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104-10120-10653 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/1/1973)

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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
             c alled:

                                      for protection of research,
                     develc            erations of overhead
                     reconnaissance equipment.

                            TALENT/KEYHOLE, for protection
                     of photographic product, identified by the
                     codeword'       Lnd for the protection of
                     intelligen L rron electrical signals collected a
                     by satellites, identified by.the codewor

                            Communications  Intelligence (COMINT),
                     for the protection of intelligence obtained by
                     interception and decoding of foreign ciphers,
                     identified b the codeword
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