LETTER TO MR. D. L. SCANTLEBURY FROM JOHN F. BLAKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400020006-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 9, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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9 MAY 1977
Mr. D. L. Scant l ebury
Director, Financial and General
Management. Studies Division
U.S. General Accounting Office
Washington, D.C. 20548
Dear Mr. Scantlebury:
This letter responds to your request dated 31 March 1977,
As you are aware, this Agency has received broad authority
in its organic statute (50 USCA 403(j)) to conduct its affairs
in a confidential manner. After review of the questionnaire
attached to your letter, I have concluded that the Agency cannot
participate in your study without. disclosing sensitive classi-
fied information.
for information from this Agency relative to a survey being
conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office entitled,
"Survey of The Development and Use of The Automatic Data Pro-
cessing Standards."
This Agency, in procuring supplies and services necessary
for the conduct and maintenance of its operations, adheres to
applicable procurement statutes and implementing policy. In
the case of ADP standards,'thefollowing is an extract from a.
Delegation of Procurement Authority granted this Agency.
"Within the bounds of security, the.procure-
ments effected under the authority of this DPA are
subject to the following limitations.
2. b. the specific requirements of FPMR
101-32.13 pertaining to Federal Informa-
tion Processing Standards Publications
(PPIS PUBS) shall be adhered to,"
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I can assure you that we do indeed employ PIPS PUBS
standards in our ADP procurements whenever appropriate.
Cleared management personnel of the General Services Admin-
istration conducted an annual review of this Agency's ADP
procurements on 21 and 22 April 1977. It was their con-
clusion-that this Agency is in compliance with the Delegation
of Procurement Authority granted it by GSA.
Sincerely,
L J iQbn F Blake
John P. Blake
Deputy Director
for
Administration
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