REQUEST FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF TALENT POSITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000500180001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 6, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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TC -13 Z-57
Copy 3 of 6
6 August 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Coordination)
13. TC -1561- i7, dated 15 Juty 1957
1. In Reference A you requested (in Paragraph 1) that three
calve TALENT clearances. You also requeste
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AQUATONE". Reference 8 advised you that all three members of the Staff
had received TALENT clearances,. on J-5 June and
n Paragraph 3) that the same three members "" indoctrinated into Project
Request for Establishment of TAL.ZNT Positions
TCS-1646-57,, dated 1 July 1957
Since requests for TALENT clearances are not brought to
On Z July, as you requested. 25X1 A9a 25 X1 A 9
! y personal attention, I di4i not learn of your request in Reference A until
today when the AQUATONE Project Security Officer referred the second part
your request to rrae. I have instructed hire to grant a limited AQUATOE
clearance only to your secretary, and to withhold clearances 25X1 A9a
for the other two members of your to . I have also directed him to advise
the personnel of HTAUTOMAT and others with whom your Staff may come
in contact of this action. The main purpose of this memorandum its to explain
y reasons for so doing.
collected tarougs this Project. definitely do not justify access to full know
of new equipment, or a legitimate need to have access to the raw intelligence
gitimate interest in research and development and therefore in alt type
actual operations, We have argued that such circumstances as rank, a
3. As you are aware. I have been under instructions from the
Director since the inception of AQUATONE to maintain the highest possible
degree of security around it. It would be most unrealistic to deny that there
has been, despite our bast efforts, a continuous erosion of that security,
especially within the Air Force. It has been our concept that knowledge of
such an activity should be available only to individuals who have in a very
narrow and literal sense a "need to know.' about equipment, procedures, or
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about it. We have found that this whole concept of tight compartmental-
isation is foreign to normal Air Force procedures. Nevertheless, we have
fought a vigorous, if inevitably losing, battle to limit the wider and wider
sad of knowledge concerning it in the Pentagon.
4. Partly in order to set a good example but also partly because
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