CIA AND NSA TESTIMONY ON INDUSTRIAL SECURITY TO THE OVERSIGHT AND DEVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: June 20, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: CIA and NSA Testimony
Evaluation Subcommittee
ICS 3578-88
20 June 1988
on Industrial Security to the Oversight and
of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence
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1. The hearing took
place
on 15 June 1988 in room 405 of the Capitol
building. Testimony was given
by Director
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Counterintelligence Center. Mr.
Henry P.
Mahoney, Deputy Director for
Administration, and
Director of Civilian Security, National
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Security Agency. Members present were
Mr. Anthony C. Beilenson, Chairman,
Mr. Henry J. Hyde, Mr. Bud Shuster, Mr. Bob McEwen, Mr.
Bob Livin ston
Mr. Bernard Dwyer. and
Ms. Barbara Kennelly. Also present
were
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Director
Community
Counterintelligence
and Security
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Countermeasures Office,
eputy
Director of
Physical and Technical
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Security, Office of Security
(US) CIA,
hief OS/Clearance Group,
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Chief
OS/Polygraph,
, Special Assistant to
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the ADDO/CI, and Ray Mislock, Chief of the CI Staff, State, Bureau of
Diplomatic Security.
2. The subcommittee members were very concerned with classified
information leaks to unauthorized individuals, consequences of the Howard,
Pelton, and Walker cases, Agency cooperation with the FBI to prevent future
incidents such as these, leaks to the media by Agency personnel, and the use
and efficacy of polygraph testing. The following is a recollection of the
testimony, members questions and briefers replies.
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4. Chairman Beilenson asked the consequences of disapproving 231
contractor personnel for clearances. Mr. Mahoney said that the relationship
with the contracting firm is not affected, but the individuals not cleared are
simply not allowed to work on classified projects. Mr. Beilenson asked if the
clearance disapproval is passed on to other agencies and Chief of
the Office of Security's clearance group answered that the disapproval is not
passed on, but any other agency attempting to clear that individual through
the National Security Check would reveal that the individual had been
disapproved by the CIA and the reason for the disapproval.
5. Mr. Beilenson then turned to the growth of clearances and asked how
many had been eliminated, replied that they had been working the
problem for twenty months an a reduced the number of unnecessary clearances
by about 5,000. Mr. Beilenson said that was a pretty heavy reduction and
asked if, in general, the testifiers felt better about security now than they
did two or three years ago. Mr. Mahoney stated unequivocally yes. Turf
battles between Office of Security and Office of Medical Services have been
eliminated and a pyschologist is present during polygraphs. Mr. Mahoney felt
that applicant and staff screening had provided the biggest contribution to
enhancing Agency security.
6. At this point, Mr. Hyde asked how stringent the new security
procedures were. Mr. Mahoney said that new employees are re-polyed and
reinvestigated after three years and staff personnel every five years.
Mr. Hyde then asked how much was lost when Howard passed information to the
Soviets. replied
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