SECURITY POLICY FOR SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500180007-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 28, 1982
• Content Type: REGULATION

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SECURITY POLICY FOR
SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION'
(Effective 28 June 1982)
Pursuant to the provisions of the Director of Central Intelligence Directive
(DCID) on the Security Committee, policy is herewith established for the security, use,
and dissemination of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
1. Applicability
The controls and procedures in these provisions and the attached manual shall be
applied by all intelligence Community agencies. Intelligence Community agencies
which release or provide SCI to contractors, consultants, or other government
departments or agencies shall ensure beforehand that the intended recipients agree to
follow this policy in their own handling and accountability of SCI.
Policy and procedures in these provisions shall be reflected in other Intelligence
Community directives relative to this matter.
These provisions are not intended to intrude on the authority of Executive Agents
or other operational program directors who will continue to prescribe basic operation-
al direction for programs under their cognizance.
Specific guidance on what information should be classified and protected as SCI
is provided in other documents issued by or pursuant to the authority of the Director
of Central Intelligence, Principles and details governing and defining information to
be protected by a specified SCI control system shall be included in system manuals
and regulations. Such documentation shall also include instructions for decompart-
mentation, sanitization, release to foreign governments, emergency use (when those
actions are feasible and permissible), and additional security policy for the protection
of information controlled in SCI subcompartments.
3. Finished Intelligence Products
In order to improve protection of intelligence sources and methods that have
been determined to warrant special control, all intelligence production elements shall
take special care to ensure that data on such sources and methods are excluded to the
extent possible from finished intelligence products. To provide this protection,
producers of finished intelligence shall:
a. avoid production which must be handled in compartments intended to protect
collection efforts (e.g., BYE) because it limits the utility of the product and/or
results in proliferation of access to collection system-oriented compartments;
b. abide by the total prohibition against using in a product-oriented compart-
ment (e.g., TK) any SCI that has been identified as warranting compartmenta-
tion in a collection-oriented special access program (e.g., BYE) (such practice
These provisions supersede those included in DCID No, 1/19, effective 6 June 1978. They derive
from and have the force of the DCI Directive on the Security Committee, effective 15 July 1982.
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voids the utility of separating sources and methods from product information);
and
c. ensure that unavoidable references to SCI sources are as nonspecific as
practicable.
Generalized discussion of compartmented collection capabilities is permitted in
finished intelligence products provided that the products are themselves compart-
mented. Discussion of specific details concerning collection system sources or methods
which are protected by special access programs should not normallly be contained in
finished intelligence. When treatment of a particular subject in finished intelligence
products requires detailed discussion of compartmented sources and methods, a
special supplement, appropriately controlled, is the preferred vehicle. Finished
intelligence may contain discussion of gaps in intelligence collection on specific
problems or areas, of the general capabilities of collection systems to provide
indications warning and as a measurement of the reliability of sources to the extent
that analytical judgments would be affected.
The policy of constraint on the use of compartmented information on sources and
methods in finished intelligence products applies to all Intelligence Community
publications, including the National Intelligence Daily, Interagency Memoranda,
National Intelligence Estimates and Alert Memoranda. It also applies to all the
finished intelligence production of individual agencies, including formal and informal
memoranda and studies.
Attachment:
DCI Security Policy Manual
for SCI Control Systems
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