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NSIAD-84-26 1 (1983-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabndo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTIRNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION B-206067 OCT 1 8 The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives 122641 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Effect of National Security Decision Directive - 84, Safeguarding National Security Information (GAO/NSIAD-84-26) Your May 18, 1983, letter requested that we assist the subcommittee in its review of the subject directive which was issued March 11, 1983. (See enclosures IV and V.) On June 14, 1983, you sent a questionnare to those agencies and offices that handle classified information. You asked the General Accounting Office to review and analyze the responses, which we did. Subsequently, we were asked to obtain additional information from the agencies, pertaining primarily to their experience with unauthorized disclosures and the ensuing inves- tigations. Most of the information obtained from the agencies, as a result of your questionnaire and our inquiries, is included in enclosure I. Enclosures II and III, respectively, include a listing of the Executive Branch agencies and offices that handle classified information and a summary of some of the information obtained from those agencies. Executive Order 12356, on national security information, provides that the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office oversee agency actions to ensure compliance with the order and implementing directives. That office furnished us a listing of the agencies and offices handling classified informa- tion, which was used by your staff to mail questionnaires. The Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency were excluded from our summaries because of the sensitivity of their operations. We did not verify the information reported by the agencies; however, in many cases we requested clarification. Where actual figures were not readily available, agencies were (009733)

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