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MEMORANDUM FOR THE M»iBERS OF USCIBEC: 

Subject: 

Reference: 

Emergency Dissemination of CCMINT to Non-indoctrinated 

Persons. 

USCIB 5/460 dated 30 July 1953. 

1. In accordance with the instructions set forth in the reference 

the Intelligence Committee prepared certain recommendations with regard 

to subject dissemination. As explained in enclosure 1 hereto, these 

were forwarded to the Security Committee for review and comment. 

Enclosure 2 herewith includes the Security Committee comment and forwards a draft directive approved by it with regard to subject. 

2. The above mentioned draft directive is submitted for consideration by USCIBEC at its next regular meeting. In this connection 

attention is invited to the emendations recommended by the Intelligence 

Committee in enclosure 1 hereto. The Executive Secretary concurs in 

these suggestions. In addition the inadvertent inclusion of the words 

"Third Parties" in subparagraph C.3.a. on page 5 of the draft directive 

should be eliminated and the words 11nationals of countries not included 

within the scope of this directive" substituted therefor. 

3. Some members may feel that the staff work on this paper is not 

as complete as it should be. The Executive Secretary feels, however, 

that Standing Committee deliberation on this topic has gone on long 

enough and that the work is now sufficiently advanced to permit 

Executive Committee consideration and subsequent clerical titivation of 

the resultant papers by the Executive Secretariat. 

4. The Executive Secretary is of the opinion that the provision· 

for identification of each item of Category II COMINT as set forth in 

the last sentence of paragraph V .A. may be impracticable in many cases 

and that it would be just as useful and a lot simpler to require only a 

general description of the nature and extent of source material to be 

reported as is suggested in the case of Category II Plain Text. 

5. In addition to the above the Executive Secretary disagrees 

with the view of the Security Committee as set forth in the first 

sentence of paragraph 3 of enclosure 2 hereto (The Chairman, SECCOM 

Cover Memorandum) • It was thought that the whole idea of this exercise 

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Subject: Emergency Dissemination of COMINT to Non-indoctrinated 

Persons. 

was to anticipate the emergency conditions under which prior reference 

to the Board would be impracticable and to provide sufficient latitude 

t.o meet such conditions without plaguing the mental processes of people 

dealing with an emergency by asking them to consider the feasibility of 

ref erring to Washington for the opinion of a Board they may know little 

or nothing about. It is considered that the Board should not let 

itself be drawn into the position of participating in emergency 4ecisions by commanders in the field. Centralization of policy control 

should always be accompanied by decentralization of execution. In 

attempting to insure that such decentralized execution conforms to 

policy, corrective surveillance should be adequate. Any attempt to 

institute preventive surveillance procedures where time is an element 

(as it almost invariably is in emergencies involving the use of CCM.INT 

by the Armed Forces) is apt to produce a fiasco, perhaps of disastrous 

proportions. Accordingly, it is recommended that careful consideration 

be given to this draft directive with the view to eliminating any 

implication that referral to USCIB in emergency situations is a matter 

which field commanders must add to other pressing considerations. 

Enclosures 

1. INTCOM 13.7/10 dtd 13 Apr 1954 

2. SEC #0001 dtd 9 Apr 1954 

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