TO Colonel Marcy DATE 14 July 1953 

FROM Warren H. Turner, Jr. 

T. R. Chi ttellden 

SUBJBCI' Comments on C<MSEC Directive 

Ass~ the adoption of subparagrapha !,, !?, g, g, !., f., g and l! under 

Section 2g{l) as proposed by the Department of Defense, there remain several 

important detects in the lay draft which should be tidied up. Specifically: 

Paragraph 1,! (2) provides only that the Board nmay study-11 stamards 

and practices and "shall make such recommendations" a-s may be appropriate, 

whereas it is essential that the Board "will review11 and "shall take such 

action as may be necessary to assure canpliance". 

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Paragraph l! should read: "The Board shall call upon • • • • • • • • to 

designate a representative to participate in deliberations or the Board when 

the communications security needs and practices of such Departments and Agencies 

are considered". The Lay version is considered to weaken the Board tmnecessarily. 

Paragraph ~. SECDEF should be designated Executive Agent of the 

Executive Branch of"the Government rather than of USCSB. 

Paragraph 2b. As Executive A.gent, SECDEF should not be restricted by 

this document to taking action "within policies and procedures established by 

the Board II• 

Paragraph 2g, 'Which has been ehmmated from the Lay version and which 

describes the mission or the Exeoutiw .Agent, should be reinserted. This should 

be easy once the NSl. position on the four crucial points has been adopted. At 

our recent meeting the following wording was agreed upon and Colonel Sampson has 

since accepted it: "{1) integrated technical and operating policies, programs, 

and long range plans_required to maintain high and unifom standards to insure 

the security of' Federal telecanmrunications; {2) centralized over-all cognizance 

and authoritative supervision of the technical aspects of communications security 

measures necessary to provide and assure the adequacy of t.he CCMSEC tecbniqms 

and materials used by the Government; and (.3) advice and recommendations in the 

field or communications securit;r. 11 

Para.graph 2g of the Lay version is unacceptable and should be ohaaged t.o 

antioipi.te subsequent direotives by the Executive Agent and responsibility "for 

the technical supervision of the CCMSEC 81!etH1:•"'8ia of the various Departments and 

Agencies'! lf~"l'I ~11/hS 

Paragraph 2_g of the Lay version prescribing the Director's channels to 

the various Departments and Agencies should certainly revert to its previous form 

Declassified and approved for release by NSA on 02-06-2014 pursuantto E.O. 1352a 
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G0NFIBEN'f!A:L - SE6t1RffY Ilii'eftMA'f IBN 14 July 1953 

which specif'ied "the Chiefs or Heads or the organizations concerned.0 • 

Likewise, paragraph .3g, the 11 escapefl paragraph, should read in part: 

"subject to the provisions of lav, the provisions or this directive, and aDy 

other directives which may be issued by canpetent authoritT'. 

Paragraph 4£ should have inserted in the third line after the word 

11 officials11 the words "of the Executive Branch 11 • 

~ - Finally am extremely important, tRe footnote on page 1 establishing 

a super ~SB in lieu or the original. concept or the Special Committee seems 

ludicrous and Fcarmot imagine SECDW or the NSC buying it in its present form. 

WI 

As ve all agreed at the 1 July NSl111eeting, paragraph 2,£(7) further 

restricting the Executive .Agent seeI11B quite inappTOpriate, but perhaps not 

worth a large scale f"uss. If' the points made above and in the communication to 

Mr. !£7 stick, then 2g(7) should go. 

We would like to suggest that once the Director's position is af'firmed 

b.r the PJann:ing Group the entire paper be ref"e?Ted be.ck to the Ad Hoc Ganmittee 

for final editorial and polishing work. This point is made just in case it 

should be the general lDlderstanding that the paper is entirely acceptable with 

the exceptions noted. 

Jt-R~ THOOS R. CHITTENDEN 

Assistant Chief, Planning Group 

Office of Communication Security 

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WARREN1 H. TURNER, Jr. 

Assistant to the Chief 

Off ice of Research and Development