APEX--EMPHASIS DURING TRANSITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00788R000100070002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 7, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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b1EA1OFZAi~tDL1Ni FOR: APEX Steering Group Members
FROM
SUBJECT: APEX--Emphasis During Transition
1. On 6 January 1981 the APEX Steering Group agreed on a list of
actions that require emphasis during the transition period in order to ._
maintain some momentum towards improvement in the operation of special
access systems. Two considerations taeighed heavily in drafting the
list:
-- Near unanimity among APEX Steering Group me,~hers on the
need to take the action in the very near future or to continue that
which is in progress.
-- Near unanimity that the action is desired by most or all
of the a encies or departments represented on the APEX Steering
Group. ~ .
2. Please make this list known to those persons in your agency or
department who can direct or encourage accomplishment of the listed
actions. The purpose of the list, again, is to ensuxe Conti.-wing
action on and ongoing s-spport for non-controversial actions that the
APEX Steering Group collectively holds to require either continuing
support or early decisions:
REGRADE tR~;CLASSIFIED
t~HEN ATTAQ-PIEN"T REMOVED
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ACTIONS REQUIRING COI~ITINUING SUPPORT AND ATT'EN'TION FOR SCI DURING TRA\SITION
A. Reaffirm support to fund and build a Community-wide Special Access
Registry (4C);
B. Continue expansion of decompartmentation of imagery; how far to
expand is a current APEX issue;
C. Continue process of decompartmentation of ELINT;
D. Continue the process, primarily by NSA, of easing the process and
increasing the volume of sanitized or sanitizable COhIINT;
E. Replace existing SCI security oath (Form 4066) with a single
. conununity-wide, contractual nondisclosure agreement (current APEX
issue) ;
F. Finish redrafting of imagery, C0~ SI:~~ and ELI. "T usex ^~.C."': u3is to
exclude operational information and restrict or zaithdra,J old
manuals (identified in the APEX Steering Gro~Y irvs.^_?~ry} that
include operational information;
G.. Resolution of APEX issues dealing with:
. (1) Prohibition against compartmenting codewords;
(Z) Ati.nimal classification of materials describing and explaining
. SCI channels;
(3) General accesses to SCI (as opposed to specific project or
product accesses) for secretaries, registry personnel, Iibrari-
ans, etc.
H. Promulgation of policy to exclude operational inforamtion from
Finished Intelligence;
I. Reaffirn effort to apply faith uniformity common SCI physical. and .
personnel security and docuTnent handling proceduxes. This includes
common clearance forms and mutual acceptance of access approvals.
A single security policy manual could follow. (Current APEX
issue.)
J. Establish an effort to re~v-rite information accountability rules of
E.O. 12065 to accommodate high-technology, high-volume, time-
sensitive, electrically processed and disseminated collection
system materials, especially products.
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