ALLEGED SECURITY VIOLATION BY (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000500130048-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: June 28, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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28 June 1948
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive for MM'
Executive for I&S
SUBJECT: Alleged security violation by
1. The Director of Central Intelligence has personally and
carefully reviewed the proceedings and statements, submitted in
the subject case, and has arrived at the followLng findings:
a. A breach of security did, in fact, occur in that two
persons were placed in positions requiring the handling of
classified material before being completely cleared.
b. assigned the two uncleared persons
without expressed official authority.
C. There is no evidence of deleterious motives on the
part of~ prompting such action.
d. The present organization for effecting clearances
of personnel and the administration for carrying out notifi-
cations of clearance are badly defined with no clear-cut
delineations of either procedure or responsibility.
e. The present security organization is lacking in
responsive controls, in that open breaches of security
existed for approximately a week before being discovered.
2. It is, therefore, directed:
a. That be continued on duty status in
his current grade, but that a written reprimand shall be
administered and made a part of his official record.
b. That the Executive for A&M prepare and submit to the
Director of Central Intelligence for approval a procedure
for effecting notification of clearances which will be clear,
fool-proof, and narrow responsibility to determinable person-
nel. Ex ept in extraordinary cases, all notifications of
clearances will be written.
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c. That the Executive for I&S prepare and submit to the
Director of Central Intelligence for approval a procedure so
developed that analogous violations of security will be de-
tected in the minimum practicable time after occurrence.
d. That the two persons now working under provisional
clearance execute secrecy agreements forthwith and that
their final investigations for clearance be expedited to
completion.
R. H. HILLENKOETTER
Rear Admiral, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
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