UNAUTHORIZED MEDIA DISCLOSURES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06230301
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2018
• Case Number: F-2008-01274

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Distribution
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: (U) Unauthorized Media Disclosures
(C) On 3 November, the Deputy Director of NSA, and other colleagues from the
Departments of Defense and Justice joined me in testifying at a House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence hearing on unauthorized disclosures. At that hearing, we
discussed the extensive damage we have suffered from leaks. I told the Committee that I
would take a series of specific actions to reduce the damage from leaks and to identify
and remove leakers from the national security community.
Basic Program Review
(C) One of the premises underlying my testimony is that sound, basic security
policies and programs serve as our first line of defense against unauthorized disclosures.
I ask that you:
� Review your personnel security programs to determine if they need to be changed
in order to improve their effectiveness in preventing leaks or identifying leakers.
� Review your need-to-know practices to determine if this most basic requirement is
being strictly observed.
� Reexamine your agency's ability to track precisely where your disseminated
intelligence information has gone and who is responsible for ensuring its security
at any given time.
Because the HPSCI intends to hold another hearing on this issue, I ask that you provide
the results of your reviews to me by the mid February.
(C) I also told the Committee that as DCI, I need to have a comprehensive, IC-
wide understanding of all losses of intelligence information through unauthorized
disclosures. As a first step, we will establish a comprehensive database of losses from
leaks and espionage cases. To begin this process, I ask that you initiate regular reports of
all unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence information to me beginning on 15
February. Your obligation to report unauthorized disclosures to the Department of Justice
is, of course, unchanged.
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Statutory Change
(AIUO) My General Counsel will work with IC agencies' General Counsels to
determine whether new legislation is necessary to address the leaks problem more
effectively. The results of this review should be provided to me not later than 15
February.
DCI Directives
(AIUO) The Community Management Staff will review all DCI directives to
ensure that wherever appropriate they include sections on media leaks and adherence to
secrecy agreements. CMS will provide any proposed revisions of the DCI directives not
later than 15 February.
Training and Education
(C) Training programs at all of your agencies should include an explicit
description of the damage done by leaks and the investigative and administrative
procedures in place for dealing with leaks, including the proper procedures for responding
to contacts with the media. The Director of Training and Education at CIA will work
with the appropriate officials in your agencies to develop core materials for adaptation
and use in your training programs.
(C) We must do a better job of deterring, detecting, and defeating leakers. Their
irresponsible actions risk lives and irreplaceable intelligence sources and methods, often
for a temporary public relations advantage. We cannot tolerate this and must work
together to arrive at rapid and reliable strategies to counter it.
George J. Tenet
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Distribution:
Joan A. Dempsey
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for
Community Management
David W. Carey
Executive Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Adm. Thomas Wilson
Director
Defense Intelligence Agency
LTG. James King
Director
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Keith Hall
Director
National Reconnaissance Office
Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden
Director
National Security Agency
Amb. J. Stapleton Roy
Assistant Secretary of State
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Arthur Money
Assistant Secretary of Defense
C3I
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CC:
Neil Gallagher
Assistant Director
National Security Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Richard Calder
Deputy Director for Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
Robert McNamara
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
John Moseman
Director of Congressional Affairs
Central Intelligence Agency
William Harlow
Director of Public Affairs
Central Intelligence Agency
Michael J. Waguespack
Director
National Counterintelligence Center
Director
Office of Training and Education
Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs
Community Management Staff
Associate Deputy Director of Adminitration for Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Lawernce Sanchez
Director, Office of Intelligence
Department of Energy
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Michael Romey
Special Assistant to the Secretary (National Security)
Department of Treasury
Dan Jacobson
Staff Director
Security Policy Board
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