DEFINITION OF 'SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI)'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500180042-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 42
• Content Type: MISC

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DEFINITION OF "SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI)"
1. Acting on a CIA proposal, all Compartmentation Subcommittee
members (except Navy and DIA) agreed to change the definition of
SCI appearing in paA9raph le of the draft DCID 1/19 to read as
follows:
"Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)--all information
and materials requiring special community controls indicat-
ing restricted handling within present and future community
intelligence collection programs and their end products.
These special Community controls are formal systems of re-
stricted access established by the Director of Central In-
telligence (DCI) to protect the sensitive aspects of sources,
methods and analytical procedures of foreign intelligence
programs. The term does not include Restricted Data as
defined in Section II, Public Law 585, Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended."
RATIONALE: CIA and agreeing members held that the extant
definition (see below) side-steped its purpose by defining
"compartmentation" by the use of the term "compartmenta-
tion."
2. The Navy and DIA believe the SCI definition should not be
changed from that appearing in DCID 1/14 and other existing
directives, i.e.:
Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)--all information
and materials requiring special community controls indicating
restricted handling within present and future community in-
telligence collection programs and their end products for
which community systems of compartmentation have been or will
be formally established. The term does not include Re-
stricted Data as defined in Section II, Public Law 585,
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
RATIONALE: Navy has special compartmented operational pro-
grams which were established by the Secretary of Defense and
are managed by the Navy. The Navy recognizes the DCI's au-
thority for protection of sources and methods and implements
such policy in its programs that are uniquely designed for
intelligence collection. However, because of the primary
military operational aspects of the NavylSpecial programs,
they must continue to be managed and controlled by the Chief
of Naval Operations.
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