SUPPORT FOR THE DCI SECURITY COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: September 5, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Security Committee
SECOM-D-365
) SEP 1978
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director of Central Intelligence
VIA:
Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
Chairman, Security Committee
SUBJECT:
Support for the DCI Security Committee
REFERENCE:
a.
Chairman B memo of 31 March subject: DCI Security Committeel~7$9
b.
Deputy Director for Administration
memo of 10 March 1978, subject:
Security Committee organization and
staffing
1. Action Requested: Your signature on the attached
proposed memorandum to the National Foreign Intelligence Board
formally inviting their nominations to fill two senior level
positions on the DCI Security Committee staff.
2. Back round and Discussion: Reference a. dealt with
organizati.ona c anges a ecting tie DCI Security Committee
and the establishment of the Community Security Group to support
it. The concept you approved for the Committee and its staff
(reference b) envisaged that two of the three branch chiefs
for the Community Security Group would be senior level officers
(GS-15 or 0-6 minimum) from other Community agencies to serve
on a totational, reimbursable basis. The purpose of this is
twofold. First,. it will enhance the Community character of
the Committee's work. Second, it offers opportunity to obtain
the services of senior managers with experience in areas dif-
ferent from those which CIA officers may encounter. The minimum
grade levels specified are to ensure that nominees are persons
of broad experience who possess the requisite management skills
to deal with the issues and the Community coordination problems
involved. A description of the duties of the two positions
involved is attached to the proposed memorandum.
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3. Recommendation That you sign the attached. proposed
memorandum to-the NFIB.
Robert W. Gambino
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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
2 SEP I
1878
Memorandum for the National Foreign Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Support for the DCI Security Committee
REFERENCE: Chairman NF.IB memo of 31 March 1978, subject:
DCI Security Committee
In the referenced memorandum I advised the NFIB of
organizational changes affecting the DCI Security Committee
and of the establishment of the Community Security Group (CSG)
to support it. I am now inviting nominations from NFIB
agencies to fill two of the senior positions on the CSG on
a rotational, reimbursable basis. Nominees should be officers
with good experience in a range of matters of Community
security concern, and should be at least at the GS-15 or
0-6 level. Attached is a description of the major duties
such officers would be responsible for on the CSG. Nomina-
tions should be sent.to the Chairman, DCI Security Committee,
to reach him by 25 September 1978.
Attachment:
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DUTIES OF SENIOR OFFICERS ON THE COMMUNITY SECURITY GROUP
The Community Security Group'(CSG), established to provide staff
support to the DCI Security Committee, includes two branches with major
responsibility for physical, technical, personnel and industrial security
policy and procedures. The chiefs of those two branches will be responsible,
.on a full-time basis, for assisting the Chairman, DCI Security Committee,
and the Chief, CSG, in carrying out the mission of the Security Committee
under DCID 1/11 and in supporting the DCI's responsibilities under E.O. 12036
to "ensure the establishment by the Intelligence Community of common security
and access standards for managing and handling foreign intelligence systems,
information, and products," and for "providing policy, guidance and technical
assistance to departments and agencies regarding protection of intelligence
information, including information that may reveal intelligence sources and
methods." The officers concerned will be responsible for policy overview in
their functional areas, and for planning, supervising and coordinating the
development, implementation and monitoring of Community security policies
and procedures bearing on those areas. They will be assisted by professional
and administrative personnel assigned to the CSG by CIA, and they will need
to work closely with and.through the departments and agencies represented on
the National Foreign Intelligence Board. They will be expected to seek out,
plan courses of action concerning, and develop finished recommendations on
projects and issues in their areas of responsibility, as well as to respond
to specific tasking from higher authority.
The CSG components involved are the Physical Security Branch and the
Personnel and Industrial Security Branch. Major responsibilities of the
chiefs thereof include:
Physical Security
--Ensuring the review, development and monitoring of
Community policies and procedures for the physical
security of facilities, equipment and information,
to include standards for security containers and
vaults, access control systems, alarms and penetra-
tion detection systems, physical transmission, and
perimeter barriers.
--Assisting the Chairman, DCI Security Committee in
directing the work of the following permanent sub-
committees and, as appropriate to the qualifications
of the officer involved, chairing one of them and
directing its activities:
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(1)
Computer Security - responsible for
reviewing, developing and monitoring the
implementation of Community security
standards and procedures to protect in-
telligence processed or stored in com-
puters. (Further details are in Attach-
ment 2 to DCID 1/11.)
(2) Technical Surveillance Countermeasures-
responsible for facilitating the develop-
ment and use of effective equipment and
techniques to defend sensitive U.S. in-
stallations or activities against techni-
cal surveillance, and for reviewing and
developing Community policy on guarding
against technical surveillance threats.
(Further details are in Attachment 1 to
DCID 1/11.)
(3) Research and Development-responsible for
planning, establishing and directing pro-
grams of research and development leading
to improved security equipment and tech-
niques to guard against technical surveil-
lance, penetration, or modification of
computer systems, or other foreign techni-
cal threats. (Further details are in At-
tachment 4 to DCID 1/11.)
--Overseeing the development and monitoring the conduct of
programs for training personnel in security techniques.
b. Personnel and Industrial Security
--Ensuring the review, development and use of uniform Com-
munity security standards and procedures for the investi-
gation of persons needing access to intelligence informa-
tion and for the adjudication of investigative results.
Ensuring that such standards and procedures and other
Government policies governing suitability and loyalty
(e.g., in E.O. 10450) are mutually supportive.
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--Ensuring the development and coordination of recommen-
dations on administrative measures (e.g., secrecy
agreements) and on legislation to enhance the protec-
tion of intelligence and intelligence sources and
methods.
--Overseeing the development and application of Commu-
nity programs for the security indoctrination and
briefing of persons with access to intelligence in-
formation.
--Ensuring the review of security procedures applicable
to non-government entities (e.g., industry, academic
institutions, contractors) providing support or serv-
ices to the Intelligence Community, and developing
personnel, physical and document security policies
and procedures to maintain and enhance the protection
of intelligence information released to or generated
by such entities.
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