SECURITY INDOCTRINATION AND SECRECY OATH
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/01/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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SECURITY INDOCTRINATION

AND

SECRECY OATH

I have been informed officially that the United States

Government is engaged in major technical programs to

collect intelligence. These programs are concerned with

overhead reconnaissance of denied areas using aircraft and

space vehicles and with the collection of intelligence based

on interception and decoding of foreign ciphers.

These programs are of vital importance to the

national security, and any disclosures of these activities will

endanger the intelligence sources. Official confirmation of

such activities, under other than very carefully controlled

circumstances, is precluded by present national policy,

despite any level of public speculation.

The Director of Central Intelligence, charged by

statute with the protection of intelligence sources and methods,

has prescribed

security policies of compartmented controls

called:

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BYEMAN) for protection of research,

development and operations of overhead

reconnaissance equipment.

TALENT/KEYHOLE, for protection

of photographic product, identified by the

codeword (RUFF) and for the protection of

intelligence from electrical signals collected ")

by satellites, identified by the codeword ZARE.

Communications Intelligence (COMINT),

to the prote and de intel fence abained by.

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OATH OF SECRECY

I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will never divulge,

publish or reveal by word, conduct or by any other means any

classified information concerning the intelligence sources and

methods protected in the BYEMAN, TALENT/KEYHOLE Or

COMINT Channel, except in the performance of my official

duties. In this regard I assume the responsibility of deter-

mining that any individual to whom I disclose such matters

has been authorized to receive it. I recognize that this

information is protected by law and that penalties for

violations of this oath are covered under U.S. Code Title

18, Sections 792 through 798.

Signature

Clare Boothe Luce

Member of PELAB

Position

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Witness

1 Cusad 1973

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