LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM STEVEN GARFINKEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2008
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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General Information Security
Services UvErsght .
Administration Office Washington, DC 2040-0
MAR 2 9 1984
Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505.
Dear Mr. Casey:
For your information, I enclose a copy of the-Information
Security Oversight Office's (IS00) Annie import Ig,g President
for ZX 19.83. I also enclose a copy of the President's letter in
response to the Report, in which he expresses his appreciation
for the successes of the past year and his support for continued
improvement in the Government's information security program.
FY 1983. was a critical year for the information security system.
The Report covers the first full year of Executive Order 12356's
operation, a period of time in which the information security
program received extraordinary attention. In addition to many
informative statistics about the program, the Report provides a
narrative look at its strengths and weaknesses during FY '83.
In his letter to ISOO, the President requests that his,
appreciation for a job well done be expressed to all the persons
responsible for the success of the information security program
in FY 1983. Please distribute copies of the President's letter
to those other persons within your agency who are responsible for
these achievements. The President also commits as to even
greater efforts to meet the standards he has established for the
information security system in FY 1984 and beyond. I will be
contacting the senior program officials in your agency shortly to
discuss initiatives to achieve an even better program.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 535-7251.
Sincerely,
STEVEN GARFINKEL
Director
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March 23, 1984
Dear Mr. Garfinkel:
I was very pleased to review your FY 1983 Annual
Report and to learn that the system we have
established under Executive order 12356 to provide
better protection for national security informa-
tion without excessive classification is working.
While we anticipated that the revised information
security system would improve credibility and
efficiency of the program, its success is also
dependent upon the outstanding oversight efforts
of you and your staff and the thousands of other
persons throughout the executive branch who are
dedicated to making it work. Please convey my
appreciation to all those whose efforts made these
achievements possible.
I ask for the same commitment in the future to
improving our performance even more. We must
continue to insure that information is being
classified only when this extraordinary protection
is necessary; that those entrusted with access to
national security information appreciate the
seriousness of their responsibility to safeguard
it; and that systematic review and other declas-
fication efforts are made in accordance with the
order's goal of making information no longer
requiring security protection available to the
public.
I trust that you and your staff will continue to
work with responsible officials throughout the
Government to address these and other issues that
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relate to-the administration of the information
security program. I look forward to future reports
on the progress that has been made as a result of
these efforts.
Mr. Steven Garfinkel
Director
Information Security Oversight
Office
18th and F Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20405
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