SECURITY COMMITTEE AUTHORITIES RELATED TO UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01481981
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: March 21, 1975

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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD -
SECURITY COMMITTEE (b)(3)
SECOM-D-50
21 March 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Office of the Inspector General
SUBJECT
: Security Committee Authorities Related to
Unauthorized Disclosures
1. Mr. Roethe asked: "In connection with its assessment of
the damage resulting from the disclosures, could the USIB Security
"Committee have requested that surveillance of Anderson and Getler
be und.ertaken by an appropriate organization such as the FBI if it
determined that the leaks were sufficiently serious.to warrant such
action?"
2.� The current establishing authority for the Security
Committee of USIB, DCID 1/11, copy attached, was promulgated
and became effective on 23 August 1974. In the statement of functions,
the Committee is authorized on behalf of the Director of Central
Intelligence to call upon departments and agencies to investigate
any unauthorized disclosure or compromise of intelligence or of
intelligence sources and methods occurring within their departments
and agencies and to report the results of these investigations to the
Director of Central Intelligence through the USIB. These reports
are to include consideration of three things, (1) assessment of the
disclosures impact on the US intelligence -irocess and its implication
for national security and foreign relations (2) description of
corrective measures taken or needed to prevent such disclosures
in the future or to minimize the adverse effects of the case at hand
and (3) recommend any appropriate additional actions.
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3. Accordingly, the answer to the question is yes. The
Security Committee can now "recommend any appropriate additional
action" to the DCI. This could include a recommendation through
the USIB to the DCI that the DCI request the Justice Department to
undertake a full investigation crossing departmental lines or a
recommendation that the FBI be requested to conduct surveillance
as appropriate. There has been no occasion since August 1974 for
the Security Committee to make a report to the DCI on unauthorized
disclosures.
4. The preceding version of DCID 1/11, copy attached, which
was in effect from 23 April 1965 to 23 August 1974, was not as
specific in its statement of functions related to the investigation of
unauthorized disclosures. The 1965 version of DCID 1/11 provides
for the Security Committee
� "To consider the problems, including to the extent '
feasible the degree of harm to the national interest arising
out of unauthorized disclosure of intelligence, intelligence
information as well as intelligence sources and methods
and to make reports and recommendations for corrective
action as appropriate."
5. This requirement fails to specify the addressee of the
recommendations or the limits on such recommendations. Accordingly,
it is not possible to say that a recommendation for surveillance can be
assumed as permitted or that it was prohibited. There is no indication
to whom such a recommendation, if considered desirable by the
Security Committee, would have been addressed. It would be
presumed that any recommendation would have been forwarded to
the DCI through the USIB.
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