(Sanitized) PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00591R000100040059-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: November 14, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Special Assistant to the Ifl't
Chief, Community , ecur 1i Y (;!top
Propo,;aI
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1. At the first meeting of your iti`ork,tng group you asked.
for input on ways that could be employed that might assist
to separate operational from product rpl.terial. Hero are some
thoughts.
2. Historically, it has been accepted that we cannot
have a completely clean compartmentation break between the
collectors, the processors, the producers and the consumers.
There is a need by the processors, e.g., photo interpreters,
to have some knowledge of the operational mechanics. There is
a need by the producers/taskers for information about the
capabilities and limitations of the collection technology.
And there is some need by-the consumer about the reliability -
timliness of the information. There arc also purely technical
problems which preclude hard and fast compartmentation such
as the fact that satellite photography (the film) reveals the
capabilities of the platform
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3. These needs have never been adore;sed to the complete
satisfaction of all concerned. However, there were various
techniques used which had varying degrees of customer accepta-
bility and of security satisfaction. These include:
a. The inclusion of the process i n4; elements in
with the collectors. Under this arrans,enaerat, operational
access approvals are provided to front line processors
e.g., photo interpreters.
b. Preparation of special e.trac i from the
operational data by the collectors lor limited and
controlled release under Produr: t ca ,'coats to the front
line processors. This procedure was successfully
followed in connection i,+ith providing,, information about
the U-2 camera capabilities and the early satellite
platform to the photo interpreter
c. i'he special extracts of oper:rt Iori,,l material.
was subsequently formalized and i ad:de Sava i l abl e through
a device of formal subr.ona 7artrrieirt:i, ion of the consumer
population, i.e. suhcomp;srtment in the TK 25X1
d . The release 9f operat Iona l m a t e r i a l (with very
little held back) by the collector to the processor and
consumer po )ulations without fornial i zed srihcomp,artmenta-
tion, e.g.. 25X1
C. The elimination of formal c ompartrnentrat ion
of the collection process and the s.ingle access approval
for collection processing consuming populations as is
done in the COMINT Control System. (It is acknowledged
that there is defacto compartmentation ')etween the
collection and exploitation consumer in the ("()MINT arena
but there is no forinal Procedure similar to ti,c relati_on-
ship between tho TK s N stems) .
Of these five methods to peraaiit the flo;ti' of operational
data to those in iron-col-lection.endeavor?s, the use of selected
release of operational data undet- control of the collector appears
to offer the most secure.and less adm ni `ratively ,urdensome
aicthod.
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