ZERO BASED CLEARANCE REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96M01138R000400020012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 8, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
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8 FEB 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligenc
Deputy Director for Administrat
FROM: Robert W. Gambino
Chairman
SUBJECT: Zero Based Clearance Review
STAT
1. Action Requested: None; for your information only.
2. Background: In paragraph 13 of your 1 February 1979
memorandum concerning your conversation with Secretary Brown,
you raised a number of questions about DIA's need for additional
SI, TK and BYEMAN access approvals. An answer on their con-
tinuing requirements is being prepared by the Collection Tasking
Staff.
You expressed the thought that you believed that the
approvals needed could be freed up through a zero-based clear-
ance review and you asked that one be initiated. In fact, the
Security Committee launched such an action last fall. However,
due to the impetus of the NFIB Working Group on Compartmenta-
tion, member agencies asked for a reprieve from the require-
ment to do a zero-based review on product clearances. The
logic expressed was that they would end up conducting two
such reviews; the one already levied, and when APEX was
approved, a second review which would probably call for more
stringent need-to-know tests. In view of this, on 22 December
1978, you directed Paul Walsh to see that the zero-based re-
view was confined to a review of operational approvals for
the present.
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I have conveyed this revised tasking to all NFIB
member Departments and Agencies through my Compartmentation
Subcommittee. A deadline of 1 May 1979 has been established
for completion of the review. I have contacted the Chairman
of that subcommittee and have been told that, as of yet, he
has received no responses from member Agencies on what results
their reviews may have reaped. He has set a deadline of 10
April 1979 for having results back to him. At that time
we should know if the needed BYECOM approvals will, be avail-
able for DIA redistribution.
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