SECURITY ASPECTS OF TALENT/AQUATONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200090046-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 3, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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3 March 1958
OR.AND TORE Project Director
Security Aspects of TAL NT/AQUATON1
1, From time to time confusion has arisen among those cleared
and briefed for TALENT and AQUATONE will
to the and of one
e and the beginning of the other. The proposals set forth below
it is believed will, when carried out, clarify necessary distinctions
between the two clearances and strengthen efforts to protect the source
by virtue of more exact control of operational information,
e introductory paragraph in the existing security
briefing and security agreement for the TALENT Control System be
changed so that the following sentence be substituted for the existing
nteencee and the third existing sentence be strickens
"The TALENT Control System has been established by the
Director of Central Intelligence in cooperation with the intelli-
genee representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Forest and NSA
for the purpose of controlling the intelligence products of extrem
sensitive intelligence sources such of which may require special
operational clearance."
Comment: The effect of the change proposed above is to
inform the r
of the locus of the responsibility for the control of
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intelligence products acquired from sensitive sources but does not identify
who is responsible for the sensitive sources. It should be noted, further-
more, that no reference is made even by implication to AQUATONE nor
es of material which may be collected and come under the
TALENT Control System.
3, That a now paragraph 3 be inserted to read as followst
I further understand that by reason of my TALENT clearance
I do not have access to all TALENT information or materials but
only those required on a MUST KNOW basis and that it is my
responsibility before divulging information or giving materials
to TALENT.-cleared personnel to ascertain that they in fact have
a MUST KNOW requirement to receive sans,,''
C oxnmsntt It is recognized that TALENT Security Officers
in the various agencies when conducting security briefings will have to
emphasize the above point orally which is already incorporated into the
TALENT manual but needs to be high-lighted.
so -ow 36cVxLq statement
4. That TALENT Control Officers or their designees precede
with the following statement all substantive informational briefings where
TALENT material is used%
'" aater is l s or information presented in the following briefing
and identified as being in the TAUNT Control System have been
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"collected through highly sensitive operations, the details of which
cannot be dis.cussedy,'
Comment% The foregoing will have the effect of el
from TALENT briefings sensitive data such as the following
a, Details of camera configurations and electronic systems
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