TECHNICAL SURVEILLANCE COUNTERMEASURES SUBCOMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000100060019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 14, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
14 August 1978
NOTE FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
NSA
Executive Secretary
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Subcommittee
1. I lasked me on Monday, 14 August to
send you some ______...______ on the TSCS which you could use in
briefing
2. Attached for your information are:
a. A rundown on the make-up of the DCI Security
Committee, showing the TSCS and its Working
Groups.
b. A copy of DCID 1/11 with its attachments.
One of these covers the mission and function
of the TSCS.
3. For your general background information, I offer the 25X1
following remarks:
b. I I was the first Chairman and
held thaf o ice until 1973 when he resigned. When
Bill Colby took over the DCI's position, he reorganized
all his committees and placed the TSCS under the Security
Committee.
c. Mr. Marvin Gentile of the State Department
was then appointed and continued as the Chairman of the STAT
CONIFIDENIIAra,
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TSCS until he resigned and was replaced by
was Chairman, TSCS unti ep em er
1975 when I took over as a second hat. (I was also Chief
of CIA's Technical Security Division). I continue as
Chairman, TSCS at the present time with hopes of getting
the Chairman, Security Committee to appoint a new Chair-
man as soon as possible.
4. The TSCS is a good group and serves the Community
well as a source of information exchange and general coor-
dination.
5. Its weaknesses rest in the fact that the counter-
measures field continues to lag behind the positive attack
field and in the tremendous costs, ever increasing, of counter-
measures equipment in today's shrinking budgets.
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SUBJECT: Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Subcommittee
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - TSCS File (SECOM)
Chrono (SECOM)
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