue with Mr. Gambino (also a
member of the PRB) in the near future. further STAT
advised that he hoped it would be possible to so word new
agreements or regulations so that proposed writings on subjects
that were innocuous from a security point of view (e.g. on
literary, arts and crafts, or house and garden type subjects)
would not have to come before the PRB.
STAT
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