THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL SECURITY SUPPORT DIVISION

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 15, 1966
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1i November 1966
MEMDEANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Security (lOS)
SUBJECT : The Role of Industrial Security Support
Division
REFERENCE : Memorandum for Director/Security from
Chief/ISSN dated 13 October 1966
Subject: Finalization of ISSD Responsibilities
with CIA Contracting Offices
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1. Long before said So, it was obvious
to many practitioners in the field that an Industrial Security
Division based in the Office of Security was badly weeded.
The conviction still flourishes. It is nurtured not so much
by the idea that Agency secrets in industry are inadequately
protected - evidence to this effect is nonexistent - but rather
by the feeling that the current system is overly decentralized,
complicated, and probably excessively costly. The fact is that
today Agency classified information within industry is protected
by a variety of techniques applied with varying intensities.
The result is unevenness in security programming: security
"overkilla" in many instances; significant secrets getting just
barely adequate protection in other cases, etc. This is the
gap into which ISSD must move.
2. The issue, therefore, is not whether there should be
an ISSD or whether there is a legitimate job for ISSD to take on.
Rather, it is: which of many possible targets for attack should
be given the highest priorities by ISSD? The reference suggests
that the area of clearances should be singled out and
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integral dimension of ISSD's initial charter. ]Furthermore,
the reference describes the clearance problem as one that
ISSD should absorb and permanently handle. This is crucial.
It is one thing to say that clearances are one of the untidy
areas of industrial security and deserve an ISSD study and
a program of reform; it is quite another thing to say that
ISSD move in on clearances and take over the day-to-day
production effort.
3. It is the concensus of those who have served as
security officers for GSA and OSP or its predecessor organi-
zations that the clearance work over the years of ID14 has
been superb. On this point there is amazing unanimity. The
record is replete with testimony and endorsements which
underscore a remarkable cooperation between operational
security officers and their counterparts in investigative
clearance work. It truly has been a unique eleven-year exper-
iment with mutually gratifying results. In addition to other
advantages, the IDA approach to industrial security clearance
work features a low number of options, clarity of definitions,
and a high correlation between the clearances requested and
the classified information inputs into the subjects. No one
who has been a beneficiary of the ID/4 service is likely to
enthusiastically support any measure which threatens (function-
ally or managerially) the current status of the unit.
4. The work of PSG in the industrial clearance field has
also been praiseworthy due to the hard work and professionalism
of the resident PSD security officers. They also have met the
challenge as presented over the years by Office of Logis tics'
contracts. They have used different clearance options, a
different jargon, a less structured relationship between
clearances and briefings to mention but a few distinctions in
the IDI4 versus PSD approaches.
5. It seems entirely reasonable and logical that there
be one industrial security clearance unit in the Office of
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Security. To defend a continued separation of the two
clearance units on the basis of one handling "overt" work and
one "covert" is highly spurious. The appeal of having one
shop which would schedule, monitor, and evaluate all industrial
clearance and approval actions is virtually irresistible.
6. It is recommended that the officers within PSD who
currently handle industrial security clearances be transferred
to IDA where under the control of lOS a unified ino ustrial
security clearance unit be formed and function. It is recommended
that ISSD serve as an active consultant during this transfer and
tonal phase and that ISSD stay with the project until
re is built a unified industrial clearance program with fewer
and simplified option, standardized personnel security criteria,
a simplified jargon, etc. When this is accomplished, it is
recommended that ISSD move on to attack other problem. To
suggest a few:
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a. An examination of each company having more than one
contractual relationship with the Agency to determine intra-
company inconsistencies brought on by varying security
requirements.
c. An examination of the security arrangements
attendant on the contracts the Agency currently holds with
consultants and personal services contractors.
7. From the foregoing it is possible to deduce this opinion
on the part of the writer: the ISSN, at least during this phase
of its life history, should be a small highly mobile unit that
provides a kin j of constant IG service, moving from area to area,
from problem to problem. With problems bountifully in evidence
while money and personnel are in short supply, this would appear
to be the best current role for ISSD. Six, nine, or twelve
months from now the situation should be reviewed to determine if
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a penetration of line operations (delivering clearances, doing
industrial security inspections, etc.) is feasible and appropriate.
In the meantime, a problem-oriented staff unit makes the most
sense.
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Chief,Security Management Staff
DD/SECT
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