APEX SINGLE SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00788R000100110015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 22, 1980
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 85T00788R000100110015
2 2 JUL ;380
MEMORANDUM FOR: SA to the DCI for Co.:partmentation
FROM: James H. McDonald
Director of Logistics
SUBJECT: APEX Single syste r; Implications
R FERENCE: Memorandum for D/S, )/L, D/0D(*7,E, from SA to
DCIfor Compartmentat..on, dated i July 1980,
same subject (OL 0 3036),-
1. Referent transmitted a draft letter to the Director of
Central intelligence ,which describes certain implications of
implementing the APEX single control system for Sensitive
Compartmented Information (SCI). Addressees were requested to
provide their views on the draft letter.
2. The effort to achieve uniform, community-wide standards
under the APEX System is commendable, and we agree that the DCI
and other senior Agency officials need to be more aware of the
issues and tradeoffs involved. The challenge will be to achieve
uniformity in the interpretation and application of whatever
uniform standards are eventually adopted without there being a
deterioration in the overall effectiveness of our security efforts.
3. We.are concerned that uniformity, as defined, may even-
tually mean the acceptance by the Central Intelligence Agency of
lower standards already in use by other agencies of the Federal
Government. It would also appear, if we allow other agenrcies to
inspect and make recommendations concerning CIA operational
matters as your draft letter indicates, that CIA Program Managers
and Contracting Officers would stand to lose the necessary degree
over their ,' ' d= :2i13.S~ of control 01~..T tnelr own activities. N:,lti'Ier L`iL'~ ~ei standards
nor diminished control seem advisable to us. We recommend strongly
against-any approach which would have such results. With this
view in mind, we do not necessarily agree that (as Bugg sted in
paragraph I of t-.11-, draft letter) all parties, esnecial,.y the t-x-
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