WANT A DIAGRAM OF CIA LAYOUT? TRY YOUR GSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100150144-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 144
• Publication Date: August 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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V ant a Diagram
Of ' CIA Layout?
Try Your--GSA
The three most sensitive Idcations
in the federal government are the
White House, CIA headquarters and
the Pentagon's telecommunications
center. They're at the top of any list
of terrorist targets, and are conse.
quently protected by the tightest se-
curity measures.
Unfortunately, there's a fourth,
unlikely target that is not_ properly
guarded: the General Services Ad-
ministration's National Capital Re-
gion ., headquarters in - downtown .
Washington. That's ight,- the outfit
that. provides-paper clips, typewriter
ribbons and window washers fpr fed..
eral office buildings.
In ? a way, the GSA building is
even snore. sensitive than the Big
Three, because it's the repository of
maps, drawings and diagrams of the
government's most'-secret ? areas. Yet
my associate Dale Van Atta,-with no
security clearance whatever, was able
to stroll in off the street and look at
many of these documents and obtain
copies of some.
. I've already reported how he got
to am a 19-page set of detailed en-
gineer's drawings showing every vital
electrical conduit in the White
THE WASHINGTCN POST
2 AUGUST 1982
House. It's frightening to imagine was temporarily shut down reeeitly
what these pinpoint diagrams could because of maintenance
robl
p
ems.
be used for if they fell into the Security is'difcult enough even it
hands of a terrorist or a KGB agent, GSA were on its toes. Like most
or some random nut with a griev- housekeepers, the GSA hirespnotk:
ance against the president. contractors to do its wiring, ISib-.
Though some of the documents ing and construction, work. lF the
my associate found lying around Project is classified, the coii''trrltT
were stamped "Confidential," others and its employes are given thgrp h:
had no security classification. Yet security investigations before ;re
they provide information that would given clearance. ,,1- .
make a saboteur's mouth water. - A single sensitive White idolise
There was, for example, an un- project illustrates the extent vi the
classified, desk-sized "Composite necessary clearance. "A total -k-S
Utilities Plan" for "CIA, Headquar- companies and organizations' '
ters Utility Plan, Route 123, 360 personnel are now on the vork
McLean, Ya. 22101. Few outsiders. order," an internal GSA. memo.aatva7
grounds of the CIA in suburban Vir -Jr'-J" v 4z PaY
- been cleared s6d 50 3~et heie, for any snoop to see, investigated. In addition,. 1 y
was ?every-,'bu&ding, road and power as had been put in "Do Not?A hwt
future _ dearly drawn, including the status.
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ca
ons of all the major utility
"There have been- severaVj
The _CIA wants to build a new '
.? personnel in the-`pendingr catift
,
computer center at its Langley- the memo notes, adding, "Coopsra;
McLean headquarters. The set of tion and coordination with Secret
schematic drawings was unclassified, Service has been excellent." A'."
? and a notation indicated that it was New drawings for the hull
only' one of mare than' a dozen project were ordered done bb the
copies. Wherekre the rest? Who has National Park . Service "and funned
seen them? over to U.S.S.S. [Secret Service,'for
Also easily available were detailed secure filing." But sooner or later~ihe
drawings of the Naval.Telecommun- plans will have to be seen by der
icatidns Center near the Pentagon. It of workers, and copies will prg ably
handles global communications for wind up with the butterfimgerg?at
the entire Defense Department, and the GSA. -
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/29: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100150144-9