WHITE HOUSE - CIA SECURE TELEVISION SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04727A000300090018-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 17, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer
S'UECT
White Howe - CIA Secure Television
7be Director may be interested in the
1. eject covers a ftlte House Sie Agency
c e v e l o r m r s n t and t e s t i n g of a secure television system WMxW:
of critical Goverment organizations to brief the Pres1de at from theft
awn oces.
2. Akhough the system has never been used nor I t# Urt
was installed esrimeaIty from the '4rhite House ;tWe
downtown ofd Sind tasting began I December 1960. ApprosdMt y hours
of on-air testing has b completed.
3. Zn J=Uary 1962 t system was modified to permit c pa ii iiity with
andard to vision; that is, the system can now also receive stand com-
ercial television transmissic . As a result, equipment required in the
Director's office will be one or two television cameras,
and necessary k1i Uj*s to provide adequate Uluzninattlon.
has been reached whetbor the White House will And the entire
whether each Agency will pay its proportionate share.
for ultimate equipment r between 100 - 200 thousand doW
&. A meeting with 'him House Signal Agency (WHSA) repr tat s
on 23 Janus 1962 discrsed that the President has indicated some merest in
the system. How~,, until WHSA receives positive gukLwce roUt to the
system's eventual mimberof users, methods of funding and o ar to ed
problems, they can little more than cc=hxw evertmentins r r. Our
Cie of Communications Will, be advised as soon as a decision is rimed by
WHSA from the President.
I.. K. White
Deputy Director
(support)
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