THE 'SECURITY VIOLATION' WAS A SECRET TO CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300200012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 17, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE 1`bW-LEVEL` GUARD
Sam el: Grahaln; col:
oredr hs bee a bottom
level,` Government' guard
for' 20 yeare.,
For 13 years he, has been
barred from promotion=by
his own hand. To be precise,
by a memo he wrote on July
27, 1950.
SEMI-OFFICIAL
The memo refers to a
"security violation" and' it
has caused Mr.? Graham to be
listed, over the years, as a
sort of semi-official violator
of security.
It has prevented him-from
being transferred to the CIA,
where :his rating' would be
higher, and, possibly, from
being made a sergeant. Ser-
geants and all CIA personnel
must have security clearance.
It develops, however, that
from the official point o
view no security, violation
occurred. And It also devel
ops that Mr. Graham was the
only guard evert question
.inan.incident tlib two others
were equally,rvolved...
The incident ivas this:,
On a Friday in July. 1950
Mr. Graham, a guard nit
the Armory~:Group, was as
signed to'relieve.'a,' n .gula
guard at :Temporary Build
ing Y for 'one day.
Tempo Y was part of ttt
Central Intelligence Agenc
and guards were required t
check the building each shit
day he was informed by`his:1`,
tho nv others,i
material" had been left gttt,;,=
on a desk over the week-erld, i
and that he had missed it In
his security check. "I want
you to write me a little memo
telling me why. you missed
it, Capt.. Simmons,said }
Mr. Graham .wrote t h g
memo, explaining that he had
been interrupted many times-
in his security check by per-
sons wantin to' enter . or
leave the building and 'that..
being a substitute, he was ,
not familiar with the regular
He turned in the memo-- I3
and that's the last he hearth
of the incident for a long,
long time.
applied for permanent trans-.,j,
fer to the CIA, a move 'that
would automatically gain ,114P.1-
a promotion'-His application
'was turned down both times.,i
when security clearance was''
denied him. '
learned, for the first .tiny
that the "security vioiation'11
memo he had written In 1950?;
was still in his "Guard ,File."
O\I.V' ONE
'1'hru the officers of the ;'t.?
(;er,cral Services Mministra
requirethat' formal .charge
be mac In all "sgetrrity r rk
, lations ,and that c W
charges be : placedoplea , note=,n
4 "guard file" but' iw the -Ca
personnel file ? .sNo charge
- were ever na4e. ~'? .k
Mr Graham recently . sui
ceeeded in getting the mutt
removed from his personae
file. He hopes that otter jC
these days now he'll get pc
motel to sergeant
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00' 49R0003002000'12=