COMPARTMENTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01116R001402520003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 5, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECI1T
5 February 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Jay Rixse
FROM: DCI
SUBJECT: Compartmentation
1. I need to know all the restricted compartments in the Intelligence
Community and whether there are likely to be any elsewhere in the government,
though this can come later.
-- How many people have access to each of these compartments?
-- Is there any subcom artmentation? I wonder whether there
ehniild hp?
2. Each compartment needs to be analyzed to determine whether this kind
of subcompartmentation is possible and useful. The purpose of this would be
to consider narrowing down the compartmentation to a reasonable number so that
polygraphing, at least on a random or challenged basis, would become more doable
and more acceptable.
3. I also need to know what the DCI's authority is with respect to these
compartments. Can I, on my own authority and initiative, refuse to admit
individuals to a compartment unless they are willing to be polygraphed in any
circumstance in which it is decided that polygraphing is appropriate? Can we
cut them off if they are asked to be polygraphed and refuse?
William J. Casey
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