PRECLUSION OF THE USE OF OFFICE RESOURCES IN IMPROPER DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00823R000100080015-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 17, 1976
• Content Type: MF

MLMOt \ DUUM FOR: Director of Security
FROM
Chief, Policy and Flares. Group
SUBJECT . Preclusion of the Use of Office
Resources in Improper Domestic
Intelligence Activities
7 1976
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1. Action Requested. This memorandum requests your
approval oU ro,ram to preclude the use of Office of
Security resources in improper domestic intelligence activities.
2. Basic Data:
a. The Letter of Instruction from the Deputy
Director for Administration for the Director of Security
dated 3 July 1975 included a task to "review and establish
control procedures for all security activities which will
preclude tho use of Office of Security resources in improper
domestic intelligence activities."
b. This tasking was formulated into an Office
level objective (OS-O-10-56) assigned to the Policy and Plan:
Group to "establish and implement by 31 January 1976 systems
and. procedures for all Office activities to preclude the
use.of resources in improper doriestic intelligence activities
c. The Policy and Plans Group, As the action-
element on this objective, has completed 4 'study of the
issues and options associated therewith. This memorandur.=
constitutes a proposal to `satisfy the objective and the
tasking from the DDA.
3. Staff Position:
a. Based on its review of the requirement and
options. associated with its fulfillment, Policy and. Plans
Group has concluded that a positive program should be
instituted which would educate, motivate, and insure
compliance. The key ingredients in any pro" ra: des1ned
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to preclude the involvement of the Office in improper
domestic intelligence activities are:
(1) An orientation of employees as to
hat constitutes proper and improper activities.
(2) - Motivation on the part of employees
to adhere to Agency policy.
(3) A review program to determine
compliance.
b. Pertinent to the education of Office of Security
employees is the definition and promulgation of guidelines
concerning the propriety of Office activities. basic to
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Portions of Executive Order 11905, and the supplementary
procedures established by the Attorney-General concerning
the implementation of Executive Order 11905. In addition,
prudence suggests that these policy issuances be translated
to some extent with regard to their specific application
to Office of Security activities.
c. After considering a number of
ti
op
ons, the
Policy and Plans Group proposes for your approval the
following program:
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from L cecutive Order 11905., and the Attorney
General's implementing instructions would be
disseminated on an annual basis to all Office
employees as a reading, requirement; on the
annual occasion of this dissemination these
policy issuances would be covered by a memo-
randum signed by you which would both
translate the essential elements of the
regulatory issuances into security language
and transmit your personal emphasis on the
necessity to comply with these regulations.
Your memorandum would also reiterate the
established policy that any employee should
feel free to bring to his supervisor's attention
or your own any issue that raises a question
in his rind as to the .propriety- of any Office
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(2) Chiefs of divisi
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supervision on an annual ~basis Jconcerning jthe
.details of the policy issuances; this briefing
would include an opportunity for employees to
pose questions to insure their full understanding
of the policy requirements. Chiefs of division
level components following such annual briefings
would attest by memorandum to you that they
have afforded such a briefing to all their
employees.
(3) In order to insure a degree of compliance
with Agency policy in this area, a number of
Office employees representing a random sample
would be interviewed each year to determine whether
such employees had any question about the propriety
of tasks assigned to them during, the previous
year. This interview program would be imple-
mented outside of normal command channels under
the administration of the Policy and Plans Group
and using the personnel assigned to that group
and selected other individuals in the Office.
4. Recommendation: Your consideration and approval of
the elemen~t.s e program outlined in paragraph 3c above
is requested. Following such approval, the Policy and Plans
Group will pursue implementation of the
program a report for the Deputy Director Administration
in satisfaction of his tasking in your Letter of Instruction.
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APPROVAL:
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