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clw.lpcl ata'1u; laace, 80De of 1.\ will luln ao Mar1q a7 lof.a&er. Jtovewr, 

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C•pnll. 1 MT•• tllenfora, ••\ a cow of \llia coneepoM.eaee k tbea. 

a. !b.e coateru.ce w.a called to coaa14el't 

... 'De nee4 tor ho \nea ot 1ndoctrlati\10A 1a AJ'SA. 

(1) A ucu.rlt.7 brief!ae (1n1'1al 1Atloctriaat1oa) 8D4 oath -

11<il1'7 \o lU\11c LA.v 513, Ot".\A of aeeu.ri\7, e\c. 

(2) CUCDlf bad.oc,rias,lon aa4 oe\h for Hle.oted 1A41T1t!uela - ta 

accordallce vUla the o&th preacJi.becl "b7 USCIB '6. 

11. !he ued tor a rn1a1oa ot l1SO:lD #6c 

(l) 4fo 1.aclucia &IJ'SA. ia 1 '8 proper poai'-l.oa ae a aeaber J.ib•D.C7 of 

tJ.i~lB lach incl:uioa would &1•• l>lll men clea.rq deliaea\ed 

m\hor1'1 on cl6Uaai:e and iadoc\rlaa.Uoa. a\,en). 

'(2) !o apell ou• a uf1A1\1oa ot v.:·Mlft lJldoc\ria.'?.\loa th&' ia · 

clefla.1\elJ' ra<t'l1recl 1»7 1QJJal.J1aliS• a.ad b7 cer\ala •J'B:)ro~:a• 

peraomutl aa oppoaed '° iibe •1-eeurU7 U'le.flnc• or •mi Ual 

1Ad.oc,riaaato.1&• tal1ilall7 req,alnd. tor Use MJor1'7 ot O\l1' 

coapuotaaW •Mr:wcu• pel'soaul. 

(3) to aacri'be k the DIIi \be mtborl~ ao' aq \o de'9nd.JLe 

\be -...e4-•mow•, bat to a1H 4eteiatne vbeU.r a •aecui\7 

ltneftac• (lalt.ial lad0c\r1aa.i1oa) or aa liM!oeviutlea tor 

COMD1! 1a requ.11'84 ( \11.1• cl1atlnet1cm le t.apor\ell' lteceaae. "' 

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mt.borlae tadOctria&\toA ot 1\a penoael). 

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of \be ma.'ber of penoael oleue4 aD4 baoc\rlaa.'84 for 

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aeed.a or l• apec\94 to un sach iadoo\riaa\loa). 

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a.. oaiS 1Aclic1a\es a requ.1tw1ea\ the.\ &11 Q1JS penoael be 1a4oo\r1nete4 . for COHift. 

lt. I/» 14410'1"•• 1a tile1r op1a1ea U:lat ftJ':f tev ot ov people aee4 

izMloctriAAtlon in. the •••• of Jmowledp \b.a\ ve appl.7 •cenala metaoa• tor 

the aolu\ioa ii&. Ule apeolflc tore1p •79'••' or 'tb&' certei.la htl\ll\1 an d.erived. 

ther.tzom•. · 

o. P/P ·-elieYea ve coah.ae •nee6-to-Jmow• wUb 81ncloa\11.Aa$1oa•. That 

1.acloctrin&•ioa ia aa elernenta17 1Aat"2.c\1oa \ha' ie la,er expoa4ed. on a •need.-toknow• b&s1a. (!hia 4oee not &&I'•• wUh G-2' • iAterpre,a.\1011. ba.t does apee vi \h 

OUl" C\U'nllt pnaed.UZea). 

d.. C/S"IJ; ate.tea the opinion \Ga' there a11ould 'be no 't'Rr1at1oa in. the 

•level of cl~anca• of our people, 'bu' \hb.\ ve17 few people 1D. c/s?J: haft 07 

coAtac' or &aia &11¥.lm.ovleclp of COMI:H'!. 

e. LCG impliea no need tor COMM l.ndoc,rins:Uon except en 'op leTal 

1n. the.\ D1v1a1on. 

t. CCMM believes ths.t 9. ot Ua Division ahou.14 receive 1Ull COMI!l'f ' 

1ad.oetr1Aa '1on. 

g. OOMI' cauu.r• thA.t a reT1a1on ot OSCIB f5 ia requ1re4 (t1.a a.o nll who 

wera preaen\ at thla aeetia&). 

h. With the elt0ep•1oa of i» COlllltend.an,, U 1e dov.bttal if ta7 ot the 

Al"SA School SWt end facv.1~7 aeed f\111 1Jldootrlu'1oa. '!hare are por\iODll Of 

Ula .AG a4 Pm, (Yer,, small poupa) th.a\ neecl \hia S.nd.oc\rina\1011. 

4. 1\ 1a recoaiaended. \hat ae a pan of ov mrna\ ~· la a\atua, theM 

maUera be 1aclu4ed. ill the •iudl' of Captain Oood.wia•1 OOlllld\tee. 

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0 AFSA/lS Oct. 1952 

COlfti'fl'1!:lft'IA» - Secur1t7 Information 

TRANSCRIPT OF SECURITY CONTROL DIVISION MEETING 

Date: lS October 19S2 

Time: 

Place: 

Present: 

1300 - 1420 

Room 19232 

col. L. H. Wpari 

Capt. J. s. Harper Col. J.E. Condron 

Dr. S. Kull back 

Lt. Col. G. S. SteYenaorl 

Mr .. H. L11 Clark 

Mr. Paul left 

Lt.. F. T. Johnson 

Lt. Col. R~ H. Borton 

Maj. R. P. Goolsb1 . 

Lt. Col •. J. W. Powers 

Lt. Col.· R •. HUme 

Maj. w. w. Wilson 

capt. J. H. Fortune, jr. 

Lt. Col. M. A. Marshall 

Lt. Col. s. L. Patterson Maj~ D. K. Corcoran 

Representing · 

SEC, Chairman 

OPNS 

OPNS 

R/D 

R/D 

C/SEC 

COMP 

AG. 

'p/p 

P/P 

COMM 

SEC 

SEC 

PERS 

LOG 

SCH 

SCH 

CONFiDENTI:z\L 
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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - COL. WYMAN: The arrangements for the Conference Room limit 

us to one hour•s time. Therefore, we·will start the conference now without waiting for Capt. Harper and I will tl7 

., 

to be as brief as possible. This conference was precipitated · as a result of certain contacts I have had with G-2, Army, in matters of obtaining clearances for COMINT tor certain 

of their people to have access to ft.FSA spaces and information, I find that G-2 has a higher selection standard than 

USC!B .S~ our gu.ide, requires. Whereas as USC'IB 5 states 

"should be" and authorizes waivers of certain standards 

because of operational need, G-2 uses the word 11must" and 

permits no waivers. There are five of these standards. 

They involve matters pertaining to foreign relatives, 

membership in subversive organizations, character, loyalty and discretion, etc. Since all of these are "musts" for 

G-2, when we ask them for clearance for special intelligence on a particular individual we have a hard time. 

G-2 will not indoctrinate unless the standards are met . ' and the complete investigation has been completed. 

Originally· when AFSA was formed it was established that 

aJl:..positio-ms. in·AFSA were sensitive positions and that for 

assignment to or employment in any of its positions a 

complete COMINT clearance (clearance and indoctrination) 

was required. · · .. 

There has been a great deal of confusion as to what con~ 

stitutes basic clearance requirements. For our purposes we 

have held t~t SR 380-160-10 of the Army' is to all intents· 

and PU!:PO&es the same requirement as that.prescribed by · · .USCIB 5. 'For the Navy th~s regulation is RIP 4$(B) and for 

the Air Force, Registered Air Force Contr9l Docllll1ent·No. 

2-652i. The Air Force terms this a cryptographic clearance • . The Army represented by ASA, as opposed to G-2, does the 

same thing but refers to it, plus indoctrination, as a · cryptologic clearance.· The Navy•s clearance in terms of· 

·the secretar7 of Defense Directive.of 5 June 19S2 is the 

same requirement. G-2, Artrr1 1 places their req:i.irement at 

a higher selective and investigative level. 

l have stated to the Director and have written in our 

security Manual that our clearance standards are the minimum directed by USCIB S, that indoctrination will be adm1:nistered on a "need to know" basis, and the Director 

shall exercise his right to waive certain select~on 

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0 Olf.PI DEN'fI AL 

SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- ~ - standards in accordance with operational need. My problem 

is mainly concerned with indoctrination, the Director's 

authority to determine "need to know", and the type of indoctrination which is meant by USCIB 5 in its recμirement 

that they be notified. annually of all persons "cleared far 

COMINT". USCIB 5 ~tates that· for each of the member agencies and departments the head of the service concerned shall 

determine the "need to know" !'.or its personnel, that personnel in the Department of De.fense outside the member 

agencies and departments shall have their "need to know" 

determined by the secretary of Defense, that all contractual p~ople, technical consultants,·etc., employed by a Service 

shall have their "need to know" determined by the head of 

that service, and that for all others who must have access 

to COMINT only USCIB can determine the 11 need to know". 

AFSA was form~d after USCIB 5 WRS written. We contend 'that 

only the Director can determine the "ne9d to know" of persons associated witq or employed by AFSA. Because of this 

we have problems. We feel that the cryptographic clea:rance, 

as noted above, is required but that lor many people coming 

into AFSA, indoctrination 1.n the sense of USCIB .5 is not 

required. we are required many times to establish the 

clearance status of so and so in order tha.t he may inter-

.view somel:)ody in "R&D", for example, with no necessity· for 

·discussing COMINT and with no necessity for acce~s to AFSA 

information. On the other· hand, we of ten need to provide · , access for someone in G-2 in a space where complete indoctrination is not nece.ssary but where a certain amount is. 

In this case because we are a COMINT Agency we have asked 

·G-2 for clearance for special intelligenc·e. · They retain 

the right to indoctrinate and insist on giving full indoctrination-"far more information than we consider 

necessary. ·It is a problem to us both in record keeping 

and in placing clearance requirements on the Services. 

Because of the difference in selection and clearance d: 

G-2, as opposed to ASA, G-2 is a bit alarmed at the number 

of Army personnel.who are submitted as being cleared for 

COMINT. 

I feel that a rewrite of lJSCIB 5 is necessary. Where the 

Director has authority delegated to him for the cle~rance 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

-- - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - and indoctrination of his own civilian employees, he does 

not have it for roilitary personnel and contractor personnel 

who are associated with his Agency via the Services. we 

have no question about the Services' authority· to clear 

people. We do question anyone's authority to determine the 

"need to lmow" of cleared people sent for assignment to 

AFSA or employed on a contractual basis. Again if we were 

to apply G-2' s high standards,_ we would not have sufficient 

employees or assignees to carry out our operation. 

Perhaps the matter is.one of terminologJ". we cannot feel 

that USCIB is interested in the number of employees we have 

per se •. we do feel that they are interested in the number 

who have been indoctrinated for COMINT. [n other words, 

we have two levels of indoctrination--one an initial saourity indoctrination or briefing, followed by such further indoctrination as may be required by the "need to lmow" with the 

complete indoctrination .. being that termed by USCIB as 

cleared for COMINT. ~n1ere the break.is between this ultimate indoc~rination end what goes before I frankly do not lmow. 

I estimated with the Director the other day that perhaps 1,500 AFSA personnel could be considered indoctrinated in 

this latter fashion. one or the reasons for this conference 

today is to find rout from you people how many of your per- sonnel might be considered indoctrinated to this high ·level. 

In the last two paragraphs. of USCIB S it states that all 

"those individuals who are involved in the. various parts of 

the production or COMINT need not be cleared in accordance 

with the same standards as those who handle the product; 

that they need not be indoctrinated but that those who have 

a complete knowledge of our business must be recorded and 

reported. Should we have two definite indoctrinationsf 

I do not mean two standards of clearance because clearance 

merely establishes eligibility for indoctrination. Should 

we try to maintain in my Division a list of those individuals 

who have been indoctrinated "all the way", as opposed to 

those who have received only partial indoctrinationf 

capt. Harper entered the meeting at l:lS. 

apologized for not holding up the meeting 

cussed the foregoing for his info!"Il'!ation. 

continued. 

4 

Col. l,\ryman 

and briefly disCol. Wyman 

CONFIDENTIAL 
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CON FI DEH'i'IJ,L 

SUBJ: Transcr1.pt of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oot. 

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COL. WYMAN: The oath our people sign upon indoctrination 

is not eJC:actly the COMINT oath prescribed by USCIB 5. we 

do not include that portion which states that personnel 

leaving the COMINT .Activity engage not to reveal the source 

of COMINT, although this pRrticular point might be consider0d covered under their public Law 513 responsibility. 

Per.haps we should have an oath, separate snd distinct for 

use in the indoctrin:itlon and debriefing of personnel who 

have knowledge of th~ wholo COMINT Activity. A great many 

people in COMSEC are in no way connected with COMINT; our 

cerd punch operators, for example, and certain low-level 

employees are not connected with any but their particular 

part of the COMINT Activity; the Staff of the AFSA School __ hinra no knowledge; and many others. They have no "need to 

mown of the final• productJ how it is hand.led, where it 

goes, or· what it is for. 

I would like to come .UP with recommendations as to whether 

we can do somet'hing about es tabl1.shing the position of AFSA 

in USCIB, the Director•s authority, and a clear delineation 

of the mem ing of indoctrine.tiori. Now that you., Capt. 

Harper, are here, I would like to mention a revision in the 

Agree1n&nt which states that only those people who handle · Category I·COMINT matters re~ire indoctrination f~r COM~NT. 

in the spirit of USCIB S. I would like t9 hear comments 

in order from 02, OJ, 04, 12, and oth~r Sta~f Divisions 

as to how they feel about their own people. 

CAPT. HARPER: It is much better from our s·t.andpoint where 

we are all together in the esme office to have everybody 

indoctrinated. We are not opposed to change because we 

have thought of it many timns, but it gives us' freedom to 

transfer people around or to pick them up ·to do specia.l 

work which we would not have otherwise. 

~coL. WYl.u\.N: I would like to bring up this point with regard "to CIA. In' the COMINT __ por_t..1.on of CIA they have their own .s~curity officer who accepts nobody for assignment without 

evaluating the investigative materla.l him.seif. He accepts 

for assignment only t~ose people concerning whom there is 

no doubt in his mind. 'MY point in this matter is that we 

CON~IDENTIAL 
'· 

0 0HF'IDBW:'IAL 

SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

report ao many people cleared for COMIMT each year. j'!_! ___ · 

have 7, OOOCI"Vilian employees and we repor.t them to USCIB 

as being cleared and indoctrinated for COMINT. I do not 

believe·this is a true statement. I do not ·believe all 

of these people can be considered as indoctrinated in the 

manner contemplated by USCIB S. Even in your own office 

·r do not think it is necessary. For example, the other 

day we were asked to give some instruction in the use of 

secret ink to certain G-2 personnel. As far as we are 

concerned,e.11 these persons need have in regard to AFSA 1s 

a cryptographic clearance with minimum indoctrination 

concerning the area in which they ere to work. However, 

to get c·learance for specie.l intellige;nce, according to 

G-21 s requi~ements,they must be indoctrinated 11 all the way". Also they must meat the complete selection standard G-2 has 

set up. we do not consider this complete indoctrination 

necessary. · 

CAPT. HARPEg: I don't think that is a good example. I 

agree in some respects with G-2. We have a lot or visitors 

who have to come· in here. secret ink is not COMINT, nor is 

.our need for certain types of supplies COMINT, so everybod~ 

coming in doesn't have to be indoctrinated for the same 

category that you are talk!ng about. I am talking about 

the employees, the people ~i~o work for and are assigned to 

02, They are all cleared. "rJ'e wouldn't have them in the 

ple.ce if they we~entt q~al~f~e~ and indoctrinated from the 

securtty standpqint~ 

COL. WW.AN: Cles.r1:mce is quite different from ind.octrina- -~,,_..9!1_ •. ____ _I_.i:n.!'-~~j.on~~:-~r.::.~ ~~~c.~.e.~. ~p.H; m.~~-tE1~ ___ Q..:g.l,.y_:Q~Q.!l'1..!l~ __ t]'lese individuals must come irito Mr. Feeney•s spaces and.must have 

access to his laboratory, Their ver1 presence in Feeney 1 s snop gives them access to a certain.amount or information. 

1 CAPT. HARPER: It shouldn't be accessible. Feeney can 

certainly take care or that. 

COL. WYMAN: They can•t help but see and hear things in the 

laboratory with so much going on. 

CAPT. HARPER: 'All he _has to do is cover it up. 

COL. WYMAN: Will not it stop his operation? 

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SUBJ: •rrapscript of SEC Div. Mtg·,. - 15 Oct. 

CAPT. HARPER: I ca:i.arrange those things. I 

COL. CONDRON: .Actually such occur.rences t:•.re rather remote. 

CA?T. HARPER: They set all the painters in there. 

COL. WYY..AN: Yee:, but the supe1~visors are fore~arned'l 

CAPT. HARPER: They have "to be forewarned. I!' visitors 

come in with an ordinary visitor•s badee ·on they shouldn•t 

be allowed to walk around. 

COL. WYl"'..AN: Perhaps the secret in..~ is· a bad example. What 

I am trying to say is that these individuals do not need 

indoctrination beyond their "need· to know". 

CAPT. HARPER: It isn• t in accord.a.nee with the "need to know" 

that they be told all about the organization. 

COL. WYMAN: That is ri3ht, but in this case G-2 insists. 

I can give you a better example. 

CAPT. HARPER: Let's get beck to a practical example and not 

theoretical things. 1·Ja have been talking about AFSA employees. 

our laborers don•t need to be told all about the Activity. 

They need to have such indoc trtr..a.tion ar clearance or whatever you call it, to take an oath not to tell what they 

overhear throug..~ the walls or open doors, or see on the 

blackboards in goine; around, etc. It is not ·permitted !'or 

them to tell. There is no re Rs on why they sh:>uld be told 

how many intercept stations we have, or about the organization, and a lot of other thin~s. 

COL. WYMAN: But there is a difference in the ~arious levels 

o!' people we employ. For exa~ple, what about our custodial 

personnel? There is a certain group of them, about 40, whom 

we want to have access to co~e into our shops to repair 

power lines, fix boilers, replace lights, and eight. of these 

need to have access to go back and forth through security 

areas simply in the process of cleaning out· tbe toilets 

on the second and third floors. We need them cleared in 

order that they can do their work without escort. We have 

tried our best to get ASA to provide clearances. ASA's 

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C 6NP:E DE?N'f I :AL 

SUBJ: Transcript ot SEC Div. Mtg. - lS Oct. 

- - - -- ~ - - - -- - - ~ - - --- - -- - - ~ - - stand. is, "We wil~ not clear them becauise they have no •need 

to know• and we determine the 'need to know• • " We could not 

agr.ee with them more except that the mere access to·the 

spaces where they are to conduct their work imposes a "need 

to know" through their .Proximit7 t·o classtt1ed wo:r.k. we 

want clearanc·e. ~nl7 to establish eligib1·11ty tq let us 

indoctrinate sufficiently to safeguard our information •. 

This t7pe ot indoctrination is what we refer to as an 

initial seourit1 indoctrinatlon and it amounts to hardly 

more than a csecurlt7 briefing •. It is not a COMINT indoc .. trination • 

. CAPT. HARPER: we see them walking around without escorts. , I 

COL. WYMAN: Y~s,.·in the hallwajs but not across the secure 

.areas between wings. OriginallJ all poa:i tions in AFSA ·were 

des1.gnated ·as sen.a:Ltive poai tions, not because their work was 

h1ghl7 classified but because mere p~oximtty to the work ot 

the Agency·gave personnel access to information which was 

h1ghlf sensitive. In other w~rds, proxim1t1 to classified 

information creates a "need. to know" and grai;it1ng such 

proximitJ to uncleared people or perhaps unindoctrinated 

'people promotes the poss~bility·of security violations. 

CAPT. HARPER: I.· don~ t ·think it does .. 'I 

. ' 

, COL. WYMAN: You ~re re·:f"erripg to the secret ink pers~nnel? 

CAPT. HARPER: I don•t agre.e with you on that unless you 

expect those people to come .over for a course of instruction, 

COL. WYMAN: It is a course of instruction and lasts for 

two or three months. 

CAPT. HARPER: I thought lt was just one visit. The7 should 

be cleared. · 

COL, WYMAN: I·. am gla:d you say that. Our problem is that 

we do not teel we need to req.tire G-Z•s high selection stan~rd tor them and yet G-2 will not indoctrinate unless 

that high standard.is maintained. 

CAPT. HARPER: Tell G~2 to send them· over and we will 

indoctrinate them. 

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OOHPID33M'l'IAL 

. SUBJ: Transcript of SEC.Div. Mtg. 15 Oct • , ~ - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - . - ·COL. WYMA.N: we can• t indoctrinate them under the USCIB 5 

prohibition. · 

MR. NEFF: What is the date of USCIB 5? 

COL. ~1.N: In 19~9 before AFSA was formed. 

CAPT. HARPER: MY reaction ls that people coming in~o AFSA 

have to meet our clearance standards and be indoctrinated 

to the extent that is necessary. 

COL. WYMAN: To accomplish that I believe USCIB 5 needs to 

be rewritten. However, to finish our discussion at this 

time may I take it that you do not concur that there is 

need for a '.top-bracket group of people being indoctrinated 

for COl-1INT in the sen~e of th~ Category I recp. irement under 

the proposed revision of the Agreement? 

CAPT. HARPER; For our own employees, no. I don't think so. 

That is something which is rather an unwieldy p~ocedure 

from the standpoint of t~e Operations Office. Security has 

·always got to :give away to some extent to the necessity for 

operations. You can carry it to the point of absurdity 

·where we get the most oecurity by not having any papers 

around, where we get ideal secu.ri ty if'.w~ d0>n"' t send any 

messages. 

COL. WYMAN: Another example of our problem is securing clearances for p·eople to work on the new si·te project. 

·Certain peeple must come into AFS~ to see what types of 

machines we ·use ___ and to settle certain construction 

requirements. T~e Anderson-Nichols company has some people cleared sufficiently. HQwever, it takes tim~ to secure 

clearances fo~ special intelligence when the Army cites 

·the high standards that they do. we are acting out of 

order, but in order to get the work in progress, we grant 

interim clearance on the same basis we_grant ~terim 

clearances to our own people (NAC and polygrap~)while 

waiting for the final clearance to come in from the Army. 

Actually the Director has no authority to ~o this~ 

~ ·C:APT. HARPER: All they need is a contractor·• s clearance. 

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COHPTDBN'fIAL 

SilBJ: Tra.nsc ript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

COL. WYMAN: Contractor• s clears.nee, yes, but accornplished 

by the some standards as we recμire of anybody else for the 

particular type· of c~ntract involved. 

DR. KULLBACK: There are two considerations here, that of 

clearance and of indoctrination. so far as indoctrination 

:ts concerned, tha.t is essentially what statements shall be 

made to a cleared individual with respect to the disclosure 

of COMINT. By co;nxnunications intelligence you mean either 

certain methods for the solution of specific foreign' systems. 

or the results derived therefrom. ve~y few' people wrrr neea--

to be indoctrinated in that sense. 

COL. WYMAN: Under USCIB 5 my impression is that.clearance 

for COMINT and the report rendered to USCIB concerning the 

number of people so cleared should include 'only those 

people who have access to the whole operation and that'that 

number must be kept to a minimum. That is wrrat is causing 

the confusion in my mind. I want to know how many people 

11n.R&D know all about the production of COMINT, what is 

done with it, and where it goes. 

CAPT. HARPER: Nobody. I don't think there would be anybody in 02 who could fulfill that definition, who knows 

all about where it goes. 

COL. WYMAN: We might say 1,500 people in AFSA altogether? 

DR. KULLBACK: I.don't think anybody in 03 knows that. I 

have never concerned myself with it. / 

CAPT. HARPER: The number of people in 03 who \.0 uld have 

to know enough· about it to recμ ire full indoctrination 

would be very few. 

DR. K.ULLBACK: In studying the techniques and reading the 

systems very few people concern themselves with where the 

ultimate message goes when they translate it, what amount 

of intelligence it contains, who gets it, or what they do 

with it. They are not concerned with that. . COL. HORTON: I an not ·sure but that we are confusing the 

1ndoctrinat1.on wlth the determination of the "need to know". 

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The indoctrinRtion covers certain general security precautions and the administration of. the oaths prescribed in 

'C'SCIB·5. The deteriilination.of t:b.e "need to know" of the 

various grades of COMINT talces ple.ce continuously asi time 

goes on. W:l thin C npt. Harper' s sb.op, as al 1 of us know, 

he n1ay get one particular man and put hin1 on a T/A_ problem 

of a particular type. He is put on thei•e for that particular assigmi1ent, · He is not given ~'Ii.a complete overall plcture necessarily of COMINT. · 

COL. WYMAN: In .AFSA, he is not. 

COL. HORTON: Capt. Harper might take him off this particular assignment and put him on another more classified one. 

COL. ·\'rlM..U!: That is progressive indoctrination. 

COL. HORTON: No, that is not indoctrination. That is, the 

determination of the 11 need to know11 and the security pre- caution~ relating thereto; the indoc'b1.nation, ·as such, takes 

plece at the time that you have him assigned and give him 

that security oath. 

CL"Pr. HARPER: I would say less than three people would 

fit your (Col. Wyman•s) definition. They are the Director, 

Admiral Wenger, and myself. Only those three would fit an 

interpretation.as strict as that. They reay not know every- thing. There is a lot going on that I don't know about. 

There are other things that I know and that two er three 

other people know ,about which neither the· Director nor 

Admiral Wenger know. They know about them, but don•t know 

the details. I think most of those things will wor~ themselves out on the "nee·d to know" basis in which we are all 

pretty well trained~ 

COL. WYMAN: 'What worries me is the confusion you have and 

the misunderstandins with the supporting Services. our 

Arrrry personnel are furnished by ASA. ASA themselves are in 

agreement with us and send us cleared people in accordance 

with SR 380-160-10. If there is some point in the case 

which needs a waiver they inform us what it is and if ·we 

accept the waiver, we &~t the man; if we donrt, we don1t. 

As far as they are concerned when they send us a soldier 

or an officer as cleared it is up to us to conduct the 

indoctrinatlon. They s i..'11.ply place the !nan•.s name on the 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. - - ..I" .. - ----------- special intelligence list a·nd notify G-2. Because of their 

high standards G-2 is somewhat alarmed at the large number 

of Army personnel that ft.SA reports to them as certified for 

COMINT. From our own standpoint I believe G-2 is correct 

and I do not believe all these people are indoctrinated for 

COMINT in the spirit of USCIB·5. . · 

DR. KULLBACK: There is a difference in the point of view. 

G-2 thinks in terms of indoctrinat:ton or clearance for 

COMINT in terms.of the receiver of the product, the consumer, 

and those who may take action on these things. · In AFS~ they 

go through appropriate clearance procedures end are put to 

work on the various phases of the producing activity. They don•t have to lalow everything. They are not concerned with 

the product its elf. · 

CAPT. HARPER: The people who know as much of the end-product in 02 as ~hose in G-2 are comparatively few. There may be 

three or foul" dozen. I· ~h:tr..~!!: the consumers get the whole. 

works. we don•t. We dotr~ like them to have the whole 

works. 

COL. WYMAN: What our autho?"ity is in dealing with the 

three services ought to· be clar~fied ror us. AS it is, we 

are constantly in difficulties over Service requirements. For example, none of our Army civilian personnel are certified · to_j'AG; should we certify them to TAG as cleared for special ·-·-1:nt~1ii8erice' "n--i "might be" expected to complain:-·-----·--

MR. NEJ:i'F: The military 3et certified for COMINT. 

COL. WYMAN: That is cryptogr&~~ic certification. 

MR. NEFF: That is different. They are not certified for 

COMINT. · Cryptographic certification is only one step toward 

certification for COMINT. You have to indoctrinate them~­

for certification for COMINT for a cryptologic clearance. 

COL. WYMAN: ASA' s stand :1s that when they send mill tary persormel to us they know we will indoctrinate them and 

they certify our people· to the Army as indoctrinated for 

COMINT. We have never.certified our civilians to anybody. 

we are the only office of record. The only time we furnish 

information to anyone is when we notify USCIB each year th~t 

we have appro;ximately so many employees cleared for COMINT. 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 1.5 Oct. 

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It doesn't make an iota of difference. If a man is indoctrinated and has signed Ghe oath, whether or. not he ever· 

sees or ever hears about a piece of COM!NT or cryptographic 

eqi.ipment, he must be reported to che Board. 

COL. WYMAN: Do you mean the GS-2 Card punch operators? 

COL. HORTON: If he has beoSn indoctrinated and h.a.s taken the 

oath, he roust be included in the totel.· · 

C.APT. H/l.RPER: I may be confused by your deflnition of indoctrination. I have thought of 1·t as this. They read the 

appropriate laws and instructions an.d take the oath not to 

reveal anything they may know. From the security standpoint 

that finishes it. 

COL. W:lMAN: AS far as we are concerned, we call that a 

.security indoctri11atio11. AS/i. calls that a security briefing. 

The indoctrinat.1.on ls done in accordance with the 11 need to 

lmow•t. 

CAPP'. HARPER: Perhaps we B1 oulC. get the 'terms· straightened 

out before we talk with them. 

COL. WYt-!AN: I want to get something from us that we ~11· 

and t'l6rey will ~gree to. 

CAPT:.. rIJ'.RPER: When we say "indoctrination", in our ·sense 

that·means a security briefing. I don't want every punch 

operator to know the whole business. 

·cot. WYMAN: They a.re not 1ndoc ·trinated then .• 

·CAPT. HARPER: In the strict sense of the word,.. I agree with 

you. We will have to go to Webster on it. 

COL. WYMAN: I would like to hear from Olj. on this thing~ 

=MR. CLARK: There is the sa.."IJ.e confusion in my mind that there 

ls in some of the other peoples• minds. Let me give you an 

example and ask questions on it.- From time to time, on the 

basis of' what is considered by AFSA-02 as a 11:nee-d for me 

:-po know" 1 I have received certain codeword material. During 

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the pest years I have raised this quest5.on. I have never, 

to the best of my knowledge, unless i\ is in ~he regular oath 

thRt I took when I entered this place and retook recently, been specifically indoctrinated for COMINT in the same way 

that I have been specifically indoctrinated for COSMIC. Yet 

I get the material which comes to me through Top Secret··./ 

handling and it comes to me for my information._ Am I supposed 

to have that? 

COL. WYMAN: In the Security Monual that we are publishing 

now we say that our concept of clearance does not conA·titute 

knowledge of classified material. It simply constitutes 

eligibility for access to classified information. 

CAPT. HARPER: In accordance with the "need to know". 

MR. CLARK: Then in 02 I am elie;ible and have the "need to 

know"? 

COL. WYMAN: You are. 

MR. CL.ARK: Who determines that I have the "need to know" it 'l 

That ~s what Frank Rowlett determined. Therefore, I could 

have it. It has always struclc me as being funny. It seems 

to me that I should. sign something which would be applicable 

to special intelligence to protect it forevermore~ 

COL. WYMAN: From what appea~s in the Security Manual you will see that the matter of clearance and indoctPination 

is a sore subject. I have stated AFS.A.'s position as I see 

it, the position that currently exists. I am bumping into 

these things with the Services all the time and I want to 

get agreement among ue. To rr.y mind it is up to "the Director 

to determine what indoctrination his people get. we do not· 

want to :Indoctrinate all people "all t.b.e way". 

CAPI". HARPER: That would be failure on our part to maintain 

security. 

COL. WYMAN: We feel that·USCIB 5 must be rewritten. 

MR. CLARK: I have another canm.ent about 04. As for the 

clearance standards which are required for our people, I 

think it is perfectly ·desirable that all the personnel in 

AFSA be subjected to the eame criteria and have the same 

kind of investigation performed on them, that we have a coI11L~on set of rules and regulations for determining a 

personrseliglbility to be cleared. 

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SUBJ~ .Transcript of SEC. J?iv. Mtg. - 15 Oct. - ~·~ - - - -- - - - ~ - - - - - -- - - COL. WYMAW: To the best of ·my knowledge end belief this is 

the situation. The NaV1, in their investigation, waives ce~tain things that we dont.t waive. We accept their people and we know normall7 'Whf waivers have been granted. It 

Navy personnel are separ.ated.from. AFSA and want to be hired 

as civ1l~ans, we don•.t· take them unless the7 meet our re.- . quirements. we rarel7 s.ee th~ir records. The Air Poree 

clearances are base~_on simil~r r$gulat1ons to those or 

the Arm.7. 

MR. CLARK: Are JOU' aware that under lTSCIB s· this rear the 

Secretary of Def'en~e haa promulgated for all three·services 

a joint polic7 for crJPtographic clearance? · • ' I • 

COL. WYMAN: 'rh.at :l:ri ~ight. ·· · 

MR. CLARK:. we· now·.have· a ·c~6:ri agreement on stan~d criteria on investi~ations? · ' I 

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COL. W!MAlh We hope· ·we d~. we want to get agreement on · how that should be done. None o~ the Services use the 

·term. ''cr7ptolog:lo" except the AI'l.f11. That reall7 amounts to 

Cl'J'ptograph1o as des1gnate~ in the JUne S revised seoDef' . memora~dum.· -Our baa~s ~or .1n~ootr.;1.nat1on is that. .. . I 

MR.· CLARK: M~ se~ond point is similar to Dr. Kullback•s. 

As.far aa the majorit7 ot people in 04 are co~cerned, the7· 

have no.contact with the .actual products of·COMINT nor with 

the source from which ·that·intormation comes. In general, the7 are aware ·~hat 02 is engaged in COMINT activities. 

The details the7 need not know and do not know. There are 

·some exceptions. The. people in 41,.doing anal7aia and 

'evaluation, work rather closely with 02 and h~ve a certain 

knowledge o~ that.part of the work. The majorit7 ot the 

people in.04 do not have contact with COMINT or gain anJ 

lmowledg"e . ot C OMINT. · · 

COL. WYMAN:· B~w many people in 7our Division require complete indoc~rinati~~-

COL. MARSHALL· (LOG): As· 7ou.brought out, the ·people at ·th~ warehouae know ver1 little or what goes on except ~hat 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. M~g. - 1$ Oct. 

- - ~ - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - they find out from the ·supplies t'l:iey a~e handling. At the ·· same time in deel. ing with. supplies they might have occasion 

to enter some of the areas that might be classified higher than the warehouse. 

·coL. POWERS (COMM): I don't know personally~ Quite a large 

-ti per cent of codeword mF..1.terial a:>m.es through our. place. N:inety- five per cent ot our people will see it. That is the wa1 . they get the information. At some time .or other. they .will =· .: 

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see the resulting product wh~n-it goes-out. 

MR .• NEFF: I have· saneth1ng to sq. I think this is a rather 

complex problem for us this afternoon. I. think it would be 

better to have you come around and talk wi·th us personal11· and give us a·~opy of the proposed raper that we could.stud.7 

for a while. I have had considerable experience ~nd have 

some ideas of my own on all of the subjects you have raised. 

·I was active at one time in both the preparation and review 

pf the criteria that USCIB has prepared. I practically · wrote personallJ the Arm.1 alee.ranee regulation.. we certa1nlj' ·· can•t solve here any· of the points you raised this afternoon. 

They ·are much bigg.er. I think we are going to have to take 

them o~e by one. 

COL·. WY:MAN: Chapte~ 3 of the· security Manual expls.1n8 verJ ' ·· clea-rl7,, I think,. just about what we have arrived at i;hia 

afternoon. I foresee a blast from the Services, but I feel 

it· 1s wha.t we ought to stick to .•. I would ~ike .your support 

on th.is thing, if -JOU agree, If you ddn• t, I want to know 

where you dise.g~ee. Th~ Manual will be aroun~ shQrtlJ. . we }:lave coordine.tad it"completel1 :with 12. It represents 

much of what we have said this &:fternoon· •. I· believe that 

it-is entirely in line with the spirit of USCIB but i· 

anticipate trouble when it hits the Services. 

CAPT. HARPER: You better get it around as filOOn as you can. 

COL. WYMAN: I·t will- be out very soon and you will have it 

as an AFSA document .• 

CAPT. HARPER: I imagine that as an official AFSA document 

I am sure to agree with it if it is along the lines we have 

been talking a tout. However, I want to be sure that I agre~ with it before it is published • 

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- - - - -- - - -- - - - ---- - -- - - ------ COL •. WIMAN: However, we have tried for two and a half 7ears 

to ~et somethiJ1,g. down on paper. A great amount or time . would be involve~ in coordinating it through every Office · and staff Division. Your own chapter on COMINT is going· in ~xactly as 1ou prepared it. on .the.personnel sec"Urity pro- cedures we have coo~dinated those thoroughly with Col. 

Borton•s off.ice, I~. Douglas and Mr. Murphy went over it 

with a fine-to'othed comb. It will· make clarification of 

the USCI'B S paper necessary. · 1 . ' 

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MR. NEFF: only. ·a directive from highe·r authority can clarify . it and improve ·upon it in due cour~e. At the present time 

you are stuo~ with .it and have to operate under it a9oordingly. 

COL. WYMAN: The Director is completely in·accord with the 

idea that he should be the only one to determine the "need 

to know" for people ~ithin AFSA. Yet USCIB S states t~at 

.only Service and m·ember people can determine that "need 

to know". 

MR. NEFF: . I don• t i'nterpret the USCIB statement that wa-r · at a11·. . 1 

· COL. WYMAN: It is stated in the second paragraph. 

CAPT. HARPER: . I wa~ a membe~ of USCICC which was a. sub-board 

of USCIB and which worked up this originally be.fore it.was 

revised as a USCIB paper back in' about 1947 or 1948. ·We · determined the- "need to know" for the service.a for the real 

consumers. :It was not the people who worked in CSAW or in 

the producing Bureaus but it was for the consumers. It · ·. was an effort to prev.ent the Chief o-f ASA from saying, · . "Well now, Mr. Jonas of the Navy doesn't ineed to lm.ow• 

this." CIA or the state Department couldn't say tha~.Mr. 

Jones doesn't "need to know". The Navy Department is the ' 

one who ss1s that Mr, Jones has·the "need to know". It 

has nothing to do with the producer. 

·COL. WIMAN: Yet· the Air Force insists on 'rrf1' interpretation. 

CAPT. HARPER: You will find in here then that the Navy is 

responsible for clearance and indoctrination or Mr. Jones. 

we had a big row with them over indoctrination of the Press. 

we warned them that they weren•~ clearable in our eyes. As 

I rece.11, we decided to take turns and say "No". ot course, 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

-- - - - -- - - - - ~ - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - -- - - - at that time there was no AFSA. Now AFSA is in the peculiar position of being an independent body. G-2 of the Anny can•t 

give the Director orders, etc. 

- COL. WYMAN: It should be resolved. 

CAPT. HARPER: Unfortunately it has grown up that our employees 

are Army employees. It was only intended originally when · AFSA was formed that the Army would be the Executive Agent. Administratively that was the intent. Th.rough Civil Service 

requirements and laws they became Army employeea. Gradually, it has grown up that they are full' Army employees just the 

same as anybody working for the Quartermaster•s Depot. 

. .. .. .. . . . .. . . ··- -- - -- : COL. WYMAN: The Navy says, "We alone will indoctrinate our· 

· ~- people~" w: __ (!Et~JJ_ __ !1_~~-!pt __ ~~~~~it~~r·~!.-~~c~ ~ut __ ~~ ~~ n: accept · 1 

~1r 1ndoc~r na ,~on anu repea~ n accoruance w e 

"need to know". The Air Force sometimes sends us people who 

·are cleared and indoo;trinated; however, ·when ~ey arrive 

cleared only we must request authority to indoctrinate from 

Brooks Field. In both cases we proceed to indoctrinate in 

accordance with the "need to know''. 

CAPT. HARPER: You mean you 'c.an• t even give the Air Force· m~ a secliri ty briefing,_ 

COL. WYMAN: It that is termed "indoctrination", that 

authority is delegated to General Lynn. 

MR. NEFF: There is something wrong there. 

CAPT. HARPER: Very definitely. 

MR. CLARK: It sounds like USCIB.S needs going over. 

· . CAPT. HARPER: I · don' t th ink it stems trom USCIB $ • 

COL. HUME: They delegate the authority only tQ Gen. Lynn 

or to his p'os.ition to indoctrinate •. 

CAPT. HARPER: That is in accordance with the 2010 series 

which indicates that the personnel from the Services should 

be cleared and indoctrinated when we get· them. 

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SUBJ: Tr~sc;riiit'.:Of s00'.1)tv. Mtg.- .,, 15 Oct. . ' ---- -· ... --,\... ---- - ~ - - .. - - - . ' 

.COL. WIMAN: . In calling this meeting to a close I ·~oulA like 

to restate m7 position. Th& definition ot "'indoctr.Jnation" 

as such is something which h:as .needed to be reviewe·d, as 

far a~ I am concern~d, for AFSA's purposes in its ·relations 

with the Services;·also USCIB ·S needs to inclu~e th~ Armed 

Forces security Ageric7 and its people and spell ·out the 

authoritr ot tpe Director. · 

CAPT. HARPER: ·I think 7ou are right. May I suggest that 

tor our purposes we.drop.the term "indoctrination" for what 

we do! I would rath~r agree that it 1~ not an indoctrination. 

It i~ a secur~~1 bri~fins. 

. . . ·COL. WYMAN: The Security Manual will st.ate tha~ we have· two 

t7pes or tndootrination.. one,,· a securit1 indoctrination. 

We definitely state what it 1s. Once the man has crypto- . graphic clearance an~ an initial security indoctrination he 

is considered by /.FSA to be acceptable; from then on he 

receives progresoive indoctrination for classified information to which he must have access to. do his work in 

accordance .with bis "need to know". 

CAPT. HARPER: We get ·1nto·trouble when we start talking. in diff~rent languages from the Services or CIA. For that . reason I suggest we don• t call. this an "indoctr1natiol'1'.'. ' ,, . 

COL. WDAN: That. will :be .the tirst· change in the :Manual .• 

COL. CONDRON: The ·Air ·Force gets a glossary ot term& whioh 

.ar$ coordinated with the.various Asencies and services so 

that we a11· know what the other fellow ls talking about. . . . 

COL. WYMAN:" we are including a glossary ".Of term.a. ·. , 

I thank y.ou all tor your attention. I hope you don't feel 

the time has been ·wasted. · 

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Col. HU111e ·said to Col. Wyman that A~iral wenger•s need ~or 

~e Conf"erence Room no longer existed and we could continue, 

it necessary. 

C.OL. HUME: Do you not want to bring ·up again the point of 

top-grade indoctrination? 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 -Oct. 

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MR. NEFF: That is where your terminology comes in. I am 

pretty certain that I rem~mber a report by name in which 

what you are talking about is what Dr. Kullback calls . "consumer•s indoctrination". That was not intended for the 

processing people. 

COL. WYMAN: 

doctrinated. 

Then all our people would not have to be in-

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They are not intended to be. 

CAPT. HAHPER: I want full clearance and indoctrination 

within 02 to take care of the 1rneed to know" business. They 

are told enough to go about their work. Then when they move 

to _another activi~y they are told that. They wontt be told 

to '.forget what they have. learned in the first place.· we 

-are-glad to-have them retain that knowledge. As an employee 

goes up step by step to os-lS, he learns more and more. 

Certainly a person should not know everything because he is 

a GS-15~ 

MAJ. CORCORJtN: When G-2 gives indoctrination to personnel, do they give it like it is do-ne· down at the SchoolT What 

do they do, go ahead and telr them about operationsT 

COL. WYMAN: About operations completely and cod~word; 

material. 

MAJ. CORCORAN: we tell them in essence that 'this is a 

security Agency and to·keep their mouths shut. 

COL. HUME: In G-2, their indoctrination is· threefold and ~-s comparable to· COMSEC indoctrination, to COMINT indoctrination, and to administrative securit7 indoctrination. The 

latter is our initia.l securit7 indoctr1na~1on. 

··MAJ. CORCORAN: ours says it a:lot more simply. They are 

given a brief indoctrination. If they need to know more 

later on, as Capt. Harper said, they are told what they will 

need to know for that particular project. That is what we 

give them down there. 

COL. WYMAN: ASA. considers your indoctrination simply as a 

security briefing. To them, it is not an indoctrination i~ 

the sense that we ~se it progressively later on. 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. 15 Oct. 

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16 to use and for the 05 ·School. When they come to 02, 03, 04, 12, or 17,· they have to have full security briefinG• 

Indoctrination in their particular work will be given by their supervisors who know how much they have the "need to 

know". 

COL. WYMAN: The security briefing is the initial security indoctrination. 

MR. CLARK: May I raise this question? This Secretary of 

Defense Directive of 5 June, is that specifically for 

cryptographic cle~rance? 

COL. WYMAN: Yes·. The standard for cryptographic clearance 

put down there are practically ident:bal with the basic 

USCIB standards. It is the 'same thing as 8R 380-160-10 

and the service similar regulations. 

MR. NEFF: The Army Regulations are written deliberately. that way? 

MR. CLARK: We ~now of the investigations that are to .be 

carried out, that the· criteria to be met by the personnel 

are identi~~l fo~ clearing an individual for either COMINT 

or COMSEC? 

Iv11. CLARK: I can cite an instance where a Service interpreted the ~riteria differ~ntly. The Air Force has a school 

at Scott Air Force Base where·they have cryptographic operations. The Army has onA at Camp Gordon. A lot of the 

Service personnel within them have interim cr~tographic 

clearance. Never to my knowledge has an individual accepted 

bn:an interim c.learance by the Signal Corps .faila d to pass 

a full clearance. About one out of every one hundred at 

Scott Air Force Besa would fail to pass the final test and 

they follow exactly the same rules. 

COL. WYMAN: Thlt is possible. 

Iiffi. CLARK: There are bound to be differences in interpreta- tion. The one of the Services which is more strict to begin with is bound to be more strict than the other finally. We 

wouldn't get the same end result out of the two situations. 

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SUBJ: Transcript of SEC Div. Mtg. - 15 Oct. 

- - -·- - - MR. NEFF: I claim regardless that you have to have one 

hundred per ~ent or the whole thing falls down.. you say, for example, that the Air Force insists on determining 

whether an Air Force officer is cleared or not. All you do 

is to review it. I claim there is a weakness in that the 

other Agencies review the clearance of people that are sent 

to them. 

COL. WYMAN: we do not review all clearances as a matter of 

courtesy but we do recμ ire personal History statements from 

all of them. These we review and if they indicate the 

necessity for reviewing the record, we do. • 

MR. NEFF: You assume that the Services sw that PHS, tooT 

COL. WYMAN: It is possible that they have waived certSin 

items. This must be taken into consideration. Perhaps we 

do not want to waive the same item. 

MR. NEFF: If one activity says that the person is cleared, 

the second activity accepts the statement? 

COL. WYMAN: Not alwaya. For example, ASA has a stamp which they put in an upper corner of a PHS sent to us for 

review. That stamp means th.et there is something in the 

rean•s case which needs waiving. If we want the man, we sa1 

"Yes" in the blank provided. If we do not, we sa7 "No". 

If our answer is "No", ASA moves the individual concerned. 

We do not have this arrangement with the other two services. 

COL. COHDRON: The 5 June agreement !s in operati.on now? 

MR. CLARK: It is subject to interpretation • 

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MR. NEFF: Tha·t doesn't preclude, because of the intelligence · aspects, that other things will· govern. For the ASA;!Processing Activity, the same investigative standards and the 

same evaluation of investigative reports will ~pply whether 

or not they are going to be working at ASA on the cryptographic 

or the intelligence end. That is ·a joint thing on the crypto- graphic end. The area of contention is where you have the 

different services givins different interpretations ~n the . intelligence end. 

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--- - - -- -- -- - - --- - -- -- ---- - - -- MAJ.· CORCORAN: Is the clearance given in the Air Force tor 

·assignment to.AFSS equivalent to ASA's or is it like G-2's? 

COL. WYMAI: It is probablJ much the same as ours here. You 

signed an oath temporar117, there, when you were brought into 

this business?. 

MAJ. CORCORAN: When I came in from th~ Air Force? 

COL. WYMAN: Here, we had to wait for authorit7 to indoctrinate JOU~ 

MAJ. CORCORAN: We wonder~d how JOU indoctrinate.· 

COL. W!MAN: That is what we ott•n wonder with regard to the· 

Air Force· and Hav1, how much indoctrination has been gi~en bJ 

the Service betore a man arrives here. . · . 

MR.CLARK: When an offictsr is sent to· 7ou tor assignment to 

·AFSA and the service indicates that the individual has been 

cleared, is that clearance accepted without re-investigation? . . . 

COL. WYMAN: Yea, 1r·there·has not been a break ot 18 months. 

we have to tallow rules on that. 

MR· •. CL.ARK: Personnel aupposedlJ are cieared in accordance 

with service standa~s.· 

COL. ·WYMAN: . w, are to review them a~ oertit1 them. 

MR. CLARK: We don•t put the~ down in the Training School? 

COL. WIMAN: It ~ know about their clearance, we don•t put them in the 'l'raini'ng school. 

The purpose or this meeting has bean mat. We all teal that 

there is a need for a review or USCIB S. Second, 1ou,Capt. Harper, believe that the indoctrination as we are now conducting it is in the best interests o~ 1our operations and 

within the requirements ot USCIB as now written. Third, we 

all teal that the term "1ndoctrination" is perhaps misused. 

and that we should term our initial seourit1 indoctrination 

as a "securi tJ briefing" instead. we all understand that a 

m1litar1 person cleared will possiblJ have some similar 

briefing when he comas in the service but that further indoctrination should be developed within the Agenc1. 

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MR. CLARK: Along that line of thinking would you then report 

regularly only those people that you determined to have been 

fully indoctrinated? 

COL. '\oM'.IAN: Not necessarily. 

MR. MEFF: There has to be a need t·o get fully ·indoctrinated 

if they work in JI.FSA.. ! 

CAPT. HARPER: They want the names of people employed here2 

COL. WYMAN: NOt we simply send them the number, we don•t 

send the names··· to anybody. . · . 

CAPT.· HARPER:· · We were supposed to send the ·corrections 

every year tG> the FBI. ASA dld. we wanted to do that 11 The FBI d1dn•t search their files in those days. They said 

that they c-ouldn' t do that but if anything came up, for . instance, Ziswoski out in Chicago turned out to be a member 

of a front organi~ation, the1 would look at the list end 

see if th~ name Ziswoski was on the list •. If it was, they would so inform us. They couldn't take the listing and go 

through the entire file on every name. I never heard of 

the effects of it. We did do it. We miait have some 

individual tallts .oh these subjects. 

COL. WYMAN: My purpose in having you all here was to 

determine how many people ~.n ee.ch Staff Divi~ion and Office 

would come under that top-level indoctrination. You state 

that as far as you, C&pt. Harper, are concerned, there . would be only three or four. 

CAPT. HARPER; Take 12. for ex~~ple. Youngsters from 12 

come around all the time asking for information from this 

person or that person who makes up the papers. They don•t 

come to me. If I weren•t sure that every one was fullJ 

cleared and securit1 indoctrinated, I would have to issue 

an order that no~ody wearing a 12 badge, with certain exceptions, would be allowed in the operating spaces •. The 

same thing would be true of 16. · 

MR. NEFF: I think it was not intended that any individual 

ln an1 cryptoGraphic agency receive this formal indoctrinat'ion. 

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CAP!'. HARP~R: G-2's indoctrination is bnsed ·on that. I cnn 

see reasons for. G-2, ON!, CIA, ID, and the Air Force Intelligence ·consumer~ getting fuller indoctrination than the vast majorit~ of our people do. They got the Re,ITle kind of indoctrinatlon. as the people in 25 get. I can understand that 

reason. I think that is an internal matter. . . 

MR. NEFF: Exactly. That should be the extent of the security · briefing as we are now calling it. 

CAPT. HARPER: I meant more than that. I meant more than a 

security briefing. I meant the knowledge of ~.rhat this means, 

on how it is arrived at ~n order thnt they can evaluete it 

properly as' intelligence information. 

DR. KULLBACK: Also the circumstances under which they· could use 1~ operational~y, ~hat they have to know. 

COL. WYMAN: In our Manual, you will find reference to this 

type (consumer) of people. There are certain badges that 

they get. 

CAPT. HARPER: When they show the proper badge, we assume 

they are fully cleared. 

MR. CLAHK: I have one point in connection with the ·reinvestigation. I don't know how many people here have been 

through this experience which I had about six.months lfgo. 

I found the Agency had re-investigated me. They called me . over withput e.ny knowledge on my part to sign all the various 

and sundry oaths. It was my experience and that of several 

other people that the gen~ral wording of these oaths is no 

longer directly applicable to persormel who are being reinvestigated but is fundeJ11.entally applicable to personnel being indoctrinated for the first time. 

- COL. 'WIMAN: It should be more or less a. reminder. We 

investigate every three y~ars and only to the extent that 

your former clearance doesn•t meet the current requirements. 

MR. .CL Jllllc;: The actual wording that I had to sign wasn' t applicab~~ to me. It didn't make any sense. It WRsnit ~h- I had to sign them bece.use 16 said th1:1.t I had to sieP 

them. · 

COL. WYMAN: We can c henge that. 

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MR. CLARK: I read about a dozen things • 

. C.OL. WYMAN: That is a general reminder. It is not too good and is being revis~d. 

MR. CLARK: I raise the point for the sake of looking into 

it. 

CAP.I'. HARPER: I don•t believe the statute of limitations 

has anyth 1.ng to do with 1 t m y more • 

COL. HUMF.: The second oath, the renewal oath, is only a 

matter of record •. Each individual on the street is.obligated 

to ·the laws of the United States whether he signed an oath 

or not. 

· · ·COL. WYMAN: public Law .513 would take care of that.·. 

MR. NEFF: we probabl7 don• t need the oath. 

CAPT. HAPJ'ER: I think it is a good thing to have. ·That is , all it ever did do even b~fore PL 513. 

LT. JOHNSON: Suppo'se. a person T"efused to take the oa.th? 

CAPT. HARPER: suppose he was a ~usker? 

LT. JOHNSON: We bad· one case last year. 

COL.· WYMAN: The gentleman was a Jehovah• s Witness and we 

asked him to "affirm". 

MR. CLARK: Capt. Harper, in 'the Navy y-ou had an oath which 

I signed and which I may no longer live up to. When I 

worked for the Nav1 in 193.5 and 1936 and was released to go back to the Army I signed certain oaths never under any circumstances to reveal the Nav7•s success to the A"ZWm'Y· Now 

this !being a joint organization, I can no longer say I- won•t 

do that. · 

CAPT. HARPER: Your oath still applies. You can tell the 

Army man what 1 t was and he can tell the Navy man. 

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- - - - - -.- - - - - - - - - -- - - - COL •. WYMAN: I appreciate your coreinti over hore. I hoped I 

would hear more from. Dr. KullbRck. I beliove you, Dr. KUllback, have a lot of difficulty in your shop in deciding when 

to do what in the way of indoctrination or how mu.ch to do. 

DR. KULLEACK: · The difficulty is in the question of interpreting indoctrination rather than security requirements. 

The people should be cleared. They don• t have "need to know" 

t..1i.e COMINT activities. The contractors haven• t eny "need to 

know". • 

CAPT. HARPER: In general you have to trust that they won•t 

go e.nd tell what they- have seen or heard. Men·y times these 

people (contractors.) are not cleared. They walk through the 

halls under escort to see the Director, the Chief of 17, or 

the Contracting.Officer. That is nll right. Those people 

aren•t .going to sit down nnd tell them all of their business.· 

COL. WYMAN: ne.ny times t'hey come in too without any check 

by Security at all. We are trying to 6Ct that under control. 

COL. HUME: There should be a stronger recommendation from 

the requesting Office or Division concerning an incoming 

visitor, contractual or not. The Office itself should 

·require even stronger stand~rds than we do and all visitors 

who come in under this category should meet those standards. 

Sor.'la visitors of this nature come into AFS/. so fast that 

there is no time to dotermino their aualifioations for 

access to classified matter. There should be some statement 

.coming from the Division or Office concerned; they should 

not just throw the qμ.estion up in the air and leave it fo:r 

Security to decide. They mould tell us exactly- what those 

people are·to do, wh.J they- are here, to what degree they should be cleared, and in what capacity they are going to 

be entered in our oper.ationa.l spaces. 

DR. KULLBACK: Either they are broug..~t in or they are not 

brought in. Before any classified 1nforraat1on is made available to anybody you cm rest assured the people concerned 

know about it because they are well aware of the irriplic~tions 

of Public LRW 513. 

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CAPT. H.ARPEn: There was one insts.nce when I w0.s over there 

when so1nebody- wasn• t cleared. Tre contrP.ctinB offi.cer 

stated thflt he we.s. It .was not true in fact. 

DR. KULLBACK: Ey the same token tf we Get informB.tion from. 

the contracting. of,'ficer that an individual 1.s clea?".ed, we 

act on the assumption that that is a valid sta~ement. I • 

COL. HUME: 1 It should also s~ate to what degree, A few 

little facts like that wo~ld help us tremendously. . . 

CAPT. HARPER: The contractors are cleared only for Confidential information. · 

DR. KULLBACK:. One other pos~ibility would be to provide a 

public reception room which·is not within the confines of 

AFSA into which these people could be brought so that you could talk with them. 

CAPT. HARPER: Get the contrs.ct1Ilg off:t.cer to tell you. 

you should. no.t depend on an :!.ndi,ridu:il in 03 to tell you 

when somebody is cleared when he visits here. . . 

COL. WYMAN: Only Secnri ty should check clearanc~ status·; 

Office Chiefs should tell.us when vi.sitars are coming· and 

what c.learance, if any, is required. . · 

DR. KULLEACK: Generally the peopls who vi.sit us are the 

people with whom we are doing business. The1 have been 

cleared. Mm y times somebody comes to the pentagon looking for business." Somebody in the Signal Corps says, "Why don•t 

you go and try AFSA? They do research." Then the first 

·thing you know you have somebody knocking at the gate. A few business people will approach you, people who are 

connected with atomic energy and with Government offices 

security-wise. / 

COL. HUME: There has to be a check. Just as Capt. Harper said that he can•t take a man•s word for it, neither can 

the Security Control· Division. 

CAPT. HARPER: In the case which Dr. Kullback points out, 

of somebody coming here because he was sent out to see nr. 

Kull back or 'Mr. ningley- about b~i.siness, I never worried 

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about those in the slightest.. I think that Dr. Kullback · .and Mr •. Dingl~J: are c·apable or looking out tor> AFSA' s sec~r1t7 concerns. The7 don•t know who the people are in 

the. first place. Ma7be theJ are cleared for some other 

·business. .. . . 

COL. WYMAN: You can talk about a lot of business without 

.ever getting into class1f1ed·matters or into what the Agenc7 does or an7th1~ ot the.sort. 

DR •. KULLBACK: If we_had·some sort of public reception room, 

1-t would help. 

COL. WYMAN: we. will try tQ get that •. 

·'.CAPT. HARPERr I'don•t know whether you get so much ot ~t 

now. In 19.51 we had two or three a day looking tor business. 

At this time it was felt that enough discussion had been · held. Col. WJlTlan asked to see c·ol. Condron and Capt. Harper afte~ the meeting adjourned. 

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