SECURITY HAZARD

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On June 15, 1984, a document classified as SECRET/CENTER LANE 4/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION was mistakenly received by the Special Operations Detachment (SOD) instead of the intended office. The document was promptly secured by the appropriate office. Two individuals, the SOD courier and the SOD Secretary, were the only ones who had seen the document, but they denied reading it other than to obtain the phone number of the intended office. Both individuals have top-secret clearance and are accustomed to working with sensitive information. However, their failure to follow proper procedures for addressing classified material for transmission was the reason for the security hazard. It is believed that no compromise of sensitive information occurred.

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Body:  Approved For Release 200 WQ               -00792R000100050001-1
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 MEMORANDUM FOR  RECORD                                                   21  Jun 84
 SUBJECT:   Security  Hazard  (U)
 l.(U)   On 15  June  1984, at  1330  this office received  a             telephone call
 from  The  Special   Operations Detachment  (SOD),  INSCOM               that SOD  had
 received   a document  which   should  have gone  to  our  office.         The
 undersigned  immediately went  to    SOD and secured the document.
 2.  (S) The  document  was classified  SECRET/CENTER    LANE  4/NO       FOREIGN
 DISSEMINATION.   and had  been sent  to this office  from  the  office      of  the
 SGFOIAG     INSCOM.     The  envelope  containing  the  document  was    addressed    simply
 OL  Buzby.  The only   two  people   who had seen     the document were    the  SOD
 courier,                       who     had  transported  the  document      from
 Arlington  Hall  to  SOD, and  the   SOD Secretary,                          ,  who
 had opened  the  envelope  and  got the phone         number of   this    office  off
 the blame  line  of  the document.                             SGFOIA3   SGFOIA3
 SGFOIA3
 3  (U)               was interviewed   on  18  June  and                   was
 interviewed  on  19  June  1984  concerning    the  incident.    Both     denied
 reading the  document  other  than  to obtain         the telephone number  of  our
 office.    Neither   could  recall  any information          contained in  the
 document.  Both  individuals  were  informed          of the sensitivity of  the
 program and  as  a   precaution they both      executed              a briefing and a
 debriefing   statement. Both        individuals  are  cleared for  TOP  SECRET  and
 because  of the nature of    their  duties      they  are  used     to  working with
 highly     sensitive information.  Because        of  the  above    it  is highly
 unlikely  that a  compromise  took  place.
 4.  (S)    The reason for  the      security  hazard  was  the failure to follow
 the provisions  of   AR      380-5 concerning    the  addressing  of  classified
 material for   transmission.
 SG1I
 Approved For Release 2000/08/1-U: CIA-RDP96-00792R000100050001-1