SECURITY OF OVERSEAS INSTALLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000100020013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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DDP 7-0791
28 Febru'ary,1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: All Division and Staff Chiefs
SUBJECT: 'Security of Overseas Installations
I. Recent surveys and reviews have pointed up the need for
a more comprehensive and integrated approach to the serious,
problem of the security of our overseas installationq. The Director
has approved the creation of a new unit within the Clandestine
Services whose responsibility it will be to direct and ,coordinate
physical and technical security measures taken by the Agency to
protect our stations overseas from penetration. This unit will
be responsible for its direction and supervision to me and to the
Assistant Deputy Director for Plans.
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2. the Deputy Director of Security, will
be the Chief of the unit.. Working with him will be
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corrective measures will be monitored to insure their effectiveness.
specific installations.. The attack on these vulnerabilities will be
a comprehensive one taking into account all available factors bearing
on the physical and technical security of the installation, and
immediately with carrying out the responsibilities reflected above.
These will include close consultation with all those elements of the
Clandestine Services and of other parts of the Agency which are
involved one way or another in the security of our overseas instal-
lations and which will be expected to support this effort. Physical
and technical inspections will be conducted in accordance with a
schedule of priorities based upon the security vulnerabilities of
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3. The unit's title, office location and telephone numbers will
as soon as these have
been determined. Meanwhile, I have asked to proceed 25X1A
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4. and his unit will be provided counter-intelligence
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will be conducted in consultation with the area division concerned in
each case.-
cc: DCI
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Executive Director
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Action for DD/S
4 Mar 67 as of 9 May 67
While this recommendation was agreed to in principle, the DD/S Completed.- Per- You have assigned
pointed out that a precise division of responsibility did not seem responsibility to OC.
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practicable. Since both OC and OS/TD are DD/S offices, it is
left to his descretion as to how he will divide these responsibilities,
with such assistance as may be required from the new unit established
by the DD/P in Reference (c). The research and development problem
is really a part of the Agency's over-all research and development
problem, and no change in existing policy is to be made at this time,.
None --Dec ie
7. The new unit established by the DD/P in Reference (c) is approved
in lieu of the special committee recommended herein.
f, Approved
None - Program underway.
None - SSU is taking action.
i. Approved to the extent that implementation is practicable.
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Action for DD/S
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tv. APProved. None - SSU is taking action.
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