SECURITY COMPARTMENTATION OF COMPUTER DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200030033-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 10, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. _ A-36
9 p MAR 1964
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A tton Director of Security
SUBJECT :
REFERENCE:
Security Coapartmeaaeioa of Computer Data
1. The centralization of considerate am uuats of Agency control
Worn Lion and m+ tine processes under your direction raises the
fundttazaer+tal issue of
Would y_M please t&ke steeps to develop a security procedure
in concert With the Of ice of Seeccri which provide for defined areas
of compartuteeatation. This procedure std establish limited access
to information programmed into OCS machis systems on a n.sd-to..
know basis. There restrictions a pply both within your own office as
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t of au t rorized persons who nmay reeluest
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3. Please prepare for my approval t o necessary instruction
d rules to effect the foregoing by I April 1994.
(signed) Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
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MEMORANDXJM FOR:
Executive Director - cos ptroller
SUBJECT
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Security Comartmentation Within
acs, DD/S&T
REFER
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Your Action Memorandum No. A-365,
dated 10 March 1964. same subject
Thin memorandum submits
rec.. d tt-ig for your approval;
those rec aendationz are con-
tained in paragraphs 4 and
1. In response to the referenced Action Memorandum,
attached are:
taff s ud gecurit rtme3 tation
within pwhich covers in some
detail present and possible ccMpartme:nta-
tion practices for OCS.
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to the Staff Study, which
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contains for your approval instructions
for 4CS on security compartmentation
procedures--as you requested in your
Action Memorandum.
C. Attachment a to the staff Study. a list
of OCS projects, which gives some idea
of the present range of OCS tasks.
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. We have rir s ! the Staff Study and its attached
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Instructions and believe the procedures outlined are
adequate for the safe handling of data processed by OCS.
3. Security procedures within will surely be
further refined as the office Consolidates its resources
and procedures and as security practices for all CIA
machine p ss,ing are delineated by the Handbook,
already in mess. on security Procedures for
A iomaatic
Data Processing in CIA, the prima i
mended in the Staff Study.
4. We rernd your roval of the attached
9294"1 - of 2St% within
p S&T. If approved, the DLL 9aT will instruct the
AD/CS to peed in accordance therewith for the safe-
guarding of materials p ces$Sd by dCS which require
special c. statiod.
S. we further recommend that the office of Security,
with the assistance of OCS and other compowmts as appropri-
ate, prepare a Randbock on security procedures for automatic
data processing in CIA.
D. WIMUMM
Deputy Director
(Science & Technology
L. K. WRITE _
Deputy Dir+ectc r
(Support)
Attachments
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C; NTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF CENTRAL REFERENCE
3 April 1964
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the 1).L /I (Achninistration)
purity Compartmeutation. Within OCS, DD/ I& T
REFERENCE: Staff Study, same subject, dated 26 March 1964
ATTENTION:
SUBJECT :
1. Referenced study represents a good approach to a problem with which this
office, particularly f scia1 Register, is most familiar. There is, I think, ane I in
major omission which we can only flag now attend to detail as 25X1
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develops, viz-, , the control procedures involved in OCS s rt (via ~aon~pu r
to OCR central reference activities. For that matter, there are implications
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this will result to more efficient service.
2. In other words, OCR has by regulation certain dissemination ities
(of with distribution limitations on pg. 9, para. 3. e. , f - ) and all
plus I3SIB Community agreements on the
retrieval reepotmibilities, and these+e, information information (DCID 1/7,
dissemination and use of intelligesee and intelligence rou rules for access
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etc.) must be troteu into acco
to data stored in computer memories. In computer-based information retrieval,
OCS is backstopping OCR and the tapes are/will be one other medium (in addition
documents, microfilm, abstracts, dossiers. etc.) on which information
to hard copy
is stored for retrieval. Of course, this information must be protected, but access,
at least by information specialists, to general information files across sources is mandatory
I'm sure OCS agrees, but the absence of this kind of consideration in what may become
a security bible seeds to be noted.
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3. The paper does not reeler to indexers or data analysts on page 8; it
seems somewhat week on the subject of contractor access; and it might
use or
strengthened by proposing the establishment first of a basic pre-ago
distribution plan with production offices. to be followed by name lists for
special controls or exceptions to the basic plan.
4. Finally. I feel quite strongly that since OCR will rely for some
undetermined and possibly prolonged time on ()CS equipment to assist in
performance of its mission, and decisions concerning access to information aired
on OCS computers are and, to a greater a nt, will be of direct concern to OCR,
future discussions an this subject should involve direct OCR participation.
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cc: Mr.
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